skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this line of thought. (Also from the perspective of a small startup CTO with ~10 developers mixed across golang, python, and react.)

We used GCP at our previous startup (sold ) and ran our own K8S, when it was very new (2015). There were lots of pains in those days. So when we started our current startup in 2018, we started with App Engine (flexible, which supports containers). This was fine, but lots of drawbacks. After a year or two we ended up back on K8S, using GCP's GKE (managed K8S). Our team is pretty good with K8S, so it was fine. But regardless, the little stuff adds up.

Fast forward to about 6 months ago. We had used GCP's Cloud Run off and on for little stuff, and it kept getting better. One day someone asked the question why we shouldn't just use it for everything. Everyone was a bit defensive, but we kind of stared at each other and couldn't think of great reasons (for our use case), so we tried it.

Our setup consists of a primary API service (Golang), and a dozen or so smaller microservices, mainly in Python. We even moved most of our React apps to cloud run.

6 months in, and I can't really say anything bad. We turn off scale to 0 for the services where it matters. It scales up quickly to loads, zero down time over 6 months, no troubleshooting (so. much. time. saved.), super easy to deploy, swap traffic between versions, etc.

I'm not saying it a silver bullet, nor that it's perfect for everyone... but I couldn't say enough good things about _container-based_ serverless like Cloud Run.

That said, breaking big systems down to the function level (Lambda, GCP Cloud Functions, etc) sounds like a nightmare to me. I'm sure there are ways, but that's a different ballgame. We do use FaaS for some tasks.

YMMV.

Edit: Oh, and our hosting bill went from ~$5k a month to $500 a month (in part to other things, but primarily the lack of need for big node pools.)
> do you have any experience with OpenBSD?.

I sure do! It runs my web and mail servers, and on my main laptop.
Ask HN: Data brokers using leaked data?
I used a popular reverse phone number lookup service to see what info they had associated with my cell number.

They had records of my previous mailing address and even had an email address that I only used for Drizly.

Drizly had a data leak, so that's the only way to obtain this specific email address. Is there a way to report U.S. based companies that use illegally obtained data?
Some of us have decided to embrace our idealism/personality flaws and continue forth, undaunted, regardless of occasional negative feedback from others.
And after accounting for the trading fees and the interest payments for borrowing to short.
To get started with Emacs: (1) install it, either from a package repository or from www.gnu.org/software/emacs; (2) start it up (3) type Control-H t to run the tutorial. Those new to Emacs might prefer to use a customized distribution such as Doom Emacs, but the official Emacs system is quite usable. Don't expect to become an Emacs Master quickly, but doing these 3 steps will get you to the point where you can use Emacs for basic text editing. Emacs comes with lots of documentation, both on the core system and on the many packages it includes, but you can defer reading it until you are comfortable with the basics.

The two hurdles you'll need to overcome are: (1) the antique terminology, so “window” doesn't mean what you might expect it to, and (2) the key bindings, which don't match up with more modern systems. (1) is something you just have to get used to, while (2) is infinitely flexible. A vi user might prefer Doom Emacs or Spacemacs, which come with vi-compatible key-bindings; I'm not aware of something similar for the VSCode user. As you become more comfortable with Emacs, you will be able to make your own key bindings.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33520585.
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I just watched the product video. What do you think?
There are lots of therapies available for anxiety disorders -- medication, CBT, talk therapy, biofeedback. Some of the psychedelic therapies that are getting official trials now also show promise for anxiety. I hope you'll find something that works well for you!
What is a dormant black hole?
> Is there any evidence that Musk is evaluating Twitter employees based on the LoC written?

I've seen in the news that Musk asked devs to print their code for review by Tesla engineers. Not that their LoC would be counted strictly speaking.

Now is this piece of news even true?
Leaderless Teams
> modern day bank run in traditional finance is functionally impossible

Not at all. Bank runs still happen, the backstops just soften the blow with liquidity injections. Every time you see a withdrawal limit, there is no doubt a bank run is occurring.
> You could say that's the job of the software company - to slog through the mountain of feature requests disguised as specifications to arrive at a system that will actually solve the customer's real problem.

That's the role of a business analyst, product owner, customer liaison, sales engineer, or some similar role for sure. If you're running a large project without one of those as a dedicated full-time resource then it falls on the project manager. If the PM can't do that, they should delegate to some role like those, possibly a few of them for various vertical slices of the project.
I'm not a hater, I am genuinely curious, how does something like this get to 800 votes on HN and 4.4K stars on GitHub?

I mean, it's just... a pub/sub server... using HTTP? With a thin UI for web/mobile? I'm obviously missing something, so what is it?

