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I've been quite happy with CloudNativePG on k8s. It was simple for me to set up on a k8s cluster with one primary and two replicas, if the primary box goes down another instance becomes primary, deal with connection pooling, and simple to have backups go to a cloud object store. The alternative is dealing with all the replication manually, making sure that your leader election and failover work, making sure you can stand up new PG instances and get things replicated to the new instance, having a service that is checking the health of the database to trigger a failover, etc. It's certainly not impossible or anything like that, but CloudNativePG has been pretty easy. K8s isn't perfect or anything, but it's been a pretty nice experience for me.

I've tried other Postgres operators and been disappointed and it did require a little learning, but it's not like getting replication, Patroni, etcd, PGBouncer, HAProxy, and pgBackRest all running for a high-availability Postgres deployment is easy and wouldn't require learning.

As the author says, "[k8s's] operator model allows end users to programmatically manage their workloads by writing code against the core k8s APIs to automatically perform tasks that would previously have to be done manually." To me, that's the benefit. The operator can handle tasks like adding a replica or failing over the primary to one of the replicas. I could presumably do some of that with other tools on bare metal/VMs (I can always shell-script things), but I've had a good experience with CloudNativePG's operator. Likewise, as the author says, making day-2 operations easier is a big thing.

K8s does have some annoying amount of complexity, but it's been nice overall.
Sounds like a bullshit loophole that should be struck down then. BetterHelp should be a platform just like a hospital is a platform...
AFAIK, they still do pay high wages and provide excellent benefits compared to other fast food chains.
Sure it is. Running on a nonstandard port is absolutely as adequate of a security measure as locking a screen door. But it does filter out a fair number of probes, and reducing the number of probes does increase your security.

So it's like locking the screen door in front of your reinforced, deadbolted door. Some people will try the screen door, find it locked, and move on. It doesn't do a lot, but it's not entirely worthless, either.
My family members have experience with deafness. They've had direct first-hand contact with someone who is deaf in one ear, and have learned how to interact with that person successfully. They are familiar with the challenges of being deaf (in one ear, least), both from having interacted with the person, and because the person in question has explained the challenges they have faced.

I have lived experience with deafness. I've been deaf in one ear for decades now. However well I explain myself to my family members, there is a degree to which their experience will never be the same as mine, despite their first-hand contact with me.

We can either reserve the word "experience" for me, and try to police it so that nobody can say they have experience without being prepared to demonstrate the first-hand nature of their experience, or we can understand that people will use the word to mean "prolonged exposure" or similar, and add a qualifier when important to people like me: e.g. I have lived experience as a deaf person.
> I have to look at a Facebook page to see if a road near me is open or flooded too much to pass

We also had 300" of rain last year, which is ...pretty extreme. I thought the infrastructure held up remarkably well given the rainfall.
Heh, reddit moment: "I disagree, therefore I downvote".
Eircode length is seven.

And as already mentioned - it's used by some automated sorting (I believe) but last mile delivery doesn't use it (aiui).
Yeah ... I have a moderately sized house where I live with my wife. She loves working from home because it frees her to be flexible. She can take meetings without a headset, grab snacks whenever, play music, play with the cats, or - if she's no longer being productive - turn on the TV.

For all the reasons my wife enjoys working from home, I enjoy working from the office. I love her dearly, but I also want to work during my work time. There's only so much I can tune out while remaining productive.
>test it right now: "How tall is the Statue of Liberty?", "In what state was Abraham Lincoln born?", etc. There are an infinite list of factual questions for which it produces accurate and correct answers.

Those are easy because you can verify them. But you actually did go back and check to make sure they were right after you got answers out of it, right? And why is that, don't you trust it to just be right?
in more ways than one

they have no qualms in oppressing and showing intolerance towards cultures that won't play ball with those linguistic impositions, especially when they cannot just ignore them as foreign

they will impose actual systemic intolerance and litmus tests to force their cultural supremacy

the people who say disagreement is invalidating someone's existence will actually deny the existence of the culture they spun from, violently so if necessary
It's disruptive technology and an enormous amount of value is likely to be created. I would much rather the profits go to a nonprofit which can distribute them charitably rather than them giving them away freely to the megacorps which actually have the resources to run these massive models (edit^2: at scale). I do think the 100x cap on return on Microsoft's $1B investment was way too high (we don't know what the cap is on later investments but it's meant to be reducing over time).

Edit: Plus it's still the case that OpenAI aren't putting profit above all else. E.g. they just released the ChatGPT API and it's 10x cheaper per token than GPT3! And their Charter does count for something, it's binding on them.
The Change Date specifies when the source file changes from BSL to the specified Open Source license. Its always in the future.
Break My Chat App
This is my first attempt at something like this, wanted to make it quite minimal but still usable for small groups.

any feedback/bugs/suggestions much appreciated.

see you there!
What is wrong with pointing out a possible error in this claim?

