skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For most or all AWS resources it makes sense to bill by relatively small time increments because you really are using hardware for those defined time increments. AWS charges by time increments because that is exactly what they are selling.

Most software runs locally. "What you say, jerf? It's 2022, man, keep up." By that I mean, in terms of resource consumption, most software uses mostly local resources. Your Slack server footprint is tiny compared to the resources eaten by your slack client. Websites explode in RAM and CPU compared to what it took to serve the resources to your browser. Streamed video is expensive to encode once, but will be decoded somewhere locally millions of times. Especially for systems large enough to be worth optimizing and where they're not some guy's first Ruby on Rails project (built before he really got how not to make 15,000 queries per web page) or something. Servers for Slack or Office 365 or a streaming video service are certainly Big Iron and expensive, but compared to the sum total of resources sitting on the client side they're tiny.

Charging by the second for Office 365 wouldn't be smart, because their marginal costs aren't all that related to how many seconds of use there is. (They're certainly correlated, obviously, but I can find you signals that are much more strongly correlated than simply seconds of use, like document size and how many times they reload the page.) So you get all the disadvantages of your user sitting there thinking "How fast can I get this done? Every second I delay I'm paying more!", but you're not saving the resources or anything.

Pure time-based costs make sense if you're selling truly time-based resources, but are questionable in other places. For a lot of services, if not the majority, the true nature of the marginal costs are really hard to divine, and the users don't much care anyhow, and the marginal costs are much smaller than you want to charge anyhow, so it's much easier to just charge them $10/month and get on with it, rather than do all the complicated math to discover that this user's marginal cost was $0.33 this month.

(If my choice of example numbers confuses you, be sure you know what a marginal cost is: https://www.shopify.com/encyclopedia/marginal-cost . There's a lot more to pricing a cloud service than marginal costs. With modern hardware, networking, and even a cursory stab at some optimization by the developers, the marginal cost of a lot of useful cloud services can be tiny. There's useful cloud services out there where the marginal cost of a user is probably less than a penny per month. All the other costs can be quite non-trivial, though!)
That part is confusing.

Anyway, if you see the animation in the video, they are trying to makes a device that use this effect to collect the charge in a capacitor and then release the energy in a resistor, and that proposed device breaks the second law, in particular is more clear with this version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics#P...
Not the bare propulsion, but battery management does require sophisticated sensors and software that has to run in real time in order to carefully manage the charging and discharging of the batteries. If you don't do that, your battery life will suck. I could see that driving a need for high end semiconductors for electric vehicles.
My point is that everyone views themselves as having the moral superiority.

What's less certain is the information, and my point is that you should always have a sliver of doubt in your mind that you're correct.
Slixmpp 1.8.0 has been released – XMPP library for Python – SleekXMPP
As I said right before I left my last job (luckily I've been very fortunate at my current one):

"I love what I do and I love the people I work with - but I didn't come here for love."
Not OP, but I assume they are referring to foreign policy makers that believe in balance of power politics. If you have committed and great powers being pushed to the brink, they are not going to fall over easily, which causes them to take rash actions like we see today.
Anything by P J Bowler is worth a look. He and Morus wrote the first "textbook" on history of science. "Making Modern Science: A Historical Survey" - disclaimer I was their student when they were writing this.

Full bibliography here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_J._Bowler

Iwan Rhys Morus also has some good books on Faraday/Tesla and his own illustrated history of science and way back to his "Bodies/Machines" from 2002.

They take a general view that is cynical of the "revoluions" fallacy in historigraphical approaches to the history of sciences.
To the extent that companies test CS fundamentals to screen SWE roles, however, we can reasonably argue the implementation of the CS fundamentals test.

It seems to me that four years worth of coursework and exams provide a better assessment than a couple hours of on the spot performance.
The article doesn't mention Docker format, which solved this for server-side apps. It seems like that's an example of the Linux ABI getting used on other platforms?
Interesting. Let's see how this plays out.
The alternative in my experience is working on a team with a shared sense of mission. We meet at most one hour a week. We do a lot of asynchronous collaboration, it’s not always as efficient as it could be, but no one is asking for more meeting time to address that.
The biggest difference is that you have to use a lambda compatible entrypoint that basically communicates with AWS receiving the input and returning the output.
It would sure make it compelling for switching to the first competitor who offers a flat or monthly unlimited rate.
Summary: Russia invaded because the US are hypocrites and because Russia’s desire for Ukraine as a “buffer” from NATO is legitimate. Further, US meddling in Ukrainian politics “incited” Russia to invade.
Quick search shows Debian has a Flatpak package, which feels like the right amount of involvement. Ubuntu installing Snap packages via apt is exactly the behavior I don't want.
“The world’s most used weedkiller, glyphosate, was discovered in a wide range of essential food products including bread, pulses and grains from top grocery stores such as Hy-Vee, Whole Foods Market, Amazon, Walmart and Target.

