skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there seriously no way in AWS/Azure/GCP to specify "Here's my budget, shut everything down if I exceed $X"? I don't use those platforms much but was always surprised I couldn't find anything like that right off the bat. I'll build cloud stuff if it makes sense at work, but if I'm footing the bill I'll stick to something that can provide an actual upper limit.
My hypothesis is that Americans are both hypersexual (due to media, porn abuse, etc) and thus deprived of good sex as a result of the over stimulation toward faked, idealized, porn-ified sex. I have no evidence for this, it is merely a hunch and seems to align with what I have heard from people who have moved here from other countries. My parents themselves were immigrants and were shocked at the hypersexuality when they moved here. Simultaneously to that, they were shocked you couldn't even see a boob on TV. The natural human body itself was censored but gigantic fake boobs and butts were plastered all over MTV and VH1, albeit clothed. They'd also never heard of the over emphasis and anxiety over penis size until they came here.
There's no requirement that type annotations be accurate.

With hidden classes and such it likely wouldn't matter much. You'd need them anyway for full dynamism
It's literally nothing more than a hit piece against one of the most impactful philanthropists that our generation has ever seen.

You bring up "paying off journalists" but the article doesn't even mention that. Instead, he donates money to newspapers so they can cover underappreciated topics like global povert. Ohhh noooo Bill Gates donates money to the Guardian so they can have a "Global Development" website, those MONSTERS!!![0] Here's their DEPLORABLE description: "This website is funded by support provided, in part, by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The journalism and other content is editorially independent and its purpose is to focus on global development...The Guardian’s award-winning global development site was launched in 2010 to provide special focus on the millennium development goals — the eight targets set in 2000 by the United Nations Millennium Declaration with the aim of improving the lives of the world’s poorest people by 2015. The site has gone on to produce news, features, debate, multi-media and photography from journalists, experts and people around the world."[1]

You bring up that the foundation "controls pharmaceutical patents" but tbh it's an specious (and unsourced) claim from KHN that reeks of conspiracy theory vibes. If that's what you call a rock solid source then I have bridge to sell you.

That last point is fascinating because there you're twisting something great -- working to bring mobile banking to the impoverished rural communities of Tanzania -- into something that's somehow awful. Mobile banking is such an incredibly impactful way to reduce poverty[2] yet he's the DEVIL for partnering with a for-profit company?

Grow up and get a life.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2010/sep/14/a...

[2] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6317/1288
Quite often the border is in the middle or a side of a path / river. I think it was in the middle of the path for a reason.
> Resigning over a random employee refusing to say that "white supremacy exists" is absurd

It's not a random employee though. It's someone who is part of the Senior Leadership Team.

If you deny that it exists then how can you be trusted to do something if an issue does comes up ?
Our group has hours of meetings every week. One coworker was PIPd and he immediately joined the group. Less work and off pip now!
No one really multitasks, it's all task switching.
I would not go that far to say it's fraud. Calm down.

Maybe it's something I missed. Maybe its some hidden feature that I did not turn off. But I deleted all my droplets, all my IP's all my firewalls, etc, etc and could not find anything else.
Yeah, weirdly this ludicrous standard is never applied to leftist politics, for example suggesting that any criticism of inequality could "escalate" into the Holodomor or the Killing Fields of Cambodia, so therefore its important not to "normalize" such behaviour.
"Resigning over a random employee refusing to say that "white supremacy exists" is absurd"

The founders effectively took everyone's voice away. I think that's a very consistent way to get people to leave - especially people who for whom having a voice is more important than working at basecamp
I wonder what people 2000 years in the future would think if they stumbled upon the remains of my trinket collection? Would they recognise that its a collection of things I found pretty, or would it be interpreted as a sorcerer's kit? Probably not if they had an understanding of our time period, but it's fun to imagine.
> I think there sin runs more along the lines of being extremely naive [...]

which would be maybe more excusable if it didn't come from the guys who wrote several books about how awesomely they run their company. I guess that's why my sympathy for their situation is somewhat limited.
While I am sure there are major issues in this area, I am not sure if this report provides an appropriate measure of them.

My biggest concern is that there is no mention of G Suite Education or districts using Google-branded products (e.g. Google Classroom, Google Meet, Gmail), presumably[1] with an agreement that limits data sharing. Without distinguishing these use cases, it is hard to take the article seriously.

If taken seriously, the graphs comparing Android and iOS apps (buried in the actual report, Figure 11) would be completely damning:

> Android apps are about 8 times more likely than iOS apps to include very high-risk SDKs. Android apps are 3.5 times more likely than iOS apps to include high-risk SDKs.

