skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've been having this problem in Singapore for a couple of years now. Can't add any VMs to our k8s cluster and can't provision a number of services which made our multi-region BCP more complicated.
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City birds are changing their tune
We would have done Ukraine a huge favor if we hadn’t involved ourselves in their internal politics at all. No funding of NGOs, no attempts to integrate them in EU or NATO. It is too late now, but the way that this had become a literal cottage industry of Ukraine think tanks even before this year, all the way back to the “Orange revolution”, did never correspond to the enthusiasm the average European have for Ukraine.
X has entered the chat is a funny meme and all, but most of us have no idea what it is referring to. If there's something interesting behind the meme, it would be nicer to elaborate on it.
Why work with a human in the Azure sales department and plan cloud resources a year ahead? What’s the point of the cloud at this point? Then it just becomes a 100x more expensive version of hiring an infrastructure person and plan with them your own physical resources a year ahead.
French cloud operator OVHcloud gets datacenter funds from EU lending arm
I remember, in the early days of the pandemic, that Azure Australia ran out of compute too. It happens at the regional level.

Are you stuck only to the German region, and can't go to other European regions?
What's the actual "idea" here?

I mean, the answer is obviously yes, depending on what you consider integrators.
INR 750/-

Who knows, they might ship to your location?

The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition your journey to mastery (Indian B&W Edition)

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They announced they wanted to go public, and now are trying to do everything they can to juice engagement.
Wait, so this whole mystical inverting is just swapping left and right children of all nodes?
> we can write a program that only halts if counter example is found, and we would be unable to prove if the program halts.

Yes, but again, you're missing my point: you would be able to prove if the program halts.

It's just that in this particular case it would not necessarily be useful, because it just might happen that to solve the mathematical problem it would require more memory than you have available.

So if the halting detector says: "the program halted due to running out of memory", the results would be inconclusive for answering a difficult mathematical problem.

But that's not what most programs do, in fact, the vast majority of programs would benefit immensely from knowing whether they will exceed some finite memory limit.

> We can also write program that will halt if it can prove ZF set theory is false, but we already know it’s impossible to prove that (it only possible to prove it is false).

The same point above applies.

> So symbolically deciding if a program halts is also impossible in the general case.

No, it's not. You completely missed my point. It is 100% decidable. It's only undecidable if you're imagining running this program on an imaginary machine which cannot physically be constructed.
An alternate processor while stripe figures out the mess - revenue keeps coming in.

Gumroad has their own failures, but if ANY issue with payment processing is intolerable, don’t bother running a business.
Monte Carlo Forest Search: Unsat Solver Synthesis via Reinforcement Learning
Yep, buy 15 kilos of nails and go to your local highway bridge, you'll have much easier time
Thanksgiving: The transforming power of a thank-you note
Personally, I am a fan of meta comments ranting about comments explaining why X is useless.
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Reminds me of this: https://xkcd.com/1425/
Ethereum has ERC20R which is for reversible transactions
Good article. This little line interests me:

> For the last part a PEG, actually in this case an EBNF interpreter is needed.

Not sure how I should parse this. Should I read it as:

For the last part, a PEG interpreter is needed. Actually an EBNF interpreter is needed.

Because a PEG is just a spec, you can't substitute an interpreter for it
As much as this happens, I don't feel it's something to be expected or even okay.

The major cloud services are expensive. This extra cost is supposed to provide for cloud services' high level of flexibility. Running out of capacity should be a rare event and treated as a high priority problem to be fixed asap.

Without the ability to rapidly and arbitrarily scale, they're just overpriced server farms.
>> If interface A is verified to be correct code (not tested) and it's replaced with interface B that's also verified to be correct, why would there be any regressions?

How are you verifying that interface A and interface B are correct?

You would either need to test manually, test automatically (i.e. test automation, unit tests, integration tests, fuzzing, and perhaps even mutation testing or design by contract), or maybe you are using formal methods (proving correctness with mathematical rigor). If you are not testing, how are you verifying that the code is correct?

"It works on my machine" or "my teammate peer reviewed it and did not see anything wrong" are pretty low standards and how a lot of bugs get shipped and discovered in production.

>> The reason I see not to do it is it takes time away from writing correct code.

