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It's been great seeing this space fill out with solutions in the last year. MLFlow[1] is another open source solution I have my eyes on.

BentoML looks more cohesive than our homegrown solution because it targets a more general case. One of the things I would miss switching to BentoML would be automatic requirements generation. We use pipreqs[2] to generate a requirements.txt given a model instance. Any thoughts on the difficulty as a user in extending BentoML as to integrate pipreqs?

Again another difficulty question: we have a few statsmodels[3] predictors and it isn't clear how much work would be involved extending BentoML to accept those too.

Thanks for pointing out BentoML. I'll keep an eye on it as a migration target as this space develops.

[1] https://mlflow.org/docs/latest/index.html

[2] https://github.com/bndr/pipreqs

[3] https://www.statsmodels.org/stable/index.html
Technically I agree, but nowadays with 5G+Edge computing, where low latency application requirements are essential, there will be other performance constraints not tackled by Java that needs new solutions. Previous JVM attempts mostly focused on "write once, run anywhere". But now, "anywhere" means "anywhere and quickly" :)
IDK, is a meme really a derogatory name for an idiom?

I tend to think of memes as simply more attached to the current era. Sure our current era is devolving into madness, but I like to believe in a world with beautiful memes and healthier societies.
Could this be a PR stunt then?
As U.S. the election season warms up, it is important to recognize a political piece when you see it. This starts not with presenting the problem, but with implying that the changes proposed by Democrats aren't what is needed. And later on calls out data gathered by Republican office holders.

Even if the topic is health care, those bits of the writing should indicate the political motivations behind the article. I'm not going to tell anyone where to fall in politics, and HN is the wrong place for it anyway... but I do encourage everyone to be aware of it over the next 12 months.
First, does this have anything to do with the OP article? Second, care to link to anything to substantiate your claims?
I bristle when I see health savings accounts presented as a solution to the health care crisis. The median household income in the U.S. is about $64,000 a year (see https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2019/demo/p60-26...). When a single major medical procedure can result in a six-figure bill, there's just no way that the average person could ever save enough. You end up with people who are lucky enough to never need to tap their HSAs, and people who are unlucky enough to get sick, whose HSAs just present a speed bump on their slide into bankruptcy.

There's only one thing HSAs are really good at, and that's creating a huge new tranche of money for Wall Street to suck fees out of.
> But is there room to distinguish emergency from non-emergency services?

There absolutely must be, IMO. Emergency care is what insurance _should_ be for - the stuff you can't plan for, must have, and can't comparison shop for. IIRC, emergency healthcare spending accounts for around 2% of our annual totals. I just don't think we can justify our full medical pricing system on the basis of emergency care needs alone.

For everything else, though, I'd be much happier if I could just have a price list up front and shop for the provider of my choice. I did it with Lasik, and it was easily the best medical experience I've ever had, not just in terms of "knowing what I'll pay", but the outfit I had it done by was actually competing to win my business. I felt like a customer they wanted to win, not just an account number that they were going to throw at my insurance company.

By means of analogy, we carry car insurance in the case of accidents, but we don't expect car insurance to pay to refill our gas tank (even though gasoline has a lower price elasticity of demand than heathcare!) or pay for oil changes. Food has a lower price elasticity of demand than healthcare, too, but it's still cheap and we don't carry grocery insurance. Insurance makes sense to cover the unforeseen and unexpected. Why do we obfuscate prices and billing practices for routine, elective, and foreseeable care?

"Don't have insurance cover routine care" is obviously insane if pricing were to remain unchanged, but I absolutely think the fundamental problem with the affordability of healthcare in the US isn't the availability (or lack thereof) of insurance, but the way we've completely separated services from prices. Hiding the prices doesn't mean they don't exist and don't get charged - they just eliminate the forces that would otherwise exert downwards price pressure. If we could get pricing transparency on everything, and then see providers start competing on uninsured pricing, I think that could open the door to "actual insurance" plans (at far lower cost than exists today), while actually reducing prices for everything else across the board.
IBM use "on-premise" all the time. Like it or loathe it, it's become the accepted neologism for "self-hosted".
I suspect the Fitbit acquisition is more to have a product that competes with Apple's and Samsung's smartwatch offerings. At this point it seems like having a watch that integrates with your phone offerings is table stakes, and I don't think Google had that.
That is one of the main points of the article.
most in the US won't, although some do e.g. https://surgerycenterok.com/pricing/
macOS 11 Ventura (Concept by Avdan)
Bingo. Risk is what keeps me off anything without a cap on billing. If I spend $25/mo on Digital Ocean, that number's not gonna change unless I tell it to. My site may go down, but I won't accidentally run up a five-figure bill on a just-getting-started side project that's not guaranteed to ever generate revenue.

