skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> each AZ is considered a separate datacenter but in real life each AZ is multiple datacenters that are really close to each other

For AWS specifically, I’m fairly certain they maintain a minimum distance and are much more strict on requirements to be on different grids etc than other Cloud providers. A few years ago they were calling out Azure and Google Cloud on exactly what you describe (having data centers essentially on the same street almost).
I'm not sure I agree with this:

"A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses."

Because gains/losses can be hard to quantify. Punishing people who violate rules of fairness is a useful strategy proven by game theory ("Tit for tat"), and there are indications it is a deeply ingrained human behaviour.

You might argue that even when it incurs losses to the punishers, its overall gains outweigh that, but those are future, hypothetical gains.

What about other cases where such future, hypothetical gains are less well-founded, but still expected by the "stupid person"? What about emotional gains?

It's not as easy to draw lines here as it may seem.
The main issue we have with S3 is the extortionary egress bandwidth fee. Storage pricing seems OK, but what's the point if I can't send those files to users?
I can't speak to your experience, the Korean and Japanese friends I've had have had a way, way better time than other Asian subgroups. The white people I know don't think of Asians like they think of white people. They break them down into subgroups. Chinese get some hate due to the whole political situation right now, but even that pales in comparison to what my Middle Eastern, Indian, and Pakistani friends go through.

I'm not trying to argue anecdotes here. Quite the opposite. I'm trying to express my frustration in these social studies that don't model the complexity in the underlying realities of race relations so we can do a better job at ending racism.
Was this developed in house or was a good portion of it outsourced?
AWS is notorious did underreporting and failing to report. They do not have asafe culture and its bad for your career if there is a major outage
The prices are in different units. S3 is $/GB-Mo, raw storage is in $/GB. So, when they are equal on the graph, you are paying each month to AWS what the cost of the raw disk is. Now, yes, you need a lot more than just raw disk to effectively store data, but even if you just assume a 5-year lifespan for that disk, the price difference displayed on the graph as equality is actually a 60x difference in plain $.

The price has also appeared to flat-line because they are using a linear graph scale for logarithmic data. It should use a log-scale for the y-axis.
> I've done a few quizzes on the app now, and I don't get it. The questions feel very contrived, like someone had a quota to fill so just put whatever looked plausible together.

The picture of quizzes on their blog post was odd too. The idea of washing ground beef to make a hamburger is very weird. Sounds like the result of an algorithm that decided that washing {ingredient} was always the first step in any recipe.
> short-term engagement != long-term desire

I agree that it's not, but long-term desires are not all that people have.

> many would argue

Maybe, maybe not, but I would disagree.

> that they're not freely choosing to succumb to addiction either.

"freely" is doing the heavy lifting in that sentence. And a discussion about that is philosophical. They're as free to make that decision as they are to make any other.
Since you are in govt, you surely know the DoJ lawyers and district attorneys approved every step of this.

So it’s not like a random FBI agent or even office decided to do this, it was assuredly brought high up into the DoJ and approved.

Let’s not forget that federal or local judges then approved the warrants.

So it’s more accurate to say the federal persecution machine did this, not just the FBI.
You should get into the database business. A lot of money to be made there if things are so trivial for you.
>You've defined capitalism circularly to your argument.

Not so much a circular definition as a practical one. Technically an investor could invest only to get dividends or rent, but in today's world, in both the stock market and real estate, growth and appreciation dominate. Maybe this is a cultural preference that could be changed, but I think it's deeper than that: the growth imperative emerges from the competitive nature of capitalism itself, so that the system is inevitably and unavoidably growth-seeking. I hope you're right, and that a more essential asset preservation + income system can be sustained. But without significant wealth regulation, I have my doubts.
How do you NOT pay more for running double of everything + load balancers?
I don't think there's a shortage of people who can architect reliable services. I think companies simply put reliability on the back burner because it rarely bites them. It's the same reason technical debt is so rarely paid off.
Yep

$ host news.ycombinator.com
news.ycombinator.com has address 50.112.136.166

$ host 50.112.136.166
166.136.112.50.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ec2-50-112-136-166.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com.
It does raise concern but also banks always monitor transactions looking for anomalies. So while this is physical inspection, it’s not far removed from what banks already do with electronic transactions.
Would you enforce that on “friends of the campaign” as well? E.g. Political Action Committees.
John Jackson is running for political office using only public money. However, Big Titanium Inc. creates the privately run and funded “Friends of John Jackson” organization that is entirely unaffiliated with John Jackson but nevertheless runs pro-John Jackson ads in TV.
I was listening to the Tim Ferris / Balaji Srinivasan podcast the other day and Balaji suspects the US government will use civil asset forfeiture to steal bitcoin as it becomes more valuable in the future.

