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> A fast modern 16 core machine with 128 gig of ram can meet a lot of needs.

True, as long as you don't care about redundancy or scalability or wasting money because you actually only use 4GB of RAM and barely any CPU.

> So much kubernetes is just overkill.

Absolutely true. Kubernetes is great in some scenarios, but pretty complex so overkill when starting. Serverless (ideally containers as a service), docker-compose and Nomad* are much better options unless everybody is already a Kubernetes pro that has all the tooling ready.

* - disclaimer, I work at HashiCorp, but I actually believed Nomad is amazing, sufficient in most scenarios, and actually better than Kubernetes in some aspects before joining and it's one of the reasons I joined.
Great article. Using household examples to explain theory is very powerful.

Along those lines the most recent Goldratt / Theory of Constraints book “Rules of Flow” has a chapter on Thanksgiving dinner preparation, similar to the original ‘Herbie’s Scout Hike’ that is pretty good.

https://fredlybrand.com/2023/03/06/goldratts-rules-of-flow-c...
It will eventually come from taxpayer money directly or indirectly.

FIDC will levy other banks, which means those banks' customers will be paying.
Sure, it does get better with a few-shot prompt.

Q: Write a python function that adds two numbers
A: ```def add(a, b): return a + b```
Q: Write a python function that reverses a string using a slice
A: ```str[::-1]```
I'm not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand it is kind of fun to see what people are asking and searching for... but on another level, I think its pretty creepy!
Q: How do you make someone fall in love with you? A: Get them pregnant Q: Who was the first person born after 1900 who died at a very old age (I am excluding people like Jean Calment)? A: Alexander Imich He lived to be over 112!
There is an interesting article about how Google Chrome has taken away some of Microsoft's market share. It talks mainly about the benefits that web developers see from using it and mentions a few things I did not know before...
[... it rambles on]
Sadly, impossible to do on modern Apple machines (where the T2 co-processor handles all the crypto), and difficult to do with Windows as Bitlocker uses a TPM module by default [1] if it's available and modern enough. You'd need to manually mess around to disable TPM usage.

(Side note, does anyone know if there is a workaround to allow multiple passwords for Bitlocker?)

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/informati...
Where else does the money come from? Either there is no shortfall in which case there didn’t need to be a bailout, or the special assessment will be placed on banks, which will pass it on to consumers in the form of lower rates or increased fees. Just because there isn’t a “Silicon Valley Tech Bailout” line item on statements doesn’t mean it isn’t passed on.
Haha, I try to not be too serious about it all. Lots of stuff happening in this space. I went back and forth on the name quite a bit, and in the end I opted for this tongue-in-cheek but short and potentially memorable name.
> "it's hard to run a server, let along a server cluster" propaganda - it is not hard at all.

It's not hard at all if you have skills to manage hardware switches, deal with rack power budget, configure the power on sequence, establish procedures for hardware failures, establish procedures for disk management, redundancy, early earnings and replacements, deal with rolling out firmware updates for all components, provision resource limits between apps, provision and secure iLO or similar access, configure hardware monitoring and alerting, maybe run a SAN, ... (and lots of other things)

Sure, it's not hard when you have those skills. And you can offload some of that to another company if you're doing single servers rather than full rack(a). But it's not exactly a common set of skills either.

Edit: Also you can easily forget things at small scale. Just remembered LTT's "Sure we can host our video archive ourselves. Oops, forgot to turn on scrubbing. Aaand the old archive is gone."
Or voting. Voting tends to drive social change. At least in democratic countries. Anyone telling you otherwise is trying to maintain the status quo and hopes you don't vote.
You lose the benefit of a CDN though (caching content on a server closer to where each individual user is accessing it)
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> Comment here if you’re interested. I’m thinking of publishing it as a torrent, but don’t know if there’s enough interest.

Please do :)
> most professionals wouldn’t want to claim AGI for professional reasons

Most professionals in my field would probably consider this a career-defining moment that would land one in the halls of the greats. I don't really follow this thinking.

And I get the "looks like a duck, quacks like a duck" argument, but as I've repeatedly stated, that's not good enough.

Frankly, I don't buy the "predictive coding" theory - at least, not to the extent that I believe the brain is only probabilistically modeling the phenomena it experiences. This ignores the glaring fact that our senses in-of-themselves exhibit some astounding capabilities right out-of-the-box, and predictive coding has no ground to stand on without the cross-referential analysis of the senses. Human babies are developing their intelligence long before any heavy stimuli. Hearing is the most active before birth, eyesight - our most rich sense - doesn't kick in until after birth. Nonetheless, babies come out of the womb with intelligent reflexes, such as rooting. That bundle of rudimentary intelligence is the basis upon which predictive coding begins - a functional default. An LLM is a set of statically-coded weights, incapable of context switching or object permanence. A child may take a while to understand the difference between "you" and "me", but they still can intuit "thing A" and "thing B". LLMs cannot - at least not without being paired with another model of some sort. And that model will be what tips the scale, not scaling up the features of what's merely a beautiful implementation of the logit function.
Get a better job that doesn't have "product managers", "agile coaches" or "solution architects". Those are bad places for engineers.
QUALCOMM sells phone modems which is a much more lucrative business than NXP selling automotive chips and generic ARM microcontrollers.
The definition of monetary inflation is increasing the monetary supply. That doesn’t need to happen by starting a printing press. It could be someone typing a bunch of zeros on a keyboard somewhere to create new money out of nothing.