That and having to keep up with a bunch of different bills.
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> Search Noogle for Nosults.

After searching both Google and Duck, I still don't know what "Nosults" is supposed to be.
David started the site based on his postings to alt.folklore.urban, but as I recall most of the Snopes articles on the site back in the day had Barbara's signature on them. So even if David thought of it as his and ran the operations, Barbara provided most if the content and set the tone.

They divorced because David was having affairs with multiple women, ostensibly even using Snopes money for prostitutes. Of course even if not the primary cause of the divorce, a husband-and-wife business is going to make the divorce messier.
I've ever only had one drive failure. It was a 3 TB Seagate. I remember it failing in like three years, so after the warranty had already expired.

My oldest drive is a 500 GB Western Digital from 2008 that's still operational today. I imagine its end is near, but I've thought about that for a couple of years now.
Performance in what sense? Searching online for benchmarks gives some impressive numbers, specifically this: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdb-2dot1-perform....

Others have commented about how the language that CockroachDB was written in causes performance issues due to Go using a GC. Can't say that this is the main reason for sure, but I guess it could be a possibility.
The practicality is answered by the fact that many/most recreational vehicles you see going down the road will use a refrigerator like this. As for power efficiency, in comparing compressor fridges to absorption, I think a well-design compressor fridge will use less electricity (absorption fridges can use an electric heater, too), but not by a huge margin. But if your efficiency question is about how well it keeps things cool, ours will make ice cubes when it's in the 80s F.
The plan that offers UHD also offer multiple screens. It it is a legitimate way for customers to pay to stream multiple things at the same time. So while it costs around the same as the HBO plan, it offers something that some other services do no. Apple TV+ allows family sharing, but I dont know about Disney+.
Yeah I do that now but ngl the recommendations are really useful to find good older stuff that’s off the radar in most podcast apps.
The wiki page for "Snowclone" explicitly mentions X is the new Y. I wonder how many snowclones of meme there are? :P

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone
Is that true? There are a number of interesting corollaries if so, notably that China should get a lot more respect for extremely cheap mass-production of products, the U.S's position as "designer of products that are built elsewhere" is quite precarious, that software and other IP (where mass production is basically free) are basically the perfect businesses, and that services that can be provided without mass-producing a product will grow in importance.

I could buy all 5 of those statements, but it's interesting that the combined effect of them would be to push people out of making things and into manipulating brains (which itself is a statement I could believe).
The real issue to me then and now was how do you prove the original is the original? I pointed out then that frankly a good enough photocopy would also be indistinguishable despite a rubber stamp. I no longer remember but I guess the answer to that is red ink. This was prior to color photocopies being readily available. Or maybe they bought themselves a crimper and embossed a stamp.
I like guides like this that can help beginners bridge the gap between hobby and professional quality development.

I’ll add one more tip, the one I think has saved me more sleep and prevented more headache than any other as I’ve developed a SaaS app over the last 5 years.

It’s simple:
Handle failure cases in your code, and write software that has some ability to heal itself.

Here are a few things I’ve developed that have saved my butt over the years:

1) An application that is deployed alongside the primary application, tails error logs and replays failed requests. (Idempotent requests make this possible)

2) many built-in health checks like checking back pressure on queues and auto-throttling event emitters when queues get backed up

3) Local event buffering to deal with latency spikes in things like SQS.

I hope to eventually write more about these systems on our blog but I never seem to find the time
>WebAssembly also provides a fine-grained API surface area

Are there concerns about compatibility when browsers are inevitably forced to reduce that surface area because of a security flaw?

And how are we going to keep all browsers on the same page with regard to what functionality they provide? It will suck if wasm turns into a cross browser compatibility nightmare.
In a similar vein it usually sounds much more appealing to do ten weeks of fun work, instead of one week of annoying and banal work (fiddling with configuration, writing glue, navigating customer support/pricing). Even if this is an irrational use of resources.

So setting up and using the thing needs to be not just easier than doing it yourself, but significantly easier than doing it yourself.
Why should I let you run non-sandboxed code on my machine?

What do you offer to earn my permission to allow your app?
I've always pronounced it "kway" but so long as its being used, I'm fine with any of the pronunciations :)

Disclaimer: Named, cofounded, and now engineering lead of Quay
Agreed. I helped setup a company on this last year and they're very happy. There's a 'Deploy to Heroku' push button install that was incredibly easy to setup. Great job Metabase folks.: https://www.metabase.com/start/heroku
It's not. It's not a novel concept. But it's very clean, readable code in Go.
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Really having trouble garnishing interest in a tool I built (deltatrail.io) so naturally I was intrigued with this article. Seems like the "I can build this myself" response is common even though I know many would rather not (even if they could). What I think I'm gathering is that, a solution needs to be immediately useful. My tool which is a "this may help you down the line" (it actually will) but doesn't provide immediate benefit. They say it's easier to sell Advil than Vitamins, right?
The post mentions:

> tiny IoT device

But, I've looked at this in the past and concluded wasm was a pretty poor fit for small devices: 1) it only addresses memory in 64KB pages (perhaps more SRAM than you might have) and 2) requires both single and double float support.

