skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a few things in production — two SaaS, one customer-facing subscription site. I run these all myself with no staff or contractors.

The short answer: I'm married to my phone/laptop.

My test coverage is good. I use managed services when possible so I don't need to play sysadmin. I don't deploy before I leave for something (dinner, shower), and I have some pretty good redundancy across all my services. If one node goes down, I'm safe. If four go down (incredibly unlikely), well, fuck, at least my database was backed up and verified an hour ago.

I invested a large amount of time into admin-y stuff. My admin-y stuff is solid and I can tweak/config/ccrud anything on the fly. I credit being able to relax thanks to my admin-y stuffs. Obviously, if shit really hits the fan with hardware or an OS bug, I need to get to my laptop. But over the last six years, I haven't had to do that yet, and hopefully I won't have to.

I've explored adding staff — mainly for day-to-day operations — but I like the idea of interfacing with my customers and I credit growing things to where I have because I'm in the trenches with them. Things haven't always gone smoothly, and my customers always let me know, but any issues are normally swiftly-resolved.

The scale of one of my products is non-trivial and has a ton of moving parts — some of which I'm in no control of and could change at any time and break _everything_. It sounds terrifying, and it is, but I've made a habit to check things before peak hours. If something's amiss, a quick fix is usually all it takes.
> I don't want to wait for VSCode or Sublime to start up

How long does it take for you to load VSCode or Sublime?
One thing that annoys me about psychadelic discussion is how dismissive people are.

Its predictable:

Have a bad experience?

“Whaat no way dude, you must have taken something else or you were predisposed to schizophrenia you should have predicted that and checked your family history and genetics first! This experience is totally invalid to us and anyone considering using our favorite psychadelic”

Develop schizophrenia?

“[abbreviated version of the same response]”

Have an interesting idea?

“Just an anecdote! More research necessary”
I wonder if GitLab will add Saudi Arabia to their employee region block?
The same BLE with known vulnerabilities?
Almost everyone I know has some kind of side hustle. Whether it's a job, a business, a serious hobby whatever. And unless you hire a 22 year old with zero responsibilities, you're never going to get 100% from anyone.

It's absurd to expect 100% in the first place. All you should be concerned with is whether or not someone is getting their work done. Not whether they are capable of doing even more.
> Sentry, mongodb, et al. all got as big as they did by promising to be open source.

Do you have any proof to back this assertion?

> It’s important to remember that Sentry “the project” has been developed almost exclusively by employees of Sentry “the company”; millions of dollars have paid the salaries of engineers, designers, and product people to produce the software we know and love today.

I don't have any skin in this game, but they claim that most of the code contributions were by employees paid for by Sentry. Do you have evidence to the contrary?
I worked with GraphQL a bit over a year and half ago on a project. I was the front end consumer, working with backend microservices via graphQL.

I wasn't sold on the GraphQL hype then, and I'm still not, but this article seems to miss the point. [Edit: I mean, it agrees, but it does so poorly]

A lot of people TALK about the lack of multiple back-and-forth, and about not wasting unnecessary data, but honestly, that wasn't a big deal. I expect there are some situations where that comes into play, but for most people the appeal of GraphQL lies elsewhere. If HTTP/2 means that's less of a big deal, I don't expect much change.

The legit upside to GraphQL was that backend could change rapidly without breaking compatibility for existing consumers. Some changes could be fixed purely frontend by changing the query, but if we needed new data that wasn't provided (or a variation on data that was provided) the backend could add that AND NOT IMPACT EXISTING CONSUMERS. That's not the only benefit (and remember, I remain a skeptic) but that was by far the biggest and was definitely real.

Even if the claims of HTTP/2 rendering the call overhead are correct (see other comments to doubt that), that has no impact on this value of GraphQL.
I've been using Linode's managed service, about $100 a month per server. If something goes wrong they have access and can triage, or let me know if they can't fix it. It's been very helpful, especially since they have (excellent) phone support.
Workaround: click "Maybe later"
His point is that the total spending is approximately constant (controlled for the size of the economy I presume).
No, although I might have seen it. Nestlé has a long history of problems from the questionable exploitation of water resources, profiting from child/slave labor, unethically promoting infant formula over breast milk in developing countries, anti-union/labor practices, pushing for the privatization of public water access ("access to water should not be a public right."), promoting deforestation and the destruction of protected land, greenwashing the impact of plastic bottles, and that's not even all of the ethically questionable things they've done. Just as I was looking up the exact quote of from their chairman and then CEO I'm learning for the first time of complaints about their use of (and lies concerning) palm oil and their demand of £3.7m from Ethiopia while they were in the midst of a famine.

