skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an argument for using cloud for highly spiky traffic, or for not doing actual on prem primarily.

If you do in-colo hosting with leased servers you've already cut the big initial spend drastically (e.g. deploying to a new colo for a past employer involved buying a pair of switches and some cables), though you're still usually tied in to a lengthy contract. Doing managed servers usually comes with little to no upfront cost (sometimes a low setup fee) and often month-by-month contracts.

With respect to the on demand pricing benefit vs. monthly, my experience is that the price differential is so steep vs. the cheaper managed hosting providers that it's only usually viable for loads that run less than ~6 hours a day. Most sites do not have a variable enough load to justify the engineering cost to use cloud to handle their normal day/night cycle that way - usually the variations are too small. Some do.

But note that this only pays for itself if your base load is not on a cloud setup, as the base load tends to dominate and the base load cost of most cloud setups is high enough not to be outweighed by the increased flexibility vs. a pure managed/colo/on prem setup.

It gets worse for cloud: If looking for the most cost effective, they're not competing against a pure managed/colo/on prem setup, but against a hybrid setup which can auto-scale into the cloud but usually won't. If you e.g. deploy containers, all your need is to tie cloud instances automatically into an overlay network and feed data from your monitoring system into a tool that adjust min/max instances in for an autoscaling group in AWS when load exceeds a threshold, for example.

For a typical "pure" on prem setup you'd usually aim for the daily peaks to rarely exceed 50% of on prem capacity. Maybe a bit more if you have a very predictable business, or even less if your traffic is very unpredictable.

But if you add capability to that setup to spin up and tie in cloud instances to handle peaks, and you can push that into 90%+, or even above 100% - basically whichever number turns out most cost effective. Usually if you optimise that for cost, this means you'll end up with a setup which almost never spins up cloud instances, but which is now vastly cheaper relative to a pure cloud setup because it's gained the benefit of auto-scaling at a far higher load factor than would be safe in a pure on prem/managed setup.
You are confusing consciousness and intelligence.
I have yet to get a moderately-complex Django project working with django-stubs. It seems to break with basic idioms like custom QuerySets, and I immediately run into new bugs every time I try it. Usually I give up and use dialled-down mypy settings.
Nvidia offers sneak peek at Grace CPU Superchip, its 144-core monster
That said, I think the point made by others that your non-tangible assets (education, knowledge, personal network) should be included in your capital when considering your bet size is a valid one.

Losing your apartment isn't really an absorbing state if you can still take a salaried job, re-accumulate, and then continue to make further bets.
This is a crazy story. It is a tale of compassion and human perseverance against nature.

But parts of it really bother me. To equate risking everything for a chance at a decent life with the struggles of foundership is discarding the inherent worth of life. The two are not equivalent things. The former is about basic dignity and human rights and the chance to live a happy life and the latter is about trying to build something.

I don't discount the challenges founders face; on the contrary I have tried it and failed spectacularly; it is not easy and that it requires a set of skills that is hard to learn and harder still to master.

> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

- from the US Declaration of Independence

I believe strongly in that, and I will say further that I believe that all human beings are created equal, and have inherent rights. Many countries have similar mottos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life,_Liberty_and_the_pursuit_...

I believe it is a disservice to humanity to compare foundership and basic human rights and dignity.

> Luck On a day when it really counted, they had some of it. But it dawns on me that luck is just the product of all these other qualities.

Really struggling with this quote. It is in my opinion a serious mistake to believe that luck is not a factor. I have been extremely lucky; I was born in a democratic country and I had easy access to health care and education, and by god I had access to a computer at a young age. These accidents of birth are nothing more or less than luck, and they made a tremendous difference in my life and had a significant positive impact on my life. Even in my own city, people are suffering in poverty, have a lack of access to medical care, etc. These people simply don't have the good luck that I have had.

As other commenters like buro9 have mentioned,

> Those risking everything have no other choice.
Can't really complain if they offer Spotify Family which gives you 6 separate premium accounts, I think it's only double the cost of a normal Spotify account.
Thankyou for the reminder of that book. I've been a big fan of Finkel's for a long time, for exactly the reason you describe and his playful humour. I've been trying to find something on Audible to listen to and this sounds right up my street.
Building Our Public API Alpha
I guess everyone should just check the penalties for committing crimes before assuming that crime is real...
They did use low power chips. They had core M CPUs (later rebranded i5-i7 because OEMs). These were 4.5W TDP chips, even the best i7 in the 2017 model (i7-7Y75). The ONLY chips Intel had with lower power usage at the time were the significantly slower Atom and Atom derivatives.
Handing out free goods does not excuse malicius intent, like sabotage.
> iOS is macOS

Could you please expand on that? I heard they were quite distinct, e.g. sandboxing/security is done completely differently, with ios having a much more modern approach.

