skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> May I ask how you dealt with this? Were you able to explain it to Amazon support and get some of these charges forgiven? Also, how would you recommend monitoring for this type of issue with Lambda?

AWS support caught it before we did, so they did something on their end to throttle the Lambda invocations. We asked for billing forgiveness from them; last I heard that negotiation was still ongoing over a year after it occurred.

Part of the problem was we had temporarily disabled our billing alarms at the time for some reason, which caused our team to miss this spike. We've enabled alerts on both billing and Lambda invocation counts to see if either go outside of normal thresholds. It still doesn't hard-stop this from occurring again, but we at least get proactively notified about it before it gets as bad as it did. I don't think we've ever found a solution to cut off resource usage if something like this is detected.
Contagious? Yes. Deadly? Not really, especially for a novel virus.

That's the difference.

If we had a plague as bad as the Black Death, then yes, it would be deadly.

People will use the death numbers as counter-arguments, yet most deaths (94%-ish last I heard) are from people who had comorbidities, like obesity and such.

Until there is the same logic being applied to obese people as to the unvaccinated, as well as counting previous infections, especially for healthcare workers, I personally will not apply the same logic of smoking and drunk driving either.
yeah, look at the great job Margaret Thatcher did
>> Medium feels like it's the Experts-Exchange of article publishing

Experts-Exchange, without the experts.
Cloudflare has worked providers to make sure they can efficiently route. If you find case where this isn’t the case please let us know.
They asked a lot of really senior-level questions about B-trees. Since I tend to use hashes instead of B-trees for my data structures, I was caught completely flat footed.

To interview for Facebook, study B-trees like crazy (no, the recruiters did not warn me about this).

Also, after the interview, the recruiters at Facebook I was in contact with completely ghosted me. Very rude.
Tbc, I haven't, but I'm also not the one throwing shade at the site's management.
Frankly I do not understand why someone who believes the vaccine is effective should have any cause for concern over another's vaccination status.
That's a myth, though.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...
I hope the web takes over mobile. So sick of being nagged at to install apps.
J runs on Android. To see J in action, you can check out TangentStorm's channel on Twitch
When the towers were first built, one of the design questions was whether or not they could survive being hit by a 747 — on accident, presumably. So, that issue was taken into consideration.

At the time of the attack, more modern aircraft were used, which had much thinner skins and were much more lightly constructed. Which means that they got much more shredded by the building construction as they passed through, and which also helped take off a lot more of the fire insulation from the trusses in the building.
Looks very interesting. The docs for it appear to be using VuePress.

So I checked it out and it’s not clear to me how if it all it supports different frameworks. All the examples seem to be for handlebars based components not actual components in the JS framework sense of the word.
> I really miss the old and customizable Firefox.

This is really the largest beef I have with Firefox. Firefox had been making poor (IMHO) UI decisions for a very long time -- but it didn't matter, because it was customizable enough that you could fix them.

Now that it's much less customizable, though, there is so much that can no longer be fixed.
Compared to my cost of living in the bay that's absolutely pennies. And good luck getting anything installed permits or otherwise because finding contractors (especially decent ones) is nearly impossible without a healthy population of tradesmen.

I was also affected by blackouts in CA so it wasn't like I had power there either. Only difference is the weather is very livable without HVAC.
To not take a vaccine that would save your life because the government told to you is exactly the type of stupid behavior I expect from stupid people.
Ok, I'm relieved to see that this exists. Thank you.
This is the best guide I’ve found:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a50/1230517/

Goes into depth debunking most of the conspiracies I've heard of.

My best ELI5 for the one you are asking about:

Does a bar of chocolate need to melt completely into a puddle of liquid before it changes shape and becomes softer?

Of course not. The chocolate bar will become mushy and deform before it becomes a liquid.

Jet fuel burns at 800 - 1500 F, whereas steel melts at 2750.