They clearly put their own profits over the lives and safety of people. I'm not taking to the streets in protest or starting facebook groups or anything, but where I can get a comparable alternative to their products I'll go out of my way to spend my money there so that I'm not supporting them.
I mean most ad-tech firms can be considered successes by Silicon Valley's standards, and why would the marketing departments of corporations blow the whistle? They're making money too, probably twice a week, direct deposited.
It has been said before that laws/bills should come with an intent or goal attached, similar to the useful type of source code comments.

Judges exist because strictly parsing the words of a law is not always enough, and knowing whether the application of the law is in line with why it was coined would be a good step.
The gatekeeping
Many countries are creating clean water through desalination or reprocessing. Some countries have created land by building islands or reclaiming coastal shelf area. Natural resources available are increased by better tech making more available. So yeah, they’re less fixed than you think.
Reliably someone comes along every few months to question digital ads. I always come back to analyses of incrementality as the real proof.

Take an audience of X people. Divide them in two. Show ads to your test group, don't show to control. Watch your business grow and gauge the lift between the two audiences.

The companies that know how to advertise at scale do this constantly and can gauge the real effect of their ad dollars. Facebook, Google and others make these tests possible in their platforms, while other software suites such as Impact Altitude and VisualIQ allow you to do this kind of analysis and testing as well.

In the end, most of it proves out to be incremental. There are notable exceptions of course, but when are there not?
it's hard to make a story about you making money compelling unless you have something to share that can help others get there too. there's not too much of that here (and i'm not sure there could be in this case)
Recycling cars’ lithium batteries is more complicated than you might think
Downvotes? At least explain.
(In United States, high school, north-east, small town of 25k, early 2000's)

Got bullied, was the only girl in computer classes. Cliche, I know, but actually happened. Dead bugs on my notes when I left my desk, awful things direct messaged to my computer, shoved around, had my computer unplugged while trying to work, gum shoved over the lock on my locker... one time a guy wiped his wet hands on me and said "Don't you hate it when you go to the bathroom and get piss all over your hands?"

I stood up for myself a lot, but man, the piss on the hands thing made me cry. I did not have friends in those classes.

I was singlehandedly the reason why the computer lab got rearranged and policies were updated twice. I still ended up deciding to go for a different major in college because I never wanted to have that happen again.

Ended up always being in an IT role anyway because I learned so much from the teacher. He was my favorite, and went to bat for me a couple of times. I still send him Christmas cards, nearly twenty years later, because he was such a good teacher and I still use the stuff he taught.
Brings back memory... 12 years ago we built an online IDE with a friend, you could actually edit and build C/C++/C# files online. We were expecting people to love the idea but nooo, we got a full backlash with everyone saying this trend of reimplementing everything web-based was stupid. Fun times still.

Demo: http://lumakey.net/labs/metacoding/Editor/Demo.htm

Blog post: https://masterscrat.github.io/2007/11/20/metacoding-hello-wo...
You just described most of human endeavor.
Yeah the golden egg may be in long term influence of advertising, which is super hard to measure.
Ancient religion bans drug invented 90 years ago, more at 11
You can't copyright recipes.*

If you could, that would still be the smallest part of the dynamics of why people drink craft beer and how the economics of scaling up production of a recipe work.

* - And trade secrets don't lend themselves to openness.
Nvidia Launches Jetson Xavier NX as 70x45mm 10~15 Watt “AI Supercomputer”
>>>...to fend off governments forever and eventually become supranational?

No, but they can fight to delay the inevitable. Increased privacy rules hurts profits. Pushing back regulation by a year or two, or even a month or two, means keeping those profit going for a month or two. For an entity like facebook that could mean millions. Say a new privacy reg will require them spinning up a few hundred employees to manage the compliance project. Holding off on those hires saves more money than the legal fees spent avoiding regulators. Even when you know you will eventually have to do something unprofitable, every day you avoid having to do it is a win.
AirBnb already offer to send a photographer for free to take pictures of your flat. Having a verification visit is similar service and can be provided for free too.

Practically speaking, they're taking around 25% commission on bookings. It's more than enough to cover inspections and pictures.
He says there is this false notion that you need these specialized chips or hardware accelerators to have the necessary resources to run these jobs, but he says it doesn’t have to be that way.

Their ad copy say "2.5x Faster than Volta" and "10x Cheaper than Volta", but using CPUs only. Incredibly impressive, if true.
Personal cars just need to be banned in Manhattan already.
I still don't understand why the state needs to act (by confiscating the house) regardless of the amount. As long as it gets its money plus interest, what is the harm to the state by waiting? Sure, there will be a delay in payment, but if the interest rate is high enough that would be a benefit, for the same reason that it's better for credit card companies if the balance isn't paid off right away.

