skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I 100% think they should prioritize this. They've added a bunch of cool stuff to CSS, but half of it is useless unless they actually implement a standard document type of interface so that HTML can be used to create paged media.
> simplicity and usability instead of just hyper scalability

This is such a key phrase here.

If I'm starting a small SaaS company tomorrow, my ideal for setting up infrastructure would be a stack which can for now look similar to what this article sets up (especially with the tremendously lower bills), but with an easy migration path to k8s, should I hit the jackpot and have that 'very good problem to have' of too many customer requests to handle.

My big issue with k8s, and honestly with other big fancy toolsets, is that getting started with it requires you to choose between:

- Hire several seasoned cloud orchestration experts, preferably with the platform you've chosen (AWS, GCP, Azure) who will know how to troubleshoot this beast when you have a mysterious issue, or:
- YOLO it! Just follow the basic tutorials to set k8s up, and hope you don't end up sitting up all night with a site that's refusing connections while your customers flee.

The first one is the only responsible choice but it's going to add another half million to your cash burn, and that's on top of the high-margin "managed" service cloud bills like RDS.

So I can see why people are drawn to a system where instead of paying for k8s and "Postgres in a box" they can pay for a simple server and have simple tooling to deploy, back up, etc.
How about we categorise it by the day/night cycles like we have since before we walked on 2 legs? Not some arbitrary time model we created that happens to divide the night cycle at midnight. Daytime max, overnight min.
Ranges like $100000-$10000000?
You aren't supposed to self-promote on HN
My guess is they want people to leave the pump and park elsewhere in the lot before getting food, to free up the pump for somebody else buying gas. For many people, ordering food is painfully slow and indecisive affair so it probably makes sense to move it away from the pumps.
Legal action costs you money. If you win, you get a "judgement". To attempt to collect on that judgement costs you money. There are many ways to avoid paying a judgement. You need to decide if you can collect from the customer before you start down this path.
I was surprised to see most construction sites only have one shift working. Sites work around 8->4, 5 days a week. Not sure if that is city regulation or union workforce.
It feels like so many people who complain about the cloud expense and complexity are only ever using VM based solutions and ignore all of the capabilities you get out of the box using managed or "serverless" services. When you treat the cloud like just another data center but someone else manages it for you you're likely not going to have an optimal cloud based solution and of course it's going to be more expensive.

If you're building a simple app, using Functions as a Service along with serverless document based storage solutions will enable you to have a very cost effective cloud deployment which includes so many things out of the box like the ability to scale globally without having to change your application architecture. For my small hobby projects, this amounts to a few dollars a month per application as the only cost which isn't purely consumption based is disk space for the database. I built an application for a small company (around 10k MAU) which costs them around $40 / month using these tools. Yeah, they could be on a small VPS somewhere with the same performance characteristics for the current user load. But then I would have had to build in all of the things I get from managed solutions myself. I haven't had to think about patching my server OS in years.
Tonight on ‘Whose Treasury is it Anyway?’ where the rules are made up and the points don’t matter…

I don’t think we learned from last time that when you just abandon the established processes in economic times like this, people lose faith in the system. For many people, that faith has been absent for 15 years. What is the cost of that?
(I think you need to accept friend request to be able to talk on discord)
Yes, I've got a Dell T3610 under the desk here now. My only beef is that it has weird Dell proprietary hardware, so I can't easily fit quieter fans to the PSU, or reuse the case with an ATX mobo
No the land is expensive
Obviously (or I guess not so obvious since I am writing this) that is because of a different density of workers, architects, general contractors, engineers for vastly different biomes in the United States than in Europe. Europe has way more people (more than twice as dense) in a similar geographic area (far less diverse features) so the data and practices honed by one are more efficient and have greater economy of scale despite all of the red tape we share. Nothing really that interesting.

Or you can just go with the simple stupid answer of corruption as if Europe isn't its own cesspool.
Ask HN: What would you use Twitter's Birdwatch (a.k.a. Community Notes) for?
I've found the usefulness of Twitter's Birdwatch (aka Community Notes), which takes a community approach to annotate and contextualize misleading tweets, super compelling. It seems like a good way for Twitter to enable free speech while addressing consequential bias and misinformation.

From Twitter: "Birdwatch works by using bridging-based ranking. Rather than majority rules, or popularity, Birdwatch shows notes that are found helpful by people who tend to disagree (in their Birdwatch ratings). This increases the odds that context added to Tweets is helpful to wide audiences."

