skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check previous threads about this. I'm not a consultant but it seems you already have a network to start.

This is something I saved up from here:

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1) Produce publicly visible artifacts which demonstrate that you're able to apply technology to impact business outcomes. You do not need many of these; ~3 is fine. You do not need to block on the other steps. You do need to plausibly connect the technology to a business outcome; blockchain and beginner-level cryptography probably do not get you there.

2) Begin getting into conversations with people who either a) have purchasing authority or b) talk to people with purchasing authority, at your target clients or firms very similar to them. This can be as simple as bonding over technical things with technical people. You want to become Internet buddies with e.g. senior engineers / team leads / etc at software companies.

3) Walk the network of your new friends to engagements, either at their firms or peer firms. Do not make another WordPress site for the average business; make something for a software company.

4) For every engagement you land, attempt to get referrals to more clients, attempt to land follow-on work with the same client, and attempt to land ongoing maintenance/retainer/etc agreements with the client.

And then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4247615
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Maybe he has a data capped VPN? ;)
After hearing DDIA (https://dataintensive.net) recommended a few times, I picked it up and have been working through it recently. The book includes an incredible amount of references that provide further reading on individual areas.
How is JavaScript accessible? Because of websites like the linked article, which covers the basics, that lets you build things? Because Udemy, codeacademy and all the others will teach you how to google program using it?

Maybe you’re right, but this page doesn’t actually teach you databases, and most of those courses don’t actually teach you programming.

At least not efficiently.

I have worked with JS for a long time, and I don’t hate it, but it’s such a terrible language and environment that the most popular part of it is literally a strict syntactical superset of of it.

I don’t particularly like Typescript by the way, and I don’t think it’s really that useful, but you can’t deny that most people do.

I think 95% of all projects would be better of using something that wasn’t JavaScript for the whole stack, and I think that’s the reason so few things are build on node. I like graphql as much as you do, I also think Prisma is okish, but I’d rather use Django, Flask, Java Spring it .Net Core because they are so much more efficient in the long term.

Of course on the client side, all the innovations and all the talent lies with JS, and there is some advantages for using JS for your whole stack. Those advantages end at the DB though, at least in my opinion.

This isn’t a problem, you can use Prisma for Postgres, and there are decent drivers for mssql, but I’d never advise people to use nosql unless they had a very specific reason for doing so, and I can’t think of one.
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This is pretty cool, only caveat to hibernate is the EBS volume has be encrypted beforehand.
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How are they doing now? And where do you see them going in the near future? I purposely kept the question as general as possible.
I don't mean normal everyday consumers. But I would be surprise if programmer don't go on internet often for information. Not information on latest news, but documentation, problem solution, etc. Stackexchange, Google. Even good old manuals of long lost chips, reference in assembly languages. The chances of these people never heard or bump into the word "Rust"?

That is like saying programmers have never heard of Swift.

They may not know anything about it. But not "heard" of it, is.... strange?
The math does not check out.

Using your numbers and current Lambda prices:

5M GB-seconds * $0.00001667/GB-sec = $83.35

(5,000,000 * 0.00001667 = 83.35)

2400M function invocations * $0.2/million = $480

(2400 * 0.2 = 480)

total = $480 + $83.35 = $563.35/month, which is nowhere close to $17k/mo. I have no idea how you got that number.

I also find it highly unlikely that most businesses are servicing 2.4B requests per month on their API. In my opinion, you either have to be an absolutely enormous monster of a business or have a really unusual business model to be at that level of utilization and not be huge.

Whatever your business, you're unlikely to be spending $10/mo in resources to service nearly 30 billion requests per year. You're probably going to need more than $10/mo just to store the access logs for your API, let alone useful customer data!

In reality, a lot of entire businesses would be much lower in utilization than that. The downsides of a single DigitalOcean droplet are many: a single point of failure, and you'll never achieve high availability if you apply updates regularly and reboot, unless you have multiple $10/mo droplets and a load balancer. You'll also have high latency to customers outside of your region of the world, unless you run a HA-cluster of multiple droplets in each regional datacenter that you care about. Call it three droplets per region and we'll say you want to run them in five regions, so that's $150/mo just in droplets alone, plus a $10/mo load balancer per region, so $200/mo. Did I mention that you or your engineers are going to be responsible for doing the maintenance and replication across regions? Surely the number of engineering hours devoted to this upkeep will be worth more than $350/mo. Huh, I guess we just justified Lambda's costs.

And again, I never claimed this was some kind of snake oil magical solution.

I don't know why you think I'm opposed to the DigitalOcean solution and some sort of salesman for Lambda. I use DigitalOcean heavily for my personal stuff, and I almost never use Lambda, even though I like the idea. You've created a strawman, and you're trying to expertly knock it down... except for the whole math thing as noted above.

