skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a sort of general question about this narrative, which seems to apply to lots of startups that begin as self-service, developer-focused projects and end in enterprise hell.

Is it not the case that these startups begin developer-facing, get market traction, are lavishly funded, and then discover that the self-service offering they've built simply can't satisfy the projections they've made to justify their valuation?

Which is to say: would Optimizely be doing much better if they hadn't pivoted into enterprise hell? Or would they be a much smaller company?

I see why customers would have a strong preference! But it's less clear to me what the right decision for the business is. But I'm just asking!
We define Pipeline minutes as the execution time for your pipelines. You bring up an interesting point, though. So today, for our Linux Runners on GitLab.com, those Runners are currently offered only on one machine type, Google Compute n1-standard-1 instances with 3.75GB of RAM. Our current Windows Runners on GitLab.com are Google Compute n1-standard-2 instances with 2 vCPUs and 7.5GB RAM.

In the future, for Linux and Windows Runners, we will offer more GCP machine types. For our soon to launch macOS Build Cloud beta, we are planning to start with one virtual machine size and then possibly offer different machine configurations at GA.

And yes - the virtual machine used for your build on GitLab.com are dedicated only to your pipeline job and immediately deleted on job completion.

Finally, the only way to know how long your current build job will take on a GCP n1-standard-1 compared to the 8-core machine is to run the job and compare the results. I assume that your 8-core machine is probably a physical box, so you should of course, get better performance than a 1-2 vCPU VM.

A few reference links:

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/gitlab_com/#shared-runners

https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/1830

https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/2426

Darren Eastman: Product Manager GitLab Runner
Haha, certainly no drama and no one forced us or even asked us to step down. I wrote a blog post about it: https://link.medium.com/mHgtiQ3bu9
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The passive safety is a big leap forward. Removing humans from that process makes it safer.

"In the event of any runaway reactor event, NuScale says, the reactor quenches itself in its pool, making it “passively safe.”"
Make sure if you get a mini-split that you do the following around keeping the condensate drain mechanism going. I have yet to see a mini-split product manual/installation guide that gives detailed information on these operational issues.

Many models let you run the condensate drain on your choice of right or left side. The unused side is often only supplied with a friction-fit drain plug. Over a period of many years, some of these plugs can shrink, not quite fall out, and then you get a real mess.

Make sure the drain pipe is dry. Clean it with denatured alcohol, then let dry again.

Buy a silicone sealant that carries a 20-year warranty. Buy a roll of "cork tape" [1]. Fill about 2.5 cm / 1 inch of the drain pipe with the silicone sealant. Stretch wrap the drain plug with the cork tape, so the tape thins out while sticking to the plug. Pinch/squeeze/roll the part of the tape that hangs out beyond the end of the plug so it is slightly smaller than the stem of the plug. Push the plug into the drain pipe, and try to push it all the way up to the head of the plug. The cork tape will fill out and adhere to the walls of the pipe. Finally, stretch wrap more cork tape (or self-fusing silicone waterproof tape if you don't like the stickiness on both sides of the cork tape) around the entire drain pipe and drain plug assembly, including wrapping the end, and seal up the assembly to the pipe.

Mount a very slightly tilted metal shelf underneath the mini-split air handler (the part that mounts on your wall inside your building), and install an AC-mains-powered moisture sensor that cuts off power to the mini-split when triggered, at the lowest end of the shelf. Mini-splits usually use a zero-capacity drain pan to stay as slim as possible, and if they clog up at the condensate drain pipe, they overflow rapidly (within minutes).

Learn how to take the plastic cowling off the unit before you mount it, document it by video or photographs, and stash it with your product manuals. Mini-split manuals usually don't show how to take them apart enough to get at the condensate drain, and most models I've seen have lots of plastic catches all over that are hard to see when you're standing on a ladder peering between the ceiling and the cowling. If you ever get biogrowth in it, you'll want to know how to take it apart.

Or, if you don't want to take it apart to get at the drain, you can codge together a way to run your wet/dry shop vac to mount to the condensate drain and pull stuff out. I used a shop vac mini kit [2]. I also got a venturi-based device to try to develop more vacuum [3] with the CO2 tank I normally use to make fizzy water.

[1] https://smile.amazon.com/DiversiTech-6-330-Cork-Insulation-B...

[2] https://smile.amazon.com/Wet-Dry-Accessories-VT1215-Attachme...

[3] https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CIRZGV6/
What a bad faith post.

> Three Mile Island

Was handled reasonably well, resulted in safety improvements to procedures and designs for future reactors.

From https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3...

