skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author of this blog post states quite clearly that his company already used EKS elsewhere. If all he wanted to do was add a fancy line to his CV, why would he bother with something he already had?

Also, it's silly to just assume that continuing to treat pampered EC2 instances that had to be manually deployed ande cared for is something that benefits a projectsl, specially if the company already shed those bad practices elsewhere.
They are using an app https://countthings.com/

This seems rather a simple task, however, the app is expensive ($100 per month per device) and limited with the templates for things it can count [1].

[1] https://countthings.com/en/counting-templates
And at the same time, MacOS phones home every time you run anything, and logs exactly what you ran, on what you ran it, and where you ran it. Inb4: "This isn't a privacy issue, it's a security feature".
Magic Wormhole has a good implementation in Go. It has windows binary.

https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william

Windows binary: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william/releases/downlo...

There's GUI: https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui

Android app too: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile

The author is on HN as psanford
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Indeed! And where is HN when you need it ;)

I for one will be refreshing this page over the course of this day hoping for an unsung hero to come along, and I shall be upvoting.
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>We had to choose a thumbnail

All examples I tried just take the main image from the article (if it exists).

>We had to generate a summary

Similarly, all I see is, literally, the first sentence of the linked article with some extremely trivial and minor adaptations.

>Design design design

It is literally a photo and a paragraph of text in the default sans-serif font.

I know it's PR but damn.
Who cares who claims what? It's more important to hear the reasons behind the claims. Vitalik makes excellent points about tolerances and safety margins needed in decentralized networks like this. People who call for increasing the key parameters almost never acknowledge the fact that things aren't as simple as what some fast machines can process in ideal conditions.
It's already a thing:

https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william
These are beautiful! And I second the other comment asking how it works. A good candidate for a blog post if you're looking for a more appreciative audience than your coworkers.
While it is down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoonerism.
If you think old, unoptimized, high-human labor business processes exist only in Japan, have I got a bridge to sell to you.
I meant using it as a cacheing layer, yes. Perhaps not the best example, but still!

AWS doesn't care if you try and offload some processing to cheap Hetzner servers; Stripe doesn't care if you offer Paypal as a second option. Apple very much cares about anything you do which might reduce the amount of money routed through the app store.
I'm not sure what he means, as alcohol is very accepted in Vietnam and people there drink a lot.

But (as a fellow from another region where Brits and alcohol mix) he might be talking about asshole drunk tourists behaving badly. That's a common pest everywhere young British tourists come in masses to "have a good time", and the locals don't like them much (even if some locals working in tourism make a buck off them).

Then again, the parent writes about "the number one error made by British business people when travelling" -- and business people don't fit this profile.
Good point, but iOS was a closed system from the get-go and this was seen a drawback of iOS back then. The privacy focused marketing started 3-4 years ago.
It fails because the face is real but the mouth movement is AI. It would need to be perfect otherwise you are in uncanny valley. It reminded me of the talking horse TV shows from years ago.
A good took for non developers. For PMs who are handy with basic SQL, spannr is a good tool to reduce dependency on data analysts. PMs can quickly run all sorts of analysis on the data. Looking forward to extension of the tool for marketers too.
Your comment renders as "Deems to have been sotslashed."
Corsair AXi and HXi series. They even got upstream kernel support: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

Here is my output from lm-sensors

$ sensors
corsairpsu-hid-3-1
Adapter: HID adapter
v_in: 230.00 V
v_out +12v: 12.00 V
v_out +5v: 5.00 V
v_out +3.3v: 3.00 V
psu fan: 0 RPM
vrm temp: +49.0°C
case temp: +40.0°C
power total: 96.00 W
power +12v: 80.00 W
power +5v: 16.00 W
power +3.3v: 8.00 W
curr in: N/A
curr +12v: 6.00 A
curr +5v: 3.00 A
curr +3.3v: 2.00 A
There is zero difference, because closed airspace will ultimately be enforced at the point of a fighter jet.
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That's very cool! I should probably have added to the original comment that in the cases where it's been my role to interview potential candidates for a position, these kind of projects are the first thing I look for. I'd much rather work with people who are fundamentally passionate about what they do.
Moreover, once AWS has sold storage, their duty isn't over. They must provide the compute and traffic. That's why they deserve more rent than Apple.

When someone uses an app downloaded from the App Store, the compute is provided by the device owned and paid for by the user. Apple does not own it or maintain it anymore.

And the compute is either completely provided by the device or is shared by the app vendor.

Apple does not give anything in this scenario. They only take.
There is no shortage of resources to provide for every person who wants to devote their life to discovering something valuable for all of humankind.

