skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
unfortunately cloud computing and marketing have conflated reliability, availability and fault tolerance so it's hard to give you a definition everyone would agree to, but in general I'd say reliability is referring to your ability to use the system without errors or significant decreases in throughput, such that it's not usable for the stated purpose.

in other words, reliability is that it does what you expect it to. GCP does not have any particular guarantees around being able to spin up VMs fast, so its inability to do so wouldn't make it unreliable. it would be like me saying that you're unreliable for not doing something when you never said you were going to.

if this were comparing Lambda vs Cloud Functions, who both have stated SLAs around cold start times, and there were significant discrepancies, sure.
They are talking about the reliability of AWS vs GCP. As a user of both, I'd categorize predictable startup times under reliability because if it took more than a minute or so, we'd consider it broken. I suspect many others would have even tighter constraints.
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A little morbid, but sometimes it's important to remember what evil looks like.

> In the western Ukraine, SS General Friedrich Jeckeln notices that the haphazard arrangement of the corpses meant an inefficient use of burial space. More graves would have to be dug than absolutely necessary. Jeckeln solved the problem. He told a colleague at one of the Ukrainian killing sites, 'Today we'll stack them like sardines.' Jeckeln called his solution Sardinenpackung (sardine packing). When this method was employed, the victims climbed into the grave and lay down on the bottom. Cross fire from above dispatched them. Then another batch of victims was ordered into the grave, positioning themselves on top of the corpses in a head-to-foot configuration. They too were killed by cross-fire from above. The procedure continued until the grave was full."

I wish I had words to describe the thoughts I had regarding this, but I guess I'll just let it simmer.
> In reality Ukraine is infested with paramilitary organisations funded and trained by the west, fighting with western technology.

Do you have any cites for this?
Presumably you can use the 97% that is correctly transcribed to rapidly filter out the relevant content. This is likely to be only a small portion of the total content. Then you check 100% of that.
>Iran is flying in large quantities of drones that will expose Ukraine's forces to effective Russian artillery.

Not really, Russia doesn’t have precision guided munitions. Ukraine - or NATO - is at least decade ahead technologically, maybe two.
> wildly different

For this, I'd prefer a title that lets me draw my own conclusions. 84 errors out of 3000 doesn't sound awful to me...? But what do I know – maybe just give me the data:

"1 in 3000 GPUs fail to spawn on AWS. GCP: 84"

"Time to provision GPU with AWS: 11.4s. GCP: 42.6s"

"GCP >4x avg. time to provision GPU than AWS"

"Provisioning on GCP both slower and more error-prone than AWS"
Isn't synology running it hybridized with their own proprietary storage layer?
In addition to the usual cut/paste/sort/awk stuff, we've had really powerful "stream-operator" databases based on flat text data files for decades. They used to be somewhat slow. Not anymore, esp when running from RAMdisks.

One good one is Strozzi NoSQL (his use of the term NoSQL predates the current use of the term by many years...): http://www.strozzi.it/cgi-bin/CSA/tw7/I/en_US/NoSQL/Home%20P...

Starbase is another, with interesting extensions for astronomical work.

Linux Review article on the concept here: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3294

The article that started it all: http://www.linux.it/~carlos/nosql/4gl.ps

And there's even a book on the subject, centered on the /rdb implementation by the late RSW software. But I warn you, reading this WILL permanently change the way you think about databases: https://www.amazon.com/Relational-Database-Management-Prenti...
It was likely Tether being swapped for other stablecoins, or Tether swapped as a TETHER/USD pair on a centralized crypto market.
We love FDB for all the reasons you mentioned and decided to build on top of it.
It is quite flexible and provides a low enough primitive to be used as a building block for systems like Tigris.

However, if you are an application developer looking for a ready-made solution that you can plug-in as your application's backend, then FDB does require heavy lifting. For example, you would have to implement auth mechanism, query layer, schema management, and indexing. This is where Tigris comes into play.

You have a very interesting idea about backing IndexedDB APIs with FDB.
or loading everithing instead of lazy loding the images or use 3mb image instead of kb webp
https://zippycatholic.wordpress.com/2014/11/10/usury-faq-or-...
> I don't really have anyone to delegate to. I could coordinate with managers to negotiate for engineers' time, but this would take almost as long as just doing some of the tasks myself, so I don't do this

I think this could be worth exploring. It may take more time the first N tasks, but maybe along the way you'll find an engineer that is really good, or at least is interested in transitioning to a devops-based role. It could be an easy way to grow your team.
In the linked press-release, they call equally for "intelligent speed adaptation systems", which I think would annoy a much wider proportion of the country than alcohol detection.