I never said inflation was detrimental or harmful (my personal belief is that it is harmful, however), just that adding money to the supply is by definition monetary inflation (the origin of the concept of cost inflation which is what we’re being asked to accept as the true definition). Putting air into a balloon doesn’t mean it will pop; it’s still being inflated. Hey, it’s even more fun for a while ;-)

I was responding to a parent who said printing money isn’t inflation, when it’s the literal definition of, and the origin of the term in monetary theory. It’s not very constructive to conversation to attempt to change meaning of words to make one point or another.
Since you bring up physics, this has a name: the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. You might have trouble getting physicists to describe particles as “gravitating” to it, though — the particles are doing their own thing, and this is the resulting probability distribution.

But this is only for distinguishable particles. If you have a bunch of indistinguishable particles, you get the Fermi-Dirac distribution or the Bose-Einstein distribution, depending on whether they are fermions or bosons.

You can find all of these distributions on Wikipedia.
Change in the bank accounts of the people running them for sure. As the profits are spent of their salaries. Outrageously large salaries, more often than not.
I appreciate this argument, and let me give the counter-example. 99.5% uptime is good enough for nearly all businesses.

I run a small IT service company - we provide a hosted service in the insurance industry.

We host on-premise, in our physical office (well, across 2 offices for DR). I personally have a history in infra management, so I generally enjoy it. You're right that sometimes things go wrong. Last year, we were down for about 3 hours. The year before that, there was a 6 hour outage. We've had failures in power, ISP, networking, server hardware, software, etc... but we've matured to a point that we can handle them quickly.

Most importantly, these outages are understood by the business and the users. They know going in that they get a credit for outages, and that it won't exceed 1 business day per year (usually much less).

Because we accept this 0.5% downtime (it's actually much lower in reality), we pay 1/10th what I've been quoted by cloud services - probably even less.
CISA joins forces with Women in CyberSecurity to break up the boy's club
That's a great point about experience teaching the topic. (I've written a few articles where I certainly wished for that experience.)

I just wish textbooks didn't have their own bad tendencies: they have pablum as an attractor, because on average students just want to get through the class, not doing too much worse than average among the other students. Even without this problem, there's a more basic one: like with enterprise software, the decision to buy the book is not typically up to the user. "Will people actually want to read this on their own time?" is a strong driver of quality, even though it has pitfalls too.
Non-profits are not necessarily operating outside capitalism. They can be highly capitalistic too.
British industry calls for regulation of autonomous vehicles
Very cool to see this indeed! I always had an eye on AstroNvim.

I'm currently on a slightly customized NvChad setup and am happy with it. It mainly transitioned me to lua configs, which has been a good decision.

How do you compare with NvChad? It's a slightly different set of tools, yes, but why did you think it needed another 'preconfigured vim' distribution?
It could be interpreted as loss of faith in the bank and the risk of a bank run, which impacts the ability to get investment to support current depositors needs. That’s essentially what happened at SVB.
Sure:

- Click the link to show top scorers

- Initiate fetching the data

- (The view may change to indicate you're loading the top scorers, if you want, that's a different matter).

- Receive the data, the view changes to display the data

This is opposed to:

- Click the link to show top scorers

- View changes to show top scorers component. A component loads, or mounts, or inits, or does something which triggers a data fetch

- Receive the data, the view changes to display the data

Your app "knows" you need the data when the user clicks the link, no need to involve the view components into this.

This gives you the ability of adding a lot of complexity to how you fetch the data that is best handled outside a UI component (like caching, reusing it in other components, error handling, retrying, throtling, whatever), while saving you from a whole class of problems where a misunderstood component lifecycle has consequences for your data. Frameworks like React or Angular are going to try to help you by caching outputs, reusing components, dropping updates for the same frame, prerendering, preloading or anything really. If you fetch data when a component does any of that, suddenly you have to care about it and fully understand it. The abstraction leaked. If you treat the component as close to a pure function as you can, things become much simpler.

