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I think this bubble represents a huge amount of opportunities. Sure the crazy (70%?) gross margins for cloud is insane, but this means there are more cloud companies to be made -- the market isn't saturated yet.

With the right offering and the right software you can build something just 10% as good as some of the hyperscalers and have an amazing company.

Competing on price is not a sin, and it's what I'm working on/betting on.

That said, I think the real big threat to the hyperscalers is cheap chips and more people being able to treat datacenters like parking lots (nice ways to use capital to generate cashflow) -- the commoditization of data center operations.
This seems great! I’m excited to try it out. It reminds me of Voiceliner which I’ve been using for a while now. Voiceliner does on device transcription & allows for creating hierarchy to notes / ideas with export functions too

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29726787
Yeah but themself and not other's...maybe they don't understand the meaning of it?
Let’s pretend he meant “strung up and tickled”.
I agree - I think it it is much better to use titles like these and with even a short JD describing what technology is used (many of which could be "devops" tools for infra engineers) everything becomes much more clear.
> I don’t hire devops, I hire infra engineers, build engineers, release engineers and: backend engineers.

This is a great way to do it. There seems to be a correlation between unnecessary product complexity and unnecessary corporate complexity. Being direct about roles goes a long way towards simplifying corporate complexity.
OpenBSD is my happy place.

Install the OS, grab the src, subscribe to the lists and get to hacking!

The IRC and Matrix chats are great spots to get the low down, communities are helpful and documented.
Say what you want but chit-chatting with people you know is far more fun and dynamical when everyone feels free to interrupt others. Part of that culture is of course learning to not let go, and fight back those interrupting you - refusing the interrupt request if you will.

Wait culture is IMHO more appropriate for larger groups of people and more formal settings, or some subjects that are very important to the one speaking, so interruption would be disrespectful.
Part of it is to track and fix the occasional bit flip. Said flips can cause data corruption, crashing processes, and crashing machines.

However it's also very useful to just know when a particular failure causes issues. So you know that the 3rd of 4 dimms died, instead of tracking down frequent crashed that might be power supply, motherboard, cpu, any dimm, etc.

Linus Torvalds recently lost time thinking he had an unreliable kernel when a 2+ year old dimm just went bad.
apple has some real issues since about a year or two
You’ve got it backward. You do it by not talking about abortion (and other things that divide your coalition of urban liberals and working class people). “Celebrate your abortion” isn’t helping democrats with my Bangladeshi immigrant family in Queens either.

The people you’ll lose doing that are the Rockefeller republicans—Silicon Valley and Westchester types. And that’s fine.
> Be careful as the city square mileage can be misleading

As in exaggerating it's livable land size? Or the other way around?
I understand it the way you meant it. There are zero bona-fide reasons that I cannot work at home. If my employer wants me to battle traffic an hour each way, that's time taken away from myself and my family, it's fuel, wear & tear on my car, it's added stress and risk of permanent debilitating injuries -- all costs that my employer wants me to take on, for free, just because some exec who never comes to the office doesn't feel comfortable with peons doing the same.

Getting to the office is work, and expense, that is not paid for. You're making an extremely narrow definition of "work" that your employer is delighted by. You're paying for the privilege of getting a paycheck. I'm saying that you aren't being paid for your time.

Couple of scenarios:

1. Your employer wants you to go to a conference where you're to represent the company. Your "work" is programming, and your output is zero for the duration of the conference. Should you be paid for your time, should your plane & hotel costs be covered?

2. Your employer wants to buy some computers. The computers are worthless to your employer if they're sitting in a warehouse somewhere. Do they pay a shipping fee, or let them rot in the warehouse?
I totally agree with you and don't want to discount the plight of the south.
> Then they have to raise money?

I think they're trying. ;-)

To be clear, I'm not defending Twitter. If I was in charge, I would actually shut down Twitter for the benefit of the world. My point is just the basic financial fact that Twitter doesn't have enough money to do this, and thus they won't, indeed can't.
> I see a lot of discussion among urbanists of "induced demand" when adding extra lanes to highways. Are we sure there wouldn't be induced demand from providing free housing to the homeless?

This is an interesting point, but would it not apply more generally to creating more housing for everyone, rather than just when creating housing for homeless? The population of homeless people is just a tiny fraction of the total number of people in the housing market.
I don't know about Smalltalk, but a typical Common Lisp implementation will certainly allow you to restart the program from scratch.

Mutating state in a live program shouldn't be done carelessly (any more than a schema migration on a live database), but removing it completely from the toolbox is overly restrictive, especially since that also involves removing it from the toolbox while testing and developing.
I am working on something super basic, that I believe is still worth my time. It is just for me and my friends at the moment. I am creating a new flashcard app (how original :))

It is a combination of Anki, Quizlet and some other bigger apps. Taking their best features and turning it into one free app. I do not like to pay for a flashcard app, but Anki has really bad UX / UI and cloud features. On the other hand, the Quizlet algorithm is not great.