(1) might be possible to work-around by backing the memory space with smaller page allocations -- at the cost of indirection for every memory access. (2) seems pretty insurmountable -- it'll just need a chunk of extra C library.

Are you aware of any projects working on this for smallish microcontrollers?
Yes and, by the same logic, most of the people responding to your comment, despite its veracity, will be people that took issue with it and so they'll be right-leaning.

I think you're 100% right that it's the "I wish it weren't true" crowd because, if it was, they would have reveled in assailing you with links to the contrary.
>In my case, I eventually learned that the odd hours weren't the key to his perceived success. Instead, he used the odd hours to force us to give him only work that could be accomplished alone. We were lulled into letting him make key architecture decisions in isolation, because no one else was awake or online at the same time to discuss them. Eventually he became the architect by virtue of operating in isolation, where we couldn't discuss his decisions.

McCarthy's 1995 book "Dynamics of Software Development" has a chapter devoted to this phenomenon.
Yeah a lot those coupons you get when you file a change of address form are really good coupons. I've never had to pay for them or used any that turned out to be scams.
> ... requires only a heat source to operate.

Nope. It also requires a heat sink.
Sounds interesting. Got a link for that? And I’m saying that as a DDG user.
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It is mostly pulled out of a backside though, because without much evidence it attributes that 77% decrease in spending to a couple of cherry picked difference between the systems.

Overall it would plausibly help, but it's a pretty strong claim that these are the only important differences.
To believe that Schiff would doctor transcripts is ridiculous, especially because there are quite a few republicans in the room who would immediately jump on any opportunity to nail him to the nearest cross if he were to do something like that. In a situation where Adam Schiff and Donald Trump claim opposites your safe bet would be on Schiff.

Think about it this way: Adam Schiffs reputation can be damaged by mere paraphrasing of someone else's words, Trump could say anything and it would not damage his reputation.
I too experience better ads on Instagram (relevant positions with local companies, software I actually guve a second look etc) than on Google (until this summer they were dead set on showing me ads for scammy dating sites whenever I disabled my ad blocker despite the fact that I put ib the effort to tell them multiple times it was irrelevant.)
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Doesn't methane usually have a short lifespan in the atmosphere?
> With the advent of lie-flat beds, in-flight wifi and power, and higher cabin pressurization, being on an airplane an extra 3.5 hours isn't even so bad anymore, so the practical advantage isn't nearly as great.

I think this is huge. From what I read, the cabin of the Concorde was very cramped. I would prefer business class on a 787 or A380 vs being cramped and arriving faster.
HSAs are part of high deductible insurance plans with out-of-pocket maximums. No one with such a plan would ever receive a six-figure bill. (With the possible exception of surprise billing from out-of-network providers, which we ought to ban.)
I'm not really convinced by the argument about cookies.
Not allowing cookies, but allowing localStorage and applications to automatically send information from localStorage to the webserver, is not something that I understand as accomplishing all that much.
Why would that accomplish anything?

Unless, is there something preventing javascript from, on page load, always sending "hey, here is some content from localstorage" to the server? But I imagine that there isn't anything preventing that, so I don't see the benefit.

In addition, my understanding is that localStorage can only be used using javascript, while cookies can be used for login and such without using javascript.

It seems like these requirements would therefore require applications to either not have a login feature, or to use javascript.

(I know someone who is running a website with accounts, and who intends to use a minimal amount of javascript for it.)

"no third party scripts" makes sense to me (though I might suggest the amended "no third party scripts, unless including a hash or something to ensure that the third party script does not change"?).
Which means it can't free. But that's also not accurate, anyway, there's a brk() method to grow the heap. Which is such a bad starting point for a new runtime.
You can find our more recent performance numbers on https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/v19.2/performance.html
+1 for Botany of Desire

Great book.
Slow websites to be labelled by Chrome browser
Can't businesses opt-out of Yelp by sending a cease and desist letter or eventually suing Yelp?

Restaurants can't opt-out because they would no longer be discoverable on the internet, but a real estate agent should be able to opt-out of Yelp and still be reasonably successful.
But the left has home court advantage: the sympathetic ears of upper management at Facebook, Google, Twitter, and most of the major news outlets without "Fox" in their name.
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> with an explicit nationalist bent.