While pedantically it can be included in your modulo, but are they really that similar?
I was thinking the same. Hundreds of hours saved if only used bootstrapbuilder or similiar tool which has almost all the components ready
> I think the thing that makes me most sad about the internet is how susceptible it is to control and censorship.

> So now I guess we’re just supplicants on the internet we created.

Internet was created by DARPA (the military).

It is now used as a weapon to spread disinformation.
What's this "inedible" skin? What kind of chillies are these?

My sense is that these are being roasted to make chillis rellenos. But I thought chillis rellenos were usually made with pasilla chillies? I didn't think those were noted for having tough skin.

Also, IME roasting is one thing, skinning another. My process is: roast chillies; put in plastic bag in fridge; wait 10 mins; scrape off skin. Where's the solar fridge, and the team of chilli scrapers? Scraping one chilli is a job that takes about a minute. A 20lb drum of raosted chillies I'd guess is a day's work.
10% of all OK images may be falsely flagged, but what about specific categories of images?

What would the error rate be for an album of legal pornography?

What would the error rate be for an album of a family spending the day at a beach?
My preference is to not need to care about what I'm pasting into my notes app. As I use the app on mobile, desktop OS and store not only organized content there, but also random thoughts, incl. sensitive content. That's I prefer to have it E2EE and use standardnotes.com (no affiliation, I'm just a happy customer)
I'm a snowflake customer and I've felt/am feeling all of the pain that this article talks about. There might be some handwaving over technical complexity that you don't like given your detailed understanding of how the thing is built, but the article is fundamentally right in its message.

The thing it's most right about is the power imbalance and the innovators dilemma. I've had more than one instance of the case where we've found that query performance/cost is too high, complained about it, and Snowflake have "made a configuration change" (undisclosed) that has brought the cost down.
OTOH you can't send a message 4000 years in the future with your phone, while clay tablets pulled it off.
All cryptocurrencies are not compliant with KYC. You don't need to provide any documents to create a Bitcoin wallet (and that's great).
It sounds like the Fake Artists thing which is designed to make sure Spotify gets all the money and does not have to pay royalties.

They basically either have salaried/contracted musicians or pay a one time fee without royalties to make passable songs in every genre. Then they push their own songs in lists so people will listen to them more than "real" artists.

https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/features/fake-artists-have-...
Garfield Kart Hack Client
I made a Garf Kart hack client, have fun!
Ni-mh batteries cost far more than LiFePO4, are not a great deal safer and last a fraction of the charge cycles.

There's a reason anything bigger than a power drill switched years ago.
That's an interesting way to think about it. In some respects it could be viewed as a way to funnel to total YC investment into the "more-functional" startups in the network. Companies that provide more value (to other startups in the affinity network) end up with more of the net investment.
Growing alfalfa in Mars-like soil, filtering water with bacteria, Martian basalt
>Both Spotify and Apple Music algos have no idea about music mood vs time of the day vs activity.

You say that, but I attended a conference with Spotify- they are specifically working on that problem now.
Are you getting at potentially unknown long term effects of COVID infection?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_welding
> 10% of all OK images may be falsely flagged, but what about specific categories of images?

The article doesn't say what % of OK images are falsely flagged, only what percent of flagged images are OK.

Agree that subsets might have different stats, but there's 0 information in the featured article about any of that!
I found that if you turn off history recording in your settings (side effect, no video history), your recommendations eventually align with your interests (likes, etc.).
Interesting but doesn't work - always throws Internal Server Error.
Depends on type of solar heaters -- vacuum insulated ones used in colder climates are not that cheap
No, they're there on all the streaming services. YouTube reveals that it got there via DistroKid. I don't think it's spam, exactly - a spammer doesn't bother with choosing a theme in track titles as such. But it is possibly fairly low effort, as much DistroKid music is...
Drones, especially repurposed commercial drones are extremely fragile. Almost anything will work. It's the getting close to it that matters - with what? Another drone?
In itself it just is what it is, and in the abstract entirely to be expected. But it has implications for humans.

Trees replacing tundra causes more sunlight to be absorbed when the sun is at low angles in the sky (spring and fall). The trees themselves are darker than the sedges and herbs they replace, which further increases sunlight absorption throughout the light part of the year.

This increases air temperature and so increases the amount of water vapor that the air can hold, which increases the intensity of storms when they happen, possibly thousands of miles away.

Locally, the heating might destabilize permafrost more rapidly than previously modelled, as one further effect. The implications of that would also have bad effects on humans and their structures.

On the positive side, models of forest colonization processes might be improved.

As a general note, this pattern of climate and cryosphere scientists saying "that's not supposed to happen yet!" has been a constant theme of the last 20 years.
> Should Your Notes Be End-to-End Encrypted?

