skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amount of servers? Not sure. Reasonable speculation suggests us-east-1 to be over one million physical servers at this point, based on Hamilton’s talk about AZ design and scale at re:Invent a couple years ago and their IPv4 consumption rate across AWS.

I don’t imagine your average Fortune 50 has millions of servers.
Have the public clouds killed Hadoop?
As he points out in his Joe Rogan interview from yesterday, highly-skilled specialists like neurosurgeons often don't do all that well, as their income is pegged to their time spent working, and their lifestyle costs often scale linearly with their income.

Of course that changes if you can break out of being an hourly-billing practitioner, and become an entrepreneur, like the dentist I know who built a successful chain of clinics then sold it to a large heath service provider.

You're doing a lot of picking holes in his points (much of critique seems to come down to luck being more important than anything else). But consider that this is always going to be easy to do for something like this that is specifically designed to be a set of simple, broadly-applicable rules of thumb.

Of course there will be limitless numbers of exceptions or domain-specific variations. The world is infinitely complex.

But there are still patterns than can be observed and principles that can be applied that will give people a better chance of a successful outcome than had they not applied those principles, and that's what he's seeking to share here.

And he deserves to be listened to, given that he's said he started learning/refining/applying these principles from a young age, and credits them for his own achievements, which are formidable and far from accidental (see the story of how he sued two of the biggest VC firms in Silicon Valley after they tried to screw him out of what he was due for his stake in the first company he helped build).

As for luck: nobody, least-of-all Naval, claims that it is immaterial to many people's success or opportunities.

But it's also uncontrollable, so you may as well forget about it, and focus on what you can control: making decisions that increase the probability of getting the outcome you want.
Is there anything that can be done to mitigate that? E.g. give ssh network and the daemon top cpu priority?
Identity Is Dead
I moved for a job that I found entirely agreeable, and after a year I still have no strong ties as a 28 y/o man. No prospects of friendship, not to mention a relationship. Participating in local boards, playing fiddle music weekly with a community group, and actively participating in my workplace’s social scene.

Beginning to come to terms with the fact that the only option I have is to move to a place where I can grow emotionally and find people that I belong with, since that’s obviously not happening here. This is a shame, since my work aligns with prime ESG metrics and although it doesn’t pay well, I have a five minute commute and access to trails, nature, camping, hunting etc. which I thoroughly take advantage of..

This is an enormous public health crisis. I feel it from the center of my being.
I think it's mainly for secure storage and secure RNG people use them.

You can of course claim you need neither.
Nirvana's Nevermind Swimming Baby
I moved to the bay area and it is comical how closed off people are. I say hi to people on the walking trail and maybe one in five will respond. This place is lonely central. If I didn't have my SO I'd go insane.
Google Stadia launch date and games confirmed
Yes. Good point. But isn’t there a difference between legalization and decriminalization? CA has already drawn a line in the sand with our state law enforcement answers sanctuary state status..especially with their cooperation..or lack there of..with the feds and federal agencies.
> People utilize technology products as fashion statements first and foremost,

It's true that tech has a popularity-breeds-popularity effect, but I don't think it's mainly fashion (at least, for industrial use of tech like PLs used commercially), but network effects around available knowledge and skilled users.

Abstract technical superiority often isn't a commercial win without reliable availability of people able to use it effectively at costs that make it efficient. There's situations where buying the limited knowledge pool, or paying to grow on house skill, is worthwhile, but often the “worse” solution that is well-known is better practically
A bouncer resolves many of these issues or you could use Matrix. It feels like dropping IRC entirely is akin to throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
The fact that so much advertising barely works is the basis of Google's entire business model. The idea that adverts are all made by masters of psychological manipulation is laughable - most of it is considered successful of it just manages to get the name noticed and remembered at all.
Fair enough, but I've got no real use for Docker. Almost all of my hobby programming is done in Pythonista these days. Google Docs also works fine in iOS, PureFlow is great for diagraming. It's reached the stage now where I'll be sitting at my desktop browsing or playing a game, and I'll decide I want to do something productive with those apps on the iPad and go to the couch to do it.

I still work from a desktop and that's not going to change, but I haven't personally owned a laptop in more than 5 years. At home I have a desktop and an iPad, and the latter fulfils all my mobile computing needs, and most of my productive or creative needs.
Here's how it will work, someone will make a deepfake of a political opponent and then publish it on a forum where like minded people gather using a dummy account.

Other dummy accounts will take the deepfake and start making a narrative around it, sending chain emails to their real world contacts.

Real world contacts will start passing around deepfake chain mail they were sent.

Some of these emails will take the deepfake as true, some will talk of it as being a funny parody, but "funny because it's true" anyway.

