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i had set up some billing alerts on my AWS and it was just all terrible and sh*tty, clicking around in a million places to get not what i actually wanted.

i thought about building my own service to just let me know a daily total of my expected bill at the end of the month

then i'd add stuff to tell me about fast-increasing charges, as quickly as was necessary depending on the steepness of the charge rise curve.

then i found Billgist, which i tried for a bit -- it worked great, looks great, etc., so i'm not building my own. no connection to them.

https://www.billgist.com/

i used it at first just to see if it worked at all, then to see if it sucked (in which case I would prob try to build my own), and then ultimately to try to help me get comfortable with the idea that i probably wasn't going to wake up one beautiful Saturday morning to a $50k AWS bill.

that never worked -- that is, i never got comfortable with the idea that I would _not_ wake up to a $50k AWS bill one beautiful Saturday morning -- it just seems completely plausible, even likely.

so i shut down most of my aws stuff (i was always particularly worried about my Lambda stuff), moved some things to Digital Ocean, and i'm guessing i'll revisit AWS at some point when i reach some critical mass of:

* "i actually need AWS", and

* "i actually have something to implement that has the possibility of making money", and

* "i'm comfortable, thru my own alerts/billing limits/cutoffs/aws-expertise, that i probably won't wake up to that $50k hacker AWS bill".

one thing i learned is that AWS charges you for _everything_ -- including your single daily API call to figure out how much you're going to owe at the end of the month -- the fee for that call is 3 cents per call, or at least for the first call.

tho you can log in thru the console and check this estimate for free.

one of the things you get charged for is 'Configs' -- pretty much any config setting you've customized in any way -- permissions, roles, tags (?), etc.

i understand the logic, but damn -- i'm trying to use AWS so i can get things done, not so i can worry about the costs of every. single. not-completely-optimized. miniscule. design decision. down to the penny. nickle and diming would be a luxury.

i can imagine my hypothetical company's AWS Cost Saving Specialist coming to me and saying, "I'm glad you've set up this incredibly fast and secure and resilient system, but....we need to save a few bucks, so....yeah, i'm gonna need you to come in tomorrow...."

i may have a former co-worker that works there - if you run out of options i'll try to ping someone in my chain, see if i can contact them.
Being anti-transpiration seems really weird to me? It just lets developers write code using new standards without requiring all users to be on bleeding edge browsers.

What do you think should happen instead? Should web applications just exclude anyone who's using a browser that doesn't implement all the newest web standards? Or should developers just unnecessarily use old versions of JavaScript?

You might not be aware, but writing in ES5 feels incredibly awkward once you get used to the newer standards. If I can write in a nice language (ES2020) but transpire my code into a more widely supported language (ES5) I don't see why I wouldn't do that.
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$2k is a part time salary, for an unknown amount of hours. The full time salary that they are going to get going forward is $6k. Still not close to competitive, but enough to make a decent living.
Last time I checked Samsung tablets and phones, they lagged already in the store. I don't know whether it's all the crapware that gets pre-installed, or just inefficient programming. But I think CPU speed might not help them.
> If there was such small incentives I would've immediately subscribed $5/m to following project: Nodejs, Postgres, Node-Pg, [...]

Who would receive that money? Only the core developers? Anybody with "commit access"? In which share? Will it detract voluntary contributions? How should other companies working on the same code-base be treated? Are they allowed to contribute at all? Do they get some shares of the funds?

All these questions (and many others) that have been discussed in the Debian project for a long time and nobody has yet found an answer that is acceptable to everybody.

Some sources:

* "Debian + Dunc-Tank.org = dissent" (2006) https://lwn.net/Articles/201488/

* "Paying (some) Debian developers" (2019) https://lwn.net/Articles/790954/

* "DPL: Debian project has plenty of money but not enough developers" (2020) https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/10/debian_project_addres...
Consciousness has a specific meaning, even though we can't formally define it so far. That includes reactiveness, feelings, curiosity and other traits, which elementary particles obviously do not possess. So, it is obvious that elementary particles are not conscious.

Now, you could say that consciousness is a quantity that humans possess a lot of, while photons possess a tiny little amount of, like the Integrated Information Theory people claim. But there is no proof (or even indication, in my opinion) that the IIT 'consciousness' actually captures what we mean by human consciousness.

> It follows that, if true randomness is exhibited by the universe, one that is not generated by rules, then it must be the leftover ingredient. Consciousness is the only leftover ingredient. Everything else we know about physics is deterministic and rule-based.

Randomness is not necessarily a part of QM. For example, in MWI, there is no randomness in the universe - it is perfectly deterministic, as every state of the wave function is realized. In pilot-wave theory, the only randomness is classical - errors in knowing the initial state with absolute precision.

