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I want to understand how do guys manage your cloud infra and deployments
Hi Folks,
I could use your help, I want to understand how you guys manage cloud infra & deployments at your companies
I am currently working on setting up the infra tooling and just need your guidance

What type of infrastructure are you primarily using?
Kubernetes clusters
Standalone machines (EC2)

How do you manage deployments?
Configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
Manual deployments
GitHub Actions

What Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools do you use, if any?
Terraform
CloudFormation
Pulumi

Please go in as many details as you can
want to understand what kind of setup is the most popular among the community?
Wow sounds awful for them. They might have to get up from their desks.
Yeah, but why does it have to be apple? Why the best of the best and not a cheap android?
LTSC 24h2 is technically supposed to be out but it's still not available on msdn sadly.
Latest Chrome Canary build can run Gemini locally
What? Basically every store I go to adds a fee for credit transactions.
Probably not. _3u10 is right, this is only a fraud case. And Boeing is also providing military hardware, so under full government protection. Trump would pardon them directly, Biden just not foster a DOJ the investigation, while the three letter agencies will do their usual work to keep the civilians at bay. At least that's what I would suspect.
I don't think so?

I think the b-tree is using the start/end sequence knowledge at each to do fewer node evaluations. That is, a b-tree is "shorter" so of course it'll take fewer node evaluations to reach the leaf.

"b-tree is equivalent to balanced binary tree", and "unbalanced tree", don't make a ton of sense when ostensibly the article compares b-trees to balanced BST.
"It is equally illegal for the rich and the poor to panhandle under bridges"
Your jetbrains hatred is so foreign to me. I think Rider is great and well worth the license.
On the other hand, those middlemen gatekeepers also make it a big part of their value addition to me, as a customer, to throw their weight around in my favor against all the other companies I can’t be arsed to argue with. For example, one of the reasons people pay for that AmEx Platinum card or Sapphire Reserve is specifically because you can call in the lender to do chargebacks, and the merchants themselves know that if they get too many complaints filed against them the financial institution will visit consequences on them.

I view Apple in much the same way. I don’t trust most developers, and part of what makes me willing to go out on a limb and throw a bit of money their way is the knowledge that I’m not gonna have to go through a whole path of dark pattern bullshit when I want to modify or cancel my subscription.
they do. there are a couple of large competitors and several small ones. the reason there are not more boils down to: a high barrier to entry, since software suites (not individual products) are often needed, and the high cost of retraining folks using older systems in order to use your new, better product.
> They were never experimental

Most of them have an emergency authorization, not full [0], so pretty much experimental.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_COVID-19_vaccine_autho...
US and Japan are the two unusual countries where iOS has more market share than Android. In the rest of the world, iOS is maybe 20%. For computers the situation is exacerbated by the fact that many people own one mostly for gaming, which means it's going to be Windows. Whereas an iPhone is considered a status symbol.
User hostile?sure. As windows? Not even close. MS shoves ads, constant surveillance, and other annoying anti features constantly on their users. You can easily use a Mac with without Mac cloud access.
I'm taking this right now. Super fun!
I can’t believe I watched a story of using AI to drop hats on people and calling it drop shipping turn into a debate about parties, buzzkills and the risk of addictive substances vs “annoying” people against hat drop shipping and similar ideas, a discussion on the legal bounds of unwanted hat drop shipping, the effect of stray hats on babies and a quantitative analysis on the environmental impact of objects dropped from apartment windows in NYC. Followed by another debate on the mental effect of objects dropping from apartments in cities with skyscrapers. This is amazing.
As a company, if I were to implement something that is unknown to be in compliance with the spirit or letter of the GDPR, it is possible that the company would get sued within the EU.

The way to ensure that you don't get sued is to copy the structure of the one website that you know is in compliance with the GPDR and follow their lead.

When reading the GPDR text from https://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html I see a cookie banner. If it works there and that is the example of how to be in compliance with the obligations of a website for cookies? Would some other implementation that isn't done that way be risky in that the courts in Europe could decide that it wasn't done correctly?

Until the websites of europa.eu change to show an alternative way to be in compliance with cookie notification for the GDPR, banners remain the least risky (and yes, easiest and laziest) way to try to remain in compliance.

Nothing in the GPDR says "thou shalt have a banner" - but that's not the issue at hand. What is the least risky way for a company to implement the requirements of GDPR given that's the way europa.eu does it?
The thesis of tfa seems to be that you’re not independent if you ignore your own experience, which seems a fair and natural definition, and which is defined in terms of policy line items. You might still have to vote along party lines consistently to get the least evil choice, but that doesn’t make you less independent.

To NOT be independent you need to start ignoring what you know/see and just take the party line uncritically about everything. Thats almost 100% of all people.. good luck finding nuanced arguments on anything now that the general public is as tribal as the actual politicos. In this sense, well “controlled by elites” is contentious and unhappy phrasing for sure, but what else to call it?
I think I might’ve heard of someone trying to do that, where all the LEDs are the same and they use quantum dots on top two emit the color that they want.

