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> Cloud services trade performance woes for budget surprises.

I'm not sure why you think this is a trade-off. In general cloud services automate operations. Whether they are faster is unrelated. Many are not--services that use object storage for backing storage can be orders of magnitude slower than equivalent software using nVME SSD.
First, you are very likely "pad limited", the pads to connect the chip to the package are much larger than the actual active chip area.

I remember doing the maths for this a while ago, and I believe on a 22nm process you could fit an entire 486 (1.2M transistors) in the area of a single bond pad needed for the later CPUs.
The page I found assumes you can get an app password. Those are disabled in advanced. Am I looking at wrong page?
now i can finally make some quality NFTs
"It’s all about luck. You have to be rich already. etc…”

Yep, it is true. It is not for everyone, but not for a lack of want.
- Speed

- The fact that it was Linus developing it

- The fact that it was released just after Git

- It's pretty much like Git and evolved to be usable like Git

- Git had way more advanced tooling and still does to this day
When was the last time you rebooted your phone?
C++ Noexcept_call
Consider the fact that selling an Acela ticket from DC to Baltimore means Amtrak can’t sell that seat to someone who wants to travel on the popular DC-NYC segment. They price highly to discourage this usage. $15 on the Regional trains is a steal: the MARC commuter train is around $7.
Vaccines are free. Anybody can get one. The end. Why people are tolerating the continuance of covid crap almost a year after the release of the vaccine is beyond me. Accept that covid isn’t going away and move on. Move on people.

Forcing restrictions of any kind is complete crap. And masks == restrictions. So does vaccine mandates.

And feel free to downvote me and call me names. I’ve taken heaps of verbal abuse and tons of gaslighting from plenty of real world people. Online people I don’t get phased by at all. Y’all need to realize that “the other side” has very rational arguments and is, quite frankly, correct in those arguments.
Facebook (Meta) just unpublished our game studio page
I don't think it's a $70 product. They increased the price by 10x when they switched to subscriptions and I think the product is actually getting worse. I've had problems with bugs that have been present for years and now that it has a subscription option they need to justify the ongoing cost and that gets done by adding features that I don't need or care about.

I have several pieces of software that are the same. As soon as there's a subscription model introduced the software turns into bloated trash even for the lifetime licenses.
I don't think the article is alluding to the suspect being innocent, just that this specific "text" was automated and can be ruled out as having been physically sent by the person in question. Other texts around the same time could still make them guilty of distracted driving.
Thanks for the links. eye opener for me, despite using python for serveral years.
There's a couple of methods like deferred counting, differential counting, or biased references. They're usually not completely atomic free but generally provide guaranteed constant overhead or tweak when or how the memory can be shared.

- Nim's ARC only allows one thread to manage a reference count at a time, but enables an isolated graph of memory to be moved to another thread. The concept is called `Isolate`, and is very similar to Rust's single owner of mutable references. There's still WIP to have the compiler automate the checks, but it's usable now (I used it with FreeRTOS's xQueue mechanism just fine). https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/244

- Python's new non-GIL proposal that does this using biased references: https://hackaday.com/2021/11/03/python-ditches-the-gils-and-...

- The source of Python's biased references: https://iacoma.cs.uiuc.edu/iacoma-papers/pact18.pdf

- Defered Reference counting: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3453483.3454060

It's pretty cool stuff!
> the highest-value things you can do to become a better software developer are to simply practice software development of various kinds. Work on software development in a company

As it stands, I just don't think I'm competent enough to get hired at a quality company. I've worked at a bad company in a different industry and quit because I was being taught to be a manager from hell, and it was beginning to take despite my contrary intentions.

I'm 30 and making a career change, so I'd like to start somewhere I'll pick up good methods. I'd also like to be able to recognize that kind of place. Both depend on a base-level of competence.

I am putting together a CRUD app for a purpose I'm excited about, but I just reeeally feel like I'm flying blind and keep getting stuck. Hence my pursuit of fundamentals.

