skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cloudflare is one Internet choke-point among a handful of others. But it still means content is centralized, only centralized across a handful of different providers.
So, you’ve been waiting for something like this too?

I’d love to be able to submit Slurm jobs backed by a Docker container. That would be a reproducibility dream for me. And make it so I didn’t have to install so much software or still maintain Environment modules.

As it is, I can get partially there with Singularity, which isn’t terrible.
I acknowledge the reductiveness of what I'm saying, but it's absolutely not transactional. To the contrary, understanding and distilling broad contexts from which you have only partial visibility is incredibly difficult work and easy to get wrong. Influencing without direct control requires sustained learning, relationship building and self-reflection.

My point is that all the nuance and subtlety of management is easy to get lost in (especially if you go straight into management without strong baseline work experience). Coaching, Culture Building, and Career Planning are all important components, but you will not do a good job at them if you don't understand A) the work and B) the business context and strategic direction.
Fully remote does not necessarily mean zero travel and very often doesn’t.
Wrong. Many of the owners of the company — the shareholders — are invested in a diverse group of companies. If those companies in their portfolio are competing to out-bribe each other, there is no gain to the investor.

The gains go mostly to a few corrupt executives who get a bigger bonus, and the corrupt foreign officials. Perhaps a few unscrupulous privately held companies would prefer scrap the laws as well, but the reason the laws exist are because they are broadly seen as good for business by most players.
This isn’t really a value proposition to any of the companies that are looking to use cloudflare.

When something big like AWS goes down, it’s just understood by users that stuff is all broken everywhere. It’s not really an opportunity to get more users just because your thing is still up during this huge outage.

On top of that, if the alternative is less reliable than CF, any marginal gain in users during that outage (users that were only interested in your service because it was still up) will again be lost during subsequent outages for the exact same reason.
Where can I purchase this service? I'm a very capable engineer but my time and stress are limited, I'd pay like $20k to avoid having to do interviews
If you try, you can see many sets of circumstances where this would make sense to a person.

Also, you don't need to have an instant need for a product to buy it. Time waiting is not the same as time wasted. You can use all 8-200 hours (Amazon has a personal record for me of 8 hours in my medium size Canadian city) effectively.

You are not waiting in line nor waiting for an employee to be able to help you, just walking out of the store with the item in ordered status before you hit the door anyway.
This bring to mind the ancient technique of cooling a building called malqaf in Arabic and badgir in Farsi.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210810-the-ancient-pers...

Two great pdfs contained within "malqaf architecture" about two pages down.
Its possible they need someone with a "Senior" resume so they are able to charge $200/hour for their work. Then they are free to outsource it to 2 or 3 junior devs in a much lower priced market and pocket the difference.
It's not absurd if NS1 were damaged. Even if Germany didn't want the extra capacity that NS2 brings, it's an obvious backup if NS1 were to fail. Anyone wanting to cut off the option of Russia supplying gas to Germany this winter would have to hit both.
Opensourcing a component means it no longer provides any competitive. It just helps companies increase their open source credentials or decreases their cost of development over the next few years!
Ha. I have to admit while I don't technically have to wind it (at all) I still find myself doing that as well. Pick it up... wind it a prime number of times... put it on for the day.
There are also dictionaries that say the definitions of infinite include "great or very great." I don't think most people at HN would accept those sloppy definitions of infinite any more than we should accept those sloppy definitions of unique.

Unique has a clear meaning. People frequently use the word unique in a sloppy manner to mean something different than unique, just as people frequently use the word infinite in a sloppy manner.
I have one, but I don’t know what temperature to set it to and there are probably other flaws in my technique, so it’s still trial and error.
> That would be a tragic miscalculation. If it comes out that Ukraine is responsible, German public sentiment will turn hard.

> No more military shipments…

What shipments[1]?

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/16/ukraine-slams-germany-for-fa...
‘We Can’t Let the Kids Go Outdoors’: Our New Reality on the West Coast
Android has whichever browser you want, doesn't have an unending stream of viruses, and even allows for piracy through side-loading of apps ... so this is not a necessary measure.
We note this elsewhere [0] -- and it's a fair rejoinder that we should probably include this on our actual website -- but if Glo reaches trillions of dollars of market cap, we're most likely operating in a world where we issue multiple stablecoins in different currencies. Each reserve would then be backed by government bonds denominated in each stablecoin's currency.

It's certainly true that if we added trillions in new demand for any particular asset, or even class of asset, we'd change the market a lot. At the point where we 'exhaust' demand for government bonds and drive their returns to zero, the global monetary environment would look so different that we'd probably need to adjust multiple things about our strategy and implementation. The doc in the original link is intended as a vision of what we think is possible in terms of scale, but the fact that we're talking about the far future pretty much necessitates that some of the implementation details will have to be clarified when we know more.

