skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More than 20% of cloud cost waste is directly associated with forgotten resources. It has only gotten worse recently with 1000s of instances spun up every day for AI and ML-based applications. We all have woken up to a forgotten EC2 instance or even worse, only found out when a cloud provider leaves a significant dent in our bank account.

Meet Costshake, a simple, lightweight, deploy-and-forget solution to automatically turn off your idle cloud instances. Costshake is a Software-as-a-Service that comes with a super simple CLI that you can install and configure on your cloud instance in under 5 minutes. After that, just sit back and relax. It will monitor your instance based on the idleness criteria that you configure.

You can define one or more of the following criteria to automatically stop an instance.

- If the system is idle i.e. no mouse, keyboard, or ssh activity for X minutes where you define X.

- If the total CPU usage drops to a certain percentage and remains at or below that percentage for X minutes where you define both the percentage and minutes.

- If the total Memory usage drops to a certain percentage and remains at or below that percentage for X minutes where you define both the percentage and minutes.
Mostly no, the competition is too great. You can join a mining pool and share on what's mined. But even then it's iffy, if you can't access cheap energy.

The pot of gold is waiting for the person who can figure out the killer app for it but mining is mostly a big miner's domain now.

I know of a guy who mined 50 coins overnight while playing with the mining software on his machine about 10 years ago. It's now worth over $2.5 mil and he's not done. He's holding it until he retires. His big advantage is that he does not need the money and is not counting on it as a retirement fund so he can hold it thru all the dips without feeling like the world is coming to an end.
sorry, in fact i think its hard to play any instrument, but my experience is with piano only. i studied hard for 18 months in my mid 30s and could play many pieces of Erik Satie and some other musicians.
Related:

US pharmacy outage triggered by 'Blackcat' ransomware at UnitedHealth unit, sources say

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/cyber-secur...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39524514)
Spinach tastes great when made right.
You sell jastingo™ brand widgets, but you notice fakes are being sold on eBay, Amazon, AliExpress. You set up a scraper to search for jastingo widgets every day on every marketplace site, but you get blocked. So now you need an unblocker to enforce your copyright/trademark/patent.
Then why would the litigants contribute in the first place?

If nothing compels them to, they won't, so effectively the status quo.
I absolutely am on board with the idea... but reliable mass public transport requires an entire country of cities to be redesigned (this is in a country that struggles to get zoning laws changed to move from single to multi-family housing in many places), we'll have self-driving cars first.

Hell, I think we'd get flying cars first. It's nearly impossible to touch anything that requires modifying suburbs or their streets, politically.
Sure, "let foo = bar" is one of the worst things any language can do.

Let is redundant, that's what the = is for. Unless it's meant to be equivalent to 'var' or 'auto', in which case it's even worse.

Let contains no information, it's pointless clutter that replaced something that did contain vital information. Let tells you the next symbol is a variable. What type? Who knows and who cares, it's a variable, deal with it. C marks a symbol as a variable by using its type name.

I mean, this was a very large part of why Perl is so miserable. I will never understand why people choose to implement this in modern languages.

Anyway, variables and parameters without explicit, visible type information is a hard no for me. I took a sniff of a couple rust projects, saw this mess, and decided that rust is not for me. I don't care about all the other magical benefits that cure all my ails, this feature is a dealbreaker, full stop.
psnehanshu's comment literally begins with "TL;DR by Gemini"
These guys have a fabulous bit on microservices that I watch at least monthly to maintain my sanity.

https://youtu.be/y8OnoxKotPQ
It's not new either. Teddy Roosevelt ran on trust busting and defeated both the dems and republicans.
This stuff is pretty similar to the Hacktoberfest incident. Well intentioned projects/events being misused.
For those not familiar, here is the one on Optum & United Healthcare:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_khH6pZnHCM
I abhor war. I believe the only way to secure peace is to be very good at war. That's why I participated in flight testing the F-35, and why I work on electronic warfare simulations now.