[1] Evidence that this does not exist would be interesting, but I would be very suprised to find out that large districts have no such agreements. Small districts? Sure, they are at the mercy of the vendor.

[2] EFF article from 2015 saying at that time information was shared for non-advertising purposes. https://www.eff.org/press/releases/google-deceptively-tracks...
Why hacker?
There is no such thing as "cultural marxism", it's a term manufactured by modern libertarians to distract people with a fake culture war while they're robbed blind by corrupt politicians. Like "virtue signalling". It's also a red flag that someone is racist and ignorant, and should be called out in the same way as flat earth, climate denial or any other range of denialist mindsets.
I'd like to highlight that 60% of apps isn't synonymous with 60% of students. That is, if a dominant app(s) is used by e.g., 80% of students then the impact on privacy and such is even higher.

Full disclosure: I recently finished reading "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism." While I understood the gist of the situation, the book shifted my paranoia even further.
"32-bit number representing the number of 1/100'ths of a penny ought to be enough for anybody."
No, it was just claimed to be.

It's not the case that forming a committee that's over 1/3 the size of the company to do unprompted evaluation of vendor relationships for DE&I and approval of guest speakers follows logically from, "there used to be a list of funny sounding names and management didn't handle it well."
Could it be a convenience charge?
> the value of one unit of housing isn't much of a loss when you're replacing it with 50 units on the same land.

While there are many spots where this may make sense, I'm sure glad this hasn't been a universal approach. There are many neighborhoods with wonderful centuries-old homes, these are often the most desirable areas to life because the areas have character. Not everything has to be constantly torn up to build cheap apartments.

> Most people would take the $350,000 profit, move into the condo and sell their existing home to the developer to make into more condos.

Most people seems like a stretch. I'd imagine most people who have opted into a house have zero interest in going back to a condo.
It's absolutely unacceptable that AWS hasn't fixed this, but in the meantime, would using a privacy.com temporary credit card with a ~$20 limit when signing up help? I'm unsure if those kinds of cards can be detected/blocked by AWS, or if they do.
When I worked at Basho, I realized how challenging it was to really understand the experience of using Riak (a distributed NoSQL database) when it was simply not useful to Basho itself.

We dogfooded it, certainly, but Riak is designed for massive data sets that we simply didn't have need of. So while we tested it, we had to rely heavily on our customers to know what use cases were working well and what weren't.

To help alleviate that problem, our developers were frequently engaged with the customer support team; I think it was fairly standard that new engineers would start out on customer support.

I really envied companies that could properly exercise their products internally.
Redline Restoration: Ferrari 512S
Internal inconsistencies with mathematical physics fundamentals
Interesting. They added that 2nd definition just last October. Here it was prior to October 2020;

https://web.archive.org/web/20200901223507/https://www.merri...
Respectfully, after reading the original paper, I agree with the findings of the authors. The last bit in the abstract puts their findings the best:

"In contrast to demographic reconstructions based on mtDNA, we infer a second strong bottleneck in Y-chromosome lineages dating to the last 10 ky. We hypothesize that this bottleneck is caused by cultural changes affecting variance of reproductive success among males."

Saying that the average man reproduces less than the average woman seems to fit the facts as presented in the paper. I've not read other papers that may refute that one though. This is not my area of expertise.
The New York Times' Visual Investigations team published an article and video a few weeks ago showing how they had tracked a tanker smuggling oil to North Korea. It's a fascinating maze of shell companies and dark ships using all kinds of techniques to evade detection.

Their reporting goes pretty deep and their renderings/animations are usually very well made, and this was no exception: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/world/asia/tankers-north-...
Comically, going from a one-income household to a two-income household to a three-income household to a ... one arrives at the flat tax.
I mean if you care about perf you can do it in one step. It’s not that huge of an ask, and engineering wise “compile some typed code” is a hell of a lot more straightforward than “try to guess what I should speculatively compile at runtime”

There was a piece by v8 devs a while back where they ended up turning down JIT aggressiveness cuz it ended up making normal web pages slower (except for like Google Docs).

This is just me backseat-BDFLing “why do the hard thing when we could do the easy thing” tho
It's weird to cite someone complaining about not being included, as an example of inclusion being bad. Sure, fake-DEI is bad, because it's not DEI!

Also weird for someone to complain about "because of my skin colour" when she identifies herself on Twitter as "Bajan and British" first and foremost, not anything about her "values or the blood, sweat n tears".
Under FERPA, students have the right to contact your school and tell them to delist your directory information or submit pseudonymous information instead.

