skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm biased, but my experience in Netflix was so good that I never felt the need for a DevOps team. Netflix engineering team did three things right:

1. Any task is an API away and everything except getting a Cassandra keyspace is self-serving. And getting Cassandra access is a matter of a 2-minute conversation.

2. There is always a UI for casual tasks, such as setting up a service cluster or CI/CD pipeline. This is crucial as engineers do not have to learn any non-transferrable shit. The UI will guide them to complete their tasks.

3. Powerful support of observability. Clients, servers, OS, networking... All kinds of metrics are just a finger snap away. In addition, adding metrics is dead easy. If we need something that is below the service level, such as SNMP, we just dropped an email to the four-person observability team, and the metrics will show up in a matter of day before I even had time to finish my own coding. Heck, we had full support of OLAP query on millions of time series with full support of boolean search by any tag (even metric name is a tag) back in 2011, when most people thought Graphite was the best thing since toilet.

God! I miss so much the Netflix days when everything was a non-event. Deploying a predictive autoscaling service to any application in production? Non-event. Getting Druid to production readiness in less than a week? Non-event. Having user-controlled fault injection via APIs? Non-event. Setting up Mesos and Zookeeper and opening up Zookeeper for the entire company to use in production within a week? Non-event. Creating a company-wide crypto service and using it to swap AWS keys automatically for all the Netflix services in production and in test? Non-event. Generating an event with a new schema without talking to anyone and see the event show up in a brand new Hive table under 15 minutes. Non-event, and it was back in 2010. Setting up eBPF traces and access all the pretty and dynamically updated charts for any server via an API? Non-event.

I don't know what more I could possibly ask for.
He's been CEO for eight years... that's plenty of time.

It's not like he was brought on 18 months ago just to get the IPO done.
Hive or Quora
There is a chart in the article. It uses dollars as a measure of movement. This is confusing to me.
I enjoy my Tilt Five so far. I don't understand some of the other commenters saying that the 3D visualization was subpar; everyone to whom I have shown the simple Geometry demo was really impressed! I bought it to develop content in Unreal for some AR fun; but the Unreal SDK plugin doesn't seem to be a top priority for them.

My main complaint thus far is that I shelled out a lot of extra dough for the package that included THREE HEADSETS! Whoa! THREE headsets that you can plug in locally, so you can enjoy it with friends! But then very few, if any, apps for TIlt Five supported local AR multiplayer. Maybe that has changed in the past month or so. I need to dive back in to it. I think it's an expensive novelty that will have an interesting place in the museum of XR development.
A federal law can only apply to FBI, National Guard, Coast Guard and other federally managed law enforcement bodies. It cannot apply to the various state and county police authorities. Governance of those is a right explicitly granted to each state and county, and the states/counties will fight tooth and nail to retain it.
As you suggest, it's not binary.

Even if he's "right" what "Spez" has done here is pure idiocy.

Even if Reddit comes out of this largely unharmed, why did they even take the risk? Why didn't they just incrementally increase API pricing or implement policies that slowly kill off 3rd party apps one at a time? What he's doing is simply bad from a strategical perspective.

But further, this event has put me off ever wanting to invest in Reddit post-IPO. "Spez" seems approaching conflict like a child in an argument with their parents might. Even if you like Reddit's product I don't know how anyone in their right mind would invest in a company where a child is calling all the shots. The dude edits comments to pwn people he doesn't like, he lies, he's comes off as arrogant and entitled. It's just so unprofessional.

If anyone else was in charge I'd have assumed they wanted the controversy.
> MA voters do not expect auto-makers to not uphold their federal obligations: MA voters expect them to uphold both

If they’re in conflict, they cannot. State laws being stricter than federal ones don’t conflict.
> I have felt like every item I own is a burden

This is starting to get to me. Everything I buy I now have to store somewhere, and/or is then something that I need to throw out. And everything I throw out seems like such a waste to me.

