skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do Teleworkers Travel Less? Evidence from the English National Travel Survey
I started off using Lambda as well and made the same sort of mistake. I can't remember exactly how much my bill was, but it was enough that it would have drained all my savings and effectively kill my startup. AWS was kind enough to write off most of it.

We now use Lambda only for simple cron / background tasks, or consuming from Kinesis. We use ECS for everything else. ECS is nice because it's relatively simple compared to K8, but still gives the full benefit of running multiple containers on one box.

I wrote a blog post last year about our migration over to ECS and experimenting with various ways to cut costs: https://blog.bigpicture.io/how-we-cut-our-aws-bill-by-70/
I mean, yeah, that's a slow moving adversary who is slowly building hard and soft power.

Unfortunately, people in government and in industry since the 90's, except for Ross Perot, ONLY saw $$ in their eyes. Of course, the seed was planted in '72 when Kissinger and Nixon tried wooing them as a counter-balance to Moscow as they experienced something of a falling-out.

But now, completely integrated into our economy as well as everyone else's it will be extremely hard to de-couple economies and they will kind of remain a necessary thorn and perhaps adversary.

Look, the Russia thing is pretty serious for the time being and all stops were pulled and still they are doing business with 2/3 of the rest of the world who could not care any less. Now, let's consider China and its larger clout and what effectives any measures against them would have.

And then we have the military who spent the Goodwill they had accumulated during WWII and the Cold war and squandered it with "nation building" and plain economic interest of industry. Fewer people will want to take up arms against an enemy given the last 30 years of continuous "elective" war.
Prefer this approach too. Makes unit testing easier and makes data more portable. Stick to the commonly supported set of SQL data-types.
The Carpathian Mountains and Transylvania would like to have a word with you...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpathian_Mountains
If the solution you're building is business-critical then you already have a problem day one: you need high-availability. That means you need at least two servers. As soon as you add that additional server your troubles have begun. Doesn't really much matter whether you add 1 server to your setup or 100.

Your problems compound if you have to consider disaster recovery (DR) and need an offsite location you can failover to. Now you have to contend with data replication and all its concerns.

So even if your application only has a few dozen users things can get quite complex quite fast. AWS makes it simple, practically push-button. Deploying in multiple Availability Zones (AZ) is a no-brainer, and it isn't horribly difficult to deploy in multiple regions, complete with data replication. All while having no servers to configure and maintain. No containers to contend with, no Kubernetes to fight with. To me it's the most stupid-simple solution available today and it's ridiculously cheap! At least so long as you test before you deploy for world exposure!
There's a reason why he is "a" Tesla rather than a Feynman, if that makes sense.
appreciate that. It's something I've thought about. For this one, I received 16 questions so got a good response for one AMA. The upside of gating questions is you get to see who has asked (profile pic and name) which I feel makes it a bit more human. Agree though I'm losing a few folks who land and don't like the friction of signing up. Gus' point below is a good suggestion so that people landing can at least see questions asked rather than blank page. Thanks for your feedback.
Get a counter current air exchanger. It vents cool inside air to the outside along a heat conducting surface that contacts the hot outside air to the inside, with only 5-8% heat import.
Here are some explainers as well as some DIY methods.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=make+counter+cu...
The cloud is way over-used and over-relied upon. Most companies could run on a cluster of raspberry pis or equivalent single computer before they need to worry about the cloud.
Pretty easy, OP sounds exactly like a guy who would have been perfectly fine with a single (Hetzner) server. Then these arguments popup and they are most of the time right.
I agree with you, that it always depends on the use. However, hurr durr Hetzner Server seems to be the more reasonable choice here (once again).
as an outsider (and thus potentially ignorant of pitfalls): I'm a big fan of the strategy to add transpilers to modern languages so that we can start writing new code in them, have them output COBOL, and then eventually have enough of the codebase written in the new lang to swap over to it instead.

I'm thinking of the Elixir->COBOL like this: https://github.com/TheFirstAvenger/cobol_to_elixir

Was speaking with the author about a year ago and he was having really good success with it.
Why would either of those things need a block-chain?

Crowd-sourced is already "network of trust".

An AI based score would have to be produced by a centralized provider, so network of trust is the reality for that too.

The only way blockchains would provide benefit would be as a distributed discovery mechanism for "review" of the video chunk and having an open ecosystem for that (a dht or trackers) would work better.

Blockchains only ever had a reasonable use case under the assumptions of functional capitalism (and we don't have one of those). The reality is that they can't be sustainable without capture and the market incentives only increase the incentive to capture it.

DHTs and Networks of Trust only have the value of what service they provide and while that is less exciting for scamming people, they have survived and been high functioning for decades.
Thomas intentionally targeted contraception and same-sex marriages in his opinion. It's not a matter of debate - he stated that the rulings that allow contraception and same-sex relationships/marriage should be revisited. There's no room for interpretation here.