This applies to relatively big, relatively complicated apps, controlled by a single entity, where it pays off to prioritize simplicity.
Because you're spreading the risk of bank failure across many banks, which honestly is probably good for everyone....
Yes. Banks are required to have a certain amount of their balance sheet as equity. If that gets too low, they have to increase it. That means selling more shares. Only if your price is already very low, you cannot sell more shares because no one will buy. So then you cannot get your capital ratio right, and the FED (or other institution steps in to take over). This is not a problem for day-day operations, but it can rapidly become a problem week-week...
AWS understands lifetime
value of the user, not just the account. I've had mistakes ON MY PERSONAL ACCOUNT that were in no way connected to my work. Times when I was just experimenting. They refunded it in full. I've also heard from STUDENTS who may not ever get into infra work that they're still reasonable and lenient.

You would be absolute mad to use any other platform. AWS gets it right on the customer service front. Amazon, perhaps deeply less so... but AWS? amazing.
> For example, RCA lost its direction and fell apart when its founder David Sarnoff died and his son took the helm. Similarly, another spectacular failure was Hewlett Packard when its last founder died.
> That said, there are exceptions such as Apple—but then it may not have been in existence long enough to tell

Apple would be about the same story: it hasn't created anything really meaningful since Jobs, it mostly lives on the legacy that has been set. Luckily for Cook the company has a good storytelling and aura, but major innovation hasn't been there for a long time, and when the wave slows down it may well end up like the others you listed.
Ancient dormant viruses found in permafrost, once revived, can infect amoeba
I kind of wish they had version without the modular ports. It's a neat gimmick, but I really don't need it for anything. I just need the same 4 connectors: Usb-C for charging/docking, some USB-A ports, ethernet and a 3.5mm jack. I don't see those needs really changing. Faster USB speeds I can take or leave, but that would be limited by the underlying Thunderbolt at some point anyway.

I guess it improves repairability and all. But eh, I never had a laptop where those parts failed before any other parts. So if I can just pay someone to help me solder on a new port the once pr decade one might fail, I'm ok with that. Or maybe they could make it easily replaceable without the modularity, that'd be great.
>since the whole campaign of missile barrages during the last year is obviously primarily for "breaking the will

I've read many articles that have claimed this but never seen a shred of evidence presented for it ever. It's just assumed. Always.

In fact, a good half of the articles that claimed it and simultaneously explained that it was a terrible tactic that historically has never worked. There is quite a lot of historical evidence for this and I think it is very clearly true. I am equally certain Russia knows this.

So... no evidence + claims of a self defeating stupid tactic suggests to me that they might be blowing up power stations for reasons other than "to break their will".
The UK's bad encryption law can't withstand global contempt
We had a high end home rental for a vacation a few years ago that had multiple dishwashers that were just being used as cabinets! It creates a whole new set of clean/dirty problems.
I think there's a sweetspot where Equinix Metal fits in.
I run Linux. I have microsd card with bootable Linux kernel and encryption keys. Laptop has fake bootable livecd and luks partition.
Samsung Fake Moon Shots Controversy Puts Computational Photography in Spotlight
The examples in the article aren't even the worse ones I've seen. There's a class of videos where the parents have a special interest, or specific lifestyle they want to live and not only they force their kids to live that life and do those things, but also record them for views. There's one with a family that lives in an RV (willingly) with very little space and they make the children record videos for views. I also remember a Youtube channel that made videos where one of the kids was constantly "pranked" because they thought it was funny...
Or they are completely faithless & degenerate & go into the priesthood knowing it will provide them cover & opportunity to indulge in depravity. That explanation is just as valid as yours mildly closer to the truth.
Adapting Android for Older People
The number one thing I like is that the EdgeQL as a language allows to convey clearly what exactly you want from the database. That's kinda a definition of "expressiveness" for me.

> that don't ever care about the actual query plans and calculus underneath

Of course, if you're being paid for this specifically or the nature of your problem domain requires optimization of query plans, you should care. But in vast majority of projects I've participated the database query plans and performance is not a bottleneck at all even remotely. So between "unexpressive and low-level" and "expressive and high-level" it's reasonable to choose tha latter.

Also, I have a belief that EdgeDB engine produces much more efficient SQL code than I would write myself, but I can't confirm nor deny that.
FELLOW HUMAN WHY ARE YOU YELLING?

NO PIRATES, ONLY ROBOTS, WHO ARE CLEARLY NOT HUMAN AS WE ARE.
economists are the dumbest creatures on earth, inflation is happening because the entire economy became less efficient for various reasons related to the pandemic and foreign policy, plus the money the Fed itself printed. Hence fewer goods being produced with more money available and increased prices as a result. These people think they can print money and adjust interest rates and make the economy magically do what they want when in reality the economy is driven by technological advancements that improve productivity, not financial trickery

these people don't live in the real world and now we are going to be stuck with stagflation for years most likely
So, pretty much exactly what happened with Google+?
Google Reader had an "outdated" UI, in the sense that it was really bare-bones and feature-less, and focused on its main function. If it survived to today, it would probably have been redesigned 7 times like gmail and become increasingly complex and slow. So while you're not exactly wearing rose tinted glasses, you're yearning for a time when the web was simpler and gave birth to Google Reader.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35094074
Both for-profit entities :)
GPT-4 to launch this week, Microsoft Germany's CTO lets slip
Cloud doesn’t eliminate the need for dev ops. Sometimes it can help, but overall I’ve seen an increase in cost, workload, and stress.