> The approximately 2 million people around TMI-2 during the accident are estimated to have received an average radiation dose of only about 1 millirem above the usual background dose. To put this into context, exposure from a chest X-ray is about 6 millirem and the area's natural radioactive background dose is about 100-125 millirem per year for the area. The accident's maximum dose to a person at the site boundary would have been less than 100 millirem above background.

Not exactly the end of the world.

> Chernobyl

Accident caused by Communists who did not care about what happened to Ukrainians, as usual for them, and experimented with something that any nuclear physicist could have told them was a terrible idea. This is like blaming vehicles and calling them unsafe after reaching over from the passenger seat and yanking the wheel to drive a truck into a crowd. The moral of the story here is to keep Communists away from anything important, which applies to farms, industrial sectors, food distribution, and really most things more complicated than a pitchfork or a torch.

> Fukushima

Was reasonably safe for its long life, but they cheaped out on the necessary wall and drainage functionality; should probably have been decomm'd and replaced before this happened.

The problem in the nuclear industry is that anti-nuclear people like you form public opinion that causes it to be difficult for it to move forward. New plants based on newer designs are orders of magnitude safer - e.g. the CANDU Canadian reactor which is more fail-safe than most, and the push towards 4th generation reactors.

Get out of the way and let the planet have a clean base load energy source, or be sitting here bitching about carbon footprints 50 years from now when it should be a solved problem already.
If that's an Open Source project you could apply for a free Gold license and get 50'000 minutes per group per month (see links in the article).
Motor carriers operate with tight margins and require a heavy regulatory hand. There are multiple overlapping jurisdictions, etc. Law of averages make fuel tax work, but there are holes... if you buy fuel in Delaware, less revenue comes to Pennsylvania, etc.

Shitty operators will do anything to save a buck -- trucks with no brakes operating overweight will travel at night to avoid enforcement based on knowledge of enforcement. Others will find holes in enforcement to avoid penalties -- shady trucks operating in Manhattan will be registered in places where unpaid New York tickets won't impact their registration, for example.
Any links to the radio series?
For those talking about this subject, I would like to remind you that it is the surveillance network that is the equivalent of an automated Epstein system of blackmail. Not only should we reign in the surveillance state, but we need to remember that to do that we have to stop being so naive and need to understand that the blackmail system is at play in the legislative. This isn't just overfocus on re-election, or k-street normal corruption or any of the normal accusations against congress we have to fight, this is state sponsered blackmail and worse. To try to fix other issues without adressing the blackmail one is not going to be a systemic fix. It's a root causal issue.

So, a question of chicken and egg. What do you try to fix first, congress, or the laws/system? I think congress is the only practical avenue.
I wasn't really talking towards the WYSIWYG editors. Those are trash on all platforms and fall apart quickly for all but the most simple tests.

Metric + page management, results analysis, segmentation, etc. all work better in Optimizely than they do in other platforms.
Heart disease means presence of plaque in arteries, it is physically verifiable, the plaque is physically stuck to the artery walls and is much harder to get rid of. If you are doing something that makes you unhappy because you really need the money and then as soon as you stop doing it you are happy again, I really don't see how you can define this period of unhappiness as a mental disease.
I'm more concerned about the 30% of Americans that are obese than the 0.1% top athletes, who in rare circumstances are badly affected.

Open the gyms to save lives.
> If I have public key authentication set up for ssh, should I even bother with fail2ban

If someone's bruteforcing their way in via ssh it's probably worthwhile blocking them before they start trying other services.
For those really curious about details of asphalt concrete construction on California state highways, check out Section 39 of the Caltrans specifications: https://dot.ca.gov/programs/design/ccs-standard-plans-and-st...

These specifications end up being used by a lot of cities and counties in California as well.
In all honesty, in such situations where persons have become the target of focused policing, it may be time to move cities. Or even move states. Being "in the system" is not a crime but if cops are poking around your house on a weekly/daily basis an incident is inevitable. The time to move is prior to that moment.

This may look like defeat. It is. At the larger scale this would mean cops are running certain people out of town. That is evil. But at the scale of an individual or family, particularly when mental health is an issue, what is best is to not be involved in an escalating situation. Pull up stakes and move somewhere with less oppressive policies.
I agree that it's foolish that bars and casinos are open when gyms are not.
> I've married a smart, beautiful, ambitious woman twelve years ago. We've went through exhilarating ups and soulcrushing downs.

this is the biggest part of my life that is missing. life is almost not worth living without it.
Greater than 70% of African Americans are suspected to be Vit D deficient. Definitely worth getting tested if you can [1] especially if you live in the more northern latitudes. Doubly so during winter.

[1] with the note that generally insurance is a real PITA with vitamin D testing. The trick usually is to list as a diagnosis code a previous history of low vitamin D. Yes it’s like a catch 22. You need prior testing showing low Vit D to get testing to show low Vit D.