[0] https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/EAiwxZN4Jiyup8d9G/...
I always disliked this question. It's explicitly an exercise in futility.

The real answer to the question is to point out that the question is broken. It's pitting the prescriptive against the descriptive, then acting surprised they aren't the same thing.

The question "how big" only works with the set of "quantifiable". It's just a type error. Yet it's unsatisfying to say infinity isn't quantifiable, because when we do, we aren't being descriptive. Infinity is by definition unquantifiable, which is a prescriptive statement. Prescriptive answers just aren't any fun. We aren't learning anything from them, because we knew before we asked.

When we talk about "bigger and smaller" infinity, we are just using infinity as an abstraction in the very same way we use variables. It's just as straightforward as going from "x+1>x" to "+1>". We all know that "plus one is more". The first statement is using nouns, and the second is using functions. It's just a type difference, nothing more.

The thing we are spending so much time blathering in awe about is just the relative difficulty in describing abstraction. Abstraction is amazing, impressive, useful, often surprising or elegant. It is not however, mythical.

There's this thing we do where what we are talking about doesn't have any substance. It's called nonsense. That's it. There is no "deeper meaning" behind the explicit absence of meaning. It can be entertaining to talk in circles, but we know they aren't getting us anywhere new.
It would make sense to disable this with new release of HTML, for example if the author uses an HTML6 doctype.
To my knowledge, there’s never been a concerted campaign to get AWS to drop anyone as a client, whereas this seems to happen a lot to Cloudflare (Kiwi Farms being the latest example).

And anyway, if Cloudflare MITMing the internet is bad, then isn’t them having one fewer client a good thing? (Even if said ex-client would rather still be a current client.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBq5uapC-e0
Intel’s top Arc A770 GPU is priced at $329, available October 12th
There are circumstances in which portability is not required. People have been writing bash before Apple picked it up and people keep writing bash despite Apple getting sent to GNUlag by GPLv3.
Yes, certainly. In a tiny startup the CTO is just a lead developer with more stock options than the others.
Do you think you helped anyone in this scenario?
It's not just cheap. The effects of disposing of all the things are out of side and out of mind. People don't see the results of their actions.
Hackernews Show HN or Producthunt?
Talking to coworkers has been my primary source since it's easy to sit down and observe their workflows and ask them questions about how they handle different interactions

Otherwise, talking to other developers at user group events or online has helped quite a bit, especially if there is a project involved where specific interactions can be discussed around it
> Avril Harrison

So now I can put a name to the person whose art constantly made me feel bad about my Deluxe Paint skills :)
Comprehensible input has a pretty straight forward definition. It's language before or just after the end of understanding. Maybe 80-90 percent known words so you can get the context of what's being said.

If you can't grab hold of context of what's being said you won't really pick much up.

That's why total immersion isn't effective for beginners.
Some of the best engineers that I've ever worked with have been quiet types who don't particularly want "work mates".

They work fine with people, can parse small talk and bring a positive attitude, etc. But they were out like a shot when the workday was over, and they would never dream of attending a company-sponsored teambuilding event. If they were hired for a 100% remote job, they would expect to never see a coworker in person, and consider it a perk.

Some people just don't want to mix their personal and professional lives. What's wrong with that?
Shared shell-scripts are only one side of the coin. The other is interactive use (incl. one's .bash_profile etc), where it doesn't matter what anyone else's system does or doesn't have installed.
It's not hard to find local cut-outs in most areas. In most cases, those folks are also patsies.

Another, different party who cashes checks written to their name in exchange for a cut, for example.

As an example, there is still the old in the tooth craigslist 'oops, I sent too large a cashiers check, can you send me the extra?' scam, which is an even more obvious ripoff, and people fall for that all the time.

If approached by law enforcement, their story would likely be they were working for X (different) company as an assistant or in finance, etc. The other company of course will be in a different state, country, or whatever, or maybe not actually exist, depending on the logistics of the money movement.

The scammers could easily have 10-20 different paychecks going to one person without anyone being the wiser - at least until the IRS got the W-2s or the cut-out started thinking about the long term consequences.

Scammers are used to a lot of churn with stuff like this, it's why these scams are hardish to run and aren't even more lucrative. Think breaking bad and 'Walt trying to ACTUALLY make money selling meth'. Lots of surprise expenses, people going sideways on you, competition you didn't expect, paranoia, logistics difficulties.

That's assuming they aren't just forging/stealing SSNs or identities and using some kind of front somewhere, like payday check cashing places willing to look the other way, or whatever.

