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Ask HN: What are the best tools for setting up a local RPi cluster?
I have an on-going personal project to host an off-grid server from my van. I have a few Raspberry Pis that I'm going to use, and as it stands I've assembled two of them into a K3s cluster.

My reasoning behind using Kubernetes is that I want something that supervises the server and makes sure everything stays healthy, and I also want to stay familiar with modern technology. In addition, I'd like to make it as easy as possible to add more computing power to the setup and I've found K3s tools that seem to do a good job of that.

My main question is: Am I over-engineering this setup? If so, what should I be using instead? If not, are there any tips and tricks that people have to make the most of this kind of setup? I know I'm not the first person to set up a home server on RPis, but I imagine most people aren't trying to take it off-grid for extended periods.
We used to refer to these things as press release politics. There is no goal to enforce any rule or punish anyone, they are designed for those on the political side to say, see, look how hard we are working for you, then the business consents to some minor thing with zero punishment and gets to say, see, we worked with the people in politics and we have all made things better.

You can see this see this at all levels of politics and business.
The requirements for sensors is different than displays. I guess I was asking why the non-rectangular displays didn't have more blue than green or red as that would improve perceived resolution more.
This is commonly called the 'Paradoxical Reaction' and is pretty well documented, not just for stimulants. Antihistamines, for example, may cause drowsiness in neurotypicals but increased agitation & activity in ADHD. Per my ADHD sister, she's supposed to inform her anesthesiologist of this prior to any surgeries because there's similar complications with some anesthesia.
>So, apparently the best opening salvo is to take out USA comms satellites and that essentially cripples American offensive capabilities. Modern tomahawks are heavily reliant on comms networks to hit long-range ground targets.

No they aren't. They were designed with the assumption that GPS wouldn't be available and instead will rely on terrain tracking.

>Plus, any destroyer launching these at targets deep in Chinese territory will be within range of Chinese missiles. And, as we saw in Syria, Russian air defense systems are pretty effective against Tomahawks, and we should expect Chinese systems to be at least as effective.

What are you talking about? We had satellite imagery with holes in the ground that disproved the Russian claims that they shot down most of it.

Nothing you said is factual.
Ops is just one letter away from Oops.

Now, seriously, I find the various Ops way of seeing things refreshing. Usually it's just a repackaging of old ideas, but hey, half of infrastructure is packaging. So go for it.

If I get to avoid urgent work to make room for important work and the company has my back cause we are implementing "DecisionOps". That is fine.
> GitHub Actions aren't focused on CI, so they are much more useful.

Compared to what? ie.. Jenkins, CircleCI, Gitlab's CI/CD...none of them are "focused on CI", and can more or less do anything you want them to. I'm not trying to be argumentative, but I'm having trouble thinking of a CI/CD system that is more(or less) focused on CI than Github actions is - do you have some examples?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insigh...

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208351
Except for getting subcomponents and today ics are the crucial thing. What do you bomb first, the ic manufacturing of the other side? Or take it away by force (like Taiwan's).
The problem is, if the feedback signal is too slow in getting back to the thing which measure error (i.e. too much phase lag), then negative feedback can turn into positive feedback and this leads to an instability.

One of the most complex pieces of the semiconductor fab is the building itself. Even with plans and permits in hand, it takes years to make one that can output at reason throughput and yield.

This report is from 1999 and it hasn't gotten easier.

https://www.imia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Construction...

"Typically the product life of a semiconductor chip (nine to 12 months) is less than the time required to construct the facility and install the equipment for manufacturing (24 to 36 months). As such, the construction/commissioning process is a rapid, constantly overlapping and complex set of events. In addition, construction of semiconductor facilities is very complex and costly (about USD 1.2 to 1.5 billion) due to the extraordinarily sophisticated processes and equipment required to manufacture semiconductor chips."
The problem is that those numbers apply to articles that have already been written. Such small discrepancy could easily be explained by other things, such as editors writing new articles with their own bias. If you then apply even objective criteria to those articles and end up with deleting a larger portion of some group, I don't see how you can claim that the deleting classifier is biased without knowing what was deleted.
This is not accurate. Although I don't own a car, my neighbors do and there is enough space left for visitors.

