skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have helped do this at two companies that used Clojure heavily, and agree it is definitely doable (and possibly easier the smarter and more junior they are).

What can be more challenging is to find more senior people who are decent Clojurians (it is hard to take a junior developer and make them as, or more, senior than you, for example :-) ). Hiring experienced Clojure devs is also doable, but takes time, flexibility (e.g., open to remote... easier in 2020 than in 2019), and real effort.
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The other not-so-well-known product is the Uber Lite app (iOS and Android) which was specifically made by Uber for this problem, particularly in the developing world.
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I kind of don't understand why people don't use managed K8's and avoid needing to pay ops people to manage their setup.

One can learn the developer side of K8's in a week or so enough to be deploying apps and setting up services and pods without the overhead of managing etcd and distributed clusters.
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My point was that there was no need to ask Chris Lattner back in 2016: you could just look around the landscape and see that there were not many, as they would be easy to see if they did exist.
Managed K8's right?
I get balls of literal string. I must not live a very exciting life :(
The Grand Bazaar of Istanbul and the Tower of Babel.
The "statically linked" part has little to do with the app size.
This new product is a consumer social / video concept.

Doesn’t just about every extension-based ad blocker block all js analytics discussed in this post?

Have you done backup backend instrumentation if particular events to see definitively that you’re getting duplicate events as often as you think?

One thing I noticed is that without the belt and suspenders approach it really was not obvious what I was missing.

I also care a lot about people who run ad blockers because I consider them to be more savvy and thus more likely to influence the behavior of others.
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Google incurs legal fees regardless of the merits of the case.

They are already losing in the court of public opinion.

IMO they should have given her $3-5 million dollars and an NDA when accepting her resignation.
I think a lot of people just know once done, this is not the last time a tech company will get letters from senators asking for content to be removed. This time, I happen to agree that the claim the election was stolen is actively harmful but I also remember when Covid was officially not spread human to human and if Covid misinformation had been a banned thing earlier in the pandemic we would have been probably removing content from actual doctors that ended up being right. Remember when "masks wouldn't help"?

I think youtube is doing a "good thing" in terms of getting us past this silliness faster, but I don't think it'll necessarily be a "good thing" next time so I'd rather it happen never.
They always wear the hats at trade shows, it's just their promotional thing... It gives them easy recognisability, after all trade shows are all about marketing. They give them away too (but not the same quality as the ones they wear).

That giddy thing is also a tradeshow thing, some companies really pump their employees that work at these things, but they're not normally like that :)

Only if you know someone well enough you can get real info. The real communication at these tradeshows is not done in the booths but in back rooms and coffee corners. The front booths are just marketing with some low level PR staff.
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What is pg trying to tell us with this story?

I think it's evidence for "Billionaires Build", which is an apologia for billionaires. pg seems to think we are in a moment where billionaires don't have enough cultural respect.

I think pg is trying to show us that billionaires, at least the kind he funds, are just better people, or are at least more tenacious. The binder of credit cards is supposed to inspire admiration for their dedication (rather than horror).

And I think he's congratulating himself for being able to spot them. By extension, spotting billionaires (helpful, tenacious, people who love to build) and helping them - well, is he saying that he's a great person, squared?
I think I'm confused, then.

> If you want to drive a car, you have to proof you are able to do so. Why not demand the same if you want to vote?

Not sure if you meant this as a rhetorical question, an ironic one, or a real suggestion about creating restrictions around who can vote.

Either way, "free speech is a thing of the past" is a bit all-or-nothing. It's always been a battle, never as good as we thought it was (such as the argument Noam Chomsky makes in 'Manufacturing Consent'), and always been tricky to figure out what to do when, and where.

But it's not a thing of the past.
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How helpful is this to some/any of hybrid/multi-cloud and serverless? Analysing most of the telemetry at the edge seems like it could be helpful there. Useful for instrumenting low-latency edge applications?
Looks great! My suggestion would be to add the percentage discount when you click on "Show Yearly Plans". It's 20% but people suck at math, make it obvious.
42% of US Dollars didn't exist a year ago.