Again, not a hater, even though it may come off like I am, I'm just honestly wondering what makes this special. From first glance it seems like something most devs can hack in an hour or two.
You really do not with Bitcoin. If there are local regulations with declaration, sure. But the fees are dramatically lower to move the funds than using banks.
I'd expect the opposite: if FTX's failure means the FTX foundation money is gone then there's more need for money on the margin and more EAs will choose to earn to give.
I’m not a psychologist. I’m sure it differs per person depending on many variables.
I'm in my 50s and have only seen the wine/beer/spirits crowd throughout my various jobs. I'm in the casual weekend wine/beer part of life now.

Smoking (cigarettes) was common to see 25 years ago, but now I might see one or two people vaping outside.

I'm all for better living through chemistry, and endorse whatever you need to perform regardless of rules and regulations. But I'm just an old hippie...
Here is where the outsourcing happening in this story comes back to bite, though. It's basically impossible to write a good contract for an Agile development process. (The only time I've seen it at all is in gov't work, where cost-plus is the default way to pay, and it doesn't often produce good software.)

If I'm the customer, why would I accept anything less than X for the amount of money I'm paying, and if I'm the developer, then Y is a perfectly good MVP, and since X >> Y, who determines when you are finished?
> The people around me were trying to hint that things aren't quite as clear cut as it seems, but it took a swift kick in my backside to reboot my worldview.

Was your rebooted worldview that you had been factually incorrect (i.e. the senior dev actually did do his work) or was it that you were factually correct, but hierarchy and office culture demanded that everyone pretend you weren't?
Vowpal Wabbit is not the best anymore, but it is incredibly simple. You train it by piping text files in, then pipe your input into it for predictions.
I was using Amazon Music on my commute. No ads and nice selection (often updated), plus included with Prime (which I'm paying for anyway).

Removing the ability to skip really sucks but my commute is not long enough to justify paying for Spotify or for the premium Amazon Music thing. I'm using a few limited playlists on Amazon that still allow skipping but may just go back to FM radio.

At this point there are very few benefits we're getting with Prime aside from shipping (I watch a couple of shows like The Boys, Peripheral, etc.) so I really hate they don't have an unbundled Prime just for free shipping.
That's exactly a complaint.
The content of nightmares is the reporting that feeds into the
processes of reflection and therapeutic correction. No dreams, no clue
as to what specifically lies at the core of an unresolved traumatic
experience. Unpleasant as they are, they are also useful indicative
tools toward recovery.
> Crypto is an anarchist experiment and it should remain that way

What exactly makes it remain that way?

I don't say this as a cheap "gotcha": what's the governance structure that makes it an anarchist experiment, specifically, and not just a free-for-all?
> how come math notation relies heavily on infix operators and even subscripts, superscripts and more?

"Mathematical notation" is an ad-hoc compilation of a huge number of historical accidents, conventions and personal preferences. For each function in math, there's at least 3 different notations for it, and somehow each of your professors ends up using a different one.
And to counter your argument, prefix operators appear very frequently in mathematics, including the most common function notation (although of course there's also a postfix and an infix notation), sigma notation, quantificators, roots, and many other common operators.

By the way, your second example should be (print a b c d), I'm not sure why you made a,b,c,d functions there.
Well, yeeeeees... If management, whose job it is to swallow their pride when given a nasty surprise like this, isn't up to the task. I'm sure that OP could, with great political skill and subtlety, have had a very decent shot at turning this thing around.

But what's their incentive? They're probably paid as a regular IC, and saving a double-digit million dollar fiasco like this from disaster is super annoying and unrewarding work! You're effectively doing the job of five managers and not even getting their salary -- let alone a percentage of the disaster you're averting! This kind of political-technical skill combination can probably be fruitfully applied in a place that properly rewards the contributor!

I very much agree that this thing could have been handled better, when seen externally. But I'm also pretty sure it wasn't in OP's personal interest to do so! That's a very stupid state of affairs, of course, but I guess that might be par for the course of a failed $60 million project.
Many are in tech but we increasingly see artists and other disciplines. I fully acknowledge that are messaging for the event, and the promises we make (e.g. a serious conversation) bias who shows up.

But it's also likely there is considerable selection bias in Rao's sample and he should be cautious to generalize to all entrepreneurs. I recently re-read

McDonald's: Behind The Arches by John F. Love https://www.amazon.com/McDonalds-Behind-John-F-Love/dp/05533...

Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton with John Huey https://www.amazon.com/Sam-Walton-Made-America/dp/0385426151...

I was struck by how curious Walton and Kroc were about the competition and about how much they listened and incorporated feedback from store managers and suppliers into their business. The ideas that propelled expansion all came from others as both firms scaled up. And they discovered those ideas because they were curious, they solicited them, and they listened.
Just went over the issues on the balance sheet of Alameda Research, which is SBF's trading company.

