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The email is to exec staff, not the entire company? Perhaps a BCC, or maybe just wants the execs to set an example?
When was this conclusion reached, i totally mised the announcement
I'm a Research Software Engineer with a PhD working in Harvard/MIT area for > 5 years. I skipped doing a postdoc and have been part several high-profile academic projects in genomics. Overall I've loved the experience and can be a great move for certain people.

A major pain point in RSE is building and sustaining larger software teams around a
a single, focused long-term project with ~6-8 RSEs working together. Even the most well-funded and successful academic labs have a limit to what how much RSE effort they can support.

We need new funding models where engineering-focused leaders can muster sufficient resources (autonomously) to build great software teams that maintain high quality software in the long run. Focused Research Organizations (FROs) seem like an interesting new idea (https://www.dayoneproject.org/ideas/focused-research-organiz...).
Is React rendering performance really a pain point worth solving? I've never thought to myself "man I wish React would render faster"... It doesn't seem like this is whatsoever a bottleneck for our application (~1k unique components).

I feel like the main pain point with React is that routing, bundling, SSR, state management, etc. have to be painfully stapled together, and this is what frameworks like Next.js solve for.
Is it calculation or simulation?
Even though Kubernetes could reduce the workload and might require less manpower in some cases, it's still a beast that requires management. So DevOps has shifted from managing traditional infrastructure to managing Kubernetes configurations.
I love how more and more of us are using Git to store our notes, though in this case it's more coupled to GitHub than Git. If there is already a need to self-host this, then why not just hook into git and make this more generic?

In fact, why is a Postgres database even needed?

Please note that I'm biased. I work on [GitJournal](https://gitjournal.io) which is similar, but only mobile based.
Tautological. You spend your time on things that interest you at the point you spend your time on them.
If they're legal at all they're probably not tightly regulated enough. They're certainly not well regulated enough now, you have morons on YouTube telling each other to buy investment properties with HELOC loans. IMO that's a far larger issue than people blowing money on worthless crypto tokens.
Because software engineers can’t help but make things more complicated than they need to be.
They are and they do and it is; even in the US there are intelligence services in the routers and the FBI "seizing" websites. Truly unregulated anything lasts only until it starts causing large enough problems.
It's really the lack of nuance on this topic that bothers me on HN. Tesla needs collaboration, drive, human interaction to be able to get their innovation and vision moving and I don't care what any snowflake here says, remote work slows this down.

I have been working remotely the past 2 years and I have basically had enough of it. I am moving back to Miami to go back into the office and my company is rewarding me financially for it WHILE it being completely my choice to do so.
The fact that the only way this issue is even remotely getting looked at is because of an HN post that an FB staffer happens to see is ridiculous and businesses shouldn't _even be allowed to operate_ at the scale FB does without having a process of recourse in place for everyday users
This isn’t an Elon tweet.

> Can't he just keep it focused on the cars and the share price?

I actually agree with your sentiment, but for a different reason - I think tweeting is a massive waste of his time which I would prefer be spent either working on any of his amazing companies, or for restorative rest - but obviously I don’t get a vote where he spends his time!

For the same reason, I really hope he doesn’t buy Twitter - not because I don’t like what he’ll do, but because Twitter is a dumpster fire and I don’t want his valuable attention squandered on something so worthless as fixing discourse Twitter.

> I hope this pushes folks at Tesla to unionize.

Elon corporate culture/values seems like it’s definitely unique, and not something for everyone.

It’s probably better for everybody if those who aren’t onboard go work somewhere that aligns better with their values.

Tesla China doesn’t have these problems.
I assume that it's probably not meant to rely upon with your life or something. After all what if there missed text in pictures or other subtle things that could be deduced from screenshot that you either don't notice or even know about.

Maybe that's something that should be mentioned in the description though, just in case.
> Have you ever tried setting up a Kubernetes cluster and deploying apps in it? Kubernetes doesn't save work

This is wrong, deploying on Kubernetes is easy and quick for most apps, you have one docker image one deployment spec and that's it.

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/de...
This headline is true, but sensationalist and misleading.

An employee started circulating a list of people who were being laid off and who wanted the recruitment attention, and the CEO offered to post the list to boost it's profile.
Ars Technica regularly does A/B testing with radically different titles. You'll note from the URL that the submitter did use the first title.
Ditto. Working remotely makes even a simple communication into another ordeal and a quick chat into a meeting scheduled for next week etc. I feel like much more energy and resource is spent just on communication when working from home, both at the personal level and for the organization.
An interesting bit of info was pointed out to me by an acquaintance in the restaurant industry.

Small mom and pop places are losing staff because the big chains can afford to pay their workers more, since they can better afford the losses (smaller profit per site but more sites.)