But just like chocolate on a warm day, it loses its strength at much lower temperatures. By 1500 degrees steel is at less than half of its strength.

Have you ever wondered how ancient civilizations managed to melt metals, or create ceramics? After all, they didn't have jet fuel yet!

Well, when some kilns use wood as a fuel source, they can burn at up to 2000 F! Wow! Isn't combustion neat?

The WTC was full of flammable materials like wood, plastic, rubber, and cloth. Jet fuel burns at 1500, but just like a wood kiln, other sources of combustion can make things much hotter.

TL;DR - You don't need to heat something to the point of being a puddle of liquid to weaken it.
My warframe account was banned a while ago for having cheat engine running in the background. I was using cheat engine with total war, a single player series and never hooked it into warframe. So some systems at least just looks for running processes to create cheat tools.
From the sentiment on display so far; I'm wondering how long before we get advocates for involuntary vaccinations among the "essential workers" without whom our society will not function.

If half the Post Office quits over this, that system isn't going to restart quickly or easily. Multiply that by many others.
Bringing a third trimester pregnancy to a location without adequite medical facilities is the first mistake.
The key thing is here:

> over the first six months of 2020

Those first six months were pretty rough. The large majority of people had little to no experience working remotely, so many folks didn't have a good home office environment, and there was a general sense of being unsure if this would just be temporary or if employees should settle in for the long haul. Many orgs didn't have good practices set up for remote work yet, and people were still struggling a lot with the tools (say what you want about MS Teams, but they improved their product by leaps and bounds over the pandemic, much of which after the first 6 months).

I'd be interested in a follow-up that analyzes the same time period but for 2021.
archive.is doesn't compete with cloudflare, but they (or other websites) might want to spend money on improving their performance. cloudflare's dns resolver being popular makes one non-cloudflare option for improving website performance less appealing.
The unfortunate aspect of data and studies like this is that the HN/tech community prefers working in silos.
I read recently that the “just one more thing” originated when the writers discovered they’d forgotten to have Colombo ask a question during the scene and tacked it onto the end to avoid having the rewrite the scene.
Catherine the Great, Queen Victoria, Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel.

The last one caused the CDU to drop from 40% to 20% in 6 years and is partly responsible for Brexit.

Thatcher has mixed reviews as well.
There are so many confounding variables that they can't make that statement without sounding like they're selling something.

Does it matter when people were infected? Does it matter if you got the shot after being infected? Hint: it probably does because you probably have more antibodies right after getting the shot.

In fact, they should do a study of uninfected vaccinated people who get infected. Do they have higher antibody counts after getting infected? They probably would. Does that mean that every vaccinated person should get infected too?
Note-Taking for Software Engineers
The creators of this website unfortunately did not consider that BBC broadcasts in British time. You have to jump to 1:59 PM (= 8:59 AM NYC time) for the beginning of the BBC coverage.

I personally vividly remember watching the news on BBC World and saw at least one of the towers collapse on live TV. You don't really forget something like that.
Storybook is breaking our build. It has Reach Router as a dependency. Reach router does not support React 17 - they PR to support it has been open for nearly a year!! So this week, we were required to upgrade to React 17.0.2 and Storybook broke our build because of its dependency of Reach Router. i.e. NOT FUN!!
"I just read a study in Nature saying remote work is more trouble than it's worth, back to the office everybody!" /s
Wouldn't this lead to "off-chain" transactions where you keep all your money in your account, but trade around IOU that are not subject to that tax?
Or XMPP/Jabber.
> state-mandated

Is is state-mandated or private-company-mandated?

> informed

Yeah you're going to have to work a little harder in order to get that one accepted.

> Strangers

They are people who are in constant contact with very vulnerable group. Personal liberty ends where other person's liberty begins.
> The appearance of mathematical astronomy in Babylonia tells us that the movement of celestial bodies is approximately the first scientific knowledge a civilization will bother to write down.

In fact, we know (from ruins) that the Chinese were practicing astronomy at a time well before our first written records of them.

