skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure when exactly this shift happened, but people (myself included) fetishize high availability so much nowadays. What would really happen if your startup-of-the-year with less than 1k active users was down for five minutes? Or an hour? Do you really think people visiting a site that's down think "I'm dropping my account"? Or do they think "Oh. I'll check back later."?

NomadList and RemoteOK (from the article) have both had downtime before. They're both much more profitable than whatever startup of the day has decided they desperately need complicated infrastructure to run their CRUD app.

I've fallen for this trap also. I've written an article about deploying a Next.js app to Elastic Beanstalk, when I probably could've just stood up a server and SSH'd in to deploy. I've used Firebase when I could've just stood up a simple REST API and PostgreSQL.

There's nothing horribly wrong with using a single server, he knows there are other (not better) options out there.
I think the idea here is to minimize scheduling. Take note that this advice comes from a top VC; meetings are his bread and butter.

Not committing to a schedule greatly cuts down on the number of meetings. Most meetings are unnecessary, a huge cost to productivity. He also doesn't advice avoiding them, more like if it's important and high priority enough, everyone can agree to do one now.

It cuts out the fat of scheduling an important meeting 3 days later because a bunch of execs had 3 days of not so important meetings already scheduled.

Also one part of how Andreessen-Horowitz operates is that they absolutely cut out the wait time for founders trying to meet them. This is a part of that efficiency. They have to leave the rest of their hours open.
This is an interesting new "threat" to the "open core" business model. ES makes proprietary extensions to support their FOSS core product - then a tech behemoth clones these features for their own hosted service, but makes them Free as well. Good for the consumer, but bad for the company that originally created the core FOSS technology and best for Amazon.

Have there been any examples of this happening before?
The largest Embraer (not Embrarer) model has 118 seats.

The 737 MAX 8 has 184. I don't think they are competing that much.
US cycling medalist, Stanford grad student Kelly Catlin committed suicide at 23
I would definitely get in touch. I'm not following the project closely, but they have lots of things going on. The refactored timeline got merged just today which might have regressions that weren't caught. Sometimes they hold IRC meetups for people to chime in: https://kdenlive.org/en/category/cafe/
See https://www.cs.ru.nl/~freek/qed/qed.html for the actual manifesto.

It is a shame the project never got off the ground.
I had similar hopes when Intel acquired Altera, however think Intel managed to completely botch that acquisition. I now believe Intels going through a phase where they seem to be struggling to get things out of the door on time (like 10nm, Optane, Xeon Phis, Drones, Nervana, Edison...). At a time where AMD seems to be credibly challenging Intel for the first time in over a decade, any non x86 efforts will likely end up as a side hobby and not get the attention/investment from Intel management that it deserves. As a result I am glad Mellanox did not end up at Intel.
> ‘Engineers get sidetracked by things that make engineers excited, not that solve real problems for users’ — we’ve heard it all before. There’s no shocking revelation here (you are on Medium.com after all …). But there seems to be a pervasive sense that you can’t launch a product without a K8s cluster or two, load balanced across a couple of regions, oh and if you have to deploy anything manually how can you possibly expect to turn a profit?

Not everyone needs K8s, not everyone needs multi-region. But as far as manual deployment goes... it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Often what you find if you have a process that can't be automated as-is is that you have a process that's got problems. Maybe those problems are bugs. Maybe those problems are "only one person knows how to run this, and if he wants to take a vacation or more onto something else, we're hosed." Automation is a good thing at any scale.
How is elastic (the company) going to make a business going forward? I would expect that selling these enterprise add-ons (or similar ones) is a significant part of their revenue.
For those curious:

- the website is copyrighted to Amazon Web Services

- all commits in the github repositories are made by AWS staff.
Hmmm.. Are you secretly hoping that these powerful people will raise you to their level someday? Give you a just reward for your serfdom?
California state workers hoarding vacation days
Here's an overview of some organisms that might be able to digest plastic, and some of the hurdles that will have to be overcome for real-world use. https://cen.acs.org/environment/sustainability/Plastics-recy...
Botanical Mixture Stabilizes Cognitive Function in Alzheimer's Patients
For the record, I didn't say 'trivial'.

I said basic, in the sense of USB 3 is a basic component I would expect to see in an modern OS. I did not, and do not claim that it would be trivial to implement.
>I get angry when I see an office worker earning 6 figures typing one finger looking at the keys. Touch typing doesn't take long to learn but it saves so much time and effort.

I think this is mostly an illusion, unless your job is writing. For stuff like SW, typing is usually not the limiting factor. Thinking is. For management, typing a lot usually equates to a large bureaucracy (and lots and lots of pointless emails).

Me? I can type without looking at the keyboard. One of the stars in my team cannot.

