skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More interested in a linked article:

> Wikibon argues the cross-over timing between SSDs and HDDs can be determined using Wright’s Law. This axiom derives its name from the author of a seminal 1936 paper, entitled ‘Factors Affecting the Costs of Airplanes, in which Theodore Wright, an American aeronautical engineer, noted that airplane production costs decreased at a constant 10 to 15 per cent rate for every doubling of production numbers. His insight is also called the Experience Curve because manufacturing shops learn through experience and become more efficient.

[…]

> “Wikibon projects that flash consumer SSDs become cheaper than HDDs on a dollar per terabyte basis by 2026, in only about 5 years (2021),” he writes. “Innovative storage and processor architectures will accelerate the migration from HDD to NAND flash and tape using consumer-grade flash. …

* https://blocksandfiles.com/2021/01/25/wikibon-ssds-vs-hard-d...

Interesting prediction.
Sorry, didn’t mean you get your setup faster, but that you get faster setups. I had an inkling that would be misunderstood.

Yes you can spin up a crap fast on amazon. But it’s crap and you will pay an arm and leg for it.

I don’t care about “easy” as much I care about sustainable and cheap.
> dustmen

The "sanitary operatives" in the UK used to ring your doorbell in the run-up to Christmas, more-or-less demanding a tip. If you didn't tip, then you risked having your Christmas rubbish languishing for a couple of weeks, or even strewed over your garden path. Happily, that practice is now ILLEGAL.
Wholehartedly disagree. I've been in large scale IT for 20+ years, working for deep pocketed companies. The costs of running old school IT with on prem data centers were orders of magnitude higher vs. what we pay for well architected serverless solutions these days. I remember having a $30MM/year line item for Oracle alone, running on expensive hardware that was sitting idle 90% of the time. Time sharing expensive hardware is the way to go.

Another thing is costs of building something new. In the old world it would mean doing the math on resource needs now and in the future, since adding Hw meant capital expenditure. No such problem now and its easier to get started, see if it works, and scale or kill early.

And of course as others have mentioned, keeping it all running requires expensive expertise. Esp. now with the internet that looks like automated wild west. You cant release a service without it being auto-probed and auto-attacked within 2-3hrs.

Nope. With the cloud, the costs have went down for any large coMpany, even those that just moved the old crap to VMs running on someone elses hw.
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> could not live as our ancestors did--that is, fulfilling, local, simpler lives

That's a fallacy. What's more, you personally can have it right now (bar slaves, which I'll come back to in a sec), yet you somehow choose to have hot and/or potable water, electricity, AC, heating, Internet, vaccines, mass produced food and so on. There is nothing stopping you from emigrating to Albania and moving to a small village there, cutting your electricity supply.

> completely ignorant of human existence over millenia

> an ancient philosopher in ancient Greece's height

I can't believe you chose an example of 1% elite in a society built on slavery in the most hospitable place on this planet as an example of "how our ancestors lived". A tiny society that was constantly threatened by wars, diseases, and starvation, is morally repugnant for modern people, and had stable periods shorter than modern states'. If anything, you are making an argument for me with that comparison.

> the only thing that forces disease and poverty on people is exactly overpopulation and broken political and economic systems

Here, the real misanthropy of your views rears its head where you mention "overpopulation". There will be 10 billion people on this planet unless you kill literally billions of people and sterilise billions more. The natural barriers for population growth back in BC times were famine, war, and disease; why do you think there is "overpopulation" now if not for the lack of those three? And it seems that you'd prefer for those three to return, which is definitely misanthropical.

> Rampant consumerism and overconsumption

Again, you're focusing on your own little bubble of 1 person in 7. Go to Bangladesh or rural India and talk about "overconsumption" and "fulfilling simpler life" there. There are lots of reasons why people run into crowded cities and sweatshops from their "simple" rural lives. I imagine it can be quite hard to understand those reasons when you only see life in the US.

> Our entire modern system runs on unsustainable levels of energy consumption

And this is the main premise of this entire worldview. It's also objectively false, we already have countries on this planet taking most of their electricity from non-fossil sources, i.e. France or Norway. Besides, you seem to forget that those "simple" societies deforested most of Europe to burn the wood as an energy source, and we transitioned from that to fossils which is arguably an improvement. I don't see any fundamental, unsurmountable reason why we can't transition again, now from fossils to nuclear and renewables.
Eh, 80 dollars is pretty expensive yeah, but I bought my Sublime Text 3 beta license like 6 years ago while I was a student. I had like 200$ to my name back then and felt like it was worth it despite not even adding anything to my experience other than removing the "please activate sublime" popup.

I have access to Sublime Text 3, and even to the Sublime Text 4 beta.

