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> Datadog makes it far too easy to misconfigure things and blow up costs

I'll give you a fun example. It's fresh in my mind because i just got reamed out about it this week.

In our last contract with DataDog, they convinced us to try out the CloudSIEM product, we put in a small $600/mo committment to it to try it out. Well, we never really set it up and it sat on autopilot for many months. We fell under our contract rate for it for almost a year.

Then last month we had some crazy stuff happen and we were spamming logs into DataDog for a variety of reasons. I knew I didn't want to pay for these billions of logs to be indexed, so I made an exclusion filter to keep them out of our log indexes so we didn't have a crazy bill for log indexing.

So our rep emailed me last week and said "Hey just a heads up you have $6,500 in on-demand costs for CloudSIEM, I hope that was expected". No, it was NOT expected. Turns out excluding logs from indexing does not exclude them from CloudSIEM. Fun fact, you will not find any documented way to exclude logs from CloudSIEM ingestion. It is technically possible, but only through their API and it isn't documented. Anyway, I didn't do or know this, so now i had $6,500 of on-demand costs plus $400-500 misc on-demand costs that I had to explain to the CTO.

I should mention my annual review/pay raise is also next week (I report to the CTO), so this will now be fresh in their mind for that experience.
...I worked at a large software organization where larger teams had their own bank account, and there was a lot of internal billing, etc, mixed with plenty of funny-money to go along with it. That's not a contradiction, though, it perfectly illustrated your point for me.
Looks super interesting, and that $3/month for hobbyists is just low enough to meet my budget for hobby services, but please, for on-call stuff, you gotta have alerts that make phone calls. Nothing else is going to wake me in the middle of the night. This is the #1 feature I expect from an on-call service - you're on-call because you will be called.
Why do you think electricity prices are high?

Because PG&E:

* spent billions over the past few decades on stock buybacks

* spent billions on fines and restitution for malfeasance like falsifying call-before-you-dig records

* spends tens of millions annually on stock dividends (down from billions annually pre-bankruptcy)

* used their safety budget to pay executive bonuses

* stacked the CPUC in their favor

* rakes in billions in profit (roughly $1/share EPS) annually
If you're going through the effort of carrying your own bags, why use a disposable bag at all?

Bringing up the harms of a paper bag is not really pertinent.
This is why it's very important to have your email under a domain you own, rather than the email hoster's domain. That way your addresses remain portable and you can seamlessly switch providers if they go under.
Like smoking in the 1960s.
Between the country that will throw you in jail for posting funny memes comparing the president to a cartoon bear, and the one where the newspapers are literally running headlines asking if the president has significant memory issues [1], I wonder which has more press freedom.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/08/biden-mem...
What Happened at the Sci-Fi Awards in China?
And then they leave and form better companies, because they understand how things work, and then US politicians are sad because their critical industries are gone.
Heartily seconded. Also don't forget the docs: Google Cloud docs are generally fairly sane and often even useful, whereas my stomach churns whenever I have to dive into AWS's labyrinth of semi-outdated, nigh-unreadable crap.
Those usb c powered travel monitors are pretty handy.
Depends on the murder. We’ve seen gang killings hyped and liked on socials, and cops not doing a lot with it. We’ve seen social live streaming of organized looting and not much being done with it. We’ve seen cops on video committing heinous acts and getting away with it. So why do we feel making shitposts on socials is going to do much?
I spent zero hours on a MySQL server on bare hardware for seven years.

Admittedly, I was afraid of ever restarting as I wasn’t sure it would reboot. But still…
> “But in practice, constants really matter,” he said. “In the real world, a factor of 10 is a game ender.”

Working at a place who kept losing customers to a competitor whose software was less than 2x as fast as ours fundamentally changed how I view optimization and how I view constant overhead C. And crystalized once I saw how delivering steady gains milestone after milestone can buy a lot more goodwill than one fast and dirty optimization.

Speed doesn't matter if you're the only game in town (a monopoly). For everything else it matters.
Do you have an example of C++ being safer than unsafe Rust?

As to C# being safer, wouldn’t your comparison need you to take into account unsafe constructs used to implement the C# VM?
When I started working in the 1980s (as a teenager but getting paid) there was a sort of battle between the (genuinely cool and impressive) closed technology of IBM and the open world of open standards/interop like TCP/IP and Unix, SMTP, PCs, even Novell sort of, etc. There was a species of expert that knew the whole product offering of IBM, all the model numbers and recommended solution packages and so on. And the technology was good - I had an opportunity to program a 3093K(?) CM/VMS monster with APL and rexx and so on. Later on I had a job working with AS/400 and SNADS and token ring and all that, and it was interesting; thing is they couldn't keep up and the more open, less greedy, hobbyists and experts working on Linux and NFS and DNS etc. completely won the field. For decades, open source, open standards, and interoperability dominated and one could pick the best thing for each part of the technology stack, and be pretty sure that the resultant systems would be good. Now however, the Amazon cloud stacks are like IBM in the 1980s - amazingly high quality, but not open; the cloud architects master the arcane set of product offerings and can design a bespoke AWS "solution" to any problems. But where is the openness? Is this a pendulum that goes back and forth (and many IBM folks left IBM in the 1990s and built great open technologies on the internet) or was it a brief dawn of freedom that will be put down by the capital requirements of modern compute and networking stacks?

