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skolsuperon AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

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What about the incentive to release "the most secure chips on the market", are you discounting that a bit too much?

Granted that human nature tends to mean these factors don't have a high enough weight, e.g. it's not the safest airplanes that sell the most, it's the cheapest ones that meet the regulations, and the regulations drive safety improvements, for the most part

skolsuperon Dow said it was recycling our shoes. We found them at an Indonesian flea market

Indonesia bans the import of 2nd-hand clothing and footwear, specifically because a large proportion of it ends up in landfill or incinerators. That definitely would be a worse environmental outcome than being recycled into running track. I suspect the reason the shoes from the article did not go to landfill was probably because they were in unusually good condition.

skolsuperon I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you

I doubt any lawyer would bring a suit against one of the biggest corporations on the planet on contingency. Its going to be a hell of a lot of work to win even a clear-cut case against an opponent with this much resources. See also: the cave-diver that sued Elon Musk for defamation. Or Miller UK vs Caterpillar Inc (they won, but it took 5 years)

skolsuperon Heroku: We’ve Heard Your Feedback

+1, Django docs were gold standard when I last used it. Also DRF. I still miss them, 5 years later.

skolsuperon US schools can subscribe to an electric bus fleet at lower prices than diesel

Still... if you plan to add 100MW of renewable this year and retire 100MW of coal, then demand goes up by 100MW, do you now add 200MW of renewable instead, or do you delay the retiring of the 100MW of coal?

skolsuperon US schools can subscribe to an electric bus fleet at lower prices than diesel

And maybe as the type of generation used for the marginal difference in energy required. If your country generates 90% of its electricity from hydroelectric and 10% from coal, you might still use coal for the comparison because hydroelectric power would be slow to add and the extra electricity for EVs would have to provided by coal

skolsuperon Low interest rates in advanced countries have pushed money into real estate

> just because that group being hurt isn't "your" group of people, it doesn't mean they deserve it.

When the group is "the most successful in the current system", it's not exclusionary / discriminatory or exploitable. Whether their success is due to luck or smarts or inheritance, they succeeded in the current system by definition, because there is only one system. Therefore, they can be asked to pay proportionally more to maintain it. Furthermore, the bargain "to pay less tax, be less successful" is not one that any rational actor would make. It's inherently fair.

The only part you could reasonably quibble with imo is using wealth as a measure of success, but since it is the currency that taxes deal in -- one alternative: government takes some of your children -- it's the one that makes the most ssense. Still, those in society that find some way to life satisfaction without accumulating wealth do have an advantage in the proposed system. Maybe that's something we should encourage?

skolsuperon How I made Google’s data grid scroll faster with a line of CSS

I think they're referring to the date, April 1 is "April Fool's Day" in many countries. Some companies put out joke press releases on April 1 that are not intended to be taken seriously.

skolsuperon Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer

Who are you, and how did you get into my kitchen?

skolsuperon Ask HN: Words of encouragement for someone lost in life?

Know any good apps to gamify weight training? Strava really worked for me for running, now I'd like to replicate the experience with strength training.

skolsuperon Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake

This exists in the UK already at least. Last time I checked (10+ years ago) you could choose to split 50/50 rent/mortgage or 25/75 either way.

skolsuperon RethinkDB: why we failed (2017)

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mongodb-inc-announc...

- Revenue: Total revenue was $150.8 million in the third quarter fiscal 2021, an increase of 38% year-over-year. Subscription revenue was $144.1 million, an increase of 39% year-over-year, and services revenue was $6.7 million, an increase of 19% year-over-year.

- Gross Profit: Gross profit was $104.7 million in the third quarter fiscal 2021, representing a 69% gross margin, compared to 71% in the year-ago period. Non-GAAP gross profit was $108.6 million, representing a 72% non-GAAP gross margin.

- Loss from Operations: Loss from operations was $58.1 million in the third quarter fiscal 2021, compared to $38.7 million in the year-ago period. Non-GAAP loss from operations was $16.0 million, compared to $14.3 million in the year-ago period.

- Net Loss: Net loss was $72.7 million, or $1.22 per share, based on 59.4 million weighted-average shares outstanding in the third quarter fiscal 2021. This compares to $42.4 million, or $0.75 per share, based on 56.4 million weighted-average shares outstanding, in the year-ago period. Non-GAAP net loss was $18.2 million or $0.31 per share. This compares to $14.6 million, or $0.26 per share, in the year-ago period.

