skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll never forget the girlfriend who when I showed emotional vulnerability grabbed that knife and twisted it in the wound, telling me to man up. More painful than the immediate situation was the realization that I couldn't rely on her, that she was a fairweather girlfriend. Yes I broke up with her and yes I talked to a therapist about it. Never had a guy say anything like that to me. Other girlfriends have been there for me and were very supportive.

Maybe some parts of toxic masculinity are perpetuated more by women and the media than other men.
Yep. I’m in a k12 school, and we have google classroom on ipads and every proprietary thing you can think of. All my teachers have this annoying apple teacher image in their email signatures. No choice.
Do what I did in February:

Quit. Life's too short to waste time at a company that's forgotten it's purpose.

This ideology borders on cult like.

A good sign that you are dealing with an irrational ideology is non-sensical, illogical and inconsisten rules. For example, in this article, "Black" is capitalized everywhere its mentioned, and "white" isn't. There's nothing logically consistent about this, because it's a borderline religious ideology.
Postfix if you need something with flexibility.

For just getting mail off the system to a central hub: dma or ssmtp.
When you only care about which visual encodings best represent your data, and not how those encodings are implemented in SVG/CSS.
Wearing clothing is also "completely unnatural", and yet we make everyone do it as part of existing in polite society. Even 2 year olds.
Holy shit, CNN and Fox News. Nothing gets my anxiety up like those fucking 24 hour news channels. The one that really gets my goat is Fox, because 100% of the time there's a big red box on the screen that says ALERT. There's always a fucking alert, even when nothing is happening. It's like you turn it on and suddenly the entire world is on fire. All this spinning shit all over the screen and graphics flying around, people screaming at each other, 62 tickers on the screen showing you totally irrelevant information. No wonder people who watch these channels are so fucking anxious.
The problem is that a billing alert at $10 won't prevent you from accidentally starting up something that will bring you a $1000 bill before you can react to that email - there needs to be a process that cuts off service at some hard limit instead of just sending an email and continuing to spend money.
> DigitalOcean is the worst with the dormant accounts. Just got dinged around $2.40 on my credit card. Going into DO I could not find what was causing that charge. There was nothing there.

Did you look at the PDF invoice in the Billing section? I have never seen an invoice where the line items didn't add up to the amount charged to my credit card. If there's just $2.40 on there with no explanation, I'd open a support ticket to complain.

(While looking into this, I was surprised at how minimal DO invoices are, however. For GCP, I'm used to seeing on the order of a million line items per month. Seeing only 3 on my DO invoice was surprising, and could definitely lead to a case where something isn't accounted for correctly. But, I bet support will fix it up for you.)
I agree with your assessment. That is exactly why I stated that the overt message of the Pyramid of Hate is that laughing at funny names leads to genocide, because "allowing any lower levels of the pyramid to exist and pervade allows for further levels to be built up". Not sure what the disagreement is tbh.
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That sail sim site is great. You can create a race anywhere to anywhere (on the water.) it's all accessible through your Web browser. races across a sound, or around the World.
... Outside of grieving death. Grieving death is acceptable within a short period of the loss.
And then, thinking machines got religion.
This ain't it.

Obfuscated billing helps Amazon with $350/hour engineers, where an engineer figuring out where $10k is going each year isn't a top priority. Been there, done that.

Obfuscated billing is definitely not there to hit free tier or poor folks. AWS has an awesome reputation for just about everything, and it isn't worth the reputation hit. Free tier is there so that:

* the student in college will pick AWS in their first job

* the random engineer will prototype something on the weekend, and Amazon gets millions of business

* the random pre-funding startup starts building on AWS, and if it goes big, so does the account

And it works. Amazon has made millions based on things I've built on free tier. AWS' problem is that my ONE YEAR free tier ran out probably around a decade ago, and I've long since moved on from what I was doing then. If AWS were to continue to provide me a free tier, the same thing would have happened a few times since.
If this [0] is your mobile device :-)

[0] https://n-o-d-e.net/zeroterminal3.html
I'm not sure this disease metaphor is appropriate. Lots of people have STDs, and lots of those people get married, and, as I understand it, many of those people have a lot of safe sex.

And frankly, I don't trust many of my own devices not to fuck me. (figuratively speaking)
Apparently I owe AWS 1 cent for DNS. The problem is I can't login to pay it, so every month I get a email that says "your aws account is going to be suspended" and 30 days later I'm disappointed that they didn't follow through with the threat.
And the city of Kaliningrad might be more familiar in this crowd under its old (Prussian) name of Königsberg (as in "Bridges of").
I think you'd be surprised as how sustainabily we could approximate the western standard of living if we had the will power to try as a whole society. There would certainly be sacrifices, but I suspect we would also gain significant quality if life improvements. What this requires is a change of mindset and I don't think attitudes like yours help.