Yes. That's why I use Joplin (which is free and open source btw) and not some proprietary freemium app that to explains me that I don't necessary need E2E encryption for my notes.
According to the article that's one way. And if you do it that way you're basically dismantling the financial infrastructure that runs the economy.

Here in the UK I can already send basically instant payments anyway.
I don't see it

Are you behind VPN/Tor?
> You aren’t getting on-site service with a consumer product.

Both Dell and Lenovo do this.

My daughter bought an Alienware laptop for college and when the keyboard broke, they sent a technician to her dorm to fix it (and she goes to school outside of the US).

If on-site service isn’t an option, what about a Mac Pro? At least with Apple I can take the machine to a store if I need to.
Hello! I have some input and questions and feedback - I have a deep interest in this topic.

For background, I studied Japanese to a reasonable level of proficiency (read novels, worked in an all-Japanese company for many years, passed N1, etc).

I found the hardest plateau to overcome was the intermediate ("I know a bunch of words, grammar.I can read most things given time, and have a basic conversation in a 1:1 environment about topics I'm comfortable with") to proper fluent ("I'm comfortable in group conversations, able to work around words I don't understand, not have to ask people to slow down, etc").

The most challenging this was always knowing if I'm correct or not, how correct, and if not, why.

When you are beginner -> intermediate, the validation curve is basically if they understand you, or not. Once you get pretty decent, upper intermediate/lower advanced, people can generally figure out what you are trying to say or mean, even when it's weird/unnatural. Getting feedback beyond this point is really hard.

What you are suggesting just sounds like a faster way to get to upper intermediate - not really the last 10$-20%, which is the hardest (upper intermediate to advanced, to fluent).

For this last step, I think the problem that needs to be solved is feedback that includes not just what is un-natural, but how it can be more natural and ideally why (sometimes the reason is "it just is", which is fine -- in this case just show examples that are similar that illustrate the common pattern).

A super basic example that illustrates this might be as described here: https://oshiete.goo.ne.jp/qa/7848587.html

O パンが食べたい
<> パンを食べたい

Both are grammatically correct, but the former is natural, the latter is weird. There is no real way to get this feedback without someone telling you, though, since everyone understands you either way, no-one is going to stop and point out your weirdness.

Do you think your tool can solve this problem? Ideally, I want to be able to write something complex, and have it improved - kind of like bilingual Grammarly, I suppose, but more aimed at semantic/natural language.
> in Berlin or Frankfurt.

My half Moroccan friend was spit on by some middle eastern looking guy because he was drinking a beer in public, and that was in Berlin

Berlin isn't inclusive, it's based on communitarianism, every little (or not so little) community live in group and at the few points they interact with each other you get the same issues as you get everywhere else.

It looks good on the surface but when you live here you start to see it for what it really is.
Interesting. For me as a complete outsider (Italy here) California and the Bay Area specifically is seen as THE place for IT startups. Is that not the case? Or maybe was it just like that in the past but not anymore?
Important to note that this is not 10% of all messages being falsely flagged (= 10% false positive rate), but 10% of flagged messages being false positives (= 90% precision). As someone who works with these types of classification problems in a different context, 90% precision is actually quite good - especially assuming there is some sort of manual review process to take care of the 10%.

Whether that makes this whole plan a good idea or not is obviously a very different question, but I think it's important to be clear about what this number actually means.
Just skimmed the article but I've said for decades that I can recognize a German TV show or movie with any 5s clip because it just looks weird(to me), versus any Hollywood or British production. At some point I stumbled over an article that blamed the lighting technique, and I guess there are now actual German productions that do not like this, but still funny. (I guess I'm mostly talking about daily soaps, but also crime series, nearly everything produced in the 80s and 90s).
Liminal Creativity
How many guns fit in a TEU?

How much explosive fits in a TEU?

How many guns and how much explosive is already in your country?
How does Montero solve the problem of co-mingling dirty and clean money. As far as I understand there is still considerable illicit transactions within a block thus supporting indirectly bad actors (in e2ee I do not see that problem that clear)

Is there any cryptocurrency Blockchain (or research) that can limit the amount of currency held by each natural person (e.g. to an equivalent of roughly 10000 USD purchasing power) while providing anonymity for individual transactions to the outside? I would actually be willing to adopt such a trade-off roughly equivalent to cash (even paying transaction fees). At the moment I would not use crypto currencies because I do not feel that I share the values of the block chains.
Better government services
> There needs to be some top-level department with stop-work authority over everything to coordinate who's doing what maintenance when, equipment replacements and switchovers, and the overall plan for what's being produced when.

