skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a huge one -- value in outsourcing blame. If you're down because of a major provider outage in the news, you're viewed more as a victim of a natural disaster rather than someone to be blamed.
The cancel culture is strong in this one...

At what point did we loose the ability to make fun of ourselves? The world used to be such a pleasant place.
I guess we should expect our isp to start banning us without giving reason in the future too.
But most companies aren't startups. Many companies are established, growing businesses with a need to be able to easily implement new initiatives and products.

The benefits of cloud for LE are completely different. I'm happy to break down why, but I addressed the smb and mid-enterprise space here because most large enterprises already know they shouldn't run on a single rack.
How does this kind of race-based admission actually work in practice when it comes to “mixed race” individuals? (Scare quotes because I’m not even sure mixed race is a coherent concept). How far back in time can you go in search of an advantageous ancestry? This whole area seems rife with absurdities.
This is about like saying the Hindenburg proved the popularity of zeppelins.
> biasing the interview process towards cheaper, younger interviewees

Maybe young people entering tech are just smarter?

There's a lot more people entering in the funnel, so if we keep the size of those coming out the same I would expect them to be more talented.
Couldn't they just write all locations say to a public s3 file, maybe separated by geo squares depending on your viewport? client would just keep polling the s3 file(s). Unlimited bandwidth (at a cost yes..)
Inflatable costumes are common now. They have the advantage of being lighter than a lot of other approaches, and they are filled by a constantly running fan, so they are much more plea to to wear.

It's a bit like the "dancing man" inflatable you see outside of car dealerships. It's not airtight, but the fan keeps air coming in at the rate it flows out.
The I guess my first sentence is about eqally as click-baity as the article title. ;)
> In comparison, buying servers takes about 8 months to break even compared to using cloud servers, and 30 months to break even compared to renting.

Can anyone help me understand why the cloud/renting is still this expensive? I'm not familiar with this area, but it seems to me that big data centers must have some pretty big cost-saving advantages (maintenance? heat management?). And there are several major providers all competing in a thriving marketplace, so I would expect that to drive the cost down. How can it still be so much cheaper to run your own on-prem server?
Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired? (August 2022)
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In a slightly different situation, mid-40s, but even though I grew up with Commodore computers, programming in BASIC, Pascal, etc. I didn't spend my 20s in tech (yah, I know, missed opportunity). Anyways, back in it now, but instead of 25 years of experience in my mid-40s, it's 15ish.

I have not had it negatively affect me in hiring yet, but I do things like just eliminate the non-relevant jobs from my resume so they don't age me up, and emphasize that I'm able to learn things (I think fairly quickly), but also that I have a wealth of non-tech but important skills I learned during those years that give me a different perspective sometimes.

I do think ageism will (and is) slowly getting better as the first few generations pave the way. I don't know if I'll run into it in my career, but if so, I'll look for a company that values my age rather than views it as a negative.
For one of the young guys, you seem to have a pretty good perspective on this.

;-)

(I'm 60. And you're right.)
What could happen to the company: is that the Polish government or courts could deem the foreign company to be illegally operating in Poland (by virtue of employing you through a hidden contract), and require the company to set up a local legal entity, make corporate filings, pay taxes, etc. Or else pay fines. Or else get banned from operating in your country. You may also be entitled to rights under local employment laws regardless of what it says in your contract, which could also lead to the company being fined or banned.

What could happen to you: you get billed for the unpaid taxes and payroll contributions you should have been making. And possibly charged penalties or even fined for tax evasion.

Depends on the country’s specific laws and their government’s willingness to pursue things like this.
In France (and Germany too apparently), if you are found out - usually by a random tax audit - they will ask you to back-pay employee and employer contributions on the money that you received (so about 60% total)

the issue isn't really the company, as you pointed out, they are not in France, they're not subject to French law. The issue is that as a French tax resident, if you are meeting the criteria for employment (single company representing more than 80% of your revenue, everyday work relationship that is based on subordination etc etc), then you have to pay employment contributions

Why? For the same reason as every other mandatory insurance. If everyone who has a stable, well-paying job is skipping out of employment contributions, it makes the contributions for the others even higher, pushing more people out of the system etc until you have no-one left with employee protections
ya.. friendships with huge age gap was weird to me until i hit 30 and realized we're all just people and i should probably stop thinking about older folks like "parents" or "proper adults" and maybe we can legit be friends.
now i see young folks and wonder how they think about me. don't know where i fit anymore
> The "we want to be like Google" syndrome in tech is just devastating.

I think it is dead & dying though. Nobody would start asking brainteasers if Google went back to doing it.
> Because our society has also agreed that using race as the sole reason to determine an outcome is a bad idea.