- Cash Flow: As of October 31, 2020, MongoDB had $966.8 million in cash, cash equivalents, short-term investments and restricted cash. During the three months ended October 31, 2020, MongoDB used $8.1 million of cash from operations, $5.6 million in capital expenditures and $1.2 million in principal repayments of finance leases, leading to negative free cash flow of $14.9 million, compared to negative free cash flow of $13.1 million in the year-ago period.

skolsuperon Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half

brutish?

Although as a Brit myself it's amusing to consider myself some kind of atavistic archetype of humanity

skolsuperon AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana

Oh I'm sorry, I'm referring to AWS exploiting the free software, not their customers, but I can see how I was not clear.

The rest of the 500+ comments here do a good job arguing both sides of it so I won't rehash that. Just saying that I can see that AWS taking the free thing and using it as a loss-leader (i.e. no possible way Elastic can compete) could be construed as exploitation of the free thing.

skolsuperon AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana

They're literally describing the chilling effect. It shows a lack of imagination if you think this "free market" is the only way to create valuable software.

PS. In a truly free market, there would be no enforcement of license violations except that which companies could muster themselves, i.e. Elastic would be able to hire mercenaries to loot and pillage AWS' data centres

skolsuperon AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana

> Amazon is outcompeting them by providing a better service to their clients.

I wouldn't necessarily say AWS' ability to use ES as a loss-leader for their Data Transfer charges is better for AWS's clients in the long-run. I can certainly see the argument for calling it exploitation.

skolsuperon 2020 Game

It's a LOT from a donate button. Donate buttons generate barely any revenue at all, generally speaking. This game must have either got lucky with the crowd that's playing it, or has literally millions of players already.

skolsuperon Back to the '70s with Serverless

Impossible question, it depends what your app does and what your users do. Even within the same company, 1000 concurrent users of Google Maps will use completely different resources than 1000 concurrent users of gmail. It'll even change over time for the same app and same users, as their behaviour or the world around them changes.

skolsuperon The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire

You left a certain major world religion off your list that counters your argument... Accident?

skolsuperon The Death of Tony Hsieh: A Spiral of Alcohol, Drugs and Extreme Behavior

Presumably in this example all grocery store clerks, bar and restaurant service staff, doctors and nurses etc do not have parents and grandparents? Or do they not count for some reason?

skolsuperon Production-Oriented Development

> Only no-SLA consumer apps. Just having a price tag on unavailability will change most of the reasoning for his points.

I don't think so. The gist of the reasoning is that it's better to have more numerous small failures that are fixed quickly than rare but catastrophic failures. I think that's true even when you have an SLA, which is probably why it's broadly in line with the principles in Google's Site Reliability Engineering book

Others have made the point though that this all goes out of the window when talking about safety-critical engineering (Therac-25, 737Max etc)

skolsuperon IBM is splitting itself into two public companies

It's perfectly fair. If they had hired all chefs into upper management, one could say "too many chefs and not enough engineers!", regardless of the quality of the chefs.

skolsuperon Amtrak’s Empire Builder: The Train That Deserves Better

I don't think "cars cost more than just the price of gas" is mental gymnastics, but an exact $ figure we can all agree on will be tough.

Once they become a thing, the price of an autonomous taxi between the cities should approach the real amortized cost of road travel.

skolsuperon Social Cooling (2017)

How would more personal responsibility and self-awareness help Chinese dissidents, in your opinion?

skolsuperon Amtrak’s Empire Builder: The Train That Deserves Better

Your simple fix would change the calculus when comparing road & rail travel, which I think is the point of the person you were disagreeing with.

skolsuperon First Evidence of a Planet in Another Galaxy

Wow wtf did I just read?

skolsuperon Orcas striking sailing boats in the Straits of Gibraltar

Absolutely. I am scared of spiders because my mother is scared of spiders, not because she told me to be scared of spiders. Quite the opposite: knowing arachnaphobia is an irrational fear (at least in the UK), she tried very hard not to pass it on to her children, but the body language of fear must be near impossible to hide from a child.

skolsuperon Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers

> RancherOS 1.x is currently in a maintain-only-as-essential mode. That is to say, it is no longer being actively maintained at a code level other than addressing critical or security fixes.

quoting support.rancher.com, taken from the 4th comment down in the linked Github issue

skolsuperon Motivation – Keli Language

I think you mean black sheep