I find it very hard to believe that this can not be automated to the point of requiring much more than a dozen controllers (4 groups of 3 people, on a 12-on/36-off work schedule). And there is nothing stopping this "top-level" department to be a company in itself.

But anyway, let's say that I'm underestimating the amount of human brainpower that is needed to get this work done safely. Not to be a Luddite, but shouldn't we be asking ourselves if there really is any type of (isolated) economical activity that is so fundamental for us that can only be done with more than 150 people involved?

It's not like we can not refine oil with less than 150 people. It's just that we can not do it at the scale and efficiency that we are used to, right? Instead of having one "giant" refinery that requires thousands of people, perhaps the limitation would force us to have smaller plants spread out around the world, or to have the downstream industries actually doing the refinement themselves, etc.

So, how about instead of looking for maximizing the efficient usage of resources in order to keep the economy growing at an accelerated pace, we start to focus on a constant growth rate and better distribution?
Ammonia or methane would be a better choice. Hydrogen is a bit awkward for mobile applications, at least while metal hydrides are expensive and made of scarce materials.
i am just amazed how much jobs were created by introducing this sensor in cars.
This whole debacle reeks of stupidity. The only thing that will happen is that the criminals they are (allegedly) trying to catch will simply move their comms to different channels. What's stopping a sophisticated crime syndicate form simply creating their own app which will have a small enough footprint such that it will fly under the radar?

From the perspective of tech companies, they are being put between a rock and a hard place by simultaneously being asked for more privacy, and also less privacy.
I have such a strong reaction to news like this, it's hard for me to not think that it's appropriate for every member state to consider leaving the EU now. They've succeeded in shifting me to a very anti-EU stance in one proposed measure - brilliant! It wouldn't surprise me if the leaders of most states are quite keen on such surveillance though.
That's similar in Scandinavia though.
So then the only viable alternative to collapse (a la 1177BC), or the circling the drain that was 30s hyperinflation, is stagflation (which is somewhat similar to the 70s energy crisis).

So the question is can the UK handle it better than MT did in the early 80s. It took about 8 years last time, has monetary / fiscal understanding improved in any practical sense since then? Will the UK have another George Soros to inflict reality on the powers that be? Watch this space...
Have you found a good way to use org-mode on your phone?
I remember trying to find a suitable app for weeks, but without any success.

Even simple things, like following links into other files, were not possible.

Edit: Ah, I missed you mentioning Orgzly. Last time I used it, I had a lot of trouble with syncing due to its way of storing files in a notebook. Everytime I deleted a file on any other device, Orgzly would just recreate the file and sync it back to all other devices. And when I tried it, it didn't support links to org-IDs.
On-demand DevOps engineer network
Might be helpful for any DevOps folks laid off recently.
That's a fascinating way to advertise a political video by a youtuber whose whole shtick is "anti-west". By an account that is 1 hour old.
I know a few, and these people genuinely and completely unironically without a doubt in their mind consider that they're doing the right thing for the greater good of humanity.
If your algorithm feed is in a state that works for you then you need to be careful to always prune things from that history page that will pollute it or watching them in private tabs.

Learnt this because I got sick of seeing Linus Tech Tips stupid screaming clickbait-face thumbnails in my recommendations for weeks every time I watched any video about PC parts from other creators.

It does seem to work, also always use the “don’t recommend this creator” button if they appear on your front page. Unfortunately you can’t search for people and do this it has to be the front page.
> Heck, you can even choose to skip Demo Day entirely and take that initial $500K (yes, it’s $500,000 now), and just bootstrap it from there. I wouldn’t recommend it, but hey, it’s not against the rules.

Interesting, I didn't know YC allows this. Are there any well-known (atleast within technical circles) YC companies that have done this?
European drought unearths Nazi warships in Danube, historic ruins
But each improvement in communications tech (landlines, mobile phones, internet) have enabled new, faster, easier, better communication methods. Medieval criminals would have to physically meet to coordinate a coach robbery; nowadays a terrorist attack can be coordinated fully remotely and anonymously. There is no point in denying the facts - that encryption and the ease of use of the Internet enable criminals to coordinate more easily. Sweeping it under the rug won't change it, and it will be a part in the reasoning for limiting encryption. It should be fought with numbers and the gravity and the tradeoffs, not "people used to be able to communicate with pidgeons so there is no issue here".
https://www.vice.com/en/article/8xabb3/spotifys-fake-ambient... - from 2017, they have been up to it for a while
It isn't. It is equivalent to an automatized search of all peoples conversations all the time, just because it's automatized and done local on the phone doesn't make it not a search. Which means it's pretty much unconstitutional.

It's also probably not very useful as when it is people knowingly committing crime with YT access will know about it and will know how to work around it.

And outside of cases of people which know they are doing illegal things and therefore take precautions it's unlikely to make a relevant difference I think.