I wish I lived in a world where there's no need for any of this, but as far as I know, war is as old as the species.
Exactly. When they say

> Unlike with prometheus, however, with Wide Events approach we don’t need to worry about cardinality

This is hinting at the hidden reason why not everyone does it. You have to 'worry' about cardinality because Prometheus is pre-aggregating data so you can visualize it fast, and optimizing storage. If you want the same speed on a massive PB-scale data lake, with an infinite amount of unstructured data, and in the cloud instead of your own datacenters, it's gonna cost you a lot, and for most companies it is not a sensible expense.

It does work at smaller scale though, we once had an in-house system like this that worked well. Eventually user events were moved to MixPanel, and everything else to Datadog, metrics/logs/traces + a migration to OpenTel. It took months and added 2-digit monthly bills, and in the end debugging or resolving incidents wasn't much improved over having instant access to events and business metrics. Whoever figures out a system that can do "wide events" in a cost-effective way from startup to unicorn scale will absolutely make a killing.
No. Long live the piracy. Good bye and thanks for the fish.
If a device's only use involves copyright infringement, it's illegal to sell or distribute in the USA. That's how they went after cable descramblers and, less successfully, VCRs in the 80s.

Since getting actual Switch game data necessarily involves violating the DMCA, Nintendo's lawyers will have an easy time showing that the only way yuzu can be useful is if the user violates copyright law, thus making the emulator itself illegal.

That is if this even makes it to court.
I have PS4 pro and for as long as I tried to find one, there is not a single reason for me to upgrade. I bought a Quest 3 instead.
Easy. The defendant and plaintiffs each hire and pay for lawyers they can or are willing to afford.

But all of that money goes into a prize pot, which gets distributed based on who wins the case.

This would ensure either Nintendo doesn't try to financially grind out a poor small company because the loss would not be worth it to them.
And this comes as a surprise to whom?
Dude,

The withdrawal occurred in 2021. Biden was president.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/16/biden-afghanis...
I would argue that Python itself is a case of this. It peaked early as an ultra-dynamic language, and was very consistent at it - e.g. all declarations are executable code, which is actually fairly straightforward conceptually and easy to explain - but this approach doesn't mesh well with things like class declarations and imports, which turns out you need for more serious development.

More recently, this is the case with typed Python. Again, the dynamic-ness of Python - which easily exceeds that of JS - was part of the original design for type annotations. Turns out it doesn't work well with things like forward references or type parameters, so ugly hacks (like stringifying type names) were introduced to deal with that. Now there's yet another revamp to fix the resulting ugliness and inconsistencies (take a look at https://peps.python.org/pep-0649/ to see what I mean).
Its a shame, because there is a lot of really cool stuff you can do when you're able to work with your code in algebraic terms.

Just as one simple example:

Suppose you have defined some expressions that describe how to read/write data from a database, and you have used them to define a workflow-expression that retrieves a bunch of data, does some math on it, and displays the result.

In Mathematica, you can plug that whole workflow-expression into the "Simplify" function and it will potentially eliminate entire database calls if it realizes you've got stuff like "GetData[y]*(GetData[x]-GetData[x])" in your result that will always evaluate to 0.

You can even do things like define a high "complexity" of your GetData functions to make the Simplify function look for an algebraic form that will minimize calls to the database, even if it has to make the algebra look uglier.
Even if the troops on base are under American jurisdiction, it's not like America is an entirely lawless country.

Put thousands of young people anywhere and stuff will happen. Some people will behave badly sometimes. Given enough time and people someone will eventually murder someone.

People sometimes get upset over the outcome in criminal cases, also within fully Swedish jurisdiction. Rightly or wrongly.

On balance it seems like a reasonable trade-off to me. The Americans gets, to a certain degree, to do things their way and Sweden gets a certain degree of extra protection against Russia.
It's something that has increasingly bewildered me: why do we as people get so biased when we don't like someone? So biased that we can't see anything good in them anymore, and we can't recognize (sometimes any of) their accomplishments?