I remember decades ago being amazed that Japan's commercial trucks had lights on the outside of the cabs that showed how fast they were going to aid speeding enforcement. A signal of wrong-doing, rather than a lock on wrong doing. Maybe that's the trick to adoption.
What I do, is schedule work tasks on the weekend that I know won't matter if they're not done, and then not do them. Works out great.
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ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactivity issue) is an issue of not having the option to center, being overactive, not being capable of controlling conduct, or a blend of these. For these issues to be analyzed as ADHD, they should be out of the typical reach for an individual’s age and improvement.
In addition to the mention of cymatics, I wish the article had gone into the technical details - like, was the golden sand all simulated, or did they film any real particles; what software they used, physics engine, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymatics
I added the page you suggested: https://tasktxt.com/download-mac-app
gcp is still mostly frozen. google rescinded even verbal offers. some people trash aws for the culture but really it is all of them faang
> Kraken’s libertarian values. He told employees that if they disagreed with the document, they should quit."

Isn't this an oxymoron. "I believe in an ideology based around self-determination, if you deviate from my directions by asserting your right to self-determination, like the literal definition of your own name, you should quit".

Sometimes the announcement of libertarian values just seems like a dog-whistle.
If you had some concrete examples I might read with more interest but TBH this just comes across as a rather emotional whinge.
Why would you scale to zero in high perf compute? Wouldn't it be wise to have a buffer of instances ready to pick up workloads instantly? I get that it shouldnt be necessary with a reliable and performant backend, and that the cost of having some instances waiting for job can be substantial depending on how you do it, but I wonder if the cost difference between AWS and GCP would make up for that and you can get an equivalent amount of performance for an equivalent price? I'm not sure. I'd like to know though.
With Framework making it, it's really just a laptop that happens to run ChromeOS. $100 less, probably due to not having to pay for a Windows license.

I do hope Linux can still be installed on it...
> "Time to human satisfaction" should be a number that front-end developers measure and aim to improve. Just rendering the content server-side and showing it to the user first, then adding on the bells and whistles after that, is how you do that.

Not necessarily. If you "load" the page but it doesn't do what it should when I click on it, that can be much more frustrating to the human than taking a little longer to load but being fully functional when you do. The assumption that anything that isn't HTML is "bells and whistles" is pretty dubious (as is the converse assumption that everything in the HTML is valuable).
False equivalence. A license and seat belt do not perform survaillence and report to a 3rd party.

Additionally, sarcastic comments are rarely informative, since their primary purpose is to be demeaning. Please provide actual, clear argument next time.
I may just give it another shot. That sounds good.
> Second, your application can only serve requests from that one server. If you fired up your server in Dallas then that'll be snappy for Texans. But your users in Chennai will be cursing your sluggish response times since there's a 250ms ping time between Texas & India.

> To improve availability, it uses leases to determine the primary node in your cluster. By default, it uses Hashicorp's Consul.

Having a satellite office become leader of a cluster is one of the classic blunders in distributed computing.

There are variants of Raft where you can have quorum members that won't nominate themselves for election, but out of the box this is a bad plan.

If you have a Dallas, Chennai, Chicago, and Cleveland office and Dallas goes dark (ie, the tunnel gets fucked up for the fifth time this year), you want Chicago to become the leader, Cleveland if you're desperate. But if Chennai gets elected then everyone has a bad time, including Dallas when it comes back online.
It’s just so I can later reuse that type without having to pass in the generic. Like I do on lines 41 and 42
There's a literal arms race behind the scenes in AI right now.

I think it's very unlikely that corporate IP claims that could substantially hold back progress in domestic AI development will end up being successful.
I used MinIO exactly once, and overall it was a joy to use. Happy to hear it's getting some amount of traction.
What's in the blue liquid in those ice cream making bowls that is normally sealed but sometimes people report it leaking. The manufacturers say it is nontoxic.
Which commodities? The only useful thing Russia can offer China is gas, and that’s only because it’s cheap.

Well, another thing China might want from Russia is Manchuria, but it’s not the time I think.
See the PDF from Google as a response to Austrian DPA [1]. See heading "Technical and Organizational Measures" on page 23 and "Optional Technical Measure" on page 26.

More you can find in the NOYB blog post [2]. NOYB is the organization who imitated the complaints towards Google (Analytics).

> While Google has made submissions claiming that has implemented "Technical and Organizational Measures" ("TOMs") [1], which included ideas like having fences around data centers, reviewing requests or having baseline encryption, the DSB has rejected these measures as absolutely useless when it comes to US surveillance (page 38 and 39 of the decision):

> "With regard to the contractual and organizational measures outlined, it is not apparent, to what extent [the measure] are effective in the sense of the above considerations."

> "Insofar as the technical measures are concerned, it is also not recognizable (...) to what extent [the measure] would actually prevent or limit access by U.S. intelligence agencies considering U.S. law."

