skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ultimately these factors are included in the employee's mind when they seek and negotiate for jobs. All things being equal, you take the job with shorter commute and same pay because the commute is part of the job in your mental calculation. You can also negotiate for more pay to offset a long commute.

There are many choices at play here, some may even may live further away to offset the cost of living or have a bigger back yard etc. I am sure that many do this in the cities.

But all things being equal if you are wage earner, you generally get paid by the hour and thus time spent at work at the companies need or request, should be paid for. If you cannot leave your job on time, then you should be paid for that time.

Some things are just inflexible in any workplace, both from an employee's and an employer's perspective, and a legal one.

Now those fortunate people who are salary earners, they get to negotiate a little more. However generally (unless they have a flexible agreement), there is still hours of work which are committed to.

All others like contractors etc fall into a different pile.
In my area, we had a massive overhaul of the hospital system thanks to COVID-19. Nurses used to do minimal work with patients, now they changed diapers of patients and helped them with everything. People with 11 AM appointments needed to come at 10.30 AM, not 6 AM... and parking and reception became more efficient too. Doctors were faster.

You'd think that the workload dropped, but it increased greatly. But this kind of change needed hospital leaders and politicians on board putting it as a high priority. Change is difficult, and most of the time people don't care enough to.

The book Peak Performance summarized that growth = rest + stress. Without the stress of a war, the system doesn't put innovation at a high enough priority, and you get an effect like the US faces, where universities and R&D departments are just a bottomless sink.
COBOL's numeric stack doesn't directly translate to many modern languages, which makes the translation introduce all sorts of fun edge cases that are extremely difficult to track down.

IEEE 754, which most of our modern languages are mostly compatible with, came about in '87. Long after COBOL had standardised itself on how numbers were expected to behave.
I get what you're saying, but I think you're being a bit harsh.

In my mind, choosing a dual redundant prod platform so you can do blue/green deployments is _totally_ unnecessary for a 55k MAU site generating no revenue. Same with cloud hosted metabase. You could run that on your own hardware - a spare laptop or probably even a raspberry pi for effectively nothing.

On the other hand, a hobby project/side gig where you can demonstrate real world experience in those two things could _easily_ pay off in the first week of a new job it helps you land.

If it's _just_ that extra $100/month they're spending there, it seems difficult to justify. If it's commercial experience doing that which is helping him try and land a job paying 20k or more extra per year? That's totally money well spent, in my opinion...
These apps all fall flat, which is the point i'm trying to make. They're robust from a design perspective, the tools we have to build UI are good enough, but they can't compete against native. Do you think that using Svelte in any those would make a difference? This is why React is attempting to find a solution.

The problem is essentially the same. Native apps are also conflicted with load, they have better means than we have on the web to deal with it, but it's still low-level and complex to orchestrate, threading for instance. Any one of those means pushes your app into async issuee, race conditions that you need to reconcile. With concurrent mode scheduling is a first class concept, your components won't be subject to race conditions. React maintains 60fps, high-priority content (user input, animations, transitions) can be ran fluidly while lesser priority content gets deferred. It has a good chance of outperforming multithreaded native apps with that model.

This demo illustrates the issue: https://youtu.be/nLF0n9SACd4?t=172 which is universal. You run into this on native platforms as well as on the web.
Two Hetzner CPX31 boxes sounds like it'd do just fine here too, providing the redundancy you mention for a fraction of the cost. Or get the boxes from different companies, for the same sort of overall price.

Yes some of the other tools could arguably be worth paying for, but if the author's concern is that he's short on money and $140 is a lot, why didn't they KISS and only use what they need? Then scale as and when needed in the future.

Y'know, do what HN regularly preaches?
Almost half of that is an EC2 instance to run a reporting tool. 5$ DO instead? Also, 5$ a month for DNS hosting when DO will do that for free?
The cost this month will be higher, YC hug
You should check out https://tld-list.com -- plenty of cheap domains / renewals. I really like Porkbun as a registrar, but there are others that are just as good.
This mirrors a lot of rhetoric that you might but want it to.
I have found the same with digital ocean it is hard to down size but that is only true because I have so much unicorn data, and a move has become very painfull, so I'm stuck paying for 2x the storage cost.

You should really learn to add new servers by provisioning them and remove the old servers. Your app seems a perfect fit for it for moving between servers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor : Fusors are not considered a viable concept for large-scale energy production by scientists.
Except that the instances you listed are not a problem the vast majority of the time. While copyrights and patents are enforceable for any unauthorized use no one would bother until you are rolling in the dough, at which point the laws make perfect sense.

That said, I am not arguing that patent law doesn't need reform, especially patents for software, algorithms and math.
The additional expense in OP had nothing to do with scale; it arises from: redundancy, analytics, off-the-shelf integrations.