We are hundreds of years from that thermodynamic limit at our current exponential growth rate, but that growth may be slowing as population growth slows. It is also quite likely that extraplanetary energy sources could be available by then.

I'm sort of unclear where you are goin with your argument? Are you arguing we need to kill of people or economically retard developing countries energy use? Neither of those seem reasonable stances so I am left wondering what you see as the path forward and what value you see in advancing your argument.
Yeah but it shows they are reasonable and flexible if a customer makes a mistake. The reason Google Cloud is third, people remember how they were treated when they used Google for Work or whatever its called now.

> But something the nice lady on the other end said as she chuckled: "This happens all the time".

Is better then if they said: "We reminded you about the consequences of not deleting, we have done nothing wrong."
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I had forgotten that prices were fractional. I remember prices like 7 3/4 when I was a kid.
I would love to see a language with exactly what you described, but with dictionaries instead of lists as the fundamental data structure.
AWS terms do not grant them a license or ownership over your data, although "If you process the personal data of End Users or other identifiable individuals in your use of a Service, you are responsible for providing legally adequate privacy notices and obtaining necessary consents for the processing of such data" - so if you just store random files on s3 or EBS it's not like AWS can do anything they want with it.

https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/

The GDPR DPA does a good job of encompassing the entire extent of their data use:

> AWS will not access or use, or disclose to any third party, any
Customer Data, except, in each case, as necessary to maintain or provide the Services, or as
necessary to comply with the law or a valid and binding order of a governmental body (such as a
subpoena or court order)...

https://d1.awsstatic.com/legal/aws-gdpr/AWS_GDPR_DPA.pdf
You can get into a lot of financial trouble with DD custom metrics, very quickly. We're talking easy five figure bills in a few days. I love datadog and appreciate how quickly their team will teach out and tell you you have a runaway bill but there's not a world in which I think the custom metrics pricing makes it usable. They know it too and they have customers that do clever thinks to use them in bursts. Prometheus is good and with AWS driving the price down, I'll be poking it tomorrow.
The article contains a misleading description of NP-hardness:

> Computing the Kolmogorov complexity for a sequence X of N bits length is an NP-hard problem, since the search space of possible programs producing any sequence of length N is growing exponentially with respect to the input size N

NP-hardness would actually mean that any NP problem, e.g. a traveling salesman problem, could be "reduced" within polynomial time to calculating the Kolmogorov Complexity of a given string.
That would be a good argument if the statement was that "laughing at names leads inevitably to genocide."
I have a dead post in this thread for basically the same thing, very odd reaction I don't understand.
Serious question, how is "stop sounding like a white male" (a quote from Pixars "soul" movie) not racist?

ik its not exactly relevant to the article but I want to know...
Good input, added it to the TODO list.
That's the word, thank you!
Funny story: I keep receiving a $0.01 monthly invoice from AWS for a very old account (opened 5+ years ago) I have lost access to. I have no idea why (the invoice doesn't list the services being used) and the associated credit card has expired a long time ago. They requested notarized documents to prove my identity. Obviously I'd rather settle my $6 (+ interest) debt 50 years from now than give hundreds to a notary today!
I usually use Python and R for analysis. However, when dealing with larger datasets, e.g., 0.5 - 2 PB, I have to rely on SQL/BigQuery because I can't get Python and R to deal such workloads in reasonable time. I tried Dask, but I couldn't resolve a few bugs it had at the time.

If you were to find outliers in a 1 PB table, what tools would you use?
Heh, you know, usually there's punctuation we use to denote sarcasm, lest anyone get the impression that this sort of draconian policing of ideology goes on at benkoworks.
> What's the point in having an NFT

> > > it's riding the hype of NFTs more than anything.

The point is hype-based advertising. As people have been repeatedly pointing out all over the thread.
This is basically obvious to the point of being a trope in our culture, so I'd argue it's actually not that hard. Sure, it's not perfect or well communicated, but it's not mindreader-level.
AWS bets on everyone who doesn't notice small recurring charges, not those who blow up their budget past the point of sanity.
I believe iOS rotates it periodically.
I guess that's true. I imagine the less polarized the environment is the more beneficial the Federal approach is, because you get sane checks and balances and consensus on things before accepted. The more polarized it is, the better the compartmentalization of states is at keeping the crazies at each end of the spectrum from causing too much damage to everyone at once.
It's not real time billing, so there is no real way to disable service until costs have been determined.

