skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that there's no scientific or engineering achievement here and that this ride is essentially joyriding.

I disagree that we should deride rich people for spending money the way they want. I splurge on things sometimes as well. Unlike a lot of modern social media, I don't think there's anything inherently immoral about being wealthy.

If someone has an argument about what these specific people did that was specifically immoral to achieve their wealth, then they should call that out specifically and suggest a systemic change.

I find the mindless rich-people-hate to be nothing more than juvenile hate.
The Middle Path was "folksonomies".
I'm all for not using Kubernetes (or any other tech) just because, but seeing their website giving 500.. I can't help but feel all the k8s' laughter. :(

Google Cache doesn't work either https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YECd_I...

Luckily there's an Internet Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20210720134229/https://ably.com/...
That's not really true. Running a service and orchestrating a fleet of services are two entirely separate problems. The orchestration requirements for many workloads are different than what k8s provides.

If your orchestration needs aren't "use every last % of server capacity" you might not need k8s.
OR....bear with me for a minute...they could have strong opinions about how something should be done, and if a company is not doing it that way it might be a warning sign.

If a company says they don't use any modern JS framework and stick to JQuery, I'd be out before they even explain why. Not because I want to be hip and further my own resume but because I'd hate my job if I worked there.
That doesn't seem like the only possible reason, another one could be that it appeared the company was anti-k8s for the sake of being anti-k8s. I would walk away from a company that I felt was proud of not using the right tool for a job.

p.s. Not claiming it was the right tool for the job in this case, it would all depend on context.
Nikola red flags for you! (all algorithmic)

1. "For example, in September 2020, our founder and former executive chairman, Trevor R. Milton, stepped down from his positions with us."

2. "During the fourth quarter of 2020, the Company ceased operations related to the Powersports business unit in order to focus on the Company's primary mission of commercial production of semi-trucks and construction of hydrogen fueling stations."

3. "As of December 31, 2020, we have $46.3 million of prepaid in-kind advisory services remaining which is expected to be consumed in 2021 and will be recorded as research and development expense until we reach commercial production."
Yes!

My homelab, admittedly low complexity, uses a NAS device that powers on at a scheduled time, mounts the shares it needs to, runs the 'pull' backup, unmounts, and powers itself off.

The intention being that, in the event of intrusion, it's presence and accessibility are limited to the window of time in which it's performing the backup.

Additionally to that, a rotating set of removable HDDs as backups of backups that also get spread off-site amongst family members houses.

I really should go into offering backup solutions to local small business...
As someone working in a place where we did the same (and it was mainly my idea), I beg to differ. You don't have to learn/cope with all the new low level k8s plumbing, especially pre-EKS. Just plain old EC2, in an immutable fashion, just using docker as your package manager instead of baking a RPM or DEB.
ANd even with the advent of EKS in AWS there are still a lot of overlapping functionalities and new failure modes (HPA and its metrics/limited rules WRT EC2 ASG rules, coreDNS etc).
I totally get execution vs ideas thing, but this I actually still get worried about sometimes. I hang around circles where there a people who definitely CAN execute better with the same idea, especially when my prototype is still in the super early stage. I'm not actually sure if this is just because of imaturity/lack of experience or if it's a valid concern, not sure about what others take are on this
> Not the case for me

Fair enough. I did say "most criticisms I've seen".

> 100% your opinion

That may or may not be the case. It's not what I'm arguing about though. I'm saying it doesn't match the meat of the debate I have seen.

When you said "not the case for me", that's definitely a relevant data point. The rest of this thread is not.
Couldn't agree more with this article. At last, someone say it loud
That's interesting. Most of the AA people I know are middle class, and perhaps that leads to substantially different outcomes.

For them, they view the alcohol itself as their biggest problem, but are otherwise safe. They've often severely messed up their support systems but aren't completely devoid of friends and family.

They portray AA as the absolute last ditch: if you have any other way to quit, do that. You go to AA when you're desperate and nothing else works.

That would leave you incredibly vulnerable and prone to predation, especially if you're poor. For the people I know, it makes them emotionally precarious but have at least some resources for getting the rest of their lives back together. It would be incredibly easy to take advantage of them, and I'm sure in some places it happens. (AA varies a lot from meeting to meeting.)

Still, this is a much more fortunate set of people than the ones you're talking about. I hope they find something. I know people for whom it has worked when nothing else did, but it's no guarantee.
The piss races like we use x or we don't use y in engineering sound hilarious for some reason. such discussions focus on the process, but few talk about the results ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Crazy.

