skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I left Aurora serverless (v1, v2 pricing was insane) for PS and I've been extremely happy. It was way cheaper and less of a headache than RDS and my actual usage was way less than I anticipated (since it's hard to think in terms of row reads/writes when working at a high level). With PS I get a dev/qa/staging/prod DB for $30/mo vs spinning up multiple RDS instances. Even with Aurora Serverless (v1) where you can spin down to 0 it was cheaper to go with PS. 1 DB unit on Aurora Serverless (v1) cost like $45/mo (for my 1 prod instance) so for $15 less I got all my other environments without having to wait for them to spin up after they went to sleep.

My usage is way under some of my sibling comments but it's a been a joy to use and $360/yr to not have to worry about scaling my DB, backups, schema migrations, and now caching is a steal for me. Could I run my DB on a $5/mo DO box (or similar)? Probably, though I'd probably want at least the $10/$15 size box for when my software gets a little more load. Even if I knew for sure I could run on the $5 box I'd still rather pay $30/mo to never worry about my DB and the schema migration tool is awesome.
There is no strong incentive for companies to make products that last longer than a certain period of time, so they put no effort into it. I think that's really what people are calling "planned obsolescence." I think "unplanned obsolescence" would be a more accurate term. I really doubt any companies have teams of engineers tasked specifically with reducing product longevity.
There are paid administrators and developers, but also unpaid ones too.

Yes, there are volunteer sysadmins, some with the exact same authorizations as WMF employees. With modern infrastructure as code, they can even contribute to how the site is deployed.

Some projects have good crossover between paid and volunteer Wikipedians. But the WMF tends to do the heavier lifts, even if sometimes they are ideas the community isn’t interested in.
A noble goal. One of my bad habits I've been tracking and trying to reduce is rude behavior to people, online or in-person.
But it's not just people randomly doing these things. These people are targeted by official CCP programs which intend to do exactly what they're doing. The targets are often useful idiots, but that doesn't make it not espionage.
I only meant that the devices, if properly maintained, can be trusted to do their job as best they can and not say "PC LOAD LETTER" and expect you to troubleshoot it. A successful rescue is never guaranteed.

Those of us who are programmers usually default to "If it's not tested end to end, it won't work," and that is the sentiment I was responding to.
1 whole watt is a lot by modern, digital standards, but satellite does not have a directional antenna with gain to receive your signal.
It looks like Garmin InReach transmits at 1.6Watts. I wonder what the radio is inside the new iPhones.
My simple solution I’m a 99 year old male. Good luck advertising to me.
Aha, I see. Thanks for explaining!

So I'm guessing PlanetScale now helps maintain Vitess and PlanetScale is somewhat of a hosted Vitess for people who don't want to self-host?
In my mind the connection is that both are fundamentally reducing demand for programmers. Automation could make programming as we know it obsolete, replacing it with something involving an entirely different skill set.
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Divers accidentally find a piece of the Challenger space shuttle
This comment doesn't quite make sense. A hydrogen cell is still just a battery with a different name and those vehicles would still be EVs, no?
Agreed, as the CoveredCA website points out: "Platinum and Gold plans have a $0 deductible."

The whole point of the Platinum and Gold plans is that you pay more upfront each month in exchange for lower out-of-pocket expenses when you actually utilize your insurance.
Lol I’ve straight up had professionals fire me as a patient because they didn’t feel qualified to treat me and didn’t know how to treat me.
There are tools that are better for specific use cases, but Excel just can do the vast majority of use cases 95% good enough, so it's not worth changing tools.

On top of that, it's so common that everybody just knows how to use it. Don't need to train people on some super niche excel alternative when you can just use Excel. That benefit is probably understated.
> Most commentators are taking what I consider to be a very narrow view of what it means to "run Wikipedia."

The people who're most up in arms about it tend to focus on just the hosting costs, without considering the cost of paying even a skeleton devops crew, let alone paying for ongoing development (of which the WMF funds at least a pretty solid majority).