If we really dig into this, neither the DigitalOcean solution nor the Lambda solution discussed accounts for the cost of running your stateful infrastructure, whether it's a traditional RDBMS, some NoSQL system, Kafka, or just a giant object store like S3.

My singular point in this entire thread was that scale-to-zero is worthless if the solution that enables scale-to-zero costs more than not scaling to zero. If DigitalOcean is the solution that costs less than scaling to zero, then obviously that is more valuable than the solution that scales to zero.
Another translation for Creativity - "The best ideas come when you walk home from work and your brain just cannot stop thinking about the exciting problems you are working on." ==> "My developer should live, sleep, breathe the company, outside of the 9 to 5, even though I won't pay more for the additional time and creativity."
> I think when people say "fake capitalism" or "true capitalism" they're talking about unrestricted and unregulated free markets.

As far as I can tell, by "fake capitalism" the author means the opposite of "competitive free markets" (emphasis mine), not unregulated ones. In fact, the author says, "The federal government has done little to prevent this concentration, and in fact has done much to encourage it." - i.e., the author supports increased regulation and government intervention as long as it's in the appropriate direction.
A gang (afaict) is a little bit like a government in that it enforces things through its own capability for violence (or through its own violence), though I'm not sure quite how important that similarity is.

If something is almost a government, but not quite, and creates a monopoly, that would I suppose technically be a counterexample to the claim that monopolies are all caused by governments. However, while it would demonstrate the claim to be false, it wouldn't demonstrate that it is far from being true.

However, I wouldn't claim that all monopolies are all from government or nearly from government. I probably wouldn't even claim that almost all monopolies are.
> RPG

I had never heard of this one!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RPG says:

> [D]eveloped by IBM in 1959 as the Report Program Generator - a tool to replicate punched card processing on the IBM 1401 then updated to RPG II for the IBM System/3 in the late 1960s, and since evolved into an HLL equivalent to COBOL and PL/I.
I wonder how many companies actually need Istio. It's definitely for large scale.
it's DISNEY, what are you going to do - not go? the peer scrutiny penalty alone from your kids complaining would take a cleaver to your productivity
I agree: with any new format, it's super hard for the story to stand out because the format itself becomes the story. So you get this sort of chicken and egg problem, because if there's not enough stories to drive a particular format, then that format dies.

Game narratives are great, but I'm personally more interested in non-agency type formats, because I think there will be relatively much more demand for that.
Rest in peace Jim. Your legacy will live on.
I don't think it's a secret they got married in 2017, though.
and that's a good thing
I’m not sure it would be true, but government sure spends a lot of money on Microsoft licenses.
Start doing it. Celebrate it. Reward it. Keep doing it.

Like all culture changes it isn't complicated, just hard.
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Not a house but if you're a remote employee Vermont will pay you $10,000 cash a year for two years for moving there.

https://www.businessinsider.com/move-to-vermont-remote-worke...
I was lucky to have traded ideas and brainstormed many times with Jim about how technology could create a better society. He had a unique mind that inspired many. For those of you that didn't know him, watch his speech "The Internet is My Religion" [1]. If you like that, read his book of the same name [2].

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4WKle-GQwk

2: https://www.amazon.com/Internet-My-Religion-Jim-Gilliam/dp/0...
I got my grandmother to use a computer, but she always used a few predefined paths.

Another elderly relative relied on a relatively inexpensive, patient tech support person (basically an advanced user). There was a cottage industry of techies helping the elderly in my country, maybe there's something similar where you live?
> Why would that be true? Once a company becomes big enough, it has resources to squash competition in various ways.

Notice how most of the squashing methods are government based: Patents, litigation cost of unmeritorious litigation, government-enforced contracts that should not be enforced under any reasonable antitrust rules, regulatory capture, etc.

The main non-governmental one is economies of scale, but that has a hard limit. The monopolist can't extract more from the market than the efficiency it creates by being a monopoly, or it would make it viable for competitors to enter. In an industry with low fixed costs, that doesn't buy you much.

The place where you would actually expect to see monopolies is the "natural monopoly" industries that are dominated by fixed costs. But even there, there's a limit to what the monopoly can do before competitors appear when there aren't government restrictions on entering the market. Starting a neighborhood ISP isn't cheap, but if the incumbent is offering slow service for high prices, it's what would happen, because paying (or even borrowing) $10,000 to invest in a new fast ISP that serves your own home is cheaper than paying more than that amount over time for worse service from the incumbent. But not if the incumbent has laws passed to make that purposely uneconomical or outright prohibited.
Heh did she really say "yes I do"?
The first 200 bytes are free then.
Thanks for the career advice.
> Contracts can be (and are) made in the absence of government-enforced contract law all the time. The parties to the contract simply develop their own mechanisms for enforcement (which can range from social pressure to outright violence).

