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I left the IT industry last year and have found myself in the education sector. I can't speak into your future but I do recollect sharing some of your frustrations as a sysadmin of 20 years. k8s felt to me like whack a mole. I was old school. I created relationships with the right people in our datacenters. My team shipped and deployed our own bare metal servers. Ansible was great for deploying VMs. Then came along k8s.

I was happy with our freebsd servers doing zfs and nfs. I was a fan of nginx as a proxy server on linux. I got redis. Mongo came and went. It wasn't rocket science to put failover services on different hardware and in different datacenters.

I would rather have a collection of small parts making up a complex solution than the complexity of k8s.

I have gotten a lot of mileage out of freebsd jails and lxc on ubuntu down through the years. I am a fan of containers. I agree with you that people use k8s for deployments which really don't need it. Unfortunately this is the world of IT; new toys and, "na, na, I know something you don't".

I moved to education as I decided I didn't want to be responsible for an IT infrastructure anymore. My new job is equally difficult but does not require the same out of hours headspace as looking after a global network.
Some people have the hard decision of having to self-quarantine permanently and being able to pay their bills on time and/or have a roof over their heads. Choosing between dying hungry and homeless versus dying sick is not appealing to anyone and some argue that one purpose of a government is to deal with dilemmas like these.
Apple is so far behind outside of the places they prioritize that it'll take decades at this pace to get on Google Maps' current level.

It's really useless in places like Eastern Europe, where Apple has no interest in supporting and isn't likely that it'll turn that around any time soon.
I will try all of them. Previously, I've tried Tad [1] which is good but I'd like something lighter and faster (ie. not electron based) and also visidata [2] which is terminal based but sometimes I just want to see my data in a gui.

[1] https://www.tadviewer.com
[2] https://www.tadviewer.com
It should be noted that this article is from 2017.
What are Bucatini? At my place, they have Spaghetti/Spaghettini, Linguine (more porous), Macheroni (pre-cut tubes with large holes to suck up sauce), Penne/Rigatoni/Parpadelle (for Carbonara), Fusilli (or the slightly smaller Girandole) with a lot of surface for Goulash-like sauces, Farfalle (for soups), and German-style pasta like Bandnudeln (Penne with eggs), Schupfnudeln and Spätzle/Knöpfle though the latter are simple to prepare from fresh eggs and flour. Sometimes also Greek Khritaraki (resembling rice) and Trofie Liguri, and of course ready-made Gnocchi, Tagliatelle, and Ravioli.
> Do tech companies also charge less for their products in non-rich countries?

Yes they do. They heavily adjust for PPP and local currencies
These street maps are becoming insanely precise, probably helped by the competition. I see that Google Maps is now testing "detailed street maps" in some cities: https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-testing-detailed-street...

Just a thought: maybe they are scanning cities for their self-driving cars and are also using this data for Maps?
Early summer was strange. I finished watching seasons one through four of the expanse on Amazon.com

Kept getting side tracked because it takes a dystopian science fiction set hundreds of years in the future to discuss basic income and climate change in television.
Does anyone know why we can't just implant nylon hair follicles with some biologically compatible glue/plugs?

Edit: Just searched up synthetic hair implants

The FDA banned the synthetic fibers in the US in 1983. The ban resulted because widespread use in the 1970s led to numerous complications including recurrent infections, rejection, contact dermatitis, granulomatous hypersensitivity reactions and cyst formation. Not to mention frequent loss of fibers from breakage.

The synthetic fibers continue to be manufactured in Europe where they are still in use.

Check out this website with an unfortunate name for more info
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I'm thoroughly convinced that software engineering efficiency can be increased by at least one order of magnitude by letting domain experts and product owners directly modify the product through a well defined DSL.
Hey, bartwr, thank you very much for writing so clearly and in such an approachable way about the work you do, providing a more holistic (over)view of the field and the challenges involved. I assume that your other more technically detailed posts are also very valuable to the experts on the field, but it's great that you shared something like this that's more accessible to people with less knowledge on the topic. I can only hope that if more people understand the challenges involved in a field, maybe it will also become easier to get them on board and be more open minded and less reluctant to change when new solutions are explored and transitions are needed to continue making progress.
Same should apply to XRP then because it exist way longer than ETH. But unlike ETH, XRP was never sold in return for and arbitrary amount of BTC/USD it was first given away for free and later sold at market value.
> Quest and Dialogue systems etc. for the game designers and these things are quite mundane.

