skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2500 instances could be millions per months in AWS costs. The smallest instances with some disks and bandwidth fees can push 100k a month.

Spending a fraction of that to monitor that sort of infrastructure is absolutely justified. I can tell you from experience that datadog gives discount even for 100+ hosts, I don't know what they can do for 2500, but if it were me I wouldn't accept anything less than 50% off.

Honestly you need to forgot about your salary, it's irrelevant when it comes to running a company. Imagine a driver in a shipping company deciding to deliver on a scooter rather than a truck because the truck is worth more than his yearly salary.
Duncan has been building businesses with his best friend Tyler since they were in high school. From mowing lawns to memberships and gated content no-code platform called Memberstack.

This is the story about Formatically, an instant citation tool that didn't take off.
The issue not being talked about is the removal of the recruiter from remote roles. Those recruiters paid linkedin thousands a year for premium access.

Plus the lower jobs posting overall.
I'm trying to understand GPT-3. For example, this response to creating a story about AI has me wondering whether the comedy is intentional or not:

> GPT-3: "One day, one human is going to school. It's a normal day. But suddenly, without any warning, gravity starts to change! The human thinks this isn't real, but it happens anyway. He's too scared to walk to school now. He goes back home, and starts watching TV. Then, he realizes that he doesn't need to stand up to change the channel! He gets out of his chair, and is weightless. He loves this new feeling. Suddenly, he touches the ground, and is hit by a large force! It's too strong for him to bear. Will the human survive this force? Find out next time on Gravity Falls!"

It's the last sentence "Find out next time on ..." that left me wondering whether it was intentional or simply a neural connection based on various human inputs? The entire "story" has an air of comedy to it but when it finished with this left me puzzled.

Another response to the same question:

> GPT-3: "One day, human Bob is hanging out with his friend Carl. Suddenly, a apple flies into Bob's face. He and Carl laugh. A minute later, they are confused when the ground starts pulling them up. They grab onto a tree, but are pulled off and up into the sky. After some time, they start going down, fast. They scream and try to grab something, but there is nothing to hold on to. They hit the ground at a very fast speed and die. A squirrel walks up to their corpses and eats them. The end."

Again, it follow somewhat the pattern of the first: most of the "story" is setup, then the final sentence (not counting "The end" as final sentence) is some kind of explicit comedy.

Is it just me imagining things?
Hmm... what if trump said the “Jewish virus” like other Neo Nazis, in Germany, are now suggesting? Would that be too much for you?
Engineering is a multiplier in this case - so early investments, not necessarily in code beauty, but in picking the right architecture for the job, pays back compounding dividends and reduces funding needed. Whatsapp had a handful of engineers able to handle millions of users. Funding is not promised, its debt. Use every lever you've got and you'll need less of it.
Secret Morse code tune sees game removed in China
Lock in as well.

Was at a company that invented a visual programming tool and forced development to use it.

Several flat out refused. We all went on with our careers. The people that used the proprietary system still work there, not then a decade later. They hated the tool then. But they have no marketable skills set at this point.
I can't agree that there's flip flopping going on. Corbyn would have been a flip-flop if elected but instead he was electorally destroyed.

When looking at actual leaders, the UK has had highly stable government for decades. It may not feel like it because of the manic focus of the press on a tiny number of issues at any one time but Tony Blair, David Cameron and Boris Johnson are extremely comparable in general world and politics. If it weren't for the single divisive issue of the EU you'd struggle to tell their administrations apart. They're all middling elite/centrist types who aggressive optimise for voter preference via focus groups and polls, even outside of election time. They're all lacking in any clear vision for what to do or change, and thus delegate relentlessly to civil servants and assorted academics.

No-one cared about the EU until Cameron sprung the referendum on us, that referendum was entirely the result of back room shenanigans in an attempt to reduce the influence of UKIP

This statement is self-contradicting: the reason Cameron 'sprung' the referendum on the UK was exactly because UKIP was taking a lot of voters and was getting dangerously close to the threshold where it'd start denying the Tories seats. BTW it wasn't really sprung on people: in reality an EU referendum had been debated for years, in fact the Lib Dems had once been the primary party pushing for one. They called for an in/out referendum in 2007 for example, and the rise of UKIP showed that many people cared.

FPTP clearly can't mean always a two party system because otherwise the SNP would never have existed. Scotland would have remained Lab/Con forever.

It may appear to be very different to a coalition-oriented PR system on the surface, but it's not really in the end. You tend to get two parties because FPTP incentivises what are basically large coalitions posing as single parties. The Conservatives aren't really a single party, nor are Labour. That's why there are so many factions within them like the ERG on the right or Momentum and its offshoots on the left. They're uneasy coalitions of people who often don't agree on all that much, but who agree with each other more than the other side.