You don't need a license for every change to your house. For a tree, depends on the tree.
You sure this sweet machine is not going to waste?
Do you have access to this webpage?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests
Tin-foil hat time: Who's to say that they could stand up to them before this system? The system itself could have been proposed by the CCP in the first place. I'll take my hat off now.
And citing out of print inaccessible paper journals is not regarded as evidence. (Apparently)

Again I provided diagrams explaining how a piece of scientific equipment work in detail and this was disregarded because I didn't attach a link from some news outlet.

This is just brain damagingly stupid.
Iranian water concerns aside, I wonder how much of Iran's decision-making in this situation is tied with Iran's fixation on keeping Iraq in check / within Iran's political sphere.
Right, simple minerals such as calcium can make a big difference in final taste of a beer. The excess calcium in waters of karst country (big limestone deposits) is said to have a huge effect on German beers historically, and I'd imagine some of that extends into France as well.

Distilled water minimizes variables of course, but it by itself indeed very non-historic.
I have no strong experience in databases and I am curious, what do you think are the pros and cons of writing a database in Python?
How many subcomponents do they have on hand, especially cpus? I bet not many.
I don't understand this worldview. I guess appreciating art or music, or bullshitting with friends, or just enjoying some time off with a beer and a movie is lumped into the evils of consumption?

And by replacing all of this filthy filthy idleness with endless creation just to be creating, we... achieve enlightenment?

I guess it seems like this author is driving himself to write and write not so much because he loves it or loves books or anything, but more out of a drive to discipline himself into working constantly
I want to print and frame this comment.
How would anyone from that time know that this was from space? I assume he had it for this reason, but how would he even know that?
Windows works better on custom PC's than linux thats for sure.
Well that's just rude.
> They avoid forms of income, like wages, that are taxed at a high rate, 37%, and instead make most of their money via capital gains and dividends from investments, most of which is taxed at 20%

> Large charitable donations reduce taxable income.

So they reduce income by having investments and donating money. Sounds pretty nefarious.

> But now add payroll taxes. The worker paid a bit more than $3,400 directly over the course of the year; in addition, the worker’s employer paid an equivalent amount as their share of the worker’s Social Security and Medicare taxes. Government agencies and most economists typically count both contributions — a total of nearly $6,900 in this instance — as a tax that is effectively borne by workers since it’s part of the cost of paying their wages. The logic is that employers consider those costs when hiring and would hire fewer people or pay them less because of the tax burden.

> All in, our worker paid $10,700 in taxes. Taken as a percentage of the worker’s full compensation (including a typical health plan), this comes out to a rate of 19%.

Riiight.. if you include money which they aren't actually paying, then they are paying more.
Definitely, at that point in time there was no such thing as a 486SX, and the 486 was very new. The typical economically pried home desktop PC would be something more like a 386SX/20.
Ask HN: The dark side of “cool” companies?
I have been looking for a job (as a software engineer) in the last weeks and almost all the companies out there try to differentiate from others by highlighting their "culture" (some call them their "principles", and others call it "how we work"). This is all fine, until you actually read what their "culture" is about. I'll post a summary here of what I have found on the internet:

- "We get shit done and move fast! Once you get used to our pace, you won't want to go back! Sometimes we break things. No problem! We take ownership, fix things, and move on". How I read it: we care little about well-crafted software because we are in a rush; we want to push features live faster than our competitors.

- "We are not the traditional 9 to 5. We own our products and if they break anytime we are there to help because we care about our customers". How I read it: goodbye work-life balance.

- "Unlimited vacation". How I read it: you are taking away my N days of vacation given by law.

- "We are all owners. You build it, you ship it, you maintain it". How I read it: you take extra responsibility (and need to know ton more of skills besides the regular ones) but we pay you the same, you get no bonus or anything if the company goes well. I want to work as a "Senior Software Engineer" not as a "Senior Owner Software Engineer".

- "We love hackathons!". How I read it: I will have to work on something I don't really care about from Friday to Saturday twice a year, eating pizza for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

And much more similar stuff. These companies publish all of the above on their websites. They think they are cool because they offer free fruits and drinks and you can play videogames after working hours and they have cool pets, and they organize parties... I just really don't get how all these minutiae can compete with the horrors listed above. I just want a normal job: I'll do my best 9-5, I'll be honest and bring good practices while sharping my skills as much as I can. Is my mentality outdated already? If so, man, this is so sad.
> These companies are now too big to fail

I'm not sure why you would think that, and I don't think anything you explained supports that. I'm also not sure it makes any sense at all when applied to Facebook.

