skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried signing up with a prepaid credit card and they refused the card so I moved on. It's setup for massive profits on minor mistakes. The risk on a free tier is like shorting a stock, one bad day and you go bankrupt unless you have a connected twitter account.

Sounds like a new dystopian future that is best not to be part of.

When IBM ruled or Microsoft or AOL things you had one main evil corp. We're in a period where Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook can appear the hero or villian depending on the day but the sum of the faangs is much greater than the worst evils of the original megacorps. Could you envision forced unlimited billing on a free tier with no ability to limit charges on the account?
Yeah, a lot of us are missing the fact that there was real monetary value in these people going away, and so Basecamp paid them to do so.
Firebase's terms are here: https://firebase.google.com/terms (and GCP's data processing terms are here: https://cloud.google.com/terms/data-processing-terms)

Having worked on those products (and in some cases, written the terms), I'd say so.
I know plenty of people who dont understand that 100 $1 stocks is the same as 1 $100 stock
Do you have a source on his off market price discounts?
It doesn’t cost hundreds of dollars to notarize something. https://www.nationalnotary.org/knowledge-center/about-notari...

Edit: as the other comment mentions, most banks where you have an account offer this for free. My local UPS store where I have a mailbox also offers the service to me for free.
You are right! It can mean these things! But it can also mean other things, and (in my opinion) carefully parsing definitions distracts from the challenging and impactful work of understanding what others mean, not just the official definition of the words they used.

"Defund the police" can sound extreme, or counterintuitive, or downright confusing. But it seems urgently important (to me) to understand why so many Americans feel so strongly that they use such intense language, propose such radical changes, and demand something that doesn't make sense to me.

Clearly, there's something I don't "get". It's infinitely more compelling to me to try to "get it" and understand others' viewpoints, and uninteresting to understand why the words they used don't match a conventional definition.
Nitpick: I think you meant bid 40.09 x 40.10 ask. Otherwise you'd have a crossed market or a trade executed.
What's always funny to me is this phenomenon generally has nothing to do with the actual people involved. It's just a story telling phenomenon. None of the people who know these thought leaders imbue them with qualities they don't have.
With a mouse? I'd be impressed.

With a touchpad? Still impressed.

With a touchscreen? Maaaaaaybe but wow tedious.
That’s extremely hard to design, at least with the current state of what AWS bills and does not bill.

Example: let’s assume you’ve set the cut-off budget too strict, spun off another shard for your stateful service (DB for example), it received and stored some data during the short window before some other service brought whole account over budget (i.e. paid egress crossed the threshold).

To bring VM and EBS charges to 0 (to implement your idea of ‘shut down everything’) AWS will have to delete production data.

While it may be OK when you’re experimenting, it’s really hard to tell in automated way.

So, to fully comply w/o risking losing customer data, AWS will have to stop charging for not running instances and inactive EBS volumes which most definitely bring on many kinds of abuse.

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There may be some other way to do this, maybe mark some services expendable or not, so they are stopped in the event of overspend.
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That seems even more implausible. Do charges small enough to not be noticed stand a chance of being noteworthy for AWS?
Just because something might be legal doesn't make it a good idea to do it.
It’s coded language.
> discovered a room with ten victims, including women and children, and now we are trying to establish kinship relationships, thanks to DNA analysis

Incredible.
nope, the lower number tricks your mind.
The movie Her is prophetic. The way to improve supply is with sex robots.
MH370 pilot made many turns and speed changes, new report reveals
Well, safety features also benefit the people who ride in your car with you, and those people weren't necessarily involved in your purchasing decision.

There's a happy medium somewhere. In an ideal world, we would regulate what is really important and ignore what isn't, but we're still figuring things out.

Personally, I like the idea of universal sunsets to deal with the difficulty of repealing old regulations. Codes could be reviewed on an N-year basis, with old rules requiring a cost/benefit analysis and 'yes' vote to renew. But in practice, those kinds of processes seem to end up with people rubber-stamping "last year++" revisions, like with the USA's defense re-authorization acts.
Azure will alert you when you exceed a budget, but it won't disable anything.

Azure MongoDB billing was insanity. I was up to $800 to host a couple of GB that wasn't doing anything.

I'm still not sure what happened, even their support kept saying "it's priced by request units" and I kept saying "How does a handful of queries a day translate to $40 in request units?"

A year later, I think that I had a lot of collections and they seem to charge per-collection, but I'm still not even sure. Thank goodness we moved off of it after only a month or two.
I wonder if there is a human whose job is to final review suspensions and they just keep shaking their head at the measly pending $0.01 charge.
https://twitter.com/thejoshtorres/status/1389623426688569345

Relevant excerpt from It doesn't have to be Crazy at Work.
Not in our current economic structuring, but our current economic system places little to no value on sustainability.