I also pay the yearly Jetbrains full-suite subscription.
TL;DR:

“The problem with polarization is all those brainwashed people over there."
I got depression and slipped for ~3 years because of a difficult client. Since then, I always carry the big stick and use it all the time, in professional and non-professional situations. Let's say I got allergic of BS, and better you hurt than me getting anaphylactic shock.

To get angry when there is a mess-up is not to be difficult. Difficult clients are more like abusive partners. They create the situations that allow them to exert abuse e.g. ask you to drop other clients, then ask for an impossible deadline, then assign side tasks all the time while pretending they don't know this will impact the deadline, then withholding payment, while saying that $1M is just around the corner.
> We use GPT-3 to write content following best practices.

Sadly I cannot tell if this entire subthread is actually a joke or not, but if it is, it's a pretty good one.
What is meant by "seeing in ones mind"? And how can he have that disability, but still see images in dreams? How do they test for this?
> Honolulu

is plenty dense for good public transportation. Density is useful, but it is overrated. The important part is the public transport system go when and where people need, lacking that people won't ride and thus you get a vicious circle that people blame on low density but in fact is just bad service is driving people away.
This is very cool, especially the assembling news into units of longer duration, it would be great if you also expanded on that with design and make the overarching sagas visually distinct.
I was thinking about building something that sounds very similar when I was working at a news site. For me the main benefits of organizing articles into sagas is, that you can easily start reading up on something only once there is actually sufficient information there and to follow stories over time.

Think, for example if there is some collapse of a bridge somewhere. Immediately news sites will publish stories to generate clicks but will not have anything useful to say beyond pure speculation. Bride x collapsed and some immediate consequences like road closures is the only thing you'll get that actually contains information. It will take weeks at least before there is anything useful about the why. By the time it might be easy to miss the story.

The other thing I think is nice about it, that you can decide your own pace of consuming news. Say you only read news Sunday morning with breakfast, give me the most "relevant" articles and sagas from the the last x days.
We're talking about the ability to install Linux on the hardware.

The drivers to do so exist now.
Linux version 5.17 drops support for 23-year-old AMD 3DNow instructions
There is no single fundamental point.

If you want to be that broad about it, science journals publish a lot more than just method development, including obituaries and opinion pieces on where funding should be directed.

Here's a famous paper showing that "Euler's conjecture on sums of like powers" is incorrect - https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1966-72-06/S0002-9904-1966... . I will repeat the body in full:

> A direct search on the CDC 6600 yielded 27⁵ + 84⁵ + 110⁵ + 133⁵ = 144⁵ as the smallest instance in which four fifth powers sum to a fifth power. This is a counterexample to a conjecture by Euler [l] that at least n nth powers are required to sum to an nth power, n>2.

Do I need to know how the direct search was carried out to confirm Euler's conjecture was false?

No.

>>> 27**5 + 84**5 + 110**5 + 133**5 == 144**5
True

And now that you know it isn't true, you might adjust which project areas to spend your time on. Which is part of what we get from scientific publications.

Just because you prefer one sort of scientific research doesn't mean other forms aren't science.

Again, is Kekulé's model of the benzene ring less scientific because it came to him in a daydream?

We accept Newton's publications where he secretly used the calculus, even though he didn't publish the calculus, because they could be proved through other more laborious means.

Why is it not scientific to write publications which use secret software, so long as we can verify the results?
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Hopefully the downvote brigade doesn't come after me as I'm truly just trying to share this as I think it'd be helpful in the context of this post and I imagine the majority of folks on HN would fit into our free tier...but this is a huge reason why people use Vantage (linked above)

We profile all resources by hitting List/Describe service APIs in your AWS account and automatically apply rates based off of that. So essentially you get a full inventory of everything in your AWS account and see exactly how much its costing you per hour and also if it were extrapolated out for the full month. People tend to use Vantage as a companion to their IaC that's provisioning things to gut-check from a cost perspective.
No sorcery during summer breaks then, huh :)
Hyperscalars use a blend of storage flavours covering the whole spectrum, and for most data-heavy purposes can mix hot and cold bytes on the same device to get the right IO/byte mix. At which point you can simplify down to _"are they currently buying disks to get more bytes or more IO"_ - if the HDD mix skews far enough that they're overall byte constrained, yeah they'll be looking to add byte-heavy disks to the pool. If they've got surplus bytes already, they'll keep introducing colder storage products and mix those bytes onto disks bought for IO instead.
Exactly! It's a DSL for set theory. A true 4th-gen language. Perhaps the only truly successful 4GL.
I have contracted with several midsize B2B outfits who hit low-to-mid 6 figure USD billing per month for AWS. Surely the biggest players are spending millions per month. At that point, you'd expect Amazon to be much more accommodating if a billing error or exploit were to occur.
This guy is toast, without evidence to prove he has no relation to this hacker, the charges will not reverse.
Which is - of course - easy to say when it is not the sailors themselves who are subject to the suffering.
> Actually no. Currying is converting one function with multiple arguments to a series of functions with one each

It looked to me that exactly what he was doing, turning the function Add that takes to arguments to a series of two functions that takes one
> The polarization is much worse on the left side of the isle.