Glyphosate, the active ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup”

I see no reason do distrust this women unless you have invested interest in roundup. This is a major issue and I’m so glad that we’re at least mentioning it, if not fighting for our collective best interest to be healthy.
We can use [anbox](https://anbox.io/).
They're called "Lambda Diagrams". See the inventor's homepage [1], and some animations [2]. There's actually a long and obscure history of visualizations for lambda calculus. One of the originals is "To Dissect a Mockingbird" [3], which if I recall correctly, was the main thing on the internet in 1996.

[1] https://tromp.github.io/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi8_XqluS5xc7GL-bgVrx...

[3] https://dkeenan.com/Lambda/
I disabled mine on Firefox, didn't see any changes. Switched to Chromium (where I don't have an adblocker) and the number of ads was egregious. I count 8 full-width ads interrupting the text at regular intervals, along with one on the bottom that follows as I scroll.
I haven't tracked it in a clinical, laboratory setting.

But if we were in a bar and you bet me $100 bucks that I couldn't get heads 20 times in a row I'd feel comfortable taking the bet
With the caveat that it has been well argued that "scientific revolutions" are an artefact of historical compression rather than real phenomenon that was experienced by participants in said "revolution"
You don't have to be well off to afford a couple dollar box of pancake mix
You should just make the right npm package. You could call it: "probably_correct_time" and it'd just add 137 to the year if it was less than 1937 or so. Then raise some money to fund AI research to decipher if it's about the great depression or something to guess the right year. I joke but honestly someone is going to build this and then get acquired by Grammarly.
Assuming you're talking about Russia, I'm counting on it. It's the whole reason NATO exists. Otherwise Russia, or anyone else with nuclear weapons could just eat up their non-nuclear neighbors until there were no non-nuclear states left.
the difference between polarizing forces & a polarizing central government could not be more real, obvious, painful, & marked to me.

there are plenty of radical & extremist forces within America but they are engaged in the great-but-often-shitheaded debate. no voices are censored, even lowlifes propogandists are simply expelled from major content networks not repressed by the state nor the economy: we permit them their squalid shitty, existence as radical extremists within our nation. any voice is allowed. the penalties are nil.

it's chaos & hell, but a far less small minded & dogmatically regressive form of hell. how anyone cant tell the differnce is a sad sad sign to me. what about this info authoritarian-fascist state of being isnt fucking crystal god damned clearly far far far worse? the western states do not have violently intolerance towards outside views & delusional state-insisted upon views. the west keeps letting even the most base speak, does nothing. the west understands that cultural victories are not truly attainable by force. this article is all about a state that has hyped up and worshiped force & the state as the absolute, as the only power worth of respect, & it shows how far those sodden idiots fall for their state-sponsored delusions. i see no parallel.

disreality is rampant within the united states, but it is not state-enforced. there-in lies a key difference. we have a critical culture which attempts to check ourselves. this is a Hard problem, but one we are engaged in, struggle for. all views must support themselves amid the debate. China doesnt have any such nuance, doesn't permit cultural engagement.
You don't need to check the battery every nanosecond. Every millisecond is fine.
Another analogy might be if Trumpists were armed and sent to California to liberate it from libtards...

I think the truth lies somewhere between these two interpretations.
Yes. With monthly you are either using the software and paying. Or not using it and not paying. You wouldn't likely use it for one month and then have a month off before paying again. So there is no stress to optimise costs.
I wonder if windows abi is not public, how people develop softwares on it? If it's public, why wine is not perfect?
Unfortunately many (most?) Russians ARE believing it.
Squarespace is the modern wysiwyg web page creator.
It's a scale thing. A bag of globals works, until the scale of what you have gets too big, and the big bag of globals becomes a 500 variable super object, and then your build graph gets bottlenecked on the bag of globals and a bunch of other pain.