"In his concurring opinion, Thomas — an appointee of President George H.W. Bush — wrote that the justices “should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell” — referring to three cases having to do with Americans’ fundamental privacy, due process and equal protection rights."

- https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/24/thomas-constitution...

"Griswold v Connecticut established a married couple’s right to use contraception without government interference in 1965. The court ruled in the 2003 case of Lawrence v Texas that states could not criminalize sodomy, and Obergefell v Hodges established the right for same-sex couples to marry in 2015."

- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/24/clarence-thoma...

"Justice Clarence Thomas took a broader view. In his opinion concurring with the majority, he wrote that if the legal underpinnings of Roe v. Wade were wrong, then so were the underpinnings of other rights not enumerated in the Constitution that the court recognized in recent decades. They include the right of married couples to use contraception, the right to same-sex romantic relationships and, in 2015, the right to same-sex marriage."

- https://www.wsj.com/articles/clarence-thomass-abortion-opini...

"Thomas speculated that the overturning of Roe would provide a blueprint for revisiting years' worth of decisions that he says are "demonstrably erroneous."

"After overruling these demonstrably erroneous decisions, the question would remain whether other constitutional provisions guarantee the myriad rights that our substantive due process cases have generated," Thomas wrote."

- https://www.foxnews.com/politics/clarence-thomas-supreme-cou...
>Almost anyone can afford a home if they're willing to make the necessary life changes (one of which may be getting less home than they want).

Similar to years past, except people are less willing to do that now.
As a former php dev I absolutely believe this. I can't get over how slow and bloated stuff is these days. I can't even do front-end anymore.

We once did an app ages ago where the database was used to create a materialized view of code (PHP) + web pages for everyone and everything. We then rsynced that to 6 machines. This is ancient times, but this thing FLEW -> click click click click you could fly through the pages. It was a read heavy workload, but still, even the front-end (just hand coded) was somehow faster than all the latest and greatest going on these days.
It stopped reading after GM
Filled with magic, is overstating the magical capabilities of the world.

Gandalf, one of the most powerful wizards in the world can't even throw fireballs at his enemies. He has to gather pine cones set them on fire, then throw the pine cones. Most of the humans were magicless and could have used a tractor.
this is damn cool!
Idealism: You don't manage your inbox! Shame on you! I deserve to be angry with you! I shall now grow a long and angry beard of indignation

Pragmatism: Fuck it I'm gonna jam some more emails up your ass
Facebook Labels Abortion Rights Vandals as Terrorists Following Roe Reversal
No and furthermore, fuck you
that's incredibly dismissive of alabamians who fight for progressive issues in the state. it's also harmful to the folks who suffer under the political hegemony.
You might dig Joystick https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick. Takes the compositional aspects of JSX/React but uses a very thin abstraction over vanilla HTML/CSS/JS to do it.

Joystick is full-stack (UI framework directly integrated with a Node.js back-end framework) but the UI part can be used on its own.
Does this happen because England doesn't have a God Given First Amendment?
Almost no acorns would have turned into trees, so the comparison falls down. If we look at saplings, we'd be closer, and obviously killing a sapling is more or less equivalent to killing an oak tree. We don't tend to talk about "murder" when it comes to plants.

Peanuts and caviar are the same, or even more silly. Only with potatoes does the question make sense, and clearly the answer is yes, potato plants die when you harvest them. But almost nobody thinks that is an issue, since they are not even sentient.
How do you get your first engagement on codementor? Usually I see very few open roles.
I ran a website with 37 million users and 3.6Gbps peak bandwidth (JavaScript+thumbnails, no video) from my own two racks of Linux servers thay i have not systematically updated for years. The OSes were beyond the lts support winows. I manually compiled my own updates, but very rarely and only those that i deemed critical. Granted, the site stack was completely custom so the standard automated hacks didn't work. In 15 years there were no accidents.
many years ago while playing with CGI (CGI::Simple? can't remember now) i saw a line that parsed the query string by means of unpack... It was short and terse, it felt like black magic.
Because some people here do exactly the same thing with aws/cloud. Not you but many here treat aws like it’s the thing you should use ‘because scaling and failover and omg 1 sec downtime’. And then the stories like OP showing that it is dangerous and my experience that most who do this are overpaying and could do with a hetzner server or, better even, a $5/mo vps, even if they do it right (which they are not, generally from all setups I have seen).

I agree with you though on the case by case.
We are using the pre release version of Nuxt v3 in production. I really like Nuxt’s developer experience and it is my go-to for front end development. As a backend, I truly don’t pay much attention to whether it’s Firebase + Workers, Vercel, Cloudflare, etc. The framework basically does it all under the hood for us.
This is sick. I've been getting into programming and just rediscovered Blender and its awesome API (admittedly have no frame of comparison to Maya or Max, but IMO it's WAY WAY better than the web/mobile APIs I have experience with). I was thinking of making almost exactly this as I dig into more seriously learning to program.
???