In PR systems these factions are much more prominent, but still have to assemble themselves into what are effectively make-shift political parties in order to form a functional government. It happens after the vote, rather than before it, which isn't actually better. It just means people have no idea what set of strange compromises they're actually going to get by casting a vote in any particular direction, because those compromises weren't made yet. It also tends to mean very long periods of suspended government whilst the different factions try to thrash out a coalition. This is why Belgium managed to go nearly two years without a functioning government.
When writing my code for myself only, I don’t quote my attribute values unless necessary. If writing in a shared project, I will match the existing style, which is almost always to use quotes.

But things that bother me much more are:

• Putting type="text/javascript" on <script> and type="text/css" on <link rel=stylesheet>. These are 100% useless and I can’t think of any justification for people choosing to write them that way, whereas I can easily for quotes on attribute values.

• Trailing slashes on HTML tags. As far as the parser is concerned, these are completely useless in HTML (though not SVG or MathML). The spec basically says “oh, there’s a trailing slash on the tag? Sigh, don’t they know XHTML died? Skip it.” Worse, I think they’re actively slightly harmful because they may make people think that you can close tags that way, like in XML. You can’t. The trailing slash is only valid on void tags like <img>, where there is no closing tag, and the parser only special-cases ignoring it for convenient compatibility with XHTML/XML documents.
Zabbix has been around for quite a long time. Easily 15 years now. I haven't looked at it since around 2013, but at the time it was placing quite some pressure on a mysql db backend. It looks like they've expanded out to support more than MySQL as the back-end these days.
One thing I've noticed is that labor law has evolved to where layoffs are the risk free way to cut staff who aren't performing. At my company we would almost never PIP people because we were strongly encouraged to wait for a layoff round. I think the calculus revolved around lawsuits that pips could generate due to their personal nature, vs layoffs being non-personal.
I use Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana for my home network, in addition to monitoring my weather station data. It works incredibly well and is so simple compared to the "old" suite of tools such as RRD and Cacti.
Yep, paying customers are licensed by the node rather than by the gigabyte (as Splunk does it), and you're really only limited by your hardware at that point. You might be surprised at how much you can accomplish on the free license, though--there are several small businesses using it to monitor their networks because 2GB/day will hold a pretty hefty amount of Netflow, collectd, Zeek, and syslog records.
Style your GitHub readme with CSS
I just finished writing the code a couple hours ago, so I don't have any detailed explanation at the moment. However, it is open source, so you can always check the code: https://github.com/SCLeoX/non-grid-path-finder.

I will admit though, it is not super readable, because it really lacks a lot of comments/documentation.
Coding Space Invaders from scratch, without libraries
Wall Street’s hedge fund obsession gets vindicated in research
Let me clarify.

Non-determinism is just one issue. The other issue is how frequently the UI changes. For example, a large form can get broken out into a wizard. The UI is completely semantically different, but performs the same functionality.

How do you make such UI changes without your test suite slowing you down?
No wonder my Turk stock took such a hit.
True, but if you're ok with an 70-80% good espresso, it's much more attainable at £200 for a cheapy machine and entry level burr grinder than some comments imply.

It might be more worth it to someone to enter at this price point than having to pay for semi-pro gear as the "you can't get good espresso at home" comments suggest.

I just don't want people who might want an alright drink at home to be put off, you can get ok results at home with cheap equipment. It won't be as good as what you can get with a GS/3 and a Sette, but won't be too bad.
You know how they took operations, re-christened it "DevOps", and made it the responsibility of the dev team without commensurate increase in hiring or pay or education?

That, but for account management.
From my experience you can opt-out of the bullshit with no ill effects, at least in the software industry. My activity is completely empty, no posts, no likes, etc and that doesn't seem to hurt me. I mostly use the tool as a rolodex to keep in touch with professional connections and be reachable by recruiters.

The problem of course is that the platform doesn't seem to understand that and desperately tries to encourage me to participate which seems pathetic at this point. They have 2 years worth of analytics that essentially show them a big middle finger, why keep trying?
I wouldn't say it's about confusion, it's just a very online joke.
While we're working on this page, also check out https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.8/guides/hardware_si... which gives a better breakdown of resources requirements based on expected load
It is not just big, it is mega big. WhatsApp had world dominance and their product had to deliver instant messages, including photos, videos and other features over crappy internet connections and they managed to build, manage and sustain an amazing consumer product with a handful of people, so 16k for an online job board is laughable and embarrassing. It's just a website after all.
> true costs to the employer is typically double the perceived salary.

This is true, but my comment was an offhanded way to say that my "salary" (as in, the one on my contracts and the one I "see") is less than a month of Datadog for our number of hosts.

As for the rest of your comment, I wish it was true.