Something changed in my mindset over the last couple of years.
In active service: five.

Macbook Air - portable for main personal use.

Mac Mini - desktop for main personal use, with two 4k 23-inch monitors.

Self-built Windows PC - for gaming. Does not get much use these days.

Ancient Dell OptiPlex with Windows 10 - for work use. Perfectly adequate for connecting to a virtual desktop which my work uses. I'm not a Windows fan but a Mac would be expensive for this purpose and using Linux with the necessary proprietary software is possible, but a huge pain.

Very old Thinkpad X230 (I think) with Debian - for work use. I use TaskWarrior to track my work tasks. I can't install stuff on the virtual desktop at work, and it's handy having this on a separate machine.
Maybe first ship a competitive GPU and process node, eh?
For now. Zoom out to "all time".

https://imgur.com/a/3PWPajw

They went from steady growth to steady shrink, and half the benefit from the increase has already disappeared. That is an ugly chart for the business.
Safari won't load some of the images in this page.

Looking at them, it seems they are serving HEIF with PNG extensions here:
https://assets.nautil.us/sites/3/nautilus/aoQtV2D6-French_HE...

Even though https://assets.nautil.us/sites/3/nautilus/aoQtV2D6-French_HE... is a true PNG

Chrome seems to ignore the extension and just reads the file
A distributed event-based transaction processing system that handled around 400k requests per second peak traffic with many petabytes of data stored in a purpose-built DB.
Consider how an atomic bomb requires relatively little energy input compared to what is released. Combined with how very little practical observation we have of what's really going on in the Earth's core. It is certainly possible some phenomena is in play with Earthquakes.
Yeah. I get the whole fear of the same thing happening to Reddit that happened to Digg. But digg had Reddit nipping at its heels and it was still small, Reddit is huge there’s nowhere to chase them to.

The other alternative is for Reddit to just stand by and let the blackouts chase people away indefinitely. It is hard to imagine that is better. It will upset the people who have already decided to leave Reddit anyway, but for most of the people who just want to see funny GIFs, it will be better.
> the most self-centered generation in history

Boomers?

Also I'm not sure cancel culture is a bad thing. It's just negative branding for what is essentially the first time marginalized groups could have their voices heard. People who are used to writing op-eds and never hearing any criticism of their ideas are finally getting some negative feedback and they're super mad about it. You get absolutely unreal outrage about that, like this NYT opinion:

> For all the tolerance and enlightenment that modern society claims, Americans are losing hold of a fundamental right as citizens of a free country: the right to speak their minds and voice their opinions in public without fear of being shamed or shunned.

That is the first sentence in the piece. Unreal. There has never been a right to say what you want without being shamed or shunned. Shaming and shunning is part of free speech. Boycotts are part of free speech.

That's how backwards this whole "cancel culture" outrage is. Better to call it accountability culture, or response culture, or feedback culture.
It's not something you get instead of cops, when technology is developed for policing it's always always in addition. So it's not cops vs facial rec it's cops with facial rec.

American police have never been given a power that they have not chosen to abuse for personal or political reasons, and used against dissidents and the dispossessed. The abuses aren't theoretical they are inevitable and at huge scale.

> Put laws and systems in place to keep the data secure and require warrants to access the data.

When? Who writes warrants? Who enforces these rules and punishes transgressions of them? None of these would be actual practical restrictions, and they don't exist anyway. If you give them access to it they have access to it your only chance to influence that was before you gave it to them.
I suspect the phrase is a cliche often used to sound scientific and sometimes by folks unaware, like how description of growth as “exponential” is a cliche used by non-mathematical discussion.
so I contracted covid jan. 1st 2022, and was having symptoms in april of that year, I actually was admitted to the scripps long covid clinic, so I guess it was a bit longer than 3 months, memory was a bit fuzzy during that time. The Dr. who I saw at the clinic said on the scale of long covid symptoms mine were on the milder side, I couldn't imagine what moderate or severe would be like. Equally frustrating was the lack of tests that could detect it. The Dr. readily admitted this issue and said it made people who were suffering sometimes feel like imposters due to tests showing anything concrete.
This is technically true, but then why does any website bother with content moderation? It's one thing for something to be archived on a hard drive somewhere and another for it to be google-searchable.
>How long until the adults at Conde Nast step in and stop the madness?

