skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first experience on such a team was a team that started out improving a lacking standardized deployment process (including changing the target from a very bad slow scaling prone to errors AWS product - yes beanstalk - to k8s). The biggest benefit here was that the team was on the same floor as most developers, and the entire company was really small. We knew the challenges that developers faced.

We then eventually rewrote the platform from an "everything is implicit" approach (branch leads to deployment with stable URL x, logs end up at Y, metrics get scraped at Z) to "everything is explicit but we have a second component that emulates the old way unless overruled". Nothing changed for developers, except that they got a lot more levers.

Then that company was merged back into the mothership (it was a "moonshot startup make an online shop for us" kind of company) and everyone there that could be enthusiastic about technology was excited about the stack, considering they were stuck in the 2000s before. The tech turned out to be flexible enough to accomodate the needs of modern Scala/Node services and legacy PHP alike (with the help of a base image that included a little go proxy to add standard HTTP metrics).

Unfortunately there was a change in leadership to someone who wanted to essentially recreate a tech stack they had used elsewhere. Akamai to Cloudflare, AWS to GCP, Slack to Teams... unilaterally. The team imploded within a year and a large Kubernetes vendor came in to get developers on "standard tooling".

As far as I can tell, 2 years later, our infrastructure survives though. We built it pretty tough and I guess none of the other "standard tooling" solutions really fit. The vendor even ended up asking if they could open source the system. Unfortunately nobody in legal cared enough to figure that one out. I'd have liked it to survive somewhere.

It's a very unique story of a platform that actually evolved mostly organically, and I realize that most attempts at platforms don't work that way. I always try to take learnings from this into new attempts, and it has been working pretty well. Getting someone from platform to work in development teams is probably the most useful thing I'd recommend.
Remove Kubernetes and "A few Hetzner dedicated servers running just your application" has even better reliability as you remove more points of failures than "A few Hetzner dedicated servers running Kubernetes".
See Frank Zappa's autobiography for an excellent discussion of this very thing.
Our culture, government, environment, and interpersonal relationships are all in shambles. Why don't we spend billions on solving real-world problems and having real-world interactions instead of using virtual reality technology to look around the artificial environment, move around in it, and interact with virtual features or items?
I had the opposite experience. I never read a comment worth reading.

Reading code was always strictly better. Truthful and often easier to parse and understand.

And with code you can actually converse by putting in breakpoints, disabling parts of it and observing it what it is actually doing, how and infering why.

Documentation was always dead almost always outdated prose.

Even when it was up to date and accurate I often understood what the person writing a comment actually meant only after I read and understood the code it was referring to.
Nextdoor has earned my award for the worst example of human manipulation to boost the number of user signups that I've seen.
When you give half the effort to set things up properly, a single server can handle a lot of load and traffic, and get a lot of things done.

If you know some details of the services you're going to host on that hardware, the things you can do while saving a lot of resources is considered as black magic by many people who only deploys microservices to K8S systems.

...and you don't need VMs, containers, K8S and anything.
If you're pro-choice then I wouldn't expect you to say that in some cases you'd be offended if the person had a choice.
> Maybe they are intentionally using boring tech

This might be true on the infrastructure layer, but HN definitly uses "fancy" technology as Paul developed his own lisp that powers HN, Arc :) http://arclanguage.org/

> Arc is designed for exploratory programming: the kind where you decide what to write by writing it. A good medium for exploratory programming is one that makes programs brief and malleable, so that's what we've aimed for. This is a medium for sketching software.
Russia has around 140 million people, is a one of the major exporters of oil, natural gas, wheat and fertilizer.