Major news organizations can now address the issue as news because people are passing it around, maybe it will be something like 'Well Bob, I think the X have a real image problem on their hand, if the video is true or not..' You don't mean to say you think it's true!? "I didn't say that Bob, I'm frankly not qualified to judge and I haven't done any research what I'm worried about here is that there is a perception that it is true or if it is not exactly true in this particular instance that it might be true, and that is what I mean by a real image problem"
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Actually, it's launching in my city and the area around my apartment would be wonderful for a pogo-stick. The scooters are very much frowned upon here but I'd rent a pogo stick for a bit!

They are going to end up in the ocean en-masse though.
$1000 for everything including expenses?

That doesn't even buy you a hello in New York.
My hunch: a more invasive one. Think of turning off all machines in a cluster for major power work or to replace the enclosures themselves. Maintenance on a single machine or rack, instead, happens all the time and requires little more scheduling work than what you do in Kubernetes when you drain a node or a group of nodes. I used to have my share of "fun" at Google sometimes when clusters came back unclean from major maintenance. That usually had no customer-facing impact, because traffic had been routed somewhere else the entire time.
Upon opening cnet, I had to block notifications request, click through cookies agreement and close video window, which started autoplaying.
I stumbled upon another example of seemingly non-sensical potato-printing-and-mailing businesses in a Twitter post[0] yesterday. Mailaspud is actually going strong since at least 2014 so it's definitely not a joke.

At this point I will believe anything.

[0]: https://twitter.com/Paul_Courtney/status/1136274715092377605
Wow, that's embarrassing that I missed that. Thank you.

I may have missed it since the README is a plain text file and Github didn't make that url a link. That's still on me, though.

FWIW, I'll stick it here in a way that's actually a link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC976eejfms
I think another good example of IRC usage was the channel for kimchi and its associated tools. It's a GUI for libvirtd but the interesting part is that they used to hold daily standups in IRC.

Just like we do today in Webex Teams for example.

I personally never liked the transition to web based chat because IRC was a lot more information dense than any web chat can be.

Being able to paste inline code doesn't sell it for me since there are pastebins you can host on prem easily.
Is electron currently still the bloated beast it was a few years ago? Has it gotten cleaner and slicker ? How are libraries shared now, if any?
I completely agree. The hardest part of returning from military operations overseas was that Americans inevitably had their views shaped by one of two prevailing video viewpoints. Trying to discuss what happens over there in any meaningful way with someone who hasn't been inevitably devolves into an emotional reaction (usually roughly pro or against) instead of a conversation.
i like your style of thinking, can you put down 5-10 bullet points of knowledge you think we should all know or sources of knowledge we should investigate.
I just realized such plotters can be useful in many cool applications (eg diy pcb).

Where can I get hold of one for cheap?
If you don't want to pay for IRCCloud I would totally vouch for Matrix. I've hosted Quassel, ZNC and The Longue and different times but moving to Matrix and their IRC bridge has made my life much easier.
> once Google inevitably shuts this down

Can you stop with the trolling? The "Google shuts everything down" meme is getting really tiresome, especially when it's mostly false.
There's a lot of synergy in doing both.

Battery EV is high-capacity battery + engine + thermal management system for the battery.

Hydrogen EV is fuel cell + low-capacity battery (for smoothing out peaks and recuperation) + engine + thermal management system for the fuel cells.

BEV have low price per km (here it's about 1/4 compared to gas cars), but lower range, while H2EV have higher price per km (in Germany where there's actually infrastructure available, its about the same price per km as gas car) but higher range, so it can make sense for some use-cases, like long-range buses or whatever.

You could even build Plug-in Hydrogen EV with medium capacity battery and have BEV-like usage where you charge at home but still get 1000 km range if necessary - it seems needlessly complex, but it just means adding bigger battery and charging port to H2EV, so it can make sense.
This exists for Comcast and some other stuff, I'll ask my roommate what the service is called.
Balearic Island Hopping
A related point that bugs me is how subscriptions exclude many people because of the costs. People in countries with lower income and weaker currencies, as well as people in developed countries with lower incomes, may save up for a few years to get a relatively good machine or phone (probably used or an older model), but yet they get stung with subscription prices that don’t consider these aspects.

Every time I hear “for less than the price of a cup of coffee”, I groan, thinking that some people are so stuck in their tiny worlds that they don’t know or don’t care about the cost of coffee elsewhere and what people do with their money other than sipping expensive coffee with free WiFi or whatever.

