skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't have to say anything, the feeling is enough.
Fully unionized with a (publicly funded) pension?

Ass soon as you see a human it costs a fortune.
So very limited, but really solve some huge problems.

I run datacenter(s) with thousands of autonomous machines. These machines run a small binary daemon. That daemon needs to check for a new version of itself, which is built/released as a CI push job on github (after all the tests pass).

A super simple CF worker serves as a reverse proxy to the GH API + the download of the binary. For $5/month, I've worked around the GH API limitations, in a massively scalable way.
I think this explains it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAatPPEaZDA
I don't know, but from what I've heard Java just scales much better, and has better tooling/monitoring/etc. for running on cloud.
>> an optimised compiled binary anyway

> Hence Golang.

Sure. Or rust, C++, C, .. whatever.
> The California DMV said in a separate release that Cruise driverless "vehicles are approved to operate on public roads between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. at a maximum speed limit of 30 miles per hour."

At night only testing at super low speed. It's a good way to get started, but definitely not an autonomous taxi that title implies.
> commercial successes of AI have been primarily in advertising, marketing, and investing.

Which is why people say that it has few useful applications. People don't care if those areas become more effective. Another important application is mass surveillance, which people would also argue isn't a good thing.
Oracle was to Amazon what Amazon will be to Cloudflare.
I believe you can go higher if you enable DASH streaming.
I don't think we want to find out. Best, and most probable case, the government renegotiates the debt and agrees to pay stiff penalties. Worst case? Countries start seizing assets worldwide. Maybe just America government assets, maybe also American citizen's assets. Who knows how far that escalates. Perhaps the government will reimburse citizens, maybe they will sabre rattle. It's hard to tell.

This is like Brexit. It's really hard to predict what will happen as a result, but we know it's going to be both bad, and far reaching.

I strongly suspect that the Administration, Treasury, and Fed all have provisions in place for if this were to happen. The debt ceiling debacle has been getting worse every year, and given the events of 2020, it's not crazy to think that there is a real possibility of default. There are probably members of Congress who are hoping for a default, thinking it may cripple the country.
I had a feeling they we're going to close a month ago when I checked and they didn't have inventory.
Before iOS 15 that didn't block the video ads on YouTube.
The greatest ever what, though?
That specific fund can be insolvent. It's a specific pot of money set aside for the purpose.

The government can fill it, but it will need to pass laws to do so.
Because Walter doesn't see any difference between Stalin's Soviet Union and election regulations.
They might have cameras, in any case they are in malls so you will be on those cams anyway. Though as someone downthread remarked, thanks to covid it's no problem to be masked.
They can only do that by holding onto to supply which makes shortages worse. The same thing happens with ticket scalping at concerts, the difference is it’s more obvious that a sold out concert has empty seats vs supply sitting in a warehouse on the off chance it can be sold at 100x prices.
Isn't Waymo also starting the same service in parts of San Francisco?
Shadowed by Controversy, NASA Won't Rename New Space Telescope
where is the latest jepsen test results published?
> There's also a tendency of over-attributing success to the people who happened to be here while the team/product became successful. They tend to be promoted to responsibilities, their voice is over-amplified and their opinion becomes dogma.

How do you fix this? Assume all success is pure luck and ban dogmatic things like style guides and code reviews and force entire rewrites of sowftware and infrastructure every few years so that best practices change and don't become dogmatic?

One of the allures to getting in early somewhere is that you get to build the foundation and become the thought leader and define to an extent which dogmas shall be adhered to because you have the context to make those decisions. I'm sure it can get overbearing when abused, but I also think it's quite presumptuous to join a mid-stage startup thinking you're going to come in and uproot everything and make things happen your way. If that's what you want go make the sacrifice and join a small place and earn it. And grow the business with it. And then incorporate it into what you can bring to the table as an experienced industry professional so you can be hired as a director somewhere else when you're ready to move and do it at larger scale. IDK...
These things are basements compared to some mosques I’ve seen.
My taxes shouldn’t provide economic value to random companies who want to verify age, and creating a centralized identification system that is available to non governmental entities is ripe for abuse.
Yes it is fairly arbitrary. With a bit of googling, looks like a fair number of climate scientists call it "too little too late"[1] and "a dangerous trap" on the grounds that we can't put things off that long[2].