I'm curious... what are some other important use cases outside Twitter that would benefit from a Birdwatch-like solution using bridging-based ranking?

More on Birdwatch: https://communitynotes.twitter.com/guide/en
I agree, sad to see these two big photography resources disappear. I’ve spent many hours reading and learning many thin*s about cameras, lenses and other photography related stuff from DPreview and Steve’s Digicams.
Love it. But doomed to failure because it caters to a niche audience who generally believes they shouldn't have to pay for things

Ask me how I know!
That sounds nice for the more involved big runs. I'll try to take a look at it sometime. I have some training runs that loop in just under 7 seconds at the shortest for the actual training portion of the run (maybe 9-10 including notebook spinup). After doing this for so many years, I've found that keeping it as short as humanly possible is usually the way to go. :D

That said, I can definitely take a look at it for scale once I need to go over something like 1-2 hours maybe! :D
I was going to ask "why", but you already explained it in your writeup:

> The prevailing wisdom is that Kubernetes is overkill for a small Rails/Elasticsearch app, but overkill is my life philosophy.
> At my last job, I would have happily gone into the office at 3am to swap a hard drive if it meant I didn't have to pay my AWS bill anymore

This seems foreign to many people, but I’d happily take on this responsibility if I get the attendant benefits.

Also incentivices me to make things robust enough I never have to.
Lessons on strategy from studying tech/science-based Fortune 100s
For the Ansible stuff, I have these scripts: https://github.com/wiringbits/scala-webapp-template/tree/mas...

While these are used to deploy a Scala backend and a Scala.js frontend, I have adapted them many times to work with other backends and js frontends, the logic is the same, the build scripts is what needs to be updated.
Everyone who wants to find fault with modern constructions trots out the Second Avenue Subway as an example. This subway is an obvious route for convenience and as such was first proposed more than a hundred years ago. At that time analysis of the geology and hydrology along the route as well as the very large amount of infrastructure including other subways already in place resulted in the conclusion that a subway along Second Avenue would be unreasonably expensive to construct. The idea kept being proposed every couple of decades or so and the conclusion was always the same: Far too much complication and expense to reasonably construct. Then in the 90s politicians decided that miraculous new tunnel boring technology would solve all problems and make a subway along Second Avenue easy and cheap to construct. This new technology turned out to have some complications and as a result all the nearly hundred years of cost estimates stating that a subway along Second Avenue would be unreasonably complicated and expensive to construct turned out to be true.

It is to the credit of our modernity that the project was completed at all. The real lesson here is not one of generalized slowing, but of a lack of rational analysis, particularly when a wealth of information is available.
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If you’ve got a tool that will apply a Dockerfile using ansible, I’d love to know more. It’s a good idea and it deserves to exist!
> 3-4 years of subscription approximately being equal to a license sounds reasonable.

Which is probably why the apps on the App Store which offer both subscription and lifetime pricing tend to have the latter at about 3 times the cost of the former. But Little Snitch Mini does not offer that choice.

I’d be willing to pay more than 40$ for a one-time purchase of Little Snitch Mini, but there’s zero chance I’ll do it as a subscription.
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> Dunno why you'd describe that as only "indirectly" affecting prices since that is directly addressing the supply and demand curve that sets the prices of the goods. The company will always try to take any profits it can.

It's an interesting double standard that you seem perfectly willing to tolerate this greedy behaviour from corporations, but not when it's individual people getting better wages and being employed. Here's a thought: instead of capping employment and driving down wages, why not cap profits and so drive down incentives to take any profits they can?
But why? I'm sure there are reasons, but not mentioned.

I for one love the integration in Google stuff. It's under-appreciated.
That is the thing, though. For most applications, those vulnerabilities in a common library are not relevant. That is what I was talking about in saying that it is in code that isn't used by them.

You are, of course, right that it has the possibility of happening. But by and large, it doesn't happen there any more often than it does in the dynamically linked cases. And, by and large, the dynamically linked cases are often a lot more complicated to deploy. (Granted, deployment for either should be doable nowadays.)