Considering most people that own bitcoin use custodial services like Coinbase, and Coinbase uses safety deposit boxes to store their code wallets + keys, am I wrong in thinking the US government has the ability to identify all of the safety deposit boxes Coinbase uses and steal those keys?

good podcast, actual reference starts here:

https://youtu.be/FV5SqIm5e90?t=6239
> It fractures countries and allows for populist opportunists to fester.

Unlike those non-populist opportunists . . .
The definition is not precise at all, because "harm" and "benefit" cannot be precisely defined and can in fact be very subjective.
> Which politicians are interested in "what's good for the country" over "what's good for me"? And why is that why anyone is elected? I though we voted on issues, ideologies, directions-to-go-in and policy etc.

Well that's kind of a bad argument, because if "we voted on issues..." we're just declaring that this is one of the issues (etc.) that needs voted on and the resolution is to prohibit these transactions...

So the issue we elected politicians to fix was politicians trading stocks. The ideology is that politicians shouldn't trade stocks because they vote on bills that they have inside knowledge on. The direction to go in is not allowing politicians to hold individual stocks. The policy is they can't own individual stocks going forward. And this is a thing we voted on.

> They could do same thing with real estate or vehicles or guns or anything else.

So I won't rule out everything but in your examples of guns and gold that would also prohibit the politician from selling those things or having to give them up as well.

While I see where you are coming from with the rest of your post, you're taking the stance that everything is effectively the same so why are people singling out stock trading, whereas I think there are shades of gray. Frankly, (as you mentioned real estate) the only reason that isn't in the spotlight as much is because it doesn't happen at the federal level but at the state and local level. There are a ton of injustices that still occur. Like buying a property and then voting to change the zoning or something similar.
Agree. I've been a Stripe customer pretty much since they launched, I'm small potatoes but they have always been very responsive and with smart support staff.
> in other words, maybe its undermining our current system by actually being more technically democratic

That pure popular democracy per se doesn’t work was well known when our republic was founded. That knowledge, drawn from antiquity and refreshed over millennia, has been edited out of our culture’s diet over the past century. (In part because in fascism and totalitarianism we saw its opposite noxiously close.) A perusing of the Federalist Papers [0] is quick refreshment, however, and it’s shockingly topical to this day.

Unfettered democracy is a ship with untethered cargo. Once the crowd starts oscillating it self amplifies, careening into majoritarian tyranny (often punctuated by hyper partisan deadlock). This happens [1]. Every [2]. Single [3]. Time [4].

In small groups we intuitively know this, and thoughtlessly deploy troves of customs and manners reinforced from childhood and in part hard coded (e.g. our sense of fairness [5]). We make allowances for those whose interests are repeatedly, but reasonably, in the minority. And we tell jerks to shut the hell up, and if they don’t, stop inviting them. In large groups, none of that comes naturally. It needs to be codified. Particularly when customs and norms vary across people, regions and time.

Yet we somehow are led to believe that no, if we just did this or that with elections, the law of large numbers ensures rationality, and the madness that would ensue at a dinner party unconstrained by manners, norms, laws or empathy is somehow chased off by the garlic of popular consent. (In case it isn’t clear, I don’t believe in legitimate government without democratic elections. I love democracy. But more popular control isn’t boundlessly good. You don’t rest your case after showing X is more democratic than Y. If you love democracy, you should want it to thrive; for it to thrive, we must tend to it.)

[0] https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/full-text

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-athenian-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Titia

[3] https://www.juridicainternational.eu/index.php?id=15331

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street

[5] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/baby-justice/
I dunno how else to put it. Having EVERYTHING on AWS is a national security threat.

This isn't good, and someone who can do something about it needs to.
It seems like an issue that a lot of this vigorous political activism is directed at disenfranchising other groups, rather than advocating for particular stances within the democratic system.
> Can you hear that noise? That's the noise of a million Italians crying.

I'm not Italian, so I don't care as much...

Also, as the original comment mentioned, this is supposed to have different degrees of how easy/flexible/practical it is
I genuinely don't remember what the ballpark number was, it was years ago when I did this. But I think the db was a tad larger than the raw files on disk because of the additional meta data I stored in the database for organization, but this is just a guess.
As some others have alluded to, it seems common AWS services (the ones you rely on to manage multi-AZ traffic like ALBs and Route53) spike in error rate and nose dive in response time so it becomes difficult to fail things over. On top of that, services like RDS that run active hot standby then rely on those to fail over so it's difficult to get the DB to actually fail over.

I suspect, behind the scenes, AWS fails to absorb the massive influx in requests and network traffic as AZs shift around.