Depends what you want from them. I've written a small quest and dialog system for my indie game (never finished, as most of my side projects :( ), and it was quite involved.

I used a graph programming library ( https://github.com/ajuc/pefjs ) to create graphs of nodes where each edge is a blocking condition (is the $MONSTER alive? is player near $NPC?) and each node is next step in a quest (with some actions if needed).

Then there was a in-memory database allowing to record arbitrary metadata that quests might require. Stuff like "have the player killed that monster", "does the player have the quest item equipped", "have the player talked with one of these 4 people about X", "has any NPC seen the player near the $PLACE during $EVENT".

I briefly considered adding gossips - if $NPC1 seen player commit murder and $NPC2 meets $NPC1 - then $NPC2 remembers that too, and remember who told them. But then I calculated how much memory that would need and it's staggering. And players won't notice anyway most likely. But it would be so cool.

Once you start recording data about data (does $NPC2 know about the fact that $NPC1 seen player commit murder?) it's hard to know where to stop.

Anyway, even without these - there's lots of that stuff and it needs indexing and filtering. I considered using some in-memory SQL database or datalog, but eventually just rolled my own with basic hashmap indexing.

Then there was dialog system and I wanted more variety than the same responses every time, so I created sets of possible greetings and goodbyes, confirmations, negations, reaction to repeatedly asking the same question, etc. Then the system chooses randomly from the list (each "kind" of NPC has separate list - one for working class characters, one for strangers, one for scholarly types, and special lists for important NPCs).

You can also parametrize dialogs with data from quest database - so you can for example ask the player about his new $COLOR $BRAND vehicle when he comes to see the NPC the first time after the purchase.

There's lots of interesting stuff to do there, even if it's not visual.
I'm pretty sure parent meant "escape Earth's orbit", not "deorbit"
They're not very flexible though, I can't just take any accessories like the display in the article and attach it properly with a few extra blocks.
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The issue isn't actually IEEE 754 but rather common C implementations; most hardware supports much more in the way of signalling NaNs and floating point exceptions, but most languages blindly follow the way C does it. It's the same with rounding modes; 754 provides a decent range of rounding modes marred by a poor default, but C and everything that follows it expects that default to be used.
They are thicker spaghetti with a hole (“buco” in Italian) running through them. Typical of central Italy.
Ask HN: If self-aware AI was possible, wouldn't it have taken over the galaxy?
Self aware AI existing on manufacturable substrates, and presumably capable of reproducing itself from mining its environment could travel throughout space without the hassle of a biological body. This sort of life-form seems to have many advantages over regular sentient life. If it was possible, wouldn't it have already come to be and easily spread everywhere (and possible "taken over") the galaxy?
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MLOps. Why are there so many new startups when the giants like GCP, AWS, H2o etc have already productionized most of the major features, and will add new features in a flash.
The interesting part behind the current "noflyzones" database concept is that it requires a lot of synchronization overhead.

My DJI dropped out of 100m in the middle of the flight because GPS took so long to synchronize.

And yes, the firmware does not "safely autoland" like any reasonable person would expect. Instead it just shuts off the power and drops down.
I get where they are coming from though. Even best case, a db call will add more latency than a getter/setter. They might also be missing the types (depending on what functional language it is).

In general, I find that complicated systems with no owner (i.e. legacy systems) are much easier to understand if they're not constantly calling out to other systems like databases.
And the ever relevant video version by School of Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI
John de Mol settles with Facebook about Bitcoin advertisements
"Standards of Identification" are not about safety, but rather marketplace regulation against deception. After all, if it was about safety, then ramen noodles wouldn't be sold at all.

Rather, it is (or was, originally) about protecting the brand of pasta noodles vs. ramen noodles, at a time when the difference was not as readily apparently to consumers.

It's the type of regulation that determines what is a "HD" tv, for example.
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Damn that page really took me back!
They absolutely can and actively do.
Not sure how much experience you have working with business or government but what you'll find is that large corporates will have 'access' to regulators and legislators who can legislate or enforce on their behalf. The senior people will know each other and get things moving.