Reasonable people can disagree about whether the WMF is spending its money correctly, of course, or whether it's overspending on otherwise-necessary categories. I dislike the implicit argument that we shouldn't pay people to work on open source projects, though.
Would the sound of jostling in your pocket/bag not set off the recording?
>the hyping of hydrogen is a desperate astroturfing campaign by oil/gas/nuclear to stave off EVs and wind/solar/battery which is eating their lunch in raw economics

Meanwhile, in reality, gas (not sure why you lumped in nuclear but others have already called you out on it) are providing the lion's share of reliable power generation and will continue to do so for decades. Even after 2050, you'll still need gas-fired generation to provide a backup to intermitten generation from wind/solar, which WILL need it, a lesson that California has yet to learn.

As for oil, it's an incredibly dense form of energy which can be stored in a tin can. Even with battery storage wind/solar will never have that ability.

Tired of HN's need to put ideology over real economics.
In times past, it was obvious that it wasn't an option to avoid pervasive violence (by orders of magnitude compared to today).

It was, though.
NASA Confirms Discovery of Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster Ruins in Ocean
I'm going to call bullshit on someone paying $2400/month and then having to pay $10,000 for a hospital. Such a plan does not exist in California.

Just did a search on CoveredCA. Monthly premium for Platinum Plans for a family of 4: $1200-1800 for a zero-deductibleplan (range includes Blue Shield, Kaiser, Anthem, Health Net, and OSCAR).

Because, as the CoveredCA website points out: "Platinum and Gold plans have a $0 deductible."

The whole point of the Platinum and Gold plans is that you pay more upfront each month in exchange for lower out-of-pocket expenses when you actually utilize your insurance.
Space Shuttle Challenger remnants discovered underwater by documentary crew
Dog-coin nonsense has a 24hr trading volume of $669M. There's actually quite a bit of liquidity in crypto since it lends itself to HFT.

BTC for instance has a 24hr TV of $37B, making it one of the most exchanged assets in the world.
You bill as long as you are even minimally plugged in. If you can’t crack a beer or head off to the gym, you are on the clock.
The positions of the satellites are well known and documented. Fun fact..on the Garmin fenix watches, it is recommended that you synch your watch with your Garmin Connect app every few days (week) so that you download the latest satellites position file, which significantly improves the GPS lock time with the satellites before you begin an activity.

As others have stated, I don't think Apple's product will really erode Garmin's market share for several years. The lack of detailed topo maps and applications will severely hamper them.

With Apple latest shift, I see their ecosystem as a very strong contender for business travel (international news reporter?) that requires strong security (lockdown mode), ability to communicate in many form factors through adverse conditions (voice, data and now satellite), and has a slew of safety features (crash detection).

Garmin has decades of experience regarding outdoor travel and safety that Apple would always be playing catchup...IMO.
Are you in the public sector is this a common issue in your industry? I ask because gifts and emoluments are common in my industry (manufacturing) with contracted clients in the private sector.
I'm curious for HN's ideas on doing this with WFH, for fine-grain billable time, since I wasn't entirely happy with how I did it, as an independent consultant.

On-site billing was much easier and more lucrative than WFH -- just bill any time on-site, except for lunch breaks.

When WFH, I was very serious about billing focused work only. Work included lots of heavy coding, heavy architecture, advising, and the occasional quick technical question. I logged time in 15-minute increments (at least not 6-minute), and only when I was in front of the workstation and actively ready to start working (but if I got up to pace while thinking about the work, and then went back to type, all that was billable). At one point, I even had client-dedicated laptops and email accounts, for focus and for data handling.

I'd also (unless sometimes in a rare marathon or very urgent situation) be all awake and alert, showered, dressed in biz casual Dockers, etc., before I started the clock.

One time, an exec at a client said something like "if you go for a walk to think about an algorithm, you should bill it", but that seemed too fuzzy or slippery-slope for me.

