skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm also not sure how you can expect to convert from one distro to the other without replacing all (or at least most) of the packages.

The thing is, they were almost exactly the same distro, so in any meaningful sense you could switch from one to the other by switching the release files, some yum support stuff, I think the kernel?, and some miscellaneous branding if you cared. But 99% of packages were functionally the same, so yeah I don't see replacement being a problem per se, but it also didn't seem very necessary.
If you only found one data point from the past 8 years in that source, then I'm sorry but you're just going to have to read a little harder.

If that's a struggle, come back after you've watched Pandora's Promise with a truly open mind.

The source above addresses why renewables aren't a complete solution. Fossil fuel companies also know that renewables aren't a complete solution, which is exactly why fossil fuel companies funded and ran anti-nuclear propaganda campaigns back in the 1970s, encouraging civilians to opt for solar instead! Because they knew it was never going to happen!

https://atomicinsights.com/smoking-gun-part-18-an-oldie-but-...
My career is at the point where I make enough money to comfortably buy anything (non-crazy expensive) I'll ever want to buy. Except a house, of course -- it would be obscene to afford a decent one of those in a major US city. I hate living in major cities anyway, and covid has made it essentially impossible to build a friend group in a new city.

So my plan is to move closer to family, but into a walkable small town where I can establish a community, volunteer, and really set down some roots. I plan to de-emphasize work when possible to grow more into my hobbies: espresso, bike touring, and reading. Hopefully push one of the novels floating around in my head into a full-blown book, or at least a solid start on one. Life is too short to spend all of your effort on work in a city that you only live in because of work.
> having a verifiable and auditable decentralized chain of custody back to the original mint transaction

A verifiable and auditable centralized chain also works here if you trust the centralized party? I'm not seeing why decentralization is core to this premise.
I believe this is nonesense and most of all clickbait....

Most clients I encounter have more need to be able to dynamically run their workloads than the problem that it costs to administer their clusters. Tools like crossplane, argo and a lot of other make it simple to - almost - run your clusters on autopilot.

Kubernetes is not cheap, but being your "own hoster" never really was, but i can tell you what is going to be expensive for you: vendor lockin by a none open source service and also putting all of your eggs into one basket. Even if that basket claims to have servers internationally.

Just look what happened whith the creation of the cluster API, we are moving into a future where all you need to truly autopilot your workloads is a little bit of <insert language of your choice>. I just dont get that in a time where everything can easily be automated from your code commit, over testing, to canary deployments and rollbacks, with a community that delivers top of the line code on a constant basis, for free, could even be compared to what i would consider more or less shared hosting.

Stating that you need a 4 person Devops team for a 6 node cluster is just sad. Also you seem to be replacing your nodes anually too so that makes extra sense =)

I get that you like to market your product, but as someone doing freelance devops for while now, please dont be ridiculous.
To provide an alternate solution to the one already mentioned, I used a modern medicine approach to alcohol use disorder called The Sinclair Method. The tl;dr is that you continue to drink using an opioid antagonist (usually Naltrexone) which blocks the endorphins rewards from consuming alcohol and eventually you just stop caring about it.

For more information, see https://www.reddit.com/r/Alcoholism_Medication/, or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EghiY_s2ts, or https://www.dropbox.com/s/60fs7gmvbyzs1kk/Cure%20for%20Alcoh... (warning: large pdf)
My aim is doing a digital detox, letting go the FOMO of knowing everything current. Letting go HN and Reddit and YT videos. Letting myself be bored and not driven and ambitious all the time.
the eth guys have solved this with ENS, you could add your public key address in your ens record if this ever becomes a thing. Then you just tell people to add me <myname>.eth
The single market != EU. E.g. Norway is part of the EEA and the single market, but not the EU. Switzerland is part of the single market but neither the EEA or EU.
TIScript and QuickJS have the same performance. Some operations can be slightly different but on average - the same.
If I were to guess they probably know nothing will happen. It seems like the point here might just be to send a message -- sure, perhaps nothing will happen this time, but are you going to take that chance next time?
I think the concept is focusing on performing/developing the habits/systems required to achieve longer term goals. Kind of like focusing on what you can do today with what you have on hand for a project rather than focusing on finishing the whole project. For example, a goal under these guidelines might be "lose 10 lbs by July." The goal wouldn't be, "go to the gym 3x per week," or "eat X, Y, Z protein, carbs, and fat grams per meal." Those would be habits/systems to achieve the weight loss goal.
It was good while it lasted tho.

Fun times getting blocked by the public/corporate firewall for something, hovering the mouse in the right place and pressing “s” and going, ahhh, “fixed it!”
If that is the situation then sure, do that. But sometimes market realities mean corners need to be cut and that is when taking on tech debt makes sense.

