skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I worked at Groupon a decade ago, there were a lot of ex-Amazon people and I heard comments a few times about Microsoft being “a place to go retire”. The implication was that they liked the intensity of Amazon (or in Groupon’s case, a fast growing startup).

I'm somewhat in that camp myself, though I’ve never been at Amazon. I like to work very intensely for a few years and then unplug and go into a learning phase.
I've never really understood why the "worm" logo got so much hate within NASA, or the "meatball" so much love (beyond simple nostalgia, anyway).
> If not, why should a PM bother about irrelevant details?

Because engineering failed to consider these details. Now I'm the one that has to point out how amateur we look when in some areas we don't require TLS and others we're so strict, we only have 1.3. Engineers (management or rank and file) who can't understand why this is a problem is exactly the reason you need technical PMs.
Once a company does this, that company is basically fully done in my mind. The damage is done to their brand and is irreversible.
Google's Ai says:

The Google Pixel 8 Pro can run generative AI models locally on the device, but not all of them.

Google announced at the Made by Google event in October 2023 that the Pixel 8 Pro's custom-built Tensor G3 chip can run "distilled" versions of Google's text- and image-generating models. These models can power a range of applications on the phone, such as image editing and smart replies in Gboard.

However, some generative AI tasks, such as running large language models like Bard, still require too much computing power to run locally on a smartphone. These tasks are offloaded to the cloud, where Google has access to more powerful servers.

Here are some examples of generative AI models that can run locally on the Google Pixel 8 Pro:

Magic Eraser
Zoom Enhance
Best Take
Audio Magic Eraser
Gboard Smart Replies
AI summaries in Google Recorder

Google is still working on developing new ways to run generative AI models locally on devices. As the Tensor chip continues to improve, we can expect to see more and more generative AI features running
on-device in future Pixel phones.
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Sorry about that. The pricing was about Image Resizing requests ( updated my comment).

On http requests itselve.

Vercel is 2 $ per million requests. Cloudflare is 0,15$ per million requests.

So Cloudflare in this case is > 13 x cheaper.
You’re correct, and maybe I was a bit harsh in my response. But there’s not really a good word for “a file store and a bit more” besides “server”.
The problem is they consistently make mistakes in the rush to get the story out first. I suppose that's not much different than many other publications, but the NYT is the most visible. It tends to erode their "strong reputation for factual reporting," and for large swaths of the nation (mostly conservative), they're little better than a tabloid.
Seems entirely reasonable to both enjoy something now and hope it becomes even more enjoyable.
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This post is highly relevant. It's telling users to stay away from Vercel.

I disagree with flagging these posts.
> If an org curbs their growth expectations and aims for a sustainable service...

True! But it seems like only a ridiculous minority of businesses are willing to pursue "sustainable but not flashy" as a business goal, especially in tech. So unfortunately, you might as well be saying "if the sun were to rise in the west...". It's just not going to happen.
cost center
Some of the best computer stores closed, i cant get the stuff except online.

Man I miss the days of malls of mom and pop computer stores, computer stop would carry all the top hardware, hdnw would carry the latest hard drives. Use to take my kids to CompUSA on the weekend to pick up video games, and they even had a pc build center with cases and fans.

The PNW doesnt have microcenters. :(

Oh and your car doesnt get broken into when you shop at home, or held up by gunpoint.
> What a blog of pseudo social/political science is that

That would be the UK chapter of Amnesty International. Not familiar?

> I've never heard of 'Rule by law' and very much doubt it's genuine valid research

Is Stanford good enough for you?

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rule-of-law/#RuleLawRuleL...

Or Harvard?

https://hls.harvard.edu/bibliography/rule-by-law-or-rule-of-...

Maybe Cambridge?

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/rule-by-law/64D05AB3BEA...

Or just google it, it's a well known concept.

> If you read the actual constitution it mandates

Lots of nice things, sure. So did the Soviet Union's constitution (I still have a copy of that one somewhere). But then there is the little detail of whether the words are actually applied in practice.

Here's what happened when a Chinese law professor had the audacity to suggest that the Party should actually abide by the constitution:

https://www.npr.org/2013/09/18/219671719/chinas-debate-must-...

Old article, you say? Well then, here's what somebody else had to say about in 2019:

https://thediplomat.com/2019/02/xi-china-must-never-adopt-co...

You may want to take note, he really doesn't like loose talk about constitutionalism in China.

> The list of wrongly accused is from 2013 but majority is from 2019-now

It's a live spreadsheet started in 2013. New cases are added as they occur. I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.