I do have my eye on an open source project I'd like to contribute to once I have a little more confidence.
The problem is that everyone is somewhat irrational. You cannot both exclude irrational behavior from your definition of value and at the same time claim nfts are worth money and thus rational. Im claiming they are irrational and not useful.
Actually I visited Tokyo thinking it was going to be amazing. I was so excited to go to Tokyo. It really wasn’t all that everyone made it out to be. I was very disappointed.

Kyoto is just an example as it’s my favourite place I’ve visited. But pretty much everyone outside of Tokyo is a billion times better than those in Tokyo.

Edit: also I said one of the worst places I’ve visited. I didn’t say most unfriendly.
My fault. I thought digital services like that fall into the reduced VAT category. But it seems not the case.

So ~20% more makes actually sense.

Thanks for pointing this out!
Does anyone ask themselves why they collect?

I collect everything. I don't have the room to be a Horder, but my compulsion to collect us strong, with the exception of money. I should be collecting money, but that has been too hard for myself.

I started off collecting snails. I would put them on my Tonka Truck, and they were workers. The guys on the roof were the bosses. The others placed all around the truck bed had their own function. As a kid, I was lonely and the garden snails were my friends. (My mom made me put them back after playing.)

I then went into marbles. Kindergarten through 1st grade I was crazy about marbles. I loved them all. The ceramic ones were my favorite because I imagined they were rare, or had a long history behind them. I imagined they were made in a magical exotic country.

I then grew up, and life got in the way. My collecting days were put on hold.

In my twenties, it was first edition books, and any old advertisements, or advertising.

I then got into collecting watches. I never went crazy, but I knew I needed to stop.

I stopped by learning Watchmaking. Even then--I went from collecting watches to collecting tooling.

I'm now so depressed I don't collect anything due to a lot of reasons.

I guess it was about the hunt? Then again, I still look at some of my old books and can't imagine someone mot seeing the value. Someone tossed a 1st edition of The Deep. It was not price clipped, and in mylar wrap. I am still astonished the original owner didn't see the value.

I don't have a point. I just know I'm a Collector at heart. Maybe if I had a more full life, my addiction might be different. It was never a addiction. It was just a passion.

I'm the guy at the beach looking for shiny rocks, even when I was physically passable, and should have been paying more attention to my girlfriend.

I still remember Ingrid saying I came to the beach to be with you, and not collecting small pieces of agate.
Agreed. You can have Facebook and Twitter open in two browser tabs and switch between them, but will Facebook and Epic even support the same headset? How much hassle would it be to log out of one and log in to the other? I think they literally want to monopolize your face.
Totally agree, the prices in Tokyo for homes are competitive with tiny low opportunity cities in the USA.
NYC runs 24/7 and it’s great. I can’t imagine the subway stopping at midnight.
When I read about "binary blobs" present in electronics like in a SIM, a baseband processor, or DDR memory controller or CPU management engine, the risks they pose seem distant. This opens my eyes a bit to that they actually do phone home, hidden from and unblockable by the OS.
Both of those are hypotheticals the other side would have to provide some evidence to support in court

The investigation here was grounded in an attorney reading a report and saying “look person sent a text message at time x just before crash” and a forensic analysis instead showing that the SIM card sent the message not the person.

That debunks the claim of distracted driving based on the text message timing. That’s the point, if they have evidence someone was swapping sims or interacting with the phone to run and update that’s an entirely separate matter
Yep, it doesn’t get that cold in Tokyo so there’s less incentive.
I think that part is to test soft skills, being able to work under stress and talk to a person is a part of being a good team mate. Straining both at the same time is a feature, since it is much easier to fake soft skills when you aren't distracted by a technical problem.

It is much more stressful than a real work situation, true, but people work much harder to appear nice and helpful in an interview setting as well so having a harsher test than real world situations to test soft skills seems appropriate.
It also happens after a firmware update on the device.
Historically the top marginal rate in both the US and the UK is more than double the 45% that Japan has (though I'm pretty sure the top tax bracket has never been more than 70% for any income under $1M adjusted for inflation: 1980 $200k @70% which is roughly $700k adjusted for inflation).
When will masks go away? What is the exact needed to stop mandating them?