It's interesting, and I wonder if this has more to do with who controls the discourse the majority of us see. I lived in and grew up in a deep red area. Like, literally, in 2016 and 2020 the state was called for Trump before voting had even ended across it (multiple time zones). I had to actively hide my leftist views from most people, as I immediately got verbally abused if it comes out (it's often quite funny, as I'm in no way an American 'liberal', but that's what they end up resorting to). As a teacher, I've seen left-leaning students get verbally abused too, not to mention I've seen kids get punched simply because they were homosexual (and this was from teenagers).

It becomes quite easy to see why the left wouldn't want to associate with these people, and would write them off, especially if they've had even half of the experiences I've seen. But it happens the exact opposite way in places where right-wing views tend to dominate. Thankfully, it's made it super easy to give me an excuse to keep any political discussion out of my classroom (and, thankfully, the views among the kids are starting to shift to more reasonable ones).
Then you're back to counting the tips. You add labor all around, and have to make sure that the wait staff isn't holding back, degrading everyone.
AWS doesn't benefit by providing excellent cost controls and visibility into spending.

I'm not saying that neglecting this is a conscious, cynical choice. It may just be that there's simple no incentive to build it in the first place. A self-motivated engineer or team manager is probably not going to say, "I know! Instead of working on the next bit of shiny exciting tech, I'm going to work on cost controls!" Though sure, it could also be deliberate.
Then they are not trying hard enough
> I believe it's advantageous to avoid nullable columns in relational schema design, but that's a separate issue from the concept of NULL in SQL as distinct from programmatic languages.

Agreed, but they should be used where appropriate. My favorite example of a nullable column is an end date. Until an end date occurs, it's unknown - thus null. Representing the unknown end date with anything other than null is semantically incorrect, and in many cases can lead to errors.
Of course it's third party code. I meant that it's not really third party in the context of this article advocating for a same origin policy for javascript.

I only came across SRI while dealing with CSP, and I didn't quite understand why anyone would subject themselves to that until just now. Thanks for pointing it out.
In my experience, Government imposes far fewer limitations on my life than the Market does. It determines that I must work to live, who I can work for, what sort of home and food I can have, etc.
Pretty easy to validate— you plug your device into a trusted computer first and it doesn't recognize it.
Auto related data is already huge thing, but dealerships don’t do much in the way of collection and sale. Someone who is shopping for a car is super valuable to advertise to, but after that purchase they lose all their value.

Telemetry data straight from a cars location is not sold, if it even exists. It would be extremely valuable but seems potentially illegal.
I guess you could say staying in space long enough gives you SANS vision.
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The software makers just need to write and release specifications in the public domain. Lotus did this many years ago with the 1-2-3 file formats: https://web.archive.org/web/20140713220544/http://www.schnar...

The information contained in this document has been released into the
public domain and is not considered to be confidential or proprietary
although still the copyright and property of Lotus Development Corporation.

Microsoft specifications are now covered by a "covenant not to sue", not really public domain. Apple doesn't even bother writing specs for their office suite
When you have a gradient and you want that gradient removed you can allow the gradient to do some work while it excuses itself. When you have time/throughput constraints that you can only achieve with a fan then yes, adding something extra in between will likely fail making up for the additional fan power required. But in the same way as you could do away with the fan by increasing the size of the radiator involved, you could also tolerate a gradient harvester in between, by making the radiator even bigger. No physical principle broken. Economic principles broken? That's another story...
Windows actually has always had a fairly large number of restrictions on filenames and folders, what is really frustrating now is that the impact and restrictions aren't universally validated. For instance you can create a folder that's name ends in a space in most IO libs available on windows, but many file and directory access libs will hard crash on this.

They really need to revamp the whole thing, and their efforts in more modern OSes that attempt to virtualizes each apps access seems like a place this would have been a priority, and yet a poorly named file or folder can still cause a Crash to desktop.
or, more likely, it would have been impossible to scale at a short notice and the site would slow down (with luck) or go offline for a bit (most probable).
Flash has to be powered so the contents of each cell can be refreshed so data isn't lost which make it a less than optimal solution for long term archival storage or offside backups. Simply storing the physical media is easier than maintaining and keeping secure systems to plug the flash devices into.
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Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study
> My department wont mint a new one, but only hire outsiders already at the title.