I agree that faster reporting and the spreadsheet itself becoming more widely known over time could have contributed to the rising trend.
I did that in my first comment. How on Earth do you support the claim that one deliberately self-imposed limit on human progress can't be compared with another?
Ask HN: I'm abandoning NextJS. What's an alternative full-stack TS solution?
It feels like NextJS is trying to build back-end tech specifically for people that don't want to write a back-end. That seems like a recipe for disaster. "use server" looks to me like a feature you should be very careful with. But if someone's using it specifically because they're lazy they probably aren't going to be careful.

What I liked about NextJS:

* server-side-rendering is definitely a plus for the user experience

* being able to check cookies before sending the user any data is great (a basic requirement that many SPAs didn't used to do)

* the built-in router was nice

Previously I've had NextJS front-ends calling NestJS APIs. What are my options here? Any good example boilerplates?
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In-app purchases: you answered your question yourself
> But in his role, he saw that every new person was trying to outwork the other person at his company. "Once one person started building that kind of workplace culture, another person would follow suit because they didn't want to be left behind. Everyone was trying to impress their respective bosses to try to get a raise or get that promotion."

This really messed with me. Idk how you are suppsed to deal with it. I had a pretty chill job, then we started to grow and this behavior started after hiring.

It's funny to see this article, when there is a front page hiring post atm talking about working weekends and extended hours as an expectation lol
10 million included per month.

On the free plan, it's 100 k. per day included - https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-pricing-scale-to-zero/
That doesn't preclude a change in the law at some future point. Or some sort of massive amnesty that we see sometimes in times of political upheaval. The death penalty is society decisively deciding that this person must never be allowed to kill or harm anyone else again.

The prison one is one that never gets enough focus, mainly because we have an attitude of writing off people that go to jail and that whatever happens to them there a rough form of justice. But then it's not really great to have people sentenced to life in prison without a chance of parole now performing this kind of "justice" to other people that might have a chance to reform and go back into society.

Just as a single example, Freddy Geas was a mafia hitman who was sentenced to life in prison. He killed Whitey Bulger, another murderer. Sure, Whitey wasn't innocent, but did he deserve to be beat to death by another murderer under state care?
When people understand the wider context their work falls under they naturally give a shit. People want to give a shit, it feels good to have meaningful work and do it well. They only stop giving a shit when given a reason to do so (usually because they are heaped with meaningless work and have no connection to whether the work is good or bad). That doesn't (just) mean "incentives", it literally means them simply being told "great job, no problems reported from the client" or even more preferably the client themselves telling them that. The more steps between them and the effect of their work, and the less feedback, the less possible it is to give a shit even if they try. Trying to game or make this process as low effort or box-check-y as possible is noticable and counterproductive, it needs to come from a genuine involvement.

People involved in meetings tend to care more. Not "involved" as in invited to, involved as in people want to hear their opinion and care what they think. The trope of people hating/not listening in meetings comes from it literally not mattering whether they are in the room or not. I get that you might not initially care what <newhire> has to say, they're hardly bringing insights, but the best onboardings ive seen are those where seniors want to hear their experience, what they struggled with, and work with them to make it easier for them and future newhires. It's noticable how much harder people work shortly after seeing their feedback/work being put to use.

Another thing ive observed a lot is its common for people who give a shit to get promoted to lead others, but by taking on a lot of the meaningful work themselves, overworking, and failing to delegate, they breed people under them that dont give a shit, due to leaving only meaningless tasks and having no time for feedback or informing their reports what is even going on.

Finally, once someone has fallen into the habit of not giving a shit at a specific company, unfortunately it requires a mighty effort to bring them back again. It's usually possible with time, but much harder than just keeping them happy in the first place.

I guess give a shit about people and you may well find they give a shit themselves
In the context of linear algebra, a matrix is a linear map. A map is characterized by its domain and its image. These are very important characteristics.
yes one of the most frustrating things is to deal with people who come in and ask for data to support an idea. You suddenly have to justify common sense and good ideas to people who don't have any data for their ideas either but they'll certainly push their ideas first before any data has landed. After all you have to develop something, you can't just do nothing. And then later you do a survey on what they ended up doing without any data and naturally the thing that was visible got selected. People very rarely look at something and say: "well this entire product you developed is just garbage." Take the netflix ui for example, I'm sure they did plenty of surveys. Or the Google+ ui or the Windows Metro Phone. And yet it's not human to expect the surveyed to say that this is all bad and redesign it all from the ground up. A human being when asked for specifics will give specifics of some kind and then they will fix those specifics and think that it's all better now. I mean it's all absurd. Knowing what feature or design to implement is not really easy to do based on data. By the time you can gather data you already had to implement designs, ideas etc to a quite advanced degree. Data is very useful but it certainly can't be used for new product or feature development until you already developed them. At which point the data is already old and you have to make decisions about the future again.
Most of pop culture is derivative, and the benchmarks we use reveal more about our age than about true originality.

