skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO the fear is being overstated, everything's written down in either in single deploy script or configured CI, i.e. there's not going to be some loss of know how. It's the same as if the person in charge of Heroku leaves, someone else needs the login credentials and know how to setup Heroku as they would with any CI.

I don't know what Heroku is offering, but Lightsail and ECS instances also have metrics and pretty graphs (tho admittingly I rarely check them myself), maybe it will save me some ssh sessions to manually update security patches, I was recently able to upgrade my Lightsail instance to the latest Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with just:

$ do-release-upgrade

> But any <100 people company.. why bother?

Because it's 5x more expensive.

> focus on what you're good at, and let other people do devops.

But it already takes hardly any time/effort to keep doing what I'm already doing.

I guess it's for different Companies who see the value-added benefits that justify the cost, but it's being propositioned here that everyone should be using Heroku first, just boggles my mind why most people would do that as the first option when it's so much more expensive. I already think the cloud is too expensive, so there's little chance I'm going to be paying a re-occurring premium for something that's not going to save me any time over what I'm already doing.
" Schmied responded that as long as emissions went down when limits were tightened, his department didn’t mind they were many times higher than allowed."

Some context for this: the official European test cycle was known not to be representative of real driving conditions. Because it was less aggressive than real-world driving, it pretty much always overstated fuel efficiency and understated emissions. So real-world emissions not going down at the same rate as tested emissions is a sign of foul play, but them being higher isn't necessarily. (The US test cycle is better.)
No db backups?
Can anyone comment on the credibility of this article?
Netsuite is owned by Oracle but is a separate business unit from Oracle Cloud.
Why have I been wasting my life?
In software development, there is currently no more certain route to this state than to read 'Clean Code', take it as dogma, and stop there. Most of its major prescriptions and proscriptions have important caveats that are either glossed over or forgotten.
I have seen both a well-implemented Oracle ERP and a poorly/non-implemented Oracle ERP.

It is both the best and worse SaaS I have ever used, though my company may be switching to NetSuite ERP soon (technically also now an Oracle product).
The downvoted user clearly claims dang is disingenuous, not the article...
Every investment carries risk in the form of opportunity cost.
Nitpick: you mean “paternal”.
That's a lot of "should"s and personal opinions that I'm sure not all people agree with.
I am fairly mentally exhausted at the moment. When I first read the message, and noted the author, I thought it said: "every minute I spent thinking about computers was a minute wasted." I was like, wow, that's a big change in course. Is he going to become a monk or something? Lol. time to turn off the computer.
Many Walmart’s have banned this type of activity due to people dumping raw sewage and trash everywhere. A few stealth camping YouTube channels talk about stuff like this.
The problem is that Bulgaria - particularly Sofia - is getting expensive fast. The country is not handling the development and growth of its cities well, and basic infrastructure is a problem.

Poland by contrast seems to be handling getting rich more gracefully.

Bulgaria's big advantage is that everyone speaks English. If any poor country wants to become rich, they should simply adopt English as an official second language and instruct all of their students in it.
The point is that Nomad allows to add more components as they are needed while Kubernetes is an all-or-nothing solution. Also, we used tools like Jenkins and Ceph before. They have been tested and we trust them so there's no point in replacing them. Quite the contrary: a lot of internal processes depend on them so it would have been painful to migrate away from them.

Nomad is not a cheap imitation of Kubernetes, it is a simple orchestrator which favors composability over an all-in-one approach.
One website I know uses postal mail to send a confirmation code.

This seems much more trustworthy to me than mobile phone numbers.

However I am curious to hear counterarguments, if there are any.
Quite interesting quotes and even more interesting comments.

My take is that entrepreneurs need to be obsessed with their Market(s) and Domain expertise; which includes also the other players (competition) but not just competition per se.
Is there a program like codeacademy but for learning sysadmin?
if not, anyone wanna build one?
Why is this upvoted? It's just a bunch of rules based on no reasoning or evidence.
total bullshit. more like 98.5 to 99.5.
i'm not even kidding.
Reminds me of that Parks and Rec episode where Tom (character) puts a spin on municipal water with fluoride.
This is not my experience with k8s at all. Sure, everything will work fine when it works (although I don't think it's as easy as you make it out to be), but when something unexpected happens it's a massive pain to debug.

"8 hours" initial investment is already large for a small/simple scenario; and it's not the full costs either, because fixing problems will be much harder/time-consuming.

I wrote a post about this just the other day[1]:

> What does it mean for a framework, library, or tool to be “easy”? There are many possible definitions one could use, but my definition is usually that it’s easy to debug. I often see people advertise a particular program, framework, library, file format, or something else as easy because “look with how little effort I can do task X, this is so easy!” That’s great, but an incomplete picture.