If you're wondering why it's been such a bad year to be in cash despite the economy crumbling around you, it's because no one knows where else to put their money. Stocks and houses are being bought with inflated dollars.
Here's a quick example of how to use import maps to get Node-like imports for ES modules distributed on NPM like lodash-es: https://gist.github.com/MarkTiedemann/4ac5837195f52d24bb1dec...
I honestly have not been provided with a good answer beyond "we just didn't spent resources to do it".
As a former Uber employee, recent pops from ABNB and DASH have me feeling some serious fomo.
I am not an app developer, so ignorant. Why not have different apps? Uber-India, Uber-Mexico, etc? Or if it is to be all one Global Uber app, why not have expansions that are downloaded for other regions as needed?
That's largely not true. Most of these states have similar restrictions and mask mandates and public compliance as the rest of the country. California is doing no better than Iowa right now.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/states-reopen-ma...
I wish they would also write articles about the founders spending 5+ years on ideas that never pan out and the emotional, financial and social toll of that. If YC actually wanted to teach people about entrepreneurship, that's a pretty important part of the story.
Cool. Now solve it for a circular fence on the surface of a sphere. In fact, solve all four cases {exterior, interior of sphere} X {exterior, interior of fence}. Spherical trig can only make the solution(s) even more heroic, right?
I think you're reading things I didn't write, there.
Yep, I'm still working my way through the MOOC. It's quite well done.

I would recommend even taking the time to listen to the parts that seem basic. The Smalltalk way of thinking about objects is different from how OOP is usually done in some subtle but important ways, so I'm finding it useful to take a "forget everything you know" approach.

Somewhat amusingly, the process of learning Smalltalk in the evenings and then going back to Java during the day is going a long way toward helping me understand why Yegor Bugayenko seems so chronically exasperated.
What is worse really?

1. IBM being IBM and forcing RedHat to milk RHEL for all it is worth ecosystem be damned
2. RedHat deciding to do this all on their own without even requiring any pressure from IBM - because they are just as bad as IBM now

IMO #2.
Facebook really did and does fill a need that's been open for a very long time: a central communications/notification platform. It's been tried time and time again, with both open standards and closed standards, but Facebook is the one that caught on (very unfortunately).

For a few years I ran a successful business in my small-but-bustling town of using the Facebook Events API to pull in all the events in the area and putting them on a single calendar, then pushing those events back to my business's Facebook page before the event started. At that point everyone in town can either visit my website or follow my Facebook page, and now they have one central place to get all the town's news. I could never convince business owners to put all their events on my site directly, because "our audience is all on Facebook already" but people would have to follow a couple dozen pages and check them each individually (because Facebook won't show you everything you've followed).

Facebook eventually shut down that API (with no notice, against their own SLAs) and I kept scraping the data by hand because the residents and the businesses found it so useful. Then the pandemic hit and these small businesses had no money to pay me and they weren't holding events anymore anyway. But even after we're done with the pandemic I doubt I'll be picking it back up because Facebook is an abusive business partner to begin with, and the people you're then forced to interact with on Facebook are some of the worst and most toxic human beings I've ever met. I've had death threats from my own neighbors because an event I advertised was sold out. I've had Facebook followers stop me on the street and complain to me about taxes and zoning because they can't tell the difference between a news outlet and the city government.

But it really does highlight that Facebook is meeting a demand that nothing else, not email or RSS or SMS or anything has been able to meet. It's just a shame that they're the worst possible company to make a social network that you'd actually want to interact with.
The fact that the dashboards and alerts have a delay sounds like there might be difficult consistency stuff going on. Many nodes need to coordinate their usage and billing. It may be a difficult problem, but solving billing problems might not really motivate anyone at the company. It's not a "cool" problem for engineers and not profitable for product.
I can coroborate this in our case. But to be fair to OP, it requires having a very good onboarding process. We have weekly Clojure lessons where we teach the language, and good CR protocol so for a while all CRs go to people who know the language very well so they can give good advice about Clojure. And this works if you add new developers slowly, but can get challenging if you hire quickly. So I would say it still requires some extra effort and the motivation to do so.
If Airbnb doubled on opening, should all the VCs + founders involve be pissed it was so badly mis-priced?
Apple to ban X-Mode tracking, developers given two weeks to comply
Create an MMO but also an MMO framework so other people can use the framework.

The framework might actually turn out to be more popular than the game.
You're probably correct. It really makes you think twice about setting up some of those cloud services without a hard limit cutoff.
Really?

Besides far fetched hypotheticals I can't think of a reason why somebody would say spreading yourself thin is the key to success.
You're right, and I've called that out in my post as well (re: Oracle Java, as an example).

That said, I've got far more trust in someone who's gone to the trouble of making a .deb file than someone who put a shell script on GitHub.
I was about to suggest "yet another RPG that no one will ever play" but then I read your post with more attention.

I have this old idea around a turn based RPG game that simulates the political scenario of a developing country in an elections year. Main individual goal: to be elected for either a city, state or federal mandate. The more turns you play, the more your chances increase of climbing the political ladder up to the presidency. Corruption, ethics and media layers add the complexity to the game.