Maybe that’s how it’ll work. Honestly an LCD with one LED backlight per pixel would still be really nice.
The usual case for software development the last decade is developers who don't fully understand what they're doing, and are mostly focused on resume-driven-development (RDD) and looking good in Agile sprint standups.

Noteworthy exceptions: FAANG promotion bid orientation, and VC growth startup alignment towards shipping something to look like growth towards exit.

In a small minority of cases, you have developers who know what they are doing, and are thinking rigorously.

The norm isn't big-meanie Product making (forthright, courageous, photogenic) developers ship negligent security vulnerabilities, against developers' protests. Developers are at least as much responsible as Product.
Step 1: Make it illegal (if it isn't already) to remove pollution / noise reduction features from cars.

Step 2: Enforce a yearly or bi-yearly tech inspection that checks the pollution / noise against the standard the car was made for (so old cars can still run on older pollution standards)

There, problem solved. Seems like government over-reach? Well, that's how it is in several developed countries in Europe.

That doesn't stop 100% of people from modifying their cars, but it'll quickly become very very niche, because consequences for doing that are too high for most enthusiasts. The main consequence are (1) if police checks and the pollution / noise reduction features are not there, you can be ordered to get your car back to stock in quick order, or in the worst case the car will be destroyed, and (2) in case of a crash, your insurance drops you because your car is not road-legal.

As with all things, there must be a political will to do that, and some people will fight it very hard.
That's true, but on the other hand you have Steam, et al. that are popular in spite of that. Or the Mac App Store on macOS.
Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

See, the problem is that if I name one as an example, you will just fall back to silly games like "but the EU defined the term 'gatekeeper' in such a way that your example does not count". It does not matter whether the market dynamics are the same as the defined gatekeepers, whether the market shares are similar, or anything like that. Your side will shut down any debate with logic such as that. So why bother engaging?

It's like arguing with a hardcore religious person about god. "Oh, but that's not what I meant by 'god'".
OpenSCAD does "from text".

I think they'd rather brag about "from Natural Language descriptions"

These things often get tetchy when it comes time to delve into details and specify the dimensions of the individual features; the data is there somewhere but accessing it is often fraught.
can confirm. also the high cost entailed to retrain folks from one system to a newer one.
if it kills someone you can always just say "it's just a prank bro"
I ran into this in France, where the ticket station used QR codes & NFC. The QR code readers are scratched up meaning printed copies without backlight didn’t work. And iPhone opens Apple wallet when you bring it near a NFC reader, hiding the QR code on your screen.
Also, the vendor becomes insulated from customer demands.

Why patch things or work your ass off, when none of your customers have an alternative? (especially if PE buys the business or CEOs get a stock price focus and gut engineering to keep-the-lights-on levels)
Serious question: if the goal is to run it on a major public cloud subject to the same surveillance systems that most hosted analytics services are, why do the sysadmin work involved in this definition of “self-hosting”? It it just cost savings?
This is exactly what I was expecting and I Was disappointed. Still mildly interesting but I don't really get it.
Again, the key word here is armed - espionage related activities, even if they cause physical damage, don't generally count. There is some wiggle room, but the only attack that has led to an invocation of Article 5 to date has been the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
If customers being informed about your business practices will result in harm to shareholder value, you've got a problem.
The argument against it is soaking the health care system for unlimited funds until it collapses or simply becomes unaffordable.

For the horrible things at the edge of treatability and beyond there are always many promising ideas most of them worthless or bad and the price people are willing to pay is either all their money or all everyone's money depending on whether insurance covers it.

If you don't allow insurance to cover it then only a handful of rich folks get soaked but this is politically difficult to maintain.
Big discovery.
Shit's on Fire, Yo NFPA Fire Code and My Favorite Red Team Cover Identities [video]
Perhaps another way to phrase this is "sampling and evaluating the similarity of samples can determine the dispersion of a distribution, but not its correctness." I can sample a gaussian and tell you how sparse the samples are (standard deviation) but this in no way tells me whether the distribution is accurate (it is possible to have a highly accurate distribution of a high-entropy variable). On the other hand, its possible to have a tight distribution with low standard deviation that is simply inaccurate, but I can't know that simply by sampling from it (unless I already know apriori what the output should look like).
There is a nice paper about this question:

> One explanation for drug bans is that regulators know more than consumers about product quality. But why not just communicate the information in their ban, perhaps via a “would have banned” label?
Because product labeling is cheap-talk, any small market failure tempts regulators to lie about quality, inducing consumers who suspect such lies to not believe everything they are told. In fact, when regulators expect market failures to result in under-consumption of a drug, and so would not ban it for informed consumers, regulators ex ante prefer to commit to not banning this drug for uninformed consumers.

https://philpapers.org/rec/HANWLA
As a user I really hate that I'm forced to give Apple my payment information when I want to do business with a third party on an iPhone, including the possibility that the 30% fee they take gets factored into the price I pay.