However, data that is not considered PII isn't an issue, so even if you chose to anonymize yourself, they can still use Google Analytics to track your behaviors and remain compliant.
I’ve observed that to make everything “data driven” and efficient, one must quantify it. Keeping track of ‘stuff’ (copies I made, time I spent, conference rooms I reserved, etc.) requires procedures that can look like bureaucracy.
My point is not about DOM compatibility, it's about unnecessarily bloating Flutter web apps.
No. It's saying that allowing any lower level of the pyramid to exist and pervade allows for further levels to be built up. Whereas if that lower level doesn't exist, it's less likely that other forms of hate will develop and subvert society. It's the frog boiling in the water. It's a cautionary tale to know when the water is heating up and how to stop it.
> the owners of the most (third parties accessing student data) were Google

Hardly a shocker. Google has been successfully pushing their classroom.google.com at school boards for several years. Schools of course don't ask many tough questions and (I suspect) when installing/setting up it's next-next-finish. Students (and parents) really don't have a choice if their school advocates using the service.

Glad my kids have long graduated so I haven't the need to fight to keep Google's hands out of (our) children's lives!
Well, presumably 100% of Chromebooks are sending student data to Google; whether or not that qualifies as "third parties" and/or "consent" is debatable.
It's not a matter of disagreement about 2 equally valid viewpoints, it's about one side being wrong about everything following a deliberate and calculated campaign of misinformation, and the other side pointing out how wrong they are and how dangerous their ideology is.

No-one likes being told they're wrong, which is why the capitol riots happened on 6 January and Trump still got so many votes despite being an abjectly horrible president, and the head of a party that does nothing for the vast majority of its constituents.
> When pressed on the issue, [Warren Buffet] has told shareholders that a lower price would bring unsophisticated short-term investors into the stock.

With respect to Buffet who has talent and is not a total fraud he gets a large fraction of his outsized returned in trades not available to you and me. Off market placements for example. Do you think your returns would have improved if you could buy Goldman Sachs at a 20% discount to market? Yeah me too.

Marketing and promotion is one way he gets those offers you and I don't. (No not the only way, he has billions to invest too, but his name helps). Having the highest share price for a single unit of stock is something else to talk about and color a story if you're reporting it. He's very good at this promotion. His annual letter was a previous generation's version of Elon Musk's tweeting, hiring onion writers, flame throwers and so on that gets Elon so talked about.

It's a skill, a talent. Finding the opportunities and exploiting them in a way that doesn't significantly blow back at you. Buffet executes it brilliantly. Something to consider in your own business. Is there something else you can exploit like that which would make for a paragraph in the story of your company?
That reminds me of "chingar" in Spanish... Mexico/Argentina it means to have sex with, in Chile it means to change
You can set price alerts to email you on the day when you cross a monthly spending limit, but it is not the simplest thing to figure out.

I run a small server and have a few odds and ends and get emails at $5, $15, $50, $75, and $100. Haven't broken $75 limit yet...
AWS employs cost obfuscation by design otherwise the default view when you open the console would show you all of your current active services. Not only is that not the case, a single screen to show you all of your current active services doesn't exist. You need to take a deep dive into cost explorer (assuming you have access in corporate land) and try to decipher in what that all means.
Refusing to say it isn’t denying it exists. Those are different things.

If I’m trying to count to 100 and someone says “Prepend, please say that white supremacy exists.” And I respond “I’m busy counting to 100 and will not comply with your wishes.” That doesn’t mean I’m denying that white supremacy exists.

It’s odd you would interpret it that way as it’s illogical.
“US Customs and Border Patrol”
https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
Every base except for base 1 (tallies)
The company where your colleagues decide your salary
I guess, but most people don't care about that stuff. Which is why Flutter is dying :/
Of course there's a way. But it's opt-in, not opt-out.
This: "co-wrote several books on company culture that are glorified ads for basecamp" just doesn't seem too questionable to me. The readership made them popular books. His job, in part, is to promote his products - my interpretation of your comment was that your thoughts on his plight were swayed by him writing something that promoted his business. I find him a bit over the top, so I don't follow him on Twitter. I haven't read their books. I've used but didn't continue to use their products. But that doesn't really sway my thoughts on this recent episode.

I think there's a lot of cross-purpose arguing about it all. It's likely that they're a bit painful to work for AND that as founders they'd have concerns about their paid staff getting distracted from their mission at work.
their explanation: it's "gendered and not inclusive"
In the report, not the summary, Firebase is listed as the most used 3rd party, with Firebase Messaging and Firebase Analytics being designated as "High Risk." When the report says "these apps are sending data to Google" it sounds like they are sending ad tracking data to commercialize off of this data, but tools like Firebase are common web hosting platforms, not data tracking tools. This is like saying data is being sent to Amazon Web Services.

Here is the report: https://me2ba.org/school-mobile-apps-student-data-sharing-be...

