Hacker News: princetman

New comment by princetman in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data - $1.7 BILLION"

princetman — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:58:06 +0000

Sorry mate, $241,946,798,744.75 for Glacier here.

New comment by princetman in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

princetman — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:55:59 +0000

Mine is showing $241,946,798,744.75. I know it will be reverted, but for a brief minute there I suspected someone compromised my account and triggered rust rewrite of everything using thousands of agents via Bedrock :)

Phew.

Apple's Reframe: A Moment That Never Was

princetman — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:20:37 +0000

Article URL: https://tty.mansuri.me/posts/~apple-reframe-a-moment-that-never-was/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48474635

Points: 1

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New comment by princetman in "NASA's Curiosity rover finds organic molecules on Mars"

princetman — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:01:47 +0000

What are the chances of this just being some cross contamination from rover itself? I vaguely remember something similar almost a decade ago and ultimately was inconclusive.

New comment by princetman in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"

princetman — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:20:20 +0000

Depends on what you’re after * Australia * United States * Singapore * Dubai * Europe (Belgium/Switzerland/Netherlands)

New comment by princetman in "Doctor GPT: A Large Language Model That Can Pass the US Medical Licensing Exam"

princetman — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 13:05:36 +0000

Yes, field of diagnosis and experimental medication/treatment requires no new logic.

New comment by princetman in "Doctor GPT: A Large Language Model That Can Pass the US Medical Licensing Exam"

princetman — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 02:25:10 +0000

A programmer is simply a database of past projects, information they’ve read, and programming knowledge.

They take in requirements, perform coding, analyse output, repeat.

New comment by princetman in "Twelve Years of Go"

princetman — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 10:10:37 +0000

Docker and Kubernetes comes to mind.

New comment by princetman in "Making the dislike count private across YouTube"

princetman — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 18:35:10 +0000

As a complete novice in life in everything that is not Tech, I rely on a lot of how-to videos on YouTube from small unknown creators. Likes and Dislikes ratio is one of the key filter to weed out less helpful or outright misinformed videos. This may be shrewd move for YouTube to boost engagement but at the greater cost of utility and UX. Very disappointing.

New comment by princetman in "When working from home is toxic"

princetman — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 15:13:38 +0000

Right, you must have room with a door to WFH otherwise back to the open plan office.

New comment by princetman in "Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login"

princetman — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 11:02:29 +0000

No, I hardly ever tip my delivery drivers. Tip is not expected for normal service here, unlike USA. If someone goes above and beyond, you can tip but there is no obligation. We have minimum wage system and most in my area are paid above that.

Most popular gadgets with screens, smartphones, doesn’t have credits, not the most popular apps on App Store apart from couple of words “From Facebook”, “By Google” etc. It’s not considered “incredibly disrespectful” to not read credits in apps or acknowledgments in books that have it listed. It’s a personal preference to read or skip them. I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make.

New comment by princetman in "Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login"

princetman — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:17:32 +0000

I get the sentiment for live performance, but in your own home, I can not relate to this. Vast majority of people in credits are doing a job and getting paid for it, just like any other profession or trade.

We don't pay "respect" to delivery drivers, or to designers and engineers who brings us our gadgets and services in same way. Why should I spend my time and attention on credit rolls? It's not like anyone noticing it.

New comment by princetman in "Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study"

princetman — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:27:01 +0000

This can be said of all interviews, not just tech. It’s hard for great many people to put themselves out there. I mean interview itself is a performance, isn’t it?

Having said that communication and interpersonal skills are big part of most jobs even in tech. We hardly develop software in isolation these days.

I don’t know about other industries, but in Tech there are some really inexperienced interviewers out there, who’re impulsive and lacks discipline in conducting objective and meaningful assessment.

New comment by princetman in "Being a good guy boss left me £1.2m in debt"

princetman — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 08:22:21 +0000

If I recall correctly you either have to mail in your passport with application form and photos or you can go to post office where they can verify ID for your fist provisional license.

One of the step to get full license is to take theory test in person at test centre. They check your address and verify ID again at this stage.

We have small driving test centres in most areas. You prebook the slot and turn up. They’re fairly punctual.

New comment by princetman in "Photographers, Instagrammers: Stop Being So Selfish and Disrespectful"

princetman — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 14:28:14 +0000

Here in UK we have a few lavender farmers who does exactly that.

https://www.mayfieldlavender.com/mayfield-lavender-farm/

New comment by princetman in "Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro"

princetman — Tue, 21 May 2019 19:03:07 +0000

For me 13” Retina MBP circa 2013 was the pinnacle of form factor, price, & performance. Unfortunately they went out of support and employer forced us to upgrade with 15” Touch MBP. I don’t have any complaints about keyboard, guess I’m just lucky in that regards.

But new MacOS and hardware are frighteningly unstable. I have observed roughly 1 in 5 times that it’ll crash outright with blank screen when attached to external display. Resetting PRAM, & SMC work for a couple of days and then back to same behaviour. Apple Store had a quick look but stupid thing didn’t crash so they blamed it on faulty cables at work and home. How can a cable can cause it to crash even after disconnected?

Unless they up their game I’ll never spend my own money on another Mac.

New comment by princetman in "ArangoDB Receives $10M Series A Funding"

princetman — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:39:58 +0000

I wonder how would one douse investors concern of having Open Source product like ArangoDB, and AWS effectively eating their lunch if/when wide adoption comes?

Congratulations on the funding btw! I'm a happy and grateful user.

New comment by princetman in "ArangoDB Receives $10M Series A Funding"

princetman — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:05:06 +0000

I also feel managed service is quite critical offering they're missing right now. Considering recent AWS and Elastic debacle, market is going to be tough for Open Source products like ArangoDB.

UK tech firm Blippar collapses into administration

princetman — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 10:49:04 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46603085

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18705682

Points: 3

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Canadian Michael Spavor Missing in China

princetman — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 08:54:20 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-46548614

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18670878

Points: 3

# Comments: 1