Agree with everything, although I would say at least in Soto 45 mins seems to be the maximum for one period during sessin, and 15 of that will be kinhin (walking meditation), I tend to do about an hour a day in two sessions, but any longer and there isn’t really any reward.

Drugs are a hard no, I mean do them all you want but don’t combine the two.
Read this as 'sit down'.
If you’re in a bad financial place, $100/mo means keeping your car insurance current.

Being able to make some money with a self-defined schedule is appealing, and the idea of selling your own porn probably starts out as a thrill.

Like anything else, any job turns into a grind. A gig where you’re essentially a circus animal performing sex acts for a crowd probably becomes fairly numbing.
Don't forget internal pressure.

A lot of people will say "Unless you opensource my work and that of my colleagues, I quit".

When faced with all your best people threatening to quit, you might just opensource that work. It turns out you still have an advantage by being ~1 year ahead on applying it to anything, and having all the people who know how it works on your staff.
in-kind services is always a red flag because it's easy to fudge the accounting
Just because some places are worse doesn't mean we should excuse Germany. Trains should be within 5 seconds every single time. With dedicated infrastructure and absolute priority this isn't hard. (I'll make an exception only if the wind is faster than 200km/h, or earthquakes - every other weather event should be normal and designed out - the exact wind speed can be debated of course). It goes without saying that collisions are not acceptable.
Entrepreneur Raised $53M to Fuel Easier Connectivity Across Applications
It's usually a WordPress/Joomla/Magento website that can do 1-5 requests/second at most.

EDIT: I'm not saying these softwares can't do more, it's just that usually on most default configurations, people don't bother to use a CDN, optimize the database, use a caching plugin, etc. They just install it, then install another 39 plugins and then ask why everything is slow. It's very common to see WordPress websites failing under load (and I've helped many to optimize their installs so I know it's possible, it's just not what the average WordPress install looks like).
Paper link: http://curtclifton.net/papers/MoseleyMarks06a.pdf
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If you shoot someone accidentally, that might be a firearm accident. If you shoot someone intending to kill them, that might be murder.

The term accident doesn’t necessarily imply “normal”, but rather “no intent”.

9/11 would not qualify as an accident because the intent of the hijackers was to crash the plane.

You say car crashes are treated differently but your examples imply the opposite! That car crashes are treated identically to other mishaps which are classed as accidental or not by the intent of the actor(s).
> To move to Kubernetes, an organization needs a full engineering team just to keep the Kubernetes clusters running

Perhaps my team runs a simpler cluster, but we have been running a Kubernetes cluster for 2+ years as a team of 2 and it has been nothing less than worth it

The way the author describes the costs of moving to Kubernetes makes me think that they don't have the experience with Kubernetes to actually realize the major benefits over the initial costs
So, the trouble is that meditation as a practice, was always embedded into a larger sense of spirit/community/whatever.

The popularity of MBSR broke that largely, and now lots of people start meditating with the notion that it's just mental exercise (which it is, sortof) and are very unprepared for some of the negative side-effects (which are normally parts of the mind that your consciousness doesn't want to accept).
> Such an arrogant comment.

It's not an arrogant comment, it's common sense. It's much better not to do dumb things than to do dumb things and then try to fix it. Yes, it's good to fix one's mistakes, but that doesn't mean we should be celebrating those mistakes.

It reminds me of George W. Bush bragging about the success of the "surge" many years into the Iraq war, and I remember thinking, "What a man-child, this guy wants a prize for making a disastrous decision that a bunch of people specifically warned him not to make, and then taking steps to make it slightly less of a hot mess".
Funny, I just emailed a link to a Smithsonian article about the Russian Revolution and switched Palace Coup to Callous Poo. Silly fun.
I mean sure, that can be a case, but I for instance am bored of companies who waste enormous resources to reinvent public cloud offerings with their own version written in Bash/Python/Terraform etc. that constantly has to be maintained/debugged/documented and worked around.

So maybe if people hear, hey our infrastructure is running on some 10 year old Frankenstein cobbled together from Docker and Virtual Machines and AWS and on premise servers they just pass.
By way of Alon Levy's blog (although original credit goes to a Twitter user), here's the TGV overlaid on the Midwest: https://twitter.com/Artifact_Scott/status/137770286794400973...

The major Midwestern cities are remarkably close in distance from Chicago as major French cities are from Paris, and in terms of population counts, the US has consistently larger cities.
> Is faith in the effectiveness of the Eightfold Path, the Buddha, and the Sangha all that different from Christian faith in God

Unlike the Christian G-d, the Buddha does not judge, does not punish, does not forgive and has not died in tortures for your sins, this way enabling priests demand you feel guilty. AFAIK the Buddha taught you should pursue the Eightfold Path as a tool to attain your ultimate goal, not as a law breaking which is evil and a subject to punishment.

