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No doubt people will be commenting here on how cloud makes sense because you don’t have to hire experts to run your own computers.

Folks…… it’s pure fiction that cloud does not require experts to run it.

Cloud is more expensive and slower often more complex, and risks major vendor lock-in if you use the cloud vendors APIs instead of open source solutions.

And if you need GPU computing you’d be crazy to use cloud GPUs which are much, much more expensive and much much slower than consumer grade GPUs.

And if you can summarise which parts of your system are incurring traffic costs then you’re beating the deliberately complex systems intended to nickel and dime your architecture every time a byte turns a corner.
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They also do not keep the wages at a level that keeps staffing near adequate.
> In fact, the debt probably is pretty similar to stuff held by everyone else in this ecosystem.

This doesn't appear to be true. Everything I've read points to SVB being truly unique in their lack of risk management. SVB left these positions unhedged against rates. That is very atypical.
I can add my experiences in Switzerland: e-bike riders speeding on pedestrian lanes is a daily sighting. I have no idea about collision rates but they cannot go but up.
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Don't you hate it when someone interrupts your train of thought.
An explanation on what `logit` is, how it is obtained, would have been nice.

Is it the count of occurrences of the word following "the mouse ate the"?
That's not what learnable means, but it would only show there needs to be an a priori limit on the structure of learning.

> in some sense isomorphic given Turing equivalence

Then you're brain is just like any CPU, which is very far from what such a statement tries to express in the context of NNs.
Doesn't seem to be the same study, this one is USA, that one was a German study.
It can be both true that there should be consequences for mismanagement of banks, and that SVB deposits should be guaranteed. The answer is better banking regulation, but that's forward-looking so something has to be done about companies making payroll now. Letting a thousand other businesses fail because bankers mismanaged their funds isn't a useful set of consequences for ensuring this doesn't happen again.
If you don't have ssh access with root, hopefully you have access to something like the underlying hypervisor, to do the equivalent of "sudo xl console vmname" on a xen dom0 to get what is logically the same as a physical serial tty (or local vga+keyboard) console on the domU machine.

Or the VMware esxi emulated graphical console, etc.

Or if it's a bunch of bare metal machines, hopefully someone old-school in the organization thought to deploy 48/96-port rs232 console serial concentrators and wire them up to the db9 serial port on each physical server. And you didn't disable all local serial tty in your operating config.
> but this part of your article is basically handing all responsibility of poorly handling important communication off to someone else

I'm not the person you replied to. Anyway, I'd expect of a company like Google to not word their e-mails in the same way cyber-criminals do - and for what it's worth, many cyber-security training programs actually teach that vaguely worded but "important sounding" subjects are a key indicator of something being fishy.
Sadly, depending on the pastor, not everyone can go, especially introverts who do not have much friends or relations within the community.

But some communities are very welcoming and open minded, and everyone can leave or join (temporarily at first). It really depends, I only know one community, influenced by the 70s pacifists movements, i really like them, but I know they aren't the majority.
I disagree with this idea (not criticizing your decision). When I look at space tech, collider cores or nanoscopic IC factories, it strikes me into shivers how much human thought and will can do. Insane complexity that conquers frontiers of reality. This is my spirituality if you like, wish I had at least a half of average “stats” these people have.

That doesn’t happen with medicine or socio-something.
Put an advert in the feed, make the post nothing but a link to the web url etc

There are plenty of anti-patterns to follow in RSS. We just didn't see them because only techies were using feeds.
What is the quality of online tests? People taking them are likely distracted or in poorly controlled conditions.
We are nearly two decades from the launch of EC2 and I still need to explain to people (technical and not) that the cloud isn’t cheaper once you get to a certain scale. Everyone is always amazed.
Wow what a number !
5 times more expensive !
My cheeky wager is that U.S pupils from yesteryear actually had a better globalist understanding of the origins of science than students today, only because modern textbooks have gotten shittier and watered down. (And sometimes even needlessly politicized). There's a very prevailing and disgusting pop-science trend today that's obsessed with breaking everything down and explaining things as simplistically as possible.

The increasingly "uncomfortable" truth for many still persists today though, namely that modern science had its birthplace in the European Renaissance period. All kneel to the mighty Printing Press!
This is more like: A small fraction of people control and manipulate the government to protect their own interests. To hell with everyone else.
Confidence fell in SVB specifically.

We did not see broad bank runs because confidence in the banking system did not fall. And now we can see why: because the FDIC backstopped depositors.
Headline is incorrect and actual says it’s heading toward.

USDC shows as $0.9891 [0] to me as of 1145gmt. Much closer to $1 than this weekend but still a decent arbitrage if you think it will make it.