I clearly get that the developers need to sustain themselves so that they stay in business and the customers benefit from their staying in business for longer. But somewhere in all this, I feel there’s some empathy missing, and also missing is some thought on a larger (and segmented) market with tiered and lower prices based on different factors.
Overtime for local responder staff. Revenue for keyword based twitter searcherers.
This isn't even on its face legalization (which Oakland can't do not because it's federally controlled, but because it's not prohibited by Oakland city law.) What Oakland did isn't even decriminalization, which it can't do for the same reason. All it did is criminal deprioritization, which just means you are unlikely to get arrested or prosecuted formit by Oakland authorities unless they are pissed at you about something else. It does not effect any of the penalties available if you are prosecuted, so it's nothing like even decriminalization.
Neither of those games are UE games, though.
Waait a minute. I know we used to love sharing uptime on IRC back in the 90s but these days it's just irresponsible to leave a server running for 11 years without reboots.

Because when has it ever been patched? You know vulnerabilities in IRC clients do exist. That's why we were always told to not irc with root back in the days of BitchX.
This is their biggest rival https://www.gopogogo.com/
medium. paywalled.
Champion League now open for robots
The Internet Toaster (2000)
> Is electron currently still the bloated beast it was a few years ago?

yes
I was just thinking to revive HN I want to kill Medium.
And moving to the US with your whole family is not a cheap or easy operation; it costs money, you need a job, a house, and from abroad, a working visa. I find it hard to believe he was a poor kid.
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Volument was launched here on this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20037116

We had troubles on scaling the system and some people found our product confusing. The article tells about the initial success, then getting into trouble, and finding a way to solve the panic. Thanks to Hacker News for providing this great feedback channel for new products!
What is a binary software package?
To revive something, it has to be dead first.
Either I, or apple, don't get the benefit of electron.

If I only want to target one OS, I already know better options they electron. What electron gets you is Linux, Windows and mac support with less work than any other platform (in my experience)
I thought this was a joke but damn! It sure does force you to focus.
Been using FF for 3 weeks now, love it so far.
People use electron because it's (1) platform Independent and (2) based on web technologies.

If i want to write apple only code, I code in swift.
Check out Bookstack https://www.bookstackapp.com
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I read the headline name as Terminus, as I guess 99% of others did as well. When I started reading the description I realized it’s Termius, and thought that’s an odd name that most people are never going to get unless they’re reminded of the spelling/pronunciation a few times. In my view, this is a poorer choice of name and branding. I don’t think you’ll ever see the day when everyone you encounter gets the name correctly on the first attempt.
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I’m out of the loop - why is medium suddenly out of favor these days
A mac only framework doesn't sound like an election killer at all considering windows still has a huge user base.
> Jeremy Brenno, 16, was killed on a golf course when, frustrated, he struck a bench with a 3-wood golf club. The shaft broke, bounced back at him, and pierced his heart.
Kids under 2 should not even use devices, we're talking about older kids.

Furthermore, those older kids are almost certainly using their parents' device.
Kinda.

H2EV don't "burn" the hydrogen, because fuel cells are much better than engines that burn stuff in cylinders. So you end up with electormotor and fuel cell.

And since you can recuperate into fuel cell and fuel cells aren't very good at providing big short peaks of power, it makes sense to add a battery to smooth things out and to store energy when braking.

But the battery doesn't need high-capacity, because it's just a temporary store of energy. It's a very different battery technology than what you find in a Tesla or Kia e-Niro or whatever.

In the end, Toyota H2EV (Mirai) is basically 1) electromotor from Lexus hybrid 2) battery from Prius 3) Fuel cell.
Yes it is. Whenever you open a common app whose interface is janky, uses a ton of memory, doesn't load all views as instantly as you expect a desktop app to and needs to frequently refresh itself you know you're using electron. Think slack and spotify, the article doesn't mention it but I'm sure Tidal is too because it behaves in exactly the same way.
You’re right, my sloppy remark was incorrect. Is there any reading you can recommend in this area, anything that may come to mind easily?
I'm very curious why you dislike Mattermost, my company has been considering moving over from Slack, but we've not spent a lot of time evaluating it - they seem very similar on the surface?
Too many full and half screen dialogs to get you accept this and that and login here and there.
giphy.
I have recently tried to launch our iOS app via catalyst runtime and compare it to an electron app. Memory and CPU usage was only %10% less.

I am not convinced that v8 itself have something wrong with memory usage. Same app without electron will take same amount of memory.
Electron is easier to use/develop on, is cross-platform, uses the most popular APIs/technologies(DOM, CSS, HTML). What not to like?
How much of his success is due to the high school he went to though? I think even given students with equal privilege, he is still within the top .1% of success. I'm not sure what would impress you though.
Considering that iOS users, on average, pay a lot more for software, games and services, it’d be stupid for Google to ignore a paying customer base. In any case, Google will not ignore iOS, like it hasn’t done so far in a big way.