My money is on openness continuing to grow and more and more pieces of the stack being completely owned by openness (kernels anyone?) but one doesn't know.
Juniper is the company that had so many different backdoors in their software they were interfering with each other but it wasn't clear who was stepping on whom, right?
How do you aim to answer the question at hand?

These things are on my resume, but I'm not "telling" interviewers about it. I go through their interview process same as everyone else.
EU NGI – Mobifree – funding more ethical and human mobile software
I live in NYC and subways (with both express as well as local) are very time efficient, especially during the few hours of rush hour. My iPhone appointments would tell me to leave 45 mins early since it assumed I as using a car, but the real transit time including walking was 15 mins using subways.

Changing zoning laws so that there is more density would shift demand to mass transit.
I am dubious of NDE studies because a couple of things:

Are a large number of these experiences reported by people who were in a hospital context where through the resuscitation process they were given multiple different drugs that impact on their brain chemistry/perception etc?

I’d be interested in how NDE differ between people in a clinical setting and people who died in a non-clinical setting and were somehow revived by significant luck (as in a bystander was able to revive them with CPR and (maybe) an AED alone…

And the other thing often reported in NDE is this awareness of what’s going on. Which sounds similar to what people describe when they have anaesthetic awareness.
Which would make sense if you have arrested in a hospital context, as you may not have been given drugs that alter consciousness like, propofol, Sevoflurane, Midazolam etc.. but still been given drugs for resus like muscle relaxants that mean you’re paralysed (for intubation) and adrenaline to try and get some circulation, but actually your consciousness isn’t altered.

I guess my point is, how much is the reported NDE down to the concoction of drugs given to resuscitate someone.

The other thing I’m dubious about is how NDE are reported, and does this then become a situation where people report what they have heard other people have had as an experience?

It’s not exactly related, but I find an uncanny number of people believe they were asked to count back from 10 as they were being anaesthetised - however, I’ve never asked, or seen someone be asked to count back from 10 as they go off to sleep. But this is something people talk about happening, that is sometimes represented in media (TV shows, movies, books) - so perhaps they believe that’s the experience they will have, and so they remember it as such, even if it never happened. The human memory isn’t exactly reliable). I just wonder, how much of NDE is not really an experience someone had (ie, the experience of a tunnel with light at the end of it), but rather just a belief that it is an experience they had.

NDE is certainly a fascinating topic, though I’m not sure the way it is studied yields anything more than just interesting insights into cultural beliefs of what dying feels like.
A startup with no DBA does not need redundant anything. Too small.
It is all about numbers. What latency is acceptable in this hypothetical? How many workers are there? I'm not sure how long x is "time.sleep(x)" but unless very long this will use one connection per worker. That is probably fine in this situation but it isn't fine for all projects.
A fun radical policy is free charging for electric vehicles subsidized by externalities through gas taxes.
I can't understand the article.

If you want to encode video, use ffmpeg. Netflix serves static movies, so encoding is going to be relatively rare and can probably be done on whatever computing resources are already available. Quality-wise, the ffmpeg/x264/x265 people probably are doing a good job already.

If you want to serve video, serve it with HLS or similar from static files stored on a CDN with a bunch of bitrate profiles. Here the problem is more creating or finding the CDN that anything to do with video.

Can't quite figure out what the purpose of all the stuff in the article could be (maybe to justify the jobs of the people doing the work?)
LinkedIn has 1 billion users and generated only 15 billion. Of which only 7 billion from Recruiter premium plans. This is very small amount for the number of users. With the marketplace model they could easily reach 60+ billion, since all users will be interested to make money from their profiles, generating views and other activity. Just re-read my points and think about it twice. The marketplace model is much better than current subscriptions.
I'm not sure they just launched anything. OpsGenie has been an Atlassian product for 5 or more years now. I've been using it for 3-4 myself and its been integrated with Jira the whole time.

In fact, OpsGenie has mostly been on Auto-pilot for a few years now.
A fountain pen used correctly will train you to write with less pressure, which very well may help with pain
I don’t push to implement Kubernetes until I had 100 engineers and a reason to use it.
As a software engineer, finding a job is harder than it's ever been for me, but it still seems _easier_ than my peers in other industries.
I use .Net & C# for backend development and Vue or Blazor for Frontend.
.Net has great tooling that won't get in your way as you work on the project.
C# has added lots of great features and is blazing fast nowadays with every .Net release being accompanied by a massive blog post describing all the performance improvements to the runtime[1].