Therefore I am creating my own free app. Let's see where it goes. But one thing is clear. I do not want to make money of education.
Pairs nicely with this great book about all kinds of electronic components -- https://nostarch.com/open-circuits
And also don't panic, because nobody knows the future (especially in tech), despite the OP's confidence. Nobody knows the future in either direction.
There are republicans in the san francisco administration?
We have extremely heavy SQLite usage throughout. Strict mode would only cause trouble for us. Most of our SQLite access is managed through a domain-specific C# library we developed. It handles all of the parsing & conversion internally. We don't touch the databases directly in most cases.
ReBAR only matters for transfers across the PCIe link, so for most of the tests in the article it's completely irrelevant. And even for the PCIe transfer tests, ReBAR should only affect the portions of the tests that are accessing more GPU memory than the default BAR size used for 32-bit compatibility.
In government, the continuum is not a line, it is a circle. If you go far enough left, or far enough right, you end up at the exact same place.
True, but those data integrity checks are built into the motherboard/BIOS and happen without any user (or OS) intervention.
The two of you have validated my very existence as a coder. I keep jokingly telling everyone that we’re often going around in circles. No one ever believes me (lol!)
Seems like 'learning' and 'producing something with that learned information' are two different things. I can 'learn' all day long from copyrighted materials. I'm not violating anything, because I've not produced a copy that would be distributed or used. First/knee-jerk reaction to that above - no doubt there's more nuance buried someplace.
FWIW, I visit golden gate twice a week in average.

I guess I’m saying something a bit different. When people visit SF from SFO they get on the 101 and within 2 hours they have a feeling of things are broken and that memory sticks. I’m desensitized to those problems so I mostly see the beauty.

If people land at SFO and took 380 onto 280 thn straight to golden gate perhaps their impressions would be different.
I like the way the website uses the animation. Well done.
With the exception of Signal, I never give apps access to my contacts. If you think that's paranoid, remember how apps like LinkedIn used this kind of information in the past[1]. Thankfully on iOS apps almost always work without contact access (is this mandated by App Store rules?).

It's not clear from the article if the app just asks for access to contacts or requires it, but if you can't make your Voip app work without accessing my contact list, I don't want to use it.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2013/9/21/4756212/linkedin-accused-...
I read somewhere that the energy density in modern cpus is 10% of the surface of the sun. Don't quote me on that.
Allowing bribery and corruption only ensures that whatever system you end up with requires bribery and corruption to work.

Better to let the system freeze up entirely and remove the unnecessary bureaucracy than monkey-patch the bad system with bribery.
Postgres is super easy to run with these days -- it works great in a container.

Clustering and replication isn't the easiest but that's mostly because it just hasn't been a focus of the postgres machine -- they're making changes that are a bit more fundamental and in my opinion pressing.

Most startups just need to scale a postgres server vertically, not horizontally.
Do you guys define racks the same way?
i know its hard to believe but https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-orders-4-million-mckinsey-stu...
Serve the home [1] regularly reviews all sorts of low end small form factor hardware and aliexpress hardware. You'd probably be better served (heh) by scanning their website before investing in hardware. You can get an aliexpress device with much more horsepower and higher speed ports. If your budget is $200 then fine, but if you find out later doubling your budget gets a box that sustains 1 gigabit speeds or $600 gets you a machine that sustains 2.5gbe speeds and your $200 was wasted, it would be great for you to discover that now.

[1] https://www.servethehome.com/
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this devops is also a dumping ground for anything else not happening on a developers computer which they should control but wont because "That is devops job" mostly this happens alot with node projects for some reason..
> Without copyright laws the GPL wouldn't have been needed in the first place.

That's an inaccurate understanding, and is not supported by that history page, or by more recent actions from the FSF and Richard Stallman. Without copyright, there would be no copyleft - which would mean that companies would be entirely free to take any libre software, package it with their own user-hostile changes, and bundle it in an obfuscated binary. They would also be free to do what TiVo did, and add hardware constraints to prevent you from running modified versions of "their" software, even if "their" software is GNU utilities.

The framework of copyright is actually quite important for the free software movement to be able to enforce its goals and try to force companies to contribute to free software.
It's simple. It's not their money. When you ask any SF Department to give you a budget for something, they will just hallucinate a number and pull it out of their ass.

Matt Haney (the State Senator) asked the Parks & Rec Department for an estimate of what would it cost to build the toilet (given that the hookups are already in place). They shrugged and pulled a figure of $1.7M out of their ass. And he just accepted that! Any normal person would have alarm bells go off in their head about such a large amount. Imagine you walk up to a street vendor and ask about a hot dog, and he responds with $1000. You'll laugh at his face and walk away. But the politicians in SF thought this was perfectly normal, and were getting ready to celebrate this event (until the Chronicle published the article that went viral). Kudos to Heather Knight... but it shouldn't have come this far!