I really don't see the problem with waiting. Either it's paid off with interest and the state is made whole, or they don't pay and they sell the house once it becomes a reasonable amount (and the balance is paid off with interest). Either way the state gets its money (plus interest).

I'm not against raising revenue, but I don't think all ways of raising revenue are automatically good. For example you could also raise revenue by taking someones car if they don't have a current sticker on or get a parking ticket. Taking homes like this confiscates an almost random amount from people with no consideration of their means or the amount other people are paying. You could be confiscating most of the savings of a middle class couple near retirement for example, and by doing so make them contribute 100x what their wealthy neighbor does to government revenues.

If there is no problem with collecting in a way where everyone pays the same and the state is reimbursed for any additional costs, they should do that. If they need more revenue, they should raise property tax, not play games where a few people pay 1000x more because a mail didn't reach them (and if you read the article, it seems like some counties were deliberately doing the absolute minimum notifying people so they could hit the jackpot).
This is a very interesting point, which in fact plays in defense of original article.

Bob Hoffmann, very influential figure in advertising (http://adcontrarian.blogspot.com/) likes to point out that there were not that many companies which built their strong brand with online advertising only.

OK, he is old and grumpy dude and he dislikes online ads, but this is a fair point. Once company becomes big enough, it strives to buy a Super Bowl ad spot. And we are well into 10 years of internet being mainstream media, but how many brands were built online only? Not that much, and I'm saying it as "online ads work", kind of guy.
> ... texted the founder saying I disagreed :)

Which direction did you want it to go? Full BSD from day one or locked down closed source?
Sure, it may not completely be a corollary of compound interest, but the fact that there are people that can live entirely off of the passive income generated by their assets and have some left over to invest further illustrates that the game is fundamentally different at higher levels of wealth.
I would say that as a one person founder, know that you cannot ever get 100% uptime and live with it. In the most simplistic sense, you need to sleep 8 hours a day, you cannot live your life constantly stressed about uptime. Just generally have internet access and sometimes your service will go down.

On the set up, try your best to solve issues and use tried and true hardware, but things go down sometimes, even big sites like Google, Facebook go down, there is no silver bullet, you can only improve on your past mistakes.

Last, try to find some remote help, on a contract basis, it's not that expensive and it can help alleviate a lot of your stress.
> There is a reason the many eastern religions that were the inspiration for a lot of new age ideas forbid drugs and alcohol.

To what degree and under which scenarios this reasoning is correct &/or optimal is currently unknown.

> While you can have drug induced trances similar to meditation, in Zen they call it "losing your self", the entire point is to be able to develop that skill and point of view without a chemical aid.

Whether (non-psychedelic) meditative states are "optimal" (regardless of what the specific "point" of various practices are) is currently unknown.

But to be clear, this in no way implies that developing an ability to reach these states without drugs isn't beneficial, or that the ability to reach such a state doesn't have unrecognized advantages over and above a psychedelic approach, or that psychedelics do not come with a much higher (yet unknown) risk profile.

I've read very little that suggests a meditation practice is likely to be harmful, and plenty that suggests it is extremely beneficial. But I've read nothing that suggests it utterly supplants psychedelic experiences, and that includes Ram Dass' experience as well, to my understanding anyways. If he personally stopped using psychedelics, and recommends that to others, in no way proves that this is the optimal path.

The correct answers to questions such as these are currently unknown. We need more research and ideas.
No, with respect, you're incorrect. They do interpret rankings like this. My job is in higher Ed analytics. I have quite some years in it, and before that was my primary job I spent a decade of working in college admissions offices. My first role was in a 50/50 position handling technology and analytics needs, and the other half in customer-facing operations. My comment here is base on many hundreds of conversations with families going through the college selection and application process. This is indeed how most of them look at rankings. "Why should we choose your school when school X half an hour away is ranked 10 positions higher?" This is often the thinking.
Having just read ‘Debt: The First 5000 years’ I don’t think the author contends that price skyrocketing was the reason interest-bearing debt was banned, but I could be wrong.

Do you have a source?
The Universe May Be Round
I don't think the article says advertising never works, but that people should be careful when measuring. Lets stick to the mentioned eBay example. I can totally imagine advertising for the keyword "ebay" not being worth a lot. Those people are likely to visit that site anyway. I was more surprised when "shoes" & co were mentioned. I would have expected bigger impact for those.

Hardly any of that applies to a small store with no brand awareness, since there is little/no of the "would have clicked anyway" mentioned in the article.