I agree that it seems like a solvable problem, but it doesn't make them money so why should they care?
Not here, because the sidewalks are not continuous or very well maintained, so such ill folk would not be able to rush at their desired maximum speed.
That's not how UEFI capsule updates (which AFAIK is what modern Dell computers use) work. The update is written to the EFI partition, the computer reboots into an EFI updater which loads the update to RAM and tells the BIOS where it is, the computer then reboots again and the BIOS itself loads the firmware update from the staging location in RAM and writes it to flash (which is still unlocked at that point in the boot sequence). At no point does anything other than the BIOS write to the flash.
They have me interested. Datadog does a far better job with logs but their CM product is wildly expensive. Happy to let someone else run Prometheus for me.
A standalone music streaming app for Jellyfin
I'm a senior eng in Typescript at a tech company. I will always advocate against adopting this project. Jamie is a perfect example of the toxic attitudes and activism destroying OSS and tech. Lerna or Babel are fine, but then again, they are purely OSS projects, not companies expressly designed to enrich him and reward his toxic activism.
Another commenter already mentioned Gambit Scheme. That provides for inline C and therefore very easy interop with external libraries. It still has a runtime and GC though - those might pose a problem depending on your platform and task.

Ferret (https://github.com/nakkaya/ferret) and Carp (https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp) are both Lisp-like low level languages. Both seem to be fairly experimental in nature though.

> anything but C

Taking you literally, Rust and D can both compile for bare metal. D in particular has a "Better C" subset. (https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html)

In the same vein, Terra is a C like language (manual memory management) that you metaprogram with Lua. (https://github.com/terralang/terra)

Taking you very literally, Forth is also an option.
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I'm a full time Android dev, who's also a intermediate in web dev. When I first started using compose / flutter, I assumed it was for the best, since I didn't have to learn anything new. I battled myself everyday, whether or not I had to learn React. My views are pretty clear now.

React with PWA - For my internal projects.
React & Android app with Kotlin - For Products I ship.

Ended up learning and liking react!

Like pier25 has pointed out, I don't think it's worth loading
2 mb for a single button. So as painful as it maybe to have 3 code bases for 3 platforms, IMO gives the user the best experience.
> Ok. But "the rich" have instituted the congestion tax without instituting any of those improvements to public transportation. Donald Trump is not taking a bus to Mar a Laggo.

In NYC the congestion tax at least was going to be linked to more MTA funding pre-pandemic.

> I'm somewhat shocked by this. Why would you want rich people to be able to avoid all the problems they create for everyone else with their greed?

So right now cars and homeownership are still broadly popular. People view them as the hallmark of prosperity and essential middle-class-and-up status symbols. There's still a deep sense in many parts that urbanism is just part of the the Democrats fetishizing poverty, non-white people, etc., and that apartments and public transit are palliatives for people that didn't make the American dream or whatever.

And indeed "middle class" in general is the aspirational LARPing the landed rich. Big cars because fancy carriages. Suburb houses with lawns to mimmick country estates (and feudal manors before that). And yes ownership to mimic the land ownership itself.

So for urbanism to win, we need to break the coalition between the rich and the wannabes, break wealth in homeownership as a safety net when the state provides none, and break car ownership as the normal way to travel etc.

If congestion taxes heighten the underlying truth car usage always excludes others from the street, that's great. Hell, if wall street keeps on buying up subdivisions to rent out, I can approve of that in an acceleration way: better we pay rent than mortgages if realigns class consciousness. Likewise with some super-car-sharing world where no one can afford a car if they don't rent out rides.
Go to the bank and say, "I would like to withdraw money from my account." Do they hand you your balance in cash, or ask you how much?

Obviously one can withdraw all of something, but I'm skeptical of it meaning "all" by default.
> “It’s the student’s responsibility to know what they’re deploying.”

Anyone who seriously argues this is 100% unaware of the quagmire that is AWS billing. There are companies with entire teams built around just optimizing AWS billing - it's whole unsurprising that some AWS feature actually spun up 5 separate AWS features that end up being billed.
It does require a DAO. You need to know that no one party has control over the funds. Or they can screw the community. If the community is distributed the token in a fair way (and they'll know, since this is all blockchain and it's all visible), they can also inspect the code that protects the funds from being spent. So you can encode the mechanisms that protect the disbursements, and you can do this in a provable way. It's not some SQL database that's controlled by an admin key. It's not a bank account that the CEO has control over. All the funds are on-chain, in a smart contract, protected by code and cryptography. That aligns incentives in a powerful way that you can't replicate with stock ownership. You can't replicate it with a voting button on the Robinhood app. It is a fundamental shift in capital management and human coordination.
It's "better" in the sense that they can piggyback on the hype train for all things cryptocurrency related.