The dream, of course, is you just patch the library and call it a day. The reality seems to usually be a circus check on every application that you have deployed to see if they are impacted anyway.
I don’t think this is obvious or even necessarily true. Europe has many things going against it as well, language barriers, split markets, generally being quite a bit poorer than the US. Moreover it doesn’t explain the performance of East Asian countries at all.
Both. In order to encourage existing building owners to keep their existing height, they were able to sell their air rights, which then made it possible to build tall skinny buildings.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/05/super-tall-su...
I so wanted to read the page but after 10 seconds of the high contrast white text on pure solid black background I started developing a headache.
From the logic of an office dweller employee 2 clearly needs the money more.
Spending 3.2 million on a home is in another league of wealth from the vast majority of people.
You don't even need to be that hostile for this to be... difficult. I've seen salary bands for a specific role + level to be pretty wide - like 90k-150k. And then there's where you might be willing to accept mid level to principal dev - should you just publish a range where the upper is multiples of the lower? What's that really helping?

I'm all for more transparency, especially when it helps to equal out the power inbalance in employer to employee, but these attempts seem rough.
Interestingly there has been a resurgence of the Capistrano approach in the PHP community with ansistrano: https://github.com/ansistrano/deploy

That’s Capistrano v2 implemented in Ansible. Honestly been tempted just to try it on a side project for fun.
Permitting time is far longer. Not addressed in this story.
I know you’re being sarcastic, but my god, I’d rather die dirt poor than live this way. There’s a dignity and peace in acting honourably and lovingly
From my experience I think maybe internal reporting fits self hosting. You don't need to scale too much, it can tolerate some fails, etc. But I guess it's still complicated when you throw a wrench called BI into the machinery.
You can adversarially frame "ability to intelligently answer questions" or act as an "intelligent assistant" to "ability to search google" but those are different things. I'm comparing the use case of the former as an end user.

Siri will often uselessly "find results on the web and send them to my iPhone". Google can answer more queries directly as well as do basic timer setting stuff. The thing you're missing is the implementation detail is irrelevant to the end user, it's an issue of capability.

Your point about Apple being worse at cloud is partly what I'm talking about (and one of the reasons siri is so much worse). It's why Apple has not done a good job with this up until now. I don't buy the "it's intentionally not capable/bad by design because that's what they were going for" argument.

My prediction is Apple will make some sort of move here. Whether that's an investment in stable diffusion or something else I don't know. I expect what they do to have an apple flavor (on-device, privacy focused), but I think it will be leveraged to make Siri actually useful (and more of an actually intelligent and capable assistant).
It would greatly explain the performance of East Asian countries. They share the same environmental challenges whereas in the US the challenges are vastly different depending on which coast you are near. Of course China had less red tape (no pun intended) in some regards for development than the other East Asian countries so it executes even faster than its peers. I think its more of a slam dunk than comparing Europe with the US in these terms, which is commensurate with their ability to churn out infrastructure.
Is there an equivalent for Linux?
So increase corporate taxes, even up to capping profits. That's effectively what raising rates does to employment and wages. Capital has had all the control for too long.
Nuts. Who and what do I credit?
I think this maybe could indicate potential increased usage of reverse proxies? Total shot in the dark though, not sure.
There are many factors. Whole floor units are much more valuable than shared floor units, both for residential and commercial contexts. High floors are more valuable than lower floors. Taller buildings are more prized than other buildings.
> I've always thought this should be a feature in an OS for advanced users. Combined with some OS level security optimizations it could be quite a powerful security feature for the paranoid and at-risk.

I agree, by integrating it with an OS with good sandboxing you can provide some powerful security benefits, otherwise the main use cases I see are marginal privacy improvements by blocking telemetry from non-malicious apps, or reducing bandwidth usage.

Android does a pretty good job of this with its sandboxing and the network permissions for apps, and you can view the data usage per app in your settings.

edit: here is a good resource explaining Android security features and firewalls https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/android.html
Glasswire https://www.glasswire.com/
The short answer is no. The long answer is sort-of.

Just finding a part-time role like a full-time one, where you find it on a job board, or LinkedIn, or some company's career page is extremely rare.

What's more common is that you are at a full-time job and you negotiate down to part-time because the company already knows you're good and they'd rather keep you part-time than lose you completely.

Other options include freelancing where you choose your own hours and time, but then you have to do sales. There's also many marketplaces that will do the sales for you, but there's no guarantee of work. IMO software agencies are likely to also be a bit more open to flexible and part-time work.