Pretty much all streaming companies of DRM protected content use EME with Widevine as the CDM. How is it useless if everyone is using it?
To each his own, personally I stay away from Django and full fledged frameworks (context: I run a few small saas and launch new products frequently).

I find that having to dig to find out how things are done and trying to hack around the framework is the cause of bugs and frustrations.

I still manage two services based on Django and they're a continue cause of pain.

I'd rather spend a week at the beginning of the project and set things up the way I want them with minimal dependencies.
Then evolving things is fairly easy, just a matter of skimming through the code.
Show HN: We used investor tools to find the best startups to work at
hey y'all -- can you please tell us if our job search tool sucks? :D

we built it using an investor platform called Harmonic.ai to gather startup data, then contextualize it so that job seekers could find out about the most exciting startups hiring first (like if they just raised, growing headcount fast, have an ex-unicorn founder, etc). pretty sure we're the first platform doing anything like this.

anyway, let me know what you think. really excited to launch this thing soon! getting feedback from the hn community first is really fun :)
IIRC Vercel and Netlify edge functions are actually using Deno Deploy.

Edit:

No, it's only Netlify.
*if they didn't sell any currency.
They'll also make money if the price recovers and they decide to sell.
I am English speaking only but would be open to learning new ones. It would be difficult though.
UX tip: classify interactions into Obvious/Easy/Possible
The Samsung Q1 Ultra was a 7 inch computer than ran Windows 8 as a tablet and had a very nice keyboard layout that allowed holding the device and using half the keyboard from each thumb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnzwbTO8FPY
On a side note, I don't know if you've already acquired any AWS credits. If not, Product Hunt Founders Club is a decent deal that will give you $5k in AWS credits. Between that and the no Stripe fees for 1 year, it paid for itself in no time.

https://www.producthunt.com/founder-club
Yes and because there is no law banning abortion at the federal level, you are free to get one unless your state or local government has a law restricting it. This is the system working as intended.
Unfortunately, email is not a business process. I'll leave it at that. I may be on my own little island over here in the middle of the sea of internets - but, going to hold that opinion till I die.
You can read Tesla's seminar notes and some personal logs at Columbia University. The idea of "genius" is fungible, but he clearly had the math skills to solve problems he was interested in. His design for the three phase generator is a good example of this.
that doesn't answer his question on why it should be that way. Courts have said many things over the years, doesn't make it any less of an appeal to authority logical fallacy.
Full time employment on a steady project for the company that owns the project.
Listened for a few minutes: I'd tweak the EQ so that voices sound more pleasant. In fact the remote voice (is it Zoom or something similar?) sounds awful to be honest, but that's the shortcoming of this type of recordings. So you need to apply a different EQ to the remote voice: reduce the highs and slightly boost the mids/lows, but it may end up being tricker than that.

Ducking in general is an effect used a lot on radio: you have a background music that automatically "ducks" when there's a voice over it. In other words, background music gives way to the voice.
It would be fun if that's what I was tasked with doing, but instead I'm doing feature development, and being asked why this small simple things are taking so long...
This is so, so true. At this point, I'm not sure it's a lesson I'll ever learn.

Despite experiencing the "shower solution" repeatedly over the years, I still cannot get myself to let go and take a step back until I'm literally too exhausted to continue.

When I'm thinking clearly, it's obvious the optimal answer is "take a break". But when I'm "in the stuck", taking a break seems like the worst possible answer. Every. Time.
again we are confusing the. concepts of responcibility and best practice.

it's best practise to vet the builder to make sure i get someone who does his job properly. its best practice fpr a war correspondent to wear body armor, and to avoid dodgy beighbourhoods on the way home

but its tjr builders responsevility to do his job properly and not to defraud you, a reporter is not at fault for getting shot and it's not my responsebility not to get mugged
So AI invents a thing that is patentable by a human - but not by it.
Time for rentaflunky.com to swing into action. rentastrawman.com is also good...
On the topic of Harry Potter and reimaginative fan-fiction, there's Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, in which Harry is reimagined as a science- and technology-savvy rationalist.

http://www.hpmor.com/

It also, IMO, has better and fairer treatment of the houses than the canon, which I felt was pretty reductive. (Gryffindor good, Slytherin evil, the other two may as well not exist.) I think the books would have been better to have, say, Hermione in Ravenclaw, Ron in Hufflepuff, and Harry in Gryffindor. The only thing that would have had to been dropped was the silly "Gryffindor wins the house cup every year" bit.
Slip Characteristics of Induced Earthquakes: The Guthrie, Oklahoma Earthquake
I personally liked the Cleon clones Dynasty gimmick, it blends perfectly with the Foundation theme, and is a brilliant workaround to have the same actors for the whole series. It's decently written, and my favorite part despite not being canon.