> Buddhism as it's actually practiced in parts of Asia has many magical, "superstitious" components, like believing that a red string connected to a statue of the Buddha can transfer magical power from the Buddha to what the string is tied to. Believers pray to Buddha all the time for protection, luck, or even wealth. Some Buddhists believe in magical effects from tattoos made by Buddhist monks or that a Buddhist funeral would bring an auspicious rebirth.

> There's been a concerted, conscious effort to desacralize Buddhism to make it more palatable to Westerners, but if you look at how Buddhism is actually practiced in the places where it came from before it got to the West it's pretty clear that it's a religion.

Some times I contemplate what a blessing it is we have been born in the west and given highest monastic kinds of Buddhism right away instead of being born in a Buddhist country where only (mostly) monks can pursue enlightenment and the laymen only know worship and magick. I know a monk would probably laugh at this and tell I don't understand the point and I believe I know why, nevertheless I won't deny such an idea visits me occasionally.
Nation state R&D -> billionare's pet-project PoC -> wealthy bigco Commercialisation effort -> Commercial service (for wealthy/business) -> Commercial service (for normal public) -> hobbyists & higher education
That and customers don't seem to care about bugs either. We have reached the point where buggy, glitchy software is considered the norm.
Docker Engine is not a scheduler. It’s a container runtime. It doesn’t have visibility over all your VMs, networking etc.
I currently don't do any indexing for general search (though I do index the figures, references and equations when the book is first opened). But I do plan to index more things (like the definitions you mentioned) in the future.

I think current search performance is better than other PDF viewers though (sub-second on a 500 page PDF on my 6700K CPU).
The problem there is belief, not the psychedelics. It can happen with happy or blissful experiences as well.
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I met a dowser as a teenager on a school trip. He gave us pairs of L-shaped metal rods held loosely in plastic holders. We walked round an ancient stone circle. Every so often the rods would just swing sideways to face left and right. He said those were the ley lines. I was quite impressed. Anyone want to debunk this?
Yea, or at least something different than what they’re using…

You gotta admit, it’s a pretty bad look to come here with a boldly titled systems architecture blog post and have your website crash…

A junior web developer nowadays can easily build a system to serve static content that avoids all but the worst hugs of death.

If this wasn’t a hug of death then you have service availability issues, regardless…
that's a good point, i think orbit was the minimum planned for Falcon1. I don't believe SpaceX every just went to the karman line and back. I think all of their flights have been either crashes or fully orbital.
Yes, water dowsing is bullshit, and that has broad consensus. So, the author uses that to basically make the argument that journalism should no longer be objective (the current prevailing trend amongst journalists, it seems), and to report only the "truth" that the reporter believes in. This is why "journalism" is crap nowadays, and why so many people have lost faith in it. Because, writing about Covid's possible lab leak, or wondering about the new vaccines are really similar to writing about water dowsing, right?

It's classic Strawman arguing (and even has a Trump reference for a bonus point).
To others wondering what this company does:

> Ably is a Pub/Sub messaging platform that companies can use to develop realtime features in their products.

At this time, https://status.ably.com/ is reporting all green.

Althought their entire website is returning 500 errors, including the blog.

It is very hard not to point the irony of the situation.

In general I would not be so critic, but this is a company claiming to run highly available, mission critical distributed computing systems. Yet, they publish a popular blog article and it brings down their enire web presence?
I guess that a default, basic WordPress install with no optimization cannot handle the HN hug of death, even in 2021
Indeed. But in the article he mentioned that they have other tools for doing that kind of stuff.
As I’ve been working on my first novel since 2016… I agree completely. An idea isn’t much without the effort backing it up.
The really fun NDAs are the ones where the idea is slightly novel but just a twist on existing techs. Go in and start asking pointed questions on exactly how this or that works and they seem shocked you would know. "its in the docs". One guy had lifted verbatim paragraphs of algs out of a book that I had just read a year earlier.
Yeah I can't read the article, but as an applicant this would immediately trigger a yellow flag. If the CTO/director/whoever decided can justify it as a unique differentiator then maybe it's fine and it's a cost of doing business. If they just don't want to deal with k8s because they like their home grown thing, it's going to be a drag on the company long-term to maintain.
> I don't think training on copyrighted code violates copyright

It might not be illegal, but for a lot of us it feels unethical. IMO licenses should list what they allow versus what they forbid. In other words, if something isn’t explicitly allowed it should be assumed to be forbidden.