There are plenty of folks running bad check scams or the like already, and they don't have the benefit of checks that will actually cash (all the time), like a big companies payroll check.
Yet you are still hurt for some reason.
I've seen this obscure story on HN three times in the last month. I read it decades ago. Did some mainstream event make it popular?
Ire?
US’ Nuland believes Nord Stream 2 project will not be revived
In this tweet from the US State Department's twitter account on 2022-01-22 (a month before the most recent invasion), a US official says: "... I want to be clear with you today. If Russia invades Ukraine, one way or another, NordStream 2 will not move forward." It's not evidence, but contextually incriminating nonetheless.

https://twitter.com/statedept/status/1486818088016355336
Can virtual Android simulate your phone number?
For several projects, we simply define bash as a required dependency. All the bash scripts use "#!/usr/bin/env bash". Not had any issues with portability between versions of bash, and basically every platform we care about has bash at least as an alternative if not the default.
What part of the Cloudflare runtime looks v8 specific, rather than just (web) javascript specific?
Coming from an app with a quarter of the users (so to say it's been less of a subject of investigation as such). "Far more sophisticated" also? What does that mean?

If Whatsapp has voluntarily been adding these issues, or has been targeted somehow, I would love to dig into research related to that. I'll check out the details regarding this attack in some hours.

This perspective seems extreme given the current evidence though. Switch to something like Matrix for sure though u.u

Edit: I'm not a proponent for whatsapp. I just understand telegram also isn't the best, and has a good incentive to shit on whatsapp
Are you saying that not all lobbying is corrupt, or that no lobbying is corrupt?
*rigmarole, if we're being pedantic, but I suspect the contemporary spelling "rigamarole" is gaining on the proper spelling, and that's one of the wonderful/terrible things about the English language.
Tcl, lua, or a lisp/scheme work well here
I think companies looking to decrease their development costs are going to be disappointed with open sourcing... That does not happen, by and large. Increasing creds is an aspect. Increasing the quality of the software is another one, IMHO.
I mean, yeah? There are very few people who can go straight from my question to the answer. And pausing to collect your thoughts is much better than saying uuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhh ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm uhhh I ... uhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Camera fuckery notwithstanding
Pick one or two activities and consistently do those every day.

Even when it feels like your life is spiraling out of control, you still have control over those few activities you value.

For example, every day I run and spend about an hour learning spanish.

This too shall pass. Good luck my friend.
An upside-down backup strategy
Just chiming in here on behalf of SingleSprout -- I know the two founders, David and Natan, and have recruited through them multiple times at Harry's when they and we were both fledgling companies in NYC. I have also been in touch with them on behalf of clients since.

SingleSprout is much bigger today so maybe things could fall through. But it is unlikely that they would be willingly or knowingly shepherding this process. I'll point them to this thread so they're aware of what's going on and can chime in if they'd like.
> Remote 'fireside chats' where one or multiple people can have a video call with an audience of 10,000+ people in real time (<100ms delay)

I keep hearing this term 'fireside chat' used like this, and ever time there's no actual fire and it's not intimate (10k viewers?). What is it supposed to mean?
Attention to detail is a big part of technical work.
No, and I'm prepared to accept that there are exceptions (but even then, they must have limits as the physics of acoustics demands compromises when limited to the restrictive size of laptops).

What I should have said is that whilst the electrical signal from the DAC is usually excellent (far better than almost any analog-only system), it's interface with the acoustic world (the speakers and their acoustic environment, baffling, enclosures etc.) is mostly terrible and at best only a poor compromise.

It simply isn't possible with traditional speaker technology to provide an optimal environment inside a laptop. If it were then speaker manufacturers would have miniaturized their huge enclosures years ago.

My complaint is that most laptop manufacturers don't even try to work within those restrictive bounds and that makes things much worse.

The matter of having insufficient gain has little or nothing to do with the actual quality of the signal coming from the audio amplifier output, again it's usually quite excellent if one connects to headphones or to an external HiFi system.

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BTW, I never said laptops had good audio (acoustic sound as opposed to electrical output). As far as I'm concerned their acoustics are all lousy when compared with a decent HiFi system.

Sorry, I wrongly assumed that all readers were skilled in electronics and thus would have made a clear distinction between the quality of the audio signal within the electronics and that which actually emanates from the speakers. In fact, the electrical audio signals are nearly always several orders of magnitude better than what speakers can actually reproduce.