We aren't short on food, shelter, clothes, tech, etc - those are all solved problems.

The problem that isn't solved is stupid people sitting in charge of decisions they don't have the brain make-up to comprehend or manage, making pretend they know what they're doing, holding people far superior to them hostage.
Wow, you get this popup on the site :

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My browser is up-to-date, their "download now" link takes you to their own download page with a custom Firefox download. They seem like call center scammer level scum. Wonder why Mozzila is allowing them to use their trademarks like this.
I quite like riding around Oxford on my well-boiled icicle.
75k number was brain washing to convince people that money doesnt matter. Wealth unlocks a completely different life, and yes, you are missing out if you dont have it
> For a company that initially was a searchengine (A9 if i recall right, still being used for the site)

Amazon wasn't initially a search engine. A9 was created in 2004, by Amazon.
>Apple is a hardware company

They definitely consider themselves more than that. They pride themselves in being the farm, to hen, to egg, to plate "lifestyle" service.

Maybe one day they'll start making decent software though.
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> I think in general people severely underestimate how useful seemly unrelated experience or knowledge is.

I'd go as far as saying people who've never done this level of hobby work don't understand the amount and breadth of experience and knowledge one gains this way.

A OS kernel or an assembler for a niche architecture aren't something you just do like another work task. It's not something you half-ass under deadline pressure by gluing together some third party libraries, StackOverflow tips and hastly skimmed documentation. Your boss would never agree to pay you for the amount of time and care that's involved in hobby projects like these. A month of such a project will teach you more about computing than a year on the job[0].

Unfortunately, this kind of experience is hard to keep track of and neatly summarize on your CV. If you tried, you'd end up with a page or three extra, and people would think you're just keyword stuffing, and doing it badly - referencing niche, unmarketable technologies, seemingly related to nothing[1]. These skills are important and very useful, but they don't look like it until you need them[1], and you're unlikely to pick them up on the job, unless there's already someone who had them before joining the company, and is now teaching others. There just isn't time. Taking care, or spending time sharpening the saw[2], is considered time not spent delivering business value.

Since most software companies aren't really training their workforce much, it's kind of dumb to ignore off-work experience - after all, if your company isn't giving people time to skill up, why assume previous companies on a candidate's CV were different?

--

[0] - It might not teach you how to work in a team setting, though. That's what jobs are good at. That, and teaching you what "good enough" is.

[1] - Like, I wouldn't put "Event Tracing for Windows" as a qualification on my resume, even though me being familiar with it saved the company a lot of money they'd otherwise spend on people continuing to fruitlessly chase a heisenbug.

[2] - Or, God forbid, writing tools for yourself.
As a rule, any parasite, invasive bacteria, or virus harms its host, but over time they usually evolve towards exploiting the host more efficiently, which often includes being less harmful.

Among these, viruses integrate quite closely with their host, so viruses that jump into a new species should normally infect less well, but sometimes they infect fine and just harm the host excessively. SARS, MERS, etc.
It wasn't about an affair, or at least, not _just_ about an affair.
If you want to watch a fictional version, the scifi shows Continuum and Dark Matter both portrayed a future where corporations ran the governments or were the governments.
The suggestion is that the incentive was to launder the reality of his life, which appears to be rather worse than you claim.

He - they - could have done plenty if not all of this work without the cult of personality at the centre of it; given their money quietly and without fanfare.

Even if you do good for self-glorification and to remind everyone how awesome you are, reality still gets to bat last and puncture your conceit.
Thanks!

First I'm generating the general geometry of the wings - the most basic shape is a "teardrop" / half of the infinity symbol (see this[0]). Then they are scaled and rotated randomly (within a range to match the other parts of the wings), and further perturbed to make the shape more random. Then I'm drawing lines from the "tip" of the teardrop to the edges and using them to color the segments. The final result is rendered with Three.js[1].

Obviously this is a very succinct explanation, it took me quite some work. You're welcome to look at the code[2], though it's quite messy :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemniscate_of_Gerono

[1] https://threejs.org/

[2] https://github.com/andersource/andersource.github.io/blob/ma...
> Based on its chemical abundance pattern, we speculate that SPLUS J2104−0049 could be a bona fide second-generation star, formed from a gas cloud polluted by a single metal-free ~ 30M⊙ star
I would say the structure of the records themselves can stay, but not the data itself.

If you have a user table, maybe you can just randomly hash the sensitive user data but keep the record.

Not 100% sure about this though, since you could probably derive the user with statistics like: if it's known that 1 person gets a specific disease every 10 years and you have an obfuscated record of a person connected with that disease, it's fairly straightforward to derive who that person is just through that connection.
I truly wonder why people still believe they have any privacy, any right to privacy, or, that they could do anything about it.