With my favorite client, I got WFH flexibility (before that was commonplace), further developed skills all over the stack and lifecycle, and made key contributions to very important projects/programs that I'm proud to have been a part of.

However, TC was a small fraction of what it would've been performing similarly at Google. So today I still have to hustle, long after doing similar work at a dotcom would've let me "retire" (i.e., do angel investment, while self-funding my own work in whatever catches my interest, or fundraise for a startup when I don't personally need the money). Being a little less stringent with the WFH clock would've helped, though I don't know where to draw the line.

(When non-consulting employed and WFH, I just make sure I put in a solid day. It's often, say, 8 "billable" hours spread across 12 clock hours, not counting meals, errands, chores, exercise, HN breaks, etc.)
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I’m not a native speaker, but for me it sounds valid to call the company that produces the majority of Apple chips: Apple’s chipmaker.

It doesn’t exclude that they produce for other companies, but it concludes that Apple gets most of it’s chips from them. Right?
I don't know why, but this is giving me vibes similar to The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch.
I only do time-based rates for vague work products, like consulting. Usually it's a quarter-day/half-day/day/week/chunk rate depending on the arrangement, and I try to limit my exposure to time-based rates, especially hourly, because they often give clients permission to eat up all my time whether or not I want them to.

For more concrete work products (with deliverables), I do fixed rate billing.
So still firmly in luxury car territory.

Just can't imagine spending as much on a car as many people spend on a house.
Why in the world do they then collect all that data on us in general if ads still use age and gender for the highest value signals?

Those are terrible signals and really should be replaced with something better.
At the start Netflix was about getting rid of ads ridden cable TV so you now you can get competing Disney+ which is now just a cable TV with targeted ads based on your personal data. It is evolving, only backwards.
>At some point iPhone and Apple Watch will probably be marketed as the devices you need if you don't wish to die early.

Or you'll have to turn over your data to get the reasonable health insurance rates and not fall in the risky rate bucket.
True, but kinda irrelevant to the point; that the ACA isn't responsible for OP's situation. The ACA sets minimum levels of coverage, and maximum levels of deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses. No plan was required to reduce healthcare coverage offered, or to raise their OOP max amounts due to it.
BlockFi Prepares for Bankruptcy as Crypto Contagion Spreads
Brill. It's only taken an hour to get the first solid piece of info. Now, where's the "unscientific, unencyclopedic woo-woo" and hyperspace?
Also, an external GPS communicator has the benefit of having an extraordinarily long life. You can leave breadcrumbs for days, send a few text messages, and always have juice for an SOS if you are deep into the backcountry.

The Apple SOS is likely going to be used by day hikers and dog walkers who aren't anticipating any real challenges.
This just redirects to Google
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> Toyota has a good one: it gives me a beep and turns the screen red, but I have to start braking by myself, at which point it takes over and adjusts braking force so as to not hit whatever is in front of me.

This way takes away the biggest advantage of this systems - that they can react before you do.
I completely agree. I'd love to see long trips: ride a train added here as well.

> I think it'd be a pick-up to haul things.

Small trucks or transit vans are great for this, but similarly you can just rent a truck or have delivery. Probably would be cheaper than buying a vehicle. Depends on the use case.
Just a tangential story.

A few years ago I became convinced that there would be a collapse in the crypto space triggered by the insolvency of Tether. I was looking into ways to build a short position.

I could only find three means that were legally available to me in the US (at the time at least); trading CME Bitcoin futures, shorting relevant equities (eg publicly traded Bitcoin miners), and trading options on LedgerX (which was purchased by FTX).

I couldn't trade futures or short stocks, because I couldn't handle infinite downside risk. So that only left put options at LedgerX. LedgerX was supposed to be fully collateralized, and so should have had all my funds on hand even in the event of a contagion in the crypto market.