[0] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/usd-coin/
The camera-processed JPEGs already have filters applied, most likely including a sharpening pass.
> can someone explain how it's possible that despositors are fully protected, far beyond what FDIC insures, without the taxpayer bearing any of the burden

Depositors are made whole. Shareholders are not. There were enough assets sold over the weekend to cover deposits.
The government needs to get its money from somewhere. If it spends the taxpayers' money, that money cannot be spent on other things. So instead of doing things that are useful to society, like maintaining roads, the money is just sitting there until the bond matures. If it creates money out of thin air, the effect is the same, except that now every market participant pays (in the form of increased inflation). So in either case, the losses are socialised.

Of course, you can still argue that stabilising the system is worth it.
Wouldn’t that incentivize businesses doing a better job choosing their banking partners?
Does this comment really start by complaining the rest aren't "useful" and then immediately switched to assuming it knows better than Janet Yellen about whether something will cost taxpayers?

Also, there isn't a bailout - protecting unnamed bank depositors is not a useful definition of a bailout.

Also, you spelled "depositors" wrong.
Treasury bonds are not irresponsible. What is irresponsible is to not hedge your interest rate risk in the form of interest rate swaps. Most other conventional banks do exactly that; they have a portfolio of held-to-maturity (HTM) securities that they hedge with interest rate swaps to avoid bearing that risk. In the financial sector, you only leave unhedged the investments you are _actually_ betting on; if you are to say that they were betting on 10y bonds (until maturity) holding the same value as the day they bought them, without any form of risk management, I would consider that irresponsible.
“Lift and shift” is always more expensive. That is, you will always pay more for cloud servers than you will for on-prem at a certain level of scale.

Lift and shift is not really getting the cost benefit of cloud though.

As applications get re-architected with serverless technologies like lambda, costs are optimized. The exact amount of resources will pop in and out of existence for the exact amount of time they’re needed.
Sure, cloud is usually more expensive, so is developer time. If your team is wrangling more with the quirks of your own setup instead of the standardized workflow of a paas provider, your calculation won't work in your favour anymore.
Off topic, but did the slang quid come from liquid as in assets?
64-bit ARM CPU core information table
You will do well to remember the racist history of IW tests. Maybe we should be celebrating that scores are going down on what is essentially a racist test.
It’s very good at fixing problems, but I think even beyond that, money can be used in ways that increase happiness. Some things off the top of my head that money could buy that would increase my happiness or decrease my unhappiness due to things like stress:

Beyond simply fixing problems, it also allows you to just not have to think about them at all, which removes stress. Eg if you have enough money, then bills just aren’t things that ever need to take up time or space in your mind.

Being able to choose where to live based solely on what would make me happy or being close to the people I care about, without having to make suboptimal decisions based on cost.

Not having to work would free up a lot of time to spend with loved ones, on hobbies or activities that bring meaning and joy to my life, or on travelling and seeing wonderful things or places and meeting new people. Even if I want to work, I could at least choose what I want to work on based on what gives me joy and meaning rather than based on financial need.

Money allows you to do these things for others: reduce their stresses and financial worries. Doing things for others is usually rewarding.

So beyond removing unhappiness caused by basic life problems, I think that money really can meaningfully improve your level of happiness. Yes, you’d eventually hit a point where more money doesn’t improve things, but that number is far higher than the $75k figure usually quoted because $75k isn’t even close enough to quit my job, live closer to my friends, Tavel the world and work on my hobbies and personal projects.
If you are split-cloud under a homogenous puppet master without homogeneous break-glass SSH access (which would be crazy) then probably your best bet is to just re-kick the world. But the scaling factor for this sort of thing is most certainly not team size; it's "how many X servers can be down at the same time", which will increase with your number of servers. In any case I think the FTC is the least of twitter's concerns right now.
I'd put it in another way: losing weight is simple, but it's not easy!

As I understand, you just need to consume fewer calories, less sugar and do more exercise. But there's cravings. It's harder to get healthy food at restaurants and cafes. It's harder to cook healthy and tasty food - no one wants to eat miserable food for months, many doctor and nutritionists will just tell patients to eat bland food day after day, like people are robots without souls.

I've heard the same thing about the C programming language: it's a small simple language, but programming with it is hard!
> As winter ends, Russia has lost this phase of the conflict

Russia is losing "phase" after "phase" of the conflict until all the Ukrainian cemeteries will be filled with men aged 20 to 65. I hate Atlanticist propaganda.
What does a business being conservative have to do it with it being able to handle its bank account suddenly disappearing?

Equity holders of three banks just lost all of it - that is exactly what you're asking for.
Is there a way to just provide the hardware for your machines somewhere and have someone else manage everything else?
Yes, it should and does work for 1. That doesn't mean it's a good use of cat.
Where did I say I thought serf was offended?
In many ways, Google continues to expose the failure of automation.