Sun Microsystems‘ Scott McNealy was vocal about this already in the late 1990s: „you have no privacy, get over it“

Look, even if you were able to get FAANG et al. to honor privacy, there will always be the one player that does not. Then, the people who write privacy laws have no clue what they are doing. Plus, I’ve seen software professionals copy/pasting encryption algorithms that contain errors from stackoverflow into production code.

It’s time to face reality, this ship has sailed, stop whining, finally start adapting to an environment without privacy: Treat all your data as if they would become public one day.

Use your energy to teach others to be tech literate to understand what this means, how to deal with this and how to behave.
Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, believe it or not!

Instagram has been a big driver of houseplant sales; people see other people showing off their plants and their “shelfies” (plant shelf selfies), in gorgeous glamour photos, and it drives demand of the plants and discussion in the comments. Instagram is also a direct sales channel for Indonesian, Thai, and Sri Lankan growers, who often don’t speak English well but know how to tag the photos of their crops in English, so you can search the hashtags and get daily photos of ready stock. And buyers and sellers then use Google Translate to complete the sales in Instagram messages. I usually reach out to multiple growers in Instagram messages to get their latest price lists, compare them to the latest photos in the feeds, and then do a little arbitrage.

Facebook groups are huge for houseplant geeks. And while FB may have a reputation for older folks, the people in these groups trend much younger, many in their twenties. There are groups divvied up by care tips per specific species, and “BST” (Buy, Sell, Trade) groups that are for commerce but not really discussion, and even regional groups that build up local communities. For example, the Bay Area has BART: Bay Area Rare Tropicals, but also Bay Area Hoya. People post what they’re looking for, and do sales and swaps and even arrange transportation for newly purchased plants (i.e. if you’re going from Livermore to Palo Alto mid-week, can you bring my philodendron). These groups tend to have large and active administrator teams, and tracking reputation within the communities/groups helps cut way down on scammers. If you sell someone a crappy plant, or conversely if you waste a seller’s time and flake out on your purchase, word will get around.

Finally, there is some seriously great plant content on YouTube. Detailed how-to videos, propagation experiments, tours of rare plant nurseries and stores, and many people use that content to drive traffic to their own store or to promote their favorite stores. Rare plant unboxing videos are a whole genre! And they’re extra suspenseful because a decent number of wholesale deliveries from overseas do arrive dead.

Outside of those three, Etsy has become a major sales channel for rare houseplant sales. And just so we’re clear, rare houseplants can go for hundreds of dollars. Price inflation isn’t just for lumber, it’s philodendrons, too.
>Also, Apple will claim they have a better product that warrants higher margins.

And this argument is fine in the hardware market because they have competition, it's efficiency monopoly - that's why I said it's not always bad.

However their app store controlls access to 50% of US market (even more by revenue) simply because it comes as the only option and the consumers can't unbundle it. If they had competition on the platform (different stores/distribution methods) - you wouldn't have to say what % is right, the market would decide the value added by their app store/payment methods.
Operating a few dozen sats decades ago is very different experience from operating a thousand at once today
>This is who I say I am. This is who I strive to be. This is who I work to be. And it’s great.

Great? Sounds like anal-retentive buying into all kinds of cargo-cult (from self-help gurus, quantified self, nutrition "experts" etc.), micro-measuring your life, and playing macho.

Guess what, in the end you'll die too, and having enjoyed little in the process.

And all this weakness worrying points rather to some not treated personal issues from the author's past.
Related is the common misconception that the well-known tech companies, corporations and startups alike, are part of that same "nerd" scene you mention. They aren't. They're just another flavor of business, and the people running them are just businessmen.
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Wow, this is such a simple application of ML and it is incredibly valuable. On their website, they charge $100/month per device or $1000/year per device [0] and I bet they're making a killing.

[0] https://countthings.com/en/
That's funny, I had the inverse interaction of someone telling me all theh wanted to do was be useful and I just could not relate. Like you, I do it because I like it.
Thank you, I thought of writing one, this might give me the motivation to finally do it!
SJ?
And a lot of practiced medicine, unfortunately, still is.
I would not be surprised if this trick was meant for early encapsulated foil capacitors. These were encapsulated in various semi-natural resins of not exactly known or repeatable properties (usually the intention was that the resin is hygroscopic, but often it was also porous and prone to cracking with aging).