Except it didn't actually, as demonstrated, not by words, but by drastically disproportionate representation in every single major institution in the country. This is all an attempt to combat that fact. If that fact ever changes, then this stuff can all go away. Until then, the incorrect argument you (and most of HN it appears) have given is just holding back attempts at progress.

There might be good arguments for why affirmative action is a bad approach but this argument isn't one of them.
I would define diversity as a representative sample of the population and time in which the organization is situated. In this case, the US 2020 census. If it's good enough for the US Constitution and for Congressional representation, it's good enough for Yale. Maybe this was difficult to nail down in 1791 but not so much today. It doesn't have to be perennial. Once every 10 years is sufficient.
The only cloud service I've had pro actively turn off provisioned resources is OCI. I've used all but Google cloud. That's a pretty distinctive difference IMHO. My post attempts to describe when and why. Though I have only used time based free credits on the other providers.

Despite my always free having been up a year now I'm still reluctant to put production critical resources on it because of the experience.

I'd be more willing if they would take one of my cards for an account upgrade as I otherwise generally like the service.
Generates mutable models from immutable model definitions. It's based on Kotlin's Symbol Processor (KSP). This is inspired from the concept Redux and Immer from JS world that let you write simpler immutable update logic using "mutating" syntax which helps simplify most reducer implementations. So you just need to focus on actual development and Mutekt will write boilerplate for you!
No one deserves anything. Things happen anyway. Clearly everyone has their own definition of fairness. Seems to me that someone at admissions office for the ivy’s has read kendi and was reasonably convinced that his take on reverse racism is correct. You can disagree, but since fairness isn’t a concept that even make sense metaphysically it’s hard to say they’re wrong.
Are you just sharing the same login? I suppose that works, but it’s not ideal, especially for things like sharing a collection of cocktail recipes with my friends (which I’m actually doing now with Umami).

I just checked Paprika again. There is no way to share a folder/category of recipes with someone else. Sharing each recipe individually is not really what I want to be doing either.
This seems like a rather weak takedown, but I'd be interested in reading a more thorough one if someone knowledgeable has written one anywhere.

In particular, I feel like building the city out in one direction, seems like it's a pretty good idea in terms of "factory made" construction, you're just repeating the same tasks, so specialist workers and tools like cranes just move onto the next segment when done.

Building something the height of the twin towers is hard, but building something the height of the twin towers, directly next to something that already exists and has elevators in it, that is the height of the twin towers with easy access on three sides seems a lot more doable.

I totally agree with the anti-royalty, totalitarian dictator stuff, so don't want to detract from that, but building sustainable cities in your country seems a reasonable use for the money in the abstract. And an oil-rich nation building a car free city, with 100% renewable power seems like a good sign generally.

There seems to have been a few 'wild' construction projects in the general area, would be interesting to see an expert take on if those seemed to make more or less sense once complete, and what percentage of them did get completed, and how sustainable they are in the long term, are they basically burning money unsustainable and what's the human and environmental cost of building them (deaths of workers etc.).

I think they also have a few other 'sustainable cities' that have been around for a while, which provide another good benchmark, if they're basically building ever larger prototypes.

This is the existing one I was thinking of, Masdar City in UAE:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masdar_City
In a purely meritocratic system, the result is the same as well due to the effects of crowding. If you have 100 applicants for a position, 90 of them from one background and 10 of them from another, the odds are that under a pure meritocratic position that all of your hires will end up being of one specific background.

Which results in a downstream effect of other perfectly good candidates being filtered into lower quality institutions due to no reason of their own.
I would recommend taking a moment to read the actual articles instead of dismissing the sources offhand. The City Journal article has links to the actual documents in question. The Washington Examiner has screenshots of the actual training. The WSJ has links to the actual politically biased and ideologically narrow hiring criteria being used. You can complain about the bias of these sources (just like other people do CNN, MSNBC, NYTimes, etc.), but take a look at the actual documents here.

If you'd like more reliable sources, here you go:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1418878112 Experimental evidence for favoring hiring women over men in academia
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21565503.2018.14... Strong evidence for preference for hiring minority candidates in academia
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2019/12/31/life-science-jobs-... (with links to actual documents included revealing clear use of DEI statements to cull huge swaths of applications)
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/minority-professor-deni... How DEI statements are used to discriminate against researchers on grants
https://www.thefire.org/fire-calls-on-uc-santa-cruz-to-drop-... More schools using DEI as a first cut in hiring

Maybe this is different in some companies, but from what I understand it seems to be happening at the same pace as well.
It appears there are no galaxies between 3.26 and 3.9 ly away. Maybe they're from Andromeda at 2.5~3 ly, and took some time to accelerate and decelerate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_galaxies
I have only done a few midwestern states. Call them and ask [0] - (919) 733-7328. You may want to first call your proposed county commissioner's office or city hall (if you are not rural), and ask them who to talk with about a new local business providing Internet service. If you can show the Utilities Commission that you are working with someone at the local level I have found they will treat you more seriously. In certain rural counties, you can even qualify for funding from the Rural Utilities Service of the USDA.