The cloud is very much a your mileage can very situation. Just remember cloud providers are very interested in selling you a product due to their extremely high profit margins.
> I never set foot in a gym, went jogging or any other "tryhard" forms of exercise.

I had to look up that word: A person usually of little talent who tries hard to succeed, especially through imitation, usually to gain fame or popularity.

A big part of habit change is also changing identity, how you see yourself. In that sense it might be worth investigating your aversion to people that exercise. Many forms of exercise can become quite addictive in themselves. Additionally building some basis of muscle if you have never trained before can increase your base metabolism.
Thanks, so void* is the any type in C. And the argument is not necessarily a pointer nor should it be dereferenced. I think I understand.
I doubt that rabies has evolutionary developed to target dogs. It’s just a “happy” accident that dogs are so plentiful and can infect many other animals (until recently at least).

If I had to guess I’d say rabies had evolutionarily targeted species that today are largely asymptomatic and can easily survive a rabies infection, like bats or birds.
Indeed, one of the most profitable non-profits in my area is a health insurance company. To make sure they are truly 'non-profit' by some legal definition, they dump a lot of money into local real estate. They quietly own a good chunk of downtown. Non-profit my ass.
Sommeliers in America
Perhaps we'll be forced to accept that we cannot continue to have "endless growth" with a declining workforce. The cost of Labor is going to go up at all levels, and that will mean smaller profits and more inflation until things stabilize and enough of us are incentivized to do productive work.
I believe he is moving everything to https://scottadams.locals.com/
> The attack resembled a very aggressive, clever virus so the people behind it definitely had very advance knowledge of AWS.

In what way did the attack resemble a very aggressive, clever virus?

Do you mean that it happened fast? How do you know it wasn't something simple like your credentials leaking?
Why on earth should any software developer care about the calculus underneath their database? That is surely only the domain of database developers, researchers, and hobbyists?
The gram doesn't have an option to come with Linux installed (at least mine didn't). If they were doing custom Linux work, I would have to imagine that they'd offer Linux as an OS too.

In any case, I'm incredibly pleased with mine, the battery life really is fantastic and knowing it can be this good is probably the only reason a framework wouldn't be my next laptop.
I don't know who said it first, but it was something to the effect "the Fed will raise rates until they break something."

The rapid move away from ZIRP might be the real culprit here.
The fact that this is on front page with just 1 comment indicates there are not many solo game developers
I hate these websites that load an auto play video with no user interaction.
While I know what you mean, you can totally get 20TiB+ of NVME local to the machines you get from AWS
> > IFF central banks were fully public institutions and subject to public accountability then no one would argue against CBDCs

Do you know the name and family history of people guarding the National gold reserves at Fort Knox?

Or (much more importantly) the name and the family history of those who are entrusted to control the silos of ICBM both on land and submarines?

No, you have the general assurance that they are competent and not traitors.

With Central Banks you’d have the general assurance that they will not put your money deposits to work in any way, shape or form. They’d not invest them at all, just boringly let them sit on the database.

One thing that I agree on is to have more transparency and also to enable a citizen from the US to hold money with the Central Bank of say Europe or Japan (and viceversa)
LibreOffice does a credible job of PDF to Word on OSX.
> What really does itch.io or Steam offer in the way of protection if a developer wants to be malicious anyway?

more eyes; if a game contained some kind of malware, there will likely be reports made on the game discussion page (hosted on steam), and game will likely be taken down with enough complaints

i've seen this happen before when some random game added a cryptominer in a silent update
I've used a few package managers that use json and I'm really glad that cargo uses toml.

IMO xml/json/yaml are PITA file formats.
I started a small "no-name" studio to build games handful of years ago. Built and released two games thus far -- SimAirport & SimCasino.

I'd potentially be interested, my email is in profile if you'd like to reach out. :)
What price are VCs paying for concentrating too much of their portfolios into a bank that was careless? No price. And that is what is upsetting some people.

The VCs didn’t concentrate their money like this for no reason. They got some benefit out of it, surely (easier access to loans for their portfolio companies, I suspect). And VCs are, or should be, sophisticated enough to be accountable for concentrating their capital without purchasing insurance.

There’s no clear way for VCs to pay the price they should pay without some startups being collateral damage. I think that’s the crux of the disagreement about what should have been done.