Medium sized businesses (up to $100m revenues) will find it very difficult even getting a response. Even getting their attention is a competitive advantage for large corporates.

So when you read a story and think things 'worked quite well'. It's just an example of selectively applying laws & regulations, which were only introduced to keep out competition and protect entrenched interests. That's why large corporates love regulations, it protects their entire business model and imposes significant costs on new entrants.
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs (2009)
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It's not that hard ... Or rather it's almost all solved problems. The proof is the number of 1-4 person indie teams making games that look like AAA games.

Two examples.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/417290/Ghost_of_a_Tale/

Made almost entirely by one person

https://store.steampowered.com/app/242760/The_Forest/

Small team

There are tons of others. Sure, someone had to solve those issues but they mostly packaged the solutions into Unreal, Unity, etc.

It's like concentrating on making cameras instead of making movies. Sure there are new techniques that might give your movie some special edge (like when they invented bullet time for The Matrix) but a good story (or a well designed game) doesn't really need the technical tricks. In fact some of the most famous games are designed around the limits of the tech (either the limits of the hardware or the limits of their particular engine).

Note I've written several AAA game engines and have friends that work on AAA engines for others. They are all admitting / lamenting now that engines are basically a commodity and their skills are not needed. They're turning into scripters for the artist and designers and management is pushing to just license the engines.
I didn't downvote but I think people do because it's almost a stock comment that a bot could automatically apply.

It's guaranteed to appear in about 5% of the comments every time an inaccurate article is being discussed.
303 See Other Pasta Shapes

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Being reminded by our pediatrician about outstanding vaccinations for our kids is great. Sucks to not have that for adults, with most vaccinations holding up for years it is so easy to forget about them. Really have to check my status...
The colors in these charts are a color-blinds nightmare...
Show HN: A General Interest News Aggregator
I built a frontend and hacked the miniflux rss reader to make it so that I can ingest, sort, weight and publish about 1500 articles a day and boil them down to between 125 and 200 articles which form a descent representation of the days news writing from the major news sources in English. Right now it's a complete dumb system, but by using some basic AI for sorting I think one person could probably sort twice as much as I am now. It takes me about 10-12 hours to do the sort, depending on how heavy a news day it is.

What do people think?
Every CEO out there should learn from this - the Twitter interaction, your email follow up, and your response here.

Might not be the most efficient way, but what the heck - you are showing how a CEO is able to deeply care about the company's product and its customers.
I too predicted [1] that in the future Bitcoin will be comparable to works of arts, not to digital gold, as hoarders like to think. A collectible is even better comparison. But I disagree with the price prediction. People are already buying it because they expect the price will raise. This is a bubble. It's not what happens with collectibles or arts.

[1] https://dandanua.github.io/posts/why-i-wouldnt-recommend-usi...
How good an investment are these collectibles though? You always hear of the price going up, yet few hard-nosed hedge funds would follow a collectible investment strategy.

I've read that as the number of people interested in a given kind of collectible shrinks, the market gets increasingly illiquid, but the nominal values don't change much - people don't want to sell at a loss, so when the value is much lower than the last posted trade, trades just don't happen.
> That which is finite.

Finite-ness is over-rated [1], and for Proof-of-Work cryptocurrencies, harmful to long-term stability [2].

[1] https://john-tromp.medium.com/a-case-for-using-soft-total-su...

[2] https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/publications/mining_CC...
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JFTR, No need to add two references to same link; one reference link would be enough ;)

Correct [2], as it is actually the same as [1].
> People are already buying it because they expect the price will raise. This is a bubble. It's not what happens with collectibles or arts.

It's absolutely what happens with collectibles and arts.
The Imac was bad so many ways: blurry screen, icons too small due to the screen being too small for the OS , overpriced, slow speed, hockey puck mouse, no floppy . Even the Powermacs from 1995 were better than than Imac. I bought a PC instead and stopped buying macs from that point on.
This is a familiar refrain I've recently begun to hear about many of Google's products and I'm starting to see the point. Technology has evolved significantly in the last ten years. It is now significantly easier to build a search engine with its own index and crawl the entirety of the Internet than it was ten years ago. Maps too, will go that way soon. It took IBM and Intel, who were regarded the same way Google is now, half a century to be dethroned. For Google, this might happen on a more accelerated schedule. I suspect there will be a swarm of startups biting at its heels within the next five years.
Probably because reality is indefinite complex and that it would take a whole reality to correctly simulate a reality.