> excitement regarding working from home. I get it, I love it too. But let's not dismiss that this further tilts things into a flat, isolated, touchless society. You want it, but it's still really bad for you.

Not spending 1 hour+ per day commuting allows one to go to city meetings, go to the gym, walk around the neighborhood when the sun is out for those in northern latitudes, etc.

If anything, spending so much time commuting to and from work is what tilted things into a flat, isolated, touchless society.
It's not as good of a deal though, because

- 1) you're dealing with therapists who are treating this like a side gig,

- 2) they're all overbooked,

- 3) dealing with a company that prioritizes money extraction over helping people, and

- 4) a poor experience with BH (likely) turns people off from therapy, which can be an actually wonderful experience.

I really can't blame the therapists much. Hate the game, not the player. BetterHelp the company needs to shape up.
I make it a point to try to avoid the unionized stores.
It's basically like political candidate Kari Lake in Arizona. She is an extremely confident speaker, talking about the conspiracies against her, how she really won the election for Az Gov, all of them have no evidence or support. She is such an excellent speaker, she's just chilling to me because people will often just believe someone who is so well spoken. Chatgpt is that. Imagine connecting what chatgtp says with with a "super confident fascist human avatar" that is kind of Kari Lake. It will happen because it's obvious.

We are just going to have ever more persuasive unreliable sources of information.
The entire health care system for seniors is a scam to drain them of their wealth and/or government benefits until they are broke or dead.
> "pets to cattle"

That phrase is inaccurate. With the cloud and K8, the pets move from being software that is tightly tied to the hardware to being a collection of configurations and software that are tightly tied to themselves.

We just make the actual physical hardware anonymous. But from the perspective of the actual stack, there is still a server with its cpus, filesystem, i/o and everything.

"Pets that you can carry" is more like it.
> I've generally moved from Gitlab to Gitea + Drone.

Do you use actions with Gitea? If so - how does drone fit in with/replace nektos/act?
Obviously, that depends on the purpose of the page/site. If the page is a brochure or advertisement, content is almost irrelevant; you could link to it, for buyers that wanted content. Brochures and ads are about feelings, and aesthetics are about feelings.

That's not what I think the www is for, but not everyone agrees with me.
And I last lived in texas, the official location of my property had nothing to do with the postal address. Since the postal address is a federal invention, I'm pretty sure more local governments don't use them for property tax or other identification.
Yes, not saying it is a real solution. Just that solutions will be proposed that will only be mostly onerous.
> "Still, I don't want my phone to even be capable of doing that,"

Not capable of what, running software? Communicating with a HTTPS endpoint? Having library code? Running stuff in the manufacturer's interest rather than your interest? All those things happen already in some form or other, and there isn't a cutoff to make the phone incapable of it without hobbling the phone.

> "That's one big step closer to the described full-private scanning (and just a flag flip away)."

iPhone already does scan offline private photos for face and object recognition purposes. And run big blobs of unknown Apple-provided code. It's only your trust in Apple that makes you think it doesn't report anything back now - and nothing at all stopping them from being arm twisted by the authorities to make that scan for something the government dislikes and report on it, as you say a flag flip away. It already does send your location and your surrounding WiFi signals and your voice when you use Siri unless you toggle the privacy settings, and that all came in quietly on regular updates.

Apple walked a fairly narrow line when they announced it, and when they publicly stated that if the authorities asked them to extend the scope of the scanning that they would refuse.

I don't know why they chose to do it on the endpoints rather than in the cloud, but acting like doing it on the cloud would give you any level of protection from them putting intrusive software on your phone is not reality. (Same with Google, Samsung, et al).
Heads up that your formatting is messed up. For line breaks to show up you’ll need to double them up.
I've seen people maintain a static website with Jekyll and GitLab. It was about a math-adjacent research field and the system was quite nice for this use-case.

Definitely not worth a paying subscription though. IIRC a public lab was hosting and maintaining the instance for all their employees.
I think it works more like a law of thermodynamics, where no matter how you arrange the elements or what signs you flip, whether you follow his advice or inverse it, any stock betting system based on Jim Cramer is guaranteed to lose money.
Ah yes, the myth of rejecting nihilism. Just like my last restaurant visit where I ordered stale bread and water. Enough for survival, the rest is pure vanity.
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Open source, 6x rev growth last year, heading for profitability soon, well paid experienced team of 37 today, 25k customers across free + paid products, 65k developers in community, 0 outbound sales - all inbound growth. Didn't raise a 2021 overpriced round - real (potential!) upside.