Facebook is not going to "fail" over a weekend like Bear Stearns. If it dies, it will be a slow hemorrhaging death, and there will be plenty of time for employees and investors to deal with it. Even if a law were to be passed tomorrow saying they couldn't collect and monetize non-provided personal information and that they couldn't advertise to uses, there would still be a year or two of them wildly trying to pivot, not a collapse over a few days, and the effect on the wider ecosystem of tech wouldn't be all that important.

Saving major financial institutions because they were too bug to fail was not just because they were big, but because the finance sector is all intricately connections, and if a large enough player collapses the cascading effects of missing money could have a very outsized effect and drag the economy down. Facebook? Nobody would really care. A competitor or new alternative would absorb the users fairly quickly. The only thing of value that would be lost, and probably not even that, is the list of people you're friends with.

Honestly, Google might not be much more important, other that they just employ way more people. Probably not Apple either (having to switch to Android/Window is an inconvenience, not a major life change). Amazon would actually have a big effect though. The amount they've integrated themselves into the supply chain for normal people and how many people sell on it would cause major disruptions if it were to disappear within a year or two. Or maybe not, I'm sure Walmart would love for you to use them instead, or Alibaba. Nothing says the American company has to be the preferred one for Americans.
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AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon MemoryDB for Redis
Yeah I'm with you on the 7am thing. I think sometimes you just had to admit that maybe the time doesn't work for you even though you want it to. I can't run without having been awake for at least one hour and being fairly well hydrated etc and I rarely get out of bed before 0630 so I tend to run after the nursery / school drop off.

WFH helps here as I can drop kids off and then run, shower and be at my desk for 0900. I'd run at lunchtime at work otherwise if it wasn't for WFH but this also makes it easier.
Yep. North and south Georgia (the state) get into fights over damming every time there's a drought.

And this one between Georgia, Alabama, and Florida is ongoing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-state_water_dispute
This is Canada. We ain’t going to run out of food.

The funny thing about a centrally-planned dairy system is that it takes very little disruption to destabilize it.
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2621829233/?eBP=CwEAAAF7X...
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2673582026/?eBP=CwEAAAF7X...
This is a huge hurdle. There is actually some chip/silicon fab sites that never left (only scaled down considerably from their peak). A family member has worked at one for many years as an engineer/manager. When he tells me stories about the insane complexity of their process engineering it really hits home. Impurities at the nanometer scale can ruin 10 million dollar batches of silicon. Nasty chemicals are piped everywhere at the plant - the kind that explode if touching oxygen in the atmosphere or acids that dissolve bone before they noticeably affect your skin.

Running such a production is difficult.
I don't think I'm able to identify a blog post that truly had a major impact on my life, but the first thing that comes to mind was this really beautifully written piece about the life of a text message.

Original:
https://scottbot.net/the-route-of-a-text-message/

VICE article for prettier version:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/kzdn8n/the-route-of-a-text-m...
Yeah when I get done with my day, the last thing I care about is the OS I use. The hilarious thing is I've getting downvoted for my previous comment about Linux. So many HN people live in a bubble. Windows works. Period. It also has all the software on it as well. So might as well not fight an uphill battle just because I like to use / instead \.
We just have a limited amount of time on earth. Don't kill yourself at work. Money exists to be spent. your health is your most precious asset.

https://todaypurpose.com/posts/time-money-health/
I have spent plenty of time tuning up NeoVim and I really enjoy the text editing experience, but the IDE-like experience is still so, so far from the out-of-the box capabilities of a JetBrains product:

* visual debugging - cli debugging could simply never come close, not matter how much you love using a keyboard over a mouse

* hyper-powerful refactoring, well beyond what any of these language server plugins currently provide: rename file and have all imports corrected, extract class or function to different file and again have all imports corrected, etc.

* Out of the box using the interpreter or compiler from the docker-compose stack - everyone on the team instantly has an identical development environment

* Attaching the visual debugger to your app running in a docker-compose stack

The list goes on and on.

I would love to feel like the "real developer" trope by using only the terminal tools stitched together by endless config and scripts and whatnot, but the hit to productivity is impossible to justify.

I just want to build software.
That would be a valid justification in general, but I'm curious in this particular case. Was this an infringement of another encyclopedia? Perhaps that publication could have been identified in the deletion note? Maybe even cited in the page itself? Basic facts about a human (birthdate, alma mater, publications, etc.) are not subject to copyright anyway, so a long flowery essay about the scientist could have been edited to the bare essentials. However, I suspect no such long flowery essay actually existed in 2014. After all, Strickland was a woman who hadn't won the Nobel.