That said, the references to Control in this game definitely feel a bit hamfisted. You even encounter a familiar character from Control, and they seem to have a lot less depth than in the original game.
If that contract is cost-plus and the medevac is a cost related to the project, well, we’re going to pay for it anyway. Which seems reasonable to me, to be honest, for anything remotely related to the reason we were paying for that employee-by-proxy to be there.
I'd be happy with an LED bulb that lasted a year. I haven't yet found one that can do that reliably.

Remember that 60W incandescent bulbs costing $0.25 used to be available that met that goal. We've taken huge steps backwards on interior household lighting.
While Sagan's advice is great, it's still putting burden on the individual to handle bullshit.

The more I've thought about bullshit as a phenomenon, the more I think the only real solutions are social ones, where non-bullshitters need to coordinate to make bullshitting a bad scenario. Things like shaming, publicly crying bullshit, coordinated dismissing bad actors.

If handled individually, it'll always be asymetrically easier to bullshit than to defend against bullshit.
Thank you for a super interesting link!

It briefly mentioned the equatorial bulge that other, faster spinning, planets possess. Would it greatly damage the planet to spin it up?

I also didn't know that Venus' rotational energy is so low that we "could" actually spin it the correct way without spending much more energy.
That level of uselessness is impressive. They must've trained on Microsoft's forum.
You haven’t made any specific points, so what do you feel I’m claiming you are wrong about?
Axler serves as an adequate first introduction to linear algebra (though it is intended to be a second, more formal, pass through. Think analysis vs calculus), but it isn't intended to be a first introduction to all of formal mathematics! A necessary prereq is understanding some formal language used in mathematics- what unique means is included in that.

Falling entirely back on physical intuition is fine for students who will use linear algebra only in physical contexts, but linear algebra is often a stepping stone towards more general abstract algebra. That's what Axler aims to help with, and with arbitrary (for instance) rings there isn't a nice spacial metaphor to help you. There you need to have developed the skill of looking at a definition and parsing out what an object is from that.
these issues aren’t particularly severe and strike me as the kind of thing you’d generally run into switching hosts.
For me it was the other way around. I loved the Alan Wake 1 story. It was clear, easy to follow with enough mystery. Control was a mess, I didn't understand what I was achieving or had to do. The fact that it was "open world" inside the offices of that agency made it even worse. I skipped it and I couldn't continue, despite the fact that I would have loved to learn more about Alan Wake backstory.
Well I agree with you. I should rephrase my first comment from "you must" to "in my opinion you should."
Ah, I was getting AUD without realising it. The page converted the amounts without notifying. But yes, still way overpriced.
Ask HN: If you were to build a simple CRUD app today, what stack would you use?
This question was posted today, but it didn't specify any parameters so it got lots of generic "it depends" answers.

If you were to build a straightforward CRUD SaaS app that was making some kind of business process easier/faster/whatever, what stack would you use (and why)?

No/low code solutions also are acceptable answers...
I check email headers/whatsapp notifications every couple of hours and open them if they look urgent. If it merits a response, I give the person a call, instead of typing out a reply and let them know why I am calling. So now I have a bunch of colleagues who know that I am available to talk to, but also know that email responses could be delayed.

Video calls can't always be avoided, but so far I have not been affected. Or rather, I chose days on which there are no regularly scheduled video calls.
Capsela Is Dead, Long Live Capsela (2017)
This is a really fun argument we're having where the various parties don't agree on the definition of the thing they're arguing about.
Remix? It’s one of the cool kids on the block
But if people just put all the data in and forecast it youalready have a budget (before) and after (balance) at any second in time essentially. Why cut off at the most important time (how does it affect my finances comprehensively at that point in time ?!)
It’s extremely niche (abstract, “Platonic”) to ever need to care about derivatives of non piecewise-analytic functions.
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I've wondered about that as an author, actually:

Given how little Americans read books, might there non-English-speaking countries where there are more book readers than the US?

It would be simple to get a BAD translation of my books into Spanish, say, but a good translation would cost me a lot. And I wouldn't know how good it is without showing it to several other native Spanish-speakers.
rofl, look at everything you commented on. You're basically making my point. Also it sounds like you never worked with a programmer before, because "that's literally the job of programmers, to figure out how to implement something" is by far vastly underestimating how good programmers are when you give them fuzzy information. Maybe by year 7 or 8 they can get fuzzy info and work that into a well functioning piece. Before then they either will complain "why can't someone just tell me what to build and I'll build it" or they never push back on "do we need to build this? And as such?" and by god try to get them to estimate. Oh wait and try to get those estimates to be less than 300% off.