Combined with the benefits of gas being much less than advertised due to leakage, it seems reckless to build new fossil plants of any sort, since we have alternative energy sources that don't emit at all. That's not utopian, it's just the rational direction to take right now.

[1] https://www.ccag.earth/newsroom/net-zero-by-2050-is-too-litt...

[2] https://theconversation.com/climate-scientists-concept-of-ne...
IMHO, that's too big for awk, why not python?

for example:

#!/usr/bin/python
import smtplib
from email.mime.text import MIMEText

msg = 'hi'
subj='read this!'

smtp_server='mail.example.com'
smtp_from='me@example.com'
smtp_to='you@example.com'

m = MIMEText(msg)

m['To'] = smtp_to
m['From'] = smtp_from
m['Subject'] = subj

s = smtplib.SMTP(smtp_server)
s.sendmail(smtp_from, [smtp_to], m.as_string())
s.quit()

of course, you seem to think in gawk so if that works
for you that's what you should continue doing!

by the way, I hacked this example from another script which
attached a logfile:

with open(arg.logfile) as f:
log_contents = f.read()

m = MIMEText(log_contents)

you can also use:

from email.mime.image import MIMEImage
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart

and then:

m = MIMEMultipart()
m.attach(MIMEText('\n\n%s\n\n'%xkcd_img_title))
m.attach(MIMEImage(xkcd_img))
For one, the longtime top editor and editorial visionary Chris Anderson left in 2012 and there has been a bit of a revolving door for top leadership since then. There was also a visual design overhaul which in my opinion lost a lot of the energy and vitality of the old Wired look https://www.adweek.com/performance-marketing/wireds-new-edit...
I know why; I was there! (first AWS employee in EU, 2008, stayed there until 2014).

Back then, using traditional IT providers or internal IT services, you needed weeks, paperwork, etc, to get any storage or compute.

Then AWS arrives, and you could have infinite storage, or tens of EC2 instances, within a few minutes. And pay with a freaking credit card!

It didn't matter that AWS' performance was abysmal at the time. Or that AWS was expensive. AWS solved a huge pain point for millions of people, and that's why it became a market leader.

Price is not the only thing that matters.
Usually when you're creating a new language, doing the basic (date library, JSON parsing, HTTP server) is a good way to get a feel for it. I do wish we could reuse more parts though, like a high-performance JSON parser or HTTP server.
> unrestricted corporate influence on government

Your notion that absent corporate lobbying, government control would work out in the best interests of everybody is utterly without foundation.

Your complaint about the profit motive being the root of evil also implies that without profit, things would be better. Without profit has been repeatedly tried. It never produces better results.

My father grew up a socialist. Then he joined the military, and spent years living on military bases. There is zero profit motive on a military base. But there was no end of ridiculous problems, enormous waste, glacial bureaucracy, etc. This thoroughly disabused him of his socialist notions.

For one small example, on a new base, furniture for the base housing had to be supplied. The base commander delegated the selection of furniture to his wife (men rarely care about these things). She picked all the furniture, confident in how great her taste was and what a big favor she was doing to the ignorant masses on base.

The servicemens' wives all hated that furniture. My dad would always have a huge laugh at how much they loathed it.

P.S. When my parents got married, my mom hated all of his furniture. He had to buy all new stuff to her specifications.
I thought I could save money by hosting some backend services in-house but soon realized it ended up being more expensive than EC2 solely because of the egress fees.

So whether or not Amazon intended it that way, it functions as something that’s anti-competitive because it forces you to go all-in with AWS.
I still greatly enjoy the feature articles in Wired, especially the stories that are more in the true crime genre about hacking or mysteries.