And vaccomated people don’t need masks. It isn’t a science thing. It’s just plain stupid to keep wearing them. Life has plenty of other things for people to worry about besides just this myopic fixation on covid.
> if you pass in a negative number then that's your own dumb fault if it does something unexpected

If a negative number isn't valid input that should be gracefully handled by the program (e.g. by responding with an appropriate error indicating what is valid and/or invalid) instead of doing something unexpected.

I'm not much of a fan of the current state of tech interviews but seeking clarity around validity of input and how to react to invalid input is one aspect that does (or at least should) mimic "real life"
I think crypto space has managed to create a class of unregulated financial instruments and markets - I feel like I'm watching what would happen if the stock market was not regulated at all. If I were Wall Street trader, I think this is really fascinating - sufficient amount to be interesting (billions of dollars at play) and regulators are yet to make sense of what's going on.

FYI, there are less than 5000 publicly traded companies in the US but more than 6000 cryptocurrencies.
I'm part of the unit and the strike, although I'm not currently a TA. Happy to answer any questions if anyone has any. We're on strike for 42k for 12 month appointments, 37k for 9 months, as well as dental/vision and third party arbitration for non discrimination and harassment cases.
> what a telecom engineer would call an “NANP E.164”.

NANP and E.164 are standards. NANP stands for North America Numbering Plan. E.164 is the international analog to NANP for public numbers. No telecom engineer would call a number an "NANP E.164." The number of a network element like an SMSC is simply called an address.
I mean, the streets look ugly and boring. Tokyo is the only city where I've been that only really looks good when it's night and it's covered in neon billboards. Other than billboards (and a few interesting shopfronts), streets in Tokyo are mostly a bit boring from the outside.

OK, "ugly" is an exaggeration. If buildings were people, Tokyo would be like a bunch of programmers in the kind of SV office with no dress code, it's relaxed and casual but most of it is nothing you'd want to take a photograph of. It's the urban equivalent of 'bucolic'. Yes, there's a few nice buildings, but it's mostly just a functional rabble.

You can't imagine a dictator making their capital look like most of Tokyo - there's no order or wow factor, it's just a bunch of buildings doing their job.

Note - I quite like Tokyo (though I didn't spend that long there). I think they clearly did choose to make it more livable (which makes it exciting in other ways) than beautiful, and I think it's a good choice.
Or the NSA could open a fake repair shop become an authorized shop through Apple.
I have personal experience that it’s common at Amazon and have many corroborating examples it’s done at Google too. Maybe not years back, but definitely in the past couple years.
> binary blobs

Was a concern with Pinephone but doesn't seem to be the case anymore from what I saw. (referring to modem)
Apps that allow you to convert video to GIF
I mean, I could say the same thing about quitting cigarettes. I absolutely realize it’s hard to do, and that’s why so many people still smoke. But my advice would be the same...
So what if the infection rate in kids is higher? They still aren’t at risk of serious illness. They are far more at risk of house fires, swimming pools and driving.
Part of it is also due to Unity3D sticked with the ancient stop-the-world mono GC for a very long time and discuraging developers from doing allocation in official talks.
Metaverses are application-level concerns

I'm pretty sure that's not how they see it. I think the vision is of the singular Metaverse as the new narrow waist upon which all future apps are built.
>The problem is that there is a DB that charges insane amounts of money per row processed with no upper limit and that someone actually thought it was a good idea to use it.

That's it in a nutshell. Usually you have an upper bound on compute, memory, disk space or some other resource for a specific price. When you hit those limits, you find performance issues and at that point you can choose to try optimizing your code or database, then decide whether you need to upgrade resources at cost.