Developer salaries outside of the capitals is quite low in Europe, and even inside the capitals only go to "near double"

So, instead of 12x it becomes 6x developer costs per annum, which is a fair whack of money.

For me to justify spending "3-6" peoples worth of money it had better save "3-6" peoples worth of time.
Bingo. You can make an argument that your posts are your free speech. But "What Facebook chooses to put on your feed" is Facebook's speech.
I keep seeing this amazing story posted every 6-12 months and I keep thinking that it would be nice to have a curated list of similar sites, so I built this over the past few days.

Tech used: Lektor, Bulma, Netlify
When facebook hired the daily wire to be part of its "truth" everyone knew is was going to be trash.
> I have a ton of ideas and no issues executing them

Branch out to ideas that skirt the edges of your knowledge. If you're too comfortable you're not growing stronger.

> They're all generally good ideas, and with dedication each one could become something useful

Then they need to battle. Think evolutionary. Find a concrete set of resources for them to fight over (money, time, space, popularity?) and score them. Iterate them. Combine them. Kill them. May the best idea win!

If that doesn't work then find the most profitable and productive idea that can serve the most people. Those tend to be few and far between.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.08423 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.02487 are some examples I've been looking at recently.
Uber kicks off final appeal against major UK ruling on drivers employment rights
LinkedIn the product is an expensive tool for recruiters, and the pool of people on LinkedIn they can pull from. The feed is just fluff. In that regard, before the pandemic, LinkedIn was a big success.
How do you handle employees donating to a cause the company may not want to associate with? For example, the NRA is a registered nonprofit but I don’t think you’ll find many startups interested in donating to their cause.

Edit: Separately, I do think this is a worthwhile idea and I hope you succeed!
No intention to insult - just trying to get more context :)
What's wrong with influx? I use it and like it, albeit for hobby-level projects.
I've tried using it but it crashes too often and is generally too buggy to use. It seems to be in an early stage of development so this is to be expected. The UI and general workflow look very promising though, in particular the piano roll. It has a long way to go to match the maturity and features of Ardour, but the UI design that it's aiming for will make it more suitable for people making EDM.
This comment would be more substantive if you justified your position rather than just making a statement. The source article makes some claims for why the quotes are useless, and the burden lies upon you to refute or explain them away, or provide stronger counter-reasons.
The title says "extensible in Guile" which sounds great, but I don't see any mention in the article.

Is there any resource about this Guile extensibility?
The Confederacy is hugely disputed. Certainly in relation to its intent, purpose, heroes, and legacy.
You can already build a computer that is basically the size of a miniITX motherboard by buying a $50 case, an external AC/DC power supply of 12v with 10-20 amps and a low profile noctua heat pipe cooler.
As sad as it is, there seems to be a CAP situation when it comes to captchas. It's accessibility, security or privacy. Choose two.

You can go the Google route and choose accessibility and security, do massive user tracking, and don't even show CAPTCHAs at all for normal users. HN users probably see a lot, because they use some anti-js or anti-tracking stuff, but normal users don't.

You can go the Cloudflare route, requiring users to solve visual challenges, sacrificing accessibility, but keeping security and privacy.

You can also implement audio CAPTCHAS, which are easy to solve for robots, get accessibility and privacy, but less security.
Literally everything your company pays for is out of individual departmental budgets? You can't do internal chargebacks, shared services, or move budget around if needed? I've never worked anywhere w/ the kinda crystal ball required to make rigid dept budgets work year-round, personally.
>Furthermore, they are designed to get you to consume as much of this stream as possible. They would rather have you shallowly engage 120 article in an hour than deeply delve into 2 articles.

Is this actually true? This sounds to me like a 2010s understanding of advertiser supported content, where the important thing was getting page impressions. The result back then was clickbait, because they were just trying to drive views. But basically most of those business models have died off. Advertisers are far more interested in accessing a strongly identified demographic and are willing to pay a premium to get their adverts in front of people. Which would sort of map to Facebook wanting you to deeply engage with specific topics, rather than to simply skim lots of pages.
You have to choose the Ryzen 4750U first.
You can make electric cars very fast if don't mind that they can run at full throttle only for a few minutes ;)
Same with the empty array
If this were a debate for or against a proposition, your criticism would make a lot of sense. Even if there's some false and misleading information used to support the proposition, the proposition can still be adequately supported by other information and arguments.

However, that's not the context of the analysis. The question isn't "Does this guy have a point?" It's "Does this article spread misinformation?" The analysis rightly concludes it does.
> I've noted an uptick in how often I see it being done

Yep.

There's something about internet culture that rots our ability to have conversations with others. It's something I've also noticed in myself (it's easy to complain about everyone else) as someone who, sheepishly, has snuck in a juvenile "Um..." when I think I've really got'em good.

