skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm skeptical of this for larger companies/companies that aspire to get larger - time and time again, the more you outsource, the more you're tethered to those services, especially if you need to scale. This will cost companies lots of money long term if the company grows. I also say this as a developer who works primarily in the UI/frontend web services layer.

The more reasonable view is analyze your problems, see what your near & long term business goals/possibilities are, and the risk/benefits you get from each technical approach to meet them. Whether that be serverless, or more traditional backends & data management, it doesn't really matter. Puff pieces like this making some incendiary assertion and chock full of assumptions don't do businesses any favors. There's no good shortcuts to running a good business than good decision making & a little luck.
People updated software before they started using subscription models.

Paying for software meant they had to make more compelling updates.
Yeah this was my first thought as well. :( Like we need more effective methods of raping the oceans. Hopefully the scientific research will cover the potential drawbacks.
> He didn't say fake news doesn't exist; he said it did not determine the American president.

It's even more specific: Fake news might have had an actual effect on the election, but blaming the election result on fake news fundamentally amounts to not accepting responsibility for your own side's failures.
This is a joke right? I've read through about 30% of the article and I'm not sure it deserves much more consideration. The author mentions the reason why the serverless approach won't be used by serious companies when they reference Parse. Even if you choose a serverless backend that is being supported by a large company there's no guarantee they won't shut it down leaving you high and dry.

Also, if you want to do anything other than CRUD these types of services won't get you very far.
Meditating isn't magic, and it's not hard. It's just practicing exercises that can have an effect on your mental state, when you do them often enough you can end up training yourself to have more control over your mental state. You don't have to "get meditation right" to be able to be doing it. When you meditate your mind will wander, that's normal, when you meditate you may not become relaxed, that's normal, when you meditate you may not be able to let go of anxious or panic inducing thoughts, that's normal. The trick to meditation is doing it anyway and not having expectations about it, which, ironically, is how you get better at it and you get better at letting go of unwanted thoughts and at settling your mind into calmness, etc.

This article is nothing but a description of one way to meditate. If you are turned off of the idea of meditation because of some preconceived notion of what it is or how it works I would highly suggest you re-evaluate and look into it again, it's one of the most helpful life tools that anyone can have, and absolutely anyone can do it.
I don't understand what he's talking about.
PunBB.
At least for us there is a simple reason: We live in Iran and every major public cloud company would immediately blocks any Iranian account, without previous notice.
How about that they solve no real G12 (major global economy) problem other than potentially allowing pseudo-anonymous transactions. A benefit that comes with as much baggage as boon.
> Why are you still investing in backend developers when customers don’t care?

It's simple really. Because they're more profitable than your hurdle rate. Serverless isn't the elimination of backend, it's just reallocating backend engineers to AWS, which is widely regarded as absurdly profitable for Amazon. Optimizing your AWS spend essentially becomes the new ops.

If you want to keep your team small, that's fine, but don't delude yourself into thinking this is constrained by anything other than the size of the opportunity you're pursuing.
I'm blind and am reading HN right now.

On an iPhone:

1. Hold down the home button to summon Siri.

2. Say "turn on Voiceover."

Now when you touch parts of the screen, that element will be read to you. If you're focused on a button or link, tap twice to activate it. Scroll with a three finger swipe.

Will definitely take some getting used to, but in some ways it's actually superior to sighted reading. No strain or fatigue, you can control your phone without taking it out of your pocket, and you can listen while walking around.

An alternative, and I also do this, is to do this workflow:

1. Get an RSS reader with HN hooked up to it.

2. Read all the article titles and open the ones you think sound interesting in the browser.

3. Use the Pocket for Chrome extension to add those items to the Pocket app. It's Mozilla, it's not particularly evil or leaky.

4. Read the articles on your phone in a readable font You can change the text size in settings.

There are some other alternative workflows for getting text read aloud on the laptop, message me if you're interested.
I realized when I posted here that I wanted to be upfront with all the tips not being completely "healthy." I lot of times the think a myopic focus is needed to be able to excel, but also the thing that drives people lonely, insane or sad.
Jobs founded NeXT before Apple. Musk's first big venture was PayPal (well, X.com if you want to get technical) which was bought by eBay. If these individuals stuck with the companies they founded, Apple, SpaceX, Tesla, etc. may not have existed.
GDPR on Rails (a Rails Engine for the GDPR compliance)
oh interesting. Didn't know this exists. thank you.
Is everything that isn't perfectly clear and understood now known as "passive aggressive"?
Yeah userspace mess is one i lament getting to know, because it has soured me on the whole Linux-on-desktop thing.

Frankly that part is a large contributor to "consumer" Linux never got any traction beyond Google going all out and making their own (Android and ChromeOS), while the DE people keep "polishing" the UX by introducing yet more dependency kudzus.