Of the $14.6 billion assets Alameda manages, almost $6 billion is FTT based. Alameda has heavy investment in Solana, Serum, and other alt-coins. It looks like the drop in their value has lowered Alameda's asset balance. Alameda borrowed FTT tokens from FTX to put them as assets in the balance sheet to shore it up. The size of the asset balance is probably used to obtain loans and liquidity.

FTX issues FTT tokens (print money) => lends to Alameda to put under the asset balance => Alameda borrows money from outside against its assets or uses the asset/coins to invest in others => win with thin air!

The crashing of the FTT token not only tanked FTX, it's going to tank Alameda Research as well since its asset balance suddenly shrunk and might have liquidity problem.

The tanking of Alameda is going to another Three Arrow Capital event since Alameda invests in lots of other cryptos. It might be forced to liquidated those investments. Expect another bloodbath in the crypto space.
One could see this and other notable cypto blow-ups as an argument against a deregulated financial system.
Is the app bad? No.

> The trouble is, Facebook is so deep underwater PR-wise and user-content-quality-wise (in America at least, India still loves it), that subconscious evaluations of which app to open are facing very strong headwinds now.

The app was foiled by that dastardly subconscious mind.
I didn't say it had to be a national ID card. A state one would be good enough.

> allows for things like tracking gun owners

If that were true, the Democrats would be in favor of national ID

> or racial profiling

I don't see how. An ID card needn't specify race.

> some people so opposed to a government ID that they don't register their births or get social security numbers

And yet they register to vote?
How are the standard solutions for cross border payments worse than bitcoin/cryptocurrency?

I regularly ship 5-6 digits between countries. It's not even hard.

And I do it without gas fees (there's paying the spread, but if I'd use cryptocurrency then I'd have to pay the spread twice).

And I can do it without the fear of a mistake, or a hack (of me or the bank), taking away the deposit on my house.

The proposed cure is worse than the disease.
In a situation like that, you can recover, but it requires tact.

I'd bet it doesnt requires tact to convince them anymore.
The FDIC is just a ruse to let "useful idiots" think that everything is okay. In reality, the FDIC charges banks 90% less than the actuarial value of the risk they take on, and banks make wildly risky loans/bets all the time, knowing it's "heads I win, tails the taxpayer loses."

Insofar as you can call US Finance any better than crypto, it's because of socialized losses. IMO, bank failures are a much more appropriate solution.
> Making it so you can check your guesses faster means you need not be as good at guessing

Having more opportunities to check your guesses also increases your ability to guess...
The state controls every aspect of your life through its ability to force.device makers to give it control over the software.
Not a stablecoin. Bitconnect is my favorite crypto scam so far! It was so obviously a scam, and the bros promoting it were even dumber than that shitcoin.

A lot of crypto projects can appear scammy because a handful of people are working on something and their token goes through the roof then crashes with no wrongdoing on the part of the project. Invest in projects, not coins!
Binance.us has volume in the range of Coinbase. Binance.com dwarfs it.
I can't understand the effective altruist movement in a world of Modern Monetary Theory. When money means nothing and central banks can print infinite money, the only reasonable way to effect change is by donating directly to an extended hand on the street or actually physically helping, imo, but I'm open to changing my mind.
I don't understand how the deputized team drove off the cliff. At the very least they surfaced the set of problems which would need to be addressed to meet the contract.
I moved from VSCode to Emacs with the help of Doom Emacs. You can check it out online. It’s a distribution and configuration management solution.

Generally people like to recommend writing your config from scratch but that didn’t work for me.

It comes with pretty much all you requested out of the box.

One thing I liked more than with the default Emacs setup is that I could “activate” support for a Language just by un-commenting a line in the well organized config.
> Actually you can, just don't connect to the Internet during your initial setup.

That stopped working in Windows 11's 22H2 update. Now you have to either modify your ISO with Rufus, or pop a shell (Shift-F10) and run OOBE\BYPASSNRO to get around the account requirement.
Is shorting an option?
Agree, that’s why I specified “because” in the Go example, and “for a simple eCommerce API”. Almost all technical solutions have a place under the sun in the right context. My point is that this “right context” gets lost when the incentives are far removed from business needs and that not all overstaffed
companies are “idle”.
This book was my introduction to Taleb and I loved it. I recommend it frequently.
Articles written with .gov sources on World Events, Behavioral Science and Political Science
As relevant here, it blocks REM sleep and thus dreams. This can have downsides.
There's a whole subreddit for this https://www.reddit.com/r/thanksimcured/top/?t=month
It's their fucking job to solve the problem, and it's professional malpractice to hear the news, acknowledge it's true, and then sweep it under the rug.
I've been threatened a number of times in my life. The only people who have threatened me directly and without any fig leaves, weren't serious about it; a man on the street once said he'd kill me, and being an dumb 18 year old, I just laughed at him. He didn't do a thing, and I don't think he ever intended to. He just wanted to scare me. (I'm not bragging, this was foolish and cavalier, and I wouldn't respond that way today.)