I would think regions with more AZs (like us-east-1) would handle an AZ failure better since there's more AZs to spread the load across

What's more surprising, imo, is the large apps like New Relic and Zoom that you'd expect to be resilient (multi region/cloud) taking a hit
Of course it's more costly, you need to ensure state between locations so by virtue there's more infra to pay for.

It's not just a single instance too, there's generally a lot more infrastructure (db servers, app servers, logging and monitoring backends, message queues, auth servers... etc)
Very nice! I hope to soon get to the point where I need this. I'm bookmarking this.
With tax, in-person, how much would what you bought have cost?

How much did it literally cost to have it delivered? (Assuming it was not $20 on the dot)

How much extra beyond what you would have paid in person do you belief it should cost and why?
That's not the question that was asked
I increasingly think something like this is the way. You can only get money out of politics by putting money into politics. We have to align incentives correctly, and money is the way to do it. Nobody would every run a business where they pay their leaders $170k but allow those same leaders to make millions from outside stakeholders by leveraging their job role in ways that don't align with the company's goals. That's what politics currently looks like; the incentives are quite literally as backwards as is possible.

We're a capitalist society. That doesn't mean "let companies do whatever they want, including buying politicians", it means "we use capital as a means of setting incentives to drive good outcomes". Let's use our capital incentives correctly to drive good outcomes from our elected leaders. They work for us.
So what? I once hosted in a place that turned out to be a hotbed for spammers. But Spamhaus actually did the legwork required that there was an exception for our servers.
Well if people believing there was a violent coup attempt gets them to the polls, then so be it!
Frozen veg is often pre-chopped. However I admit that I put that in to make up the rhetorical triad.
The issue with this and any proposal is that the people making the decision have no incentive to make it. Politicians limiting their own fundraising, establishing term limits, eliminating gerrymandering, etc. - it goes against their interests.

It's up to us to vote in people who would do this, but as pointed out, it's become difficult to do so in one election for one candidate, let alone the hundreds over the span of several years necessary to get people in place to actually make something positive happen.
Does it help with organizing meal planning and generate shopping lists? Those would be killer features. Bonus is automatic online ordering of ingredients.

Something that generates weekly meal plans taking into consideration food preferences, nutrition, time, availability of ingredients, etc and then tells me what to buy or orders it for me.
They aren't "keeping the money," it is in escrow until the dispute period ends.
Maybe not the entire region. Amazon was reportedly building a data center complex next to the natural gas Hermiston Generating Plant some distance from the river.
The credit card number lol.

That's a different issue. First issue is much more primary.
>Does it go back into circulation at that point?

Yeah presumably except any bills that may be too damaged/dirty/contaminated, which is the same for any cash, in which case it gets destroyed.
What is 'fake news' cannot be objectively determined - would just be a new cudgel for elites to use on the weak for their own power.
No you can safely keep much larger amounts of money in an FDIC insured bank. Real regulated banks have the strongest protections against theft, fraud, and insolvency that you'll find anywhere. The issue is where to store small, valuable physical items? Some bank branches no longer even offer safe deposit boxes, and for those that do the legal protections are much more limited than a checking or savings account. Some people can install a good safe in their home, but that's not practical for renters and there's still a serious risk of loss due to theft / fire / natural disaster.
Those blog posts are a good start. I was referencing the full pricing page for s3 that breaks down by region and class. AFAIK there are some third parties that track the granular data, but it's not preserved anywhere on the AWS page. A lot of price decreases also might have happened silently (without a blog post) or as de facto decreases (widely but privately negotiated, e.g. "sticker price").
> someone who causes harm to other people without any benefit or causing harm to themselves.
Everyone is guilty of doing this from time to time. Collectively we are doing plenty of harm to the environment and we lack the will or the wherewithal to stop. It is a pretty universal behavioral pattern.
Yes, but this would also apply to the electorate. Voters would have no record around what a politician actually voted for either. Which would seem to be hugely problematic for a system of representative democracy.
You can fit 3 generations in a single family home in an American suburb of a mid-sized city, and half the world's population would either (a) consider that a QoL improvement or at least (b) put up with it for a while to remit back home.

For all the doom and gloom in the USA, it's still an incredibly rich country.

To be clear: I'm not making a moral statement here. This is a statement of fact, not a statement of ethical preference.
Celsius suffers data breach from vendor
Good thing no one is rewriting definitions. “Recession” has no agreed upon definition, the federal government relies on the NBER to officially tell us if we’re in a recession. They haven’t said so yet.
Not all commodities are equally recoverable at similar costs though, and in a world where we need more oil/copper/iron than can come out of the cheapest mine, there will be profit
I don't know anything about sailing but doesn't tacking depend on some sort of keel?
Godot has excellent cross platform support, just not for consoles that requires NDA's and stuff to develop for. This can't be helped on the Godot side but is the fault of the console manufactures who make the rules.