I'm a huge fan of increasing wages, but I also don't want even more soulless mega chains.
>There NO labor shortage when many big companies belong to billionaires that get wealthier every day (even during Covid).Those companies obviously CAN pay more. The owners are not going to sleep under a bridge anytime soon.

It's this manichaean view - business bad, me good - that's the crux of the issue. You assume every business is a FAANG and sitting on piles of cash. Most businesses (50-60%?) - even in tech - are small biz and biz owners are in the same boat. Very very few companies even come close to the level of your straw-man.

And you are very wrong with the (rather comical) assumption business-owners are scrooge mcducks sitting on piles of cash.
In tech, programmer salaries are hyper-inflated (compared to most other professions) and already out of reach of many SMEs and we are scraping the bottom-of-the-barrel for talent. I'm a business owner myself and I have seen this first-hand, so don't tell me there's no labor shortage.
No judgement here, and in fact I understand it's reasonable to believe others are unreasonable. But if you can overcome that fear, you can (sometimes) unlock great things.
Uh ... okay ... and?

The article has a very "inside baseball" feel and I didn't learn much of anything from it. Turns out, Google has internal politics - surprise!
I'd make a new e-mail, then a new account. Misspelling your name if needed. That can be fixed once back in. (If needed, get a new phone number too.)

NOTE: I don't have an account with Facebook, but the above gets around normal duplicate account checks.
Analog computers are pretty awesome!

Say you take a standard slide rule with two log scales, and want to do a division problem, x/y. There's more than one way to do it. I can think of at least 3. One of them won't just compute x/y for your particular x, but will compute x/y for ANY x.

Accuracy is always the issue with analog stuff, but they sure are neat.

Another fun one to contemplate is spaghetti sort. With an analog computer of sufficient resolution, you can sort n elements in O(n). You represent the numbers being sorted by lengths of spaghetti. Then you put them on the table straight up and bring a flat object down until it hits the first and largest piece of spaghetti. You set that down and repeat the process, selecting the largest element of the set every time.

I've always liked the idea of hybrid systems. I envision one where you feed the analog part of your problem with a DAC, then get a really close answer up to the limit of your precision from the analog component, then pass that back out to an ADC and you have a very very close guess to feed into a digital algorithm to clean up the precision a bit. I bet you could absolutely fly through matrix multiplication that way. You could also take the analog output and adjust the scale so it's where it needs to be on the ambiguous parts, then feed it back into your analog computer again to refine your results.
> What so-called neural networks do should not be confused with thinking, at least not yet.

I disagree:

I think neural networks are learning an internal language in which they reason about decisions, based on the data they’ve seen.

I think tensor DAGs correspond to an implicit model for some language, and we just lack the tools to extract that. We can translate reasoning in a type theory into a tensor DAG, so I’m not sure why people object to that mapping working the other direction as well.
But in imperative OO style you're touching IO all over the place - this is why people complain about Task/Promise proliferation. And especially if you have something like interfaces where some implementation could require IO while other might not. In my experience you can't really use it to narrow down anything.
The hard money standard (e.g. precious metals) is older and has outlived nearly all fiat currencies and will likely outlive the existing currencies.

What do you think will be worth more in 100 years from now? 1 US dollar or the equivalent of gold? How about 500 years? 1000 years? My money is on the gold.

Every fiat will be stable until it blows up. It will necessarily be mismanaged in a long enough time line, and based on history it really isn't that long.
You don’t care anything about who the money from your purchases flow too? In most cases I don’t, because I don’t have much insight into it. But to the extent that I can keep my money from going to people I despise, I think it makes sense to do so.
> 3) Kubernetes is hard. The API is huge and it's complex.
> The docs are limited.

Eh, I wouldn't go that far. Kubernetes has a lot of API surface for features that are useless (config maps), attractive nuisances (CRDs, packet routing), or outright dangerous (secrets). If you strip it down to its core mission of distributed process scheduling, the API is reasonable and the docs are extensive.

The biggest challenge with learning Kubernetes is that third-party documentation is largely funded by ecosystem startups flogging their weird product. It can be very difficult to figure out things like network overlays when there's so few examples that don't involve third-party tools.
If restaurant prices were 100% worker pay, that would be true. But when you increase pay by 50%, your prices do not necessarily increase by 50% which also does not mean you will have 50% less customers. Currently owners of businesses minimise ALL expenses, but for workers, that is already at minimum. For some workers it's below a minimum which they can accept, so they don't work.
Kubernetes is a Google scale solution. Lots of teams said “hey if Google does it then it must be good!”…but forgot that they didn’t have the scale. It caught on so much that for whatever reason it’s now the horrendous default. I’ve worked on at least 3 consulting projects that incorporated K8s and it slowed everything down and took way too much time, and we got nothing in return - because those projects only needed several instances, and not dozens or hundreds.

