skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my company, we were aware about the potential honeypots in each cloud and we developed our product from the first commit to be deployed on 3 (!) clouds: AWS, Azure, IBM.

And while we made it work by sticking to the least common denominator which was FaaS/IaaS (Lambda, S3, API GW, K8s). It was certainly not easy. We also ignored tools that could've helped us greatly only against a single cloud in order to be multi cloud.

The conclusion after 2 years for us is kind of not that exciting.

[1] AWS is the most mature one, Azure is best suited for Microsoft products and Old Enterprise features. And IBM is best if you use only K8s.

[2] Each cloud has a lot of unique closed code features that are amazing for certain use cases ( Such as Athena for S3 in AWS or Cloud Run in GCP). But relaying on them means you are trapped in that cloud. Looking back, Athena could have simplified our specific solution if we were only on AWS.

[3] Moving between clouds, given shared features, is possible, but is definitely not a couple clicks or couple of Jenkins jobs away. Moving between clouds is a full time job. Finding how to do that little VM thing you did in AWS, now in Azure, will take time and learning. And moving between AWS IAM and Azure AD permission? time, time and time.

[4] Could we have known which cloud is best for us before? No. Only after developing our product we know exactly which cloud would offer us the most suited set of features. Not to mention different credits and discount we got as a startup.

Hope this helps.
When I lived in SF, about 15 years ago, the US passed some odd sounding laws around subsidizing the production of ethanol.

I figured they wouldn't last long, because they were converting fossil fuels into an environmentally "friendly" fuel, meanwhile requiring more fossil fuels to produce this "friendly" fuel... which is then added to gas tanks around the country.

So you take a fossil fuel & fossil fuel based fertilizers you -> grow corn. You use fossil fuel powered tractors & harvesters. You convert corn -> ethanol, which also requires energy. And then you have ethanol.

You can then burn this ethanol. Or you could just burn all those fossil fuels.

Back then there was also a glimmer of hope around the idea of cellulosic ethanol. Using manmade enzymes we could break down the tough walls around certain plants into ethanol and harvest solar energy directly into liquid fuels via god & man made plants.

Well they are still talking about this, 15 years later, with very much the same tone & words. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/biofuels/ethanol.php

Ethanol is a scam. It's got something to do with farm votes. Maybe something to do with 2 votes per state for Senators. 15 years later we still perform this ritual nonsense.

This post makes me sound a little bit against green energy. That's not what I'm saying. I'm pointing out that ethanol is not more green. It's less green because it simply wastes energy.
AMD GPU drivers improve Ryzen speed (without permission)
The generated function also has a subtract zero from rsp which could just be plain eliminated. Though it's probably rarer to have this in general code, it means there are no local variables. Looks like there are still some low hanging fruits in there :-)
He writes in a very marketing-informed way.

He clearly point to (his) previous work, clearly and repeatedly remembers the reader how amazing is the things he is trying to do, and shameless link (both in text and via hiperlinks) to his own enterprises and current initiatives.

I suppose this is some kind of mental template he uses when writing (think about someone writing a paper: the forma and hidden rules, the necessary and obligatory parts).

Of course I cannot vouch for his science but heck! the man is spending his own money, not trying to sell you anything (other than Mathematica) and has an impressive track record since he was a kid! Let’s give him some space to do his things.
is the cellular automata tiled? Did you implement it yourself, or did you grab an existing one? Did you have to do any work to get it to run so smooth? It's very cool.

And GPT-J -- are you running it yourself? Or are you using a hosted API somewhere?
Today we are coincidentally releasing the beta for https://tinyfunction.com/
TinyFunction is the simplest NodeJS and Python function deployer. All functions are deployed in AWS.
This sort of thing, and the whole "cancel by mail" thing noted above, are why consumers see such value in buying subscriptions through Apple's evil puppy-kicking "walled garden."

Tech types don't see the value in it. But regular people do.

I subscribe to the dead tree editions of four newspapers, and several magazines. But if it's available from Apple News, I'll go there first, because I know I'm insulated from the dark side of the subscription model.
What is the biggest drawback of G100UL?

Usually when something is this hung up, its because the two sides disagree on the magnitude of a specific or small set of problems. I can't help but feel that this article is leaving out a key detail.
> Even now, a company in many militaries seems like the smallest unit that's somehow "self-contained" or capable of independent operation and logistics in a way neither a platoon or a battalion does.