If that's all, it's really interesting that it became white nationalist in SPLC's reporting...
Was just thinking this would make a great business opportunity. Thanks, we'll check it out!
Yes, prepending 'about:reader?url=' did work, but I still wonder why. I suspect that Firefox's reader mode must be using Javascript behind uMatrix's back.
You can also log in and set your preference to old reddit
That's very interesting. I had no idea they were now charging $1.05 to file a change of address on line.

I suspect they implemented the fee since people as above are filing change of address forms from Address A to Address A just to get coupons mailed to them and the $1.05 covers the cost of mailing the coupons. It also, requiring a credit card, provides for a measure of identity verification and reduces fraud associated with fake address change filings.

> We use your email address to send your transaction confirmation or send a one-time reminder email if you do not successfully complete your transaction.

Ah, so it's not true, as was claimed above, that the USPS form gives your email to the companies so they can spam you.
No, it really isn't. The Guardian article is factually reporting on what the "whistleblower" told them, both via the video and in a separate interview. They did not fabricate any details, or make any claims they knew to be false. They made a cursory attempt to present the other side of the story. Sensationalized, yes. Slanted, yes. But not fake.
You don't have to support floats; you can, for instance, support loading and validating WebAssembly modules only if they don't use any floating-point operations.
Python (the Conda distribution, not small but quite easy and batteries included), Keras, Tensorflow, NVidia hardware (GTX1080ti, not sure what the current sweet spot for price/performance in GPU land is but that was the best I could get at the time).
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This is historically the kind of thing that people think is very cool and important, but has turned out to not matter at all. "Languages matter" must be the biggest enduring fallacy of computer programming. It has an obvious corollary in believing processor architectures are important.
It's so odd that the claim of efficiency is based on HSA, when you look at Singapore, and say the UKs NHS have similar price performance at less than half per capita costs vs the US. As far as I understand, the NHS doesn't have any sort of HSA/deductible fees, nor price tag signals. What is in common between the low cost health systems of the UK and Singapore is significant government ownership of the service outlets as well as government negotiation of prices of input materials (drugs, etc..) for those services.
It’s nice of you to underscore the issue, but I suspect most readers would catch on based on the first line of the article, wouldn’t you?

> As the Democratic presidential candidates argue about “Medicare for All” versus a “public option,” two simple policy changes could slash U.S. health-care costs by 75% while increasing access and improving the quality of care.
Sorry, I somehow misread what you were saying.

That is interesting if legalization has not increased use by much, I would have thought there would be an increase. Any trend on underage use? Kids no longer think it's cool due to parents?

I hope that the effort for federal legalization succeeds but I think there are people looking at this and seeing that the negatives are not being negated but instead amplified.
How exactly? Since it would do the same thing as ER, it would cost as much to operate as ER. The patients and insurance would win if this made them pay less, but the hospital would be a loser here with reduced revenues.
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Why can’t the USPS block mail spam?
A friend who’s a translator told me he uses every kind of ad block, VPN, and language settings and it makes Google basically usable again.

I’ve noticed that I use Google a lot less now because all the ads and baloney stress me out. Turns out a lot of the stuff I used to search for isn’t that important.
Where I worked a sticker was placed over whichever EEPROMs were held configuration information. Some places would seal any IC, EEPROM, PLCC whatever electronic component it was if it was removable it was sealed. Even the doors to the logic area were sealed and locked, then the key for that door locked and the door that opened to get to that door was also locked away in a locked lock box that needed a key singed out from Security which locked it in their lock box.

There are many types and methods of security seal. I've used double-layered stickers that show VOID when peeled off. There are plastic tags that have a heavy wire that you wrap around then seal inside the cap. The wire would have to be cut using a pair of wire cutters. Any type of security seal would have a serial number known to company auditors.
You need to be more specific with your criticisms and provide some support for the "after being busted stealing" part. For one, that has no bearing or relevance on whether the claim is true or not. Secondly, whether they were "banned" or not is irrelevant as the actual claim is shown, in full, right on the page. Whether the claim is "banned" or whether it was that the "DNC announced the flag may not be worn or waved" matters little if both claims are objectively false.
Postgres (read replica) -> Redash

Segment -> Amplitude (but using it less and less)

I am surprised no one mentioned https://redash.io/ till now (a lot cheaper than looker/mode/Periscope with all the basic functionality that you might need).
I have been doing this the last 30 years only I return with name and everything, and write a note on the empty external envelope. "please remove me from your mailing list". Worked nicely so far.
That should help with some of the fans of loud engines—those who just like listening to their own car.

But I can't shake the suspicion that a significant percentage of loudness fans want other people to listen to their vehicle (With bikers, this is explicitly acknowledged in the name of security: "Loud Pipes Save Lives").