skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you can't afford it" is doing a lot of assuming and a lot of heavy lifting in that statement. Whether or not you can afford it depends strongly on your scaling bounds (how much you need to scale) and how you've chosen to implement it.

There are plenty of tools and systems that can present a sufficiently linear cost relationship to load and usage that, should your COGS versus revenue make sense, the marginal cost of increased cloud resources a no-brainer--especially versus always-paid-for hardware. If you don't have such a linear relationship you're as much in the position of deciding whether the project is viable as you are anything else.
The difficulty does readjust based on the hashrate; but the hashrate is driven by the cost/benefit analysis of hardware and electricity vs. block rewards, meaning as the asset price goes up, more miners are incentivized to join the network.
Well, no. In the end they backed my reco and we didnt go IBM. I feel like I did inconvenience my managers though, and indeed left not long afterwards for a better job.
Depending on how much you went into, aside from HODL, that's called YOLO. In general, people spread their assets. So for example, you could speculate some on the stock market, some in cryptocurrencies, etc. If you put all your savings in, and it goes to zero, I feel sorry for your children. Cause there goes their scholarship.
AWS is the new Oracle.
Thanks, that is reasonable feedback. We'll work on updating the documentation.

Here is an example of Malloy solving today's worlde in 50 lines of Malloy

https://looker-open-source.github.io/malloy/documentation/ex...

And here is the equivalent SQL.

https://gist.github.com/lloydtabb/32f46e7ecbb2da1a443d1adbe9...
Hyundai ioniq 5 is the best all around package on offer at the moment (imo). Looks bad@ss too.
“ who are ever only paid in USD - you must accept USD”

Are you saying it’s inherent value comes from it being a protection racket.?
I do the same now. Never even heard of the site until I learned that one of my friends dad makes board games.

Apparently has one high up in the top 100 list somewhere.
It created an entire industry of ransomware!
That number you're looking at is "total Swiss foreign currency reserves in units of USD" not "Swiss foreign currency reserves that are USD". Switzerland, for reasons that are fairly obvious, holds large Euro reserves. At the end of 2020 USD was only ~35% of that total amount.
How long does it take to fully charge a depleted EV battery? And with a fast charger?
very well put, i also rent cars because i rarely need them.

but i think where this analogy breaks down is that if i run a service, no matter how many users, peaky or not, at least 1 server always needs to be on, not "from time to time".
I wish they had Peltier-powered devices for traditional wood fireplaces. I really love the concept.
Guix is cool but has two big drawbacks:

The major one: package ecosystem. Nix has the largest and most up to date package repo of any distro [1]).

Nix is already somewhat niche, but the Guix community is tiny.

They also have a hard stance against proprietary software, so many things that are packaged for Nix aren't for Guix.

Second: it's pretty slow. A lot of the Nix functionality is implemented in C++ . Guix is all written in Scheme, and uses a rather slow implementation.

The main advantage is more coherent tooling and documentation. (Guix is much younger and doesn't have decades of legacy cruft)

[1] https://repology.org/repositories/statistics
> Const isn't really useful to the optimiser in any way, roughly all it does really is effect the overload resolution rules, and how the compiler maps statically initialized data in to your final binary.

const on pointers and references is not useful at all, but const on variables is useful as it means the value is never allowed to change. For example:

const int x = 0;
do_something(&x);
return x; // Optimizer can assume that x == 0 here even if it knows nothing about do_something

See: https://godbolt.org/z/4T8M3eK1x
With options there is no saturation of a market, since you don’t actually need to purchase/sell a stock in order to profit from it. Supply is effectively unlimited (I’m not following the gme debacle, but this is what registering shares was also about - trading in shares that don’t exist)
You have thousands of containers? Physician, heal thyself.
Sure (although 5-12 minutes is very odd no matter how you slice it), but that's a bit of a false choice. I have nothing against systemd personally, but I recognize more and more that a good part of the reason is because I never had to use it in anger.