I've been reading it for about seven years and I'd actually say it has gotten better - i.e. fewer listicles. I might be in the minority, but I prefer reading the print version of the magazine.
Not really. Reliable storage is very expensive!
Isn't it more like 3 weeks, according to Janet Yellen?
> Exactly, it's so sad hearing someone not realize that their hiring process is basically discriminatory in nature.

Leetcode and take-home assignments, to some degree, filter for younger people. I don't think too many people are going to solve two Leetcode hard questions in 45 minutes without some practice. I suspect this is a feature, not a bug, but I will take off my tinfoil hat now.

Whether or not you like it, people want to work with people they think they will get along with. Someone can crush objective screens but maybe they come off as arrogant or potentially difficult to work with.
We get better and better at building pattern matchers that carefully oscillate between overfit and under-parametrized.

Funny how we spend so much time and effort to mimic something that grows free by the billions :)
Covid-19 Mortality Analyses
You can’t beat jedis from range - they use their lightsabers to block blaster bolts using the force.

You have to overwhelm them.
My favorite example would be Przewalski's horse, also known as the Mongolian wild horse. In the 1960s it was believe extinct in the wild, with a couple dozen in zoos. Zoos began a breeding program and eventually began reintroducing them to their previous habitats. Today there are something like 1,900 Przewalski's horses, and over half of those are in the wild. It's really a testament to the good that zoos can do for conservation.
ES is practical if your use case supports it. I think you only need to look at Citibank's success post 2008 banking crisis to see the successes they've had as a company. When their developers were touring the No Fluff Just Stuff events in 2015-2016 showing their work and how much they were giving back to the projects they were using really puts a stick in your wheel.

Financial systems can really take advantage of it. Your post is hyperbole.
I'm really excited that Pulumi supports this from day one: https://www.pulumi.com/blog/announcing-aws-native.
Ooo, fancy. "Biological Substance"! I missed that USPS would classify this as infectious matter, which is where they're hiding that UN requirement.
30MPH isn’t super low speeds, it’s plenty fast for collisions to be dangerous.
> Vaccinated people are less likely to be infected in the first place

Apologies, I was unaware of this. How does this work? I thought infection was equally likely and that viral load was the same for the first bit before the vaccinated body’s immune system took care of the infection, at which point outcomes differ.
>That is why the Linux Foundation

The FSF is not the Linux Foundation
This is a good question. However, there is nothing that will tell you this reliably aside from employing the person.

Most people who are smart and get things done will be capable of shipping code, if they can stay motivated. And that’s where having some signal about their interest can help. I want to know if people can inspire their teammates, not just get along, I want to know if they can lead by example, whether they’ll rise quickly, and whether they’ll love it for many years. The essential job functions are just plumbing, the important parts are more than that and aren’t demonstrated by evaluating for narrow, specific job skills.

Look, I don’t in a million years think grinding on Leetcode is some singular answer, or even particularly good. But I don’t see anything wrong with people who are interested doing it, and I also don’t see anything wrong with asking interview questions. I never put a huge weight on such algorithm questions, and there are a dozen other major interview categories. So there’s nothing wrong with asking a few algorithm theory questions, to see the bounds of what people know. I like getting into questions that people don’t know the answer to, whether it opens a conversation about what it means, or whether the candidate has no idea or doesn’t care, that is a small amount of useful signal to me.
When at every turn you pick the priciest options, you see why I find it not realistic to claim companies pay what you think they would. Especially for sub-par open source things.

> GitHub, and their enterprise tier is $21/user/month

Github has a $4/month pricing plan. The companies I deal with all use internal source control, paying zero to github.

>Slack is $150/user/yr for business,

Of the 4 corporate slack channels I am art of, only one is paid, using the 6.67/mo/user version, for $80/person/yr. So on average these 4 run $20/user/year.

Want more data? Here's [1] Stackoverflow 2020 developer report. Half report using Slack. If that are like my experience, then maybe 1 in 4 uses paying, and maybe that's the low tier. If that still holds, 1 in 8 devs from StackOverflow (which is a very select group) is paying for Slack.