Again, how do you know the code is correct? Spending more time writing code is pointless if the code has bugs and exploits.
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Interesting semi-confirmed anecdote: when lockdown hit, Azure began to refuse to allocate servers. One of the main reasons was they prioritised servers in this way:

1. Government/health/defence cloud customers

2. Teams, which was exploding in use and they wanted to capitalise on it

3. Regular cloud customers
Being multi-payment processor still doesn't protect you fully. We had separate instances where Google In-App Purchases and Stripe halted payment processing until we were able to escalate via friends who worked at those companies to fix our issues. Customers on Stripe subscriptions through Google aren't going to all of a sudden switch. I guess it does limit blast radius somewhat, but it still sucks. It also forces us into the lowest common denominator of features supported across platforms (e.g., can't run a price reduction and an increased free trial period at the same time because of one payment provider).
Sure would be helpful if Apple would use its obscenely large warchest to negate this self-fulfilling prophecy entirely.
Sort-of. I have a Postgres flexible database in the West Germany Central region that can no longer be scaled. It was only created for testing purposes, so no biggie. The backend is basically a managed Compute resource.

If you need more reliability, I see only one way out: Go multi-region or even multi-cloud.
we have the same issue and escalated it through multiple azure teams.

our quota has been silently set to 0 while there where still instances running. this worked fine until auto-scale scaled the instances down in the night to 1. at the start of the day auto scale was not able to scale back up to the initial amount which did lead into heavy performance issues and outages. we needed to move the instances as azure support did not help us.
after many calls with azure and multiple teams involved we finally did not get the quota approved (even if we did have it already and was not asking for „new“ quotas).

also we decided to not be able to host in the German azure region anymore. Even if we could get the quota this is a business risk we don’t want to bear anymore to not be able to scale for unexpected traffic.

this is huge for us as our application requires German servers. We are still in research where to host in future.
There's also a lot less in circulation. The US Dollar has by far the largest volume out of any currency, which helps other central banks manage their holdings. This is something that holds back for instance the euro to be used for reserve banking.
Corporate landlords math out things and only do it as long as it’s profitable.

Private single-family landlords are often content renting as long as they get more than the mortgage. And if you’re a good tenant they often don’t bother checking comps at all until they have to rent it again.
Is it possible to do an API request to find greatest price differential compared to historical price of items with > 1000 reviews?
I would argue that the cost profile is different.

Local GPUs are a big up-front cost. But assuming that your workload is stable, in the long run I think local GPUs ends up being cheaper per-hour than cloud.

For startups, it doesn't make sense to make the up-front purchase, fine. But if you're optimizing for long-term (amortized) costs, I'd be curious if cloud is cost-effective.
AMD Mantle became Vulkan.
AMD Mantle precedes Apple Metal.
It didn't lose anything, most of these $7.4T didn't exist in the first place because the top minds of the world didn't understand covid was a very temporary outlier event. We're just back to normal after a coke overdose
Anticheat unfortunately
Factorio is a great example of a game that benefits from having a custom engine. For comparison, Cities Skylines (Unity) becomes CPU bottlenecked with a large enough population. Making large cities practically unplayable even on the most powerful consumer CPUs.

Also, choice of programming language isn’t what makes porting games difficult. It’s the platform specific graphics, input, window management, sound, etc. All of which aren’t handled by switching to one of the languages you mentioned.
Seems like the payment processing is monopolised by stripe - Are there any good alternatives to stripe?
> Guinness World Records is a marketing agency masquerading as a ratings house / record keeper

In case this is news to anybody, the basic shape of the grift is that while anyone can theoretically apply for a record and submit proof, the requirements are fairly stringent and complex. And wouldn't you know it, Guinness World Records offers various levels of "consulting" on setting/breaking a record, including defining the record to break, setting up an event, and flying out an adjudicator to witness the record being broken.
I don't care about tearing. I'm sure my X11 tears all the time when watching videos but if I notice it I shrug it off. The point is that one of the main drivers of Wayland was to be frame perfect, have no tearing. Commendable goal, why not? but it's turning out that they had to write code to get no tearing and more code to allow it.
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> I don't see anything baseless or at odds with public opinion.

"Nine months after invading Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is beginning to fracture the West."

This is baseless and at odds with public opinion. It is also the lede of the article.
Steam exists at 350 degrees in the same way bread can be cooked at 350 degrees and come out moist.

The bad assumption here is that all the water flashes off instantly, or that the temperature isn't referring to the thing you're cooking.
How does HN feel about Braintree?
> Precisely. But this is how it should be. The service is a part of the team, but automating the "mundane things" that people can delegate to machines, instead of doing them manually themselves.

The organization is often not reflective of what’s actually being achieved. Instead of Catalog, Offer, Order and Shipment you have Alice’s org, Bob’s org and Charlie’s org. If you encode the interfaces between these (impermanent) group boundaries rather than the conceptual boundaries you enter a world of pain.