Edit: then there is “RIFA plague”, which shows that you can get same issue even with better engineered encapsulation material.
They don't even mean elements, but spectral lines that correspond to elements if their spectrum was observed on Earth.
Steve Jobs. Not sure why the abbreviation was necessary though.
Take your vitamin D pills, people.
That's quite a lot of code! I wasn't expecting to see a linear interpellation function, but that would explain how smooth it looks.
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>extremely trivial and minor adaptations

The article goes into why this wasn't as simple as it seems.
> Having additional marketplaces available for me doesn't affect you.

The comment you said this in reply to talked about how it affects _everyone_ both using the platform and developing for the platform.
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Software like this shouldn't need to be constantly updated. Users should only update full node software when they understand and trust the changes made from their current version. Of course tons of people can't be bothered or don't know how to evaluate the security of their software. Hopefully those people are good judges of character.

I agree, updating full node software is a problem for normal users. However, if we can develop a core set of first layer software that's stable enough, it could go many years without needing an update. And individual users may only need to update some of those times. So at least the burden could be arbitrarily low. But we certainly shouldn't have set-and-forget auto updating software - that would be a huge security flaw.
This is for iOS developers, maybe change the title?
Couldn't agree more with this.

There is a lot of sentiment on HN about how you should be making a side business or selling your own stuff or being your own boss or getting your first 100 paying customers or your $xxxxx MRR or whatever.

That is all fine, but I think that line of thought can be a little bit toxic at times: you don't have to be continually hustling for the next dollar all the time - it is ok to do stuff simply for the joy of it.
croc shouldn't be used if you want security:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27054885

[2] https://twitter.com/Sc00bzT/status/1396199915638992896

Magic Wormhole has a good implementation in Go, which is compatible with the original Python implementation (croc is not compatible with magic wormhole). It has windows binary and binaries for most of the popular OS.

https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william

Binaries: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william/releases

There's GUI: https://github.com/Jacalz/wormhole-gui

Android app too: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile

Support for resuming transfers is planned I think.
It's the one bug involved in a huge outrage and a statement from the CEO. It's the one bug that they announced publicly that they fixed, despite absolutely knowing that they didn't. So yeah, just one bug.

(Nothing against this PM, btw. But what a bunch of incompetence from the CEO)
I've found it is cultural and more nuanced. IT can mean a lot of things too, many of which are not related to writing software. And if internally developed software is not adding a competitive advantage, should it really be internally developed?

If genuine enthusiasm really is lethal, it sounds like a toxic work environment.
To counter other’s points on pricing - in the end it’s a question of utility vs price. 1k$ per year to cut time to count by 80% may be a great deal to many.
There is some amount of value in the custom made stuff (as in your own design/idea). It is hard and skilled work to craft metal so fine. But otherwise agreed. The culture of absurd spending for marriage needs to end as well. That money could go towards a house which will provide a lot more happiness in your life.
Lua is great, too bad about the array count tho.
In Tunisia, when learning English in high-school,we were taught about the amazing Bill Gates when learning about biographies.

I'm not sure how many other countries are indoctrinating their children to see him in a good light.

PS: not saying he paid for it.
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This seller hired people in US to buy their products then leave 5 stars reviews, they refund + bonus ($10-30) via paypal.
For Bitcoin, Stratum v2 will solve this problem and return block creation power to the miners instead of the handful of large pool operators, which will be a huge win. However, even then, miners are beholden to the actively spending economic majority.
> Few things are farther away from day-to-day programming that a white-board problem, but kernel development might just be one of them.

This is true. I'd counter that though by saying that I don't think there's any other project that's taught me more about the nature of what we do as programmers than Operating-System development, even just the little I've done. In order to build even the most basic, non-functional toy kernels you need to gather a comprehensive, holistic view of how compilers, operating systems, and computer hardware interact.
> For example, an actor applying for a role in a commercial might cite their side role in doing a theatrical production of hamlet for their community, but the interviewers (an advertising production agency) might only want to care how much professional experience they have shooting commercials.

Does it work like this? I guess it depends on the point in actor's career. If they're 10+ years into commercial acting, then community theare might not be relevant, but at the start of one's career, it seems to me to be highly relevant. At the very least, it demonstrates the person knows the basics of acting, can follow the script, and has experience dealing with the support structure (director, sound/lighting technicians, etc.). This isn't fundamentally different from what they'll face when shooting a commercial.

Also: at least over here in Poland, most film actors come from classical theatre background, they study in theatrical schools. Any kind of theatrical background is highly relevant.
Where does someone in their early 20s get the capital to just up and start multiple ice cream shop locations, and simultaneously find the time to work on an array of random software "projects/ideas"?

This whole thread seems really fishy.

The theme of an entire thread discussing building and selling businesses like it's just something you can choose to do in your free time or not ...
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