skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this instance, Google is freezing people below the Staff-Eng level who have already done their onsites.
I'm a huge advocate of cloud services, and have been since 2007 (not sure where this guy got 2010 as the start of the "cloud revolution"). That out of the way, there is something to be said for starting off with a monolith on a single beefy server. You'll definitely iterate faster.

Where you'll get into trouble is if you get popular quickly. You may run into scaling issues early on, and then have to scramble to scale. It's just a tradeoff you have to consider when starting your project -- iterate quickly early and then scramble to scale, or start off more slowly but have a better ramping up story.

One other nitpick I had is that OP complains that even in the cloud you still have to pay for peak load, but while that's strictly true, it's amortized over so many customers that you really aren't paying for it unless you're very large. The more you take advantage of auto-scaling, the less of the peak load you're paying. The customers who aren't auto-scaling are the ones who are covering most of that cost.

You can run a pretty sizable business in the free tier on AWS and let everyone else subsidize your peak (and base!) costs.
Slowly reduce your output relative to others.

Stop picking up extra work just because you can do it.

Start working less hard (spend a few hours a day on hacker news, for example).

Sadly, the above often results in more promotions and being considered more important, for some reason. I can't explain it.
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Replace customer with manager/stakeholder/etc and it's still practical advice. I used to take a lot of work-related criticism personally and had to actively practice separating myself from the situation. It never goes away but definitely gets easier to manage.
Pushy Plant Is the First Proved to Shove Its Neighbor
I can't tell if this is a good thing or a bad thing though!

Imagine the clout of saying : "we stayed online while AWS died"
I have no problem with properly regulated stablecoins (and hoping they come about soon). Blockchains are only necessary for one thing and that is cryptocurrency. Doesn't matter if that currency happens to be a digital representation of EUR or USD or whatever.

If you think they're more expensive to use than centralized providers, you're probably using ethereum or bitcoin. I can send USDC on Algorand in any quantity for less than a cent
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everyone in this industry loves to think that they're surrounded by (and accordingly one of) the smartest people in the world. Sure, some people in tech are very very smart, but many, maybe most, of the smartest people in the world, don't work in tech at all (they work as researchers, in universities)
On modern cameras, you rarely have to worry about the numbers, unless you a deliberately doing something fancy (like continuous waterfalls).

The biggest mistake most people make is not filling the frame, because they are focused on the center. Checking the borders of the picture is a simple habit that can dramatically improve composition.
It’s child abuse.
The cleanest and easiest use case I see for crypto is just optimizing the whole securities issuance and fund management legacy system. For my business in alternative investments if I want to raise money for a project with a Regulation D offering I need to spend a lot of time and money jumping through hoops and dealing with numerous financial institutions.

The typical flow of information, effort and money goes like this: the sponsor (me) creates the investment opportunity under Regulation D of the SEC ruleset with the help of some securities attorneys, a managing broker dealer (SEC compliance) signs off on it and circulates it to broker-dealers via selling agreements, then, wealth advisors who are registered with those broker-dealers can sell our offering to their clients, those clients then fill out a subscription agreement and send their money to a third party called a transfer agent, the transfer agent takes in the agreements and cash, logs all the details about the investor and manages the payment of distributions with a mixture of direct deposit and paper checks, and generates tax documents via mail, these distributions and tax documents then go to the financial custodian of the asset for each investor.

This process involves 8 to 10 different parties, multiple financial institutions and reams of paperwork. The cost of capital is approximately 11% using this method.

I dream of the day that I can offer a tokenized security on the blockchain, that is held by the investors themselves in their wallet, with distributions paid with USDC directly to their wallets. The reduction in cost would be incredible--all we need is the legal framework to allow it.
America Isn’t Ready for War with China
Well, there are outrageous lies, damn lies and statistics I guess.
The majority of which folks? People in the world? Certainly. People in history? Even more certainly. People in the United States of America? ...I mean, probably not actually a majority, but certainly lots of people in the US would have difficulty putting away months' worth of savings without really rigorous amounts of financial discipline.

The majority of people who read Hacker News? Uh. No.
Anyone who unironically believes "code is law" or "code is the contact" should be taking a hard look at this and realizing how terrible those ideas are.
a search engine won't need joins, but other things (ie text indexing) that can be split in a relatively easier way.
I think a lot of candidates (speaking for myself here) just don’t care too much to negotiate equity at privately held companies. Given the highly unlikely probability that a company I work for will have a successful exit at all, let alone while I am either employed or hold exercised stock options, it’s all Monopoly money to me. Benefits, salary, and bonuses is the only compensation I negotiate and judge a company on. All the other stuff is just lottery tickets.