The company is bleeding cash. There's a good case to be made that this is the only way to make it stop bleeding cash. So either this needs to work, or the company will die anyway.
The Final Triumph of Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023)
What are good counters to these arguments?

Mostly it comes down to the companies that make these things have to "maximize shareholder value." Who cares if people get killed?

It's good to see Illinois get ahead of this, considering that politicians in Illinois keep getting caught taking bribes from these policing equipment companies that peddle gadgets like red light cameras.

Just yesterday it was revealed that the newly elected mayor of Chicago authorized the extension of the ShotSpotter contract another ten years: One of the very things he promised to kill when he was campaigning.

It's all been "Oops! Is that my signature!? I didn't know that other people have the ability to click a button and sign my name to multi-million dollar contracts. Oh, well, maybe next decade!"
Which products? Corn? I wonder if that means food inflation will start to subside and perhaps even reverse? As an aside, food stocks saw huge gains in the past year, but are starting to lose value in the last few weeks, for whatever reason.
When was this published? There is no publication or revision dates in the pdf. Maybe 1999 when Jane Street started?
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Free running back end server for on a publicly accessible IP
It was first explained in the Old (2000 published) Game Programming Gems book in the chapter titled: "A Generic Handle-Based Resource Manager".
Hmm. A lot of software is unnecessarily complicated. This has to do with "too many cooks" or "design by committee". The term "complex" is relative. Is a trading system complex on its own merit or is it the process of building it that is complex? I haven't worked on a major project so I can't say.

I took a programming course many years ago. Not because I needed to learn programming but to get job interviews. The instructor asked us to write some C code to perform some small task. I completed the coding in about 5 minutes and it was just two lines (my prior experience was 6502 assembly not C). Others in the class were writing screenfuls of code. I imagine that the same situation occurs on large projects where mediocre programmers write more code than required for the task. Projects get bloated and more complicated as a result.

Another anecdote. I wrote a small operating system for a piece of hardware known as "touch memory" made by a company called Dallas Semiconductor. Intriguing little device, I must say. This was 20 years ago. My boss met up with the owner of a company that was attempting to build what I had already built in just two months. His 4 programmers could not accomplish much of anything over the course of an entire year. I guess that means that I was 24 times more effective. The company went bankrupt.

The most complex project I worked on? I dunno. Maybe converting PDF into braille. Would you say that is complex? I wrote all of the code from scratch without using any third-party tools. That's another area where projects go wrong. They rely too much on closed-source middleware that their own programmers don't understand. It's a recipe for disaster.
I can believe the other points, but the WASM hype train has officially jumped the shark.
That means they went back to five-year-old backups. Delete actions which you took five years ago were undone.

This more or less tends to confirm that Reddit management handed down a mandate to restore everything being deleted, not only recently but going back as far as they have backups.

The restoration isn't perfect; it doesn't patch back the posts into your timeline, so when you search for your own posts, it appears empty. That is probably deliberate, the idea being that people don't notice the reverts.

When I re-delete a post manually, that action seems to stick. But for how long; they will probably be repeatedly restoring old posts from backups from now on.

