skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Iirc there is a lot of debate on the minimum g level required to avoid negative effects. Spinning people tends to make them uncomfortable and nautious.

However, I'd be quite curious if the g level is actually very low. You could have a small gently rotating section of a station.
So, I have a personal AWS account, and setting up cost controls seems like a good idea. Let's try it out.

"Welcome to AWS Cost Management

Since this is your first visit, it will take some time to prepare your cost and usage data. Please check back in 24 hours."

My "cost and usage data" is that I have an S3 account costing ~$10 a month containing my cloud backups of my family's high-priority data, for maybe the last 18 months. That's it. I just reloaded in case 24 hours was some sort of pessimistic estimate and they actually had it done in a couple of minutes, but the message persists.

WTF.

I can set up any of dozens of services in thirty seconds and spend thousands, but it's going to take 24 hours to understand ~$100 in costs over the course of the last year? Someone could read aloud the entire history of the account, every S3 transaction I did, in that amount of time.

I can really feel the love here.
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Educational Channels on YouTube Under Scrutiny [pdf]
> Good service gets good tips.

This makes intuitive sense but empirically is simply not true. Tipping is far more correlated with sex and race discrimination than individual performance.
Take this test: https://aphantasia.com/vviq/
Because China doesn't share its state of the art research with everyone else. If you want to lose, share everything and expect nothing in return.
Only if tips average less than 7 percent.
I believe this is more by design than anything. AWS makes real money from the big guns where they are spending 100s and 1000s of dollars per month (may be even a Million I am sure). If they put limits, it could hurt their business with these big guns who usually have stricter controls on their end and are not leaking keys or don't have 2 factor Auth enabled etc.

The challenge is for the smaller guys who are just experimenting with AWS. I see a lot of these stories where they haven't even used the account much or at all and then get hacked.

Of course AWS can impose limits but they clearly don't want to. They would rather refund these cases whenever they feel like.
> Internal politics are much more likely reason why they do not walk away.

I think I need to add a couple more possible reasons here. One is that your customers know at that point how painful project it was to just make a decision on the vendor. Likely just that part of the project took years. They are very reluctant to start that from the scratch. Second one is that they very likely already have a good grasp on the competing vendors. Almost surely they were evaluated during the process you were selected. And they were not chosen. Either they were much more expensive or your customer is even less confident that they could deliver something in time. So they are stuck with you. And pissed. And of course, the requirements were written in committees after committees where everyone had more important things on their mind, so they should very much be pissed at themselves, but I think that level of self awareness is quite rare in the decision making bodies.
This happened to me. Luckily it was caught before the bill went over $500, and Amazon refunded all the charges. I have no idea how my account was compromised, and Amazon wasn't able to help me investigate. And they made me go through and delete resources across several different regions in a painstaking manual process that took me an entire work day.
Too much fun making babies leads to money vanishing fast.

With a family of 14 living only from their income as artist he was reasonably paid for the time, probably.
Supply and demand is the simplest possible model for pricing, and only applies in certain contexts.

The argument I'm trying to make comes close to suggesting that their bread functions as a sort of Veblen good. Which is an example of a kind of product whose pricing dynamics are slightly more complex than can be neatly explained by the econ 101 model.
The thing is, in the USA, there is a minimum wage, and waiters specifically are allowed to receive a wage much lower than the normal minimum because they're expected to subsist off tips. Other non-tipped restaurant employees get paid an actual wage for their labor. So if the waitress received a windfall, it's only fair that she get to keep it and not be forced to share with the other fully compensated staff.
> Is it possible that everyone has "aphantasia" but some people confuse remembering having seen something with actually seeing it?

No. See this recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29365277.
Ah the old 'right wing/denier' label. Carry on with your comfortable bubble of trusted scientists then.
The same can also go when choosing vendors. When I built my house, I interviewed three general contractors. One had signs similar to what the article mentioned, but I chose to work with them because they owned land in a desirable part of town.

Oh, they were so difficult to work with!

Another lesson: Never, ever call someone difficult to their face. (That's what my general contractor did to me.) That was often the tell that they didn't realize how difficult they were to work with.
Their decision to outsource the OS was one of the reasons why they lost to the clones.
Ws: A Node.js WebSocket Library
Also, security. Has anyone noticed that all of the big ransomware cases have been for on-prem servers, not cloud?
I like birds, i like them alive. I would like your car to not go outside and catch birds.
Shows on incognito page. It is your problem.
It's all fun & games until you can't make payroll.
> No need to mix in a China espionage angle, the guy is bad news.