Better to have a business with some tech debt than no business.
Core affinity would only help if he didn't have more threads than clusters. Otherwise he'd either hit the wall his laptop did, or cross the cluster and hit the cache issues
Prepare your application for the Japanese era change
Censorship is certainly necessary on some level. Child sexual abuse material, for example. Animal brutality material, rape/snuff material, and so on. I do NOT want this stuff shown to me, ever, and I don't want anyone else in society to have access to this material ever. Even just a short exposure to these things can be life traumatizing to people, as it has been to me.

Racism/sexism is a lot murkier of a topic. There's a lot of nuance there that I think we culturally haven't fully figured out. The whole "cracker" situation on twitch, for example.
Malware and other attackers use Tor for C&C.

So blocking Tor hinders attackers using it.
> (I don't really know what Amazon does under the hood to their Linux distro, but it does show)

If it's on AWS hardware I assume they've extremely trimmed down any and all kernel gubbins that isn't related to the hardware they run on?

As for our migration plans... Well luckily we're on CentOS 7, so I have a year or so more to figure that one out and see what way the wind blows. Timings good enough to do a hardware refresh at the same time.

Kinda worried for Ansible to be completely honest. I've grown to love it for automating a bunch of sysadmin tasks and managing some stuff at work and my own kit, It's been a nice way to spin up dev boxes w/o going down the whole Kube/Container stack when a VM suffices. Don't really trust RedHat anymore with it if IBM is pushing it's corporate culture down on them.
Ahhhhh, I that makes sense. I wasn't picking up which lines you were drawing earlier, so thank you.

I agree on all fronts in that case. When I said crypto and NFTs had no intrinsic value I was referring to the use case, not Blockchain itself, or at least that's what I actually believe thinking about things after this comment.
There are industries where compliance requires all work-related communications be logged and monitored.

This logging is typically done through proxy servers on the network, and avoiding them is a _bad_thing_. They will also track web traffic through a proxy and MITM any https traffic by forcing the use of specific keys. They're trying to look for insider trading. Avoiding the proxy is the problem.

Staff using their own apps for regulated communications just cost JPMorgan USD$200m.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/17/jpmorgan-agrees-to-125-milli...
I'd like to work solo, because I think way faster than I communicate.

Often, the time spent on communicating could get job done.

It's also difficult to find collaborators who are on the same page. Often you need to spend time educating team members.

Collaboration and communication are unavoidable for large projects though. I therefore have to stay minimal for side projects.
Perhaps this Twitter thread (sorry) may help alleviate some of the fears? The author is a full professor working on computational biology at University College London and had prior to that had a stint working on infectious disease epidemiology at Imperial College London.

https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/14765074434966364...

"Those results provide no evidence for SARS-CoV-2 being a neurotropic virus, it doesn't inform us on long-covid. SARS-CoV-2 is not expected to be commonly found in the brain of patients except in a subset of extremely severe, often lethal, infections.
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https://www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/people/francois-balloux
We could use SHA-256 for the UUIDs, map names to hashes in special directory files, and build a source code control system out of it too while we’re at it.
exactly. when I see "censorship-resistant," I hear "we don't have a way to control abuse on this platform."
Great list. One omission I'm certainly tracking is Fauna
You should follow what Synonym[1] (specifically Slashtags) and Iris[2] are working on.

[1]: https://www.synonym.to/products/

[2]: https://github.com/irislib/iris-messenger
This is a really sophomoric take.
Some people just want a paycheck with low minimal work required. I worked at a FAANG and I can guarantee you that many people do not care much about growth and development. A lot are just there for big pay and less work.
Matrix the movie (first one, the good one) and Mr Robot the TV show! If you are not familiar with either, they are strongly recommended!
> it seems they’re able to significantly beat the incumbents, partly by collapsing down the layers.

Hahaha, thanks for the kind words! Not sure if I could describe our methodology better)) We originally come from and hope to continue working on AGI technologies (Artificial General Intelligence).

Writing a key-value store and, subsequently, a DBMS came out of necessity, as other solutions seemed too bulky, slow, outdated and expensive. So we invested time into building UnumDB for internal use, but after first benchmarks, it was clear, that this must be available to broader audience. We will polish it in the next couple of months and make it deployable in public clouds, just like other DBMS brands.

Now DBMS is our central focus, but with essential R&D out of the way, we will rebalance our priorities and continue working on BLAS and sparse neural nets.
Google Ads needs to be regulated over their account suspension practices
You think "Have read Applied Cryptography cover to cover" is a qualification for cryptography engineering? You get that there are people that actually do cryptography engineering professionally, like, on this thread and stuff, right?