Thats why things like this are happening: https://www.reuters.com/world/india/russia-becomes-indias-se...
Life will find a way: could scientists make Jurassic Park a reality?
No I am saying from the inside of a tech company, it's taken very seriously, audits are strict, and non-compliance comes with a very harsh punishment which can kill companies
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http://arclanguage.org/forum

Does look familiar with interface?
Related:

https://web.archive.org/web/20111125134429/http://www.themea...
First I've heard of ROBS, thanks for posting. I would have assumed OP was talking about a Self Directed IRA, which is an interesting account that can do a lot more than hold securities. From my understanding your IRA can at that point own an LLC which then might hold other assets like actual real-estate.
Companies where you have to log in and download invoices are the worst. If there's a viable alternative to their products I switch immediately. You make it seem like it's not a big deal, but a reasonably sized startup has dozens of service providers. Should we pay every little service $4k/mo just to save the communications and context switching overhead?
Oh I laugh.. but this is so true, it hurts.

I can make an argument that only good things will happen if we literally shut down the internet from tomorrow.
Technically, if retention at the most penetrating particle size is 99.95%, then retention at the 0.3 micron level is at least 99.95%.

But obviously measurement is not actually done at the most penetrating particle size, because retention at that size would be indistinguishable from zero. It isn't clear what they mean when they say "most penetrating particle size".

> defines several classes of filters by their retention at the given most penetrating particle size

If the MPPS is given... what is it?
>pxe boot mode that let us automatically select os image based on asset tag from our cmdb.

This is actually how we were booting our linux cluster nodes for the ATLAS project for the LHC while I worked at a physics lab.
Governments in Europe and elsewhere are already working on legislation to mitigate e2e encryption by law. Regulating things like cloudflare as they have already done with ISPs to hand over data is not even much of an imagination leap. For example in the UK all time:srcip:destip:user data must be kept for 1 year for every residential ISP and provided to government departments (not even law enforcement) through a standard system
Maybe I need a better way to phrase it.

High level architecture diagrams, user journey diagrams, low level diagrams, are probably all distinct topics.

I feel all three are extremely important, but that's bordering on my opinion.

> but I find that low level diagrams usually tend to be a lot more trouble than their worth

Out of date low level diagrams are surprisingly useful.

One of the things that I've found is that, with extremely high LOC projects (LOC definitely measures complexity), you'll find that low level diagrams are worthwhile, at the cost of a time investment in generating them.

When/how to do them is a certainly a fine art. There's no right answer.
More like Carpal Olympics, amirite?
I appreciate the way you phrased this. In my experience, the nature of poverty in Appalachia is alien to many people (the numbers are so low, and the region is so isolated in many ways, there are many aspects of it that are unintuitive and jarring at first glance.)

Since you seem curious about poverty in Appalachia, I thought this bit of data might be interesting:

Sevierville, where Dolly Parton is from, has an average individual income of about $23,000 in 2022–which is actually a significant increase compared to just a few years ago. When you adjust for inflation and consider that high schoolers have relatively lower earning potential, the weight of $500 makes more sense.

Source: https://datacommons.org/place/geoId/4767120
I'm not sure you and your parent understand what an SLA means. It's an agreement that, when broken, incurs a penalty.

They aren't saying they guarantee 100% uptime. They're saying they'll pay you for any downtime. It's literally the 3rd paragraph:

> 1.2 Penalties. If the Service fails to meet the above service level, the Customer will receive a credit equal to the result of the Service Credit calculation in Section 6 of this SLA.

(Most people I know consider them meaningless marketing BS that's really just meant to trick people or satisfy some make-work checkbox)
An Introduction to Bug Bounty Hunting
I sometimes vote and click "Reply" with very small delay. This prompts a message that they can't serve requests that fast.

Other than that I have seen no downtime.
> It goes to show that you can't blindly trust whatever you read, even on a .org site.

A domain ending in .org tells you that the owner chose a .org. Nothing else.
Disclaimer: i'm no political scientist

I would accept several definitions depending on the context. Here's a few definitions that would cover all these variations of capitalism:

- a society in which some people work and some don't

- a society where money/status exists and drives access to resources ; more often than not, the most necessary and least desired jobs are the least compensated

- a society in which production is not based on reflections from a local community about their needs, but dictated by a third-party (a boss, a State..)