If there is legitimately a China espionage angle, then it absolutely should be in the mix. Why should that be left out or not relevant?
Log4j flaw: Attackers are making thousands of attempts to exploit vulnerability
So shocking and disappointing that this childish behavior would be rewarded like this. I would have immediately lost all respect for my superiors for not firing him as a client and forcefully removing him from the premises.
Damaged USS Connecticut Likely Had Nightmare Voyage to San Diego Says Submariner
No language uses the standard library on the kernel, not even C.
I recently dabbled in small scale silver smithing last spring, and there’s 1-2 sterling silver alloys that have been commercially available in recent years are way less susceptible to tarnish.

They replace some of the copper with two percent germanium (alloy trade name is Argentium ) and this sterling silver alloy gets a bright white color from heat treatment based passivation that also is a precipitation hardening process.

It Does change some of the processing you do though; no need to pickle between steps, and this alloy is incredibly brittle and fragile while red hot (think like stale wet cake )! Interestingly, this sort of weak when red hot phenomenon is common for some bronze alloys too (and is part of why bronze stuff is more often cast or cold worked)

Also has a way wider melting temp range which combined with being only 1/2 as thermally conductive as usual silver and copper alloys! This means the ways you sometimes work it heating wise feel more like what you’re working with a strange soft steel.
Yes - that's an opt-in service. IMO it should be on by default.
Ask HN: Why are Google sites so slow on Firefox?
I've been trying to switch from Chrome to Firefox as my primary browser, however I've noticed that Gmail and YouTube are unbearably slow in Firefox (no customizations). Other sites work perfectly fine.

Has anyone else experienced something similar? Any tips to fix?
You have some really good points, but your premise is simply not based in reality.

You're painting the picture as if AWS is the 2nd version of the IBM saying: "No one ever got fired for using AWS". This is simply not true...at least not the part where "IBM" (i.e. AWS now) is somehow inferior to the competition.

> If you are large enough to need to build your own datacenter instead of renting floorspace for pennies on the dollar from Switch or Equinix (although Equinix is kind of pricey) or Windstream or insert provider - then the datacenter is a rounding error in your 10-year IT budget.

Then you clearly don't understand the TCO of using a data center vs cloud. The datacenter cost itself isn't the cost - the people who operate it are.

On a computing resource basis can you operate SQL Server on a rack in Equinix for cheaper than that in AWS? Sure, but who is going to pay for the person to patch it every week, or upgrade it to the latest version, or upgrade the SAN disk, or upgrade the hardware every 3 years, etc. etc. Let's take this a step further - who is going to hire these people? And fire them? And train them? These are all transactions costs that get hidden in the "$0.20/hr cost" of spinning up an EC2 instance.

If you think cloud computing it's just about a lift and shift from a traditional data center, then you don't understand how to calculate TCO.

P.S. - For the record, many large internal IT groups do in fact do simple lift and shifts from traditional data centers and don't fully realize the value of cloud computing resources. However, these companies will usually mature eventually and evolve services to ones that are more advantageous (i.e. setup SQL Server on EC2 and the migrate to RDS). AWS (et al) have the ability to do this with ease.
It's not about locked or unlocked. Pulling the handle is supposed to open the door. Locking prevents that. In this case, the handle doesn't mechanically unlatch the door, it does so electronically. With no power it is not possible for it to unlatch. Since locking is then a software feature, we might say those doors are locked by default and require software and electronics to make them open. Because of that there is a mechanical thing you can pull, but nobody knows where that is or that it exists unless they are told.
Which part of the Emacs Clojure workflow you find annoying, and what is your proposed fix?

Asking because I still flow somewhere between Emacs/Cider and IntelliJ/Cursive.
> AWS failing to implement budgets and hard limits

The problem isn't that AWS does not let you manage limits, because they do, to some extent: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws_service_li...

The problem is that if someone has your root credentials, they can just change these limits and go to town.
Not to mention AWS only updates billing data 2-4 times per day. So even if you do have this enabled, on an accrued cost basis you're going to have to wait 6-8 hours to know about it from Cost Explorer.
> IHP is a new batteries-included web framework optimized for longterm productivity and programmer happiness

To be fair, the latter half of that description doesn't have any objective meaning.
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Inbox Is a Productivity Trap
This should be a footnote whenever someone shows a Magic Quadrant defending their new vendor proposal.

It just isn't in me to accept a smattering of points in a field of "feelings" about how well a company is positioned to be a "Leader" in some poorly-defined field of industry from several years ago.