It's OK to not really know all of this stuff. Other people can know it for you. The question mark comes in really handy in situations like this. It's not a challenge where you start with the distinction between FIPS and NIST and then axiomatically derive all of modern cryptography.
My Google Ads account has been suspended and I have no idea why. Google Ads has no way to talk to someone on the phone about it. Google Ads email support never tells you exactly what is wrong or how to fix it. They just basically say, "Your account is suspended. Sorry. Don't start another Google Ads account or we'll permanently suspend you for life from Google Ads.

I hate Government regulation. But Google controls over 90% of worldwide search traffic. I don't even care that they do. But with a monopoly like that and with so many businesses depended on Google Ads, it's in the US economy's interest to at least require Google Ads to explain why they are suspending an account and exactly what steps need to be taken to fix it.

It blows my mind that Google can be run like this. It literally would take 5 minutes for a customer support specialist to tell me exactly what I need to update to fix whatever caused me to be suspended. It's ridiculous that we even have to think about trying to get the Government to force Google to have basic customer service if they're going to suspend hundreds of thousands of Google Ads accounts a year (which they do).
> Ok, so how is this remotely the same as PCs being cheaper? Well because to some people this matters a great deal. Why? Because much of the power held by large companies (and by governments) comes from the fact that they operate and control databases.

The key point here is "Some People". But to make meaningful change a majority of people have to switch to a new system. The sad truth is: 90% of people do not care.

The best example for this is podcasts. They started out as a decentralized utopia. Self hosted files, self hosted feeds, multiple apps to listen to them, improvements of existing formats (mp3 chapters were not really a thing before podcasts), there were even talks about enabling BitTorrent distribution.

Fast forward a few years, now Spotify seems to accumulate most of the podcast universe and a lot of the existing podcast use them as a distribution platform. And their exclusive content is drawing in more and more users.

So my question here is: if we have a decentralized system that works but people willingly use a centralized alternative of that, how can you claim that decentralization is remotely popular?

You need to address this social issue before coming up with any kind of technology to solve it.
People say null in Java was a mistake, but I've never had any issues in my null-only dialect of Java /s
I wish this could be pinned to the top. Perhaps a follow-up post to HN would be worthwhile.

So many people will leave this thread incorrectly believing this was an iPhone problem. It could easily become the data point people use to cast doubt on all pictures they don't like.
Not sure why this is being downvoted, as it’s a valid observation and probably prescient.

Consider that in most every dystopian sci-fi, there is always a faction somewhere - explicit or illicit - that refuses connection to the “net”. We have that even today with the Internet.
not really... I went to 10 different corporations and 1 FAAN. FORTUNE50, startups, finance, retail, software, electronics. there is nothing like faang. pros and cons included
The HTML document revealed by "view source" isn't something "behind" the web page -- it IS the web page. The State effectively made a document containing the confidential info available to everyone and is now complaining because someone looked at it. I agree with the prior commentators that this is more about politics than law.
If it is the standard hobby level of painting, then Shopify works just fine. Any online store will do - the trick to selling art online is far more about marketing than the actual selling. Even on Etsy, the marketers do well regardless of the quality of the work.

But if they are really good, and have a history of showing their works in shows and galleries, a better option is to see if any of the galleries already have solutions in place. They'll take a huge cut, but will handle everything for you.

(On the other hand, if they are really bad, and just trying to recover the costs of the materials, craigslist works for cheap art.)
The phrase is "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." We can stretch the analogy but I'll reiterate my point literally:

Longstanding problems do not have bootstrap solutions, i.e. they are longstanding because simple hard work and known strategies could not solve them. To think that you can go around looking at longstanding problems and come up with solutions top down is out of touch with how innovation drives technology.

Innovations are small miracles - there is no formula for them, they don't come around often. When rare advancements are made it makes sense to test what good they can do for problems which do not give way to the old toolset.

To put it back in the analogy: When you invent a hammer to drive nails, check and see what else it might be good for.

You may not like the over extension of applied crypo currencies, but nobody is forcing you to invest in any of it. I for one would rather have experimentation with failure than none at all.
While this is helpful, just looking at successful pivots suffers from survivorship bias. Anyone have examples of failed pivots?
I'd probably be the worst person to have around after someone's house burned down. I have almost zero sentiment to material except photo albums but those are in the cloud (Yes, I would weep if all of iCloud + off-site storage were unrecoverably vaporized).

My concerns are strictly financial: What is the actual loss minus insurance? This is a $300-500k question; why is the article wasting words on sweaters, ziplock bags, spatulas, gift-cards, wooden crates(wtf)?

Honestly, my biggest irritation would be lost time. I famously loathe paperwork. So I'll get to my real question:

What can all of us do *today*, pre-burned house to deal with this situation?