Meaning, startup or no, I’m expecting to be paid what I ask. levels.fyi shows that my pay+bonus at my startup for my role matches FAANG compensation so I’m happy with it.
No, its not. Not only.
The political problem is a epxression of a deeper pathology. This species is unable to form innovative (free) societies without a constant surplus of ressources and energy.

We "unchanged" are a exponential curve, bumping against a linear ceiling and this needs to fixed first, to even have the mental tooling and stability to handle grand projects.
Calling it a scheme seems a bit rough. It's a market mostly unencumbered by regulation (not true of on/offramps), online 24x7 and not directly controlled by governments -- an entirely new asset class with unique properties. It allows for new business/cause funding models. Anyone can participate regardless of "credit rating" or ideology and no one needs a custodian.
This: https://github.com/pluralsh/plural
5) Running various investment scams such as Ponzis, and pump-and-dumps (AKA rug pulls) in an anonymous fashion. There is a lot of money to made doing this right now...
Great information, thank you.
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Why study functional programming? (2012)
It's unethical for companies to try to exert control of where or how their goods are used, since that infringes on basic user autonomy. That includes importing a (paid-for!) stream from one country to another.

Resistance to this trend of diminishing user autonomy is not only ethical, but our duty. Not circumventing these limits is what is unethical.
I'm crappy at embedded development but isn't it pretty normal to handle "multitasking" with interrupts instead of using an event loop?
You can have a look at the code: https://GitHub.com/livebook-dev/livebook/tree/main/app_bundl...
Yes it absolutely does lol
I liked The Big Short.

On a different but related note, I also really enjoyed the Compleat Ubernerd, written by Tanta, all about mortgage servicing in the mid 2000s: https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2007/07/compleat-ubernerd...

I'm not sure how it has aged (no Dodd-Frank updates, the author has passed away) but it was glorious in its time.
The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty was nullified over 40 years ago. The US policy with respect to Taiwan since then has been strategic ambiguity, and we can see how well that worked out for Ukraine! They were in the same situation as Taiwan, being strung along by US assurances without a firm commitment. The parallels are obvious, and if I were a Taiwanese policymaker, I certainly wouldn't be counting on US military intervention.
Obligatory alternative tool plug / comparison:

I work for https://replay.io , which is a true time-traveling debugger for JS. We have forks of Firefox, Chrome, and Node, instrumented to capture syscalls at the OS level. Those recordings are uploaded to the cloud, and devs can then use our web client (effectively the Firefox DevTools as an app + a bunch of new features) to debug the recording at _any_ point in time, including adding print statements after the fact that show values every time a line was hit, step debugging, network requests, React + Redux DevTools integration, DOM inspection, and more.

Currently, our main usage is manually recorded replays, but we're actually working on similar test integration features as well. We can record Playwright and Cypress tests, upload recordings of test runs, show results per test in our dashboard, and let you debug the full recordings of each successful and failed test (code, DOM, network, console messages, errors, etc). The test suite feature is early closed beta atm - we've been dogfooding it ourselves and it's _really_ helpful!

Based on your description + a quick glance at your home page, sounds like we're addressing the same use case in similar ways, with some differences in the underlying recording technology and implementations
With crypto you don't have to ask nicely, you just send. Being your own bank has it's advantages (and risks).
let's discuss it in 2042 then :-)
i handled a 8x increase in traffic to my website from a youtuber reviewing our game, by increasing the cache timer and fixing the wiki creating session table entries for logged out users on a wiki that required accounts to edit it.

we already get multiple millions of page hits a months for this happened.

This server had 8 cores but 5 of them were reserved for the 10tb a month in bandwidth game servers running on the same machine.

If you needed 1,000 physical computers to run your webapp, you fucked up somewhere along the line.
If the thought in academia which leads to Marxism was actually evidence-based, then it should be easy to cite evidence for Marxism. You'd just have to read what they say and quote their arguments.

But it is not. Evidence for Marxism that I've seen boils down to rhetoric. Evidence against Marxism involves mass famines, low economic productivity, failed predictions, and so on. Therefore a significant fraction of Marxists in academia must support it for reasons other than the evidence.
> two quarters of contracting GDP

Another unusual thing is that even though real GDP is down, nominal GDP is still going up: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDP

I suspect that if gas prices had started coming down earlier it would've brought inflation down enough that real GDP for Q2 would've been slightly positive.
Because in a meeting of 20 people, it's not practical to constantly worry about people who want to speak but give zero indication that this is the case. Approximately nobody prefers passive-aggressive women to assertive women. If men get away with being pushy and rude more than women, that's a valid problem to address, but assertiveness has nothing to do with these things. Nobody is put off by a raised hand or a quick "excuse me".
In fact, Taiwan (proxy) will fight, not USA. The United States is trying to do for its other rival what it did in the Russia-Ukraine war.
I don't understand where you believe it's been claimed that conservatism is unilaterally against all technological progress. It isn't. Conservatism is best understood as a social phenomenon that interacts with technological progress varyingly, depending on the effect that whatever particular technology has on social values any particular group of conservatives happen to priotitize.