Agreed, but monopolies are also not uncommon under such conditions. Drug dealers have "turf", for example.
Javascript has specific client side features that servers cannot provide. Good luck doing google maps without JS.
Ricky was in HBO's Deadwood and was fantastic. This guy was just such a good actor in each of the movies he was in. Then I found out a while back that he was actually an incredible magician also. He's so much fun to watch... definitely a big loss for humanity.
>> It’s sad to me that we felt so pressured to do the paper invites

Doesn't the entire wedding industry basically revolve around "encouraging" everyone to do a whole bunch of stuff that's either unneccessary, over-complex or simply over-priced?

Paper invites are the least of your worries.
It's the opposite of extreme, it's reality for every company out there, and it's not a "very small subset" it's the majority of money.

Besides, if your shit can't work when it counts, what good is it?
I'm not OP, but I would be turned off by this comment because it sounds demanding.
Heck http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html is a good description of the real issues with rc, and I'm a FreeBSD dev.
That line stood out as a potential editing error to me due to the "while in" suggesting contrast but the number being the same.
Paywalled. An interesting exercise in how much value branding adds though.
Capitalism, Socialism or a hybrid?
Come to think of it, I don't understand how Google keeps its near-monopoly on search. It has the users because it can afford to invest more in search quality, because of a near-monopoly on search ads; and advertisers buy those ad clicks because Google has the users. So this loop might seem hard to break.

But what stops an aggregator from offering to put your ad on multiple search engines, so you pay for clicks from Google and whatever other search engines people are using? There may not currently be a lot of extra clicks available that way, but it's more than nothing, and you'd benefit from whatever improved competition might come up, and incidentally give it more resources to improve with and to cut Google's margins to your further benefit.

AFAIK this isn't happening, but why? Is there another moat I don't know of?
thanks! I'll take a look at previous threads as well
One problem with traditional fiction narratives is its dependency hell. Think your code is bad? A single word in a novel could have dependency on any arbitrary set of other words. Let's say you need to change a character's inner flaw. Wow, that could change all the conversations they have in your narrative to remain a consistent person.

I believe this is the reason why longer form fiction is typically written by a single author, or a small set of very tight-knit authors.

But that's not to say this couldn't work. I just think you need a very particular type of story that you're telling, and a set of people involved who work well together.
ought to be. sigh.
I didn't downvote but what makes you think?
I wonder how many and which free markets Milton Friedman evaluated in order to draw this conclusion?
Has anyone done work on automated evaluation of the quality of a musical composition? Possibly by training a neural network, or maybe even just by designing some heuristic rules which try to capture what elements make music pleasing to humans?

Then, could you train a neural network (or a genetic algorithm, or whatever) to compose music that is assigned a high quality score by such a composition quality evaluator?
PostgreSQL has been in my toolbox since 2003 having proved itself as reliable, stable, always free, well tested, and with a vibrant community on IRC. freenode #postgresql The company I built in 2003 is still using PostgreSQL for all of its operating data, web services, APIs, and royalty calculations.

Someone once said, and I agree, "PostgreSQL is the answer unless proven otherwise." If you've not tried PostgreSQL I encourage you to give it a whirl, I think you'll like it. I'll also say that #postgresql is really a friendly place for newbies and experts alike.
Do you know how to cook well? Go to the front of your yard, set out a table, and start selling your food. It's now a count down until you're ticketed and/or arrested, and the police also decide to take any money in your wallet along with anything valuable at your stand as 'evidence'. This is really a very important example since selling food is probably the single easiest industry that can provide substantial revenue to anybody with a bit of skill.

Rules and regulations are not inherently bad, but as they grow out of control they rapidly transition from being a net positive to a net negative on society. Go try to navigate the thousands of relevant pages of legalese full of esoteric and counter-intuitive laws in e.g. California just to open a food stall. Your utility cleaning sink is only 9" deep? Time to shut you down, it needs to be 10"! In the current state of the US it's generally unlawful for a kid to go setup a lemonade stand in their front yard. The US has rapidly transitioned towards becoming quite anti-capitalist.

But of course this was not always the case. It's hard to pinpoint when exactly we started transitioning to the current era, probably around the 60s. And this is really the point. 'Not true communism' can not really pinpoint any era in communism as 'true communism' because the ideal and reality simply don't exist in the same plane. And while e.g. the 50s were not necessarily the penultimate example of what capitalism can yield, they were at least a really great example - as it was a time period that struck a balance between rules and regulations while not hampering individual entrepreneurship and innovation.
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What happens if adults don't have pretty broad latitude in the safety equipment they choose to wear?
Using firefox on mobile is the first mistake. Chrome is by far faster on Android. Firefox's Spidermonkey is quite poor compared to V8.