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Content marketing is huge for us - writing deep technical content is what we want! You'd be on our (small) marketing team, making a huge impact.

Previous blogging (especially personal/interesting!) and a few years of development experience needed.

If interested, james at posthog.com and charles at posthog.com for a chat.

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We are looking for someone to build the next generation of our analytics backbone. You'll be working on ClickHouse and Python to make sure all our queries are web scale and users are happy.

You will (probably) help us build HogQL https://github.com/PostHog/meta/issues/86 (our own wrapper around ClickHouse SQL), or whatever else you think makes sense to prioritize. We work in small teams of up to 6, and you'll have a lot of trust to pick what to work on.

You need experience building high performance data systems, must be an expert at Django with deep SQL/database skills. Ideally, but optionally, you'd have worked in a high growth SaaS company / analytics product and have extensive experience with TypeScript-based React. We need someone ideally that has both worked in a very scrappy / early stage way _and_ ideally has seen a company scale.

This work will potentially extend into providing a full warehouse to our customers. It's a chance to work on the next Snowflake, but open source and product led, working with new companies from day 1 and staying with them as they scale - so get here in the first 40 employees before we are 100x the size.

If interested, james at posthog.com + careers at posthog.com and please mention you saw us on HN.
> now it's available IIRC

Oh cool, didn't know that. It's this new "advanced data protection" feature that makes everything in iCloud e2ee except the classic mail/contacts/calendars combo that wouldn't really work with that. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303 is a nice resource on this, and I wish more companies would publish things like this.
I did this in 1996, got a friend to send a letter.

Mr XYZ

IBM

I think it took a couple of weeks to get to me - what do I win - .

I guess some people might not know where UK (United Kingdon) is. :)
Debit card interchange fees have been regulated (aka price controls) in the US since at least 2011 https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R41913.pdf
Well, they have an epic for improving pipeline creation, so it's not just me:

https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/7290

The reason it is so slow for us is probably because we use a lot of external includes and trigger jobs. But as I said: the problems start once you scale things up. Then you also cannot just "pull the code" for a search, as we also have a lot of repositories.
> their earlier Short Innovation Daily ETF (SARK) that bet against Cathie Wood and her funds is still up 73% year-to-date.

Only because this article was written in October of last year. Since then SARK is down 30% (along with the rest of the market).

You can tell that the entire investment services industry is totally fucked up simply by the form of the information they put out. Investment returns calculated over a single time period is a case in point. What you really want to know is the expected value of the return given random entry and exit dates, but no one publishes that information. Another example: investment recommendations are published as buy and sell recommendations, but that is totally wrong. For any stock, there is a price at which it is advantageous to buy it, and a price at which is it advantageous to sell it, and a range in between where you should hold. But no one publishes those price ranges, they just say "buy", "sell" and "hold" as if the price is irrelevant, or on the obviously false assumption that the price when you act on the advice will be more or less the same as the price when they produced the advice. The whole thing is a colossal scam from start to finish.
If you left iMessage on when you upgraded from iOS to an Android device, everyone who had an iPhone would still be attempting to send you iMessages and you'd never get them on your Android phone.
> Well, here in the UK the norm (for non-commercial mail) is not to include a return address on the outside of the envelope.

Huh? I was always taught to put your address on the back.
Halting opportunity
1, London.

https://londonist.com/2016/06/why-does-apsley-house-have-the...
I welcome "The semantic turn of the Left". It shows the emperor has no clothes.

By increasing the silliness, more and more people observe "Wow these folks are ignorant lunatics, unaware that they're driving the perception of themselves as immature, ignorant hypocrites whose identity is built upon political trends."
Starbucks already pays higher than market wages and provides excellent benefits like tuition reimbursement.
these "system design interviews" often focus on systems at the scale of major consumer internet companies, e.g. "design youtube", "design twitter".

How many systems of that scale even exist? 100? Only the core developers of those systems would be considered "senior engineer"?
Hah

Just wait a few years until we get AI companions, and everyone else in your life sucks by comparison.
Companies are lying about what these LLMs are capable of, full stop. That is the problem. And the reason for that is because they can't justify their costs if all they've created is a really good chat bot and writing assistant.

The responsible thing to do would be to have these LLMs refuse to respond if asked informational questions, but that would kill interest. So they won't. They're going to keep trying to shove it into applications that could potentially generate recurring revenue, and it's going to keep failing. I suspect they will go the way of voice assistants.
The "solvency" crisis is one of the dumbest things that has been shoved down our throats.