[..]

> Abstractions which make something easier to write often come at the cost of make things harder to understand. Sometimes this is a good trade-off, but often it’s not. In general I will happily spend a little but more effort writing something now if that makes things easier to understand and debug later on, as it’s often a net time-saver.

[1]: https://arp242.net/weblog/easy.html
Please, please stop using the single binary argument against kubernetes. Kubernetes has hyperkube, which is a single binary. It's not magically better by having a file with a giant switch statement trying to figure out what you want, rather than a few small ones with small switch statements.

And the reason nomad's single binary is so small is because it doesn't do nearly as much. I'd rather have a platform that I can do things later that I don't know I need now.
Ask HN: How to grow your career reputation after spinning your wheels so long?
As a software engineer, I have about 10 years of experience in the industry, and working for 7 different companies.

But zero promotions or pay raises within any company. I have no experience managing or training others. I only get pay raises when I change companies, but not by much.

I don't know if always being contractor has anything to do with the above. Since my very first job out of college was a contractor job.

You see, I was offered a contract-to-hire job at a web agency as a Junior SWE but the W-2 "hire" part never happened. I think that part of the contract was broken and my boss just said, you're now a permanent contractor.

Ever since leaving that job it's been contract after contract job for the next 9 years. So I always feel less visible compared to employees, on the sidelines never really in tune with company politics or what their goals are.

I get told a lot that I do good work and I'm a good communicator. But they never follow-up to give me future contract work.

It makes me feel very alone in this career world, and I don't mean in the "I have trouble making new friends after college" sense. I mean that with workplace relations I don't feel a sense of camaraderie. Especially when I work as a remote contractor.

I lack the career wisdom and maturity of a typical 10+ year engineer. Nobody really thinks of me as someone as a skilled expert in a topic, someone they could forward jobs to, or refer me to.

Any ideas of where to start? Build up a network and a reputation that is expected of a 10 year software engineer? I started going to meetups more, though not always easy to go to the downtown ones due to parking and time constraints. But I'm going to a few of the ones I can.

I already have built several personal projects online, as a result of the boredom of unemployment. So that's already an ongoing process.

Other ideas to be "known" in your local circle of professionals? I feel almost as lost as I was when I just graduated.
I was about to say that it was mostly Sprint and (again) AT&T advertising 3G as 4G, and for example Verizon had real 4G from the start.

But now as I think, I remember that Verizon had 4G that was capped to about 1mbps in certain areas and then gradually speed increased per area.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19460381

Did this article appear somewhere else recently?
I don't actually have one. I never use tablets for anything. I have a few iPads in the house that fell in my lap and they are basically used as portable YouTube machines by my kids.

I do use a phone that costs $300 unlocked and is 95% as useful an iPhone.
What that tells us is to design development environments for the expert beginner. Expert beginners are cost-effective. Competence and expertise in web development is not cost effective. By the time someone reaches the expert level, the technology in which they are an expert is obsolete. Like Java programmers.[1]

[1] https://www.infoworld.com/article/3195285/java-and-c-continu...
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This. In a perfect world, it should be more useful to say to an employer, "I know Kubernetes" than "I know AWS". It's a unified abstraction for cloud resources. They all, more or less, do the same thing. Why learn the proprietary, vendor-specific way to do it, when you learn it once, and apply your knowledge to any cloud, e.g, if you switch jobs and your new one uses a different cloud provider.
Pretty sure Turing was a tremendous runner so seems a true reflection of that at least.
Get to doing what you love! You have the power and the tools
My record with Verizon is 104 down and 35 up. It all seems to depend on how busy the tower is and how good the backhaul is.
Sometimes it can be hard to give up sysadmin work because people consider it to be a core competency and to let that go feels like a loss. Kubernetes hits the sweet spot where you get to use a tool to manage sysadmin work that is at least as much work as hiring a sysadmin.
Is it that surprising though? For a group of people that believes they can predict the future?
Link to trailer (I think) mentioned in article - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZXqkgFegLQ

Lalalala....ACTION! Supa Kicker!

The passion is inspiring.

EDIT: Vice also did something on these guys (it seems all the BBC does these days is recycle content) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy0OOVTmsJI
Laws are what caused this problem in the first place. Government in the area has messed up the free market, and this is the result.
Source: https://youtu.be/yiXjiJ5GSoM
Don't Mention It – New Zealand's Orwellian Approach to Terror
Specific heat and thermal conductivity are two different properties.
I've seen this (or variations of) this article before, but what is lacking is how to resolve this problem. How to bring programmers out of the "expert beginner" stage once they realize it. Is it just a heavy dose of mentoring? Where do they find companies most fit to put programmers on the right path?
I personally 'ok' with websites using Cookies. It helps pulling webpage faster..
OpenBSD ships spamd, a greylister which also tarpits.