Building a whole house costs $1.7M. A public toilet? Definitely not even close.

But hey, it's not their money, so who gives a shit, right?

When I read cases like these, I feel like maybe the Republicans _are_ on to something: the government has become too big.
It takes really good engineering leadership to build a platform team. With the wherewithal to follow through on migrations and marketing of the platform. Also, sourcing the right people internally and elevating them. These engineers become true full stack (the whole OSI model) engineers and their work most definitely shouldn’t be thankless or taken for granted by product leaders. I’ve seen efforts like this fall apart in very ugly ways due to a lack of leadership.
You basically assert that the other person is categorically wrong without argument but by rereredefining words. It doesn't read as productive to me.
https://archive.ph/sORCY
> Please read my comment again. Comment banners are the consequence of regulation

No.

Hacker News has no banners and no shields is used by Brave, because they do no track you.

It's that simple.

https://i.imgur.com/1bwZqzs.png
“Other than DHH adherents, is anybody still excited about Rails? To draw an even smaller circle, is anybody still excited about Ruby when Rails isn't involved?”

If people use a language/framework and don’t constantly talk about it online, does anyone even use that language/framework?

The non-snarky answer is yes and yes. Source: me, who just attended Euruko, a Ruby conference. Rails is just mature, dependable, and boring, so there’s not as much to talk about compared to X-framework of the week/month.
>but I've literally not seen that once

That's exactly that's happened and discussed in the submitted article. For reference the code reproduced (literally) is: https://github.com/DrTimothyAldenDavis/SuiteSparse/blob/dev2....
CSS-bin-bits: API for 16-bit binary operations in CSS only
Simple question here: Video files are HUGE. An iPad, even with a fairly large storage for a tablet, would be quickly swamped by the files, and to transfer the RAW video files to and from the device would make it quite frustrating.

Is there a way to connect an external drive on an iPad?
how do we maintain local community consultation without it becoming a 'vetocracy'?

Seems to me that this is a problem that may be ameliorated with some form quadratic voting
For some raytraced games, the rest it's more like 20-30% improvement
That's an odd direction to take.

You know Searle's Chinese Room? I'd have agreed with you if you'd just written that ML is that room.

I'm also saying fairly explicitly that right now it's impossible (no possibility of Popperian falsifiability) to say if an artificial neural net is or isn't conscious, because we don't know what that word really means.

But, the well-defined common definitions of intelligence are: abstraction (trivial CS), logic (fundamental), learning (all ML is this), reasoning and critical thinking (appears to be demonstrable but might be a Clever Hands illusion), planning (university courses cover this before they get to ML), and problem solving (widely demonstrated in multiple fields).

Again, I'm specifically avoiding the ill-defined parts of the definition. If you want to have a go at defining them, by all means, have fun — but my experience has thus far been that every definition falls into a few categories:

(1) recursive meaninglessness (think "intelligence is consciousness, consciousness is intelligence")

(2) things which humans fail at (think of a test of intelligence which, if applied to a human, would be equivalent to claiming a human born without eyes wound really know what the subjective difference between red and green is)

(3) things which computers can do trivially (sometimes even finite state machines, let alone ML systems)

So yeah, not sure why you think "intelligence" is religious and why textual output isn't "writing".
That can be good thing, imo. Young people have little power to change the world around them, yet they take responsibility for "making the world a better place". I find it inspiring when companies do this too.
Got it. I'm relatively new here. I'll keep this in mind for my future mentions. Thank you for your revert and suggestion. Much appreciate it.
Imphenzia got me (back) into Blender: https://www.youtube.com/c/Imphenzia

He does low poly modelling if that's your thing. He had a 'Lets model an X in 10 minutes' series. He explains the basics of the UI and does a really good job of explaining what he's doing.

After you know the basics, you can probably just watch any old (or rather, new, because blender is changing fast) tutorial on youtube and know what's happening.
Yes, of course there is no silver bullet. The point is that the parent comment thinks only an interupting culture can work which anyone who has worked in a functional waiting culture knows is false.

There are pros and cons to both approaches. My personal experience has been that waiting cultures are more efficient at communication and get more work done. It would be interesting to see what actual instead of anecdotal data would show.
> Do people seriously think every such case -- an empty days-old account suddenly doing spam-like activity -- should be manually reviewed?

The problem is not that the account triggered an algorithmic tripwire, but that the explanatory copy is a customer-hostile lie. It states in no uncertain terms that the suspension was further "carefully reviewed" to be found correct, and is also permanent. Obviously, it wasn't correct, and wasn't permanent.