There were other choices that Linux could have taken rather than sysvinit vs init.d and some distros through the years have taken different approaches. FreeBSD's rc.d is not sysvinit either.
Yeah agreed I haven't worked with Google scale companies but I've always found scaling issue to to development related not infrastructure related. So examples would be a bad db query that takes the system down, overly chatting webserver that issues too many queries to the backend, pulling large datasets into the webapp causing exhaustion of memory ...etc. AWS / Azure can't be these issues they have to be fixed in your code.

There is definitely a place for AWS/Azure and their offering of services is fantastic but they are not a silver bullet for scaling your website to millions of active user.

On another point though the vast majority of websites you'll ever build won't have that level of active users. It's a good problem to have though as it means your site is doing really well.
https://reviews.llvm.org/D54604

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangCommandLineReference.html#c...
This what happens when a significant portion of society worships the “free market” and wants to avoid government running things. In the U.S. we have managed to fully monetize just about every aspect of life. Even something as mundane as pumping gas has been almost fully monetized by blaring ads.

EDIT: I know the U.S. healthcare system isn’t a totally free market. We’ve designed a system that isn’t government run but has mandates like ERs having to see patients. Half the country labels anything that isn’t government run as free market and anything that is government run as communism. These are proxy words.

If you want a healthcare system that isn’t government run but that has a semblance of “free market” in it but that also “treats” most people this is what you get. Well, it’s what our system has morphed into.
Competitive students I knew regularly prepared for university courses in advance. In their view, the whole point of taking the course is not to learn, but to optimize their study/game the system enough to earn as high marks as possible for professional opportunities in the future. As they were both hard workers and optimized for marks, their tactics generally worked for their goals.

At the time, I believed that if you focus on learning, the marks will come, but soon saw the results that this isn't necessarily true.
For those who are curious, this is a Latin pun. The original, "si vis pacem, para bellum" means "if you want peace, prepare for war."
If one doesn’t exist out of the box you can relatively simply roll your own using bcc https://github.com/iovisor/bcc.
Web3 and crypto skepticism is growing and people are finally starting to listen
It is a specific statement by Liouville: if you can approximate a number "very well" using rational numbers, then it must be transcendental.

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/LiouvillesApproximationTheorem...

My statement above may be a bit confusing, though.
What is banking anyway, in theory it is transferring x to x? Can be done through a digital wallet if both parties agree upon it. You just need a lot of parties to use that same system or easy bridges to send it through the old system.
A lot of it goes to inefficiency. Think of it this way. If you have a factory that makes 1 thing it can optimize around that. It can become cost effective. If you have a factory that can manufacture 10 different things, it becomes less cost effective because you need to be able to switch between the different things. If a factory can produce 100 different things it's even less efficient.

Hospitals deal with thousands of things. Their overhead and complexity are high. This leads to inefficiency which costs more.

I've read that the math around the costs map fairly well to the cost models around factories [1].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Prescription-Disruptive-So...
As the NSA recommend, disable Remote Desktop Services and its associated port (TCP 3389). But I'm also not saying don't update. I'm saying choose when you want to update and what you want to update. Use your own firewall and virus software, lock down your own system.

Forgive me for being glib but; Leaving a backdoor for good old papa Gates to protect you is a bad strategy.
It seems pretty straightforward to see what's a keyword vs not tbh
"Btrfs is great in its intentions but still not as stable as it should be after all these years of development." may have been true years ago, but doesn't seem to be anymore.
Because real-time malware scanning causes way more trouble than it is worth. It adds latency to every file open on the off chance that it might contain some kind of identifiably malicious code. That might be mildly useful if I had any faith it could actually detect the majority of malware, but I don't. In fact, the only things I've ever seen it identify reliably are any kind of piracy or forensics tools.
If you build a brand at a large tech company - it won’t be “yours” will it?
Is there really any mystery to why someone would prefer a language they know and are comfortable with. I'm more concerned why that seemed provocative enough to require inquiry. Rust is a very interesting language for sure, but there's an extremely robust c ecosystem that one would lose by transitioning at this point. And for library creators, there's much more to lose.
I don’t think it’s fair to say we ‘have antivirals’ yet, the supply is so low and is not expected to really ever be enough for worldwide demand on the current ramp plans