One example on the top of my head is udisk. First there was udisk1, that had a CLI interface as well as a dbus api. Then came udisk2 that trashed the CLI interface and introduced a new dbus api. And now there is probably some equivalent of udisk3 living inside systemd that has yet another dbus api.

And all this for what? Mounting and unmounting removable media...
Why would you (could you) not expect this to happen?

I know the expression "This is why we can't have nice things" is trite and cliche, but every "good" thing I've seen online for over 40 years attracts parasites (depending on your definition of parasite). (Some of them are quite clever, ... so it makes me wonder why they don't point their genius at more positive activities...)
The difference is, Iran and North Korea are demonstrably more evil and repressive regimes than the Unites States.
Same thing after a few magical alchemists in labs started inventing things ~100 years ago, who would've thought?
They think there was a lot of mining going on in England in 750?
We use OVH and Hetzner dedicated (2X providers, 5X data centers for redundancy). Our application is CPU bound and it's approximately 10X cheaper than AWS/MS/Google and 3-5X cheaper than Vultr and Digital Ocean. If you need a lot of CPU bare metal is vastly more cost effective. It's also a bit faster.

Bare metal is only a little more work to set up if you're using orchestration and provisioning tools. We use Chef and Consul/Nomad.

IMHO Amazon and the other big cloud providers are not a good deal if you only need compute, storage, and bandwidth and if you have any in-house IT expertise. They only make sense if you're taking full advantage of all their managed services e.g. S3, Redshift, managed SQL, lambda, etc. If you only need raw compute and bandwidth the smaller providers (DO, Vultr) and bare metal (OVH, Hetzner) are far better deals.
Yes it is Open Source: the whole project is on GitHub, Apache 2 licenced.

Posting to Slack (and OpsGenie, PagerDuty, etc) is a feature of the Prometheus AlertManager, which Cortex builds upon, no subscription required.

The commercial Weave Cloud product gives you a hosted instance of the same code, storage - we ingest all your metrics and store them for a year - and a nice GUI with user logins, team permissions, etc. Plus the Deploy and Explore features which are hosted versions of two more Open Source projects.
I wouldn't call Money Over IP "nothing of use." Goldman Sachs and other large concerns appear to share the sentiment.

The dollar's value derives, in great part, from the existence of the US military. It uses far more energy per year than Bitcoin does.

Bitcoin's energy usage seems a better deal. I doubt anyone would ever launch a war funded on Bitcoin.
That's a shame. (About Lua. Hope it works out with cython.)
Of course it's all upside for the company and down for the customer. Which company wouldn't love predictable revenue from customers every month. It's an amazing business model for software businesses, especially when the customer completely forgets about it and just let's their card be charged every month.
It's interesting that the passage you quoted is not itself sourced in the link you gave. I tried looking for that same passage on Google and came out empty handed (except for the site you linked to).

Do you have a first-party source for that? I would like to see it in its original context.
A lot of the folks in these roles have gotten lazy in legacy jobs. Lots of enterprise ops organizations are doing stuff with 10 people that could be done with 3.
I've (unfortunately) run scientific computing applications on aws. The experience is awful.

1 - aws is very very very expensive for sustained load.

2 - aws offers highly variable performance characteristics, both cpu and networking. It's a best practice after creating a set of ec2 machines to immediately spend 10 minutes perf testing them and dropping slow ones, either cpu or network.

2a - machines in aws that didn't start slow may become slow, particularly for networking. What you really want for many applications is a dedicated rack with very high speed TOR switches. You do not get this in AWS.

3 - Designing ML applications for variable tradeoffs between cpu and network is extremely ugly. Detecting and dealing with network links that can suddenly become extremely slow is awful.
He is operating in the mindset that the backend is just a dumb persistence layer with auth. If all the problems he is we solving fit into that world view than more power to him.

I'm a backend team lead for a travel company. To render that list of flights and hotels to the Android app it's not a database lookup. It's hundreds of soap and rest calls stitching together airline and hotel data from multiple platforms. This isn't something I can do on the front end. And even if I could I wouldn't want to replicate this logic between iOS, Android, web and our internal support portals.
It's probably too late to come back to this thread, but no, I'm not talking about the narrower but more common complaint about algorithmic questions. I think the entire approach of constant proving is misguided. There are lots of other ways to do this with lots of prior art in other industries. I believe we have landed on a poor but self-perpetuating solution. What we do to hire is akin to what they do in the performing arts, but our work is entirely dissimilar.