X-rays do not particularly threaten any social scheme.
Infrastructure requires maintenance which isn’t sexy.

Thus deferred maintenance …
I remember the year 2000 crunch and huge demand for golden age COBOL programmers.
99% of the time it's a minor update patch that you really should just apply, or Snyk will add a patch to the build to fix the security hole directly.

Honestly it's just not worth worrying about whether a security hole is exploitable when the decision is whether to accept a minor update patch. Just accept the patch PR and move on.

The times you need to do a major update to get a patch fix it's equally important to just make that upgrade, since that means the ancient version you're using is likely out of maintenance and likely is throwing warnings that you're using a deprecated version.

Yes, it's more work to perform a major upgrade. But that doesn't mean it isn't good engineering to keep your tools up to date.
I think the idea would be that in a scenario where crypto becomes a currency, there wouldn't need to be an off-ramp (at least immediately, think war/revolution). You would trade the crypto like "real" money.
Together, these teams have achieved a very significant cost reduction: the link I shared cites a sub-$1K cost to sequence a genome today; a cost savings of millions of dollars per genome.
9 months after 20 years doesn't seem particularly great. Heck, I got 6 months severance + 6 months of paid health insurance after being at a large corp for only 2.5 years - it was a buyout, ie. they were asking for volunteers to take severance to leave so they wouldn't need to do an actual involuntary layoff later. Seemed like a great deal and I had another gig 6 months later so it was kind of an extended vacay.
Just added a bit of info/context to this branch of discussion, without any additional intent.
Apple has a ton of engineers and they are able to pump out high quality products with really cool features. Its possible, but it requires focus (look at how limited Apple's product line is compared to Google) and it does require people in leadership positions with very clear visions, which Apple definitely has.
In 2022 Arduino has several baords, many of which are NOT using atmega 328. Some of them have multi-core Arm chips, some of them have risc-v (not sure if they have any of those as multi-core though).

There are already people running FreeRTOS on those.

Not sure why you would dismiss multitasking on those as "useless".
I think the example to look at is biological nitrogen fixation, vs. the Haber-Bosch process, which operates at high pressures and temperatures and therefore has a small area footprint. You can do biological nitrogen fixation with legume (pea, bean) crops in symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing bacteria nodules, and then compost the crop to generate a nitrogen-rich fertilizer, but this means devoting large fields to the process. The Haber-Bosch process in contrast can produce much greater amounts of pure ammonia in a single location.

Haber-Bosch traditionally has relied on large fossil fuel inputs, but it's possible to get the hydrogen from the process via hydrolysis of water, powered by renewable energy (or nuclear), and use electricity instead of fossil fuels to run the high-temperature, high-pressure catalytic reaction (H2 + N2 -> NH3).

The same arguments apply to carbon capture and fixation: you can do it in an industrial setting, for example the North African desert (which doesn't support much plant growth), you could use seawater as the hydrogen source and plentiful sunlight and PV/concentrated thermal for electricity to drive the carbon capture (fans etc.) and the analogous version of Haber-Bosch (Fischer-Tropsch) for CO2 - CO + H2 -> hydrocarbons.
Ask HN: White label products, discovery to in-hand
I just stumbled upon lot of earbuds, weight scales and barcode scanners which looks same in shape and size but labeled differently on amazon or other marketplaces.

I am seeking if anyone have experience with white labeling their product. I tried looking some blogs or articles in this space but didn't hit any luck.

Would love if anyone have any experience or resources for this. TIA
Isn't this simplistic?

It really depends on the service, how it is used, the shape of the data generated/consumed, what type of queries are needed, etc.

I've worked for a startup that hit scaling issues with ~50 customers. And have seen services with +million users on a single machine.

And what does "quickly" and "popular" even mean? It also depends a lot on the context. We need to start discussing about mental models for developers to think of scaling in a contextual way.
Definitely, and I don't mean it to sound like these people couldn't be making better choices, but once you've dug your hole deep enough, it's hard to ever get to a point where you can be "safe" from this sort of thing. Even if they knew, for example, that the company was shutting down for a month starting in six months, the likelihood of being able to stow away ~ two paychecks during that window is quite small.
I have not found 4 days to be a usual deadline at any other company.
In this theory where do Asians, South Asians and Jews fit in? Most do not come from generational wealth. Many are recent immigrants to the US, and actually supporting family members from their homeland (basically the opposite of generational wealth).
There are a few people who did a complete switch to study rare diseases with no background.

