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Make it so that TF deletes anything not in your config unless whitelisted next question.
Hey Nikita! I was just looking at the docs but I was a bit confused about what the various compute instances were doing. Do they all serve reads and writes? If so, is there data partitioning or does this support distributed transactions?
I clearly need a referral to your bankers!
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Thank you for the comment rektide. We of course would love to see constructive comments and criticism.

- Neon CEO
one still must test on multiple machines before being confident it doesn’t just work on one’s machine. cloud is no different. we must test.
As Ive said for over a year now - CS grads cant get hired. Companies are not knocking on their door. Unis have to go out of their way to get companies to even associate.

What you hear of big hiring is select schools in select places.

Corps want experienced devs, they do not want to create experienced devs. They get away with this because there's no standards like any other field of engineering. We don't band together and create avenues for education, employment and advancement. This is largely the fault of existing devs knowing the above to be true, and they want it for themselves despite harming the market overall.

Degrees have largely become meaningless. Uni's have become democratic political battlegrounds that push activism above academics. There isn't anything learned in a 4 year degree that you couldn't get with a healthy appetite for YouTube. But they're just adult daycares for parents that think the system will work for their kids. I say that as someone whom unfortunately has to work at such a place.
Dark mode is actually bad for your eyes as it causes more strain. Reading white letters on a black back ground is harder than reading black letters on a white background.

F.lux and similar software are a better alternative as they just increase the warmth of the screen, which, at least for me, eliminates that feeling of eye pain when computing at night.
Fun fact: devil is English for Diabolos which is "the slanderer", literally.

Misreprentation, FUD, discrimination, they all are literally faces of slandering, doing them is "doing the deeds of the devil" in a very literal sense.
> How is this any more unsafe than RAII? Aren't there still the same risks involved?

std::vector<int> allocation_counts;

auto get_mem(int n) {
auto* memory = your_malloc(n);
allocation_counts.push_back(n);
return memory;
}

This function has a trivial leak of "memory" that an RAII version wouldn't have, can you see it?
That's correct, there's plenty of incorrectly identified plants, but the app says 89% accuracy for the first result and 11% for the second, so it's hard to argue. I've many times encountered plants that don't in live in the UK but the app say they do.
aws is absolutely the worst featured and least stable cloud provider. except for all the others. sometimes, being least bad is a great accomplishment.
Edit 2: Nikon is using the TicoRAW compression from intoPIX.

So I wonder why Red isn't suing intoPIX.
I’m not sure obviously but I think it’s just a really sharp increase in screen time.
Congratulations and thank you for sharing, reading posts like this motivates me to take a second look at some of my back burner projects.

(Remember also to thank that spouse of yours at home!)
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I'm just guessing it makes more sense to separate them. In my naive no knowledge version. if it was

RGRGRGRG
GBGBGBGB
RGRGRGRG
GBGBGBGB

Then, if I compress losslessly just grayscale I know at the other end I just interpret the first pixel as Red, next as green, red, green, etc., Then on the next row I interpret the first pixels as green, next as blue, next as green etc...

BUT, if I compress lossily then the unrelated colors next to each other are going to bleed into each other while compressing. VS if I separate them out so

RGRGRGRG
GBGBGBGB
RGRGRGRG
GBGBGBGB

becomes

RRRR BBBB
RRRR BBBB

GGGG
GGGG
GGGG
GGGG

The compression would make more sense and less bleeding of the signals from each color into other colors.

It would also seem to compress better. Imagine you're filming something pure green. Exaggerating but you'd get this

01010101
10101010
01010101
10101010

Which after separation is

0000 0000
0000 0000

1111
1111
1111
1111

That's just a guess though.
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Sounds similar to “Migra” for Postgres.
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> Homeowners are a reliable political cohort, they tend to organize quickly as soon as any issues are on the agenda that might affect the value of their land and they will reliably push for whatever increases land values.

I feel like this is a myth, do you have research to back this?

As a 20+ year home owner, I've never been asked to support anything to increase land/housing value (not that I'd want to, since that means higher taxes for me, which I'd rather not).

I don't think this homeowner cabal to increase values actually exists. If it does, nobody invited me and nobody invited any of my homeowner friends (which is all my friends) either, so it can't be a very large group.
I go camping and everything is noisy or hot as soon as the sun comes up. Worst sleep I could ever get.
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this is the ideal approach for most scenarios. fewer knobs, simpler tooling.
I have worked through three recessions as a software analyst, or tech entrepreneur. The investment climate gets worse in a recession (we had to shut down a company after the dotcom crash), but the job market never seemed an issue for me or those around me that worked with IT or software development. There where always jobs. None of my colleges ended up without a job for any longer period. There is a huge skills shortage in IT.
Ikea tradfri it's a lot cheaper than hue and mobile app has modes built in for lights and blinds
Various compute instances are different endpoints to separate databases. So for now it's single writer system. You can get a lot of power out of a 128 core compute node. In the future will will also spin up extra compute to scale reads.