As an edtech founder, I 100% agree that there should be more time spent holding school apps accountable for the data that they sent out, but this report doesn't accurately capture the risks present and how to hold organizations accountable.
Are you advocating for new owners?
Great paper. It covers common attacks and highlights the dangers of SMS 2FA and phone number based identities. The two carriers in this study, TMobile and Verizon, changed their practices in response to this study:

> In October 2020 we provided an initial notification of our findings to the carri- ers we studied and to CTIA, the U.S. trade association repre- senting the wireless communications industry.

> In December 2020, T-Mobile informed us that after review- ing our research, it had updated its number change support page to 1) remind subscribers to update their contact number on bank accounts and social media profiles, and 2) specify the FCC-mandated number aging period. Along with raising subscriber awareness, it also informed us that customer ser- vice agent manuals had been updated to emphasize those two points during relevant interactions, effective early December.1

> In December 2020, CTIA informed us that after reviewing our research, Verizon had updated its public-facing support document for number cancellations, suspensions, and transfers to 1) remind subscribers to update their contacts and unlink their business and online accounts, and 2) specify the FCC- mandated minimum aging period (45 days).2
What's so special about vector embeddings
>> : to withdraw funding from

> and "withdraw" does not mean "remove completely"

It certainly _can_ and usually _does_ mean remove completely. Examples:

- "I'm withdrawing my student from this school"

- "The peer review committee has decided to withdraw this erroneous paper from publication"

- "I would like to withdraw $100 from my checking account" (It means the _whole_ $100)

- "He is experiencing heroine withdrawal symptoms" (after not having _any_)
A man goes on a 50 year voyage travelling at near lightspeed.

When he returns all of his friends have aged 50 years. But he has only aged 1 year.

So you see, his friends were aging 50x faster.
A way to limit the max spend per month would be great, even if that means creates outages.

I would happily put a $20/mo limit on many of my accounts. They should never bill more than few dollars a month.
IIRC the excuse is that billing is a separate department and they count all the usage dollars way after you done using it, not in realtime. You would still be able to go over your limit and then who should foot the bill?

Realtime counting would be too difficult to figure out, our brightest minds are busy figuring out engagement metrics.
Frequently if the bid is say 40.10 and the ask is 40.09, the mark is shown as 40.095. Not sure if that's why they have hundredths, or just to support those legacy cases of odd fractions.
I had an AWS account for one of my businesses, and decided to bring it in-house about 2 months ago.

went through the account deletion, and got yet charge/another bill today - account is deleted, so can't log in to see why I'm being charged.

hopefully their support will help out, but not holding my breath.

editing to add: billing was for db backups, I terminated the db, and no clue how to remove the automatic backups it made. of course I can't log in to look any further.
Yes, the Huberman Lab podcast talks about this: humans can bifocal-task if one of the tasks can be in the background.
I’ve heard of plenty of people accidentally blasting past the free tier, or past dev credits, or other ways where they got burned by a surprise bill. 100% of those people have gotten a refund from AWS support by filing a ticket.

AWS pretty clearly isn’t raking in money on this. Even at your imaginary 2 million a year, that’s a drop in the bucket for AWS, let alone Amazon.
Not necessarily. It seems like the kind of misspelling/misunderstanding of a foreign name my parents may have had. They were especially suspicious of anything that sounded remotely Soviet in origin (like Linyus, but Torovoltos is Greek to me).

When I learned to buy things online (with my own money) and started ordering gadgets from China my mom was worried the mail carrier would think I was a communist.
Orders are generally quoted in cents, but trades execute off-book at fractional cent prices on a regular basis (e.g. when a HFT firm is providing price improvement).
That looks fantastic.
Perhaps you have a snapshot?

You should be able to look under your bill for a breakdown on what service the charge is for.
>On the other hand, when did racial equality become an inherently political topic?

Equality vs hierarchy is literally the core of the difference between right and left, that is the definition of inherently political.
Phillip@arka.com thanks!
That's a good reason not to be sympathetic to them in particular. I guess you could say I'm sympathetic to some degree to the problem they were presented, but it was definitely of their own creation, so they shouldn't get a pass.

I mean, it's easy to think you're doing well because you got lucky in personnel and timing for how things went, but maybe have a bit more introspection before writing a book about it and how good your ideas were (there's a lot of non-fiction that could be said about...).
Engineering professor solves deep earthquake mystery
While this is true, we still go back to them to agree on what the words mean.
And if enough people use a different definition then the dictionary changes.

That doesn’t mean that I can define words however I like. Since defund has a well and consistently used definition I think it’s going be hard for the connotation to change so that “defund police” means something other than defund police.
Without a receipt to show what's being charged for I'd just call the bank and ask for a chargeback.