Of course these questions are unanswerable due to the specific type of the deletion. Curious.
The latency on this should actually be better than video calls.

Since all the character assets are downloaded locally, the only visual data that needs to be sent across network is the positioning of facial features and hand movements - which is a much smaller payload than streaming video. More akin to the latency you'd see playing Call of Duty or something.

I could see this experience being higher fidelity than video calls, especially in poor network conditions.
Adam Curtis picks 10 films that capture the mood of their times
Incidentally, I'm trying to listen to Gardens of the Moon on audiobook right now and I just have no idea what's going on.

(It took me awhile to get into audiobooks; I had to start with books with a good first person narrative and work my way up to the third person. I don't know if the writing style of Gardens of the Moon just doesn't work with audiobooks or if it's just something you have to play really close attention to, but every so often I find myself going "Wait, where did the last set of people in the story go? Who are these new people and how is this related to the story that was being told earlier?")
> Expecting visitors? Sorry.

Of course this is not "Sorry, no can do" but a "sorry, they'll have to come by public transport, park their car at the edge of the city and do the last part by public transport/bicycle/foot, or park their car in one of the free spots that's available because some neighbours are away with their cars".
Vivaldi Just Got Even Better
Ya know, getting a real estate license and then quitting, which is one of the things he did, is not bad luck. It's quitting.

Succeeding isn't merely lightning striking. There's a lot of perseverance and work involved. Just like nobody rides a bike successfully the first time they get on it. You have to keep getting on it until you learn.
I'd be quicker to believe that it's because 2007 was still in the middle of Steve Ballmer's Microsoft, where embrace-extend-extinguish was their de jure practice.
Think it was about a month ago. I was going to wait another month or so to jump back in and try again and let them work the kinks out. It should be very handy for making mining rigs as I was using the same pattern over and over for that. I liked the tower thing they have as that about mid game really changed how to build construction chains. I was thinking of adding in one of the deconstruction mods to get raw stuff back. But I am not sure. Probably one of the big items you may notice if you jump back in is they radically changed the way oil works and it is more in line with the other materials.
If you’re not (auto-)confirmed you have to go through AfC now, right? I don’t recall.
If only people with college degrees who actually made a minimal effort to follow non Facebook meme politics could vote, both the democrats and republicans would be different parties. The parties and their message to voters are influenced by who is voting in the first place.

Additionally, which party do you associate with calls to lower the voting age? I do not associate Republicans with this. How does this fit with your belief that allowing "only people with college degrees" would overwhelmingly vote for Democrats. Why isn't the Republican party demanding we lower the voting age to 16? Granted, neither party directly asks for this, but you can find little organizations here[1] and there[2] asking for it, and maybe the occasional individual House member[3].

1: https://www.fairvote.org/lower_the_voting_age

2: https://www.youthrights.org/blog/young-democrats-of-america-...

3: https://meng.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/meng-rein...
> Corn in the US is stupidly subsidized, so much corn that it ends up in car tanks

What would the land be doing without subsidies?
I didn't know blueprints were added! The lack of them is why I stopped soon after traveling to another planet. I might give it another try now...
Not only people in pop culture, but fictional people in pop culture!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daenerys_Targaryen
Wow, thanks for this. Really eye-opening and I see a myself in authors shoes.
That's a really good HN comment, thanks for sharing!
I think that can be addressed as a more general case of 2). I'm not necessarily saying it's okay that you end up in google's results because your name appeared in some random news article or because your alma mater has a public, scrapeable directory. I'm saying that the responsibility lies with the entity that originally makes the info public, even if that doesn't leave us with a single entity that's easy to pressure.

google ought to respond to reasonable requests to delist, but I don't think it's reasonable for it to guarantee that certain types of information never get indexed.
In the around 1000 dollar point today, if you set the design constraint to 1080p gaming, you can do quite a lot with a $175 CPU in a $145 motherboard, add maybe another $150 of RAM, and a $100 NVME SSD. The problem is the video card availability and marketing pricing.
>>Clicking on this headline I knew for sure that the person was a woman

How? Like, I don't really have anything else to add - I'm just curious how could you possibly be so sure before you even opened the article.

>> At some point we can't hide behind correlation is not causation anymore.

Is it still hiding if it's true?