Also paying a third party to port a game to a different platform is not really that uncommon, even in the Unity world. I remember the Dev of The First Tree did exactly this.

It is not like you can just put your game in the PlayStation-store even if you use Unity or Unreal. There is a process to it and your game has to fulfill certain standards.

A good strategy is to first publish for PC and see if the game gains any traction. If it does, well the console port will pay for itself. If not, you saved yourself lot's of work.

See also: https://godotengine.org/article/godot-consoles-all-you-need-...
You're misunderstanding.

Criticizing a government is not criticizing a race.

You criticizing a government because of its policies, oppressiveness, and so on. None of that has anything to do with race. The Chinese have every ability to have a good government as any other race, because race has nothing to do with it.

They just happen to have a bad government, compared to a number of other better governments (of all races). Heck, look at Taiwan. Chinese people, much better government.
Couchbase-lite seems to do what you're asking. It's backed onto sqlite. It's more sync based than crdt based afaict.
I'm a guy, and I also like colors. But I tend to like low-lightness, high-saturation colors. Just because it's dark doesn't mean it's not colorful! I'm currently wearing a black & dark-blue Hawaiian-print shirt!
I’m not in govt. but, based on past experiences, imo you’re misattributing structured intent to general bureaucratic haze. The “assuredly” part gives that away for me.

The organizational prowess and intent that people assume is present there rarely is. It’s present when you get to certain teams and levels.

More often than not It’s civil servant teams trying their best to replicate organizational processes taught in an MBA program.
I think the under represented view point of the the MBA is you're only as good as your peers and the school's connections. Top Tier MBA programs, provide inside tracks to companies in a way I have never seen. Ex. When I was interviewing at McKinsey, I had to do a number of additional interviews because I only had an undergrad. Meanwhile a friend from Northwestern's Kellogg was offered a position after ONE interview.

The math I've done when considering an MBA is a top tier program is expensive, competitive and I can't work during that time. The value besides connections is a the potential pivot into a field that I otherwise wouldn't have as accelerated of a path into. As many have said, if you're interested in business as a basic level, try starting a business you will learn. If you want to go be an executive at a mid to large scale company, consider and MBA from a top tier school.
That definitely wasn't the case.
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This is awesome! If I can learn eBPF with Rust it'll be a good reason to use Rust at work down the line :)

Anyone know of any tutorials using Rust and eBPF in a Docker container?
might as well appoint Kendall Jenner as lead PM
I would pay $1000 to take one test so that I don't have to do another one for at least a decade. There's some real money to be made in selling the idea of accreditation to employers.
I'm moving to us-weast-1
In related news, the Airbus Zephyr just set a new record for endurance flight and is still aloft:

https://www.space.com/airbus-zephyr-drone-long-endurance-fli...

An experimental aircraft tested in conjunction with the United States Army has been in the air above the Sonoran Desert for 42 days, breaking its own record for longest uncrewed flight.

The solar-powered, high-altitude Airbus Zephyr S took off from the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground on June 15, 2022 and has since been flying patterns over the Yuma Test Range and Kofa National Wildlife Refuge.

The flight has now broken Zephyr's previous record of 25 days, 23 hours that it set in August 2018. The latest flight has seen Zephyr reach a number of additional milestones including its first flight over water, first flight into international airspace, the longest continuous flight while being controlled through satellite communications, and the farthest flight from its launch point, according to a U.S. Army statement (opens in new tab).
Ouch. That’s outrageous.
If you are a founder of a business and own a significant percentage of shares, I think it’s pretty reasonable and morally acceptable to sell some percentage for liquidity before everyone else gets the same choice.

The investors will be sure to keep you tied in, and that money can massively derisk the project for you. I encourage every founder I speak to do this.

Non founding executives with short tenure doing the same is a little shadier, but everything is a negotiation and nobody was forced into the transaction. A rank and file employee can push for whatever they like - more money, stock or even liquidity if they have enough perceived importance.

Look at it from the other side. Say an exec joins a series C business and plays a big role in growing the company to 3x revenue in 2 years. At the next raise they ask to cash out some equity to buy their beachfront house. Seems a fair enough ask, and with that track record it would probably be worth investors writing the cheque.
The footage isn't that useful. Instead, I use it for real time intevention ("Hey! Get away from my car!") or just awareness that something is going on.
The Constitution provides open ended and vague language allowing both chambers to set their own rules for conducting business, so yeah, both could.