Luckily, I have every single link to each one of my deleted posts. I told Shreddit to save them. The numerous .json files have all the info to re-delete the posts. Shreddit can be modified (or else a new program written) to use the .json files as input rather than obtaining a list of posts from the API.
I would ideally like to be able to fit my whole life into a suitcase and be sufficiently free of commitments that if someone asked me to move to the other side of the world next week I could. I achieve this in my own life, but I share the feeling of almost overwhelming burden you describe when I see my parents' possessions. Some day I am going to have to deal with them. It would be unbearably wasteful and disrespectful to just throw them out or give them away to people who don't value them, but disposing of them properly would be a major undertaking, and many of the items have great sentimental value to my parents so I can't imagine giving them to anyone else but at the same time I don't want them. I doubt that I could trick myself into overcoming this by "letting go" as you describe.
With higher latency the experience suffers. As an example liveview page navigations work via websocket which is not cacheable so navigating back/forward always needs to make a request. You really need some edge setup like fly, or only serve a geographically local audience.
It would be hilarious if they managed to get themselves banned from Google Play and Apple's App Store. After essentially killing off third-party apps, they'd have neither those nor their own.

(Disclaimer: I'm taking a lot of stuff at face value. I'm not privy to info about whether the API pricing is specifically intended to kill third-party apps, whether these ratings are definitely fake, or whether that can be traced to Reddit.)
> They’re gonna be left with bottom of the barrel mods.

sorry for pharaprasing.

do you have any evidence that there is a negative correlation between 'bottom of the barrel mods' and 'mods that are going to be outsted by the message about subs having be made private?'
Is it going to morality-police me if I curse out other drivers? Is it going to morality-police me to talking to it when all of my attention should be on driving?

No fuckin' thanks.
Study claims Earth was formed more rapidly than thought
https://archive.is/NYTNH
You might get a lot better mods and more participation with profit motive. It certainly had that effect with YouTube.

There would, of course, be some downsides too.
How would they sell you that subscription for heated seats, if there would be no connection to begin with!
>Cut it out. [...] Oh bullshit.

How about you dial it back a bit, eh?

>least because cryptocurrencies are impossible without computers which means by definition any value they offer is a subset of the value of computers.

Oh. In that case the energy waste, the scams, the ransomware, etc. are not harms arising from cryptocurrencies, but merely a special case of the harm arising from computers. I mean, I was keeping the two disconnected in favor of computers, but if you want to lump them together then by all means do so.
On the contrary, as workers' rights are being attacked constantly by employers, workers should fight back.
unfortunately you’re not their target user/customer. Many people, that aren’t the HN crowd, are happy with swiping over loads of vids/photos in the app, happily generating advertising revenue. That’s where the money is now. Pivot the younger userbase to be some sort of TikTok clone etc. That is their aim. Get the advertising CPM.
Apparently unpopular opinion: This is perfectly fine.

Prices are very sticky and in my opinion most software is underpriced (see patio11's constant nudge to increase prices). It is good that companies are using the inflationary environment to not only match the new economic reality but also do it knowing that they won't be able to adjust prices again in a while.
To be fair Reddit also is missing the core idea of what it itself is

Just think, one of Reddit's features for years was the "trending subreddits" list. Someone made that, someone else approved it. It got put on the front page, it became a core part of the experience. There were meetings!! Meetings where this was discussed. It was an OKR, maybe even of multiple people, was there a whole team?

But you and I understand that the essence of community is that you get a small group of people who interact and re-interact and who get used to seeing each other and who have fun doing this thing, whether it's shitposting memes or discussing God or something else. You grow past a certain size and now you are shouting into the void, which is the same experience you have every day, just go to your local pub and shout your hilarious comments at the TV and you'll have more listeners than your comments on a large subreddit.

"Trending subreddits," people literally came into daily stand-up, "Hi Jessica, how is the 'suddenly destroy Reddit communities just when they start growing and thereby make Reddit suck more' feature going?" "Well I ran into some roadblocks as the sudden influx of new users makes the statistics very hard to pull, I'm thinking of changing to a cron job that reassembles the list every hour." "Jessica, we've talked about this, making Reddit suck more is of top priority to my manager and my director, I don't care how you do it, just GET IT DONE and we can get a big bonus at the end of quarter" "I won't let you down, boss! Reddit WILL suck more by the end of this quarter."