PF has the max-src-conn-rate state tracking option which is commonly use to blackhole scanners:

pass in on egress proto tcp to port ssh keep state \
(max-src-conn-rate 10/60, overload <scanners>)
block quick from <scanners>

Rather than blocking you could instead redirect new connections to a tar pit by replacing the block rule with something like

pass in on egress proto tcp from <scanners> to port ssh \
divert-to 127.0.0.1 port 2222

where your SSH tar pit service listens on 127.0.0.1:2222. This is basically the reverse of how spamd works, which diverts all inbound SMTP connections not in the <nospamd> table to spamd. When spamd's greylisting rules are satisfied it adds the sender's IP to <nospamd>.

IPv6 poses a problem for selective tar pitting, though. Realistically you need to tar pit at least /64 subnets, but even then it's not difficult to get your hands on a /48. But if you lumped /48s together you'd have a huge false positive problem. Also, AFAIU PF's state tracking capability can't track subnets, anyhow.
>Worst part is, I can probably just keep doing it for another 20 years and retire, it's almost too easy to just go that route.

As long as you can keep your current job, that is.
Their economy is larger, and yes, bigger GDP than America. Per capita, US still leads, but since I'm not interested in a piss competition here, let me clarify.

The point of my reply was that saying that the US has more money does not explain the fact on why people in the US pays more for software than in the rest of the world, which I believe is the key issue when it comes to a social network ability to monetize international markets. You have rampant software piracy in Latin America, Asia and Europe. At least in the EU, things are better for business software. China is so notorious for piracy that a former head of Microsoft R&D for China said: "In China we [don't] have problems with market share. The issue is how do we translate that into revenue.".

Nowadays software companies in China have found success by giving away free games and selling coins and whatnot. So my whole comparison was that if China has a bigger economy (or smaller/similar if you feel offended by that fact), then how do you explain that even large companies like Microsoft are struggling in that market.
"If some immaterial detail like this was so grossly wrong, what else is wrong?"

Most likely everything. That is why any information that isn't reproducible should be considered just a story, nothing more. There might be some value to take away from it, but nothing much better than what you can get from fiction. I don't get how anyone that has played Telephone can take history seriously, there's just no chance of getting an accurate version. Even news from yesterday, with recorded audio and video, doesn't capture enough to get important details right.
>Not sure what I can do but quit and I just don't want to give up on the stuff I'm working on yet and I'm relied upon quite a bit... but I'm almost completely stagnating.

Don’t quit your job. The article is elitist nonsense. The reality is that most of us are just plumbers, we’ll always be just plumbers, and that’s ok. You’ll probably never do anything world changing or cutting edge in your career. But you are among the most blessed human beings on the face of the earth to be getting paid triple the median salary to sit in a chair typing on a keyboard. Keep that in perspective and focus on pursuing meaning in your life that doesn’t involve a manic drive to sacrifice more time for more money.
Personally I consider major exchanges those that have had solid public presence for several years, with public executives and in general their actions.

So, it's not 85% of the major exchanges, it's 85% of the exchanges top ranked by CMC's volume as reported by the exchanges themselves.
Anyone could create an illusion of an exchange and do a fake-generated behemoth of an exchange within a couple months.

The majority of the top-ranked CMC exchanges are just fake-volume generators making money from all those ICO tokens/altcoins that hope that getting listed will help their price, or most commonly just sell more of their tokens to more uninformed victims.

For most of those exchanges you can't even find a single human name throughout their site. There was a big rise of using white-label crypto-exchange products, so you don't need much to get one of those online, they even provide "liquidity" network.

It's a shitshow, but it's irrelevant or a useless detail to bitcoin's value and trading, most big firms like DRW/Cumberland etc. breath this things and I'm sure they have talked to their SEC buddies about it.
Wintun – Layer 3 TUN Driver for Windows
I will say slack has gotten better. At one point it was unusable.
> If the US is itself committed to empower their oligarchic companies,

I think this is a silly strawman and you probably know it. This argument exists on a wide spectrum, at one end is "not acting to break up large companies", and at the other is "outright state owned enterprises with unlimited funding to compete abroad". The fact that the argument applies to both does not make them the same.
It's hard to make successful products by duplicatiing your competitors old products. Consider that your competitors products likely have a lot of legacy limitations that a green field design doesn't. And usually have features that no one actually needs either.