So the hard part is to make aproximations that run in REAL TIME (unlike scientific simulations, that have some time to run).

And how do you measure complex? Well, how about the number of changing variables involved?

Simulating and solving chess is very easy in comparison. You have only very limited and fixed variables.
Simulating a physic sandbox game with advanced chemistry and even biology that is supposed to run in real time - seems impossible at this moment on the other hand. Too many connected details.
In Easter Europe even Google Maps are much worse that OpenStreetMaps.
What if it's not a civilization.....what if it's a crash ...a. cry for help..what if it's an actual intelligence signal from a downed extraterrestrial and we the monkeys dont know how to interpret the signal.
Back then at least Macs were different, each generation.

Now laptops are always the same grey aluminum with an apple logo on the back.

Has Apple lost its design skills? Are they too afraid to make changes?
Also in central Europe. Maps and navigation in the Croatian countryside is comically broken. Not only are the locations of addresses way off, if you travel to that location, they'll then send you somewhere else and eventually in a circle.

Maybe they don't care about poor countries with lower usage, but I'd be embarrassed to have that in my product.

Having said that, rich western Europe is in some ways no better. If you create a public transport route, Google maps will send you walking hundreds of meters around non-existent barriers, or sometimes insist that you go one tram stop past and then catch the tram back to the stop you want to go to.

Maps, like search seems to be slowly suffering from some sort of corporate rot over at Google.
can u give an example? e.g. adwords charges less depending on business location? or AWS ?
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> Neuroscience is so laughably primitive.

Its hard to comprehend how complex of a machinery the brain is when you are "just" a computer scientist. I often see people from the AI field eager to do a short rotation in a neuroscience lab to "learn how the brain works" and then go back to their company and develop a novel algorithm to make a paradigm shift in AI field - it's enthusiastic but laughably primitive.

The technology available to understand this complex machine is primitive when you compare it to electronics or AI tech. This is not because of the lack of funding and talent being invested in the field but because of the highly complex and efficient nature of the brain that has evolved over millions of years but only started to be investigated anatomically for less than a couple of centuries. Arguably, the same problem exists in the AI field too when it comes to understanding the black-box models. We don't even entirely comprehend how the artifical neural network based models work in many use-cases; there are ideas floating around to make sense of it which use the same strategy of "plug in/out and play" to understand what parameter affects what in your model which to neuroscientists seems (yet again) laughably primitive.
I highly recommend checking out Justin’s blog for more of his posts, the most recent being in December 2020.

He’s a passionate cartographer, and has been posting about maps since 2010, 2017 being his rise to popularity not withstanding.
I've tried it a few times, but really disliked what it did to my short-term memory. For several days, my short term memory was really hampered.

I also have a former colleague who had a period where he smoked a lot and went through shampoo at a crazy rate, because even after sleeping a good 9 hours, he'd wake up and shower and by the end of his shower be unable to remember if he'd already washed his hair. He's pretty sure he was washing his hair an average of 3 to 4 times per shower.
imo for the 95%-task of get-me-to-this-address i find the apple routing actually superior to gmaps (in germany that is)
Hence my regular ranting about the outsized negative effects marketing has on society. We really should stop accepting "but think of marketing!" as a valid reason to eschew interoperability and standardization. Marketing is ultimately zero-sum, it'll flourish in a constrained playground just as much as it does in an unconstrained one.
Even if its true, I'm sorry, but so what?

Okay, context here. Around 2015, a measle epidemics broke out between switzerland and Eastern France. less than 2000 cases, 12 dead and a bit more than a hundred children disabled (the fever was too hot for the brain and they lost cognitive functions). Unluckily, in a school where barely 60% of children where vaccinated, lived a child who survived leukemia. Chemo was part of her treatment, so she never received a vaccine, not by their parent choice btw. I took care of her during my youth camp concellor days so i know she was very carefull with infections and hygiene. Well, anyway, she died from measles.

I don't care if you don't vaccinate your child, but if you don't, you should have to remove your child from school or club activities the moment an immunodepressed child enter it. Sorry if not vaccinating your child or yourself will deny you from service, i don't care. You have a choice, they don't.