* Buy a ton of fire extinguishers?

* Walkthrough video showing everything of high value and poking it to prove it works?

* Pre-file some paperwork or make a spreadsheet of high value items: cost + origin + date of purchase + current value?

* Locate nearest fire dept and drop off maps with nearest route to your house?

Anyone been through this can pitch in on best prep/prevention tips? The goal being, if my house burns down right this second, I want a big red button to push that kicks off all the Residence-Disaster-Recovery script and if it exits zero, I'm sitting in this same kind of chair at the same kind of desk saying "Thanks HN".

Despite my callous tone I do want to mention my heart goes out to those affected by the Colorado fire right now. Reach out to folks there if you know them:

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/colorado-fires-update-12-31...
> believing it's going to be the most transformational experience I've had as a developer

Learning Clojure was probably the most transformational experience I had as a developer. Before that I knew Python, C#, Java, C++, and a bit of Ruby and JS. But learning Clojure and getting to use the Lisp syntax, an interactive development workflow, learning about FP, the simplicity of immutable data, and the power of macros made programming interesting again and it just turns out I have so much more fun using Clojure to program in.

> You can reach a flow-state where ideas can freely flow from your mind into code

I wouldn't say that's totally the case. While the interactive development and the succinctness and simplicity of Clojure does help with my productivity, coding still requires thoughts, and asking yourself how do I implement this and that and thinking through it is still often needed for all but trivial tasks. The big difference for me is that this process is now a lot more fun and engaging.

It might not be that you'll find a niche language like Clojure more fun and engaging, but it could be that you do, and that's the appeal I think. For some, there's a niche language out there that they just enjoy a lot more for one reason or another.
It's just a loan. You can take on tech debt in order to grow a business, but there are risks and obligations.

Loans as an overall concept are neither inherently good nor bad.
I just tested in PS and found that it eat's / as well
I'm reading the parent post as essentially asking about someone who is not looking "to grow as a developer, learning useful production skills" but has already learned the useful production skills and grown as a developer (i.e. already is at "intermediate-to-senior level"), and wants to convert those sklls into large amounts of cash, thus the interest in FAANG as opposed to large corporations which pay less (or are expected to).
It's a tradeoff: if you make the file the language's compilation unit, then you can't have "circular imports" to allow end users divide their code in an ergonomic manner with fewer "arbitrary" restrictions. We can argue all year on whether Rust settled on the right side of that trade-off.
So a platform whose where any idiot can spout any garbage and they feel expressly empowered to do so? No thanks.

Granted, there seems to be no censorship on Hacker News. :thinking:
I look at tech debt as a tax on future productivity. If you see it that way, then it's obvious that 1) it's good to take it on on the short term in order to deliver 2) your productivity asymptotically approaches zero if you don't pay it back.
> How do you get the majority of people to switch to something like this?

One way is to port over interesting content from existing platforms. They already have an RSS relayer here: https://github.com/fiatjaf/rsslay

Not saying that this is like a genius new idea, but I think they're aware of what people may want.
they have that dof sensor so they can emulate dof, we get real dof.
In this case, Telegram may just display the captcha and let the user solve it.

That's likely also why Telegram doesn't proxy every translation request over their server: so that it is users individually requesting small number of translations, from their phone, getting around quota of free APIs "naturally".
Thanks!

It was on the longer list of smaller DBMS brands, but I was afraid to make the volume incomprehensible. Maybe we will write a more focused version, covering just smaller startups in 2022.
Generally, application level decisions will have a bigger influence on cost than underlying compute storage for large data processing applications.

Tradeoffs that will dominate the costs

1. Are you using a fast language or a slow language? (10-100x cost difference)

2. Are you using an efficient storage format such as parquet? (10-100x cost difference)

3. Are you using a reasonably efficient query planner job processor? (1-10x cost difference).

4. Are you using a good algorithm for the data processing task? meaning a good efficient SQL, An efficient imperitive algorithm etc. (unbounded cost difference)

The above tradeoffs will have a cost difference of up to 10^5 ( or greater depending on point 4). Once you account for risk, utilization, capex, and people costs. The cost difference between different compute platforms is usually negligible to the above points.
In general, roads are shared between multiple adults.

When one adult is being a dangerous moron, the other adults can create systems to prevent said moron from being on the road. This is how regulation is born.

So the decision was never the moron’s to make in the first place.
Do another AWS certification because they are nice to have. Looking at machine learning now but it's so silly and I lost respect for the machine learning crowd.

Yeah we gonna do some "quantum binning" now (put stuff into categories)... Get out of here. Lol.
Or just say "if the price isn't published in advance it's free".