Do you have company and battalion mixed up here? Why wouldn't a battalion, which consists of companies, be capable of independent operation if the individual companies are?
So you saved money because you optimized the structure, not because of the provider? I guess you would've saved more rebuilding it on OVH?
Bought it at launch, and finished the main part, as well as small challenges (enough to get a platinum on playstation), but not 100%. I'm currently waiting for a few years to pass so that I can start anew, because the witness is this type of game: most of it happens in your brain (the process of learning); I'm not sure I'll ever be able to forget all of it, but I know the advanced parts will be as hard as they were 6 years ago.
It describes the author's conjecture that maybe it was for album art, but actual reason is unknown
I'd say this is only a part of the story.
I remember when I was growing up I'd go to school if I'm having "just a cough/sneeze/running nose". I.e. if it's not impacting my functioning (like a fever or pain from a sore throat would), I'd be ready to dismiss it as "not serious enough". Now, this was in Russia, so my argument isn't about the culture in Europe, but rather about the presence of cultural differences.

Nowadays, working a remote job, I can work if it's just a cough, and it won't affect my co-workers. Never thought about this benefit of remote work!
The idea behind the definition is that it defines set of files that will not trigger various bugs in traditional unix text tools implementations (ie. various variants of not checking the fgets() return value).
always unsubscribe + mark as spam :)
> I think the article also mentions this

My bad, I didn't read the article carefully enough.

> I don't get what is the significant difference between this finding and Levin's.

I think it's generally very important to find connections between distant and seemingly unrelated fields. And it's even better to express two seemingly separate fields in the same terms. Because then there's a lot of potential to cross apply the techniques which were developed in those fields. You can see the linked result not only as a formal construction of a problem with certain properties, but also as a link between two distant fields and as one of the many steps needed to maybe one day show that those fields are the same thing. One of my theoretician friends likes to say that solutions in mathematics are valuable because of the "moral" they have, i.e. the possibilities and lessons they demonstrate, not because they formally satisfy some conditions.

Think of Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Centuries ago they were completely separate fields. A growing plant and a lightning bolt were completely different concepts which seemed to be operated by their own distinct laws and have nothing to do with each other. But as the Science progressed, people learned about the elemental particles and could see now that lightning bolt and a plant are not separate concepts, but only manifestations of the same laws and processes on lower levels. Now Physics, Chemistry and Biology are not completely distinct domains (Richard Feynman would argue that the latter two are sub-fields of Physics) and techniques and findings from one can be sometimes converted to the others.
Are you happy with Oracle? I wanted to try it, but the onboarding process (until you're able to actually order some beefy servers) was so problematic (delays, weird error messages, conflicting messages from support) that I didn't dare putting production servers there.
Yeah it seems to randomly "forget" it
Looks like editors love to keep readers tied with uneasy unsubscribe methods.

The fact that people think editors have anything at all to do with subscriptions illustrates a lack of basic understanding of the publishing industry.

Source: At various times of my life, I've worked for two of the largest newspaper companies on the planet.
Ram is Wolf. Wolf is Life. Life is Wolf Ram. - Michael GPT-3 Scott
Depends on implementation and what your definition of inflation means. If inflation means increase of money supply (printing and giving) and UBI uses that mechanism than Yes, I think inflation goes up. If UBI is implemented by a Tax than giving, then No because it is not an increase in the money supply. This does not mean prices will not fluctuate. Its a complex system after all and the altering flows will affect it.

If I save a dollar and tomorrow you print 10 more dollars out of thin air is my dollar worth the same amount?
> definitely verges on propaganda

It was specifically founded 180 years ago to propagate free trade. Its mission hasn’t changed, and is no secret.
I have interacted with Dr Wolf-ram, and I dont like being spoken down to, or given direct orders by a stranger. Plenty of criticism here today, very well-deserved by my limited and direct experience.
> $1M in monthly revenue (extremely low margin)

taking a guess that your app is an API wrapper of some kind? the $ you move is basically through your account from customer to service provider on each call and you charge some low flat rate per month for access?
i think they downvoted you, because lemon.de is not using ssl ;-)
That's not an argument. At best it's reductio ad absurdum, but where's the argument? It wouldn't change the value of zero, because even if it devalued the dollar heavily everyone still has something.

There's no attempt in that argument to say why it would change the "value of zero".
> However if you check the expiration dates in the US, milk in plastic tends to expire much more quickly than the milk in paper cartons. So there is more going on than it simply being different containers.

Without further details, I'm guessing that "milk in paper cartons" has been UHT-treated, which means it could last even longer than the published expiry date.

It'll still go bad in a few days or weeks once it has been opened, depending on how it has been stored.
Yes, most of my high school friends have basic 9-5 jobs and even many of my fellow students dropped out without any degree.
I mean, what geopolitical conduit isn't this days? And hasn't it ever been thus? Not saying this is a bad thing, or a good thing; that's just the way things are, right?
The topic of discussion is the exchange of money for information, and how to improve the value of that business transaction.
Inflation happens due to more money appearing in the economy. Universal basic income doesn't mean creating money. It just means redistributing existing money. So no, there is no connection between UBI and inflation.
No, there is nothing in any law that mandates that. It's there for artificial churn reduction. The irony, is that if you register through a platform that takes a big share (they get less money) like the App Store or Google Play, it's then easier to cancel…
Bureaucracies have huge incentive to keep any status quo as it is. Any change is potentially risky.