You don't need the latest iphone for sites to work. Sites poorly impliment mobile sites if there's an app equivalent. Amazon is one of those. Their site is littered with tracking and mountains of compatability code like any other site trying to make a profit.
I don't see what made you think it won't have a CWD.
I'm not really convinced that the answer to "Neither A or B work" is "Try something in the middle," especially because in this case I'm not convinced capitalism and communism are our endpoints and it's a one-dimensional space.

If you're having trouble with Automake and having trouble with CMake, the answer is almost certainly not to use parts of Automake and parts of CMake. A much better strategy is to read go read Automake docs carefully and make sure you're doing it right (inspired, perhaps, by people who say "You're doing Automake wrong" but not taking them at face value) and see if you can get it to work; go do the same with CMake; and if neither works, go look for something completely different. Maybe Bazel. Or start figuring out where Automake and CMake are falling short and how to improve them - not how to use them better, but how to build new versions of them that actually work.
I’ve had nothing great to say about churches and services for a long time now. Part of it is due to my upbringing. Ever since I escaped the stranglehold that is religion and Christianity, I see church as a place where cults hang out.
>Don't you mean the vast majority of the tiny corner you know?

No, I meant exactly what I said. Objectively, the vast majority of the US has a lower population density than most of the places you mentioned.

>Maybe you really do live in a place uniquely deprived of public green space (though that's still unsubstantiated by actual maps or anything)

It's not unique or unsubstantiated. Here's a study that says for people in small towns there the average distance to a park is 6.1 miles--that's consistent with my experience. Even in cities (outside of the city center--there it's 0.7 miles) the average distance is over a mile, and in the suburbs it's over 2 miles. [1]

If there are few nearby parks, what options are there? Trails on undeveloped land you mentioned? Who owns this land? Take a look at the green space on a satellite map in the metro Atlanta area. If it's not a park (or similar like a WMA), a private individual owns it. You completely ignored my point about trespassing on private land to start a pissing contest about who's lived in more cities.

The US is not a very walkable country, it shouldn't be so shocking to you that vast swaths of the country lack public greenspace that's accessible without a car.

>Enjoy life in your self-made closet.

I have plenty of green space of my own (complete with the odd deer, wild turkey, coyotes, foxes--hell I even had an escaped emu run through my back yard once) and a car (that I used to drive to the Smoky Mountains last week). Sure I'd like it if the US was more walkable, but the way development is currently done means the trade offs of living in a more walkable area aren't worth it for me.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3590901/
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Many, as he wrote about it, and it's one topic where he changed his mind after studying it.

It is absolutely sure that monopolies are most pervasive through the state.
I put forth that if the premise of that movie were true, why would we have technology advancement today? Why not continuous regression of knowledge. I will also note of the past, great men of both science and faith, like James Clerk Maxwell.
Why would nationalization ensure that the equipment is well maintained?
Depends on the price.
This is probably a hostile forum to ask such a question to be honest. The HN crowd is pretty negative on the whole concept from past experience. Which is fine, everyone has a right to a view.

I do have some resources you can dive into where there are people talking about this very topic:

Market at glance:

https://blockmodo.com/

News from the entire space:

https://blockmodo.com/markets/latest_news

Community posts from over 2,500 sub-reddits that deal with bitcoin and alt-coins:

https://blockmodo.com/markets/latest_community

You can also get this all segmented by coin as well. For example, if you just want Bitcoin you can go:

https://blockmodo.com/quotes/BTC

Some other blogs that I like are:

1. https://coindesk.com

2. https://cointelegraph.com

Hope this helps.
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This is a massive assertion on your part, and the quality of "green"space can vary widley in urban areas. Yards without rooty vegetation are safer for houses, they're good for warehousing children, they're nice to relax on in a private/semi-private setting, you can drink on your lawn, etc.
I agree. It is similar to pareidolia or akin to how dreams are actually imperfect but in ways that your neural network classifying the imagery would be able to ignore and work with.
(August 2016)

Comments from 2 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18099673

Comments from 2 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13344071
only 90% of people can figure out how to drive. you’ll be ok
I had my earbuds in walking down a fairly wide sidewalk today at night when a scooter rider rode past me going full throttle within maybe eight inches of me. This is not the first incident like this either. It's only a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt or killed on these.

What are these companies going to do to discourage bad riders and encourage responsible use?
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