Given the huge prevalence of low vitamin D (70+%) amongst African Americans this is maybe a classic example of a dysfunctional health system. A vitamin D supplement is a dirt cheap public health intervention with potentially big pay offs across such a large segment of the population.
The closest thing might be the bloomberg terminal. It costs 2k a month, but you can get a news feed of the topics you care about and it will be accurate and factual. And then people instantly make bets based on that news.
You only need to go on programming languages or compilers subreddits to see that they only seem to know C or C++, due to the "hey, I made a language and it's based on C(++), only btter." I look and it's basically the same mistakes each time, the for loop, the basic data types, etc.
That difference may be due to ";" being considered a statement separator in Pascal, and a statement terminator in Ada. https://wiki.haskell.org/Terminator_vs._separator
If you do anything to a low level of the economy (e.g. fuel or energy prices) to the point where consumption at the upper levels is reduced then you're also screwing the poors hard enough that you are either going to get voted out of office or shot in short order (depending on how your system of government handles power transitions).
Looking at the world through the lens of only corporate cost/benefit and essentially disregarding externalities feels unwise. You could always just follow the rules as they were intended to be followed, not end up in the news, not pay court fees, and have happier employees, regardless of if your bottom line will technically better at year-end. (I know roughly ~nobody actually does this, but wishful thinking.)

Regardless, at this point you seem to basically be saying, "They should do it, unless it's not worth it." Everyone else is saying "It's not worth it, and that's why they should not do it."
That does not match my experience at all with the many peaceful protests in SF lately. Your sources may be cherry-picking to push a certain political narrative.
Weight gain and loss is simple physics. If you want to reduce obesity, focus on the dietary input. Virtually nobody is active enough to burn the extreme number of excess calories consumed that leads to obesity and the maintenance of obesity.
I am going to talk about one that I have colleagues that worked here in Sweden: Skype

It was a successful startup but $8.5 Billion is a lot of cash.

I heard that developers were not happy with Microsoft way. Promotions/Pay/etc. became a competition between colleagues instead of a collaboration.

Of course in that case my colleague leaved the company, maybe other people really liked it that way and stayed.

But, my personal experience is similar. USA companies want employees competing for recognition instead of collaborating to compete with other companies.
And what a classic "journalistic" cheap shot they're taking at him with that photo (https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9e901f036a105724595e106ace3d6...). I was going to ask if anyone could suggest a better article, but the text itself is quite good. No doubt the photo was chosen by someone other than the author.

A pity to lose him. Graeber was unusually fresh, with a talent for provoking interesting discussion, whether one agreed or not. He also got into flamewars on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=davidgraeber.
VSCode / Atom aren't IDE's, they are editors with lots of plugin's, like VIM and Emacs are.
A lot of companies put up money for transit costs, but the transit time is a function of where the employee lives, which is something the employer has zero control over.
And yet, the "Why is OOP still so widely spread?" article never mentions Smalltalk.

Perhaps the author did not wish to admit that even back in 1980, "you [could] have your class Cake and EatCake() it too".

[:each :aCake | each eat: aCake]
P2P is actually mostly preserving movies. I find it to not be an abundant resource for old music recordings/lives.

I've downloaded quite a number of really old live performance of classical music from YouTube, that are practically nowhere else to be found. No pirate version can be found, private bay or the likes.

At least for now, YouTube is a gain in preserving and distributing old and unusual content, not a loss, in the world of classical music. I don't know what happens it one day it ceases to exist, but I imagine enough people would have saved copies of those videos to re-upload to whatever video site replaces YouTube.
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I mean like other public cloud providers it would make sense to have instances and per minute pricing for an instance. If there is only one instance type that's fine.
I perceive the soul of what you're saying to be: don't get too obsessed with how your program is made, and focus on how it actually _works_. You don't get extra credit for building your app in Rust. The value of building it in Rust must eventually cash out in how well the software behaves. Suppose we called this the "Whatever Gets It Done" principle.

This seems like sage advice, especially in a time where people have become so focused on the developer experience and the software lifecycle. But for the sake of conversation, can I fish for an area of disagreement?

I notice that the WGID principle often gets hijacked into the strong version - let's call it the "Software is Just A Craft" conjecture. This version says that we've basically got software all figured out, and from here on out, everything is just different flavors of the same process. C for this, Python for that - it's just up to the craftsman to choose his tools wisely. To me, this kind of fatalism seems like the death of programming as a technology field. I don't know if it's a lack of imagination, or just getting too comfortable as a practitioner of "the craft", but some people seem to relish the idea that there can be no progress, only practice.