This is something we can possibly solve by not punishing state servants as harshly if they make a decision and something goes wrong. "Something went wrong" is a bad metric for firing people. There should be a pattern of bad behavior before something like that is done.
This happens to everyone in their 30s. You realize that "dying someday" -- which seemed like a big distant hypothetical when you were a kid -- is actually a thing that will happen on a timescale you can reason about. Your career gets hard and you don't really know the point of it. It takes a while to get over it.

Then you hit your 40s and you realize that since you're going to die anyway, why waste the time and die bored and mediocre? So you start appreciating things and choosing to do stuff that interests you, whatever that is.

YMMV obviously and N=1. But unless you have a terminal disease "I've hit 30 and my life is basically over" is just BS you're telling yourself.
I had done the same, but I loved The Witness also. There is a mood unique to games like that which I think The Witness had boiled down, which is a sort of "melancholic exploration". Exploration, fueled by a lack of distractions and freedom to explore, and uninturupted by big ideas or strong emotions.

Was it a 90 hour immersive story, no way, but it's an atmosphere I love and that few games provide.

It is probably why I also loved Fallout76 and Cyberpunk2077 from release day while others didn't, bugs excluded, to me both were huge worlds that I could wander and explore on my own terms.

The gameplay mechanics best suited for that I think get discussed as "environmental storytelling" but I think in this case the storytelling was pretty light and it was the atmosphere that I was there for. Just existing in these worlds is enough for me to enjoy for a while.
lol. Better read 20 minutes right?
Why did you feel IBM is best when you only use K8S? Our platform fully K8S and I'm looking to somewhere where we get more performance per buck, probably not IBM but I'm surprised it's even in the list. Do they have an extra nice K8S dashboard or something?
I do want to push back against the professor quoted as saying that this leg is conclusive proof that the herbivores didn't have feathers. Because to me, that leg looks like a bird leg. Bird legs are scaly and don't have feathers. And it's reasonable to wonder if these animals were somewhere in between - some feathering in some places, but not totally covered in them.

I'm not saying they necessarily _did_ have feathers. Just that I don't think that prof stands on firm ground making that statement with such certainty. Makes it seem like he just has his favorite theory bone to pick.
Sounds really interesting. I don't understand why so many companies think the alternative to owning your DC must be the cloud. I think the step you describe is where companies can get rid of a lot of overhead and save massive amounts of money. Migrating to the cloud tends to do the opposite.
> Only properly fitted N95 (or equivalent) masks provide significant protection.

This! This is the bulshit we got fed for almost 6 months. Paired with "people don't know how to properly fit N95 anyway", "you touch four face 20 times in an hour on average, you'd be touching your mask the same" etc.

All of it with that specific condecending tone of "you plebes are not as informed as we policy makers are, we know best".

This slowly turned around when heavy mask wearing countries were clearly doing leaps and bounds better, and they started backpedaling, explaining that there was not enough masks anyway. People also progressively stopped freaking out about having to cover their face (in France in particular it was a thorny subject due to past religious controversies) so they didn't need weird purist "if it's not perfect why bother ?" excuses anymore.
$1 per month no. But if we give everyone money for housing gas etc, similar way we gave everyone money for student loans, then yes.
A few years back at $DAY_JOB I was trying to optimize the cost for a serverless stack. To my surprise, small RAM lambda instances had extra latency of up to 100ms for DynamoDB queries!
Also, there's no such a thing as Indian language. Hindi language yeah but Indian no.
Tanis: Fossil of dinosaur killed in asteroid strike found, scientists claim
The reason X resources "failed" - though i do not think they really failed because they do what they are supposed to do - is actually very simple: aside from applications based on Xt and a few others using xlib,etc directly and decide to bother, pretty much no application uses them, often for the same reasons no application uses xlib or xt or even motif directly: partly fashion (IIRC back when they were fashionable and apps used them KDE1's themes would set up X resources for these applications to pick up the same colors as Qt and Gtk apps) and partly because they work only under X11 when many open source applications try to use cross platform solutions (and Qt and Gtk provide their own solutions for the same tasks that do pretty much the same thing but also work in Windows and Mac).

At the end of the day X resources are just key-value pairs and the file allows for wildcards, includes, etc so if anything they can be more flexible than the adhoc configuration files many programs use. But there isn't anything special about them, you might as well say that GetPrivateProfileString failed because people write their own INI parsers :-P
isnt that kind of implied by every service?