If your project scale is small, you don't need DI frameworks, but you should still use IoC so you don't have implicit singleton access and your tests get flaky and stupid.
Docker is saying chroot but differently. It doesn't help with the normie users.
You know very well what I meant. Do you you really think I am trying to equate him to that poor mentally handicapped soul wandering streets?
I was surprised to see `xfs filesystem being remounted at [dir] supports timestamps until 2038` on a brand new Fedora install recently. Wonder what the hold up is.
Ah, yeah I don't think we can avoid harming normal Russians and wouldn't say that makes sanctions wrong. We do have to do _something_.
What I think the next selling point of fossil fuel is going to be LNG. I think LNG will be pitched as the lesser of evils. Coal plants will be used as a distraction and you will see everyone phasing out/down coal plants but every major country will eventually open up LNG terminals. Drilling gas from continental united states might not be viable but arctic drilling could be a viable plan.

healthy discussion disclaimer:

This information [1] kinda contradicts what I am saying but I studied petro engineering so I kinda have a bias. Also here is a wikipedia list that shows some European countries backing out of their LNG plans [2]. My theory hinges on the idea that, the moment arctic drilling gets traction we will see a radical shift on energy discussion. And if there is no immediate resolve to this conflict, arctic drilling will get pitched.

[1] https://qz.com/2025722/how-many-lng-import-export-terminals-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LNG_terminals
This comment is great and gets to the heart of the dispute. Thanks for making it.

I have spoken with one of the authors who found it and he did not dismiss it, so I don’t know why you frame it as it they did? Maybe this would be a useful citation?

I do not believe that this was the only surprise in BULLRUN. I was horrified (as an American) that NSA weakened cryptography to their advantage even including against American businesses. This is still going on today and it isn’t just BSAFE. The NSA also “enables” other products including hardware to their advantage.

I agree that IAD has an important positive goal for work, I’m not really in a position to know if they are trying to help but the goal seems solid. I agree that they do not get anything close to 50% of the funding and I think this should be solved by breaking them out from NSA entirely. They should probably be made into a transparent group which never ever gives NSA an advantage as the first time did so much damage that we are still discussing it today.
They manufacture their own. The design comes from a subsidiary.
From an end user perspective most google products are the same or worse than they were when this article was written (the big exception being YouTube), but their ads business has continued to explode, so whether Google itself has been a waste of time depends a lot on who you ask.
But I'm (ethnically) Italian so I feel a bit safer being judgemental :)
True, however if a user can see the code being run is "bad" then the user now knows.

Not many people are going to exercise this right, but having it as an option is nice.
and meanwhile, they get bested by old Toyota trucks off road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Yy5P6FUes

Always hilarious when people build $100K+ off-road ridiculous trucks, as unless you're totally loaded and don't care about smashing it up, it's going to get babied off-road or just never see more than a regular camping trip or some gravel. Actual hard-core off-roaders aren't driving super-expensive rigs; they're in crapcan K5 Blazers, Suzuki Samurais, old but built jeeps, tube frame customs, and side-by-sides. $40k in a SxS will get you about what a jeep would for 2x that money.

Don't even get me started on the bro dozer poser trucks. Those just exist to intimidate other people on the road, and with bumpers so high and tires + ground clearance that could easily run over something like a Corvette, they shouldn't be allowed on public roads. If only we had real vehicle inspection like some in the EU do.
The hipsters these days go straight to WinUI. Microsoft's yet another half baked UI library.
Yes. I tried across Firefox, Chrome, Safari across Windows 10, Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04 and Mac OS Monterey across two different broadband and mobile network.

Just to make sure that it was not just me who is experiencing the issue before posting it.

Getting the same issue and broken rendering across all the systems.
Putin is just the executive leader, not the (or only) general. If you think blame for logistic failures can just be cleanly assigned to the presence of his marbles or lack thereof, you’re sorely mistaken.
Doesn't it seem like PoW is a bad use of our limited electricity resources?
Yeah, i suppose it depends how you define it. To me a lot of movies run a line through both, making it look grand and horrible rather well.
Ask HN: Can Ukraine gov ask Google / Apple for geolocation data?
We're seen in the past geo-fence warrants [1] used by law enforcement to find all active mobile devices within a particular geo-fence area and we've also seen how fitness data has revealed the location of military bases[2].

Could the same techniques be used by the UA government to seek data on Russian ground movements? Is it likely that Apple/Google would comply with such a request?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo-fence_warrant
[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42853072
can I flash this on a google pixel 4?
For sure. It's pretty easy to verify what would happen w.r.t. Y2K - you just change the clock...and things broke.

LGR did an excellent video [1] on the subject.

[1] https://youtu.be/Xm5OiB3CPxg
> you can just stick a reverse proxy in front that removes the source code offer.

That's the sort of "sw developer tries to do law" reasoning that will get you laughed out of court.