>Salesforce

Wait, what? Are you claiming every dev needs Salesforce? I know precisely zero with it, and I run a decent amount of seminars across multiple companies. Are you a developer that uses Salesforce regularly? This makes no sense to me whatsoever.

And then you throw in some vague SaaS products, needing to get to 6 or 8? Go ahead and tell me which 6-6 Salesforce style SaaS things the average dev uses.... It will be interesting to see what you pick.

So sorry, it seems you're more than just making stuff up, picking the highest values at each choice, to try to justify the prices.

>It doesn't sound like you or I have the expertise to go much further down this line of questioning.

I work directly under the owner and VP of tech in one company, for which I've been doing so for almost two decades, and have known a decent amount of their their finances for a long time. I also have talked at length with the Pres, VP, and head of HR at the other company I regularly work with. I own a profitable company for over 15 years now. All of these are heavily software dev houses. I have a decent number of friends that own dev companies or are high enough up to know the answer to this, and I've regularly asked them how their internal cost structure breaks down, mostly to compare to mine and to refine my understanding of how company finances work. I'm pretty sure I have decent insight to how this works.

For the first I write the proposals to get new software in, I see the counts, I price options, for a large amount of the developers. I see the numbers there.

At the second, from talking to those who do exactly this, I am quite clear their rates and overhead is in line with what I expect from such companies. I could ask directly, but since I work with a lot of devs there and see the tooling, there's no need. $2k/dev/year is a ton of money.

At the third, since it's my company, I see every nickel. It's also no where $2k/dev/year. Buying hardware like 3d printers, laser cutters, PCs, etc., ups the per person spend, but even there it's amortized over people and time and still not likely 2k/person/year spend.

It sounds like I do have expertise in this area and you are missing it.

[1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#most-popular-...
I wonder if nobody did ssh+nfc keys yet. At least I could trust it.
Scalpers hedge on the fragility of just-in-time - they milk the short-term thinkers for all they saved in the good times and are thus a healthy part of the market.

Why do we praise people betting on actors being hurt by bad decisions like (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Burry) but condemn the same behavior on the smaller scale of physical products?
I find it amusing that AWK is coming back. I used it extensively back on the day, but let it go when I picked up Perl 4 and then Perl 5.
So Perl is no longer king for unix scripting. It was replaced by other languages; but it seems like there is a niche that they were not able to fill since AWK is back.
have not used kraken, but the convenience i am talking about is that someone who has never used any cryptocurrency and does not hold any, can simply walk in there with cash and have monero a minute later, ready to use. but it is true that for many people that convenience is not worth a whole 10%, especially if they somewhat know what they are doing.
Why:

aws cloudcontrol delete-resource \
--type-name AWS::Lambda::Function \
--identifier ukjfq7sqG15LvfC30hwbRAMfR-96K3UNUCxNd9

and not:

aws cloudcontrol delete-resource \
AWS::Lambda::Function \
ukjfq7sqG15LvfC30hwbRAMfR-96K3UNUCxNd9

(and why 'cloudcontrol' for that matter, not top-level CRUD)

Awscli loves its arguments. Several people are going to point me at autocompletions, tell me zsh has this really great feature where .. all fine. But why have this 'problem' to solve in the first place? I don't get it.

For non-interactive use, sure, I don't care how verbose it is, it's even a sort of self-documenting feature. Is that it? They just really want all interaction via the web console?
Abode (https://goabode.com) doesn't require a subscription. Everything is handled on your local network if you opt out of the monitoring subscription. Alerts are sent to the app, with push notifications. They have a outdoor camera that can be wired up to your doorbell.

Overall, I really, really like Abode. I feel like I'm in control of my home security system.
Hello, I'm curious, do you happen to be the person behind "phh's SuperUser?"
Does anyone know what they did with the "losing" chips, the ones they bought that didn't turn out to be positive outliers? Seems very tricky to get this financially viable, since 90% of chips will just be average. At least I assume so?
They also have a $6 minimum/mo, even if you are not using any storage.

https://wasabi-support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600023...