Charlie might own Order and Shipment because Charlie is the warehouse exec and 20 years ago, when only physical items were sold, all of the order-processing computers were located in a cage in the warehouse. Fast forward to today and the cage is gone, and the order processing system handles digital items and services in addition to physical goods. But good old Charlie still owns the Order and Shipment system because they were baked together 20 years ago.
Author seems very smart, and has probably done some good consciousness work to show up with these ideas... but this is completely ungrounded & disconnected from any real use case & understanding of market dynamics... much like the rest of Web3.
Now you can only expect a non-biased nyt interviewer.
Enteric Nervous Systemm
I'm European as well and the article is not far off. On the Internet the U.S. opinion is always amplified. Perhaps 50% of the population accepts it, but not more.

The opinion has been there for a long time (e.g., https://www.ft.com/content/cd7270a6-f72b-4b40-8195-1a796f748...).

It seems to me that Europe is doing quite well in providing arms:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_aid_to_Ukraine...

I wish that the U.S. and the U.K. would now take the millions of refugees from Poland and Germany in order to demonstrate their unwavering solidarity. Refugees cost money, as opposed to the MIC getting rich.
Good advise is always to have a backup processor (similar to ESP). The thing is while initially regular MSP may not want to do business with you, if you get Stripe account in somewhat good standing for 3 months, you will have hard time finding MSP that will not accept you to process. Once you have 3 months with Stripe, which I imagine you didn't start with tens of thousands of dollars in processing day one, get yourself another MSP which should be top priority. Either have your system split 25% second MSP, first the rest, OR if you are unable, at least do few "test" transactions a month to make sure your backup gateway remains open. Without backup sad thing is that its irrelevant whether Stripe had standing or you got suspended as an error - the bottom line is you cannot process and that hits your bottom line.

Hope this advise helps someone going forward.
Had to check this and it turns out that what you're saying is not quite correct:

The canteen stopped serving meat altogether which meant that the famous "VW-Currywurst" wouldn't be available anymore. That's what Schröder complained about, not the availability of vegan alternatives. He actually praised those in the same sentence.
Nope, I volunteer for nothing, and maybe I didn't state it clearly enough: I think that arming Ukraine is the right thing to do.

What I cannot stand is that from given premises, one goes to the completely opposite implication. I was just pointing that out.

Let me state it again, I am in favor of trying to support Ukraine in current conflict in any possible way (I hope I said it clearly enough now)
Hanlon’s razor neglects the fact that there are people in the world that are actually seeking to cause harm. I also ignores harm as a byproduct of serving one’s self interest—or in this case megalomania.

When there is this much power-imbalance, I actually consider Hanlon’s razor to be harmful. It does not matter to the workers being fired whether Musk is acting out of ignorance or malice. The action speaks for it self.
Have not used it myself yet, but Google has something called “Anthos” that seemed like it would reduce the work from 2x on the cloud front...

I can't imagine that existing on the payment front though. Even as a separate startup, a payment processing multiplexer just seems precarious, like “OK my business is now less dependent on Stripe but it's entirely dependent on the availability of this tiny company.”
This is generally true for all accelerators (I work with cloud and on-prem FPGAs for my startup, Arbitrand).

However, lots of people only need those accelerators once in a while, so time sharing (aka cloud computing) makes a lot of sense and saves a ton of money overall. For FPGAs and some compute GPU applications, not having to handle support for your accelerators is also nice.
Yes, I expect that they'll 51+% own those local companies, maybe not the datacenters (there are plenty of them everywhere.)
Just call it a supplement and you can do anything
> Excel is one of the most important programs on Earth

Excel is just a spreadsheet program. It's hardly unique; there's one in LibreOffice. They all descend from VisiCalc.

The idea of a spreadsheet was a revolutionary invention (Dan Bricklin); I believe he failed to patent it. As far as I can see, Excel was just a GUI rewrite of Multiplan, which was supposed to be Microsoft's Lotus-123 killer.

> The whole point of schooling is to build real world skills.

That's called training, not schooling.
Why not just creating a bigger DB instance in another region for a few months? Sure, you'll take a performance hit, but 99% of users won't notice or care
There are losers and there are winners. Never fail the Mark Twain test. Live to fight another day, tiger.
Earth, as Seen from the Surface of Mars
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1. I was trying to focus on the development cost, but a few percent of 50 million dollars can get you a good support team.

2. Isn't the topic at hand mac?

3. Are you sure you want to cite that kind of number? The most prominent one says this: "Though only 5.8% of his game's buyers were playing on Linux, they generated over 38% of the bug reports. Not because the Linux platform was buggier, either. Only 3 of the roughly 400 bug reports submitted by Linux users were platform specific, that is, would only happen on Linux." "The bug reports themselves were also pretty high quality, he said, including software and OS versions, logs, and steps for replication." That's free QA, not a burden.
> does the usual maneuver of painting companies as victims of consumers

No. You're overlaying a victim mentality onto the situation, where there was none.