> Max Schrems: "This is a very detailed and sound decision. The bottom line is: Companies can't use US cloud services in Europe anymore. It has now been 1.5 years since the Court of Justice confirmed this a second time, so it is more than time that the law is also enforced."

[1] https://noyb.eu/sites/default/files/2021-05/2021-04-09_Respo...

[2] https://noyb.eu/en/austrian-dsb-eu-us-data-transfers-google-...
This is all about cloud GPUs, I was expecting something totally different from the title.
Conversely, I have a ThinkPad X1 running Fedora 36 (and, previously, 35), and it has never given me a problem ... well, other than because I messed with one too many things. The only thing I did was to disable the so-called "modern suspend" in BIOS and it has run like an absolute dream.

Not trying to contradict you. Just noting how even within one manufacturer's footprint (and "linux" however we define that for the purposes of this conversation) YMMV.
You've been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly. Would you please read them and stick to the rules? We ban accounts that won't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The mortgage carrying middle class is best positioned to take advantage of inflation, as they are heavily in debt.
I dunno, I understand that the worst problems are in RAID, but it's only been a few years (<5y) since I lost 2 root filesystems to BTRFS on a laptop with just the one disk. I'm going to stay skeptical for a bit longer, although Fedora adopting it as a default does give me some hope that it'll at least get wider testing now.
And why should you work hard for a manager that doesn't like you in the first place? Clear signal to find another place to be, imo.
> But it is very difficult to convert to a recognized currency, so a lot of folks also get unknowingly stuck with it thinking they have dollars.

When Voyager entered bankruptcy, quite a few people suddenly discovered that the USDC they held on the platform was not the same as USD, did not enjoy the same legal protections USD would have, and that much of it had been loaned out to 3 arrows capital and was not coming back.

The distinction became even more significant when the bankruptcy judge agreed that the bank accounts that were holding actual USD customer deposits were not part of the bankruptcy estate and had to be released back to those customers.
Wow, this can be a great foundation for open source bike and motorcycle communicator intercom [1].
Does this support mesh networking to extend the coverage?

[1]FreedConn:

https://en.fdcdz.com
Were you on a product or a platform team?
I think Qualia depends on things that are wholly outside the realm of physical phenomena, in that they come before physics.

I don't think the two are really in conflict.

That said, all the quantum stuff is incredibly beyond me.
In the event of a China v. NATO war, I imagine most non-US navies would be involved in preventing merchant ships from trading between China and the rest of the world, and in preventing China from similarly interdicting NATO use of the seas.

China will be hindered by not having any real allies, other than short term allies of convenience (Iran, Eritrea, for example).
It’s complicated, therefore supply doesn’t matter for money, only demand?

I think you’ll need to do a better job convincing me than that.
That would be confusing. The HTTP response code should not be conflated with the application's state.
Musk losing 99% of his wealth would still be a quite well off person, someone at the poverty line losing 1% could be in for a really hard time.
Olive.c: a simple graphics library that does not have any dependencies
I think that's part of the problem with black box algorithms controlling a large portion of the internet.
>Now that my page is loaded, Gatsby does some neat pre-loading on hover of links. So clicking around my site is literally instantaneous.

*Except with touch-based interfaces. Which are the majority of browsers today.
> My nation state exterminated Jews and other nationalities in WW2

Germany ?

If so do you not feel ashamed about buying Russian gas for decades ? It wasn't the moral choice but it was the cheapest

One of your previous chancellor works for Gazprom, the whole Germany is to blame I guess ?

If you start blaming citizens for their politicians we're all war criminals. Are every single Americans liable for Abu Ghraib ?
false hope, chances are when such mechanisms are in place all teams already have the clamp on budget/resourcing to achieve the overall x% reduction in headcount. so it ends up a big game of musical chairs, some just gotta go.
I think by "draconian laws," they mean that, for example, attempting to gamble on the internet in my state is a felony. I could potentially be imprisoned for up to ten years, treated the same as if I'd committed residential burglary.
I’m a generalist and have no regrets, as I’m too ADHD to specialize and do one specific thing to the point of mastery.

On the upside, I credit my current role (head of marketing) to the fact that I kinda sorta understand every aspect of what my team works on, including my developer, designer, and content team.

On the downside, I’m pretty sure I’d have an easier time and make more money if I just did one thing better than everyone else.

I comfort myself by believing the thing I specialize in is having a wider breadth of knowledge and experience than most.
Could you share the source for the neon cold-start time?
An interesting tidbit that I found in the source code is that it only accepts integers from 1 to 20. Perfectly sufficient for its use case, although not quite extendable as I would hope
A question for nonguix contributors, including OP: is there a reason that nonguix has an nvidia package but not an nvidia service that handles more of this in a streamlined way, even just some stuff copied and pasted from this wiki?
> reimplement IndexedDB using FoundationDB. IndexedDB is also a key value..