Yikes, that sucks.
> will decrease transfer of heat

for the same size of cooling fan + device. You can always increase the fan if it means you're also going to recover some energy.

I don't see why this wouldn't work tbh. Say your CPU is hot and the room is cold. The desire end state is that the CPU will reach room temperature, with the room being warmed up a little (let's not talk about getting the energy out of the room). There is no alternative to this end state.

To reach the end state, you can dissipate the heat of the CPU in the room "as simply as possible", OR you could transform some of it to electricity, and use the electricity to power some other device, say a desk lamp, and heat the room that way.
Methanol powered fuel cell electric vehicles FCEV appear very promising to me.

Filling up methanol is much more convenient than hydrogen or charging a BEV.

The hurdles are of course that fuel cells are more complex and apparently not yet reliable and cheap enough to compete with batteries.

Also, the overall energy efficiency of FCEV will obviously never be on par with BEV.

My belief is that if enough big players in the truck/car/... industry invest heavily in advancing fuel cell technology ... then the huge advantage of ease/convenience of use (and also the independance from electrical grid) will make FCEV the most used tech in the long term.
Two things can simultaneously be true: (1) the US is not a very moral or just nation, especially with how it has used its military power & (2) the US is a more moral and just nation than China, especially with how they use military power.

This isn't a whataboutism equivalency. It is a statement that one needs to first be honest about ones own shortcomings before disparaging another.

> absolutist surveillance state

I'm pretty sure that neither Google nor the rest of the world is thrilled about NSA warrantless mass surveillance programs.

> is currently participating in genocide, has institutionally striven to sustain an ethnostate

State supported ethnic cleansing of Native Americans in the 19th century. State supported subjugation and murder of African Americans in... well, improving, but still counting.

> exercises extrajudicial imprisonment and execution...

Extraordinary rendition, indefinite detention, and torture in third party countries and at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

> ... against vast swaths of the population to preserve political power

20th century voting rights struggles, in which African Americans were systemically disenfranchised with the goal of preserving white political and economic power.

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I'm a proud American, support the use of the US military on the global stage as a force for increasing moral good in the world, and consider the Chinese model of authoritarianism incompatible with the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness owed to every human. I believe the US holds individual freedom and equality before the law as much higher ideals, and delivers on them more often and fully, than China does.

But there's a reason Martin Luther King Jr. talks about "self purification" as one of the three prerequisite steps before direct action, and it's because easy hatred corrupts true justice.

Enumerating the ways in which your opponent looks like you, and the ways in which you've fallen short of your own ideals, isn't an argument for inaction, but a clarification and sharpening of action. 1960s racial injustice in the United States provided an embarrassing talking point while the US lectured the USSR on individual freedom. Using the evil that another does as justification for righteousness requires first accepting the evil that one has done.
That $600 figure doesn't include the minimum in-house 5 person staff + 1 manager necessary to run a 24x7 high-9s operation that could run operations such as live-migrating workloads to standby systems in order to fix faulty hardware. Additionally that same $96k could be used to run your compute in multiple datacenters. Back of the napkin math suggests that it'd be a wash once you expand to only three DCs.

I understand it was a startup and may not have needed high-uptime ops from day 1, but a lot of organizations do, and the cost is not that dissimilar.
This almost exists: Google One.

> Google One is a membership that gives you more storage to use across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos. Plus, you can redeem exclusive benefits, back up data from your phone, and get support for everything Google from our team of experts.
The political part is so important, and such a departure from solving technical problems. I feel like nothing in my life has prepared me for it, or maybe I just ignored everything that would have.

I think there's a continuum of political savvy, though, where most developers have some level of it. For example, if one of your developers creates a new service using a technology that is new to the codebase, and half of the senior developers say, "Ugh! I'm not touching that. It's just <developer's name> showing off his big brain. I'm not wasting my time figuring out that unnecessary academic crap," you can understand how that was a failure even if a purely technical evaluation concluded that the learning curve was reasonable and the benefits outweighed the effort required. Before committing to the technology, it was necessary to introduce the idea in a way that got the senior devs to buy in, and if you can't accomplish that, you can't use the technology at all, because it's going to create morale and social problems as well a creating an isolated service that few people will work on.

That's a basic level of political savvy I think most people can relate to, so, if you can understand that much, you have a base to build on.
I absolutely understand why in-house IT and dev folks like it: It literally removes the ability for budgeting people to tell them no. And the cost of new uses starts small and is granular, so by the time finance folks see it, it's already done and a critical component and no longer optional.

It literally removes agency from financial folks and gives it to tech people.