A society that's not capitalist would follow the old anarchist tenet "From each according to their capabilities, to each according to their needs". Arguably, it should be possible to have "State communism" or "Stateless capitalism" but neither form has emerged throughout history (even for a brief period) and these formula are inherently oxymorons. Stateless communism (anarchism) is definitely a thing and has emerged many times throughout history although it's more often than not been crushed bloodily (see also Paris Commune, Ukraine Commune / Makhnovtchina, Spanish revolution, etc).
That's what I thought, I'm wondering if they really predict failing products, or if it was rather, companies already knew products were failing, and offloading onto these people through coupons.
Hopefully there’s an fsync as well.
"The author deleted this Medium story."
>I get giddy thinking about being able to have weekly dinners or watch movies with my family across the country and have it feel like we're actually there.

It's ridiculous how technology hasn't been able to replicate the 'hanging out on a couch watching Netflix or playing a videogame together' experience. All I need is the audio and video synching to work, with no feedback, and low latency conversation. I feel like you could stick a TV on your couch with a cellphone on top and accomplish this. Facebook could start by letting you do the most basic stuff like watch Netflix together. (Also it would help if Netflix wasn't 480P...)
Out of interest, do you think for sites like those, cloudflare provides any value?
I like this kind of discussions and as members of society it's hard to reason on things that are widely accepted. If one shares his point of view but doesn't want to give up his personal computer, one way may be to buy an used computer or repair one if possible. You'd still use energy, but at least won't support the making of new electronics which is a waste too
You can literally just mail them cash if you want absolute anonymity.
You haven’t paid much attention to the internet if you still think that allowing people a worldwide platform doesn’t have inevitable downsides.

The internet is the same as the other mass media when it was newly invented. The printing press didn’t change how people were, it just allowed them to reach wider audiences. Without the printing press, Martin Luther is just a guy. Without Twitter, Trump is also just a guy.

Facebook does connect people. Billions of people log in every day to see what their friends and family are up to. You might find that far fetched because you don’t know anyone who does, but that’s just your bubble.

The issue with Facebook is that making communication free has consequences. Those consequences are what Facebook gets blamed for. But this would happen regardless because it’s a direct consequence of the internet making communication free.
An SLA of 100% simply means you agree to compensate your customers (as specified, usually with credit) if your service is down at all, nothing more.

Also, SRE here but not for Cloudflare -- I've never seen SREs directly involved in externally published SLAs, they usually come from legal. We deal with SLOs on more fine grained SLIs than overall uptime
The quality is, ehm, not really good:
https://imgur.com/a/uobGnpK
> One sentence per line means diffs will operate per-sentence, rather than per-paragraph.

It isn’t necessary to have each sentence on a single line in order to achieve that. It’s sufficient to have a line break after each sentence, but you may also have additional line breaks in the middle of a sentence. That’s how I format plain text when diffs are relevant.

Sometimes it also makes sense to not have a line break between closely related (and possibly short) sentences. In the end it’s the semantic coherent unit of thought that counts, not the syntactical sentence-ending period or full stop.
Apple is smart enough to recognise that people want to turn off things for different reasons, and give you different options - to permanently turn off the transceiver hardware, or to disable various services.
Maybe its worth reaching out to Eben and Liz at the raspberry pi foundation to develop better support for this.

