skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you describe only becomes a bigger problem with staff turnover. It gets to a point where fewer people know the ins and outs of the setup and are prepared to maintain it. You end up burning out a few people, or bringing in people just to deal with low-level operations issues that were created by the move away from the VPS-level of operations.

The question to ask, is it strategic to move to running our own servers? If I had a large, stable, and boring set of apps which consistently didn't take advantage of "cloud features", then it might make sense to consider moving to colocation because the only option to improve profitability may be to reduce cost. That assumes that major changes won't be made to the app that require cloud features. This is rarely the case. The opportunities seem to only appear at huge scale.
Not surprisingly, the population of STEM graduate programs is vastly dominated by foreign students. "81 percent of full-time graduate students in electrical and petroleum engineering programs at U.S. universities are international students, and 79 percent in computer science are."

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/10/11/foreign...
NextAero in Australia was working on an additive manufactured Aerospike https://nextaero.com.au/index.php/engine-progress/projectx/
> Looking at our VPS provider bills each month makes me cringe.

Hosting costs often go up slowly over the years, and eventually, you have an unsustainable price. Just get quotes from a few other providers and go back to your current host and ask what they can do about the 70% price difference.

> Has anyone done this and what was your experience?

2/3 of the companies I own are on AWS. The other company is on dedicated, colocated hardware. The one on dedicated hardware gets zero benefit from CDN and cloud services as it's just a Django/Mysql monolith where every request and response are going to be different. We moved it off of AWS because there was little benefit, and we would reduce our hosting costs to a few hundred dollars a month for 20x more hardware performance.

> How do you manage the hardware and how much savings in time/$ is there really?

For the two companies on AWS, it saves us three $100k/year salaries per year. So, yes, it's more expensive than colocated hardware, but a lot less expensive than the colocated hardware and the three additional people required to provide support and ensure service levels. For the colocated hardware, we use fabric (an old python ssh automation library) to manage the servers and make heavy use of systemd's logging and systemctl for managing processes and logs. It works well, and there's maybe 1 hr a month of actual admin work, mostly dealing with OS updates and the occasional deployment hiccup.
I can't imagine a high-quality candidate agreeing to either of those things in the current market. I certainly wouldn't.

But software engineering is very bimodal, so I'm sure it works.
These won't be called "boosters" for long. They'll become part of the standard vaccination regimen, and if you haven't had all 3 or 4 or 5 shots, you won't be considered fully vaccinated. No thank you—I won't be signing up for endless medical intervention.

I don't have some twisted ideological objection to vaccination in general, I'm not worried about the side effects of these vaccines, and I don't think ivermectin is a miracle drug that's going to end the pandemic. Mostly, I think the vaccines are unnecessary for a good deal of people, myself included. I got COVID two weeks ago, got sick, dealt with the sickness, and I'm slowly recovering. For four decades I've paid attention to my fitness, to nutrition, to sleep, to stress management. For the most part, I've done a good job at taking care of myself. So I went into this sickness with confidence—I was counting on my health and current state of fitness to get me through, to cope with the virus.

I'm against medicine as a commodity, and that's what these vaccines have become. It seems we are dependent on a highly marketed solution that offers narrowly targeted and short-lived protection. There's little talk of personal health and responsibility. We've been told what's good for us, and that we must sign up for it, and that's that.

Lastly, we don't seem to have an acceptance of limits. There is no limit to the number of vaccinations required for "maximum efficacy", no limit to how many drugs we'll take to ease our pain, no limits to mask wearing, no limits to the media-driven hygiene theater that keeps people locked in a state of nervousness, fear, and anxiety. A healthy society accepts limits, it accepts some level of sickness, it accepts death—it does not renounce all autonomy and cede personal health decisions to employers and corporations for the management of individual health.
The DNA of Roma People Has Long Been Misused, Scientists Reveal
Another approach is systemd-stub. This is a small bit of efi code that looks for the kernel and ramdisk within the efi executable itself.

An added benifit of this approach is that you can have a full linux system in a single file. In addition to being more convenient in many scenerios, this also means that your initrd and kernel commandline can be signed under secureboot.

If you are using dracut to create your ramdisk, it has an option to automatically package it into an EFI executable. Given the design of Dracut, you probably wouldn't use it to put the entire system into the EFI executable, as Dracut assumes its job is to load the real rootfs.

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-stu...