Even if CI or other fundamental randomness interpretations of QM are correct, there is no obvious connection between consciousness and randomness. There are other unknowns in the universe - you could just as easily say that dark matter is consciousness or dark matter is the source of randomness, or dark energy etc.

And only since you briefly mentioned it, free will (as in conscious choice affecting the next state of the universe) is incompatible with QM, as QM is a linear theory, where the next state is uniquely determined by the previous state, especially in MWI.
We haven’t sent another probe, not because of anti nuclear lobby, but because of there was an unique event of planets being nearly on a line around 1970, which allowed NASA to plot a series of gravity assists, instead of one or two, that allowed gaining immense amount of free velocity.

Sun’s gravity well is so immense that escaping it requires a very, very large amount of energy. I am not sure if it could be done with conventional rockets with current technology, without multiple gravity assists.

Edit: As the child comment says, it seems to be possible with current technology. It is very exciting!
> $11,000 per month

I think I know why they're running out of money!

Seriously that's an amazing salary in 99% of the world for working on commercial software where you don't get to decide what to do, can't remote work, probably aren't working on your passion project, etc. etc.
If you follow security best practices, you have append-only backups that you can use to restore the encrypted data and don't need insurance at all...
And yet, I like to see a commenter making one claim and the comments rebuking it, instead of the comment being downvoted into oblivion or outright removed. Seeing the process in action. It also helps that HN doesn't hide comment threads by default, so every comment and its responses are out in the open.
The 'triple A' games of the time sometimes used the amount of floppy disks as a sort of status symbol (11 disks of content! ;) )

I believe those games were mostly graphic adventures (especially Sierra's), or productivity software that came with lots of clip-art, fonts etc.
You're completely right in thinking that. Insurance companies are only providing "insurance" from the perspective of the customers. They're actually just another investment vehicle and their managers (not so dissimilar to hedge and mutual funds) optimise for profits -- thus minimising risk. All the while being "risky" enough to allow for building some customer base (so cash inflow).
in my field at least, i feel like the only thing that really gets HR attention is buzzwords and technology name dropping
Julia is nothing like Python though, and it has other flaws like 1-based indexing and huge delays loading packages as it compiles them.
It's important to note however that alt-right content is just one particular example. Often people encounter this algorithmic behavior and ascribe certain motives to Youtube etc. And while that probably IS happening to some degree, it's also true, and probably more common, that the system is just showing you more of what it thinks you will like. There are plenty of stories of this happening in a more innocuous (but still obnoxious) way: click one car repair video, everything is car repair videos. Click one clip from an old animated show for nostalgia, EVERYTHING is now clips from old 90s shows.

And to counter all this, often the system is actually surprisingly insightful in digging up obscure crap from god knows where that's really neat, and right up your alley, that you never would have seen otherwise.

And then it goes back to filling your whole front page with Simpsons clips.
"Outlook (Windows)" is dead last in the "rankings". That's pretty much the only page on there that matters sadly; Determining which features work on Outlook for Windows and that's the maximum that can go into an HTML EMail.

Sure, I'd love to only send txt mails but that sadly does not align with the expectations/desires of the companies I've worked with.
Slow down with the over-dramatisation buddy.
Nothing has been lost, interstellar exploration hasn't died, and I am not exactly sure why an anti-nuclear lobby at NASA has anything to do with either of these things.
There is also a separate aspect, that this also has do with unawareness, and not just excess stinginess. I might speak for only myself, but to a much larger extent that I'd like to admit, I take work and maintenance of open source projects for granted.

Maybe it's the disconnect caused by large businesses properly funding some of them, with an erroneous assumption of the level of maintenance others require. If something is core to a major tool chain then I just, sad to say, assume it's well funded, either by larger companies or universities.

Trying to think of an example, LLVM seems integral to a lot of progress on web functionality, just EMSCripten alone makes that case. This in turn is sponsored by most of the major tech companies [1]. Whether the same foundation also funds emscripten, I couldn't find out.

https://foundation.llvm.org/docs/sponsors/

I think my point is, if anything, if you have a open source project that requires having several full times employees, it might be high time to create a non/profit and work on getting funding. The post they wrote, and the visibility it gets can be an example of a doing just that, albeit maybe just a temporary fix.
It is still a US company regulated by US laws isnt it?
Obviously mobbing and multiple accounts break this, but it's still a fun little idea. If it's invite-only group which would eliminate sock-puppeting it could be interesting experiment.
In a r/askscience , there was a report that they are also working on a surface identifying vaccine, which doesn’t mutate (as much?), instead based on the spike protein. They didn’t earlier because it takes a longer time to develop and is harder.
M1 is that good because Apple customises their software for it(or the other way around). I doubt any other company would dedicate that much effort to it.
I don't think so. LibreOffice should be most popular /^Libre/ OSS.
Ghost written or quick buck books are super common in Google Unlimited or low priced books. I can now spot them pretty quickly. Tech books are an area where I’d go with a known publishing house that has a good track record.
Bit higher than that:

> The efficiency of human muscle has been measured (in the context of rowing and cycling) at 18% to 26%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle#Efficiency
I run an email forwarding service[1] so I deal with spam a lot.