It is a common misunderstanding amongst software engineers that infrastructure serves "performance". Most of the complexity comes from redundancy and analytics (, realtime especially).
Exactly. No immunity! Why are we investing billions into a vaccine then?

Long-term damage!
Why is there 25 million cases and this isn't widely known and confirmed yet?

This covid-19 is so sensational.
Most math heavy content is written very drily. Seeing emojis makes reading it feel more comfy and human. If someone maps the greek alphabet to emojis, you could enjoy the integration on a deeper, more intimate level. The math of emotion!
Agreed. I'll probably be downvoted, but these setups strike me as people who prefer to drink the cool aid than be pragmatic and only use what they need.

I've also had very high reliability rates with a single VPS. They've actually given me less downtime than AWS services at times.
> Can you run a business in your country without a license from the govt?

As far as I know, businesses don’t require general licences to operate in the United Kingdom.

Licences for certain activities that have an environmental impact may be necessary (significant use of water, potential pollution of air / ground / water, dangerous material handling).
If I was in his shoes I would try to get original jurisdiction in the Supreme Court, which I staffed, and cross my fingers for a ruling in my favor if we can get the thinnest constitutional or procedural argument.

Of course I would kick myself for not appointing extremely party people as Supreme Court judges throughout my first term, but there is still a chance the ones I did appoint will rule on party lines, for the argument presented by the party.

That would squash all subsequent constitutional challenges across the republic, leaving the people with a need to gain 75% consensus amongst all of the state's legislatures for a constitutional amendment to overrule a supreme court ruling. Since that won't happen, a path of less resistance would be followed in either scenario:

Congress could still impeach and remove if the Senate consensus changed. So people on the right are really voting for Nancy Pelosi due to her place in the line of succession, if Democrats take the Senate.

Oh right, the people. Eh, I guess a few cities will flare up with nightly battles for month and we'll just keep avoiding the term civil war, and it'll be pretty boring in the vast vast majority of the landmass.
$dF.
ack those could definitely affect this, isn't that why they normally try to select otherwise healthy patients as a baseline? Bring in the unhealthy people for the big studies and they'll most likely be spread much more evenly
If we were on a site called "CV News" that teaches people how to get jobs in dull cooperations, I might agree with you. On the other hand, I would not frequent such a site. So we would never have had this discussion.
http://archive.is/e51ZQ
I have a VPS that has not gone down in 5 years.

It still has a redundant slave because I'm not going to bet my reputation on everything going right.
A rant about monorepos, and their benefits to your company
These are fun to read, but the data is hard to use for anything unless you are building the exact same thing.

(plug) Regarding Disqus, I run a competitor which you might like: https://FastComments.com
I just look at specs for those and didn't see 1080p screen. That would be a deal-breaker for me.
TekMoi is right. I have an Alexa top 6k site which is vastly more complicated (media hosting, load balancing, multiple VMs, DDOS protection, transactional emails, automated backups) which costs $200 / month on AWS.

The fact that this person is spending nearly as much to support 50k users a day as I do to support more than 4 million cannot be hand-waived away by "people are so free to judge other's[sic] situations". The matter is worsened by the fact that the application is so simple that it doesn't even support user accounts. There is room for discussion here about efficiency in application architecture. More importantly, an article billing itself as "Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users" is silly because there is no way this is representative of anything. I'm afraid new hackers will be scared by the high costs listed here and be discouraged in their own efforts.
> The ownership status of these files is not entirely clear.

And to think that some people like to cast doubt on even reading GPL code… What would they think of this?

Anyway, for actually free classic text gaming, see http://www.catb.org/~esr/open-adventure/
That's 1 cubic meter. We have a lot more seawater?
I do a lot of JavaScript dev, and LSP is bar none the best in class. I can jump around to variable and class definitions and do minor refactoring almost like it was C++. If Ale supports it then great. I don't care which system is used as long as it supports LSP reliably.
There are several GNAT compiler versions the FSF version has a linking exception, the Adacore pro version requires a commercial license.
IMHO they should have renamed the FSF GNAT (1) to clarify the situation..

1: I suggest FAda :-)
Why is the assumption that the Secret Service would escort the President from the White House? The Secret Service is squarely under the control of the executive branch (formerly the Department of the Treasury, now the Department of Homeland Security). I wouldn’t expect them to be the actual last-chance arbiters of a Presidential election.
There is a thing called "rapid personality change". Some people have done it.

Look up "Academy of ideas" channel on YouTube, it has a video on this topic. I found it very interesting.
I was actually considering a apple phone if they came through. This just put the nails in that coffin. I'll just stick with Android where I can install whatever I want for the most part.
A better example of a Republic that is not a democracy is Vatican City.
Yeah, we often recommend using Serverless Framework and AWS CDK together. Serverless's strength is working with Lambda and API Gateway, but writing YAML for the rest of the resources is very cumbersome. So a good pattern here is to use CDK for the rest of your infrastructure, and Serverless for your Lambda functions.