Biden, Trump, Elon, etc., depending on what side you are, there's always someone to think of as an example.
Optum is the most garbage organization that has absolutely ruined local healthcare. I go out of my way to find places that aren't affiliated, even though they're much further distance, just to avoid them. It's about time this happened.
Why do you assume I live in the USA? No, I haven't been part of any legislation process in the USA because I do not live there.

No need for Constitutional amendments when the healthcare and insurance industry in the USA (the biggest spenders in lobbying afaik) can lobby politicians to block legislation setting caps on drug prices paid by the government through ACA, or to keep the dysfunctional system of health insurance you live under.

Let me know when citizens can spend some US$ 8-10b on lobbying for universal healthcare, just like the combined spending of healthcare + insurance industries...

And just a quick edit: setting the NRA as an example of citizens' association lobbying is a bit tone deaf given what they do for the weapons industry, it's another very good case for how lobbying can be detrimental to society by hiding big corporations interests behind what is seemingly a citizens' association.

Edit as a form of last reply since I got rate limited:

You edited the comment to remove the sentence saying "state or federally" which implied to me you were talking about the USA. A bit of a dishonest response after such edit...
Hell: Shell Scripting Haskell Dialect
Simple: Tim cook is apple's Steve ballmer
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2017/02/15/tim-cook...
I think a lot of this is better and more efficient centrally-managed. There are two things:

1) We want food production overcapacity, so if there is e.g. a 25% hit due to a freak weather event, or a diseases killing 100% of this years' corn crop, we don't have widespread food shortages.

2) That overcapacity should go somewhere. Large warehouses seem like reasonable places for it to go.

A lot of other things -- like medicines -- I can't realistically manage.

And rotating food is, well, a lot of hard work for someone absent-minded. I think one of my key questions is about how bad expired food gets. I've heard of people eating (and even growing) literally ancient grains. "Best before" isn't always "toxic after."

We used to be able to make big plans like this maybe a 75 years ago, during the era of WWII and the early cold war. Let's stick a man on the moon! Make a nuclear bomb! Create a whole new system of government! Etc.
Alarmism might be the modern crisis actually worth being alarmist about.
Actual article: https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/cyber-secur... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39524514)
And they all drive Teslas with vanity license plates.
> Is there a notable difference between Yuzu and other switch emulators?

It's Nintendo. They sue everybody.
There are exiting sessions such as:

* "Fostering and renewing community in a long-lived free software project" by T. Kim Nguyen;
* "Empowering youth in the digital age: A path to success" by Leonardo Champion;
* "Connecting community organizations and technological activists for software freedom" by Christina Haralanova;
* "Hosting freedom - A behind-the-scenes tour with the Savannah Hackers" by Corwin Brust; or
* "It is easy to contribute to GNU" by Wensheng Xie

The schedule features a whole new track on being creative with free software!

* How to write free culture fantasy with free software by Seth Patterson
* How to make a libre movie with only libre software by "Blender Dumbass"

Lichess is present, too.
The only comment of someone saying they had used Yuzu for piracy has been flagged, and is no longer visible.

This might HN readers a skewed perspective on how much Yuzu is used for piracy.

I have many acquaintances/friends in different circles, with the means to pay, who use Yuzu for piracy.

There are dedicated forums of people who coordinate on how to do this.

Emulation is great as a means to study or play backups, but its also fair that Nintendo has legitimate business interest in curtailing this.

IANAL, and have no idea how their case against Yuzu developers will go.
I bought three boxes of Microforest from Edwina Robinson here in ACT Australia and planted them in my front yard.

Here is an article about her project.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-08/act-micro-forests-in-...