Electronics people usually take that for granted.
Thankfully, internet attention-harvesting business models have provided us with an emergent, decentralized 'Handicapper General' functionality. That saves us from the abuses that a formal, centralized agency that enforces equality-of-outcomes might entail.
The last remains of Baltops 2022 passed by there about just short of a week ago.

https://www.kreiszeitung.de/lokales/schleswig-holstein/fehma...
Same. Showed my sister, and we've both been using for about a year. Works more often than not. (OMG what a relief.)
How do you reconcile the fact that the best tool we have, by far, to describe the "real, physical world" depends on certain notions of infinity?
@jhamby on Twitter is currently refactoring bash to c++, and it's really interesting to read anecdotes about it and read about the progress. It's a really interesting codebase.
> However you will also have fickle entry/low/mid level employees

You need to read that sentence again. Your comments are very revealing about you and not about CTO level work as you are imagining.
I don't understand why the article assumes there's an either/or situation here (maybe it's written from a US-centric POV?); there's a lot of good money to be made from maintenance and waste management. For example here in the UK, cars have to pass an annual road-worthiness test, which gives car owners and garage owners a chance to fix things before they break. In homes, it's a requirement to have gas boilers checked annually - again maintenance. Councils and private housing associations regularly come round to check and refurbish exteriors, wiring, plumbing, etc - waiting until the house floods or burns down doesn't make economic sense to them.

I worked on England's waste strategy published back in 2000. The waste hierarchy back then was "Reduce, Reuse, Refurbish, Recycle" - the promotional focus at the time was on recycling (our recycling rates were abysmal), but maintenance ( == Refurbish) was definitely part of the mix.
Yes? I think my stance is very clear. It appears that you have forked some opensource models and built proprietary software off of them which you are now trying to profit, against their licenses.
I remember some anecdotes including how they couldn't stop NPCs from randomly going from town to town and steal or buy everything in every shop so there was never anything left for the player. I believe this was mentioned in the making of documentary which came with the collector's edition of Oblivion.
I have done the inverse of you, learning to play the piano for the past year via lessons after playing guitar for most of my life. It really brings together music theory for me in a way that I just couldn't grok on the guitar. I refurbished what used to be a higher-end electric piano on my own, and just recently played on an acoustic piano for the very first time after studying piano for over a year now. It felt and sounded like an entirely different instrument that would take me plenty of practice just to translate the feel of what I have learned over to it.
I think the root of the issue is LinkedIn. I know a number of scammers regularly monitor LinkedIn. When a new employee at our office updates LinkedIn they start getting email from the 'CEO', first asking for a personal cell number, and then asking to buy gift cards in a hurry.

I'm seriously considering being LinkedOut.
I work in the tech industry as well but in a more hands-on division (hp inkjet) and in a small town (Corvallis OR). Here it's the norm to work on your own stuff, build your own structures or fix cars, really mostly for fun and out of pride than for economical reasons.

I think this attitude does carry over into our product design efforts but only to a degree - in consumer tech it makes sense to make your product somewhat robust and serviceable but a device from 10 years ago, with lo-speed Wifi, no bluetooth, no USB, etc. just isn't useful anymore. On the flipside, the manufacturing tools we design for our own use are so robust and reconfigurable that they are still cranking out product 20+ years later.
And one of my not-so-childhood memories.
My point is the argument "he can't even do analysis" does not match up with the argument "it’s not that hard to cheat just a little to gain significant advantage"

To do the second, you need to still be extremely good at chess. Way beyond the level required to do any type of analysis.

"Perhaps the analysis was whack exactly because he wasn’t thinking and calculating deeply in these critical positions as magnus suggests in his statement."

You'd still need to calculate, if you're "just cheating a little"
Interestingly, we’ve had a bunch of fraud where people impersonate OSS devs. They then proxy their docs, and try to run fake traffic for ad revenue.

More info in our blog post: https://www.ethicalads.io/blog/2022/09/watch-out-ad-scammers...
In this case, I think the “just” is justified. (Normally I’d agree with you)

If you’re starting from the premise that live migration is non-negotiable, then I’d argue that you likely don’t need a quick start. Long lived services can afford a slower start using a different VM technology. We’re not talking hours to provision a server, but the difference between 100ms and a few minutes.

My question to you is — what kind of service would need to start fast and be able to migrate? I just don’t see that Venn diagram having a big overlap. But maybe I’m wrong…
I used that for a while, but I was using it so often that I installed https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/alwayskillsti.... Sometimes I see things flicker briefly into view and I'm reminded that it's working. I've had to whitelist several sites that I use regularly, but it's pretty low maintenance after that.
I have a 2009 Toyota Prius and it has never once had a mechanical problem. Literally the only issue it has ever had is an inaccurate tire pressure indicator light on the dashboard.
Edge Team Wants to Close the Gap Between Web and Native Apps
If there is substantial interest in the paper after it has been published, it would be a lot easier to verify with the raw data than without. Nothing about the peer review process necessarily needs change beyond immediately rejecting all papers that do not include the minimum amount of data to validate their claims (even if said data is simply stored and not immediately reviewed).