Flip the principle over: How many people have suddenly become more productive and "moved up" because they learned to type faster?
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I think these certain circles are quite small but the emphasis is put on them and many people, whether they agree or not, are put into the circle for viewing the "Learn to Code" meme as toxic. I agree that telling blue collar workers to learn to code originally was tone deaf and these journalists should be scolded for it but I also assume that not every journalist was on the "holier than thou" train.

We should just be better to each other. Don't fight their ignorance with the same ignorance, it is just making the world a meaner place in my opinion.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-th...
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Certainly an interesting point.

In r/sysadmin there's a tongue in cheek comment of 'quitting IT to become a goat farmer'

I actually personally place it really at 1 place. https://www.ontario.ca/document/industries-and-jobs-exemptio...

The Ontario government(where I live) passed laws before the Y2K hoax removing:

The right not to be forced to work 20 hour days.
The right not to be called back into work 2 hours after a 20 hour day.
The right to get 2 days off per week, they force you to work 7 days a week.
The right to a lunch or breaks.
The right to be paid overtime pay if you work alot.

I've had 3 employers now that required me to work ~12-18 hour days everyday, no lunch, no breaks. At least I did get overtime; but I'd have to justify the overtime bigtime.
Happy to. I just added my email address to my profile.
I would say hands down, plotnine. It...

* is a port of ggplot2 to python

* has a very active maintainer

I've been testing out porting a bunch of analyses from R to python, and it has been very easy to swap in for ggplot2. The biggest downside I can see is that with ggplot2 it's easy to convert to interactive using plotly (but there isn't that kind of support for plotnine yet).

https://github.com/has2k1/plotnine
I think corretto (openjdk distro) would qualify as the first one https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/
Honestly this is just political blame shifting, virtue signaling, and more empty promises of handouts in the face of California's disastrous finances. California takes more taxes than practically any other state to fund failed infrastructure projects, all the while allowing sky high rents in the SF, LA, and SD areas because the government is locked down by rich landlords protecting their investments. Not to mention the price hikes on toll roads, county sales taxes, and general cost of living while homelessness is still rampant. Our greatest achievement is still an underwater tunnel built in the 70s. I want to see Gavin do something to change California first.

Users are already getting value for their data - the product showing the ads. People have a choice in whether they want to use gmail and get a free best-in-class email client, backend storage, and worldwide access to their email. The trade is that they're participating in an ad platform that is required to build this infrastructure that is on a never before seen in the history of humanity scale. Of course Americans and Europeans think it's totally fine to charge a five to ten bucks a month for a service like that, even when it would mean forcing the growing lower classes, second and third world countries, and the tech illiterate to use unsafe and frankly dangerous alternatives. Ads are a communal investment that allows us to provide services to people who can't afford those services.
How about the CO2 footprint of the building, ventilation systems, lamps, cameras, sensors, electronics etc?
For a long time Xorg/i3 user, are there visible improvements when switching to Wayland/sway?
I find it amazing that people don't realize that the organic food industry also has deep pockets. How is it that a skeptic could be fail to be suspicious of Amazon?

Follow the money. GMO opponents usually have skin in the game.
Wait, the Fuggers were real? I thought that name and family were just an invention of Stephenson's in the Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.!
> I think they prefer you to use the bug tracker. (Which sucks, so I always end up doing nothing about it.)

Oh, so much this. The crappiness of bug reporting for Debian has meant that I stopped trying to report issues years ago.
Unbelievably space efficient data structures in Golang
That absolutely was true prior to 2016, but now the post Brexit, post populist world has shaken a lot of people up. Before people didn't realize what giving up their data meant, and they still don't, but at least now they are hypersensitive to it. Hyper-targeting used to mean you didn't see ads for things you didn't care about, but now it seems to be a weapon for reaching vulnerable people.

Ads targeting isn't going away, but I'm not so sure a pay to use service wouldn't stand a chance in this current climate.
what happened to this site?? Already gone
FWIW, I run Minikube to manage a single ML churning machine in my garage, because I only need to learn 'docker build Dockerfile', 'docker push <image>', 'docker run <image>', 'kubectl create -f <foo.json>' and 'kubectl delete -f <foo.json>' to manage the workloads on a regular basis. For this minimal brain-space investment I get a bunch of features like resource management, a workload queue, dashboards and being able to test/debug an image on my dev machine for free. Then I scale this knowledge up to managed clusters in the cloud with as little machines I can get away with, using minimal brain-space to learn additional systems.

While I agree with the general sentiment of using the bare minimum to get the job done, the gratuitous complexity problem is usually caused by the people using the tools than by the tools themselves.
> Since the majority of the PCB learning is going to be around KiCad, and I'll just be able to send the files along with $15 off to oshpark and get perfect boards in a week or two, it's hard to start the investment of fully custom boards.