I dont love shilling my own stuff (who am I kidding I do), but I wrote a guide for this exact question on my newsletter: https://www.parttimetech.io/p/work-part-time-as-a-software-e....
Sometimes it does scale.
Me too. The only thing it is missing is an auto attendant that can keep track of a whitelist based on my contacts and numbers that have navigated the auto attendant before to get through to me.
k3s is lightweight and even I have clusters running, I can sync them too if I wish, easily, I agree, it seems odd they didn't go with some kube design on prem.
I'm not interested in standard Fed policy, I'm interested in better solutions that don't punish the labour market to prop up capital.
interesting choice of colors to designate problem areas. Customary to see poor results in red and good results in green, with yellow as cautionary. Here it is opposite.
It’s in the right direction, but it will be implemented in 3 years and for companies with more than 100 employees, without specifying limits or edge cases.
Americans’ IQ scores drop in four of five measurements
> you also have to deploy the java runtime and make sure it's compatible with your application.

That’s not much of a problem in practice though. The JDK is just a tarball as well. You can even combine it with your application tarball into one! (With the drawback that now you have to create one combined tarball per target platform.)
Honestly I just thought that was the way banking was done. I don't send a lot of wires (and everybody else I have dealt with were even worse).
>directional blood impacts (that fade over time) give you more information as you move through the world

I guess these blood splatters will indicate damage.
That can be a great gameplay mechanic if I can gauge how much health a person has remaining who I have just shot. And who probably ran away.

I can plan my strategy accordingly.
I didn't watch the video. I guess they are using the LPC header available on some mobos and a microcontroller or FPGA to change it to a full-blown ISA bus.
AFAICT these aren't VST plugins - they build on Max for Live - so sadly you'll have to use the standalone versions for other DAWs.
Travis is amazing
They say they will save $7 million over 5 years with this migration.

Sounds worth it to me.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-stand-to-save-7m-over-five-year...
Buttons, Links, and Focus
In my Model 3, voice commands work flawlessly for my wife.

For me, it never hears me. Doesn't matter if I talk loud or quite, fast or slow. I'm a native english speaker with no regional accent. Tesla also has no explanation.

Thing is, even if it worked for me, I'd still trade it for dedicated buttons. It borders on aggravating when my wife is driving to be mid conversation and have her suddenly yell out "wipers on".
Fed open market operations are entirely to adjust the market conditions regarding rates to what they want them to be. The Fed is participating in these transactions to the tune of trillions of dollars
Wonder how federal tech jobs are these days. Feels like we don't hear from 18F much anymore.
Flower has an agreement to develop interoperable components with OpenFL. This is part of the broader plan by Intel to work with a consortium of players (that includes Flower Labs) and have the output code sit with the Linux Foundation. Enabling TEE support within OpenFL for SA assessible to Flower users is precisely the type of opportunities we seek to make possible by working with Intel on this.

This is the official press release for those who are interesed: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/transi...

More broadly, in regards too your comment -- our current SA support does not require hardware support, which is what we targeted first, so that can be broadly adopted in many potential hosts of FL aggregation servers. It is suitable for most applications in need of privacy, although still requires certain assumptions to be met such as the number of nodes within a round, and other factors.
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>- Coinbase's position is that they are simply providing a technical service to their customers to do something that their customer's could do themselves.

Sure, I could write multiple mortgages and roll them up into an MBS myself too, isn't the bank just doing the technical work there too?
There are lots of projects that require at least a good undergraduate level understanding of compiler concepts. They aren't advertised as such though, but if you can make the link between the problem someone wants to solve and your experience, they'll hire you
> Especially with the current way Docker Inc. is managed.

I was reviewing GCP's Free Tier today, they have the same approach, if they need to change or drop services they agree to give 30 days notice, same as Docker did. It's probably common for other cloud companies offering free stuff as well. All the negative attention Docker received was fully and wholly undeserved.
Have they tried Swarm?
Why? Unions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
Everyone knows it’s a scam, they just don’t know when the rug gets pulled. So they buy thinking they won’t be the last in the scam chain.
SpaceX is a company with all of it's employees and testing in one geographical location.

Indeed is a global company spanning multiple languages and governments. This requires creating, designing and specializing for multiple languages and sensibilities. JP Indeed has additional integration with LINE. It's hyper specific to Japan but that integration is required for success. Multiply that by a few factors for operating in each region, having dev groups for each region, understanding and operating within the law within each region...

I always see these kind of comments to be remarkably ignorant because operating on a global scale requires a global workforce.
Then if your desired end state is a factorial, zig is the perfect language
Why is TikTok unique in that regard?
There is no body of substantial evidence to support the claim that generative pretrained transformers will lead to AGI in the near future.

"Current AI is dangerous"
- I see zero evidence to suggest that this is the case for GPT

"AI is getting smarter faster than it is getting safer"
- irrelevant because I do not believe that AI is unsafe currently

Therefore your conclusion does not follow.