It is a certainty that the planets were known to all prehistoric cultures; I don't know what adrian_b is thinking.
There is no way that we could know whether that's a myth simply because the vaccines have not existed long enough to know for sure.
The reduction in choice happened at the start of Covid.
What makes them unqualified?
Are those the criteria the study used?
“We are lucky” is certainly a viable solution to the Fermi paradox.

Venus had thermal runaway and the precipitation there is lead rather than water.

Martian winters cause ~25% of the atmosphere to condense into the polar (dry)ice caps.
Now if a fresh Windows 11 install on a common 5-year-old laptop could be set up out of the box with perpetual updates (Skylake CPUs aren't new enough) and working power management (microsoft deleted my acpi tables =C) as well as working suspend and hibernate, perhaps we could some day declare the year of the Windows desktop.
We are literally on a forum where they could have discovered OP's blog before, now, or after.
Good luck constructing additional pylons
Correlation !== Causation.
Can we just call that sexism against men? There's nothing innate that makes men or women better for the job (both have strengths and weaknesses) according to scientists; so a balance should be more effective than just replacing one dominance with another.
What expertise? My specialty is new product design. I am very far from being performance hardware guru. I just understand basics and do not swallow propaganda by loads.
For those looking of component showcase i'd kindly advise to also look at https://bit.dev, https://github.com/teambit/bit . It is a standalone service that hosts your components, providing each of it as a npm package.

You end up developing the components in a separate repo, and in your main app repo you install each component as dedicated npm package. Those who get excited by `separation of concerns` pattern should find this a real joy.
Think there's a market for commercializing his techniques, akin to what happened with desktop 3D printing?
The article literally describes what cause the building to collapse.

> After 7 hours of uncontrolled fires, a steel girder on Floor 13 lost its connection to one of the 81 columns supporting the building. Floor 13 collapsed, beginning a cascade of floor failures to Floor 5. Column 79, no longer supported by a girder, buckled, triggering a rapid succession of structural failures that moved from east to west. All 23 central columns, followed by the exterior columns, failed in what's known as a "progressive collapse"--that is, local damage that spreads from one structural element to another, eventually resulting in the collapse of the entire structure.

Perhaps read more than the headline and you would not think it so "curious".
He’s literally taking pleasure at someone else’s expense. It’s sadism. That’s almost the definition of a bad person. It’s not something I just throw around.
>You could turn off the DB, but there was some other kind of scaffolding thing that I was still getting charged for.

It is a feature!
/s
Your first example might actually be really nice in something like a math paper. Something that follows a somewhat rigid premises-argument-conclusion format.

For prose, it's obviously silly, because one point and one goal of prose is to keep the reader in the dark about many wonderful things - or even mislead them to suprise them. So techniques that allow for an easier skimming and back-and-forth (like I did to compare example #2 with example #1) are detrimental there.
Even encouraging people to reduce beef consumption in favor of pork or chicken would have a pretty significant impact, and that's a lot less drastic of a lifestyle change than going fully vegan. Although from an animal welfare perspective it might not be desirable - a lot more chickens need to suffer to produce the same amount of meat as one cow for instance.
supposedly* breaking the law. /s
Noise cancelling headphones can negate it but it could damage a phone? This seems more like the place for people to gather and say "I don't like motorcycles because loud." Which is fine, but let's not really say it's related to the post.
1000% this. It’s a nightmare and the maintainers have been less than receptive in the past. The fact it’s built on react which apparently means it needs a million react dependencies. Fair enough but when the dependencies break your eg Vue app because of the deeply flawed way NPM resolves dependencies and screws things up in mysterious and frustrating ways, it’s just a non starter.

Writing documentation for the components is a weird mix of JSX, interpolated strings, and markdown. Often overlapping, confusing, and conflicting ways of doing the same thing.
Is this a Mac thing? You're not meant to use DNS fallback for different providers.
Medium has a terrific writing experience.
Click a button and start writing. Don't have to think about the title, what the file name will be, none of that. No friction. That's why I've used it in the past.