There are things that were released on iOS first by Google, like the Gboard keyboard, for example. So Google is not at all averse to iOS or in the habit of avoiding it in any way.
Sorry for delay - will raise hand on #guile when online next
Just......no. Do these people know how exhausting it is to even pogostick across a single block? I can hardly do it, and I'm in very good shape.

There might be some niche in leaving them in parks and public places as entertainment pieces for bored passerby/tourists; but, as a transportation mechanism, just, no, I don't see it.
Anyone with experience developing cross-platform native code, what's your take on the state of native cross-platform? Comment on GTK, qt?
It's not a guarantee, but the right kind of schooling - in the educational sense, the networking sense, and the passing on of class-appropriate behaviours sense - hugely improves the odds of success.

As this article proves. The ability to invest disposable income is a defining class marker in the US.

You don't get to play the game if you literally have no surplus income - and many Americans don't.
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More than that, we're used to dealing with maps when the territory may be inherently unmappable. It may not just be hard to produce an accurate map for the entire territory, it may be impossible.
> Building them is also an expensive, slow job that requires a team of developers and designers — particularly if they’re building for multiple platforms, like Windows, macOS, and Linux, at the same time.

That is just blatantly wrong. There's cross platform toolkits like Gtk/Qt/Swing/others that I'd say are still easier to build apps with than electron. There's RAD tools like WinForms and VB that let you drag'n'drop most of the UI if you're happy targeting a single platform.

Electron is still not as good as these options were 20 years ago, the only thing it has going for it are a legion of web developers that are seemingly incapable of learning something different.
I’m sorry, but the meme would not exist if it was not a reality. Google has a history of shutting down products that don’t reach a critical mass they find appropriate - regardless of how good the product is, or how essential it is to the users that adopted it. Inbox, anyone?

It is perfectly sensible to be mistrustful of Google services, especially new ones. It’s also pretty disingenuous to accuse someone of trolling when they clearly have been burnt in the past by Google’s practices of decommissioning good products all the time. I myself have used many products that Google arbitrarily decided to decommission. I do not trust any new services they create.
https://imgur.com/a/gaNGqMQ

49% of the page is non-scrollable on an iPad (811 of 1668 vertical pixels). Unreadable.
Comment about Jira is awful. Jira is perfect example. Because it sucks on web, but perfect on mobile. They almost convinced to come back to Jira instead of notion.
It’s funny, in 1994 the most popular Usenet channel for me was alt.destroy.the.earth (second was alt.food.tacobell). People just theorizing about blowing stuff up as thought experiments. I was a minor so what is the appropriate action from the school if they had some tool like this back then?

It’s hard to tell what’s dangerous speech vs kids exploring the world and stretching their brains. The gifted class loves the anarchist cookbook because it was weird stuff.

We need to figure out what sensitivity and specificity we want for these types of surveillance. I think there are some who think knocking on 1000 doors to prevent one shooting is acceptable.
I found this discussion quite interesting. This package is a low-level polyfill library, and is used in a lot of places (you can tell, according to github by 2,5 millions other apps/libs).

However, the author does not really have any money from it, maintaining it during his free time. Naturally, why people would go here, to such a low-level dependency?

Personally, I think Babel should support the author. But it shows an interesting phenomenon, when low-level libraries don't give you anything, even if half of the JS toolchain depends on it.
I convinced a few of my acquaintances to reduce the amount of beef they eat and vote for parties that support more ambitious climate goals.
You have to support web too. Are you going to build app in Qt for web too?
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Do. It.
It's embarrassing when the industry sacrifices speed and quality for the sake of dev convenience.
This is a very weak argument. If it was the case catalyst would be windows as well. Then it would actually be very interesting.

Solving the “apple” side of the equasion is no solution at all.
I thought the link was headed to Fight Club... :)
> Its goal is to make building a native app as easy as building with Electron.

1. Building with Electron is not easy
2. Building native apps is easy (at least was the last time I checked on Windows some decades ago, I guess it's not harder now)
Too hard to opt out to tracking from this site. Wont read.
Unfortunately that's self-serving nonsense. You're either context-aware or you're not. If you're trying to cherry pick the levels at which you're context-aware, it means you're not context-aware at all.

The more complex social contexts don't stop operating just because you don't believe in them.
I'm a bit surprised there's no sort of SSH undo subroutine that reverses the previous command if connectivity is lost. Of course it couldn't cover every possible stupid thing but it could fix simple stupid mistakes like fouling up a port assignment or disabling the wrong network adapter.
Algorithms behind pricing Real Estate (and what is to learn from Toilet Paper)
the bloat, the UI look & feel, ...?