Seems like it would benefit both parties.
It is trained on the mnist dataset, to have it recognize a digit you have to make sure the digit is sized roughly to fill the entire screen. It won't work if you draw a small digit in the corner. This is just a demo of the toolchain, it doesn't showcase any state of the art image recognition.
Great advice. I would say drive assured with a sense of self-respect (but not overdo it with arrogance) instead of as if you are a vulnerable, insignificant exception. But then again I live in a country where a lot of bicycle drivers are (NL). I often drive in the middle of the (one way) bike lane, so that others cannot pass me easily. That's intentional. I often drive with my kids, and I don't want you to pass them quickly on your electric bike. I'm cool if you gotta slow down and use your bell. Also, you want to give yourself some space on the right for a myriad of reasons so much that its a better default. So yes, those behind me will be annoyed that they have to slow down, but its in our mutual interest (a bicyclist who gets hit by a car always has the legal side with them compared to car). In Amsterdam though, good luck as pedestrian. Bicyclists will ignore you and zebra (they're legally bound to stopping for you). When I worked in Amsterdam at some point I got really annoying at a certain crossing. I'd always put up my right arm and fist for visibility as well as they'd hit my fist before they'd hit me.
Does something like Automattic's P2 platform exist as a standalone product (preferably, open source)? If not, I'd be interested to create something like this.

Presumably, things like Workplace and Basecamp support it, but they seem too heavy.
Europe drawing emergency plans to switch to coal after Russia cuts natural-gas
Thanks! And it's interesting you mention those features as I was thinking of adding some in the same vein e.g. charts, stock quotes, pivot tables, etc.

Didn't think about notification though but sounds like a good idea!

I also created a roadmap too in case anyone wants to have a look

https://www.figr.app/s/FIGR11
That's quite bold of you to assume that you're the representation of the entirety of a 500+ billion market.

Not everyone looks for lazy relaxing experiences. You mention shooters, but if you tried Pavlov you'd see how transformative this tech can be for the gaming industry. And don't get me started on horror games.

The quest 2 is also currently selling more units than xbox series X and S, and the growth rate would make every investor salivate. There are plenty of projects and startups exploring this space. Gaming is the most flashy, pr friendly application but right now the big bucks are made in the enterprise applications and here again the potential is immense.
"What underlies learning in the brain might be actually simpler than previously thought despite the brain being one of the most complex objects in the known universe. A collaboration of Scientists led by the EPFL Blue Brain Project has achieved a major advance in accurately simulating the synaptic changes thought to implement learning in the neocortex, opening the door to greater understanding of learning in the brain."
DSQ seems pretty interesting. I don't have a use for it right now, but I'm sure it's something that'll be useful in the future!
If you pay for effort, not achievement, as in the study under discussion there would be higher motivation among the less well off.
next to none of the artwork produced from the medieval times through the 1900s was ever intended for a general audience, it was either commissioned to the tastes of a patron (usually the church or or a wealthy aristocrat) or was produced for the salons of high society, and by extension, the critics. outside of civic works or those dedicated to kings and empires, the entire idea of art as a trust to be kept for the people is a relatively modern invention.
art for popular consumption exists in the form of mass media and commercial art and, broadly speaking, this is where the working artists who are interested in representational beauty and -tonality still reside.
Yeah, because it totally works out like that on other platforms if epic didn’t have massive success of Fortnite to subsidize their store on pc no one would use it. Ea, Ubisoft, Bethesda, rockstar everyone of them came back to steam.
Not entirely fair. The Quest is a joy to use.

But I will admit that even though each time I take off the dust from my Quest I am wowed at the experience,

... each time I take off the headset I shrug and I'm like "cool".

Maybe we just need to come to grips with the fact that _as an entertainment or work_ device, it's friggin awesome - and as far as "reality" goes, it's pointless.

Now of course if it came to a point where you don't want to remove the headset.. but thankfully personally I don't have any worries.

A funny philosophical thought.. you reproduce the sense of smell, taste .. etc... Then people will be like, "umm, it's just like my real life now.. what is the point?" Other than being "transported" (for fake) and experience another place.