As a concrete example, consider Python's inability to use native threads. I see some people talk about this as a tradeoff, as if you're trading the performance of C for the convenience of Python in a zero-sum game. But that's just an approximation. Python _could_ have native support for threads if it was designed better. You could leave everything about its syntax alone, but just allow threading, if only the time was put into engineer it that way. Of course now, it's too late - we have too many legacy systems and too much code relying on how it was already built. But this is not the same as it being in a fundamental trade space. Python is just missing a feature, and now we know better.

It strikes me, then, that the level-headed "choose the right tool for the job" advice is really more just a way to be pragmatic in the here-and-now of writing software. You're not going to write a new operating system, language and ecosystem by the end of this week, so you have to realistically assess your options and grade them on their strengths and weaknesses. I just want to make the point that this is not core to the nature of programming languages and paradigms, just from wanting to build useful things on a schedule. But it has to be possible to make things strictly more expressive, strictly more performant, strictly easier to debug, strictly more portable, strictly... better?
The best thing we can do for the environment by far is reduce consumption of beef and dairy products.

This is very false.

Source: https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
"have skin in the game" is code for "don't want to work with poor people."

Tell me, who has more skin in the game in the following scenario: B and C both get into the same school. B comes from a family with two parents making $150K/year each. C comes from a family with two parents, one making $50K/year and the other staying at home to raise the kids.

Both get into the same school, take the same classes, and pass with the same grades. (Set aside that B is more likely to have had test prep help, college admissions help, etc. than C - I stipulate they are of equal merit.)

The main difference is that C graduates with $35K [1] in debt, while B has no debt because B's parents could pay for college.

Both B and C have equally good ideas, and look for angel funding.

B can come in with $150K of F&F funding. And if the venture doesn't work out, the family has a other money saved up. C can get $50K of F&F, but is still $35K in debt, accruing interest, and that $50K is about all the F&F can afford; cutting expenses to the bone. They are really hoping for C to make it big.

The angel 'D' decides to fund each for $250,000. D's stocks alone make $1M/year and D is angel investing partly as a hobby after taking early retirement.

So, who has more skin in the game: 'C' who's all-in committed, 'B' who can chalk up a failure to a learning experience, ... or 'D', who has the most money but for which losing even $500K won't have a big impact?

I argue that the concept of "skin in the game" = "money" is a rich person's way to prioritize money over real skin-in-the game; the limited time we have on this planet, and the chance to enjoy it.

Why would you choose 'B', who might flake out on you and lose focus or direction because failure is not that big of a deal, instead of 'C', for whom financial success is a much more serious matter?

[1] $35K is roughly the US average - https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/15/heres-how-much-the-average-s... - the UK is different, but I'm from the US so that's what I know. Given the numbers you listed, it would have taken you about 2 years to pay off that debt, giving "B" an extra couple of years experience over "C" in the startup scene.

[2] On a more personal note, my father had a stroke when I was 25 and in grad school. He was on disability for the rest of his life. Once I started making industry money, some of that money went to my parents, like to buy a car that didn't leak oil and break down often (a family friend owned a garage so we get free labor, which helped), and pay for new siding for their house. "B" likely wouldn't have had to worry about needing to support family anything like "C" would.

Meritocracy my ass.
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I don't think you understand what they are measuring here. There are a lot of interest groups dedicated to selling oil until there is no more oil to sell, and they have no interest in being transparent about what they mean when they say that tires are worse than internal combustion.

It's pretty clear that the authors are redefining pollution pretty extraordinarily to justify their claims. Only "particulate" counts as pollution, and the lifetime of that particulate, both chemically, and the airborne lifetime, is not even considered. Probably by this measure, the dominant source of pollution on earth is the winds from Africa depositing silt in the Amazon basin.
True, technically.

But the all-around mindfuck that is PIP feels psychologically coercive as well (even if it doesn't meet the precise legal definition) - and somehow, more harmful (and just plain insidious) overall.
What a loss, I just finished reading Debt this week and even though I don't completely agree with his conclusions I enjoyed the way he came to them.

He also had one of the best laughs I've heard.

He will be missed.
> If the Europeans stop the US from acquiring companies there,

You seem to imply here that the US acquired this company against the will of the seller, which I don't think the parent thread was getting at (nor is true, as far as I know).
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And they were not replicated at the time because this data wasn't considered valuable, and on a larger scale, because there was not a culture of data preservation at NASA.

(It's not clear that they had the ability to replicate this data, anyway -- the reason it was lost was that they needed to reuse the magnetic tapes for data from another project!)
Moving is expensive, and leaving a city means leaving behind existing support networks (friends, family, etc.). I'd imagine many people don't have that kind of mobility and moving is simply not an option.