But I could never shake the feeling in my gut that they'd get wiped out with everyone else. I let the idea go. Entire years passed and now the market is falling apart. Part of me wishes I'd been short somehow of course, but I know I couldn't have remained solvent this long.
Anecdote here: 2015 Chevrolet SS was slightly aggressive, but overall I'd say tuned extremely well and saved me once when someone drove through a stop sign without looking onto my freeway offramp and then stopped dead. I was already on the brakes but it went into full panic stop a touch faster than I would have and that made the difference. A few times I noticed it preapplying the brakes when someone cut me off, but it never kicked them in during those situations.

Side note, that car has astoundingly good brakes.
If he was in any way trying to save his stake in Twitter and Tesla, he wouldn't be acting out the way he is. Dude's completely divorced from reality at this point.

My wife's tinfoil-hat theory is that, after reading about the amphetamine problem at FTX, that many of the Effective Altruism cultists (Elon included) are hooked on speed and making some really horrible decisions.
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He is probably preparing for prison time.
All jokes aside, he used to game a lot, I think it was always to distract himself from stress. Business going bad and only you know it >> excessive gaming. Engaging in fraud and being nervous about it >> more gaming. Looking at a lot of prison time and death threats(there have been many on reddit) >> more gaming.

It is a coping mechanism.
hmm not really familiar with callsigns to be honest. i do have a list of streams:

- RUA - Rádio Universitária do Algarve: https://centova.radio.com.pt/proxy/536?mp=/stream (https://rua.pt/)

- Universidade FM (Vila Real): https://centova.radio.com.pt/proxy/405?mp=/stream (https://www.universidade.fm/)

- UAL - Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa: https://spaudio.servers.pt/8006/stream (https://ualmedia.pt/radio-autonoma/)

- FEUP - Engenharia Rádio: http://193.136.38.145:8080/live?type=.mp3 (www.engenhariaradio.pt)

- RUM - Rádio Universitária do Minho: https://centova.radio.com.pt/proxy/558?mp=/stream (https://www.rum.pt/)

- RUC - Rádio Universidade de Coimbra: https://stream.ruc.pt/high (https://www.ruc.pt/)
> No you aren't. No one cares if you think.

If you are a manager, an architect or a scientist, all you do is think. You literally don't do anything else.

The only reason diagrams, meetings, documents and research papers exist is to communicate your thinking to others
World population reaches 8 billion
Yes and no - The underlying issue that prompted me to bring up the lack of adequate mathematical tools to discuss sociological notions is the following:

Mathematical truth and logic is often used as a gold standard for universal truth. And it is then often used as a straw argument to simply push away complex and uncomfortable questions. (A hyperbole of such a misguided line of reasoning would be "Software is just maths/logic and therefore pure and we so don't need to think about sexism and other social issues in sofware engineering.". A more nuanced version would be parts of the article we are discussing.)

But the "default tech" when thinking about mathematical truth (for example predicate logic) is in itself biased towards universally definable truths: A given predicate is universally defined a-priori.

There's no tools for things such as conflicting definitions and speakers positions in predicate logic: In reality, different actors in a discussion might not agree on what even they are talking about.

Take as an example the often discussed statement "White people can not experience racism". If you try to naively approach this with the toolset of universally definable notions you quickly realize that it can not be true (assuming a definition of racism that is not in itself skewed).

But there is a lot of things going on here: Who are these white people? Is the statement "This person is white" even based on a well defined predicate (Hint: It's not)? Etc etc.

And so: If the only logic in your toolset is predicate logic, it's hard to grasp sociological issues.
It is one of the gender-neutral terms.
Enable the Most Recently Used ordering. That way you won't have to press Ctrl+Tab more than once or twice, because most of the time you don't need to tabs at the back of the stack. Imagine if the Alt+Tab switcher worked like most browsers—it would be pretty useless.