Spam usually has bad formating, mixed charset, old/broken layoyt etc.

Most of time, spam are odd designs. Example they only have HTML and didn't have the corresponding plain text part. They have large pictures and too little text, they have many "invisible" part so that hide behind element to trick you to click the wrong thing.

Even in plain-text, spam tend to include random links, very long text, weird chracter etc

A nicely design, or a plain-text emails(only plain text) with nice format all are good signal of non-spam.

In other word, consistency is signal of non-spam emails. But sometime marketing emails-which you never explicitly subscribe to, you just register for an account and got marketing emails, can also be consider spam, but from google/hotmail point of view they don't consider these are spam and that's reason they have Promotion tab to put thing in there

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[1] https://hanami.run
True, but to use JavaScript sensibly you really need to use Typescript and ESLint (to ban the crazy old features like `var` and `==`).

But I do agree Typescript is one of the best alternatives today if you can stomach `tsconfig.json` `eslintrc` and `node_modules`.
I unsubscribe from marketing mails, those are legally required to have an unsubscribe link in them. You should try clicking on that if you don't like marketing mail. If they don't stop you can threaten legal action in both EU and US without issue.

If it doesn't have this link, it's spam. If it's trying to get me to buy something I didn't explicitly wishlist on a store, it's spam. If it's unsolicited marketing, it's spam.

And even if I were to include all marketing email, including those I am interested in, then plaintext mail would still constitute the majority of spam mails I receive.
> QIC-80

120 Mb at floppy drive speeds? That must have been painfully slow...
Html emails are as selfish and disrespectful like sneezing in other people's faces.

For the sake of presenting marketing (Logos). Disgusting. Wear a mask, write text.
Most people aren't even fully aware that Babel is part of their toolchain.
Arguments like this make me suspicious. Essentially, we've got no way of knowing how much Lady Ranelagh would have achieved if... so that leaves us free to speculate about how she was an unknown genius. There's an infinite supply of these figures for feminist academics to make hay with. Meanwhile, how many people can name an achievement of Robert Boyle, who actually was the greatest English scientist before Newton?

Maybe I'm wrong, and if I read the book I'd find convincing proof that she was a brilliant mind who could have made great discoveries. What's in the article doesn't seem much: she tested a cure for rickets, paid for her brother's lab, and wrote down somebody's experiment.
Blockpad ( https://blockpad.net/ ) and Mathematica do it.
I didn't adjust the $9000 for inflation because according to the CPI calculations there's been ~0% inflation for cars. So if they're right a new 1990 Mustang would be priced at $9000 today in today's dollars.
The trajectory for the Voyager probes was made possible by the alignment of Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. A similar alignment will not occur again until the middle of the 22nd century.
> This is why you need government intervention. Just make it illegal to pay such ransoms.

this penalizes the victim. Legally this might be impossible for the same reasons the law is unable to stop you from paying a ransom in kidnapping.

I'm not convinced this would affect the problem even if outlawed. Companies would simply go the path of least resistance the same way they do with avoiding tax. There will always be loopholes for shell / shelf companies to hide activities. The ransomware gangs themselves already today encourage you to reach out from private emails and promise smoother negotiation if you do.
bold statement, what makes you think so?
I totally take your point, but frankly, I’m not interested in convincing someone who would avoid the vax because of the (minor, very manageable) side effects. I’ll let the public health folks tackle that one ;)

I honestly hoped I had more side effects! You know you’re not getting sick, so a mild fever? Kind of a perverse pleasure.
> there's a substantial political movement that will say or do anything for victory

Well, how can one verify if something is correct or not if there is no link to sources? Without sources, there is no way. With the sources, one can verify the sources, if needed in depth (recursively). (Except if one side controls all the sources, as done in the book 1984. But in the western society, we are not in this position yet, luckily.)

Neural networks have relatively stable connections (neurons know only neighbours, and assign thrust / weight to each other). That is a "gossip". But as a society, we want a faster way. But faster ways (radio, TV, Twitter, Facebook... this site here) are more dangerous, so we need the sources.

> if you can get someone to argue over the stuff, you've just become ONE SIDE of a both-sides narrative

And you steal other peoples times.