The people who actually intended to make good on it, they were always circumspect and left room for reasonable doubt. Largely, I expect, to make the process easier on themselves; to create sufficient dissonance that they could think of it as giving advice. But of course the advice was, "if you do X, it will be bad for you, because I will respond with Y."
I did it last year. Was not that hard.
Yeah i know quite a few people who have bought drugs online with crypto but don't trade/invest in it. For the majority of people it's just not on their radar.
Keep the client informed of the progress. Springing a surprise like this on the client on the originally planned delivery date, without any warnings well in advance, should count as proof of poor project management and make the software company liable for a significant chunk of the costs. The client shouldn't have to swallow that cost if they were kept in the dark.
The main problem it solves is trust. I don't see the need for it in a system/govt you trust which is the case in most stable/developed countries like the US or Europe or India. But a fully backed stablecoin available in unstable countries do have a use case.
> Only the 500 best companies (according to a metric) are included and the companies are rotated in and out as that changes.

That is the thing.

What would the return have been if my grandpappy bought SAP500 65 years ago and kept those stocks he bought at the time until today? I have never seem such a number.

I mean if the loser stocks are rotated out it is hard to keep up with the index due to losses and transaction costs.
Thanks! We've merged those:

Binance to acquire FTX - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33520585 - Nov 2022 (283 comments)

Related:

FTX Agreement with Binance - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33520547 - Nov 2022 (37 comments)

FTX Appears to Have Stopped Processing Withdrawals, On-Chain Data Show - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33518961 - Nov 2022 (119 comments)

Crypto trading firm Alameda Research might be insolvent - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33464494 - Nov 2022 (197 comments)
I remember going to a training on project management where they told story about a project manager at a major research university who was told to estimate what it would cost to implement Peoplesoft and was let go when he told the truth about what it would cost.

They brought in a "Yes Man" who came in with the lowball estimate that management wanted and figured they could bring the cost down further by stealing people's time from other people's projects.

The project broke the $100M budget that was floated by the initial project manager and they only completed 1 out of 5 modules. Of course other IT projects across that university were screwed up and damage was done to the careers of many innocent people.

The good news is that based on that screw-up and several others around the same time that Uni greatly improved its management practices.
You sound like the perfect candidate for nightware. You should check it out and report back. I’d like to believe the marketing, but it sounds too good to be true.
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RAM and the Postgres shared buffers, as well OS page cache can also be important factors when there is an active working subset, e.g. the active sessions on a website might be reused hundreds of times per session, with only relatively small portion of them active at any time.

Shared RAM across all cores can be a reason to use fewer larger machines rather than more smaller ones in such a case. Postgres does give you options either way though.
Admittedly mine is a bit older and I haven't kept _super_ up to date with people's experiences.

Which model do you have? I'm pretty sure the real expensive one (ultra?) has pretty good battery life, I'm not sure about the others
precisely correct.

if consultants were asked to do this, the solution might have looked something like "there are nine months worth of opportunities to optimally architect the project; these are the top ten problems we identified and the top three preventing us from shipping; here are the tradeoffs; which would you like us to work on?"

this could've been a resume generating event for a lot of people

that said, burn out and feeling unheard definitely sucks. that probably played a part in how the OP landed here
Interesting. How would you compare the developer experience between the two approaches? And what was your use case?
> Serious people all agree about this, only cranks disagree with us

Mostly joking but if the shoe fits... As one example, one of the authors of the famous 'Viral' book pointing to a Lab Leak is a coal baron GW denier who chaired a bank that failed due to subprime loans and who previously claimed that HIV was a man-made virus derived from failed polio vaccination experiments[1]. How much credence should we give someone like that? How many hours of time should be spent debunking every new theory he promotes rather than just casting him aside and looking for non-morons to engage with?

Or how should one engage with this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33522713

It's just a smattering of grievances and debunked conspiracy theories. How would virologists begin to respond to that?

I mean I said it above, and I'll just copy/paste it here;

> Admitting that Covid19 was very likely a spillover of a natural virus doesn't mean that you trust China, that you think their labs are run well or are incapable of accidents, that they've been transparent or helpful with the investigations, or that the possibility of new evidence pointing to a lab origin is foreclosed -- just that the actual physical evidence we have today about this virus and this pandemic overwhelmingly points to a natural origin.

There are well-intentioned scientists testing theories that could point to a lab origin of Covid, it would be extremely interesting and important if they find something to indicate that's the case. Unfortunately to the casual observer of the actual state of science here, they'd be led to believe that there's consensus about a lab leak or at least a strong likelihood backed by evidence when that's not remotely true.

[1] - https://www.bmartin.cc/dissent/documents/AIDS/River/Prospect...