We need similar protections for personal data too. Tech companies have gotten too used to ingesting data and profiting from it without asking for consent. I’m willing to bet that had GitHub asked repo owners whether GH could use their work to train a new product, most would have said no, much like what happened when Apple asked iOS users if they were ok with Facebook tracking them.
So then we're in a situation where people are arguing that deflationary cryptocurrencies won't work, because the deflationary gold standard didn't work, when in fact the gold standard was inflationary and worked.
>"Executed well" could just be a matter of recognizing "right now we need to get these features out the door". How / when ... who knows how you figure that out.

Product-market fit and feature velocity is like 50+% of the execution advantage of startups.
Jeez this was hard to read with the annoying scrolling
> I write my ideas down, even the ones that I see not financial value in

What has the world come to that you need to make this disclaimer.
>Lebanon used to be more democratic.

Lebanon used to be a state. More democratic? Perhaps.

>What happened to Mossadegh?

One of the first things Mossadegh did was to suspend elections because the opposition was winning too much.
In this case, its appears to be their main web-page as well.
I used to run WordPress site on $5 vps. It could easily handle 100-500 request per second, the trick was to have a caching plugin.
You could be right, I will read up on that. But again, you are pointing to a very specific point in history, that was an exception to the rule.
Another reason could be that whoever wants to run it will very likely run it in the cloud, and there's a chance they'd run it in the Google Cloud. A machine similar to the one they mention on the alphafold github page (12 vCPU, 1 GPU, 85 GB) costs you between $1 and $4/hour.
It's ironic they're preaching technical excellence from their high horse, yet their website is returning errors and the status page incorrectly shows everything is working as expected.
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Here's an opinion: the world would be a better place if copyrights (on creative works and similar, including texts) lasted for several years and exclusive rights would not be transferrable.
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Former game designer and former student of Donald Norman.. have to upvote this. I did an internship with Donald Norman in college as part of my major, just because it was a requirement. I was working in a lab at the time and I thought I would get a PhD.

Fast forward five years later when unexpectedly I became a game designer-- everything I learned in that class was gold.
That was about secession, though, not misbehavior. In fact, arguably it proves the point; after the US civil war there was a period of 'reconstruction', which largely failed, and then the southern states carried on doing pretty much whatever they felt like for the next century.

EDIT: As mentioned below, desire to misbehave was certainly at the root of the secession, but in practice even after the war was won the federal government wasn't able to impose its will particularly effectively.
The problem becomes, by what standard do we judge misinformation?

I'm sure most people would be against presenting dousing as a legitimate belief, but it's all on a sliding scale. How many people would balk at authoritatively declaring astrology nonsense? And soon you're on the mainstream religions, where the vast majority see nothing objectionable in making provably nonsensical claims about the nature of reality.

Fact checking works as long as there is no widespread societal investment in the outcome, would be my cynical take. I don't see a workable alternative to letting everyone spread whatever they like and rely on a resilient immune response in the form of education and critical thinking.
I'm actually curious as to how big of an issue this actually is. HN is a relatively niche site. Do we actually have the power to take down a blog of a tech company?
Obligatory Japan Rail Maglev mention, the present plan for the Chuo shinkansen (bullet train) maglev is for 500 km/h in passenger service, though it's already been tested at speeds over 600 km/h. This train will eventually connect Tokyo to Osaka with service taking a little more than an hour, compared to the present 2.5 hours on the fastest traditional shinkansen service.

The original goal was to have the maglev in service by 2027, but they're presently negotiating routing through an area in shizuoka that would need to go under a river that seems to be causing some contention.

I don't doubt that China can get their project built faster due to differences in how such projects are executed there. The maglev project in Japan has been in planning for decades, and under construction for about a decade.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%A%C5%8D_Shinkansen

Japan does have a commercial maglev service already, having built one for Expo 2005 in Nagoya. I've been on it, it's kind of neat, but it's quite slow and doesn't have the grand air of futurism a super-fast maglev does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linimo

Here's hoping for some progress in room temp superconductors, so that these projects are more feasible!
I feel like everything these days is "optimized" for mobile sites. When viewing on a desktop they all look horrible.
I agree with what you're saying but WASM is just way more difficult to reverse engineer. Also if WASM becomes the standard, everyone will have binary blobs running in their browser at every web page by default. At least now its only for web apps which are intentionally obfuscated/minified/transpiled/whatever...
I dislike Wordpress as much as the next guy but a modest WP site with a cache or a free tier CDN in front could eat that kind of traffic for breakfast…
Some dude said that they shorted amazon hoping Jeffy B would die. Looks like the bet didn't pay off!