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/dracut.8.html
Sure. Suppose there's 8 on the best bid and then you send a limit buy order of 1 quantity to the same price, making it 9 in total after your order arrives. Then after that, suppose a trade is shown with volume 9 at that price level. What this event implies is that someone sold into the best bid and took it out completely. If this trade volume is fake in any way, then your order won't get filled. But in reality, that never happens on the large exchanges. Your order will always get filled when you expect it to, meaning that the volume is real. If the volume was fake it'd be easy to prove. Just put a limit order in the book, record your screen, and prove that you didn't get a fill that you should have gotten. That won't happen in the large exchanges because the volume isn't fake.
If NFTs get the economics right, then there is literally no need for any sort of IP law when it comes to digital assets. After all, the profitable thing is proof of ownership, not the good.

And yet, no one is paying (to grab a software company out of a hat) Oracle for the Oracle "name". They're paying for the software. The closest we have is paying for "proof of authenticity", because that belied a level of quality, but if we can trivially make a perfect copy, even that loses all merit.
It is worth ruminating on how this 21st century Tinkerbell Griftopia started.

Most of the proponents would have grown up roughly within the period 1991-2008. After the Cold War, before the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). The zenith of neoliberalism. The globalized USD seemed invincible, a worldwide Tinkerbell.

Then the GFC happened. The USD-based system was not infallible after all.

But it is hard to overcome our conditioning. Rather than evolve beyond the financial Tinkerbell mindset, increasing numbers of disillusioned have looked for a new Tinkerbell to believe in. Just listen to one of their slogans: "Fix the money, fix the world". Bitcoin happened to pop up also in 2008. The stage was set for a Tinkerbell revolution.

My prediction is that the money will never be "fixed", and the global economy will continue to migrate away from the free-market financial Tinkerbell model of the last 75 years and towards computer-driven allocation and trading systems between sovereign governments and global corporations. For example, Ford Motor just inked a (non-binding) partnership with Global Foundries for car chips. Expect to see a lot more of these bilateral economic partnerships and less free-market chaos over the coming decades.
PS, I'm aware of the moral hazard in the agent model, which already was on HN a while back[0], but then why isn't this our problem instead of the "BYO connections" problem?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19570735
No idea, but the theory is as plausible as it is hilarious.
Email the site mods using the footer contact link. Sometimes they reply in minutes. Put “FP #1” and “misleading title” somewhere in the subject.
I'm retired now but for quite a few years I made it a habit to not open my email until lunch time. That way I could work all morning, my most energetic time of day, on things that had been discussed the day before without being distracted or having a bad conscience about not immediately acting on new requests.

Anyone who needed my attention immediately could use the telephone and hardly anyone ever did.
The “theatrical backdrops for complex ceremonies relating to status and prestige“ is a bit oversimplified I think, at least for continental Europe. In German, for example, we have two words that translate to “castle”: “das Schloss” is a representational building, but “die Burg” describes a military fortress, which often were small, plain, very well fortified buildings with multiple clever layers of defense. There’s no confusion between the two even though many Schlösser had Burg-like features for decoration. It’s perhaps also not a surprise that the article’s examples for representational castles are mostly from England, I think Britain’s military history is a bit different from that of the rest of Europe.
Men are also far more often convicted of murder, arson, vandalism, assault, and so on. You would think those would be problems in any workplace, no?
Not OP. Off-lease equipment is readily available online. For one-offs, just use ebay. Beyond that, just reach out to the ebay sellers directly (their username is often the company name).
There's one good meta productivity hack: pair with other devs. You quickly learn so many tips and tricks that no one even thinks of asking about that have been acquired over a long time. Anything from specific command-line-isms to sequencing operations and how to think of them.
> Miner extractable value (MEV) is a measure of the profit a miner can make through their ability to arbitrarily include, exclude, or re-order transactions within the blocks they produce.

Um. Wow.

So... how much of crypto is just "things that are illegal to do with anything that's not crypto"?
I don't think that's the case. There was a period of time about 5 or so years ago where you could pay with Bitcoin almost anywhere. That's all but disappeared after a wave of $100 transaction fees hit.

Use case was killed by itself.
That study is really interesting. Thank you for linking it
A demon? Nobody ever accused Maxwell of being unwoke (yet).
>It's quite common for people who take psychedelics regularly to get at least slightly detached from reality and pure reasoning.

He's asked for evidence and you've responded with a claim. Do you have any evidence to back this claim up?

>I've seen a friend of mine going deeper and deeper into that hole.

This is an anecdote. It does not constitute scientific evidence.
The tweet makes it unclear whether it appears in searches.
Perhaps you're thinking of Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) a case concerning affirmative action in admissions exercised by the University of Michigan Law School.

The Supreme Court decided that favoring underrepresented minority groups did not violate the 14th amendment equal protection clause. Writing for the majority, Sandra Day O'conor said "race-conscious admissions policies must be limited in time," and said that the Court believed that in 25 years that limit might be reached. Ruth Bader Ginsburg agreed with the ruling but not with having a time limit.