This is not an option in Chrome, for some unexplicable reason (Chrome has marked it as wontfix)., and it's the main reason I use Firefox. It's possible to hack around it with extensions and opening the Chrome extensions settings XML file and manually setting the Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab shortcuts, but it's fragile and annoying to set up, and has some odd behaviours in certain circumstances.
Here is a graph of BTC [1]. The price on November 16th 2017 (5 years ago) was $7,294. Today it's $17,027 (as of the time of this post). The absolute peak you're trying to reference lasted exactly 1 day: December 18th. By December 18th of the next year it was down to $3,500.

[1] - https://www.coindesk.com/price/bitcoin/
Does anyone know why they are rewriting the whole thing? The github page doesn't mention the reasoning behind the decision
Tell that to the people who lose their money.
This is a pretty common strategy used by China, and I think they leverage the fact that it is so "above board" and transparent in some ways to their advantage... it's easier to recruit scientists and engineers into espionage by doing so in an apparently legitimate way with the sponsorship of an academic institution. I'm not sure if it's directly applicable to this case but the whole thing in general is known as the Thousand Talents Plan and is well-publicized in China... but conflicts with intellectual property and espionage policy in many other countries and was a perennial source of embarrassment for US universities (when their faculty were found to be on the Chinese payroll and publishing their work there) five years ago or so. People are thought to often be recruited into the program while attending academic events in China, which also gives it a degree of normalcy... it's presented as academic collaboration, not espionage.

My point is that "doesn't sound much like state sponsored espionage" is probably exactly why Thousand Talents found so much success for a while. It has a veneer of legitimacy and stays pretty far away from anything that has the "cloak and dagger" appearance people associate with espionage.
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... and the courts struck it down as unconstitutional:

> In August 2010, Chief Judge Vaughn Walker ruled that the amendment was unconstitutional under both the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment,[6] since it purported to re-remove rights from a disfavored class only, with no rational basis.
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> I strongly disagree with Galbraith's argument essentially about "the end of quality". We did not reach a zenith of product quality in the 50s.

As someone who actively seeks tools, furniture and other consumer products from that period, I tend to disagree.

Let's take furniture. Mine was made during this period by Stickley in New York state. One cannot find commensurate quality today unless you wish to commission handmade pieces.

We have devolved to the point of disposable $5 extruded-plastic chairs, which may provide service for a time, knowing full well that the inevitable trip to the landfill is just around the corner. I reckon we're a ways past said zenith.
Doesn't the globalstar network have pretty poor polar coverage, not sure what the actual latitude is though.
And cows, so they could greatly increase their numbers and outcompete other herbivores.
What to do with 18 shipping containers of rotting cabbages
You're paying for more that just the task, you are paying for the availability. I'd rather not block off a whole hour for a "quick" fix, but if you don't the company will come to you more often with quick fixes and those start to really eat up your day.
I mean it's not all Excel, sometimes it's badly updated Smartsheets, badly updated Appian dashboards etc. Even Trello ends up as a dumpster fire. Only place I've seen it work is orgs with Google Sheets and Docs
I imagine most viewers only watch .001% of everything they have access to; the rest of it would be properly irrelevant.
Genuine question, Is the software not reliable? How often do you get paged?

We have 33-50% on call and noone complains because not a lot is happening.
Yup! Vitess is at the core of PlanetScale and enables us to add lots of cool stuff on top (branching, Boost, etc) but Vitess itself is still open source!
Who watches the watchmen? The watched.
Starting with iOS 16(?), an iPhone going back to at least the iPhone 13 will display SOS if there's no signal from your wireless carrier but the phone "thinks" it can make an emergency call on an alternate carrier. But, presumably, that signal may be weak and may not work. Perhaps that's what happened here.
First I'm hearing of this, got any sources? Or are you referring to the GME flap last year?

Funnily enough, I was approached by Citadel for an engineering role in their crypto team about a week before FTX blew up
Blind assumptions count for nothing. If you actually read the tweet thread Eric (the former employee) gives a summary of the trade offs made that have given Twitter bad performance and suggested removing specific features to improve perf.