If you use something for free, dont be surprised if it isnt there tomorrow.
At the same scale? I guess if you move a whole data center, they'll quote very different prices from their public ones.
Maintainability is much easier on a well working cloud setup from people who have potentially less knowledge.

One company had 6 servers and used AWS snapshot for backup + managed MySQL.

Backup and recovery of that db is possible by more people in the team as if it would run as non managed service.
This reminds me of Frege's Begriffschrifft

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:One_page_from_Frege%...
Wow. I wonder what the readership numbers are on that.

I've always thought of Esperanto as the metric system of languages.

And whenever a thread comes up on HN with people railing against imperial measurement units, I wonder why they're not also speaking Esperanto.
It depends on what you believe about how prices are set. Many opponents of UBI claim that a UBI will cause inflation and reduce the value of money because the supply increased. Proponents reject this, pointing to MMT and the concept of fiat currency. The truth is probably in between - opportunists and highly sought-after items will raise prices to offset UBI gains, while most commodities should be relatively unaffected. There will definitely be more opportunity for tiered services so that rich types can avoid UBI peasants sharing their activities.
If it's like most things, it's a matter of prioritization. Trying to maximize positive impact with a limited set of resources forces you to prioritize.

Sure it would be great to get rid of unleaded aviation gas, but ensuring we don't get a repeat of the 737-MAX issue might take priority.
There are large warehouses regularly available all along I-95 in New Jersey. They also may not need as huge of a footprint as you think - I believe they have some large warehouses just across the border in PA as well (<2 hours away), so this one may only be critical for same day delivery. Yes, it would be expensive, more expensive than closing a Wal-Mart store, but I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon finds the alternative worse.
"Ordinarily, it would be a drastic step for a multinational company like Intel to exit a market the size of Russia."

Clearly we're at the stage where drastic steps are politic, but it's surprising and disappointing to realize they didn't do this weeks ago. Not only because of the current situation, which continues to unfold in increasingly dire and sad ways, but also because it seems that being in Russia isn't tenable in the near future either. It feels like many companies and society in general is "waking up" to a newfound clarity of who and what the Russian state's deepest held values are, and it's not pretty.

For companies that haven't left yet, or are just leaving now, what were they thinking?
Cost, the article says approx 50-85c more per gallon.
Giving real money escalates the fraud potential (as noted in the article - the frauds reduced when they switched away from BTC).
I think the governments did a great job at keeping the populace calm and ignorant of a virus with single digit death rates. Every hour spent researching the virus was better spent researching a good diet and fitness.
Seems about right. Their yearly revenue is $700 million, I don't know about iStock as it isn't public. Any other big ones?

My hypothesis is that it could be a partial replacement/competitor and devalue their offering - reasonable to assume you'd be paying $99/mo soon and it will gradually decrease as the tech spreads and more competitors emerge.

Adobe is also in this game (https://stock.adobe.com), they are not unfamiliar with AI. You can see how a lot of people will jump on this if it proves to be lucrative.

I don't claim to be an expert and I didn't say this is worthless.
This reminds me of a recent book by a blogger-psychiatrist who suggests "you don't really have desires", that is, he argues that we live in a pornographic society because we trade agency for knowledge, that we can only act on desire by pretending we have no choice. Or something. It's more convoluted than I'd agree with but there's something there.

Personally I think desire can be distilled down to basic things, and we just devise abstractions to satisfy them. If it's no longer clear how x or y would bring any satisfaction, then you won't long for it. Or some other desire is in conflict and you need to resolve it. I think we also become more risk-averse when times are generally good/stable, and excuses are a good defense mechanism.

Given the implied restlessness of your question, maybe you need to mull further on what it is you think is lacking. You mentioned career: maybe money isn't the deciding factor as to whether you should advance. You mentioned hobbies: sinking hundreds of hours by habitually sticking to them is what makes something a hobby, so do you like them or not? You mentioned starting a company: what is alluring about this? What does it satisfy?

Maybe it's easier to answer: do you feel stagnant and bored?
What are you using for compute EKS and Fargate? We just helped someone switch from Heroku to AWS and they dropped their cloud costs by 67%. This is using ECS + EC2. Fargate is typically 2x more expensive.
The word "polyglot" itself is not a common one. People speaking many languages is very common. The USA is the most diverse country in the world.
> Might not sit well with some people, but says so much in just a few words

It also makes it useless for someone curious about bringing this to a legislator's or senior administration official's attention.
The new "Z on demand" features they offer over the internet remind me a lot of how it easy it was to provision virtual S/360 (S/390 at the time) hardware and software with VM/CMS when I worked there in the 90's.

It's taken since then to get that on the PC.