I'm not sure what you mean here. Since it's just KiCAD and then you can get boards for cheap, why is it hard to start the investment?
Deploying a Laravel App in Kubernetes on Google Cloud
The whole MongoDB thing recently.

And it doesn't appear that AWS is hosting these right now, just distributing so they must be paying some kind of licensing for ES. But I'm sure that will change.
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We need to rewrite the gig economy’s dehumanizing, unethical code
Ask HN: Why are there so many people with the title 'VP' in financial firms?
Is it the same as how 'engineer' or 'data scientist' is thrown around in tech nowadays?
Congrats on the release, Drew. I'm going to fire up a Linux distro this week and try this out. Out of curiosity, what distro do you use?
Thanks for taking the time to provide a summary - I will indeed take another look (I have hydroxyzine at night, so it's very relevant for me)
Funny and true story:

2 years ago we we needed to move in from the cloud to a internal network. Because of time pressure we got a PC as our first server, where we installed a set of tools for our embeded developers, from Gitlab, over Jenkins, LDAP backend, Nagios, Rocket.chat, Crowd, file sharing, nginx, Volumerize backups, nfs sharing, build artifact storage, a private Docker registry, we even run a build slave instance on it.

This was supposed to be a intermediate solution until we move to the real infra. In the new infra they have all of the things like several stages of load ballancers, tons of firewalls between the servers, the slaves are physically in a different network, everything is insanely complex and takes at least 20 times more time to set up than you'd expect. This is why we still run on that old PC (we added 7 more as build slaves) and ca. 200 people use it now for 2 years on a daily basis, which seems pretty weird but it just works.

Lately we saw that the network card started hanging and we needed to do a hard reboot which is not nice. The guys who are close to that PC (we use it remote) had a USB network card lying around and we asked them to connect it because the old one in the tower most probably had it's end of life because it has been used so much during the last 2 years.

We're still on boarding more and more people and it's not clear when we will be able to move to the new very complex infra.
Making EVs does not help with global warming, until we have a firm hold on winding down fossil fuel use. In the foreseeable future, there's a high probability that EVs will just become additional natural resource use on top of pumping and burning all the oil we can.

A better idea is to reduce private car use, and development of EVs just risks greenwashing it.
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I agree with your sentiment. I don't recall this being such a widespread thing. I think it is fine to scold the people who originally made these remarks (I myself do not remember who particular started the "Learn To Code" platform) but we should leave it at that. Just getting more upset about it and involving journalists who were never originally involved is a bad idea to just keep upsetting more and more people.
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The blog post says that some of these features now appear in ESS (AWS hosted ES), and that the rest will arrive soon.

Did AWS do the same thing with Mongo?
If you aren't interested in freelance work, try to look for companies with a dedicated research team. You usually won't find that in smaller companies, as they cannot afford a few people trying to solve a problem for 2 years with only a 60% chance of success.

PS: if you are really unhappy with your job (to the point where it affects you physically), don't think it will magically get better if you stay. It won't. This hope wasted 1 year of my life.
> Pardon my ignorance, but how come mobile apps and websites get valued for 10+ or 20+ Bn dollars , while someone who creates real technology is valued at only $6.9Bn

Imagine a building, say a shopping center, airport, or a city main square, that gets the same amount of visitors per day as some of those apps, and it might start to make more sense. Take Clash of Clans for example, valued at $10 billion. It has around 100 million daily active players. One of the busiest airports, the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, has 104 million passengers annually. NY Times square receives about fifty million visitors per year.

If something, anything, gets 100 million visitors PER DAY, the value of such a real estate, even if digital, is immense.
I wish I could find it again, but I saw a project once that was a meter-long stick of white or blue LEDs hooked up to dozens of shift registers. An RNG would clock in ones or zeros at the end of the stick, and they would shift off to the other end of the stick at a pretty high rate. It was a really neat effect!
I've been collecting parts to try to recreate it on my own, but... I'd love to be able to find the original again. If anyone else has seen this, I'd like to hear about it.
> 3 decades ago

IT used to be a comparatively stable environment if you were supporting servers or infrastructure.

How do you mentor someone in environments where chasing the latest fad every year is the norm?
Thanks! I use Alpine Linux.
In what why did they deliberately make the meaning unclear? The middle of the page says "An Apache 2.0-licensed distribution of Elasticsearch". It's saying in black and white that it's a distribution of Elasticsearch, not of an operating system.

In what way is being deliberatly unclear?
This is a good point. Our culture places a lot of emphasis on work. And I think there's something important there — that if we're going to spend most of our time doing something (work), it should be something we enjoy, find meaningful, and helps others. But if we lose perspective and forget the other things in life we'll surely become unhappy.