In the future after that future we will introduce data partitioning - we have a cool design for it, but one step at a time.
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I'm aware there are options. It's subjective
Funny. My brother works for a European agency - in Brussels. The agency mandated use of Signal as messenger for internal commumications a couple of years ago.
Looks like you are creating based on puppet or ansible, not Terraform :)

The whole idea of TF is to not have to declare an absent resource for it to be destroyed, because the declarative approach already have the desired state.
Yes but assembly is an intermediary representation and the OS is not doing any “direct execution”, it’s the CPU that does it.

I would expect a seasoned C++ database developer to be able to understand these nuances.
That's pretty interesting.

Apparently touchscreen throttle and helm controls didn't work out, though, and were removed. I haven't read anything about this since 2019, but here's the link: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/11/20800111/us-navy-uss-john...
Don't spend your time getting better at your job. I'm not saying you don't need to be good, I'm saying the time is better spent doing something else.

That other thing is networking.

Connect with recruiters on LinkedIn and hit them up for referrals to jobs. I have a quite long list of recruiters in the quant trading niche who contact me from time to time. When they ping me I find out who is hiring and what they're after, and if it's not for me I might know someone for the role. When it's my turn to look, I reach out and there's a firehose of interviews.

With a little bit of effort you end up feeling quite comfortable that if you need a new role, there will be one. It contributes substantially to my tranquility.
I’ve heard the whole “money can’t be everything when deciding on a job” a couple of times when discussing salaries recently. Mostly from companies who realise they can’t or don’t want to compete with the market.

Shrug and move on. They’ll learn eventually.
Does this apply to letters of different colors? (Non-white letters on darker backgrounds?)
Postgres process in single tenant. Right now both provisioning a new Postgres instance (we call it project) and cold start is 2 seconds. We will be improving on that.
Typically it means S3 and alike. Not being bounded by disk size of your server.

Or in their case they might refer to horizontal scalability of their storage layer which is independent from computing.
I'm not well versed with patents. So when this patent expires in 2028, can RED "renew" it or it will be available for everyone to use w/o paying RED anything?
> For instance, after paying off a mortgage entirely, my housing costs will be effectively repairs, property tax and utilities. That's a tiny fraction of rent.

no, if you paid off the mortgage, then the cost of your "rent" is just the cost of the capital sitting in the house (plus those maintenance costs you mentioned).

There's no such thing as free living. it is possible that rent is more expensive - but over time, this ought to normalize, as expensive rent will incentivize build-to-rent and arbitrage the difference to make a profit.
if you are someone with very little musical knowledge but have a mild interest in Beethoven, I highly recommend the Wondrium (was: "Great Courses") class on him[0], by Prof. Greenberg (also available on Audible).

And basically all other classes by the same author too, they're fun, educational, and you can feel the passion coming through and get to you.

[0] https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-masters-beetho...
What about the opposite which is how kubectl works.

"terraform delete" only deletes what is in your config. "terraform apply" only creates and/or updates what is in your config. If you remove a resource from your config after applying it, it's your responsibility to manually delete it.
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I've thought about this as well. This mindset of preserving digital media seems to have been largely driven by Western organizations/individuals. An example of this cultural difference is the number of takedown requests by artists against Western sites like Danbooru that repost their art from Pixiv. There was also a notable case of a game developer requesting that all her future games not be translated into English after seeing people repost her art without her permission.

Segawa has requested that English translations of her games (TOWER of HANOI and onward) no longer be made. Though she understands it's ultimately a small minority, the frequent reposting of her art and the like by English users upsets her whenever she sees it, impeding her ability to create and forcing the difficult decision to forbid translations.[0]

[0] https://vgperson.com/games/futureplans.htm
Are you calling me a "lying fuck" because I offered my opinion about the situation?
Ah got it thanks! And what's the consistency on the instances that serve reads?

Super interested in this space since we're always looking for ways to evolve our pg!
Ask HN: What's your pet peeve of common UX/UI?
Mine: overlay on video (especially when they're not full screened).

They're often too obstructive for no reason (often has a too large dark gradient that blocks bottom or top of the video), takes forever to disappear, and hard to operate (very easy to accidentally pause the video). For example, CC button for YouTube: it totally could be below the video element.