I've been in Video Conferencing for 10 years. Gartner offers so many candidate grids for different aspects of the industry that they allow enough room for people to forget how far off they were when they RetCon the Leader Grid for the actual leaders to float to the surface. What does that mean? There's a Video Conferencing MC, a Unified Communications MC, UCaaS, Web Conferencing, and I'm sure they snuck in one or two for other terms that seemed shiny but didn't take hold. Give a good Keynote? Get a blob on some new quadrant to take to your customers.

have a look:

https://msunified.net/2012/09/05/gartner-magic-quadrant-for-...
It goes beyond managing expectations. What goals do you take? What goals do you ouah back against? How do you do this? How do you route around cranky groups that get nothing done?
Because you can implement 3-valued logic using boolean logic in a general-purpose programming language if you need it, and most applications don't benefit from the extra nuance and complexity. But data management sure does, as I illustrated in my post with the color example.

Notice that databases, with their 3-valued logic, are written in a systems language like C/C++, a general-purpose programming language with boolean logic.

Some systems are best thought of using non-boolean logic. Quantum systems are another example. You can simulate just about anything with a Turing-complete language, but it doesn't mean that standard computation with boolean logic is the best way to think about every domain.
Did I deliver value on June 17th?
> .. but the capex of your electrolysis plant isn't, and a giant pile of platinum electrodes that only get used once a day isn't a great deal.

Maybe there needs to be a shift of paradigm for the electrical grid?

From: we need to use this renewable electricity when there's a huge surplus to generate hydrogen/methanol/... to store the energy for periods without sun & wind

Towards: we just power the electrolyzers at full capacity full time (generating surpluses of chemically stored energy that is available long-term for longer periods without sun & wind). Even if it means, that in periods without sun & wind (when electricity demand and price is already high) more gas plants need to be turned on. Seems counterintuitive, yes ... but if the economic benefit of running the electrolyzers with a profit exceeds the economic downside of spending more on CO2 equivalent certificates ... it might be reasonable.
Ask HN: How will you hunt for a smartphone brand CTO+team?
A fellow of mine looking for a team ready to relocate to a South Asian country to launch a multi-year project to manufacture entry-level smartphones designed from scratch, or at least deeply customised mediatek reference design.

They are already making smartphones from knockdown kits, but have zero EE/Software expertise in house. They are nearly 100% manufacturing people.

Is it even possible to have a readymade team procured from somewhere? Or will it need building a team from scratch?
You could argue any SQL value not marked as NOT NULL is an Optional<Foo>, with NULL being the None value. It's not really subverting the type system, it's just an unconventional choice.
I don't think it's completely a problem with search engines. Blogs like this are engaging some amount of SEO the may push a fairly low quality entry up in the results, and that is a never ending arms race between the search engine.

The bloggers themselves initiate the issue, and I don't see how subject-specific engines could completely solve that. Why would they be able to distinguish this article from a well written entry on a SQL topic that is not just a restatement of fairly basic knowledge? Docs don't cover everything, there's space for articles like this that follow the same basic structure but with more useful information, a and once people can infer a little bit about the search engine's algorithm from how it shows results then we're back to the SEO arms race.
Aphantasia has non-visual forms as well.

Think about the smell of freshly cut grass, or gasoline, or a pumpkin pie. Can you smell these in your 'mind's nose?' Majority of folks can. I found out that I can't imagine smells about a year ago and it's been throwing me for a loop ever since.

On the plus side I've made some interesting observations about the nature of smell... there are tactile aspects to smell that I can imagine... the "nose feel" of a beer, the feeling of smelling a pot of steaming soup. But the purely olfactory component is missing for me.
> something unique about the giver

Yass. If I'm giving a gift, as often as not it expresses me, rather than the giftee. E.g. I don't know what the giftee likes to read; so I buy them a book that I'd like to be given. Even if they don't like the book, they have the opportunity to know me better. Signed editions are cool, because they may have resale value.

And it's absolutely OK to ebay my gifts; once it's given, it's not mine any more, and it's yours to dispose of as you see fit. I'd prefer if you kept it and used it, of course; but gifting is intrisically haphazard. For me, it's essential that you completely let go of what you've given.
> Happened to me 4 times, twice in one week.

Jirre.
The Secret Sense – Asimov
Sorry what? I post stories about the FBI harassing academics with Chinese connections while not finding any crime, and you accuse me of framing IP theft as something mild?

Have you also spent most of last year accusing George Floyd protesters of downplaying the importance of paying for cigarettes?
Not the GP, but it was hard for me to take that test: I can describe features of a thing I am trying to imagine, but it does not show as a visual image at all. So it's all "nothing at all" all the way in the test. My first thought is "am I trying hard enough?"

It sounds like this might be aphantasia, but if it is, it's really hard for someone with it to understand what's being asked of them. :)

I take that to mean that I do have it, but I am just slightly not sure, just like the GP.
Same thing as Senior, but better at office politics. That's what every title above Senior comes down to.
> or a way to explain to HR why someone's salary is higher.