Hey, congrats for your decision to leave the startup and starting your own thing. That's the most important aspect here.
It's a bit unfair to compare the mobile app with the Linux distro, given that mobile apps aren't supporting dynamic feature loading (or weren't at that time), so everything should be bundled. Imagine that any "screen" you need to access _must_ be bundled within the distro. So, compared to Linux distro – you should have your local mirror of all possible features any particular user would like to have. For example, Gentoo handbook says "Hosting a mirror requires a minimum of 550 GiB available disk space." 550 GiB just to run a Chromium? No – to have an opportunity to run it when you'll need it, because it's all or nothing. Either you get every program with all of its features, or get nothing at all.
Most small businesses fail. Are you okay if that happens?
I wonder if there's anything in the pipeline for storage.
How the Simulation Argument Dampens Future Fanaticism (PDF) (2016)
I worked at a startup during the brexit vote and our recruitment plummeted immediately afterwards. We would only get about 10-20% of the EU candidates applying as before. No change in UK candidates.
A car is not a service. It doesn't need an account.

Most things these days are service-related and absolutely need 'accounts'.

Like your XBox.

Occulus will invariably require some kind of 'account'.

'Accounts' are not evil.
Both devs and jobs exist but they are mismatched in terms of geography and experience expectations. I don't think it's specific to Clojure, it's common to any narrow technology. Certainly things have gotten far better over the last 10 years and there are more companies hiring in Clojure more actively now than I've ever seen. Fixing it requires a feedback cycle that takes a long time to grow into an active market.

When I first started in Java in 1997, there were few companies doing Java and few devs who knew it and it was much the same. Sun spent like a billion dollars marketing Java to create that ecosystem.
S3 costs money to keep your files in, even if you're not touching them, so just preventing further uploads wouldn't do much to prevent your AWS bill from increasing.
From a journalistic standpoint, including the formula would require a longer digression into contour integrals than the one clause the article currently contains.

It’s also not clear what license that image is available under.
Fair enough---I guess part of my dissonance is that's also a lisp, and I feel like 99% of the people attracted to lisps are us wild-eyed hobbyist types who really just want to build an individualized DSL for every project.
Quite naive of you to believe Musk or Bezos worked 23 hour workdays. Even if that was remotely true, everything bears consequence. It might have "worked", but the downsides of this toxic work ethic are bound to present themselves, in the present or future.

Never mind working such hours does not guarantee success. Hell, it only about guarantees poor relations and health with any chance of success a very distant second.

So at best you're successful with shit relationships or fail with the same prospects? Dunno 'bout you, but I don't play no game I can't win!
the funny thing is that this actually proves the opposite. The consumer overall would obviously be way better off with three redundant and independent systems that don't go down at the same time.
One thing I've found about k8s is running a cluster can be very costly, and using a managed cluster on one of the big three clouds is even more so. Also, when rolling your own cluster it requires a lot of elbow grease to get things in a working state, and even more to keep things working.

It feels awesome from a developer standpoint once you work out all the kinks. It's very natural describing your service with a bit of yaml, and then being able to then spawn it into your infrastructure and have it automatically scale out.

If there was a cost effective k8s cluster you could rent then that would be the thing that finally kills traditional infrastructure for me.
Funny you mention chores because that's exactly what I've always thought of as the prime example of where 80/20 thinking brings benefits. I think a big reason to focus on higher-ROI (80/20) is to reduce friction; I'd rather have a quite-clean living space the majority of the time than a perfectly-clean living space on rare occasion (I think 80/20 thinking leads to a higher average level of cleanliness). You did say 'if only my wife felt this way' so I assume you buy into 80/20 for chores and she doesn't.
Makes sense. I approached this from a curious point of view, not from a combative one, to get a sense of where the problems were.

The general problem you describe was also mentioned in the podcast. Trying to write like language X in language Y. This can also be observed within the Go community; people writing Java or JS style programs in Go, especially early on.
just don't.

i wasted 18 months on creating a game. it was an awful time with millions of boring-but-necessary tasks and sales on mac+linux+windows were basically zero.

if i had a time-machine, this would be the one decision i'd reverse.
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How do you plan to execute better than your competition? Keep in mind, any great game idea you have will be instantly poached by others who know how to execute quickly.
I found this to be actually quite a well balanced take. There are quite a lot of useful considerations in here which I don't often see in HN discussions about k8s, as it's usually from people well invested in that ecosystem now.