They also have a minimum object size of 4K:

"If you use Wasabi to store files that are less than 4 kilobytes (KB) in size, you should be aware that Wasabi’s minimum file size from a charging perspective is 4 KB. You can store files smaller than 4 KB with Wasabi but (for example), if you store a 2 KB file with Wasabi, you will be charged as if it were a 4 KB file. This policy is comparable to minimum capacity charge per object policies in use by some AWS storage classes (for example, AWS S3 IA has a minimum capacity charge of 128 KB)."

THe one I really hate is that 90-day deleted file charge. If you upload a 1K file every day for a month, into the same filename, you get charged for:

4K the first day, plus
8K the next day, plus
...
plus 360K the 90th day and every day after that if you keep uploading every day

They are charging 360x your actual storage usage. Not because they are actually storing anything extra, but just as a policy.

If you do this for a year, you are charged for storing 113MB on their service. You still only have 1K actually stored there.
Ripple effects.

Humans have ruined a lot of ecosystems that had a natural balance. Wolf culling being one of the most obvious examples of our cause and effect.

https://www.yellowstonepark.com/things-to-do/wildlife/wolf-r...
Then Servers (or appliances) are IoT's on steroid too...with your logic.
Worse in a really insidious way too. Optimizing based on engagement for instance could be maxxing the amount of time people spend using a service, while minning unseen variables people care about like their emotional state while engaged. It’s sort of an inevitable thing that optimizers do to things they don’t measure, and it’s an extremely difficult problem to put everything people care about into the equation. Like for instance, think of how horrible a polynomial fit gets for a function just outside the window you are fitting as you add more terms.
Yes, those are lost causes if they can't ride the as-if optimization rule. But if the assembly language modules just have to return same outputs for same inputs...
I worked for a startup for a while that, late in its life, decided it needed to use AI in their product. Then that turned into needing ML in the product. Then it turned out it was just the owners trying to market the product as AI and ML powered when half of the product was the frontend used to configure the decision engine. The manually-configured decision engine was being sold as AI and ML, with the terms used interchangeably. I was actually a little surprised when it didn't work out, but not that surprised.
White-tailed deer have only recently recovered from over-hunting and returned to their pre-colonization population levels.[1] Do you have a source that frames their growth as exponential?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-tailed_deer#Population_a...
>We are aware of connectivity issues (…) In order to resolve this faster, your ISP (Internet Service Provider) will need to flush their DNS record for slack.com. Please reach out to your networking team to provide them with this information.

Yeah, sure, lemme just pick up the phone and call my ISP and let 'em know to flush their DNS record. I'm sure the T1 rep will absolutely know how to handle that.
As a kid, I loved the monarch migration that came through our mountain community. Thousands and thousands of them. Then hundreds. Then dozens. Then lucky to see a single one.
ML is Turing complete in the sense that every computable function can be approximated to arbitrary precision by a 3-layer neural network. Classic result from the 90s, the paper in question (iirc) is titled something like “neural networks are universal approximators” Turing machines also can only approximate to arbitrary precision, so the computation models are equivalent.
> People are so worried about non-data scientists getting to the wrong insights with AI/ML that they forget people are already getting to the wrong decisions without it.

True. But, far too often, there is an ex cathedra aura around any "facts" or decisions that come from a computer. That can make GIGO and AS* far more dangerous than mere flesh-and-blood fools.

*Artificial Stupidity
You mention searching the tree of potential programs that satisfy a set of constraints—but what's the fastest way to search that tree, both in making edits that are contextually sensible, and in using prior programs to factor out common patterns?

If you want to go off the deep end of the possibilities of NNs in compilers, I suggest you look up wake-sleep program synthesis at the least: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3453483.3454080
People do that in my city too — they're homeless people who don't have anywhere else to go. The solution is to give them housing and jobs. Until that happens, I'm okay with them sleeping on the train if they need to.