Can HN please ban these low-effort + low-contribution "I asked GPT your question" responses? These add nothing to the conversation, as you have no idea if the response is accurate or a hallucination. HNers should know better.

"I send a command at a random time between 11pm and 4am to wake up an ec2 instance."

Any chance you could tell me your setup for this?

Not my project, but if I had to do it I'd try something like the following:

* Set an autoscaling group with your instance template, max instances 1, min instances 0, desired instances 0 (nothing is running).

* Set up a Lambda function that sets the autoscaling group desired instances to 1.

* Link that function to an API Gateway call, give it an auth key, etc.

* From any machine you have, set up your cron with a random sleep and a curl call to the API.

And that should do the trick, I think.

>From any machine you have, set up your cron with a random sleep and a curl call to the API.

You might as well just call the ASG API directly.

Why use autoscaling and not just launch the instance directly from lambda? The run time is short so there's no danger of two instances running in parallel

yup, coming here and the top comment actually being something insightful or some point worthy of discussion instead of some sarcastic comment or joke like elsewhere is what makes this place.

The use if my joke is evident in the immediate reply, the confusion over g forces. There is no reason an informative comment cannot also be funny.

Plenty of organisations (especially one of Facebook's size) tend to have their own autonomous system numbers, pretty trivial to get the ranges from BGP announcements for any given ASN.

You could say this about pretty much anything with fines involved.

"It's OK for the rich to park on double yellow lines, litter in the streets, etc.."

Yes, I totally agree (and often argue) that fines that are not income/wealth-variable are a way to give liberty to the rich while restricting the poor. Only Norway has a system like this, afaik.

Yes. That is one of the correct ways to frame this problem.

I genuinely laugh every time at that comment every time this gets reposted, as if 99.99% of people wouldn't run away if they read 'curlftpfs' and 'mounted filesystem'

HN had a higher percentage of people at that time that would've considered that to be a reasonable alternative to Dropbox.

Hacker News used to be for hackers.

Thanks for this comment and the one about ftp. I also didn’t see the difference between Facebook and MySpace. It’s hard to understand the money side of reality until you are older and have seen some things.

Even funnier, using cvs (LOL) or even svn over effing unsecure FTP was already wrong at the time.

(Oh and of course it was the most voted comment, the 2nd one had more legitimate concerns)

different indeed, everyone I know in Ireland uses it.

I like this, 1 things I think you should do though.

Replace where the listing came from with the company the job is for, it's initially confusing (is this job at stack overflow or something?), as a user I don't really care where it's listed only what the job is and who it's for.

youtube ads are worse than anything they're blocking

the internet is far more useful than an alternative currency