Another problem with measuring can be the competition. Building/Changes brand awareness (incl relative to competitors) takes time and seems unlikely to possibly be fully measured in a short experiment. Especially if the competitor currently doesn't run ads... but you not betting for them anymore might change the price and thus calculation for them.
What is the difference between Amazon giving me, an imaginary Amazon employee, $100 in cash vs $100 in stock? Amazon is a publicly traded company, so any employee can choose to buy stock. Is the idea to force the employees to hold the stock without being allowed to sell it? If they can't sell it, what value do they get from it?

As an investment strategy, I never hold stock in a company I'm working for. That puts too many eggs in one basket. If the company fails for some reason, not only have I lost my job but I've also lost my retirement savings. I would personally oppose being compensated in company stock and would sell it ASAP if given the option.
That's quite possibly a reasonable assessment of the situation.
Understanding Data Transfer in AWS
I believe the 'convenience' mentions was, no longer needing the password. Else this would be more inconvenient, not less?

And the fingerprint is absolutely not a good password replacement.
You'll want to switch to the Single Database and change the pricing model from vCore to DTU. Then you can pick Basic or Standard and adjust the size and compute resources.

Basic will do quite a lot; I use one to load test our application and haven't hit limits.
>> Ahmad Abouammo ... was also charged with falsifying documents and making false statements when questioned by FBI agents at his Seattle home — offenses that carry a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison if convicted.

Lawyer 101: Don't talk to the cops. If the FBI are wanting to talk to you in your own home it isn't for your convenience. Thank them for their visit, shut the door, and get a lawyer. When he tells you to sit on the couch quietly, do it.

(Many defense lawyers would advise not even opening the door.)
That's a good point - I added a small conclusion which possibly helps.
Probably an A/B test.
I expect to see a lot more of this with GitHub Sponsors coming online. As it is now you can take any BSD, MIT, ISC, GPL open source project and start collecting money from it, not using it in another project, just by asking for money period. The licenses above all allow this. It's only going to take a few bad actors for the actual devs to start wanting a new license that somehow keeps the project open source but only let's them collect the donations. I have no idea how that will work but it seems a likely outcome.

I don't mind when my open source library is one tiny part in a larger project that is commercial and making money. But I'd be upset if someone forked my library, changed the name (or not), and started trying to collect donations. Even if they changed the library I don't know at how much they'd have to change it before I'd not feel taken advantage of.
If your server is running baremetal, no problem. If it's running on a shared hosting environment, a co-tenant VM can exfiltrate your data. See L1TF/Foreshadow.
As John von Neumann said: "With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk."
In the US, you can look up your doctor here https://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/ Apparently drug and medical supply companies are required by law to report anything they gift to doctors or hospitals.
Its almost as if reality is really complex and pithy slogans are useless for anything other than grandstanding because each situation needs to be appraised on its own terms
Did you read the article?

> Carmack was not the first person to think of using BSP trees in a real-time graphics simulation. Of course, it’s one thing to anticipate that BSP trees might be used this way and another thing to actually do it. But even in the implementation Carmack may have had more guidance than is commonly assumed.
Well yes but open source has well established definition.

If we just let everybody call them self opensource and free, those terms will loose all of its meaning.

The fact that BSL is better than completely closed source option is different discussion.
Let me provide some key points:

1. We are different because most of all other services segment the data based on tiers. We return the entire dataset even for free users.

2. Our Free tier is huge compared to other services.

3. We are fast. Our response time is in the region of 50ms, which is really good for the amount to information we return. We don't cache our response, we always return fresh data.

About MaxMind, you are right about how easy would be to have an in-house solution. But a highly scalable, distributed infrastructure like ours guarantees the same response time from multiple locations across the world. Also, having the solution in-house would need updating and maintainig the database periodically as well.
> a REAL open source community

No true scotsman. If it works for the stakeholders, it works, regardless of what you want to call the model, whether that's GNU/Linux, Redis, Elastic, or Sentry.
I'm advocating for not providing it to them.
How could Apple let this go? I tried it out and it was true! Outrageous. :O
Education has been a big public endeavour in France for over a century and until 1980ish they had excellent results.

According to E. D Hirsch in Why Knowledge Matters, the decline in French academic results is attributable to them adopting the individualistic USA model.

Where are you getting the information that the supposedly poor results are because schooling is publicly funded?
I planned on writing both features, you could either select a few topics your site pertains to or I could parse the page and pick topics for you.
> Monitor your infrastructure and set up alerts [..] "fatal" OR "exception" OR "error"

I almost have the regex "fatal|invalid|unknown|error|except|critical|cannot" in muscle memory many years after having last had to type it - must have typed it thousands of times tailing and grepping logs :- )