In fact, it feels like Foundation is three blended shows made by different people with different standards of writing:

1. Days of our Cleons - For adults, good.

2. Star Trek Salvor - For kids, action heavy

3. Gaal Dornick and the Philosoper's Stone - For children, nonsensical
"candidates who enter the interview process with their own good ideas for answers to these questions".
"Candidates ... their own good ideas for answers". Yes: the candidate asks these questions, but the commenter seemed to suggest that they also want candidates who have good answers ready for those questions.

That seems like a bit of a funny thing to expect from a candidate who doesn't necessarily know the domain, and certainly wouldn't be an authority on the company.
That's just if you're running stuff through bpy.ops. If you work at a state level with bpy.data it's a lot more agnostic.
Because the person in charge of the repository said so?

Just because something is open source (like most of my projects are open source), that doesn't mean the project owner must now accept any changes anyone in the world wants to make. Particularly when this 'anyone' is being paid by a company to implement what this company wants in a repository owned by said company.

That's not to say that open source is useless: if it were closed source, you wouldn't have been able to tell that the code is in the repo, just not activated, and you wouldn't have the option to fork it and enable it yourself and make your own custom build (freedom to study, modify, redistribute, and run), or pay someone else to make this change for you. Try that with Microsoft Windows source code, you can't study or modify that or even run it without permission.
2022 Cloud Salary Survey (O'Reilly)
Sounds like common sense.
Many years ago, I was hired at a web shop running Firebird in protection. It had the interesting property that if you ran the client software on your desktop to connect to the server software on another host, and used ^Z to stop the client, then the server process would hang until you resumed the client. I'm not entirely sure how I'd implement that as a feature if I wanted to.
1999: We are a distributed n-tier b2b and b2c e-commerce platform

2022: We use AI on the blockchain to change the world.
> Try Deno Deploy - you will be surprised at the speed and simplicity.

And egress fees ;)

I must say though, hashrock's illustrations for Deno are simply stupendous.
> - death threats to my twitter account

I'm skeptical
I just realized that https://hacker.news redirects to https://news.ycombinator.com/
Even crazier, the counterparty is Roger Ver, who took to Twitter to deny he owed any money at all and CoinFlex is now in a public spat with him: https://twitter.com/MarkDavidLamb/status/1541831697787928576

I can't imagine buying that debt now. Maybe the courts will sort it out eventually (with tons of time and money spent on lawyers) but it doesn't sound like Ver intends to pay the money at any point.
mpd is a server. You can get native client that connect to it locally but you can also get web frontends too.

https://www.musicpd.org/clients/

> MPD is designed around a client/server architecture, where the clients and server (MPD is the server) interact over a network. Thus, running MPD is only half of the equation. To use MPD, you need to install a MPD client (aka MPD interface).
I've thought for a while now that Darwin's theory of evolution is not wrong, but perhaps incomplete. With better understanding of things like epigenetics we may eventually find out how exactly species have evolved in ways that may at face value appear to defy natural selection.
> React is here to stay and will have jquery like longevity.

I don't think React will ever disappear... but I seriously doubt it will ever become as popular and ubiquitous as jQuery.

Even today, React's market share is nowhere near close jQuery.

https://w3techs.com/technologies/comparison/js-jquery,js-rea...
Interesting, I had always thought the term came from the actual example of Boston: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Common, and the depletion of resources in Rapa Nui is another prime example of a failure case. In any case, we have useful concepts that come literally from myths, e.g. "Faustian bargain", maybe this concept will eventually go that way?
So, I have a dual citizenship, US and Poland(EU). This allows me to basically work anywhere in the world.

US is still one of the best places to earn a high income as a software dev. I work for non-tech as a full stack dev. Good salary but not FAANG levels. My income is higher than a surgeon in Poland.

If you want to move I would optimize for income. Just grind leetcode and try to get into the highest paying companies. If you earned $300k+ while living way below your means that money would go REALLY far in some of the European countries.

This is my goal anyway. As my net worth reaches somewhere around $3-4 million, I'm going to most likely move back to Poland and buy a house somewhere in the mountains and maybe do some remote dev work for a US based company. Plus, since I am basically more American than Polish and have a good understanding of culture I could do some consulting for Polish companies looking to sell their product in the US.

I guess it really isn't the answer you are looking for. Also, keep in mind most countries have policies and laws that are often not popular with the people.
A compiler’s main virtue is patience, not smarts. That’s because there’s no value in smarts; the systems like Itanium designed to need them turned out to be unusable.
Getting fired.