I have a Hey account and have tried Hey World, and it's... ok.
Formatting sucks. No discoverability.
Just meh.

I haven't written on Medium in a couple do years now. Last time I did, though, the writer had the option to have the article be part of the paywall or not.
I do not know if that is still optional, but if so maybe anger is misdirected at Medium for this (or you could just pay for the content...).
Gmail Attachments Broken
twice in the past week I have had gmail attach the wrong image. Different operating systems. Thumbnail and file name shows as correct but when you click the link in the sent email the wrong picture opens. This is with emails with multiple picture attachments. Suppose it is filename1 and filename2. The sent email will show correct thumnails and names but when you go to open filenam2 it is the same picture as filename1. What the hell, Google?
By that logic, we could also argue—with the same degree of certainty—that the virus itself causes fertility issues, and therefore the vaccine prevents them.
Merkel responsible for Brexit?
I am the exact opposite. I look at code written by some analyst or whatever at work, and it's usually borderline unreadable if you ask me. Pretty print it as latex and I can visualize what it actually does almost immediately.

Besides, I don't really care about "the code" i.e. the mechanics of computation but rather the properties of that expression that exist regardless of how it is communicated i.e. it's shape or how it behaves asymptotically etc.
In 2001 websites worked better than that.
Well DDR treated their women bad, and their men not any better at all! That's why it collapsed.
> the solution to things that are broken and hard is not to abandon them like a petulent child out of frustration.

Are we trying to enable secure E2E encrypted messages, or are we trying to enable secure E2E email? Because those are two different goals.

If we're worried about fixing unencrypted messages, then I think it's completely valid to look at systems like Email and SMS and to say that they're just not suitable for secure conversations, and to advise people to move to other platforms/protocols for secure communication that doesn't have their flaws.

Signal is currently a good solution for a lot of people. That doesn't mean it doesn't have problems, but it has great encryption that is almost impossible for an ordinary user to accidentally mis-configure. Matrix is also coming into its own as a good solution, and while I don't necessarily recommend Matrix over Signal if encryption is absolutely important, it is very likely going to be a better solution in the future, and for casual encryption is a pretty good solution today.

Both Matrix and Signal are easier to use than PGP for ordinary users. They are both (frankly) more reliable even for advanced users. And with the amount of effort we could put into fixing PGP-encrypted emails, we could also make a platform like Matrix really good and push really hard for its adoption. Getting people to adopt Matrix is going to be easier than getting people to adopt encrypted emails. Incidentally Matrix also improves upon a number of other centralization and protocol problems with email as well, but we're focusing specifically on encryption here.

Sometimes working to a specific goal (encrypting plaintext communication) means recognizing when a strategy is bad, and pivoting to another strategy that's more pragmatic but that accomplishes the same goals. For example, I'm not going to waste time trying to "fix" SMS security for 2FA when I can tell people to install an Open Source 2FA app instead -- because the goal isn't to make email safe, and the goal isn't to make SMS safe, the goal is to make people safe. Broadening out our strategies and building cleaner, more fundamentally secure technologies is part of that.
I recently switched jobs. At my old company the dev team basically had carte blanche to setup their own AWS infra without any real restrictions (there were some but very few). It was nice, I almost never had to ask anybody outside my team to do anything to unblock us (at least from an infra standpoint).

In my new job we also use AWS for everything BUT I haven't used the AWS cli once. I don't even have credentials. Basically, their is a platform team which is responsible for running a k8s cluster (or clusters really) and some other common infrastructure which is all running on bare EC2 (no RDS, no EKS, we do use S3 for blob storage but that's about it). And I have to say it is pretty amazing. No more dealing with arcane IAM rules, or trying to figure out how to string together a chain of lambdas to do some sort of complex orchestration task).