Some crypto/NFT millionaire who would normally never donate might well well be coaxed into donating once they see that "NFT" or "blockchain" is attached to the prospect.
yep! I actually just ordered boards from them. I probably would've ordered assembly from them if I hadn't wanted to do it myself for fun.

How does the pricing for "extended parts" work? It says $3 per component, but it would seem they mean per component type?

Thinking of doing an FPGA board with them because the concept of soldering an 0.8 mm pitch BGA with hand alignment and a modified toaster oven where a screw up ruins a $50 part is a bit much for me.
My favorite application is Marcus Hutter's AIXI[1], a provably optimal theoretic intelligent agent for any environment, though uncomputable.

And then Shane Legg's use of a Monte Carlo AIXI approximation to define a universal measure of intelligence[2].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIXI

[2]http://www.vetta.org/documents/Machine_Super_Intelligence.pd...
The thing that company founders and managers should understand is that discussing politics is intimately related to power.

Any power struggle inside an organisation can quickly turn into mutiny...
Lots of companies also gets hacked each month for thousands of dollars because some key to S3 with too many privileges gets leaked.

The entire system is completely sinister. The fact that keys pertaining to S3 has anything do with being able to start hundreds of VM's in different parts of the AWS system or do whatever is bad.

I've seen companies be ruined by this, and it's in no way obvious how stupid their system is. You have to read huge manuals to know how to "only give access to s3" through a key.

Instead of starting with "no access" then adding atomized access you have to understand this extremely complex "json privilege system". Instead of just programming, this is the only allowed IP, the is the only allowed bucket, this is the only allowed service, and my max is 200usd, or something to that effect.

Also the fact that a key can start new services that are billable is almost criminal in my mind when people don't even gen an email when it happens - makes zero sense.
Joel Spolsky did it, city something?
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I don't disagree with you, but I think it's a symptom of a much larger problem in the US that many people feel that their workplace is the only place where they have a voice and that the corporation they work for is their only avenue for political agency.

Obviously, you ideally want your job to be politically aligned with you so that your labor doesn't conflict with your beliefs. But today it seems like many feel so disconnected and disenfranchised from any communities outside of work they they put all their eggs in that basket, and that ultimately never goes well.
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Ah I see, yeah the "double-click to select container child/text" ux is meant to mimic keynote's implicit grouping mechanism, which works the same way.

It's mostly to prevent empty "phantom" containers that people aren't aware are affecting their project layout.

I've been thinking about changing this to the straightforward, single click to select whatever's topmost and visible. Will have to if the current ux bothers people.
> Seeing good companies get torn to shreds by this campus idiocy reminds me of how insulated academia is from the real world.

What does this have to do with academia?
ha, I guess thats true. Instead of a SIOD, it's a SIOBFD. ;-)

It's similar in terms of ease of embedding, being all ANSI C, and coming from a TinyScheme, originally...
A spending kill switch can be setup on AWS using AWS Budgets alerts and Lambda but it’s a DIY project, not a built-in feature.
How is that even a valid comparison? It is logical that making fun of people for characteristics related to race could be escalated to more serious racist behavior, and therefore should be discouraged. But where is the logical connection between criticizing inequality and committing genocide?
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Nice. 10 years later but glad that Ruby programmers might have an option that lets them program the way they want without having to choose a different language / platform for performance.
Bueracracies and overregulation are essentially alternatives to fiefdoms by constraining abusable levels of discretion. Fiefdoms lead to outright open corruption which make the readilly lobbied look like choir boys in comparison. The stereotypical "third world levels of corruption" situations where secured loyalty to the regime matters more than competence.

It is yet another tiresome situation of "sucks but we don't really have anything better". We can and should attempt to streamline them but that is nontrivial, especially politically.
For the human world, the most important thing is to solve the problem first.

For scientific research, the most important thing is whether there is innovation.
Any bank at which you are a customer will notarize documents for you for free.
How do kids eat in other places or at other times? I think kids eat from plates with cutlery in most of Europe both now and in the past.

Do kids in the US use plastic cutlery and paper plates or something (and drink from red solo cups)?
Usuallly you are going over old grooves in a flow state, Iostly get them with physical actions like skiing or playing an instrument. Its like an autopilot mode. If one needs to reason, they must necessarily pop out of flow-state, potentially just back into the "zone" .