I really don't understand this model that charges for rows read or, worse, "inspected". What's the upside of that model versus more typical pricing schemes, and how is it manageable/predictable from a budget perspective? With or without the indexing problem here, you'd really have to know your user behavior, then translate that to DB read counts by your app. And, while devs should all be optimizing code as much as reasonable, something as specific as minimizing DB reads seems an odd constraint to place on software.

I'm guessing there must be some use case I'm missing; else I don't know why this pricing scheme is even a thing.
The update may occur without user intervention, which would mean very little for this case.
Lot of leaf removal could be replaced by teens with rakes. Old school.
> So it makes sense for someone to pay >= $1,000 in fees to approve and move / swap $1 - $100 worth of tokens?

That's like arguing that all container ships are useless because I only order a few dozen small packages a year.

The gas prices are set by supply and demand so the value created by the gas prices must be an acceptable cost for the amount of value the transaction is creating.

Just because something is cost prohibitive at your scale doesn't mean it is for everyone.
Pretty much what happened to Aaron Swartz.
The typical small two-stroke engine has two big problems that cause hilariously bad emissions:

1) The lubricating oil is mixed into the fuel and burned in the combustion cycle. The combustion products of this oil are not clean.

2) They combine exhaust and intake into a single "stroke", i.e. the downstroke after ignition, which can result in unburnt aerosolized fuel escaping with the exhaust.

Additionally, fuel injection systems can typically achieve better emissions than carburetors can. AFAIK small two-strokes (and some four-strokes like small outboard motors, etc.) are largely the last bastion of carburetors in engines manufactured today.
If you compare the average apartment in SF to the average apartment in Tokyo, you’ll realize that the SF ones are actually quite spacious. Just, nobody knows how to use their space efficiently in the USA like people do in Japan.

That said the culture here, driven by the reality of living spaces, is to meet people outside of home, not invite people at home, allowing for more versatile design.
https://archive.md/Lfi2m
Physical Musculoskeletal VeteranInjuries Explained by a Top Orthopaedic Surgeon
Many of the injuries sustained in Military service are not the ones the public might expect, with orthopedic injuries increasingly common.
> The question that follows would be: how do you know what was intended to be less performant versus optimized on-demand?

I'm saying that the cloud provider shouldn't try to make assumption either way, and I'm definitely not saying that it should try to manage indexes for you.

If you are typically using X ops/s, and begin using 50X ops/s, the default should not be "this customer probably wants to spend 50x their previous spend". It should maybe scale up some percentage of previous usage, but definitely not into a range that would be considered anomalous.

> The choice of infinity scale tools comes with infinity scale costs, and so there’s a responsibility that engineers using these tools need to understand what they’re accepting with that choice.

Sure, but I have never once seen one of these providers make clear that using them comes with the risk of being charged "infinity money".
> I've never owned a credit card. Can you have them automatically pay off the balance every month? It seems like this would cut into their profits.

it's worth noting that issuers generally make money on credit cards. this is in contrast to checking accounts, which are often a loss leader. the card issuer will happily let you screw yourself over (to a point, this is what the credit limit is for), but they won't go out of their way to directly screw you. there's far less incentive to do overtly malicious things like debit reordering (pretty common for checking accounts). [0]

so yes, all major issuers offer autopay. there is a subtlety here in that they don't usually let you autopay your current balance in its entirety. instead, they'll let you autopay the last statement balance at most, which is enough to avoid accruing any interest.

tl;dr: if you keep a decent buffer in your checking account and set up autopay, a credit card is no more trouble than a debit card (and actually less trouble, in some ways).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdraft#Transaction_processi...
It's interesting that this message even came up when the user's messages were subpoenaed. This was not in the set of "user messages" and a case could be made for not including it at all.
Some of the value cryptocurrencies create may be that they have become an opportunity for working class people to get exposure to risk, leverage, arbitrage, volatility, and privacy that only very wealthy people had access to previously. Would be an explanation consistent with the Varian Rule. It's the poor(er) persons FX trading, which provides liquidity and price discovery.