This is especially annoying on mobile since there is not keyboard shortcuts.
it is on purpose for sure

i think the biggest secret is that he is both a singer and producer

check out this video of Taylor Swift in his studio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwJ_hHT5vw8

around 3:15 he sings a perfect falsetto with Taylor Swift out of nowhere and again at about 4:00

that 3 seconds made me wonder whether versions of songs exist where he is the singer

a conspiracy theory maybe, but i think he's using these really good singers as a proxy to perform his songs without the weight of fame attached to it
> Even as a relatively successful software engineer I'm likely never going to own a home

According to levels.fyi, an entry level software engineer makes 150k-200k. And from my experience and those of my friends, this seems to be true. And I also know some friends in their 20s that have already bought homes using their SWE salaries. So it does seem well within the realm of possibility. Why do you think you'll never own a home?
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I might be wrong, but is Nim comparable to Go? And if so, how does it fare against it?
I don't think the author has updated the site since 2011. Here's a link someone posted above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KytMZOLyF4Q

I don't think it's his vision; more like "anti-vision". ;)
So you're saying in your DC enough of them break that they could feed a technician? Say the technician would have an 80% success rate and he saves $100 bucks per repair, there would need to be 63 failures per month for there to be 0 cost savings. What's the minimum cost savings for it to be worth a managers time? Maybe double it again so 125 failures per month?

I wonder if the vendor would void the warranty and that would have any consequences.

Does you DC get around 125 failures per month?
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So, I'm a low light kinda person anyway. The best light are light turned off. I can't stand the amount of light some (many?) switch on at the earliest sign of evening, and I guard my stash of low power bulbs (finding ones under 3W is hard!) like it's my first born. Apart from the kitchen, my house has no bright white lights anywhere.

What would the utility of smart bulbs for someone like me be?
One thing I don't see mentioned in this all this discussion of neat knots is the impact of the different knots on the load capacity of the rope you are tying.

For example while a bowline knot is easier to untie after having a heavy load placed on it, it weakens the rope more than a figure 8 knot.
You can easily implement defer in terms of RAII and lambdas. RAII is a composable building block to build higher level patterns. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Where are the good areas? I work from SF occasionally (SoMa), but many of my post-work exploration (of restaurants and bars) lead me to walk through or near places that are aptly described by the “hellscape” comparisons. I get skeeved out to the max.

Are there better places to hang out for rich people/people in the know? Random walks are rarely fruitful for me here in SF compared to other large cities I’ve been to.

Also, for what it’s worth, I’m not sure people who live in the city have noticed the decline from its prepandemic “peak”. As someone who visits a few times a year, the changes are far more dramatic.
Is this what iOS photos uses under the hood when it goes into plant detection mode? I was photographing some bugs on a plant in the garden yesterday and noticed a leaf annotation on the photo. It was accurate with the “Siri knowledge result” of cucumis. I wonder if Apple is contributing to this repository as it did with Open Street Maps if I understood that history correctly.
Not if no one’s trading crypto because the hype cycle has died out.
> Most people don't understand special relativity,

but most people recognize the formula E=MC^2 even if they don't know what it means, and can tell you the name of the dude sticking out his tongue in a picture.

Understanding someone's work is orthogonal to them being well known.
Doctors also have a union and for the most part aren't making nfl wages.

I don't understand what makes people think that software engineers are so valuable that they'd get wages that are multiples of doctors.
Not only is it inevitable but its going to to essentially fail. unintended consequences are a guarantee. the combination of politics, greed and incomplete science is going to get us all killed if we do this.
> AArch64 is thus only more “restrictive” in the sense that it isn’t able to map the weaker guarantees in the way x86_64 is able to.

I thought that it actually is able to map that, by using LDAPR instead of LDAR, and that the compiler just didn't for some reason.
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It'd be really great to be able to know what's in the docker black box. It'd be even better to be able to know what the moving parts are for those of us that do self hosting sysadmin style. My VMs are too small for docker... but i'm sure the underlying stack would run without issue.
Huh. Surely there’s not that many angry Ayn Randers on here. I presume most who are are teens without much life experience.
Articles like these is what keeps me coming back to HN. Highly inspiring.
Really burned out by the recent project on which I'm working on. The base code written by the previous developers is so bad, my team members and I have to work 9+ hours on a recurring basis to just fix the bugs caused by this buggy code. I'm just tired and burned out by this.

Sorry for my rant
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The search engine discussed on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28550764 (September 2021, 725 comments)
Thank you!

a. PolarDB is based on a similar idea. https://www.cs.utah.edu/~lifeifei/papers/polardbserverless-s.... This paper describes it. The biggest difference that I see glancing through the paper is that we really integrated S3 into the storage. In Neon architecture branches, backups, checkpoint are all the same thing and instant to run. This simplifies a good amount of database management AND deliver on better costs. S3 is cheap.

b. Neon doesn't need a special filesystem. Neon storage is in a way a filesystem, however it doesn't expose filesystem API. It's a key value store - serves 8k pages to Postgres and a consensus - update API to the key value store. Pages are organized in LSM trees and background processes put layers of the LSM trees to S3.

c. The cols start is 2sec right now. There is a dependency on K8S. Bare metal implementation will require new code to orchestrate starts and stops.
There's a main text input field.