We really need another warp speed project to produce these antivirals

Things look good now because omicron is mild, but no guarantee that all of the next variants will be mild . If one of them is severe we will really wish we had warp speeded the antivirals
note: HTML5 is not a subset of
SGML.
Covid State of Affairs: Jan 24
Ditching Google Chrome was the best thing I did this year
I own an $80k EV and have a quantifiable negative carbon footprint. IMHO negative is small enough for me.
I'm curious about one thing as far as this statement goes... it's a little bit of a nonsequiter though. When/if the US starts to tax crypto and crypto gains, does that show that they have more of a legitimate value?
Just wait until you hear about the paper [1] inspired by a Twitter discussion that ended up winning the "Best theme paper" award in the ACL Conference 2020.

[1] Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data: https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.463.pdf
Wise choice. I've known attorneys professionally and have some in my extended family. I've never met a truly happy attorney yet.
That's fair, and I'm not dogmatically opposed to the cloud. But when you have underpowered cloud machines you end up having different machines for email, for web workers, for caching, and so on. The complexity you introduce by making your app scalable in that way you just don't have when you stick everything on 1 dedicated server. With dedicated machines I don't need to create a distributed architecture prematurely.

It takes us some time to set up dedicated machines, but less than a day. Ansible helps a bunch.
Yes! And empathy is a form of compression.
Shame that what became of it? That he underlined that most of the NFT craze is illusory wash trading intended to feed on the anxieties of what is hard to describe as anything other than "the precariat"?

What do you object to? What "provably incorrect claims" did he roll out? Back this up, yeah?
CSView – A fast viewer for large CSV files – Kothar Labs
That's interesting and useful to know and I decide to believe you.

BTW: Yes, I absolutely noticed that you said this above:

> ...and the beauty of the Internet is that there's really no way to be sure people are being genuine...

My point is, unless the claims of the others are outrageous or we have something very specific to point at, I don't think voicing these kind of thoughts do much good.
IMHO building a personal brand is a long run thing, like a marathon. You can do all sort of things: talk at meetups, write guest blog posts, be active in community, have strong presence on social networks, etc.

All of this requires time.

Maybe there are some limitations due to a nature of your contract? In one of my contract it explicitly said that I have a right to showcase the work that I've done as a contractor in my portfolio. I guess that this means that maybe in some contracts people get the opposite thing.

I've never tired to build my personal brand beyond basic presence on web. The main reason is lack of time. I wish that I've been smarter and build it along the way, if nothing else for myself. I've started forgetting all of the wonderful things that I've worked in past decades.
thanks! checking it out
Western Europe is also less unified since it’s about 10+ counties instead of just 1.
That's especially weird. I've had Google decline TOTP/Google Authenticator and SMS one time when I was troubleshooting a OAuth issue, but declining U2F? Are you logging in from various different VPN servers daily, or just through the same few ISPs?
Prenuptials are extremely popular and marriage is at historic lows.

This also has little to do with women. It's men who grew up in the last few decades watching the absolute disaster that is marriage. You literally gain nothing by getting married and you seem to lose significantly every time.
> I always knew bandwidth on Azure was expensive and I should have been monitoring it better

It's suspicious that cloud providers STILL don't have any sort of "circuit breaker" infrastructure for this sort of thing - yes, you can set up alerts, but you can't say, "shut the whole thing down before the costs go above a certain threshold".
These days what I typically want to block are the gdpr modals that pop up that demand you read and interact with a bunch of legalese or click I surrender, own me.
Does anyone know if lists like this are maintained fro other countries? It would be fascinating to see the states of various crafts for all countries.
That's only in the unnamed case. Here's a simple case than GCC does not optimize even in -std=c++20 (and even at -O3 LOL): https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/jKPr98Mhx
Uh, gold _is_ backed by chemistry. If gold were to change nearly any of its chemical properties, it would instantly lose its value. It is stable, generally non-reactive, non-toxic, lustrous, and of generally low abundance - all properties derived directly from its chemistry.