It's been two years, the some of the trees are well over 2m tall already.
Effective deterance is a triad of land, sea and air. The US has stealthy nuclear bombers, land based missle silos and nuclear submarines.
> just put it there, it might be useful later

> Also note that we have never mentioned anything about cardinality. Because it doesn’t matter - any field can be of any cardinality. Scuba works with raw events and doesn’t pre-aggregate anything, and so cardinality is not an issue.

This is how we end up with very large, very expensive data swamps.
I would say that every skilled leader must use punishments and consequences to some degree.

If your tech gets drunk every day and doesnt do their job, you need to cut them loose. This isn't a management problem.

Sometimes people end up in positions where they are not suited and will continue to fail. If you hired a plumber and you need a doctor, that isnt an on the job training, support, or leadership issue.
That's insane. The archive link isn't working for me so I can't read the article, but we received a letter that any long term prescriptions might need to go through Optum and that we'd only be able to fill a few at a local pharmacy before the refused to cover them.

I was a bit flabbergasted as that didn't seem like it could possibly be legal.

By the way - that's absolutely not great if you have controlled medications, as you need to sign for them and can't exactly get them filled early. I take three different ones. Luckily my wife and I work from home.
It’s all fun and games until you get a taste of your own medicine.
>Atlas 5 is already completely obsoleted by the Falcon Heavy which costs about half as much, for a reusable launch, and carries about 3x as much.

Which is why the rocket has been discontinued.

This is also why Boeing Starliner is dead man walking. Starliner is only certified for Atlas 5, and there are enough spare boosters for the launches NASA contracted with Boeing for, no more. The consensus is that Boeing will fulfill the contract then that'll be the end of Starliner, which is great for Boeing in the sense that it'll finally close that money-leaking wound, but not great for NASA because the whole point of Starliner + Crew Dragon was to have two separate US-owned ways to send people into space.[1] Even if Starship passes every test going forward ahead of schedule and gets man-rated, NASA would prefer to not have one company provide both methods, but I don't know what would be a better alternative. Sierra finally gets that big contract to man-rate Dream Chaser? Blue Origin?

[1] Setting aside how everyone at the time believed that Starliner would be the first one into orbit
I'm glad that works for you but to me it sounds really expensive. At small scale you can do this any way you want but if you build an observability system with linear cost and a high coefficient it will become an issue if you run into some success.
Reality is now beyond parody. I don't even know what to say about this aggressive legislation of emotion... because it might be construed in the near future as hatred by someone in Canada, and I could be extradited to enjoy a very long holiday.
Depends on how you describe "useful." Kagi is a profitable search company that satisfies its customers while competing directly with Google. They aren't useful in the sense that they're taking marketshare from Google, but they are useful to their user base. I hope they continue being able to scrape sites with the same freedom as other search engines.

Edit: As mmcclure points out Kagi actually doesn't index much. So that's a bad example that might invalidate my point.
It's also a terrible form. It boils down to just 2 important questions:

* Mining Electric Load: (in MW)

* Mining Hash Rate: (in TH/s)

But it doesn't have a place to specify which cryptocurrency is being mined. Each have a very different hash rate on the same hardware. So this "emergency" data will be useless even if they do collect it.
It will just give whatever is in the alt text for the image.
You don't need to do this. I bought a 1TB sd card because I heard that was enough space to store every retro game up to n64. I ended up copying over a small hand-picked selection of games rather than the full romset. We need some people to keep copies of the full romsets for the sake of preservation, but typical users only want certain, popular games.
Ouch, releasing patch before official launch sort of proves they pirated the game themselves, which somewhat undermines defense that they don't encourage piracy.
Voting a core pillar of democracy.

We don't let children vote, or in some places the incarcerated and/or felons, and we judiciously regulate how and when others can vote.

If we can regulate voting this way surely we can regulate lobbying.
I think the intellectually honest counterpoint is more about relationships. As someone who has been a digital nomad, it's hard to form deeper relationships when people are always leaving.