Why the hell can't I start typing as soon as I get to that page?!

You really insist I use the mouse?! My fingers were just on the keyboard typing the url.
Goddamn you

^^^^ I feel this way often. This is a solved problem for the past 20 years. As for the past 10 years, the same problem on the phone: Start at that field and bring up the keyboard
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It’s really a sad state of affairs. An industry that hates its own young in experience while pushing ageism on its elderly in age. An ouroboros industry.
Looks like it uses OpenStreetMap data. Please ensure attribution is displayed as per the license terms.

See https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
Most of the Rollladen I've encountered leak a decent amount of light, so it makes sense to have blackout curtains in front of the Rollladen.
There is no clear “right” or “wrong” side here, although not honoring robots.txt is a bit frowned upon, comparable to someone telling you certain areas are off-limits, but you decide to go there anyway.

Having said that, if you’re in the web scraping business dealing with anti-scrape shields and whatnot, ignoring robots.txt is the least nefarious of them all.
The market is always harder for juniors whether times are easy or hard.

The unfortunate difference this time is that today's juniors might have spent their last couple of years reading stories on sites like HN and levels.fyi about starting on six-figure salaries at big name companies and maybe doubling that with the other perks. They might have also been exposed to some of the most mercenary attitudes to career development I can ever recall seeing where loyalty is a dirty word and jumping ship every few months for a pay bump is the norm.

At the same time they still have the usual conceit of most new grads in this industry and don't understand that at best they will probably contribute little real value to begin with while taking up a lot of time from other people who could. In other words juniors almost always have negative immediate value to their employer.

In the boom times we have enjoyed in tech for the past few years a lot of newbies could get away with that and make a lot of money but really that has been the exception and it's not normal. Now the reality is setting in that you can't reasonably expect an employer to invest a huge amount of money to pay you to cost them even more money and then leave before you get better and make them enough money to become a net contributor. In a world without the weird employment market dynamics of the recent boom times that just doesn't make any sense.
> Once you've fully adopted, then you can flip a flag to "I own the whole world" mode, where the default is to delete anything not found in the canonical configuration.

That may work for a database, but for a cloud provider for example(which i dare to say, its the main usage), it's unlikely to work, because of the amount of requests needed to check all possible resources and ids or tags.
Also those applies usually happens multiple times in a day issued by different users/ci automations, so there's not enough api quota to cover them all and each plan would take forever to finish depending on your organization size.
when I was in school we had something called "dychotomic keys" which were big books to recognize plants with binary questions.

Does it have a leaves? yes/no go to page XXX/YYY
Is the leaf oblong? go to page WWW/ZZZ
Is the border smooth? go to..

I wish there was a plant identification app using _that_ system, it would be much more entertaining and educational to use.
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I don't get the entitlement of this journalist. I mean, it is obvious that companies would engage favorably with you if you can promote them for free with good pieces on the positive stuff that they are doing and would clearly stop engaging if is not convenient for them anymore. Companies just care about profits. Their actions are not necessarily morally based, only value based. While the goals of Tesla as a company are decent, the way they handle business is just like any other corporation, ie disgusting. Nothing surprising.
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The Steve Jobs effect.
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Last I checked Ansible can cache facts to a persistent store like a file.
> What's shocking is how many people, who ostensibly should be in the top 1% in terms of finance IQ, (e.g., Mike Novogratz, Raoul Pal, etc.) were seemingly unaware of these risks and never examined how it worked while shilling it to retail investors.

Not shocking at all, it’s answered in TFA:

> Many of the large firms that invested in and marketed this coin were able to exit before the crash occurred, escaping with massive profits. Strangely, some of these whales felt the need to share this in their comments following the crash. Pantera Capital CIO Joey Krug admitted that they had sold 80% of their Luna position before the crash. Furthermore, Pantera Capital partner, Paul Veradittakit, seemingly bragged that they had turned their $1.7 million dollar Luna investment into around $170 million dollars. Galaxy Digital CEO, Mike Novogratz, wrote in a letter that Galaxy had “booked profits along the way” before the Luna collapse happened.
Google Hamina datacenter uses sea water to cool.

I doubt they directly circulate it to the loops, perhaps some heat exchanger thing is more likely.
Klemheist knot is a useful related one. It's easier to slide than prussik and works with webbing or rope.