Blatant example. The scope on my bench has a floppy drive. You know for saving traces. Yeah like anyone wants or needs that today.
I remember Mazda having trouble making their diesel engines performant while conforming to California emissions regulations, and wondering why they were having so much trouble compared to European car manufacturers. Then this scandal broke and it was obvious why.
Hi aaron_m04, I have posted a correction to the post and given you credit. Please let me know if I have made any more mistakes, I don't want to mislead any more readers. Thanks very much for your time!
Has anyone ever recommended Kubernetes to anybody as a production environment for an "unprofitable hobby project"? In the context of the article we’re discussing, the suggestion that $30 is an unreasonable operations overhead for a team of four engineers is thoroughly preposterous.
I apologize for not putting an edit declaration in. You should not have been downvoted.
because deceptive marketing is a consumer protection thing the FTC would go after
Haha. I don't have much to add, but this seriously made me chuckle.

I misread it similarly, at first glance.
It’s slow for one thing
There's almost nothing proprietary about kubernetes. As the next post said, it uses dns. Which part are you referring to that it locks you into?
Forget the trailer, you can watch Who Killed Captain Alex? in its entirety on the official Wakaliwood YouTube channel, complete with hilarious running commentary by VJ Emmie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEoGrbKAyKE
> someone else to try to fill the need

There aren't many Google Products that I really missed (or even used) that are on that suspicious site[0] (and echoed by a news source w/o verification) except for Reader.

You are right: for Reader, someone didn't just fill the need, many different someones filled that need. Honestly didn't miss a beat when Reader was shut down. The alternative, non-BigTech solutions, have been awesome.

[0] I say suspicious because the coder acknowledges that he created the site out of anger over Inbox. As a result, he has lost objectivity and it shows.
America’s reindeer have quietly gone extinct in the Lower 48
this is like bad selection bias though. people never write issues to say things are going well. the general Tensorflow issues are also about only bad things, by definition
Nice. Can I get this all over Krakow on a tourist Sim?
I lived in a van I converted for about 18 months, purely by choice. I had been living in luxury high rises in SF for many years before , excepting the 6 months I spent living in a house in South Bay while converting the van, and afterwards in on campus housing when I went back to graduate school afterwards.

My van was nicer than may of the places one could rent around the bay area. Oak floors, oak countertops, modern high end sink and faucet, designer light switches, high gloss push open cabinets (with electromagnetic locks when in motion).

I did it because I wanted to build something and I had the time to do it nights and weekends while working. There's nothing like learning multiple disciplines from woodworking to electrical, from insulation to plumbing, and applying it all to create something physical and comprehensive.

I parked mostly in my company parking lot during the weekdays. On the weekends, I parked in the Mission, where many others in vans did as well. In SF, it was clear that I was abusing a public good, but couldn't easily find a way around it. I would have happily paid for a monthly parking spot if there was one around the area, but there was no monthly surface parking available in the area.

I don't think van life is an answer to the untenable housing situation in california. It's a niche lifestyle, unsuitable and undesirable for most. However, I do think we need to get over this obsession with space. Space efficiency is something so entirely foreign to most Americans. Having excess space is culturally desired and fetishized. This is a cultural phenomenon, not necessarily good or bad. In a less densely populated region, having extra space is not a luxury. However, when space is so sparse, I do think we could, as a culture, benefit from a shift towards loving space efficiency more.
What makes you think they do?

IANAL, but Truth in Advertising[1] enforcement is a FTC affair, not FCC.

On the other hand, rayiner is, so there a benefit-of-the-doubt element that I'm inclined to respect.

EDIT: ...and I humbly stand corrected.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/bureaus-offices/bureau-consume...
I think you have a good point here. I see a time when programmers become somewhat replaceable and when the industry as a whole reduces benifits for programmers bit by bit. Currently, there is a huge increase in the number of freshmen joining the computer science department in the university I attended and I see it only growing. In the future, a computer science degree might become something like the biology degree and that's when programmers will feel the pain of not being high-demand skilled laborers any more.
Tangential, but if anyone wants something Heroku-like in for deployments and monitoring but less [eae-of-use gui] control over scaling I recommend Digital Oceans “one click” Dokku deployment.

I’ve used it at work for sunset of our projects and it’s been pretty good once you learn a few of the gotchas. Once you’re set up it’s pretty painless. There are limitations for sure, but it’s been handy for a few situations where we didn’t want to focus on deployments and keep them as simple as possible.
Calling it isomorphic might be a disgrace for mathematics, but in terms of the Greek meaning of single form, it’s accurate.
I would vote for a forth protocol from matrix.org for realtime conversations, instead of the other store-forward other protocols.