Some of our teams have been drifting naturally towards ECS Fargate and found it to be a great fit. Almost invariably the k8s question comes up, and it's usually a reaction to the popularity of k8s and EKS. It's quite easy to start doubting your own well thought-out decisions in the face of a large popular elephant sitting in your rooms which wants to trample on everything.
I was an Adobe Flex developer years ago. There still isn’t a similar replacement right? Last I checked when I was still developing you had to do insane things with CSS for even the most basic animations. Is there something better now?
Co-founder/CEO of Pixie here.

We are preparing to open source early next year, so stay tuned. The code will be posted on our repository, that currently hosts our community scripts: https://github.com/pixie-labs/pixie.
Sobering stuff indeed. What do we know about these events as far as mitigation goes? How long would power be disrupted or devices be out of commission if a similarly strong geomagnetic storm hit? Are we talking "lights out" for 3 days or 3 months? It's hard to glean from the article how literally one should take the sentence, "If it had hit, we would still be picking up the pieces."
The law isn't really just about cookies. You could use local storage, indexed DB, WebSQL (RIP) whatever the law would still apply. Disabling browser storage will break everything single website on the internet that has a session mechanism. The alternative is to append a session ID to every single link on a page. consumer router admin pages often do that instead of using cookies.
I use ublock, but the site works fine for me. Are you blocking JS? Looking at the source code it's some kind of a javascript single-pager, built entirely in the app itself.
Here's two sites I like:

https://experiments.withgoogle.com/collection/chrome
https://mrdoob.neocities.org/
Try working on the game 20 hours a week while keeping your job. If you truly love the concept and love working on it while still working full time, that'd be a good sign to potentially scale it up with your full 60-80 hours you'll be spending.
I had the incredible good fortune to not only be in the same YC batch as Airbnb, but also be the only other founder in SF, which meant I just happened to carpool a lot with them and hang at their place a lot.

I still remember when Nate first told me the idea at our first batch meeting and I immediately loved it—at the time I lived in a 4-br house with ~10 people, and we constantly had people on the couches or in a tent on the roof. I would go on to make more money thanks to the Airbnbs during my YC year than I would from my own startup.

But a million times more valuable than money was the path that those guys sent me down. Sure, we both had gotten into YC, but I could immediately sense there was a huge gap between us. I think I've always had a strong work ethic and desire to serve others, but I didn't have the craftsmanship or teamwork skills that these guys had—and they had it in spades. Everyone talks about the cereals, but their apartment had more impressive things they designed and built than that (IMO). Nate was a no non-sense engineer who took software seriously and built great things. His code was far beyond mine at the time. And the team work was incredible.

I dabbled with joining Airbnb early, but never went down that path. I like to joke with my friends that I turned them down, but in reality it wasn't because I had better options, the truth is I knew they were out of my league skills wise, and I had a long way to go to catch up.

The lesson that I learned from the Airbnbs that I think isn't always stressed enough in the "power law startup world" is that you need to be building many, many things—with other people—, and get really, really good at that, before you can go on and "make something people want" and do something world changing, like these guys have done.

I'll never forget driving home in the dark after our Tuesday night dinners in a rental van, the 3 airbnbs and me. After hours of loud demos about their new stuff and listening to everyone in the room about how they could build things better, the drive home would be quiet. You could tell that they were utterly exhausted, but also quietly determined. I doubt that they will stop and rest enough to celebrate this moment, but they "earned this" moment.

They're the real deal. To this day continually inspired by them.
Congrats to Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs (and their most-valued clients).

Why aren’t direct listings the default, again?
No, sqrt(2) is exact and no approximation is needed -- it's the diagnoal of a 1x1 square. Goats and grass don't care about decimal number systems.

As the article says, the solution to the goat problem isn't practically constructible:

"It’s a bit more abstruse — the ratio of two so-called contour integral expressions, with numerous trigonometric terms thrown into the mix"
Is there anything to stop RH from not continuing to make these publicly available, since their intent is to stop the exact itch CentOS scratched?
> it's good for us to be able to listen to bad ideas and form rational and compelling counterarguments and defences against them.

I agree, and it's quite obvious that if you want this, then you should not go to YouTube.

> But we're making the most naive and expedient appraisals and supposed remedies to the discomfort its causing.

The only naivety being expressed here, is the idea that YouTube is the be-all-end-all online UGC video provider. Why are you placing YouTube on such a high pedestal, assigning such a non-deterministic fate to its decisions and outcomes? They're not even a little important to the dissemination of free ideas - perhaps they once were, but that ship sailed long ago.

Why are you so in love with YouTube? You clearly despise their choices; abandon the platform and don't look back.

> This isn't a tactical debate, it's a philosophical and foundational one.

I agree; you need to change your philosophy. Stop relying on YouTube to be the heroic service that you want it to be, and start realizing that it will never do what you want it to do.
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