> They're giving enough 'tells' that they're operating from sort of a post-reality position

For you, yes. But for others, it might not be obvious. So calling out "where are the sources", and then seeing there are no reliable sources, might help those others.
First sale doctrine applies to businesses as well.
The very site this thread is about addresses exactly this. The tl;dr is look at what is supported by Outlook.
Yes, it's can be invite-only group. Also, in @timecobot the time is carried over between chats. In other words, time is an attribute of the Telegram user, not the chat user.
You are literally entrusting facebook with your kids private data because the app works well. Or in another world, my kid would definitly hate me because of all the tech its not allowed to use.
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Why do all the people in the examples hate RMS?
I place quite a bit of importance on cover letters. Cover letters that are concise and clear and professional don't come up often, and are always highly appreciated. Well written cover letters and resumes also correlate highly with the professionalism and abilities of candidates, in my experience. I hire mostly for non-technical positions, and I am mindful that in highly technical positions, maybe past work speaks for itself, and there's less emphasis on cover letter and resume.
I was a volunteer in the place helping parents of autistic children. Sure, there are autistic people able to study / work / write books (I knew at least one), but for many just a gentle touch makes their nervous system short circuit. In their case sentence "Autistic individuals don’t have any difficulty communicating with another autistic" is just a lie, it's like there was an invisible bubble wrapping them and separating them from the world we know.
It doesn't. If you don't have a contract with pricing stipulations, then you have no obligation to sell at MSRP or MAP.
Yeah, the review sites that drive affiliate revenue with content marketing SEO tend to hire low cost writers to do web searches and write articles, stopping just short of the plagiarism line, realizing that duplicate content isn’t good for SEO.

These sites aren’t going to to really test the pool cleaning equipment, the web hosting services being reviewed and ranked, learning Python tutorials. Nobody is going to pay anyone to test anything to make sure how the how-to cobbled together from three similar articles actually works.
I was also asking for sources so I can adjust my "weight" to those sources. You can guess in which direction the adjustment goes :-)
How much workers deserve is based on profitability of the company they work at? Do workers who are equally talented and hardworking but work for a failing company deserve less?
WolframAlpha only works if you can write your calculation on one line, and without manipulating variables.
Interesting argument, though forcefully selecting a donnor does not increase organ failure rates for others, whereas paying ransom does increase risks of future attacks.
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> Median household income went from $59,966 in 1990 to $78,500 today

What is your source? Here I see it going from about $30,000 to $69,000.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA646N
I dont have kids. But this still sounds creepy.

Either they are to young that a smartphone or Facebook would actually benefit them, or they are to old to spy on them.
Debian's case is so complicated. Many of these complexities and dynamics don't exist in other software projects.

Most of the project's I'd support have central figures that can use the money and don't have such difficulties. Babel could've used my $5/m donations. Debian's theoretical
and moral dilemmas are not universal.

I used to be involved in a similar project for KDE [0] and it was KDE e.V that received the money. How they allocated their money is an entirely different question that depends on each one.

[0] https://relate.kde.org/
My first thought was that the higher on the list a client is, the more vulnerable it is.

Am I wrong with this assumption?
When something is too obviously a good thing, there is a game of 'chicken' where no one feels the need to contribute because the item is so obviously advantageous they are sure someone else will.

At the extreme, this is the opposite of a normal public good, which are characterised by a cost above any individual's marginal utility. Here, there are any number of organisations who probably have marginal utility from Babel above the cost of provision. See the snowdrift dilemma.

Prisoner's dilemma or tragedy of commons has a dominant strategy (defect), but chicken does not - your best strategy is to do the opposite to the other.
There are a lot of low level algorithms that benefit from custom allocators which allow them to take advantage of SIMD instructions.

Haven't used rust in a long time, but back in school I called out to the c++ fftw library from rust, which wants its own allocator to be used for this purpose.

That said, at least at that point in time (or due to my naivety) it was rather straightforward to hook up: https://github.com/PaulFurtado/rusty_bars/blob/master/src/ff...

That code looks like it just handled arrays, but I recall having implemented Vec at some point but I guess I probably removed it from the final code
> While the Carrington Event has long been considered a once‐in‐a‐century catastrophe

That seems dismissive of "once‐in‐a‐century" risks. We can't ignore "once‐in‐a‐century" risks? We're currently suffering though COVID-19, a "once‐in‐a‐century" pandemic.

"once‐in‐a‐century" is not the same as "unique" either. They cite several examples ... across several centuries. So what are they saying is the re-appraised frequency - once every 75 years?
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Just use setup.py and __version__, ignore fashion until a winner emerges. Hasn’t failed me in ~twenty years.
Kind of a strange video. The crux of it is that Tesla is being misleading, but then it is pointed out that this is how the rest of the industry quotes 0-60 times. Does he really want Tesla to be the only "honest" one?
Youtube kids contains things i think are creepy. I know they heavily decreased the sexualized content, but some of the scare stuff IMO still goes to far.
> I am not sure if it could be done with conventional rockets with current technology, without multiple gravity assists.

Yes, it can. New Horizons is escaping the solar system only a little bit slower than the Voyager probes, and it was already on an escape trajectory before its single Jupiter gravity assist.
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