I wholey believe that we can replicate the aspects of our standard of living that have the biggest impacts on our quality of life. We can have nice clothes, we just need clothes that last a decade rather than a month or a year. We can travel, we just have to travel a bit slower using electric power. Education is a huge factor in our quality of life and can be done very sustainably. We can still have plenty of food, we just might not have year round cheap access to stuff that doesn't grow locally.

So there is definitely a path to a very good aproximation of our standard of living that is sustainable for the entire planet. We just aren't currwntly on that path, or even really headed in that direction
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> The article asked Singer for a comment, and printed his full reply.

And in the meantime his interlocutors have acted to remain anonymous... I grant benefit of the doubt to Singer.
Ugh, the "incorruptibles" fallacy but in a different format.

"Pull yourself up by your bootstraps! So and so came from a violent environment with food scarcity, and THEY succeeded, so you can too!" - Nevermind that that person's environment produces generation after generation of poverty (hence, "cycle") and violence.

Khan Academy mitigates nothing - it's a structural failure.
> Third, they secretly deleted over a decade's worth of company chat history shortly before making the disastrous blog post. Why?

I can think of a reason. To protect employees who are not part of the woke mob from being “canceled” by the woke mob.
Voting power is in my understanding the real reason. Dollar for dollar a shares have seven times the voting power of a b share. Following his death, the foundations he has bequeathed his wealth to need to sell his shares over the course of ten years. Ordinarily this would result in institutional investors having a majority of the voting power. To avoid this the a shares will be converted to b shares in order to reduce the voting power. A shares are by and large held by investors who have been with Berkshire for decades. Hopefully they will continue the long term focus of Berkshire. Once their progeny start inheriting the shares I think all bets are off. I worry activist investors will convince institutional investors to break Berkshire apart.
> Nor did he see the irony in the fact that holding a person responsible for horrible action of people who look like them is the same way of thinking that leads bigots to blame all Arabs for the actions of the 9/11 hijackers.

I like to do the "Muslim test" on these things: replace "white people" (or "men", or any other group) with "Muslims" and see how it sounds then. If it sounds yikes then it's probably not a good thing to say.

I use "Muslim" because there's been a lot of discussion surrounding that in my own country, but you can use "Jew", "black", etc. as well.

It's easy to forget how sweeping statements can be received by its targets. I think we've all been guilty of this sometimes. The only time I've ever had a HN comment moderated is when I made some overly general statements about British culture. Mea culpa.

It's only natural to make mistakes, and that's okay. The difference is that I've apologized for it and realized my mistake, rather than double down hard (in my defence, as an EU expat living in the UK at the time, I was rather ... peeved ... about Brexit at the time, the surrounding debate regarding EU migrants, and various people ranting to me about this, as were most of my EU expat friends).

I vote things like the Green party and Socialist party, and the only time I've been directly involved in political activism was to campaign in favour of an asylum centre in my home town after idiots started opposing it with all sorts of bullshit. It's perhaps a bit said that this needs to be said, but I'm hardly some alt-right troll. But I find the messaging on these kind of things increasingly tiresome and frankly toxic.
I can't exactly say I'm proud of getting most of these right-ish, though I've never seen the snapchat logo before, or if I have no one mentioned what it was!

If anything I'm disappointed in how close I was for pepsi considering I never even drink it... those ads are eyeworms I guess.
I always will openly oppose racism in any company I lead, just as I will always openly denounce libertarianism as a horrible cancer on western democracies.
When you realise that their whole business model is around extracting as much $$$ from users as they can, you should be entirely unsurprised by how AWS and other cloud providers behave. My cynical side is inclined to say "see, this is what you get for using cloud computing". Cloud providers are the very definition of nickel-and-diming. I still remember the amusement of finding out that AWS has Cost Management services, which themselves have a cost.
Former Netflix Executive Convicted of Receiving Bribes and KickbackS
Yes I am not aware of any proof on that one. Do you think it will suffice to generalize the statement to just "NP problem" instead?
GP asked how a company like Apple would be made more efficient by becoming a “DAO”. A DAO acolyte — miketery is assuredly invested in a closely linked cryptocurrency — then opined Apple would save money on dividend distributions by becoming a DAO. And that shareholder voting would become more efficient. Yet neither thing requires having a DAO, assuming efficiencies are even possible to obtain that way.