For decades there wasn't a social security or medicare fund. What was there was taxes. Workers paid taxes, and those taxes went to retired people. There was no fund. Then people freaked out about the boomers and what that would do to retirement. So they created a fund- they started collecting more than they needed, invested it in government debt so it would grow, and used that to get over the bump.

We can easily solve the "solvency" crisis by simply raising taxes. Remove the "cap" that says people are only subject to the social security tax on the first $160,200 of their income and the "solvency crisis" completely disappears. In fact if we completely removed the cap, rather than just raising it, we could afford to pay out more in social security while still extending the life of the "surplus" fund for almost a century.
> Making a joke = complaining

hmmm
> Note that having a solution setup where the end result is "a ton of small, individual API calls" could possibly indicate a bad system architecture.

Or just a lot of clients with a fair bit of shared state which is best kept resident, which is a pretty common use case.

It's a bummer to write python code that works well, and then maxes out at 130% CPU load when you grow your usage... and not have any obvious path to scale upwards despite you having 32 threads of execution around. Then, you can rewrite some of the more expensive things in native code to squeeze a little more performance, or add indirection to store the data somewhere else so multiprocessing works.

Other languages that have more finely grained locks scale 3-4x higher with minimal thought, and much, much higher with a bit of thought about how to handle locking and data model.

> At that point you'd look to Go or another language

Well, yah... this is us complaining about Python's concurrency problems.
The meta meta thing about this is that not only am I dogmatically arguing for dogmatism, but what I say is logically true in such a way that people who disagree with me can't formulate an argument against it. They can only dogmatically downvote me rather then keep an open mind about dogmatism.

It's a bit of joke. But it's more commentary about how everyone on HackerNews gets off on these "intelligence" articles when really they're just normal human beings with normal NFC and normal dogmatic tendencies.
> I take issue to the fact that this word is used to describe not just people who wanted to be referred to like that, but the general population.

This I agree with. This is a problem. And, in fact, we’ve been through and addressed almost this exact same problem with the inherently gendered nature (and default-male gender) of Spanish-derived demonyms and how that conflicts with some people’s gender identity before – and the problem of conflicts of preferred identity label for reasons other than gender – before. And mostly, what was done when addressing a group of mixed demonym preference with no single mutually-acceptable one was use multiple, joined with a slash (or, sometimes, here they differed only by a suffix, to separate the alternate suffixes with a slash.)

Actual, rather than performative, inclusion means not imposing a shared label just because you view the group as one for your purposes.
inflation should be a limiting factor instead funding being a limiting factor as it is today. So the focus should be on providing enough production ( ie supply ) in the economy to meet demand. Not necessarily worrying about balances in federal accounts which is the current narrative.
The problem is most people do believe these confident facts spoken by a leader, they aren't evaluating them. An easy example is the fairly widespread belief that somehow the us pres election was stolen. People said it, but there mountains of evidence don't exist. But millions of people believe it.
While I don't doubt that, especially smaller, companies randomly use logos based on anecdotes or email signups, I can assure you that, at companies of any size, customer references go through a lot of vetting and whole teams devoted to it.

And customer references are a big deal. Companies absolutely want to see other companies in their industry which are using your product and even have conversations with their peers about it.
Ironically, the IPv4 address for gitlab.com in my region is on a blocklist this morning[0]:

$ drill -Q @1.1.1.1 gitlab.com
172.65.251.78

$ drill -Q @8.8.8.8 gitlab.com
172.65.251.78

$ curl -s https://iplists.firehol.org/files/firehol_level3.netset | grep 172.65.251.78
172.65.251.78

[0] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/issues/6...
The ESA article gives much better rationale and explanation on what and why new timescale is needed, and why its relevant to define now: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Navigation/Telling_time_on_...

I'm slightly annoyed by media calling it time zone when the main focus is really on new time scale; I find it actually unlikely that timezones would be involved at least at this stage.
If the point is to increase security, isn't it counterintuitive to allow SMS?
> Not capable of what, running software?

Not loaded with trained models on illegal content and wired up to alert the authorities if it finds a match, with presumably several teams within Apple built around that feature. I'm thinking about more than the technical aspects of this.

> It's only your trust in Apple that makes you think it doesn't report anything back now

Yeah, exactly. I trust them enough right now to run tons of stuff without my knowledge on my phone. I don't have the time or knowledge to audit my phone, even if it were Android. If they announced that new feature is going live like it's a thing customers are meant to be ok with, I'd trust them a lot less.
Our live demo is having trouble keeping up with traffic; we're spinning up a load balancer right now and the server will be down temporarily. I'll edit this post when it's fixed.

EDIT: demo server is back up.