In fact, we created a tool to do exactly this - Serverless Stack Toolkit (SST), which allows you to combine CDK and Serverless Framework - https://github.com/serverless-stack/serverless-stack

So you can do `sls deploy --stage dev` and `sst deploy --stage dev`.
What about the newer macbook airs? 2020 models? Any experience with those?
I was looking at those because they don't have the bar at the top.
I think GPT-3 would've probably written it more accurately.
> Seems like a model could exist for an entrepreneur to create a subscription based licensing program for creators to use music in their streams.

There are a few - I use Pretzel.rocks. (No affiliation.)
Just stick to MacBooks, you’ll regret on anything else that runs on Windows especially for programming. Current Linux laptop hardware is not even comparable to quality of Apple.
The History and Mystery of Russia’s ‘Valley of Death’(2019)
People in all parts of society get health problems, including mental health problems. I hope the person can recover soon.
But now, with so many conf calls, you get to hear the loud keyboards which are positioned just in front of the mic :-o
Who is to say we need "large-scale" energy production though, except the companies selling energy ?
http://archive.is/L4xys
> Haskell type classes have nothing to do with OOP in the least, and as far as I know

They surely do, OOP like FP, is very fuzzy and since the Simula/Smalltalk days there have been multiple ways to try to represent OOP concepts.

There isn't any OOP language that implements every OOP idea, just like there isn't any FP language that implements every FP idea.

Type classes allow for polymorphism, and combined with modules one can make use of module private implementations for the encapsulation part.

Extensibility can be achieved either by having a type implement multiple type classes, COM v1..vn style, or by delegation.
Where is this online vs code?
It is often more precise, not necessarily more accurate. People often don't distinguish between the two.
The resulting model is shared, so everyone who gives their compute time will benefit from it.

Neural networks automatically error correct so they will be robust to some amount of corruption.
It’s not particularly shocking that the nominal winner of an election would not contest the nominal results of that election. To expect a party to do that out of principle would be ludicrously naive.
Right, but how much do these nice-to-haves add to the revenue? Is it truly worth it to bake them all in from the very beginning? E.g. five minutes of downtime in morning hours will affect only a handful of users, and if so, why bother with blue-green deployments other than out of professional interest?
This isn't true. AWS V100s are standard V100s.

I think you are confusing this with AWS Elastic Inference.

If you use AWS Elastic Inference, then you get networked attached devices. But these are Amazon's own (non-NVidia) devices and only used for inference, so it's not really comparable.

https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/elastic-inference/fa...
I mean what's the end goal here? Any video that contains music is just auto blocked? Hopefully as more regular people are impacted each person becomes an advocate for change.

I think we need AI and rules so strict you can't even upload a video at all because you're breaking some rule somewhere. Maybe we can even have AI on this website that says your words are breaking copyright and you're not allowed to publish them.

Only then will we see a real push for changen I feel.
It does not seem to have a LICENSE file or any license mention in the README.
I don’t know how many times I have seen “best practices” used as excuse to avoid thinking. Usually by people who don’t even have the problem that the supposed “best practices” is meant to solve.
That is the same case in India.

My brother runs a mon-n-pop store, selling stationery items.

Getting a business license took 1 day, one application and renewed every year online. Cost is about 10 USD per year.

I know many in my neighborhood that don't even have that.

Majority of the retailers have a simple license, usually obtained very quickly from local municipal corporation.

I can start a company for consulting, trade, retail, etc, with the help of a legal counsel and a bit of paperwork in about a couple of weeks.
Home security & Dash cams. The latter especially struggles with YouTube takedowns due to ambient car music.
>> Abolish them, the artists make most of their money in other ways anyway

And look how great that's working out for them now that an entire year, potentially more of touring has been cancelled. Why don't software companies start giving away their product and instead make their money through t-shirt sales and speaking tours? Music has already been made exponentially less expensive for the consumer (at a massive cost to artists). It seems cruel to take even more away so that someone can use music in their vlog or travel video for free.

>> It's totally nuts now that recording devices are everywhere.

Maybe instead we should reconsider why we have recording devices everywhere. Music and musicians getting paid is beneficial to society, people recording who's ringing their doorbell and who's walking past their home is detrimental.
The actuation force on scissor switches like the Apple Magic keyboard is very low (36.3 gf [1]).

That's less than tactile switches like Cherry MX Browns (45.4gf [2]) and Gateron Browns (38.7gf [3]).

So it seems to depend more on your typing habits than your switches. You can shock your fingers on any keyboard if you press harder than you need to.