If you need less than 8 instances to do host your product, run far away anytime anyone mentions k8s
It just comes off as egotistical drivel.

I do think there's value in a CEO working along the factory workers, if only so that it's easier to empathize with their frustrations, but acting like he and he alone is the reason for Tesla's success because he was brave enough to lower himself to the factory-worker-level is just a delusion of grandeur that I have trouble even comprehending.
Show HN: MarkovJunior, PPL based on pattern matching and constraint propagation
The short answer is: Because of Kubernetes.

The longer answer is: When you switch to Kubernetes, you are introducing _a lot_ of complexity, which, depending on your actual project, might not be inherent complexity. Yes, you get a shiny tool, but you also get a lot of more things to think about and to manage, to run that cluster, which in turn will require, that you get more devops on board.

Sure, there might be projects out there, where Kubernetes is the right solution, but before you switch to it, have a real long hard thinking about that and definitely explore simpler alternatives. It is not like Kubernetes is the only game in town. It is also not like Google invents any wheels with Kubernetes.

Not everyone is Google or Facebook or whatever. We need to stop adopting solutions just because they get hyped and used at big company. We need to look more at our real needs and avoid introducing unnecessary complexity.
Those claims are not true at all as a southpaw. I was pushing the pencil instead of smoothly pulling it. As soon as my teachers stopped requiring cursive and only cared that we wrote with whatever handwriting was most legible, I dropped it.
The most important feature of Evernote for me is saving attachments locally so they can be modified on the client machine and then automatically synced. Most alternatives can only allow you to download the attachment and then reupload the attachment manually.
I think this is a naïve view. If you do not like the next leader in your country, you'll not complain since you are not a trapped adult, and you'll emigrate instead?

People have a right to expect reasonable policies from their employers. It should not be "I'm the CEO, I'll do whatever I damn well please and you either take it or leave".

We are not in the 1800's anymore.
In the US, maybe.
...and of course it wants to kill you :)
And rock climbing walls, stadiums, courts, parking enforcement tech, regulations over regulations of the smallest crap.

Imagine if the school was just a building with rooms for teachers to meet with students and labs to do research in. Maybe it wouldn’t be fun for the sporty people and their name wouldn’t be in a cheerleader chant but it would be very focused and efficient
I'm aware of several academics that are banking 1M+ annual providing consulting services.
Not the organization as a whole, but some small teams use them. We use KeePass for most important passwords and API-keys. The master password is a prefix and a part from personalized Yubikeys for each member accessing the store.

A larger org would probably need a manager with extended access management, I am not sure if KeePass has such features yet. I think BitWarden does have an extended AD integration, but I am not sure if it is just to import users initially or if you can use AD authentication to access the key manager itself.
No, it will die the way myspace and others before it have. People are (slowly) moving to Mastodon each time this happens and eventually everyone will understand why things like Facebook don't make sense.
I also had similar feelings and experiences very early in my career.

Here are my thoughts

1) Burnout is not a workload problem, it is related to your subjective perception of the meaning behind that workload

2) Ultimately, the 'meaning' you attribute is related to your desired identity

3) The company where you work may change, but you may also change

4) You have to find and negotiate a role related to your long term desired core identity

Good luck!
Those maximums in Europe are largely ignored in high-paying roles (like what Tesla engineers would certainly be).

As an example, in London when you get a high-paying finance job, on day 1 the HR person comes by your desk and has you sign a waiver to waive away any rights to overtime and to accept that you will work as and when needed regardless of national limits.

Edit: I would also like to point out that when I did that job, the builders working on the skyscraper next door were working substantially longer hours than my 50ish hours per week, and probably for substantially less pay.
Makes me wonder if the same kind of treatment, applied to acoustic guitars, would have the same effect.
I think they meant that instead of saving links to articles directly, they will save references to archive.org links. This is a protection against the host taking down the article for whatever reason.
I believe one of the earliest applications incorporating this line of thought was MONIAC, the Monetary National Income Analogue Computer, which used water levels to model the economy [0]. There's a short youtube documentary on its history and operation. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAZavOcEnLg&ab_channel=Reser...

https://youtu.be/rAZavOcEnLg?t=101 (shows operation of MONIAC)
I feel completely the same. However I disagree with other ppl saying that 'your job doesn't define you'. You decide what defines you, not what they say. If your job really is your top priority, as it is for some people, and you are not satisfied, try indeed to either pick a new job or start your own company. But don't let others fool you just because you are driven and they are chill: there are passengers for every train: from express to commuter
Evernote positioned itself as a "second brain", but turned out to become an awesome Digital Vault. You can throw anything at it and Evernote will happily ingest it. You have blazingly fast search backed by Evernote cloud services, and even have some note linking capabilities but they are rudimentary when compared to a fully fledged PKM like Obsidian, DEVONthink, or others. These newer PKM tools allow you to reflect and reason on the content you have and massage it in ways that surface new ideas and allow you to follow unexpected relationships (hence being a true second brain). This is much more harder to achieve with Evernote.