Sonia Vallabh, and her husband, Eric Minikel are the strongest examples of these type of highly smart and ambitious people.

> Sonia Vallabh ... had just graduated from Harvard Law School.

> [Eric Minikel] ... had recently gotten a degree in urban planning from M.I.T

https://www.broadinstitute.org/bios/sonia-vallabh

https://www.broadinstitute.org/bios/eric-minikel

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/health/rare-diseases.html
not sure what the livebook is--the landing page is not sufficiently clear or coherent.
Nomad was hacked. Unless the hackers are generous and return the $--or--somehow used a weak private key to store the eth, there is no way to get the $ back even in the age of the universe. That's the 'use case' I suppose: One-way, irrevocable money transfers and storage.
I'm glad Stray is having this success. BlueTwelve made a hell of a game.

Also, Annapurna Interactive seems to be publishing hit after hit. They're like an A24 of games.
that falls into the category of knowing the “true” price better than you do
Capitalism already has a solution; effluent taxes and new technology.
At Sunsama we address this directly in our pricing:
https://help.sunsama.com/docs/pricing-manifesto

Shutting down or acquisition is the norm for calendar/task tools.

You can add Cron to your list too. They were just acquired last month by Notion. I think Cron had more traction than Sunrise/Woven too.
That was a really long video just to explain a simple premise.

YouTube won't change, they exist to make big brand partnerships, to generate money from embedded ads, and to collect revenue from any account that wants to be viewed by charging for paid promotion.

YouTube also has volumes of content, most of which barely gets seen, while they have a massive user base that is unsatisfied with recommendations they get.

The content ID system is abused by black hat hackers regularly to make money and YouTube does relatively little to stop it because it doesn't cut into their overall platform revenue. The content ID system also serves big business in supporting a gate for what is sampled and remixed, and it frequently is only applied to medium and small creators, which often blacklists those creators from the site altogether.

The content ID system has also helped me in small ways to protect my own IP, as I've found that a few people directly copy my own content and re-upload it as their own, so it's not all bad.

There are thousands of accounts that transform audio (slowing it down slightly and doing other things like adding reverb to audio) which literally steals money from musicians on the platform.

YouTube's technical support is extremely weak, because they really don't care about anything other than pleasing shareholders now because of the long line of people who upload endless streams of video content in hopes of being discovered, but the market is totally saturated with creators, and small creators only make pennies because they're always pitted against hackers and large corporations with lots of money for attention.

YouTube is still useful if you know how to dig deep and find content where people aren't stretching out presentations just to improve their "watch time" metrics or following the scripts of creating bright thumbnail images, using clickbait-ey titles, and saying "like, follow, and subscribe" over and over again in every video.

YouTube won't change until people stop following the fake sense of conformity it encourages. The majority of platform creators are spending tons of money and time creating content that only works on YouTube ritually for no pay, and subjecting themselves to rules based on whims of YouTube executives, that work to please shareholders and major accounts, not to find new talent and to drive innovation for the platform that benefits creators.

The above is likely a >2-3 minute video that could save a lot of creators tons of money and frustration, but it would never be recommended by YouTube's algo just based on the subject matter.
But why bother with blockchain in that case? What you’re describing is a legal solution centralised by the government, and any hash tree with work in a non-distributed situation.
Depends what you mean by a database I guess. I take it to mean an RDBMS.

RDBMSs provide guarantees that web searching doesn't need. You can afford to lose a pieces of data, provide not-quite-perfect results for web stuff. It's just wrong for an RDBMS.
This is why the EPA was recently gutted by the Council of Guardians though.
True enough, though Snyk will sometimes offer a patch rather than a PR to a new version of the dependency.

The Snyk tools apply to the patch directly to (e.g.) `node_modules` after the latest code has been downloaded.
Long postdocs are a modern phenomenon due to the oversupply of biomedical researchers. Historically people did shorter PhDs and skipped postdocs. There are stories of old timers saying they got their faculty position based on just one or two papers, unthinkable these days.

If you’re independently wealthy, you don’t need to go through the modem hazing ritual and you can start your own lab much earlier.

I’m not saying you can start immediately and be an effective researcher, you will initially suck like everyone else. But you will have a better time learning how to fail if your career/livelihood is not on the line.