Just saying, you are over trivializing everything which in my mind leads me to think you haven't lead an engineering team or maybe oversaw one or two junior or mid level engineers.

A good PM should _not_ be advocating for the engineers to do whatever. If they are doing this I would be the first in line to recommend either re-adjusting their priorities and having a senior pm oversee them, or kick them out. A good PM is what creates the space for engineers to do their job, and a bad one will not wrangle the chaos into an executable situation.
Entirely different Xfire, as far as I can tell. The two are unrelated.
Normally, they do this with sweetheart backroom deals with the manufacturer for a fleet of cars.

It can be lucrative, I recall the manufacturers put terms in the contract that prevent them from selling cars with less than a certain number of miles, to prevent them from just selling the cars immediately at a profit.

However with Telsa I don't think they had a negotiated price.

Too bad, because EV rentals directly lead to sales.

Ask any EV owner, and they will probably have dozens of conversations with non-owners who think it is impractical and would not fit in their life. But put them into an EV and many of these roadblocks evaporate.
The company that just pushed an update that marks Google play services as malware and tries to break android is “better than iPhone”?

Get out of here.
Wats this reference?
"Hard for ppl to care when the numbers are too big"...... this sounds like a good defense for SBF. He needs one.
Nix doesn't have maintainers sign anything because it isn't necessary. The Nix binary cache is built and signed but that's done by builders only the NiXOS foundation controls.

Individual maintainers just commit Nix code to build the packages... Do you mean you want their Git commits to be signed?

Edit:
I guess that is what you mean. That is distinct from package (binary) signing. How do you know that a distro's repos built using the signed commits? NixOS is actually better suited to prove that an particular commit produced the package.
More likely but not certain. People who rely on this rhetorically tend to ignore it isn't a slam dunk.
The community here is pretty friendly. https://redwoodjs.com/
But that’s incredibly stupid. A meteor hitting a DC is an intentionally dumb way to eclipse the much more likely risks of thousands of other things that can wipe out a DC.

I’ve been involved in such discussions and on the surface they seem reasonable but it turns into an easy reason to write of DC being wiped out.

In comparison there are far more likely reasons for a DC to be wiped out effectively permanently. Data centers at the base of WTC 1 and 2 are good examples. The myriad of targeted attacks on the power grid are also prime examples of attacks that would cripple a data center for weeks if they were in the cross chairs.

The Cascadia subduction zone has a much higher probability of wiping out all of them in the PNW simultaneously than a meteor hitting a single one.

Looking at it from a different perspective, there are other teams at Google who understand how sensitive their data centers are and they act appropriately. The list of data center locations is not public. A motivated group with long range rifles purchase from Walmart could wipe out a Google data center.

Google is very bad at modeling long tail events.
>Even for a simple case, take the number of symbols that have context sensitive meanings and mathematicians. They will use them without declaring which context they are using, and a reader is simply supposed to infer correctly.

Yes!! Like, oh, you didn't know that p-looking thing (rho) means Pearson's correlation coefficient? That theta means an angle? Well just sit there in ignorance because I'm not going to explain it. And those are the easy ones!
Modern people are driven by cognitive biases and emotion. They then attempt to justify these decisions after the fact with logical fallacies.
You're so busy moving the goalposts that you can't hear the whoosh as the point passes over your head!
My uptime monitoring business made a similar migration (AWS Lambda to fly.io), and I ended up rolling it back a few months later.

I wrote more about the move to fly.io here: https://onlineornot.com/on-moving-million-uptime-checks-onto...

and (part of) the move back to AWS here: https://onlineornot.com/scaling-aws-lambda-postgres-to-thous...

Edit: forgot that second link doesn't actually explain that I moved off fly.io, will write a follow-up.
Well, perhaps it's not meant to be the first book on mathematics one sees in their life.
> Celeron CPU a "server" now

There's a long, rich history of low-power chips being used in home servers. It makes a lot of sense because for that type of application you want low power draw and low noise. Both of these are different requirements to the datacenter-based servers you seem more familiar with but nevertheless it is an entirely valid type of server.

For example, here[1] is an article about HP's use of Atom chips in their home media server.

I had one of their AMD Turion based MicroServers a few years later, which was significantly more powerful than an Atom but much less powerful than this Celeron. It still works fine as a backup/NAS server.

[1] https://www.pcworld.com/article/528926/article-6705.html

[2] https://www.reboot-it.com.au/p/Networking/Servers/HP-ProLian...
Yeah, this is exactly what I do as well. I'd be curious to hear more about your deployment process, specifically how you get your Docker image onto the VPS. Do you just push to a registry like DockerHub and then pull it down on the VPS?