Total travel (bottoming out) on the Magic keyboard is also only 1.15mm, which is almost half the actuation travel (“pre-travel”) on the Cherry/Gateron Browns (2.09mm/2.41mm). And the actuation distance is only 0.86 mm on the Apple, so once you get used to it you can use a fairly light touch; you don't have to press the key through the laptop/keyboard.

[1] https://www.rtings.com/keyboard/reviews/apple/magic-keyboard

[2] https://www.rtings.com/keyboard/reviews/kinesis/freestyle-ed...

[3] https://www.rtings.com/keyboard/reviews/obinslab/anne-pro-2
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http://siderpress.oceansideschools.org/123movies-tenet-2020-...
Likewise. Also, it says there has been little progress, but there are numerous test reactors providing loads of data, ITER is being built, there's a lot of knowledge about how to do this now. It's still tremendously difficult and probably tremendously underfunded, but I'm not sure the claim that "many" have concluded it to be impossible is remotely founded.

But I do have a friend who works at the UK's fusion research centre, obviously she believes in what they're doing!
>With libvirt, everything just seems to work

Strictly speaking, you have qemu to thank for that. libvirt is just a frontend for several hypervisors, including qemu (which is what typically used).
I think they are confused with AWS Elastic Inference. That is a different thing which does have network attached accelerators:

Amazon Elastic inference accelerators are GPU-powered hardware devices that are designed to work with any EC2 instance, Sagemaker instance, or ECS task to accelerate deep learning inference workloads at a low cost. When you launch an EC2 instance or an ECS task with Amazon Elastic Inference, an accelerator is provisioned and attached to the instance over the network.

https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/elastic-inference/fa...
Dev time is more expensive than server time.

If my dev uses a slow stack or doesn't optimize v1, maybe I spent $100/mo instead of $10/mo.

Hell, let's say I'm spending $500/mo.

My mixed rate is ~$75/hr for dev time, so a week of dev time is equivalent to 6 months of hosting.

If optimizing (or using a difficult stack) takes one dev an extra week, then I'd better save $3,000 of hosting.
To be fair, the post show that about 2/3rds of that spend is from the decision to run twice the needed capacity to be able to do green blue deployments, and to cloud host their metabase analytics.

And it explains there's currently zero revenue.

So it seems fair to judge the situation there based off those pieces of information we've been given.

As I posted elsewhere, the OP's choice to run dual redundant green/blue capable instances and cloud hosted metabase might have good reasons, but right now those reasons are not "wanting a HA solution so revenue isn't impacted"...
Thanks, I'm really glad you thought it was awesome. Sorry for the questions but I think you could have some really useful feedback. What do you mean by user testing? what would you find particularly useful?

I've been told to do a bug replay feature to record exactly what a user tried to do and what went wrong.
Ask HN: How to promote live video streaming service
I started working on a live video streaming service as a pet project but then I realized I have no idea how to attract users. Financially speaking, the business plan was to use donations that users can make to authors during live streams, so that aspect is not a problem. But since there is the universal youtube, gamer-oriented dlive and twich and xxx-oriented onlyfans, I am not sure I have a market I can tap into. I wanted to make a free-speech platform since I see big corporations being pressured to censor due to their advertiser-based business model, which is perfectly understandable. But I don't think that will bring enough creators who will bring enough viewers to make this sustainable. So I wodner if there are some niche markets I may be missing?
Well, yes, technically. I meant more that the waste won't come back on its own, through tectonic movements, earthquakes, meteor strikes or pretty much any other natural process known to man. You could drill down to retrieve it, but then it's a very specific thing serving one specific purpose. It's not like mine repositories, where they are at a much shallower depth and could be entered "easily" from the surface.
The commentator called them "space lasers" on stream
SQLite Really is a bit of a hidden gem.
Looking forward to the monetization post.

Has the developer thought about using donations instead of ads?
Ahhh, I used to love those signatures! I remember when everyone used to post their computer specs on their signatures. And I loved your DSmeet project! Did you happen to get into any of the communities that popped up for Animal Crossing New Horizons? They brought me back to the olden days of finding a community on a forum and making friends that way.
Can fully agree with this. Caprover has been a joy and makes it easy to run a small scale setup where you can deploy those service dependencies easily yourself without paying for a cloud provider for the hosted alternative.
What's your stack?
In C++ you can fake multi-dispatch, by making use of templates, templates specialization and overloading though.

It is just somewhat cumbersome.
Distributed grids with lots of generation points have their advantages but are really hard to manage. Somehow I doubt this is going to go to the point of having a small fusion reactor in every building, so we have to have some kind of grid. Large-scale generation is something we could plug into the grid we already have, which is a distinct infrastructural advantage - if it turns up before we have solar panels on every roof, anyway.
Nope, the reason for my username is unrelated to Mark Zuckerberg.
They're also not suitable for small-scale energy production. You have to put in more energy (to accelerate the ions towards the center) than you can get out (as heat).
I never said anything about developer value.