I'm not a lawyer so I don't know what I'm talking about, so I suggest seeing the Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grutter_v._Bollinger
> I’d say there is 10-40x the fraud on uniswap than on centralised exchanges

This makes no sense, especially if you factor in gas prices, pool fees, and volume.
In Europe it's a thing, at least where I am, plenty of companies that just set up an independent contractor with a company that makes such and takes a 30-50 dollar fee per hour invoiced.
I work in the crypto industry right now - my job is to keep bad guys from stealing XXX millions of dollars. I've also worked on a team that has done the tech side of several record breaking NFT's sales. And I've sold my own NFTS for fun, and strangers have bought them (wat!).

I'm not a "believer". Crypto is indeed full of idiots - and scammers - and crazy people who will say anything to see the token they hold go up - and scammers - and crazy people chasing a 100x buck - and more scammers. And even ignoring the scams, it's like living in an alternate Alice-in-Wonderland world where the rules of normal physics, normal economics, and normal society no longer seem to apply. It is truly a frothing zoo of non-normality.

And yet I'm not a "skeptic" either. There are really, really hard technological problems out there, and there are really wonderful people working on them. In the middle of the economic silliness, there's a lot of new things around groups and economics being tried. And amidst the flurry of insanity in NFT world, there is some genuinely good art being created.

For example, take the stuff this person creates (https://tylerxhobbs.com/fidenza). The process of making it is exactly the kind of stuff hackernews loves, and it is genuinely good art. It's stuff I put on the wall. The whole game around who gets to pay a stupid amount of money to say they own it (https://opensea.io/assets/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aeba...) of them doesn't diminish the fact that art has been created, and the art can be enjoyed anyone.

It's easy, when you see lots of people making absurd claims, to go beyond just refuting those claims, and to slip into purely dismissing everything without ever checking to see if there's something of value there.

But there is good, interesting stuff going underneath the madness frothing on twitter around crypto. Deep behind the apparent wall of film-flam artists, there's work going on in super weird math, formal software proving with billions of dollars on the line, new programming languages, new ways of scaling consensus, and lots of art being created.
50% is optimistic. Some (ok, many) estimates are actually 1% projections. The soonest we could possibly be done.

This, too, is not very useful.
You can always pick a faster / slower playback speed in YT

And you get to keep the images, which are not there for the text-only version
When does the author reduce diversity to different skin colors?
The person you were replying to was speaking specifically about situations where the stunt person was uncomfortable doing the stunt and felt pressured into attempting it rather than risking their job.

Who said that it had to be 100% safe? The situations being discussed are those where someone involved felt it was being done in a way that exceeded their risk tolerance but did not feel comfortable refusing.

I guess thinking employees deserve the ability to refuse dangerous work without losing their jobs is just unreasonable coddling of people who should have to risk their lives because the director thinks doing the shot this way would be cooler.
> Is there a way to script IntelliJ?

There is in NetBeans so I guess there is one for IntelliJ as well.
That would be super helpful when I find a journal article that's on Pubmed, but doesn't have a DOI attached to it anywhere that I can find.

Anyone wanna take on this project? I already use:

Open Access Button: https://openaccessbutton.org/
UnPaywall: https://unpaywall.org/

And Sci-Hub when I have too, but sometimes I just can't find the DOI on some articles.
Not on the other side of the world but my parents send me through Zelle and works pretty easily - hits the account same day.
Monetization ideas: Fancy "envelopes", "wax stamps/monograms/watermarks".
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26603464

EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label: document (reuters.com)

482 points by accountinhn 7 months ago | 552 comments

Also: https://www.ans.org/news/article-1392/robert-anderson-antinu....
There's articles written about this every six months or so if you read the news regularly, and they are very sympathetic to the multiple possible reasons for this that negatively affect men in other ways.
> You said it was a scam and now instead of actually explaining that hyperbolic statement you are ignoring it and now saying "system risk" and throwing in irrelevant nonsense.

It's your 101 financial scam where the CEO aims to divorce his net worth from the real life impact of the company he is at the helm of.

Again he's doing so using your 101 deceit techniques such as empty promises, constant stock pumping, cult of personality and UsvThem mentality and creative accounting.

It's Enron all over again.
What can you do with the proof of ownership of a digital asset if everyone else can copy it and ignore that proof of ownership? It's like starting with DRM and saying, "Oh yeah, we don't encrypt it, we just trust you not to violate our terms. Now pay up."
> If someone demands an estimate from me, they get one

See, you're missing the point of the estimate game. It's not to figure out how long it's going to take - they already know nobody knows the answer to that (and they've already decided how long it's going to take anyway). The point of the estimate is to bully you into making a completely unrealistic promise and then use that promise to bully you into working nights and weekends to keep it (one of the reasons they love work visas that are tied to a specific employer). It usually works on young naive developers for a while, until they either ulcerate themselves into an early grave or develop a healthy cynicism about estimates.