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvemen...
Dolphin Progress November and December 2023, January 2024
Ask HN: How can I tell if my SanDisk Extreme Pro is prone to failure?
All my personal photo albums are stored across 2 sandisk extreme pro devices, and these devices are prone to spontaneously fail (causing complete data loss): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38241583

That scares me (a lot).

My plan is to buy another brand of SSD and move the files across asap.

But, before I do that, is there a way to know (e.g. by looking up the specific model number or even production batch number) for sure if the two Sandisk SSDs I own are among the models/batches that are prone to spontaneous failure/data loss?

Sorry this is such a 'dumb' question - feels like it should be easily answerable on my own, but from a couple of hours searching/reading, then a reddit post (removed - off topic), and a stack exchange post (same fate and reason as reddit post), combined with the fact Sandisk denies there's even a problem and thus haven't issued a recall, it's very hard for me to answer this seemingly rudimentary question.

Thanks so much for any help/advice.
A really common thing in the Rust ecosystem is to write APIs that are impossible or at least hard to misuse. That cultural aspect plus the ownership system does help reduce those kind of problems. I've seen crates where there are "mistakes" in the API, lending a mutable borrow instead of returning an owned value, for example, that make them less useful than they could be otherwise, but I've seen fewer cases of bug prone APIs.
I'm dumb, why do unions only work where capital/labor is immobile?
Yes...but.

I ran the numbers on this idea many years ago and it's doable with current technology.

The good news is that the day it's deployed global warming stops instantly. It will still take a while for the planet to cool down, and much longer still for the ice caps and glaciers to return, but the warming up stops immediately.

The bad news is that it would probably take decades to deploy, and it will cost $Trillions, just as tfa points out.

The even worse news is that it does not stop the acidification of the ocean and it might even give fossil fuel burners an excuse to continue business as usual.

It might be a good idea after we stop dumping carbon into the atmosphere, but not before.
its 50$ for seed or is it one seed? its unclear
Nice I like this. I think I want to use this in my AGPL-3.0 project BrowserBox for some scripting of the complex install and command breakouts.

Would this be possible license-wise? Also do you have any focus on cross-platform install commands (like apt/dnf/brew/winget ~~ complex and most likely out of scope I know!)
That’s just another way of saying the opportunity cost isn’t worth paying to do the migration.

Optionality and flexibility are extremely valuable, and that is why cloud compute continues to be popular, especially for rapidly/burstily growing businesses like startups.
Definitely use to fall for primitive obsession. It seemed so silly to wrap objects in an intermediary type.

After playing with Rust, I changed my tune. The type system just forces you into the correct path, that a lot of code became boring because you no longer had to second guess what-if scenarios.
I don't see how genetics allowing for instinctual/"inherent" knowledge requires a creator.

Once upon a time there was a bug that had a little sticky bit on it's butt, it had a billion descendants when one of them randomly had a gene that affected it's behavior such that it, I don't know, rested on high surfaces using the sticky bit and was safer from predators or something, and then had slightly more kids than the rest. And one of those kids randomly had a gene that gave it more sticky stuff, and one of it's kids used it a little more effectively, and so on and so forth. And that probably takes somewhere from tens of thousands to a few million years.

That's not meant to be literal, but that's the story in my head, and it doesn't feel like a huge leap to get to complex behaviors like webs.
OG reactive functional programming some say

leads too easily to spaghetti columns but still
Because in a couple of years regardless if you are locked in its going to end, change, or otherwise break.
This theory would make more sense if we didn't have the actual practical example of the Toyota BZ4x being a crappy vehicle.
> Additionally, the less capable the childbearer is of childcare, the more inconvenience the born child will have.

So we should just terminate the baby to prevent any possible inconvenience she might experience? That is some twisted logic.
IcebergHT isn't just for persistent memory (although I can see why you might think it is based on the paper's title). The paper also gives experiments showing that the hash table performs very well in standard RAM, much better than other concurrent implementations.
I tried this once and ended up dying of dysentery…
You're the minority, from what I've read from others and experienced firsthand.

Typically the technical interviews at companies (in the US at least) consist of HackerRank (either something generic a la leetcode or something made in-house at the company) followed by a live coding test and trivia (SOLID principles, Gang of Four design patterns, OOP fundamentals, sometimes things specific to the languages the company is using). This is for senior level positions. I find most companies put all SWE candidates through the same interview process, same coding challenges/leetcode, regardless of experience level.
> Animals don't have to learn to walk.