The 2010s dream of "megacorp serving everyone with centralised programming" ever more exposed as an unethical pipedream.
After too much time fiddling with nVim configs I returned to Vim and have been quite happy. If I want an IDE I just use IntelliJ+IdeaVim.
I worked for a 50 person startup that only had $6M in VC funding. Our comptroller with staff of zero did this.

It’s not terribly complicated.

I would expect that even the smallest companies have someone responsible for finance. Or they can rent or contract out for it. But if there’s truly no one then that company has a huge mundane risk.
Well, Valhalla is described as “requiring 7 PhD’s knitted together”, doing that while remaining backwards compatible is insanely hard.
> It would only be really problematic if they also lost SSH access to those machines using Puppet. If you have root access the fix is not exactly hard.

> But then they fired people that did had access so that might also be a problem

Oh my, wouldn't that be delicious...

Gotta wonder how you'd go about fixing that, though. Assuming that those people's access was also tied to their employment and irrevocably voided when they were fired: I guess it would depend on how well those machines are secured against attackers with access to the hardware.
Issues according to self proclaimed standards? Not very useful.
> Backtracking is extremely important in today’s software interviews and almost always comes up in some form.

From TFA. Even the article struggles to explain how this is useful outside similar leetcode questions. Yes, backtracking is sometimes a useful approach for some real-life programming problems but leetcode questions neither test for the ability to recognize backtracking problems nor the general ability to solve them.
Say the 1% 10y $100 bond is now worth $80 and there are now 5% bonds available. Say the monkey NFT is down from $100 to $80. The monkey NFT could be sold and 5% bonds could be bought, which will also pay out >$100 eventually.
Point taken, but I do not, I see it as positive.

But yeah, even beyond abortion, seeing conservative pundits fretting over "young people do not have enough unmarried sex" was fascinating last years.
Green hydrogen is definetly not a hydrocarbon.
If Russia seizes control of the entire territory they will still put out pieces about how Russia lost.
All banks are under control of the state via bank regulators. And those bank execs just lost their jobs when the banks stopped existing, so you got that.

There is no sensible reason to want the state to own every bank; that means you're accepting a silly amount of risk and not diversifying your investments. What you want is a social wealth fund, not owning a random industry you don't like.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention, my current project is on Java 11, and I'm really struggling with the restrictions around enums (the poor man's sum type :)) and interfaces... maybe I can push for Java 17 at least!

The fundamental problem in Java is, however, what you stated in your last sentence: you are limited in abstraction, in most cases you have to implement the specifics.
looks like a dead project last content change seems from 2016 https://github.com/rowanmanning/joblint/commits/master
You expect not to be treated the same way by AWS? Am I missing something here?
Not in the US, but here I get the sense that a lot of people buy non-iodized salt. When I ask people why, it often boils down to them being conditioned by marketing to think foods marked as "without X" are universally more healthy. I also see this with non-celiac sufferers avoiding gluten, and "lactose intolerant" people who needlessly avoid lactose(avoiding lactose actually makes you lactose intolerant even if you weren't before! And getting a little gasy from dairy is hardly intolerance. Flatulence is a natural reaction to, you know, eating food).
It's really annoying that companies like Google bombard you with all kinds of "cover our ass" e-mails about every change they make. Most about features I don't even use. Making it even harder to understand what the impact is and know if I can safely ignore the mail.

So I can fully understand people missing some "important" Google communication because of that.
They even cite "The Bell Curve" a famously racist text in this article.
This just indicates that the $250K insured threshold makes no sense these days for corporate bank accounts.

It makes no sense for every business owner (and a business doesn't have to be very big to have more than $250K in the bank) to have to spread their funds across multiple banks and do ongoing due diligence across each bank's investment activities.

We're talking about farmers, used car dealerships, builders, and countless other kinds of businesses who would suddenly be expected to develop an aptitude for financial hedging and risk assessment. It would be incredibly inefficient and make it not worthwhile for many people to be in business at all.

The whole point of a regulated financial system is that regular depositors can expect that if the regulations are being met and the regulators are verifying that the banks are in good shape, you can trust that your funds will be safe.

The right response to this situation is to change the guaranteed limit for corporate bank accounts, and, sure, increase the fees that banks (and indirectly, corporate banking customers) pay for that. The wrong response would be to tank the entire banking system to stick it to the tech bros.
This is one of those reasons why I prefer prepaid cloud services. There are not many providers in this field (Vultr, Digital Ocean, etc). You can generally estimate the length of the runway based in the funds you have in your account.

It also helps that there are multiple funding sources, so I can split the bill between multiple cards or accounts.