It's also hard to have hobbies that rely on the same group of people meeting in person over a long period of time.
Thank you - we really appreciate it!

Drata and Secureframe provide a compliance checklist and integrate with some of your vendors (i.e. AWS, Github, etc.) to passively monitor your configurations and flag concerns.

We provide the same compliance checklist that Drata and Secureframe does, and also give you HIPAA compliant technical configurations. We'll deploy your application with infrastructure that's compliant out of the box, provide CI/CD pipelines, and a real-time monitoring/logging solution. We do a lot of work on our end to block attacks, proxy you through our firewalls, and automate your DevOps/delay your need to hire a DevOps team. These are all things you'd have to manually configure on Drata and Secureframe. By automating this, we save you weeks of work.
I'm not sure how it applies to learning, but for any activity based on consistency and quantity, I find it wild how quickly time seems to shrink and "writing 500 words a day" seems to overnight turn into "I wrote 100k words in the last 3 years". My goal at this point in life (42) is not really to get better at stuff, but just focus on doing what I like and want to be doing, while leading a stable life.
Why does it need to be that complicated? If marketplaces are selling fakes, get your lawyer to send them a letter.
Eglot and use-package allow Installing packages from source, allowing you to easily switch between bleeding edge, tagged versions, and contribute changes.
I can still remember an interview that consisted of nothing but those questions and I hadn't prepared answers so I either answered "I can't think of a time sorry" or tried to recall one on the spot. Interview was a train-wreck.

Since then I have a bunch written down that I review before I interview. It's like leetcode questions, if you are going to get them during the interview you study for them. You don't expect to naturally solve them without prep.
Observability as a shared concept has followed Agile and DevOps.

Something with a real meaning that is enables a step-change is development practices. Adoption is organic initially because the pain it solves is very real.

But as awareness of the idea grows it threatens established institutions and vendors, who must co-opt the concept and redefine it such that they are included.

If they can’t be explicitly included (logs, metrics, traces)[0], then they at least make sure the definition is becomes so vague and confused that they are not explicitly excluded[1].

Wide events and a good means to query them covers everything, but not if you as a vendor cannot store and query wide events.

[0] as the article notes, one of these is not like the other.
[1] Is Scrum Agile? What do you mean a standup can’t go for an hour? See also DevOps as a role.
The 3D successor to this is also worth trying out:

• https://sandpond.cool

More excellent projects from TodePond:

• https://www.todepond.com

• https://youtube.com/@TodePond

• https://futureofcoding.org

If you like the sand, you should binge the related sandpond saga:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taNguu5T22g&list=ULcxqQ59vzy...
In much of the US, the two are interdependent: to plant more trees on streets, for example, many US cities will need to trim the arterial roads that swallowed up neighborhood sidewalks half a century ago.
Yes, I suspect you are right, productivity is something foreign to Elon Musk. Definitely.
Yep. I have UHC through work. I'm on an expensive medication and UHC requires that I order it through Optum, so they keep more of the money. At least neither of the doctors I usually see work for them, so I don't have that conflict.
From 20 years experience, it's spot on. What's wrong with telling the truth rather than being a salesperson?!
What I'm hearing is that it solves the problem of Nintendo being to outspend the defendant. If Nintendo brings a lawsuit and spends zero dollars on court cost, it should be rather easy for the defense to also contribute zero and the lawsuit is avoided. Problem solved.
Sure, but it's totally viable that some people on a budget would buy a cpu with an iGPU and then upgrade later.
I'm not a fan of opaque ranking algorithms either. Just use this, the only thing it has is a 500 point threshhold and surprise, that works perfectly fine to determine what is currently trending in the community

https://hn.moritz.pm
In this specific case people helping will require physical access for the family member they are helping.
If they don't, big red flag (self hosters should be able to recognize a scammer), and if they actually have physical access to a stolen server, they won't need help, or won't be able to create such a scam.