I've really come to appreciate the model of using k8s as your "cloud platform." Having a dedicated team that manages the k8s clusters and makes sure they are elastically scalable and reliable. Everyone else is just deploying stuff to kubernetes. They could decide to move everything to a colo tomorrow and I would have to change exactly nothing about how I do my job.
Be interesting to see if this controversy stokes higher interest in this the game and have the reverse effect or if the maker is going to change the flag post haste.
What is tiring is the insistence of folks like you completely ignoring the 650,000 deaths in the US alone. Deaths that are climbing to a rate not seen since the spike last winter yet and this recent surge could have been avoided if this vocal misinformed anti-vax minority would have protected themselves, their loved ones, and their community with a jab. So yes, the rest of us are pretty tired of the virtue signaling but not the one you think you are calling out...

Ask your immune system how well it would have done vs
Smallpox
Diphtheria
Hepatitis A&B
Meningitis
Measles
Mumps
Polio
Pneumonia
Rotavirus
Rubella
Tetanus
Whooping Cough
That's not the same logic because http is not a messaging protocol and it took many years to get to something resembling 'https by default'. Still, not being a messaging protocol https and browsers alone are not much better at exchanging end-to-end encrypted messages than plaintext since an https server sees plaintext content.
What you are looking for is an "intentional community". Google that and you will find plenty of them, and a book.
For example —

" … the programming language Component Pascal which is a superset of the language Oberon-2 developed by Niklaus Wirth."

https://blackboxframework.org/
Franglais is very common here in Montreal.
95-100 C is hot. I prefer 65-70 C. Depends on sauna, moisture, ventilation etc though.
I'm not sure how those things discredit the janitor.

Are you as critical of the politicians, who have built their livelihoods off of going around speaking to corporate interests?

What about the government officials who put out the 9/11 commission report, and were paid for it. Are they similarly implicated by the act of self promotion? Or does that distinction only apply to the janitors of the world?
Writes an individual who strongly suggests Hugo and who just happens to create Hugo themes.
Despite being under constant attack, paying reparations and starting off much poorer than the western counterpart, the material conditions of workers were improved significantly in the DDR.

Worth reading “Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism” by Kristen Ghodsee.
Inside the stock Pixel there’re a lot of chips that can identify your device and if you make a big crime you can be traced by the police. But usually, for a normal people, there’s nothing to worry about it, only if you are a criminal you need more security from an average person.
What does the Pirate Bay have to do with anything? Who went to prison here?
>I've discussed this incident before on HN and had the same kind of "well tough luck but you deserved it" responses.

Brush it off. I've worked with AWS pros who get lost in the billing. In my last job, we had a big "hackathon" where the objective was to reduce our AWS spend. Overall, we reduced our annual bill by a couple million dollars.
They don't end up grading good enough for a high end steak, but when they're done with their milk producing days, they all go to the same place.
> I’ll offer my sense of the landscape in part 2, next week.

God. Fucking. Damn. It. Just wait and publish the whole thing. There's no Netflix for the web. I don't want to subscribe, I just want the next episode when it comes available. Not the next 100 episodes. One of the great things about the current video systems (HBO, Apple TV, etc) is that these shows accumulate a few seasons before they catch fire. And then you can watch an episode. And then maybe another episode. Or not. You don't have to wait for next Thursday's episode of Friends.
> The last one caused the CDU to drop from 40% to 20% in 6 years and is partly responsible for Brexit.

Excellent example of cherry-picking btw.
I don’t the Arthur Whitney feels like he missed out.

Looking quickly at the revs for Julia and Lightbeam, KX are doing rather better.
Exactly how I see it. There are plenty of women who could run it better than men in power, and plenty of women who could run it worse!

Take Elizabeth Holmes for example, proudly proclaimed to the female Steve Jobs. Turns out she’s a lying sociopath. Just because you’re woman (or man) does not make you good or bad.

Especially in a position of power. Power corrupts, regardless of gender.