I’m sorry, but I don’t see how what you posted is relevant to this discussion.
> Less so the founders, I think there sin runs more along the lines of being extremely naive

Fried and DHH are a lot of things, but naive isn’t one of them.
IMHO, "FAMANG" does sound pretty cool
Thank you so much for.your detailed comment!
Nothing. The parent has an axe to grind.
I remember a friend complaining that he had to work over the weekend when they hit 10,000. That 5th digit screwed up all their column formatting. Technical debit is ever present, unfortunately.
Those who think that a group of people are inferior based on racial characteristics (and/or ethnicity ... ie. for some definition of "race" even though the very distinction is pretty tenuous if you get into the biology/genetics of it all).
Seems like some of the same ideas in Donald Reinertsen presents in his books and videos. He thinks in queues and the cost of delay.

The cost of delay when you try to keep everyone busy all the time.

I'm reading his book The Principles of Product Development Flow.
Nuclear isn't cheap. Molten salt thorium reactors are seriously not cheap, and if you can handle molten salt that well, you can use it to store solar power and release it later and solve the intermittency problem.
Anyone knows the significance of this?
Except none of them are stepping forward from what we can tell. It's all an anonymous patchwork of he-said-she-said except for Singer. His evidence is the only evidence because the rest is completely unverifiable.
That fish sticks episode of South Park is so good. Can't wait to watch it with my grandkids and admire the puzzlement in their faces.
I appreciate you trying to help, but I don't think your advice is really applicable to me personally. My problem isn't that I'm ugly; in fact, I'm probably slightly above average attractiveness. My problem is that I have trouble forming relationships because my social skills are broken, and I have a ton of lingering trauma from being shunned by my peers for most of my childhood. (But everybody's situation is different, and your advice could be certainly be very helpful for some people!)
One problem is that we've turned "efficient" into some sort of noun that is self-referential, rather than the actual definition which is constrained to a particular result. "We must be efficient." should beg the question "to achieve what?"

The second problem is that efficiency is often applied across many small scopes of operation, ignoring the effects on efficiency at greater scope. You can be tactically efficient at the expense of strategic goals.

The third problem is that efficiency is often over-fitted in a chase for maximalism, which necessarily creates a rigid system that is highly dependent on little or no variation between the past and an expected future. Just-in-time supply chains fell apart due to things like the covid-19 lockdowns, which often cascaded across both vertical levels of specific industries as well as across industries.

From a system design point of view, building a system that has no flexibility in scaling but is instead maximally efficient based on current (and recent past) levels of demand is a disaster waiting to happen. In the old days we'd laugh at a commercial site that got slashdotted because it was incapable of handling burst demand.
The whole point of a "spending kill switch" is as a backstop when you make a mistake; but if you do it as a "DIY project", what prevents you from making a mistake on it? It has to be a built-in feature.
It is presumably a reference to his private placement with Goldman Sachs in 2008.

https://www.goldmansachs.com/our-firm/history/moments/2008-b...
Can you elaborate more? What are the things that are bad for general amp but good for guitar amp? Is the amplification non-linear in some specific ways and how does it help with guitar music? (I know nothing about guitar except what it looks like.)
You can often generate a structure such as nested dicts and lists of dicts to pass via the template context to achieve your desired layout. This lets you avoid complex logic via template tags but still have the benefits of the templating system.
The guidelines say "Please don't use uppercase for emphasis". Not "Please don't use uppercase except for emphasis".
And what's wrong with husband? Or housekeeping?

How am I supposed to talk about my husband doing the housekeeping?
It's got to be Hanlon's Razor here, I doubt AWS is twirling their mustache and cackling maniacally. It's probably a difficult problem to solve and not easily attachable to a profit center or something, so nobody feels empowered to actually fix it.

I'm sure some crusader within AWS could get it done if they tried hard enough and collected the data to show the negative side effects and how they effect AWS.

An article like this one is hopefully going to get someone within AWS to do just that.
The crazy thing is, this obvious (to anyone experienced in business, at least) danger must be costing AWS money. I personally know of small businesses who have entirely avoided AWS even though it might have been a good fit for their needs in most respects, entirely because of concerns about the opacity of the billing and the inability to add safeguards in case something goes wrong. Some of those businesses are no longer small, either. AWS does have a reputation, at least among those more familiar with cloud services, for being reasonable about unexpected charges and probably putting something right if it was obviously not intended. But in that case, they aren't even pulling some sort of dark pattern scam to make more money here, and the lack of last resort safety features makes even less sense...
The consistent transparency has guided many of my acquisition decisions personally and professionally. It also drove me to seriously examine B2, which is used personally and professionally as well.

Would like to encourage your organization to keep publishing these works, and the works like your POD. It’s really spurned on a lot of innovation and sharing.
I understand your frustration with the polarization of political discourse in the workplace- I imagine it is stressful for all involved. However I think the notion that everything is becoming more and more political, is a little bit misleading. What of your work does not affect society? Do the products and services produced by the firms that employ you not affect it? Do the employees not work for wages necessary for their immediate survival? Do most working people not spend a substantial portion of their daily lives in a fashion dictated by those furnishing those wages?