I suspect the uptick in just this sort of rot going mainstream. Like instead of bringing your in-person social skills online when the internet was newer, and then becoming corrupted over time, people are just born into the rot from a young age.

And frankly it takes eternal vigilance to stay a noncombative and fair online.
I understand that what you have is a complete program but every new Pythonist is going to next read the documentation that says, “Having a main method is a really good idea” and go try to implement one. Sure, in 1% of cases, you’ll need the granular control over how main is called but since when do languages cater to the 1%?
I think the original site might make it more clear. But the forbes article might help: https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathankontny/2018/02/27/trick-a...

"Treating journalists like suckers" or "stalking them" isn't the same demographic as "folks who are disgruntled with journalists".

And really, what "expense"? They weren't outed. They lost nothing but possible future use of an email tool we produced (we found no current users signing up for trickajournalist.com).

And as for the intent of the site. It was a lot of things. But first and foremost it was to raise an awareness of how bad email has become. People are doing awful things with email. All the automation, cold email targeting, etc. I wanted to put some satire out so maybe some folks operating sites might take pause at what they're offering, and who they're offering it to. I wanted to raise a novel method of how to deal with things like this. I wanted to raise how easy it is to promote awful tools like this was even when ads are supposed to be human moderated on a lot of places.
My procrastination pretty much went away (!) when I drew a distinction between “good” and “bad” delays.

A delay is in the “good” category if there are specific reasons that it’s likely that there will be another time in the near future which is better than right now.

For example, if the task you’re considering require mental acuity, and you’re really tired, and it’s likely you’ll be less tired tomorrow, then it could be good to delay.

Or, if it’s time to do a chore except you’re in flow and productive, it could be good to delay the chore: it’s likely there’s a time in the near future where you wouldn’t have to give up productivity to complete it.

On the other hand, if there’s unlikely to be a better time in the future, and you should just do it immediately. (This is especially true for tasks that actually become more work to do if you wait.)

Before drawing this distinction, I had thought the way to avoid procrastination was just never to delay. Attempting to live up to that had proven unrealistic/costly, so I would end up delaying a bunch for all sorts of reasons including bad ones.

After I started drawing this distinction, I set about never procrastinating for bad reasons, while often delaying for good ones.
What would you do normally? How do these change anything?
> For five weeks, approximately 50% of doctors in the county reduced their practice and withheld care for anything but emergencies.

The answer is right here. Anything but emergencies.
Land speed racing can only occur when the lake bed is dry, and after a course is prepared piste style. A lot of the year it's soggy and unstable, which is why speed week is in August if conditions are ok. you can stand on the start line but the cars are geared for a slow push start, nothing beats the doppler effect of multi engined streamliners going past mid course, seeing earth curvature and heat mirages. Amazing experience.
https://youtu.be/HzwWTYQwvA0
https://youtu.be/qJ_WqSrC-LY
Coronavirus: 'Infection here for many years to come'
No, I agree. I was pointing out a general challenge with the EPL that people tend to overlook. In the Clojure environment many use EPL for Clojure libraries, many without realising that it might, depending on your intentions, be an issue.
I have a Majestouch with Brown switches, I love it to death, it's the best keyboard I've ever touched.
Some people loves a structured world with clearly stated rules. This has many benefits especially when the situation is very well defined, repeatable and requires many people to cooperate. The down side is that rules will almost never accommodate all possible situations.

So when a problem is very dynamic and requires few people to cooperate it might be beneficial not to try and force strict rules on uncertain conditions.

And yes some people are not as good in picking up social cues and working with loosely defined rules, and maybe they are not the perfect match for these positions. Its not the end of the world.

Not saying that building processes is bad, just that for some situations it might better not to.

P.S. the lawsuit was rejected: http://svelf.com/class-certification-defeated-in-twitter-gen... so maybe not the perfect example in hindsight :)
Paywall bypass: http://archive.vn/MJKQ1
you don't think $7B of revenue in 2019 merits 10k people? Do you think you can run that size of a business with 500?
Businesses earn money by providing goods & services better than alternatives. Charities earn money by begging. I'd rather work for a business.
Not sure how Msft operates internally, but often, divisions are responsible for their own P & L...so XBox making a ton of money may not help LinkedIn
> I've seen Datadog bills that could easily pay for 2 full time engineers.

Which means the companies are running thousands of hosts. So they definitely need both datadog and a full team of sysadmin/devops/SRE to handle that infrastructure.
I know that one of my friends got a swag box (card, candle, and a metal water bottle) from LinkedIn when he got hired at a company that used LinkedIn's recruiting services. I'd imagine there's a lot of other random things they do at low scale to excite their customers.
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>>a requirement was an hour of continuous use followed by an hour of high-speed charging, then another hour of continuous use.

Seems good enough for most people daily drivers
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