I travel the major part of the year, and it is quite common to get my cards lost (often at my own fault) or compromised (Mastercard tends to suspend cards when they detect charges from multiple countries in a short time frame). I can wait for the new cards to arrive worry-free that my cloud services don't take a hit like this.
That class just uses my slides. It says so at the bottom of the page:

> The lecture slides used in the course are taken from Prof. Andy Pavlo's CMU 15-721 course

Just go to the source: https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2023/
Can you expand on this a bit? How exactly are they racist?
yes omg...
some banks are more dodgy than others. why didn't they keep their money at chase
I agree that its fraudulent. Its a mess though, right? Why would it be more fraudulent for a priest to be having a gay relationship than a straight sexual relationship? Because its a "double sin"? I'm really uncomfortable with that, sounds like homophobia. Find a new line of work? Well I kind of agree but who are the rest of us, who haven't promised to be celibate, to say that or judge? Had I been called to be a priest I think I'd have failed at the celibacy requirement. ;) And anyway the church hasn't always required celibacy, in fact it currently lets married C of E minister join under the ordinariate. I do agree with you these priests are being fraudulent, and possibly should indeed find another line of work but on the other hand why target specifically gay-related issues, seems hard to disentangle from homophobia, and the motivation of those who outed them does not seem kind or loving or following Catholic values
Emails are a difficult thing, aren't they?

Was the 10 day countdown the first time Google mentioned "we'll suspend the account unless..."? Generally on these things - and unless it's an absolute emergency - you'd expect lots of prior warning and at least a couple of "YOUR SERVICES ARE DUE TO BE SUSPENDED" emails in the 48 hours before.

That said, I've rightly called my bank out for sending an email with the subject line "Your account was compromised" - and then the body began "...is what you could be reading if you didn't have adequate security", followed by a sales pitch for some cyber security software. When you get rubbish like this (or absolutely banal "important information regarding" emails) so often, it's hard to know when to bother.
Ask HN: Do you need an IRC bouncer service and what features would you like?
I am thinking about hosting a free IRC bouncer service for popular IRC networks.

What do you think?

What software should I pick?

I am thinking about soju with their own webchat client.
If you do stuff like that, use a profiler and identify and fix your real performance bottlenecks. As opposed to applying premature optimization blindly. Same with GC tuning. This has gotten easier over the years. But there are still lots of tradeoffs here.

There are plenty of fast performing databases and other middleware written in Java. The JVM is a popular platform for that kind of thing for a good reason. Writing good software of course is a bit of a skill. Benchmarks like this are kind of pointless. Doing an expensive thing in a loop is slow. Well duh. Don't do that.
or we could just use guns, if we're going to go away that far from the original analogy
Hi everyone, I'm the customer in this case. Wanted to let everyone know that this sort of abrupt suspension for production apps has been a recurring issue that has happened time and again with Google Clown Platform.

Similar horror stories:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32547912

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33737577

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[Update 1]

Yes I agree I have some fault for the initial suspension, but that's not the biggest issue here.

The biggest issue for me is how they "react" to help a customer get things back to normal when something goes wrong.

First, I had to wait for 8 hrs for their Trust and Safety team.

Then it was 24-48 hrs. See https://imgur.com/a/i0OHXcI

Until now I still haven't had a resolution.

And the most ridiculous part is they could still tell me "I just received an email from the Trust and Safety team and they mentioned that they have sent you a separate email." when I had replied 3 times within an hour after they requested for more details. See proof https://imgur.com/a/1ZSmGBH
I shared my project (and HN link) on one of the discord servers of makers, maybe that is the reason. (Anyway it is a free tool so I don't get anything regardless of response on post)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM5tLcik_Pw
AWS "experts" are one of the most expensive. And they'll be pushing for EKS and the whole AWS stack. The funny thing is, if you are using K8s, you might as well setup your own servers. These experts cost upward of $1000/day. Hiring a full time is $150k+, and that's not for the expensive locations.
"I missed an email that had important in the title because I didn't think it was important, now my servers are suspended and it's all Google's fault". Makes sense, I'm sure you'll fare better with Amazon.
>and not needing to pay a team to manage hardware
But you pay for a team to manage the cloud instances and services. Usually more than the hardware guys.
The one that immediately stands out is the ability to run it inside a shell (so also on a remote system).
This use of the term 'honeypot' is strange and I have never seen before.

The only honeypot I am familiar with is a defensive security measure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_(computing)
In my experience Java performance worse than Node when used with memory cap. I am not an Java expert though, maybe there is a flag I missed.
Using cloud is renting hardware (and maintenance, and redundancy), of course someone is making a profit from it.
To my knowledge all modern DCs have out-of-band networks for this sort of thing that provide serial access to the BMC chip, nothing old school about that. Old school is having to submit a ticket to Jerry in the DC to walk the crash cart down to box 55AE, hook up a serial console, run diagnostics, and attach the output back to the ticket. You only have to deal with Jerry occasionally now, usually when the BMC or power rails fail.