I think that's the main misconception with VR. There is the dream of "living another life". But it's just entertainment.

edit: I should also add that despite promising stories in the media, the ability of VR to heal trauma, to heal our nervous system, to make us better people... is still very much up in the air.. and as I am healing trauma myself I can see how VR could just as well unbalance the nervous system. I mean you're already seeing how "novelty" messes us up in social media (inifinite scroll etc)... why should we expect VR to make everything betteR?
Thanks for posting this. Full disclosure: I'm the author. I also work for Ably, which is what the post is about, and I'm a content writer so there is inescapably some marketing in it.

But I hope it's valid because, if you try to build a multi-region system for low-latency data transfer across regions, there are issues like discovery and synchronisation to consider.

I think it may be interesting to see how Ably is architected so its pub/sub messaging is realtime and reliable.

For example, how do the EC2 instances in one region find those in another? How does a published message in one region get to a client subscriber in another?
You seem extremely intent on ignoring my above points about the definition of porn not being a binary. There are plenty of porn-adjacent things that advertise well / perform well alongside. In fact, a lot of it will cater to narrowly targeted commercial niches that are valuable in themselves purely for the ability to identify them.
C# arrays are 'object', aka "Reference Type". The only reason I'm responding the way I do is because GPT-3 is too known for writing elaborate texts despite consistently getting fundamentals wrong. Your previous reply directly contradicts runtime implementation so I see no reason to apologize for my statements.

In addition, regarding Span<T> and other ref structs, they can hold any type and have no restriction to T : unmanaged. That's because objects by their nature of being on the heap are guaranteed to outlive the lifetime of any ref struct and the runtime supports tracking GC references held like this anyway.
This is what I like so much about you.com They show results from specific, popular sites/apps (I listed some examples below) plus allow you to set preferred sources to see sites/apps you find useful (for me it's reddit) higher/on top of your search results. I find it especially nice for coding cause sites like GitHub and StackOverflow are supported.

https://you.com/search?q=python+pandas+concatenate+two+dataf...

https://you.com/search?q=How+to+care+for+orchids

some supported sites:

- GitHub
- Reddit
- StackOverflow
- Arxiv.org
- TikTok
- LinkedIn
- W3 Schools
- Twitter
The thing I hated in NFSv2/3 (and fixed, finally, in NFSv4) is the use of random port numbers, making it difficult to have an NFS server with a firewall. Yes you can set 5(!) environment variables in an obscure file to fix the port numbers. NFSv4 routes everything over port 2049, but unfortunately breaks user mapping, I guess we can't have everything.
Tesla sued by former employees over 'mass layoff'
Really impressive that you kept going through all those peaks and troughs. While not financially rewarding, it must have been great exercise for your resilience!
Likewise. All the debunking and debunking debunking means I have no actual choice. If anything things are more muddy. Welcome to adulthood I guess.
> It's kind of incredible

It's not incredible, it's normal - it's been always like this.
Oh yeah I never noticed that but I hardly have hair lol
> How do you query this data or join or filter across such disparate sources? The only two solutions today are to put ALL data into a warehouse or to write custom scripts.

Isn't this whole problem space already addressed by a bunch of multi-source query engines (falling under the buzzword "Data Virtualization"?)
Cryptocurrency tech is vulnerable to tampering, a DARPA analysis finds
> I have no clue why the feds don't care about big tech monopolies the way Microsoft was attacked back then

You have to give some credits to the feds because tapping into half a dozen backends is obviously easier than having to tap into a few thousand.
Exactly, the Quest is by far the best experience on that front. That's coming from someone who started with an Oculus DK1.
OSM internally stores lat/lon in integer columns in a Postgres db, where the stored value is lat*10000000 (and lon*10000000). There is no tectonics model applied.
> They aren't saying they guarantee 100% uptime

> Cloudflare ("Company") commits to provide a level of service for Business Customers demonstrating: [...] 100% Uptime. The Service will serve Customer Content 100% of the time without qualification.

This is a legal commitment to provide 100% uptime. They are guaranteeing 100% uptime and defining penalties for failing to meet that guarantee. The fact that a penalty is defined does not stop it from being a guarantee.