The spirit of the law is a thing, and (judges can decide that) it applies to contracts too.
I have seen saltstack references in the kubernetes repo, and that alone was enough to pique my interest to read into it, but I guess maybe the "chicken and egg" is causing salt to be just massively behind on what one can do with ansible

For example, this[1] is all that seems to be available for "cloud" on AWS. Now, I am super, super cognizant that there is a camp of "TF all the cloud, then $something on the machine" but here salt seems to be dipping its toes into the AWS API, and yet treating that machine as a pet, not even offering ASG nor LaunchTemplate knobs that could bring the machine back to life if it falls over

1: https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3004/ref/clouds/all/salt.clou...

I will say, it seems salt's documentation just absolutely spanks ansible's approach, so there's that
> introverted as in shy, not introverted as in neurodivergent

Can you clarify what distinction you're drawing here?
Not sure who that comes from though. I'm a long time Linux user and could not care less if it ever becomes popular on the desktop.
Ask HN: Alternatives to StatHat
Used https://www.stathat.com/ for a few projects, and wanted to sign up an account for a new one but it looks like it might not be maintained anymore.

Any good alternatives that matches:

* Extremely easy to use "analytics"
* Just want to send a label + a number (often just a +1) and for it to be charted. For example, +1 everything we call a specific API server, and we get a usage call chart
* Throwaway or short term data; the usual analytics solutions like Mixpanel aren't so suitable
* SaaS
I logged to tell you. Yes! That doesn’t mean getting there will be easy, but you can get to a point where you go after those interactions to seek out other introverts that want to stay away kinda. That’s the hard part if there’s two extroverts someone’s gotta take initiative. I believe in you!
Just watch this and it all makes sense:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If61baWF4GE&t=408
Back in the day, MEGA offered 50GB for free and the product was actually pretty good. Sad to see new users don't get that generous of an offer.
It's telling there's not even mention, even if a jackfruit question, of IME
You mean supporting families with half as many people working outside the home?

Household work is hard work. Modern technology has made it much easier.

(And that's the bigger story here: the reduction of in-household workload. The consequence of women entering the workforce is a comparatively smaller effect.)
> I formed my opinion after he showed up and started something responding to a comment on reddit about recipes that had nothing to do with him.

Because this thread you're in has so much to do with you?
Knowing the data structures and algorithms is different from actually passing these interviews. Interviews are designed in a way that you are going to have to commit a lot of stuff to memory that you would have just looked up if you were just coding up a problem.

A common example brought up here on HN is binary search. It is usually simple to figure out that a problem requires Binary search and even which variant. But the differences between the variant are really small and you can very easily make a mistake when implementing it.

I have passed enough of these interviews myself and used to think similarly (all you need to do is learn the fundamentals and the rest will follow) but my hit rate went up substantially when I realized that I had to do the same problem again and again and it almost became part of my muscle memory. Looking at a new problem, analyzing it and then coming up with a novel solution takes a lot of time, and there are several mistakes you can make on the way. The interviewing culture today is to reject "false positives" so anything apart from a perfectly coded response results in a mixed/negative response.

This whole leetcode thing is a farce and has to end. Let's be honest, the Google guys used it because they wanted "like-minded people". In short, they discriminated based on their own criteria and successfully brushed it off as a "fair and unbiased" way of selecting people.
There was also an issue about Russian howitzers bought from (East) Germany. Finland gave them to Estonia as military aid.

Estonians tried to send them to Ukraine, but Green-Reds from both Germany and Finland opposed this.
If crypto bubble pops which is very likely to happen soon, you will br able to get gpus pretty cheap.
He does not have a deadhand. A deadhand is only useful if everybody knows about its existence.
Yeah! Lesson learned. Thanks for hearing me about my intentions though, I appreciate it and wow, third rail touched!
Are you implying BP should self-immolate? How is BP going to quit climate change?
Russia wanted to be part of NATO and the US didn't allow it.
Regarding SICP. The first chapter is too mathematical. At least at first glance. Is that true? When did you do SICP? How mathematically mature were you?
Algorithm design is a skill you can learn. It probably correlates with IQ, but you have to control for experience to see it. Experience is certainly more important than intelligence.

In my experience, algorithm design is primarily pattern matching. You have a toolkit with a set of abstractions for modeling the problem and a set of algorithmic techniques for solving it. If you have the right tools in the toolkit, potential solutions will jump out. You then pick a promising solution and figure out the details. If you don't have the right tools, you have to go back to reading or start building new tools from basic principles. That can take hours, days, weeks, months, or years, if you succeed at all.

I guess this is similar to proving mathematical theorems, but I haven't done much of that after grad school.
Women worked before as well, just inside the household.

Technology eased that burden somewhat.
I didn’t say die