Do mechanical engineers draw up a design for a valve or something at every job they apply for?
Would it have been better to leave the space blank, give the manager the opportunity to ignore me, or say "I was hoping this review happened a year ago, is there any chance I could get a raise with this review?" Would that be polite and up-front enough?
Behavior like this is very prevalent in gamergate-adjacent wikipedia pages. For example the OAPI page [1] claims that OAPI is a non-profit organization and any attempts at amending it to clarify that it's not incorporated, only exists as a wordpress blog and hasn't done anything in 3 years (including updating said blog), gets reverted.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Abuse_Prevention_Initia...
Apple Macbook Pro Keyboard Defect Lawsuit Investigation
Monitoring app and GDPR
About a year ago me and friend of mine created smartphone monitoring app/s with website, subscription and everything, we have about 50 customers with about 150 devices. About a half of the customers are located in EU, main servers are located in US and backup are in EU (Frankfurt).

About the app, lets say you have a young kid who has a smartphone and you want to know, with who he chats, what he watches on yt, what sites he visits and etc.

We are not registered as business, after we pay for servers we make enough for a dinner and a movie. It's nothing serious.

Because we do not make enough to quit our day jobs let alone hire lawyer is there way our app can survive in EU or do we have to block access?
Not impossible, hackish.

You can emulate upgrade pricing via bundles.

If you sold V1 for $5.00 and then you want to sell V2 to new customers for $5.00 but existing customers. You can bundle the two versions for $8.00 and in the description for V1 you tell them that version 2 is available and don't buy it. You tell customers that have bought V1 already to get the bundle for $3.
These are valid points in isolation, but they ignore the meta problem which is that policies backed by communities all over California have created an unprecedented housing affordability crisis. Without this crisis this just wouldn't be happening at all.

I think it is deeply and systematically hypocritical to claim to be "liberal" and for "social justice" while supporting a restriction of housing availability that amounts to stealth red-lining.
I've heard on the grapevine that they've been selling off real estate and other capital to stay in the black.
Headless chrome and selenium are two orthogonal things I think. Selenium offers an API to control browsers. It can be chrome, headless chrome, remote chrome, firfox or any browser supporting the web driver protocol. Headless chrome is just an efficient way to run chrome for tests. I think you might have meant Puppeteer.
Serde is definitely the standard for rust. There's another project, pikkr, that takes a different approach that can work well for specific workloads:

https://github.com/pikkr/pikkr
dafuk did I just read?
I spent around 45-50 dollars in 2013 for the Windows+Mac Bundle and iOS apps. 1Password 7 is the first paid in my experience using the software, which is vital to me every day.

Roughly 10 dollars a year for a critical utility software isn't "fairly steep," and I also fail to understand how so many years of free updates imply any type of "reasonable" expectation of long term updates.
There is just no reason to "actively like" it, especially due to the massive amount of fraud and general opaqueness of the space.
This technology is insufficiently advanced and does not substitute dead bodies. In fact, I used these digital bodies when I took anatomy and it wasn't enough. Drawn atlases and physical models just weren't real enough for me. Gray's absurdly detailed textual descriptions of the human body only helped me understand things better after I had already memorized the anatomy being discussed.

The best way to learn, at least for me, was in practice. During the year that I took anatomy, I would go to the laboratory almost every single day and spend all day there going over the structures of the human body over a hundred times. I needed to physically manipulate the pieces in order to understand them.
Price. It's SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper for me to run high bandwidth/CPU applications on dedicated hardware from ex. OVH. I end up only spending a few hundred a month on hosting vs. thousands or tens of thousands. Tools like Rancher / Saltstack / etc. work just fine for me without being in The Cloud(tm) too, so nothing is pushing me to switch.
Here's why you should regard all such advice skeptically: sub-linear scaling.

If you can avoid hiring a backend team early, there will be a cost advantage. However this advantage will evaporate once you start to scale up. At some point it will work against you until you burn all of your cash.

Serverless products price support and infrastructure maintenance on a linear basis, but these items are very responsive to economy of scale. One person can maintain a few, a few hundred, or a few thousand servers with the appropriate tooling.

So go ahead and start serverless. Remember that this is a decision that needs review as your business scales.
> Maybe we should, as a society, value educating our populace as much as say, we value imprisoning them?

Even with college as expensive as it is, there are literally an order of magnitude more college students than prisoners in the US (22m vs 2.2m). Making it cheaper would of course further alter that.

Naturally, education is important. But there's no way to hand out college educations without (1) significant changing what the average education is or (2) significant lowering the average standard of living.

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These articles are always about people who wanted to go to very expensive private schools (see item 1). There are tons of reasonably priced universities.

I went to

1. University of Florida (public school) which even without one of the easy Florida scholarships is $3200 per semester tuition.

2. Brigham Young University (religiously affiliated private school) which even without one of its academic scholarships is $2800 per semester.