I don't think it's still a thing anymore as-is but I don't think it was deleted for the fact that it was the make Reddit suck feature? I think they're still basically doing the same thing but just basically temp-autojoining users into those subreddits, "Reddit wasn't sucking fast enough when people had to opt-in to flashmobbing a promising community, now we're just going to shove the people in the door and scream 'you're a flashmob get to sucking!' and hope that works." More meetings were had on this!
alongside the narrative of a recession (and layoffs) that seems to remain perpetually on the horizon...if any meaningful resistance begins to emerge
From safety perspective, but not equivalently from branding and public relations.
And yet mods sign up for it!
It was hostile by mods to close a sub like r/nba the day after the finals, and hostile to close an important sub like r/science. A poll with a small fraction of the users that was only up for a few hours and potentially brigaded doesn't mean the majority of actual users wanted those subs to close.
>If mods on Reddit really believed they were irreplaceable

I was going more for "very hard, especially in bulk and on short notice" than irreplaceable there.

>wouldn’t it make more sense to protest by quitting?

Already did a while back...used to mod some big-ish subs.

Going private seems like a reasonable intermediate step though. A bit like workers holding a strike instead of straight to mass resignation
Wow. Blast from the past. I was 13 in 2000. Very fond memories from these days and this site is one of them. A bummer that more of the screenshots/text files weren't backed up, but thanks for sharing.
You mean how a cheap inner tube went from $2.99 to $9.99 ?
A substandard programmer working within time constraints will produce bad results.
This articulates a feeling that I've had for a long time. I struggle to buy gifts, which probably does me no favours socially, for this reason. I can't help but feel the burden I'm giving to someone else. Christmas is hell.
Sadly outside of the HN crowd something like 5% of people use that functionality of their browser - and maybe 1% use a password manager.
Absolutely they would be worthless to others. After all, if there was value available to others, others would be willing to pay for it. And that's just not going to happen for anything I am capable of writing. There is good reason why I'm the one paying for it even though it is quite common to pay others for what they write. It is not unusual at all to pay those skilled in writing for their work. For the rest of us, it's just a hobby. And that's okay. Not all work has to be for others.
It's not a hobby. Apple obviously devoted most of its software engineering resources for the past year on Vision Pro. iOS 17 and macOS 14 are the most minor "major" updates I've seen in many years, perhaps ever.

Nothing even remotely close to that ever occurred with the "hobby" Apple TV. At WWDC, visionOS was a major focus. And during the keynote, I've never seen Tim Cook as excited as he was that day. He's normally quite sedate, almost robotic.
Honest question: When would I want to use Lambda containers vs ECS Fargate?
We considered Oak Park and Lincoln Square in the city proper for aesthetic reasons, and chose Oak Park for the schools (I'm retrospectively unhappy we did that, since we contributed to school segregation by opting into a de facto private school system, but whatever).

But even if we hadn't, and we'd simply chosen Oak Park over Austin, that wouldn't be a "revealing" preference. Austin is troubled and disinvested, again by dint of being the literal ground zero for post-redlining US housing segregation. At the beginning of the 1970s Austin was majority white; by the end it was over 90% Black, because of panic selling and white flight. There aren't that many restaurants, few grocery stores, &c, all as a result (if you're a middle class family in Austin, chances are you shop in Oak Park).

I think Austin is pretty neat; wide tree-lined blocks with some great, big houses. But I'm not arguing that it's unproblematic. It certainly is.

As for the definition of "no-go zone", Wikipedia's will suffice. Austin compares with literally none of the many examples given. You can go to Austin; you will be just fine.

Incidentally: people in Chicago have generally the same feelings about Auburn and Grand Crossing as they do about Englewood, but people still go to Lem's. It's true: I have no reason to go to Englewood. I also know less about it than I know about Austin. But Austin is simply not a no-go zone.