Have you seen baby deer?
Sad news indeed, Seiji Ozawa was a great artist. His many excellent recording will keep our memories of him alive.
The queue itself may be fast, but that doesn't mean that the other end of your pipe is.
Notion Acquires Skiff
China was set to self destruct based on years of over optimization at the cost of a sustainable life model.

When 500,000,000 fewer chinese are missing from cities in 2100, it will be fascinating to see what type of ghost towns end up near HK.
Depends on the other industries, I guess. It's pretty easy to find service jobs right now. The other thing I'm noticing is that the hourly rates being offered for contracts are a lot less than they were 2 years ago.
It's a bit more nuanced than that (and PG&E deliberately makes their bills difficult to read). In Oakland for the baseline tier on the time of use plan:

Peak is $0.51536 (delivery) - $0.10556 (baseline credit) + $0.16225 (generation via East Bay Community Energy / Ava) or just over of $0.57 per kWh.

Off-peak is $0.48701 - $0.10556 - $0.13772 or just shy of $0.52/kWh.

Add that baseline credit back in for when you reach tier 2 (currently 12.9 kWh/day for my apartment which factors in winter usage and electric heat). I have about 3.5 kW of baseboard heaters (and use 2.75 kW at most). Whatever the duty cycle is to keep the apartment at 60°F 24x7 is well more than 12.9 kWh so obviously I don't do that anymore. Rates are set to go up again in March or April.

Gas is $2.43888/therm with tier 2 kicking in at 6.72 therms/month and minimum charge of $0.13151/day.
Doesn't make me happy but doom scrolling to "on the beach" with mass end of life pills, and the last submarine isn't going to help.

The impact is being debated. It's not going to be good but how bad has yet to be determined and may be judged in hindsight not in advance because the old "gulf stream keeps Britain warm" thing has been refined a lot in the last decade.

It's unlikely to be chocolates and rainbows. This write up suggests 1m of higher seas on the American side of the Atlantic is possible, presumably atmospheric pressure and loss of a stable outflow pattern. That's a lot of extra height for some places. Beyond current sea wall expectations maybe.
Probably Cisco Meraki.
It does support webXR, it's in beta. They have implied heavily in sessions that it will be out of beta soon.

AVP is great but it is clearly unfinished.
I’m not trying to be creepy or anything, but I clicked on your user name, and your profile has what looks like a real name on it.
I think these are more-often called "cache oblivious" algorithms
> curious how you're arriving at your figure

Hi, sure. The nodes in the EVM do not collaborate to split the work, rather, they all perform (basically) the same work. So, you could instead run Ethereum with one node that connects to the net and receives transactions, processes them (around 20 per second - it's not exactly a lot of processing), puts them into blocks, and sends out the complete blocks. It would perform exactly the same as the current network, and would consume, say, 4 W (a Raspberry Pi, say).

The one difference is that it would have to be trusted, which is the big no-no. But that's the effective work being done.

But the validators burn around 1 MW (that lines up with your figure approximately) and are paid $5m a day to do that work. And 1 MW / 4 W is a factor of 250k, which I rounded up to 1m considering all the other activity around Ethereum, though feel free to round it down to 1e5.
I really enjoyed reading his conversations with Haruki Murakami [1].

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28092838
I once stayed in a hotel with 1700 PPM in my room. It was a LEED Gold building sealed up tight. We didn't notice any cognitive issues but we made a point of not staying there long.
and a pattern that deals with larger transactions and keys. it just is a requirement. People run into this late, and it kind of screws them up.

also, a lot more operational tooling would be nice.
> trained-in prejudices

I was raised agnostic (and still am), and for most of my life I vaguely believed that abortion should be legal up to ~12-16 weeks—this was typical view in Europe, and I had never thought to question it. Until I came across the following (WARNING GRAPHIC): https://www.liveaction.org/news/infant-bodies-infanticide-at.... My "trained-in prejudices" were overcome in an instant, and I acquired my present view of the issue.
> I know people who spend more than I spent just on graphics cards every year

Could you make any assumption, how many such people exists? If this number enough to achieve some financial sustainability for manufacturer?
Don’t forget the sun. The sun gets to a warmer color at sunset, hence why warm white conveys a "go to bed" meaning.
Hydrogen in cars never stood a chance. It was always used to grab government money to do expensive case studies.
It’s a great thing that this report addresses both space and time!
This should shed light on what the author meant by those terms: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-determine-regrettable-ver...
Any HVAC tech worth their salt should be able to work on a heat pump…
Japan to California: Hold my beer.
So far it seems fine, and the maintainers seem to be doing OK too.

Is the project future at risk? https://github.com/fluxcd/flux2/discussions/4544
I'm right there with you on Jira. The haters are wrong - it's a decent enough ticket system, no worse than anything else I've used. You can definitely torture Jira into something horrible, but that's not Jira's fault. Bad managers will ruin any ticket system if they have the customization tools to do so.