Without savings, scholarships, tax credits I could literally cover one year full tuition with a 40 hr/wk $10/hr summer job.
The expectation is that the system will run many years, so there is more long-term trust and control or own infrastructure. The same institution is still maintaining some old systems.

Some of smaller cheaper systems do run in cloud, but nothing more important or big yet. It takes time to gain trust.
Useful framework but the 180 seconds part is false in general. For a typical person with lots of negative thoughts it will take much longer to do the countering exercise at any given time. Once you become good at it though, then it takes no time at all —you counter instinctually and st some you just think positively from the get go. So the 180 seconds part is just the usual title clickbaiting.

Again, useful framework but main problem I have with it is for when the negative thoughts are very real and very deserved. From something small (like you left your dirty dishes in the sink for your partner to deal with) to something large (like you ran somebody and killed them while drunk driving), you screwed up and the thoughts of shame and embarrassment are appropriate. For things you can’t truly rectify (to make an extreme example, like bringing someone back to life that you killed), there is often no amount of positive countering that will overcome it. Similar for things like not liking something about your appearance that can’t be easily changed like your height. No amount of positive countering can undo the fact. It ends up looking a lot like denial, self deception, and minimization to use this framework in these cases.
Learning real-time ambient occlusion from distance representations
Isn't the sync more for 1-dimensional things, like audio? I would expect images to need the Airy disk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airy_disk
There are open source 3d party applications on Linux that I've used to access 1Password password archives. The code is closed source but everything they're using to encrypt the passwords are open standards. You can build your own 3rd party open source platform to access them.
Which is why we have no current information about this, since some of these changes happened afterwards.
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Might be worth adding a small note or identifier beside each submission to explain why that particular coin is considered to be “bad crypto”.
There's a trend for people to give up all of their information without the slightest regards for privacy or possible abuse. People do this with Facebook by allowing Facebook to, quite literally, track them throughout pretty much all aspects of life - communications, personal habits, photos, location, purchasing, et cetera.

On the business side, there's this trend to stick everything in to "the cloud" and just trust it's OK because everyone else is doing it.

It seems it's too much effort for people to imagine all the ways this could go wrong. Some of us, though, actually think and care and don't simply believe everything we're told.

What happens when we find out the true extent that our information is being used against us? For a majority of us, it'll be too late because chasing fads and trends and doing what everyone else is doing is too appealing, somehow.

For those of us who are too paranoid to just hand over data, you can't even say we're wrong any more - just look at what Edward Snowden taught us about the extent to which our own government has been flagrantly disregarding the law. Keep in mind that's barely scratching the surface.
There came a point around 2010 where too many posts and threads were being dominated by militant nitpicking feminists, with an occupying force of transgendered cat ladies.

I have no dog in the feminism fight but metafilter quickly devolved from a community garden into a special interest forum concerning matters of the vagina.

I just peeked at the top few articles on main page for nostalgia's sake. Already I see an article concerning toxic masculinity, and another of a game exploring rape trauma. Not much has changed.
Just because there are different roles on the network doesn't make it centralized. Furthermore you can set up a mining node yourself.
Having struggled with video autofocus issues, I've asked some videographer friends what the solution is. They've told me that I have to learn to manually focus for shots that the autofocus has trouble with. Also, most, if not all, cinematographers do not use autofocus when shooting movies or films.

I have a newfound respect for the 1st AC (or Focus Puller) on
a movie set.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_puller
I have heard rumors of Chinese people buying up real estate, but I have never seen it in Bellevue. i live on a street with expensive homes, only 1 out of say 30 around me is owned by a person who appears to be of Chinese descent. Where is the evidence for this?
It's expensive to do and most customers don't care, or even know.
The Dazzling Promise of Ketamine
So basically you can get a patent for saying 'robot does x'?

Has robot goats been patented, their skill is eating grass in hard to reach locations, like a super lawnmower.
1. You haven’t seen any enforcement

2. Enforcement will likely follow the current path of most national regulators, which is about compliance more than punishment

3. Why do you think it applies to only tech companies?

4. Small companies will find compliance much easier.
Bandwidth on S3 costs something like 50x what I'm usually paying for bandwidth (Hetzner etc.) or 5x what you'll get from smaller cloud providers.

You can be successful on AWS, but you're leaving money on the table, and for relatively commodity services it's just a question of time before a competitor realise they can do the same with much better margins and lower prices elsewhere.

If your hosting is a small portion of your costs, that might not matter, so I have certainly run services on AWS too, and do in my current job as well, but it's a very expensive convenience. I've yet to come across any systems I know the internals off that couldn't cut hosting costs by moving off public cloud services.
Nearly instant global transfers. They could provide these with the caveat of higher risk, but refuse to.
Seems unfair to deny the prank when the roommate straight accused him.