Both are valid and powerful tools but the use cases are different, maybe just because the definition of "second brain" has moved since Evernote was conceptualized on the 2000s.
Man how out of touch do you have to be to do that.
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I would say if you have the proper social safety net, then yes. It gives you time to think about innovative new work, rather than shitty wage slave work.
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A fully remote company has no capital cost when it comes to building rent, taxes, electricity, etc… that all shifts to the worker. How is it that the company gets the glory for a perceived “pay raise”?
Hmm? I meant, instead of taking a web clipping or screenshot, I keep only a link to the page in question (and submit it to the archive if it wasn't already crawled). Though I'm still not happy with how I track what part of a page is most relevant--usually it ends up being an ad hoc mix of quoting and outlining. Related: Wasn't there an HN post about highlighting being considered harmful?

I'm also undecided still on whether to always record the original URL or the archive URL when the original page is unlikely to change. Archive links contain the entire original URL, so there's no risk there; on the other hand, it tends to be clear from the date of the note which snapshot to retrieve, so there's not really a need. But dates are close to being metadata and might be lost somehow...
That wasn't RDS but HD radio's data stream
Maybe you had an undiagnosed learning disability.
You’ll find that many will want a PhD for you to teach an if else regardless of your experience and will pay you 20k for part time.
Show HN: Launch Localstack “as a service” with automatic termination
Greetings!

I've just created a service that launches a Localstack container, make it available at a personalized URL, and then shuts it down within 10 to 60 minutes.

I made this because Localstack is a great way to mock the AWS cloud for Local Development or in CI/CD. But, to run it, you need a Laptop with enough available memory, Docker, Python, and other CLIs.

Also, if you want to develop locally with an AWS account, you'll have to sign up for an account. But then, resources get created and never deleted potentially leading to an expensive bill.

Feel free to give it a try and let me know what you think!
You're ignoring the "intrinsically" part. The OP is assuming that being self-taught is a signal that someone is interested in coding, because that's the journey they were on. People could be interested in getting a lucrative coding job and use that as motivation to learn to code on their own. That doesn't mean they're interested in coding itself. They might just want to get paid a lot.
Joplin has a web clipper addon at least

https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/readme/clipper....

There's also an offline OCR plugin based on Tesseract

https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/plugin-offline-ocr-extract...
"How can you be sure the copy wasn't modified? Why isn't the EXE signed?"
Maintainer Month
I agree with your overall sentiments in this matter. I am planning to setup a NextCloud server since I have a synology NAS that is under utilized. Partnering that with an RPi running CF Argo Tunnels would securely get it remotely accessible. SO..... I am just lazy.

EDIT: lazy mostly because of the hassle of importing data from my work Google Calendar, and my Apple personal/family calendars.
Unfortunately this is a problem of electronic money. Physical money is hard to track in small quantities, but as the quantities get larger it becomes more obvious and harder to hide the suitcases full of cash. (Or, in the Iraq invasion, C130s full of cash: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1 )

Electronic money of whatever form is equally trackable regardless of the value of the transaction. That forces a world where either you can drop country-destabilising quantities of money anywhere without any law enforcement or every microtransaction ends up in the security services database.

Anonymous billions are all fun and games until the second plane hits the tower.
>many people buy teslas for the statement it makes about their views and priorities

You're right about this. That's a stupid reason to buy a car, though, and indeed a stupid reason to buy anything.
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After-all, we tricked sand into thinking for us so it makes sense that certain applications could run on other mediums.
> From the productivity standpoint, it is not acceptable that a Machine Learning engineer or a Full Stack Developer are expected to know Kubernetes. Or that they need to interact with a Kubernetes person/team.

I agree - these things should be abstracted from the developer - thats the goal of SRE/platform engineering - DevOps is [supposed to be] as you said, a philosophical and cultural stance around early productionization. While not mutually exclusive, they're not the same thing.

But back to your point re: orchestration-level concerns being foisted upon devs - at a shop of any size, there will be devs who feel they _need_ to touch kubernetes to get their job done (wrongly, IMHO) as well as devs who want nothing to do with it - so without engineering leadership throwing their support heavily behind a specific approach, its hard for a small team to deliver value.
Project Olympus[0] from OpenCompute is 238 pages for the Intel XSP version.

[0]: https://www.opencompute.org/wiki/Server/ProjectOlympus
when I visited in my family in Kentucky, the local McDonald’s was paying as much as the Plumbing company and much more than the local manufacturing plant.