I have trouble imagining how labor could ever lack a political dimension, and the distinction that presents itself to me between the past supposedly 'less politicized' workplaces, is that workers (or at least minoritized workers) were simply less safe to discuss politics and justice in this context that dominates their life and survival.
Well you know, once you hit your 40's (I'm 46), you've had lots of time to explore languages, and you really don't waste your limited life remaining coding in bad ones... haha
They can simply add a nuclear option. Ordinary business probably won't enable that option but individuals can and should set it up.
I have a slightly different take as to what all this is and I havent seen it expressed almost anywhere. Since the proliferation of the internet the world has gotten exponentially more competitive. Information and access have been reduced to almost uniformity if you understand the tools. No while prizes have gotten larger, there are simply way more people competing for the top spot than before. These culture wars are simply just a new weapon for those without power to seize it. Its not much different that coming from wealth, being charismatic or the host of other weapons being wielded in a competitive game. Human kind has always been collective, but the largest motivation is survival of the self. You should look at this change a clever weaponization for a class that wants more power and not some intrinsic right or wrong.

What is likely to happen is we will always see it moving forward, but eventually (outside of extreme circumstances like violence), these things become less powerful as the novelty of the charge wears off.
Wow! What a great resource! I guess Go’s prospects aren’t so hot either—I really should focus on Classic Visual Basic, Matlab, and assembly because those are more popular than Go or Elixir! /s

I don’t think that index is measuring what you wish it were measuring. Based on your other comments on this site, I can tell you’ve got some beef with Elixir, which I find strange, seeing as you’ve never used it personally.[^1] As for my experience, I’ve had a plethora of job opportunities appear for myself and several of my friends who, in a matter of weeks, got hired on at different companies to write Elixir.

Is it as popular as Go? No. Is it still possible to find jobs in? Absolutely. Will learning Elixir make you a better programmer for your next language down the line? You bet. More so than Go, I guarantee.

Stop trying to scare earnest people who are curious. It’s a good language and working with it has been one of the most delightful experiences of my career. If you’ve had a negative experience with something like hiring for Elixir, be more measured, less dismissive, and more specific—you’ll have greater impact that way.

[^1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26905869
Alternatively perhaps people on HN are simply aware that the most popular TV show in the last decade was a fantasy show with similar themes produced in North America, which renders your criticism somewhat nonsensical.
This is what I'd consider if something like this came up at work, and there was too much crufty old code in the 32-bit systems to get management to accept updating the whole thing to 64-bit.

Change it so that what is listed on Nasdaq as BRK.A is not actually BRK.A but rather 1/2 BRK.A. So when Nasdaq says BRK.A is $X it is really $2X, and when they say N shares traded that day it was really N/2 shares. Only allow transactions that involve an even number of the 1/2 BRK.A shares.

Hopefully the code to handle all that would just need to be in the interfaces between the 32-bit systems and the rest of the world, and should be a lot less work than changing the whole thing to 64-bit.
> Oddly, several members of the defund movement have said they literally want to defund and abolish the police. It's almost like words mean things?

Yes those are the "few anarchists" I was referring to. From what I have seen of people discussing the "defund the police" movement it's about a dramatic reform of law enforcement, including much less emphasis on armed police storming about the place.

> You can try to argue that crime rates show disproportional racial representation for a bunch of reasons. Claiming anyone who states the facts is racist is wrong.

I didn't claim anyone stating the facts is wrong, I made the claim that when people attribute a statistical anomaly like disparity in incarceration rates to an aggregation of personal failures rather than a systemic problem, they are logically being racist (even if they don't see it as such).
Do you remember the first time you saw the (negative space) arrow in the FedEx logo?
What Happened to America's Electronics Stores?
That centralization leads to corruption is a common claim but I have seen the exact opposite. Being smaller and unwatched leads to more corruption. Smaller towns can have plenty of their local corruption and parochial influence which are more accessible.

National level winds up cared about by everybody as it isn't a "someone else's problem" situation and thus winds up watched far more.

Then there is the matter of consistency with across state laws and enforcement. One set of rules is easier to comply with and more consistent in expectations, especially when states wind up fighting over jurisdiction.
I asked Remind– a teacher-student communication app– to remove pings to Facebook ads, DoubleClick.net, and Google Ad Services from their site when students viewed messages. Allegedly they were being used to track the performance of ads they bought, and that the ad companies promised in their ToS not to use it for ad targeting. They were polite and removed it after 2 weeks. Last time I checked they added Twitter ads analytics again...
"hacker" isn't gendered.

> 1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html
We're all lazy. That's why we got into this profession.
This user is also almost entirely involved in ideological battles: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cozuya
@dang flamebaiting against the rules! Oy vey shut it down