I strongly suspect that, if there even was a human in the loop as the copy implies, they simply rubber-stamped the algorithmic flag. This is not necessarily the human's fault if their work is monitored/timed.
Distributed Systems Notes – Dr. Martin Kleppmann [pdf]
I think if you're working at a company that makes a huge amount of money, it just isn't really rational to care that much about spend. I think of it like this: If a person had $100m in the bank, I reckon they're not going to care whether their beer costs $7.00 or $7.10. There are just more important things to worry about.
> I have started appreciating bribery and corruption as a necessary lubrication for any excessively bureaucratic system to work.

I feel similarly, when it comes to pork. We tried to eliminate that from congress, calling it wasteful and corrupting. And perhaps at some level that is accurate. But when we took it away, now all we have is naked ideology. It's not clear to me that this is an improvement, in fact I think it is the opposite.

Bring back the pork.
Our son went to a public school and my wife came back from a meeting at the school amused that she had managed to catch sight of the schools evaluation of us as parents - she scored very highly as an advocate (Scottish equivalent of a barrister) and I was scored down for being a humble computing type.

Both of us thought this was hilarious!
> Congrats, that’s not DevOps. I’d wager most of what they are doing is using Terraform and YAML to do menial tasks for the engineering team.
> Need a database? File a ticket with DevOps.

Shouldn't the "DevOps" team build APIs and consoles so eng teams can provision their resources without knowing TFE/YAML from a mile away? Really, this is year 2202. Please, learn from AWS and Netflix. Do software development. Get rid of the god damn ticketing process. Friends don't let friends touch TFE/YAML or whatever configuration files.
Ask HN: Why do software companies still insist on Estimation?
Why do software companies still insist on Estimation? Will they never realize estimation has almost never worked?

Software houses want to project themselves as intelligent collection of beings, but why can't they see the truth that there?
I don't understand your comment, but would like to make the observation that Canonical vis-a-vis Ubuntu is trying to make Ubuntu as ubiquitous as Windows when it comes to someones 'first' Linux system, or as a Linux system that "Just works" and are abusing this position (in my opinion) to push forward proprietary and regressive technologies like Snap. Open source does not negate something being proprietary. There are many 'one format' packages out there, flatpak and appimage being two great ones. Snap is two steps back, no steps forward, but it has that Ubuntu logo which conveys authority, and that's about as un-Linux like as it gets.

By virtue of power-of-authority, they're quite literally forcing this garbage on the greater linux ecosystem that other people simply don't even know exists. Ask anybody on the street if they know what a Linux is and if the answer isn't 'no', the ones who can respond will say something like 'oh yeah, i have ubuntu on my thumb drive'.

If you'd have told me this would happen in 1995, I'd have said you're nuts and gone back to hammering dents out of my Yggdrasil install as I chuckled.
Why Jupyter users should switch to Quarto
Golden Gate Recreation is working to mess all that up.
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I hope I'm not being pedantic here, so please forgive me. Didn't interest rates go to zero after 2008? So that's 14 years. I guess 8 years before that there was also Dot Com.

Are you talking about interest rates? Thanks.

Even if you're wrong, it's an interesting theory.
This also assumes that the open source model of self-hosting is sustainable. We used to have extraordinarily expensive enterprise options for software, then there was an open source boom which eliminated marginal cost with the hope of building the software collaboratively. In practice, many of these open-source projects such as MongoDB simply spent VC money to make the software they were giving away.
Correct. In the context of productivity, I think a 'per hour' metric is more appropriate.

France and western Europe in general have comprehensive social nets that will allow a larger part of the population to be idle/unemployed.
A GDP per capita will be lower for all those places.

I think we don't really care if a country is deciding to support non-productive citizen. Here, we want to compare the productivity of people who do work. And that the 'per hour' metric I choose for that.

Looking at the 'per capita' ranking, you see a lot of tax haven like cayman islands, Bermuda or Macau that are weeded out in the per hours view.
All usb-c iPads support external drives and the old lightning ones have limited support with an adapter
"Hey, did the front-end new-hire upgrade the Linux distro yet?"
I disagree. DevOps was intended to break the organizational mindset of having this group of people here doing this set of activities and this other group of people over there doing that set of activities when in reality both groups of people are needed to work together and deploy software. It was about breaking down those organizational silos. Anybody creating a dedicated "DevOps" team was way off the mark, unless that team was a coaching team whose job it was to help other teams become self-sufficient. Unfortunately the fact that an engineering team had responsibility for their software from implementation, to deployment, to operations was a news flash to large organizations having traditional IT staff. The DevOps mindset has led to much better operational excellence.

The DevOps mindset has also led to the Internal Developer Platform this article discusses. Honestly, I don't see how traditional IT organizations are going to easily arrive at such a platform without having adopted the DevOps mindset first.

So DevOps isn't bullshit, but it's not the end goal either. It's a necessary step needed on your journey for getting somewhere better.