[0] https://www.ncuc.net/

EDIT: typos + also most states distinguish between facilities-based ISP's (ie with physical plant in the regulated public right-of-way) and other ISPs. Tell them you are looking to become a facilities-based ISP.
I have a relative that had the exact same problem with a Kia Telluride. They had to pay way over MSRP, plus a 'fee' for beeing on the waiting list to get one.
This isn't a random person who happens to want a little trip to an island, swooning with shock at the idea that it could provoke some kind of response. It's one of the most senior politicians in the dominant global power deliberately doing something they know will provoke a response in an ascendant global power. It's an act of defiance which you can agree or disagree with (personally I think nothing good can come of this) but let's not kid ourselves that it's a sweet old lady on holiday.
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> What was the value proposition of the personal computer?

Balance your checkbook and keep recipes!
I started using an app called Intent -- it seems to support a lot of these features. I've been very impressed with it.
Why do people who pay nothing feel entitled to a) service and b) customer support (neither of which is free to provide)?

This makes no sense to me.
So... I guess these folks haven't heard of latency before? Fairly sure you have to have "one big server" in every country if you do this. I feel like that would get rather costly compared to geographically distributed cloud services long term.
Users are much more sympathetic to outages when they're widespread. But, if there's a contractual SLA then their sympathy doesn't matter. You have to meet your SLA. That usually isn't a big problem as SLAs tend to account for some amount of downtime, but it's important to keep the SLA in mind.
2 years as a solo product manager building a minimalistic chatbot
Hi HN, I've been working on Presbot.com for over 2+ years now. It started as a self-learning chatbot designed to act as an interactive agent that would represent its owner in all sorts of situations.

I realized that until that interaction is smooth and believable - not passing a Turing test, but closer to an actual dynamic conversation, it provides much less value, more slowly. Also, most of the responses were reliant on scanning profile text which wasn't a great idea to capture upfront. Interestingly, a large portion of the users perceived the chatbot as a general-purpose AI agent capable of responding effectively to random questions (for example., What’s the meaning of love? How far is the moon from earth? Who was the 16th president of the United States? What’s Baby Yoda's real name? Believe it or not, these were some of the popular questions. Presbot was able to respond with vague "I'm not sure" type responses at best. At one point, I added top N results from Wikipedia in the response to at least point users in the right direction but ended up removing it eventually. Let me know if you’d like more of the questions and I'll be happy to share)

I ended up pivoting to a more minimalistic rule-based bot focusing on lead capture via a conversation curated with custom lead generation questions. I added an option to offer a service (e.g., newsletter signup) in exchange for users' email and the ability to retarget with a deeper discount or a more engaging value proposition if the initial offer did not go through and updated my value proposition to lead generation vs it being a self-learning chatbot.

I am reaching out for feedback and, in appreciation for your time, would love to offer a limited-time 50% off on all paid plans (Use Code HALFOFF at Checkout). The app has a free tier as well which should suffice for exploration. Thank you!!

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Replace the Tokyo nightclub with an air-conditioned military intelligence office in Pyongyang, where crypto is flooding in via ransomware payments and web3 exploits. That's the reality and it would still be quite sensational....as a Tom Clancy novel.
This is exactly it. It's likely a better business decision to just crash in this scenario.
Before I clicked on the link I assumed this was Taylor Swifts plane.
Course we don't know if that would still be the case for rats that were capable of communicating with others online.
Is there data to support the claim that more ageism occurs in this industry than others? I think it is probably true, but I'm wondering if there's any hard evidence. I suppose it's going to be pretty hard to get reliable data on this. We can get statistics on mean age vs other industries, but those numbers alone don't prove age discrimination.
I didn't realize libui was forked. What happened to the original project and author?
I dont know why peoplehate meritocracy but i can say one thing for sure that communities/orgs dont encourage meritocracy go down the drain.