That is actually one of the strongest arguments, to my mind, for why some variant of a cryptocurrency will survive as a store of value. Gold kind of "organically" found its way into value almost precisely because it is backed by the physical laws of nature. Cryptocurrencies went up a level to be backed by the laws of mathematics.
Except, the people who have taken the time to study how the system works will tell you that's not the issue.
> But then I am confused. You say that Russia's narrative about NATO doesn't make sense; but at the same time you seem to agree that both Ukraine, in the post-2014 world, would like to join to gain the military protection of the alliance;

I don't see a contradiction here: Yes, Ukraine and Georgia would very much like to join and no, NATO doesn't want to admit them. In fact, NATO has been denying their requests for membership since at least 2008 when Ukraine applied.

> and that the alliance leaves the door open for Ukraine and Georgia. As long as that's the case, how can you say that Russia's story is false and just invented to sidetrack the trusting Westerners?

Don't you think "leaves the door open for the future" is quite different from imminent danger of missile deployment? It is clear that NATO won't admit countries with territories occupied by Russia (they had 14 years to do that with Georgia and 7 years with Ukraine), so feigning being threatened by that is just a pretext. Also, look at the map and ask yourself why NATO don't just deploy those missiles in Latvia.

> I also don't fully understand the point about the destabilization either. Does Russia destabilize all its neighbors, and why would it prefer an unstable neighbor to a stable one?

Are you really asking in good faith? Obviously, Russia prefers stable pro-Russian autocratic neighbors and are willing to destabilize any governments that don't conform to that definition until more fitting government can be established.
43 is still much less than 303, according to the math I learned in school.
Astronomers uncover new way to measure the speed of stars
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2020/05/feature-forum-costli...

https://www.kff.org/health-costs/issue-brief/americans-chall...

https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/why-is-healthcare-so-...
Related very good news: thanks to the very precise orbital injection, Webb has excess propelllant that will be used for station-keeping, significatively prolonging the mission: https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2021/12/29/nasa-says-webbs-exces...
RCE bug chain patched in CentOS Web Panel
Books. They're called books.
We have okayish chemical energy efficiency, like 40% if I recall correctly.
I have but they're also professors and they teach so I'm guessing that changes the dynamic a lot.
> RDS. It’s slow and super expensive. I don’t want to worry about one-off queries or migrations. If you use only 5% of your server capacity you can afford to do inefficient things at times.

The author has clearly not had to do a database migration at 3AM. AWS is more expensive but so is my time, so it works out better all the time.

Isn’t computer science all about building on abstractions? Where do you draw the line? Should I write a kernel every time because Red Hat /MSFT charges me $100?
Defund the police has nothing to do with sentencing and rehabilitation.

You are procedurally generating random talking points to intentionally talk past each other.

False dilemmas are often intentional so I’m out.
'commodity' okay. Show me one legitimate use case for btc without converting it into a real currency
the Earth’s Shape and Size? You Can Measure It Yourself – Part 1
> Too little attention given to integration tests and end-to-end tests leaves systems exposed to critically bad edge case bugs.

From my POV and experience, the middle ground is often what people refer to as 'integration' tests. Testing (without a browser), hitting endpoints/urls with known payloads and getting expected results catches errors with assumptions made about the interaction between various individual libraries.

At least in the web app world, my views are:

1. Testing the individual libraries gets you one layer of confidence.
2. Testing the interaction of those, usually via URL endpoints as various identities, gets you another layer of confidence.
3. Testing with E2E exposes primarily UI/JS problems.