I don't know why you believe that us trying to get "spinelessly lobbyable" governments and regulators to fix this is a good idea, but that it's a "fool's errand" for us to drink less Coke until they fix it.

Our spending is much more directly effective (and cost-effective) vote for companies to change than voting for professional representatives to make speeches at them.
It goes both ways: cloud providers don’t want to make promises about capacity, and cloud users don’t want to make promises about usage.

I don’t know about price point. Dedicated servers can be cheaper than cloud in many cases, if you have the appropriate know-how, and the cloud business is very profitable for a reason.
1000+ hours...

It is probably very unpopular but maybe one has to start asking in what way humanity as a whole does benefit from the creation of such addictive games.

Theodor Kaczynski wrote in one of his books that computer games will increasingly distract younger generations(males are obviously more affected) from solving urgent issues resulting in an erosion of freedom. maybe he was right
On multi-cloud, it's rather don't be GCP only. On payment processors, used to be don't be just PayPal, then not just Stripe, and in general, yes, you want more than one.

In the late 90s we wrote code to distribute and aggregate fraud checking, card payment processing, settlement accounting, receipt reporting, and refunds across multiple gateways so we could handle mega live event signups. That needs to be an OSS product.
Just about any “bioinformatics” job requires a PhD in biology-related field. And there’re plenty graduates. That’s the thing, there’s plenty of supply.
The VPS provider that I use, Time4VPS has some pretty nice discounts until the 28th of November: https://www.time4vps.com/?affid=5294 (affiliate link)

Another already affordable VPS provider, Contabo, also seems to have nice deals: https://contabo.com/en/ (they expire in an hour at the time of writing)

The Namecheap domain registrar that also offers e-mail and other stuff has some ongoing deals: https://www.namecheap.com/domain-web-hosting-ssl-deals/black...
If this is a serious problem for your business, you use K8s and require assistance quickly moving your workloads, consider contacting:

https://www.giantswarm.io/

(I work at Giant Swarm.)
> The U.S. acts in its own best interests, as do all countries.

With allies like that...

Nothing new though: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/02/global-battle-...
‘Gangnam Style’ Brought K-Pop to the World, but Haunted Its Creator
> ROI

Behold, the actual reason AAA studios can't. Engineering excellence is not something you buy or otherwise invest in. It is your culture. It is who you hire. It is what kind of expectation you set internally for yourself and your peers. That is only marginally related to budget spent on salaries.

If you actually practice engineering excellence, the investment is small. If you don't, the investment is nonsensical.
Greenshot is available on the mac app store now (for $2).
This whole post and comments are just incredible … can we predict one society success purely on parasite composition?
i had a glimmer in my eye and a sparkle of hope reading the readme; it fizzled out with no supernova upon reading the story.
I picked up some discounts on recurring software/app subscriptions I use:

Fitbod Elite - Workout tracking/planning - 40% off - 47.99 annually - I was paying 12.99$ a month!!!

Plex Pass Lifetime - 25% off - 90$ once - Regular $120

I have used YNAB for budgeting for years. I wish I could find a discount on that. Still keeping an eye out for any other similarly useful deals on stuff I already pay for.
an exception to that is Bank of America Merchant services. I have 2 clients with chargeback ratio above 3% for close to 5 years now, and processing volume about $1MM a month. I imagine they are simply too small of a fish for BOA to care about their CB ratio. I seen them getting accounts shut down with basically any other processor, most sensitive being Wells Fargo underwriter but somehow they remain open with BOA so maybe its worth a shot?

BOA implements First Data gateway by default these days, so most likely your previous processor is utilizing same solution as well, so less work to switch.
> Basic technology skills easily transfer. All office software is similar, it does not matter what you learn.

I had the benefit of being taught how to use spreadsheets. Not Excel. Not even 1-2-3. I also had the benefit of being taught how to use word processors. Not Word. Not even WordPerfect. The teacher understood that transferable skills had to be taught since they knew the product we were learning with would never be used in the workplace.

My mother was taking similar courses around the same time, only they were geared towards the workplace. She was provided with three books over an inch thick that walked the students through a particular product. One set of books for Word, then another set of books for WordPerfect. These courses didn't treat skills as transferable, and I'm sure a lot of students suffered because of that approach since I have seen many people freeze up or complain when presented with a product they weren't taught.
> EBITDA is the total value added of the company.

I don't think that's quite the right interpretation. EBIDTA is the value added of the company net its employees (and I'd quibble over depreciation and taxes), whereas GDP includes the labour share.

Imagine we had a single-company country, where every worker was also a customer, all costs were internalized, and capital did not depreciate. The GDP of the country would be equal to the profit of the company plus the wages of the employees.

Using the EBITDA equivalence, however, the GDP of the one-company country would be more (possibly far more) than "the one company's earnings."
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