I did sth pretty similar last month: https://rxdb.info/rx-storage-foundationdb.html

It supports indexes, mongoDB queries etc. to store and query JSON documents via RxDB on top of FoundationDB.
Using a Canon EOS camera as a webcam in Debian
A well-configured isolated borg cluster and well-configured job can be really fast. If there's no preemption (IE, no other job that is kicked off and gets some grace period), the packages are already cached locally, and there is no undue load on the scheduler, the resources are available, and it's a job with tasks, rather than multiple jobs, it will be close to instantaneous.

I spend a significant fraction of my 11+ years there clicking Reload on my job's borg page. I was able to (re-)start ~100K jobs globally in about 15 minutes.
Silk Road was a drop in the ocean, in total a hundredth of a percent of just the United States' spend on the most popular illicit drugs.

Silk Road … facilitating annual sales estimated at almost $15 million.

https://reason.com/2013/04/09/bitcoin-vs-big-government/

Researchers estimate that from 2006 to 2016, the total amount of money spent by Americans on these four drugs fluctuated between $120 billion and $145 billion each year.

https://www.rand.org/news/press/2019/08/20.html
Oh absolutely! I love that you're taking this on. I noticed there was no documentation on schema migrations - I assume you just haven't added it, but I assume it's available or on the roadmap?

Once you get all of your core functionality completed, you should definitely look at the IndexedDB APIs with FDB. I see you're considering FDB as a service. You could definitely compete with Firebase if you had some admin primitives around ACLs and you reimplemented the IDB APIs with FDB.

For instance, you and I both are on two computers obviously. We could each have a Tigris instance. If your app is down, we fallback to the regular IDB api and everything is saved. You could save entire transactions that aren't persisted to FDB and replay them when FDB comes back up.

More interestingly, as the admin, you could use all of the IDB tooling like LevelDB, PouchDB, absurdsql, etc and only concern yourself about the user (you and I) and things like how many keys they can save on the free plan, premium, etc.
My wife and I both have damn near perfect credit scores because we make our money work for us. Everything goes on a card but we’ve never once carried a balance over or paid any interest. We have many vehicles because I like older autos, but I buy her a new Honda CRV every 5 years for her commute. I call a dealer in La Grange, GA and they deliver it to the house and I hand them a check.

If you don’t have credit I would recommended getting a card and using it for everything.

Our situation is 100% by design. I live in a neighborhood filled with people making $100K+ plus per year who are all leveraged like crazy and probably have no significant savings.

But the husbands all drive $50K+ trucks to go to their office jobs and their wives have the latest and greatest SUV.

In contrast, my pick up truck never gets used unless I need it for a specific task. Other than that it sits parked. My one “nice thing” that I allow myself is my Land Cruiser.
This is a weird metric, but sadly one of the only ways of measuring OSS usage.
Doesn’t even have to be an unknown effect, just known effects we’re not aware are at work would be a huge discovery.
It has significant usage across large companies such as Apple, Snowflake, Epic Games, VMWare, etc. I don't see it going closed source. Besides that, here Tigris is taking the responsibility for the product as it is abstracting FoundationDB from the end-user.
But it's still "prove you're still worth it". Instead of, we have the following teams with openings, please pick one you want to go to. No, it's, we have openings in the following teams, prove that one of them want you enough.
The Page-Fault Weird Machine: Lessons in Instruction-Less Computation [pdf]
I should have been clearer - that was rhetorical to point out that if you and I use the same prompt and pick the same resultant image, it's harder to claim either of us have copyright. This is a gray area. The tools themselves could introduce some stochastic aspect so that outputs are never identical, also.

None of this leads to an obviously clear cut legal position wrt copyright.
I've always wondered if the body (or life in general) relies upon any unknown/undiscovered physical phenomena

It does. It wasn't that long ago in the human story that we didn't know about/believe in viruses, bacteria, hydrogen, radiation, and a thousand other things.

It's always amusing to see people on HN claim that there's nothing big left to discover because science already has all the answers. No, it doesn't. Science is the search for answers.
Look up AWS Nitro on YouTube if you are interested in learning more about it.
If they are laying off their poor performers so they can hire the laid-off from other companies, wouldn't they just be trading lemons?

The strategy probably works regardless of macro economic conditions assuming you let go of "lemons" at a greater rate than you hire them, but it seems easier when the market isn't being flooded. You could maybe argue that layoffs at other companies are reducing the proportion of lemons, but it's not clear to me.

I think reducing headcount gives an immediate outlook of lower expenses without affecting revenue in the medium term. Tons of employees at these companies aren't working on projects that will have monetary significance within several years if ever.
Thanks! It was just a pet peeve - didn't meant to give you yet another stupid thing to do!