When the first 2 are strong/solid, you can focus troubleshooting problems in #3 at the client/JS level first. It's not always the case, but it can help reduce concerns about "is this a back-end issue?".

I've been (slowly) trying to write more js component tests (in one case, with jest and vue), as it makes it easier/faster to test many permutations of input/validation/etc all at once. It's yet another 'confidence' area such that, when there are E2E tests, I can narrow down focus even more.

On a couple projects I've been on the past few years, we've found very few problems via E2E tests alone, mostly because there are so many back-end unit and integration tests. The E2E issues that are found are often UI-only (error state changes not rendering, sometimes perf issues, etc).
It all comes down to your tech stack and if you have someone that will take care of your VPS.
Childless and European here :). But I put like 3 months of salary there. Really nothing that could financially ruin me. I went YOLO on housing though... That shit is expensive.
Though: Software Engineering is not doing all that well on the mental health front either, as far as professions go. See [1] which I found kind of shocking, though I don't know what those numbers look like for other professions or in the general population.

[1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-demog...
We don't, we just use the term accurately: information spread with the purpose of convincing. It doesn't have to be incorrect, lots of propaganda is entirely accurate. We label our own efforts as propaganda, too.

The dominance of capitalism in most countries is not disputed. Is it far-fetched that capitalists would like to maintain their rule through ideology as well? The effects are readily apparent when comparing newspapers, school curriculum, public announcements, etc. from countries that disagree even slightly.
The ending of that first sentence though.

> defrauding legitimate asset holders.

Amazing.
NPR has a series of these "Bill of the Month"[1] articles about surprise medical billing, and I am not exaggerating when I say they are the single most depressing, scary, disheartening thing I read on the internet.

The patients in these stories seem well-intentioned and well-prepared. They double check that their doctors are in-network. They triple-check what charges they should expect. But there's always a gotcha. There's always some hidden, between-the-lines reason hospitals come up with to charge you, and insurance won't cover. In one story, the surgeon invited an out-of-network surgical assistant into the surgery, without notice. In another [2], the labor and delivery department was classified as an ER, for a completely routine delivery.

When these charges are dismissed, it's always because NPR reached out for comment, and the hospital backs down, presumably because of the bad PR.

The unpredictably and seemingly arbitrary nature of medical charges makes me feel... queasy. And scared to seek medical help, which I know is what insurance companies want. Even with great insurance, which I'm lucky to have, it feels like there's nothing I can do to prevent medium-to-insane charges. The only way I can think of to try and combat medical billing is to retain a lawyer.

[1] https://www.npr.org/series/651784144/bill-of-the-month

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/07/22/8919096...

[3] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/10/27/1049138...
Any good lifetime deals sites for a digital marketing SaaS?
Hello there,

Have you ever promoted your software with lifetime deals sites? I've discovered a bunch (AppSumo, PitchGround, Dealify, SaasMantra etc.), but talked only with AppSumo so far. Trying to find out more information on it and have a pretty good feeling about PitchGround.

Especially interested in digital marketing products, mine is in Local Marketing to be even more precise, but ofc any good story/advice will be appreciated :)
I have an opposite anecdote: I moved to iOS but kept my (4-year-old) Android device active, and now I basically hop between a few iOS devices (but just one iPhone) and a Pixel 2 regularly. The only account that appears to dislike that is my work Microsoft 365 account that demanded I reauth all devices a couple times.

Not saying it's not true (I believe you), just that it's not designed to be a suspicious case, at least.
Regarding jails - I do use separate loopback device per jail, plus pf with nat. No issues with firewalling.
It's not the only reason to orbit L2 instead of staying at L2. Webb needs enough light from the sun on its solar panels to power its instruments, so it needs to stay out of the Earth's shadow.
There are many truths, and one of them is the plane should probably not have flown there at the time.

But in NL the focus is on the Russians which conveniently dominates the 'narrative'.