Actually trying to deliver quality software is, incidentally, never one of the goals, just getting promoted by abusing people below them.
Turns out that torrent is mostly full of zeroes: https://github.com/ghuntley/thenftbay.org/issues/9
This was very interesting analysis. Thank you for sharing. Did you look at Crypto.Com?
'people buying NFTs are footing the bill for you to have that free information'

Where? All I see is people paying for works after the fact, that no one would pay for -except- buying into the idea of an NFT.

Where are the NFTs being sold for desirable creative works -prior- to their creation and distribution? Show me a movie being shot, by names good enough that they could otherwise sell tickets, that will release freely to everyone that was funded by selling an NFT to it, say.
NFTs aren't funding art in any substantial. They are funding some people playing the NFT/status game. People making art are supported by Patreon, commissions, etc.
Western Union, cash money in minutes in nearly all over the world ?
> You can't just take money into a Delaware corporation and let anonymous wallets vote on what the company does with its assets.

Anonymous holding companies would like to have a word with you.

> I understand that crypto enthusiasts want to blow up American securities laws. I don't understand why they think it's going to happen if they just persistently keep doing things which are either illegal or just scammy with no legal protections to those whose money is at stake.

I guess you must have also really hated Airbnb when it first came out? Or Uber and Lyft?

The web3 and crypto space is moving very quickly and you are right that regulatory bodies are struggling to keep up. What is welcome is that many people are now iterating and experimenting with these structures and some will fail miserably, while others might create completely new opportunities.

This is how innovation works.
If I trade heaps on Bitfinex I get lower rates. Like a 100k trader might pay 0.2%, but a 10m trader pays 0.05%.

Uniswap is the same for all.
To add to the house analogy...

Someone is given a house building estimate of 6-8 months.

They they proceed to have business cards printed up, and start ordering materials to be shipped to their house for their new home business, and they slated everything for month 5. And they've already invited their family to come stay with them on month 6 day 2 to stay in the guest bedroom in the basement. ("Yes, I told you I needed a basement last week! Someone on your team was in the room and they didn't say no!").

The house building analogy is pretty far off in many many respects.

There are codes and inspections you have to comply with. You want to change X? That will mean new inspections and new codes to follow. There are essentially no codes to follow in software (I wish there were).
Funnily enough this has been extensively studied, the systemic sexism against men in the justice system is a proven fact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentencing_disparity

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337844261_Sentencin...

https://crimsoc.hull.ac.uk/2020/06/18/gender-differences-and...
same here. it took them years to get back to almost-baseline, and they still have chronic insomnia triggered by the trip.
Are you exclusively hosting other FreeBSD vhosts under bhyve?
I think the author used Yolov5 to detect cars and their own method for counting them. Counting requires tracking object instances, which Yolo doesn't do.
Nothing weird about it. Crypto / web3 is about financializing everything. I.e, making everything about money.

The goal is to create a gamified world in which all human interactions are controlled via financial incentives.

The contrast is not communism, but rather the current gift economy model of open source, where people offer what they want out of intrinsic motivation rather than the desire to accumulate coins in a ledger.
Well, I saved a bunch of that art and can view it any time.
Ha! I love the "Masthead Light" option - that reminds me of a story.

When you are sailing at night you take bearings of lights you see with a hand-bearing compass. This is a device you look through and it tells you the magnetic bearing of the object you have lined up in the cross hairs. If you see a light that you can't identify then you take bearings on it over the course of a few minutes, and you remind yourself of the sailing motto, "If the bearing does not change, a collision will occur".

I was on a night sail in the Mediterranean with one of my younger cousins who came down below in a panic to report we were on a collision course as the bearing of the light she had spotted was not changing.

I think she could have done with this flow chart, because it turned out to be Venus :-)
Compare African countries based on which utilize Ivermectin for parasite treatment regularly.
A honeycomb lens filter (commonly used in military rifle optics) would greatly reduce the angle that the camera can be detected.
Simple question: Why are deadlines needed?
>yiffparty

Time to have a talk with my fellow tech furs again.
If you own most of the lp, most of the fees go to you.
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It’s very hard to take seriously critiques that say a premise is wrong but are unable to say what that wrong premise actually is.
This is a great suggestion. There are countless times as a consultant where I've discovered overprovisioned capacity, poorly optimized apps, sub-optimal VM types used, etc. Problems from those will still manifest in a colocated environment.