This is exactly how my company motivated it when I asked for a higher salary.
Deflection and propaganda.
The Story of Mel:

http://catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
How Bank of America Is Saving $2B Every Year by Building Its Own Cloud
Matter's Plan to Save the Smart Home
Yup. The semantics are great for joins. Two missing bits of data do not make a found.
>If your political beliefs prevent you from associating with somebody because you have labeled them so firmly as to write them off entirely as a person, you have jumped the shark and become the problem.

If you get the population to focus on wedge issues that laws can't really remedy, they won't focus on your hand stealing money from their pockets. In other words, if you can get them to fight each other, they won't fight you, the power class.

It's all wrestling, these guys fighting each other on the news, talking about things that get people all riled up, go have a beer together after the show.
The Secret Sense - Asimov
https://archive.org/details/TheSecretSense/mode/2up
"historic significance" doesn't have a formal definition as far as I can tell. We really need one that is stricter than people feel it should be.

Historical buildings should be protected, but I don't know how to formally define that. The best I can come up with is the market: if you actually cared about it you would put your money where you mouth is and buy it out (perhaps with a group of like minded to create a foundation), and protect it as you see fit for as long as people continue to protect it. Of course this mostly eliminates the poor, but for the most part I'm not sure it matters as anything that is historic probably has at least one rich person who cares.
Universal health care in itself is a driver for regulating costs if it’s implemented as single payer. The idea is there is a monopoly on supply of patients, so if you want to practice, you have to accept the billing rate the payer (govt) deems necessary. It’s like price collusion but done in order to depress prices.
If we’re discussing major corporations, they are willing to pay a premium for predictability and reliability of service. Cloud vendors provide just that: if you want more resources, you can scale up until you hit capacity, then you can call the account manager to increase it. Very little downtime (except for the occasional outages). All of these are known processes.

With operating your own DC, you have to hire really great people and hope they don’t fuck up. You have to plan much in advance for capacity changes. It’s very much possible that something goes wrong in your compute infrastructure and simply nobody in your team has the expertise to fix it. Put it another way: can you pay/hire the same kinds of engineers that work at AWS/GCP? If not, cloud is the safer route. Cost does matter, and this is why companies sign multi year contracts to get discounts. But business continuity is critical.
Huh, maybe I have aphantasia too, thanks. The lowest level above "no image at all" is "Dim and vague; flat", which are not words that I would ever use to describe thoughts.

But it's hard for me to believe that anyone else would use these words to describe thoughts.
There are lots of places where your argument is nonsense, but I feel like the most important thing to address is this:

> However, the US has killed many times more people in other countries

That's just inaccurate. The founding of the current communist regime resulted in more deaths within China's borders than all of the US's military campaigns (and espionage) since WW2 combined. I've seen it said a lot that the "US kills more!" So I wonder if that's just a talking point the CCP is trying to disseminate to distract from their current genocide.
> referees have no skin in the game

That's a big problem. I just got a paper rejected. Reviewer 1 was just focalized on a single detail I mentioned somewhere, not central at all in the paper yet is basing most on this criticism around that. Reviewer 2 has difficulty understanding a table containing 2 columns and 3 rows, and what means N, V, ADJ and ADV in a paper about dictionary (not to mention the same abbreviation was used just before, and used a plain words numerous times in multiple paragraphs). Reviewer 3 is the only one saying a remotely nice thing and who seems to have grasped what the paper is about. There is of course some valid criticism raised in the reviews, but half of it is bullshit that would be dispelled in a more interactive process or/and if reviewers had incentives to actually put a minimal effort to understand the paper.
You might look at SQLToy which is a DB and blog I wrote to teach how SQL processing works internally: https://github.com/weinberg/SQLToy
The best way to contact YouTube Google or alphabet is to drag them through the news and force them to do something
If someone doesn’t tip (for any reason, forgot/foreign/unknowledgable) the server themselves pays for 7% of the meal… call me crazy but that shouldn't be legal.
I do think that you should play it safe on this one as they might DMCA the project.
Agreed. Things like static IP addresses and storage incur costs over time regardless of whether they are in use. But a limit would at least prevent new resources like this from being provisioned.

Cost management at AWS is an absolute mess. And I believe it is done on purpose. I was tasked with finding out how much a virtual machine was costing us. It didn't have tags. The task was very literally impossible.
I swear to god I have the same problem as you do. These websites witch don't offer any additional value have taken all the search rankings.
Sanitizing Cloudflare Logs to protect customers from the Log4j vulnerability
Don't agree.

If you do something like that, you are making your gift conditional.
>what are the benefits of membership of this club?

Let me list several. You are in it. Others are not. Tea at noon. Parking up front.

There! We have 4 GREAT reasons!

/s
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