I look for the best surgeon not someone with some race to do a surgery on me.
> The engineers I've known and worked with were more likely to judge someone as being "like them" for their usage of Emacs vs Vim than their race

There's such a thing as conscious and unconscious bias. People don't sit in the interviewing room and think to themselves "well this person is white, like me, so I like the idea of hiring them more", but the thought is still there at the back of their mind (and before someone jumps down my throat, no, I'm not saying everyone has this bias, I'm not accusing you personally of being a racist, I'm saying that this kind of unconscious bias is prevalent throughout society)

Emacs vs Vim is a far more conscious bias.
The endless search for a crypto use case
Sounds to me like there is no indexing of said site done by search engines, or if there is, it's getting black holed for one reason or another. You'd need information on how they configure their DMZ in terms of visibility to search crawlers, as well as logs that make evident whether they were crawled or not.

If they were crawled, but dropped from the index, it's possibly a free speech thing. There is no law that says Google must index a site. If there's paper trail that unveils an intentional decision not to prop up a competitor by intentionally dropping them out of search results in favor of their own offering, then we'll probably see a dilemma created tensionwise in terms of 1st Amendment rights of Google vs. Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

Only way to know for sure is eDiscovery. And I'm fairly certain any Jury that has to weigh Google's behavior is going to get pointed out to them the magnitude of spend Google has done to create the appearance of not being anti-competitive, and Google's defense is going to make it a case of the Government/their competitor trying to force something out of them, poor innocent of Google, subsidiary of Alphabet.
The funniest part of all these stories is the part where they announce that they've "notified law enforcement". Yeah, this space is all, "woohoo, we're free from the Man! Code is law!", until an exploit is found and then they have to call on the State to enforce that "no, no, we need the people with guns to undo this transaction because it's not what we meant." It's like a living demonstration of why libertarianism fails.
So free market is working as there is less supply than demand and people are complaining about it for some reason? So there was no issues when you could get car below MSRP?
Still don't want to shift under high power, though shifting while going uphill is actually doable, I quickly got used to going light on the pedals momentarily. Of course it requires already having a decent cadence to quickly ride out the dead spot.
I’m also 50+ and I wonder how reliable it is to just “present younger” (which I do) because the hiring manager may be the gatekeeper of prejudice, and s/he knows your age.

Is it really the “culture fit” i.e. do people feel like you’re their dad, or will it be a factor when they review your CV and see you are not only overqualified, but don’t know React?

I agree with your suggestion and it’s one reason why I’m starting a consulting company. I figure when the chips are down, the bosses need the work done, and the Olds get that. We’ll see, I’m just starting, but I’d love to end up with a stable of 65-year-olds helping startups actually ship.
The fact that you think the source of the racial discrimination is college admissions and not centuries of violence and hatred is sad, but unsurprising.

You are not immune to history, what happened before you were born does matter, and it effects/hurts people all the time. Affirmative Actions is just one way we can try and figure out how to heal that immense damage. It's not the only thing we can do, but it is something, and it can be done in a way that helps everyone.
Respectfully I have two qualms with your thoughts here, first is that lack of effort from one person must mean extra effort from another to balance out in some way, you could easily have people not pulling their weight but still be producing based on some leverage or multiplying factor in your business. More effort doesn't always equate to more value. Some businesses are just spinning their wheels, keeping themselves busy, while the core value generator keeps ticking over. I worked at a 10 man company that was turning over millions a month from automated lead generation, we could have all walked away for 6 months and it would have kept making money.

The other is just that it's not a realistic way to look at a workforce, especially in software, hours and effort don't equate to an "output" neatly. Most software companies are in the business of making value producing automations, not producing the raw value themselves. You can have one production engineer in a factory completely eliminate someone's job with a nifty insight that took him an hour to spot, now that person isn't pulling their weight (because their job doesn't exist anymore) but the business is more profitable, for one example.
George Washington Carver is a personal hero of mine. He faced all sorts of hardship and still sought to make the world a better place.
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The line of thinking you follow is what is plaguing this industry with too much complexity and simultaneously throwing away incredible CPU and PCIe performance gains in favor of using the network.

Any technical decisions about how many instances to have and how they should be spread out needs to start as a business decision and end in crisp numbers about recovery point/time objections, and yet somehow that nearly never happens.

To answer your points:

1) Not necessarily. You can stream data backups to remote storage and recover from that on a new single server as long as that recovery fits your Recovery Time Objective (RTO).

2) What's the benefit of multiple AZs if the SLA of a single AZ is greater than your intended availability goals? (Have you checked your provider's single AZ SLA?)

3) You can absolutely do rolling deploys on a single server.

4) Using one large server doesn't mean you can't compliment it with smaller servers on an as-needed basis. AWS even has a service for doing this.

Which is to say: there aren't any prescriptions when it comes to such decisions. Some businesses warrant your choices, the vast majority do not.
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