Since leaving tech my life has also become more balanced in other areas of life such as relationships and physical health, which I didn't mention in the article. Thanks for pointing that out!
What do you feel like you're missing in qutebrowser? I've been using it for about a year now and it's been the perfect answer for me.
It's anything but eloquent.
It'll be noticably snappier.

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Differences-from-i3
"The Kubernetes project is excited to announce kocker, a new docker compatible image management tool. Kocker will support features you've been asking for, like non-priv-by-default containers, enhanced performance in k8s..."

Made up, but I imagine something like that.
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Are global hotkeys supported?
I appreciate your diligence, but I'm having a real tough time following any argument you are making. I feel like you are receiving downvotes because you come off as sounding secure in your perspective but your arguments appear rather aimless.
It's getting there for us in JS land, slowly but surely! There's still a lot of discussions that need to happen (read as "mostly bikeshedding" IMO), but once they settle on the actual syntax, i'd feel comfortable to start using it with compilers.

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pattern-matching
My experience with F-Rep based modeling systems is that once you've used a few transformations, the distance field becomes highly non-cartesian and operations do not have the expected effect. For example, "offset" generally only has the desired effect on a primitive shape. Until someone cracks the problem of "renormalizing" signed distance fields, I fear all such systems will just be toys.

Antimony [1] and its related project AO [2], as well as ImplicitCAD [3], are CAD-oriented F-Rep systems (that suffer from the problem I mention).

[1] https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/antimony/3/

[2] https://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/ao/

[3] http://www.implicitcad.org
>We are at the tail end of a long period of removing religion from the public sphere, something that has happened more aggressively in the US than in the rest of the world. (Many European countries, after all, still have state-supported churches!)

That's technically true, but it's misleading. Religion is much more important in public life in the US than in most of Europe. For example, this kind of thing wouldn't happen in most European countries: https://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/16/tonights-obam...

I say this as someone who doesn't believe that what most people describe as separation of church and state is required by the constitution btw.

>And “happy holidays” is a passive aggressive thing to say. 90% of Americans celebrate Christmas. When people say happy holidays, they mean merry Christmas. “Happy holidays” is a form of erasure—a refusal to acknowledge Christianity without also acknowledging other religions in the same breath.

Happy Holidays has existed since at least the middle of the 19th century, and has been popular since the 30s--long before people cared about recognizing other religions. Trump even said it publicly fairly often over the years.

The family members I know who have a problem with the "War on Christmas" literally think that globalists are trying to force people to stop celebrating Christmas because that's what their media tells them.
I would go even further and suggest Boeing ought to ground them. If, as you mentioned, another accident were to happen, irrespective of the impact it would have on that airline, Boeing's reputation would be triply hammered.
Wait until people find out that the cost to implement, monitor, support and regulate something like this will be higher than the dividends they'll be getting...
Mostly used popular tools like Hopper, LLDB, Hex Fiend. Xcode's debugger UI was surprisingly helpful too because it lists current memory allocations of obj-c instances nicely. Also learned about Frida along the way and would have used it more in retrospect.
Could not agree more !!! Most of my side projects....some big some small. Has a vps, self managed mysql db and a bash script called deploy.sh Ive seen whole sprints devotes to I fancy infrastructure... with the payoff usually not much... expect for one guy ending up owning all the magical pieces and know-how...
People who are using hyperbolic untruths like "Facebook is stealing our democracy" or "your data is being sold" should be warned: non-analytical politicians may introduce regulation framed by these falsehoods. For example, a law regulating that Facebook not tamper in elections or sell user data would be a home run for Facebook, because they have done neither.

Speaking the truth in this instance is both more productive and also should frankly be more scary than the hyperbolic distilled versions that are oft thrown around: mining user data with AI systems to sell products to measurably alter human behavior is an unregulated industry and likely should be.

This "dividend" nonsense is transparently ridiculous since it misses the point of the problem -- that incentives here yield damaging societal effects -- but again, here we see the result of the "Facebook sells your data" meme/falsehood: politicians conclude if they just pay users for the data, the problem is solved, right?
In the US a VP is a corporate officer. Third parties may rely on corporate officers having authority to contractually bind the corporation.
They created a compatible hosted database.

I believe in response to some licensing changes MongoDB made, so the AWS service targets the last permitted license release by Mongo.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-documentdb-with-...

*I forgot to mention, they did not release the code for this as you may have been looking for apple-to-apple comparison with the ES situation.
Are we able to change window position yet? One of the thing keeping me on X is the simple drop-down terminal, which I'm told is impossible on Wayland because Wayland does not allow its applications to control the window position.
"Distro" is short for distribution. Many things, not just operating systems, can have different distributions. Calling it a distro doesn't make it sound like a linux distribution at all. If it was a linux distribution it would probably talk about being an OS and not being a distribution of Elasticsearch.