What does cryptocurrency move from one place to another? Risk, arguably, and it does it faster, cheaper, farther, and more verifiably than cash. That's probably the most amazing service since the Medici's brought modern banking to the world.
How did you find him? An upwork-like platform? Personal connections? How did you vet for english ability/reliability?

I suppose my fascination is that this seems like a 'platonic' example of globalism in action. But in my mental model of globalism, the ability to engage with its benefits are an exponential function of ability to spend public-company amounts of money.
I don’t think you’re very familiar with how NY was formed.
Personally I do not like the fact that it puts too much trust into DNS.

DNS wasn't created with security in mind, so to say Deno is secure because it uses a permissions system while relying directly into DNS for imports to me sounds weird.
Finished 90 Days of Meditation
Definitely do sicp eventually, but you don't have to start there ... the little schemer is an amazing intro, and htdp is a much easier way to start.
> or put in trouble in so many different ways (USA)

Building a network puts you in trouble? Cooperation, technical skills and social competence is what universities are meant to teach.

It's bad that an university could punish students for that... and quite appalling that people accept this state of affairs.
This is a firmware update of the SIM/underlying hardware. It’s not like an OS update to iOS or Android. It’s more akin to an automatic BIOS update, but for a piece of hardware that is modular. Think Realtek driver on a NIC.
Yeah, practical details are to keep burning all the gas in as dirty a fashion as we have been. Sound like a good idea?
The rule on HN is to use the original title.
I'll put in a plug for both How to Design Programs[1] and The Little Schemer[2]. I don't know if this describes you, but as a humanities grad and perpetual self-taught programmer, HtDP and The Little Schemer both meet me where I am when it comes to mathematical maturity. These two books will make you a more confident programmer. If a more confident programmer is a more employable programmer, then they'll do that for you, too.

[1] http://htdp.org

[2] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/little-schemer-fourth-edition
Masks are an amulet and nothing more. It’s like religion. Deep in most peoples heart they know their religion isn’t real but they’ll never admit it, even to themselves.

Same with masks… deep in most peoples hearts, they know masks don’t do a darn thing. But they’ll never admit it… don’t wanna be thought of as “the others”…
Disagree; cloud services trade reduced operation work for higher prices. There is nothing inherent to "cloud services" that requires budget surprises.
It doesn’t make them innocent (is innocent the right term for a lawsuit?) but it does mean this particular fact isn’t evidence of anything related to this case.
EfficientZero: Human ALE sample-efficiency with MuZero+self-supervised
No, I'm sorry.
> a extremely new vaccine

> a novel mechanism and drug

Yes, exactly: these are reasons to not be convinced that "everyone should get the vaccine". It is extremely hard to imagine a realistic situation in which we would be that convinced--convinced enough to justify the mandates that are actually being done--but that's exactly my point. The "really obvious" standard (which is extremely difficult to meet) is the one we should be applying, but we're not.
mbsync tends to be more efficient and robust. With Gmail it has no problems. With outlook IMAP it has problems with some emails occasionally. I haven’t figured out how to sync Maildir with Office365 other than cloud-mdir-sync which is inefficient for large mail boxes.
Hello Jeff! What's a nice guy like you doing in a degraded place like this?
Does it allow disabling STK apps out of the box or just with modified Linux on the Quectel? Are there any details?
Sounds like the dread tomato addiction. http://vintage.failed-dam.org/tomato.htm
You can categorize fusion reactors and experimental / prototype aircraft similarly:

(1) "Our engines produce some thrust, and our wings produce some lift".

(2) "We managed to take off and land!"

(3) A working aircraft - seemingly performant, reliable, and economical enough that actual commercial airlines want to buy it.

(4) Like (3), but you've made a bunch of 'em, delivered 'em to airlines, and they're in regular real-word use...without said airlines suffering from buyer's remorse.

My understanding is that both Boom Supersonic, and everyone trying to invent a fusion reactor...are all still in category (1).