I think the EU's solution will make us both happy: you don't have to do business with companies that don't offer Apple pay, and I don't have to do business with companies that do.
Right there are much friendlier ones like pop os and mint.
So don't give permission? (or don't install the app in the first place) I thought this was about malicious apps that collected private data behind your back.
It's interesting the views in the threads of "screw your parents if they can't figure out how to protect themselves w/o iOS/AppStore" to "we must think of the children and protect them from cookies"
Exactly. If incomes increased at the same rate as housing did, then people would be much richer today than they were back then. It's why inflation uses a basket rather than just cherry picking a single component of the basket. If you want things to look bad you use housing. If you want things to look good you use potatoes. If you try and be fair you use a basket.
Is it illegal to prescribe the molecule off label?
everything really. just opus so far
> the London Oyster is a Mifare Desfire EV1

There are two distinct types of Oyster card, but I don't know which is which, other than from a user perspective. All I know is that I had an old style one (the one without the white D in a blue square on the back) and you could still use it, you just couldn't "connect it" to the app so you couldn't look up your travel history.

There was a complicated process for returning it and getting a replacement, but as they'd already phased in paying by bank card by then, and the only advantage of an oyster card was for season tickets, I just returned it and got my deposit back.

But if you're into collecting different card types, you might want to try to get hold of one of these old ones as well. They're probably somewhat rare now, as they were encouraging people to upgrade to the new ones at least 5 years ago.
Ask HN: Does OpenAI slow down the stream from ChatGPT 4o replies on purpose?
When using the macOS desktop app I see long replies slowly stream when in the browser app I directly read that same reply already posted in full. Is it a UX feature to be slow?
If someone is looking for a Windows-replacement Linux machine, I'd like to plug Zorin OS. It's Ubuntu-based, and the most seamless out of the box experience I had with Linux. I just installed my stuff from the GUI software center and it was good to go.
> In my book the whole point of being rich is the increased freedom which surely includes not complying to idiotic requirements...

That's precisely why there are people flipping Porsche and Hermes Birkin bags for a living.

There are certain rich people who have absolutely zero patience and won't deal with that car configuration/salespeople/six months of wait bullshit.

So what do they do? They buy the car now, the day they see it brand new but second hand, at a price above MSRP.
I agree they're useless middlemen but I don't believe for a second that the direct-to-manufacturer model wouldn't also be enshitified eventually too.
100k requests being free is an odd flex. You could do 100K of these in a few seconds on a free tier AWS ec2 instance.
> before LCDs took over, I had a 21-inch Sun, and boy was that sucker heavy

You should have seen Apollo 19" CRTs.
> Who did you vote for in the EU? When were those elections?

2024 European elections: https://elections.europa.eu/en/

Includes topics such as: results, how the elections work, and what comes next.
I agree, there's a pretty big difference between editing a title to remove clickbait/excessive slant and editorializing an already-descriptive title to apply a bias.
Nice! I also like link previews from Linkz.ai. Here is the demo (also see how it opens the YouTube hyperlink): https://advancemed.com.au/medical-internship-australia-2025-...
Well, it’s a good start anyway.
I hadn't heard of patio11's points against it. So I looked it up.

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/content-m...

Is this the man responsible for the popularity of dateless blogs? (I tried to check the date on the post but... alas! ;)

Just kidding, we still have the Internet Archive (for now) so I am able to get the same information ("2014") in a much less convenient way... (I suppose my willingness to do so removes me from the category "most readers?" Though that will depend on the blog!)

The argument seems to be "people will disregard the information in an article if they think it's old." I can't speak for other people, but I actually find the opposite is true. The older a post, the more likely I am to find it interesting, and take it seriously.

Same idea as this, really: https://xkcd.com/2634/

>>What does the red line through HTTPS mean?

>Oh, just that the site hasn't been updated since 2015 or so.

>And since it's been around that long, it's probably legit.
Every time you print a document on a laser printer, >25 million particles of coloured plastic are arranged to within ~10um of where you want them to be on a sheet of paper, all for a total cost of a cent or two.

Moving millions of items to precise locations isn't expensive, as long as you do it the right way...
It's a shame the same passion for porting old video games doesn't exist for library software. If we can get doom to run on a refrigerator surely we can get a less computationally intensive software to run - if only in a virtual machine on a more modern OS.
Has to be, I doubt fedora would use a Canonical product as a default.
Acute current events affect people differently.

If a plane full of Americans falls out of the sky and kills everyone on board, and it turns out to be because of negligence at Boeing, and it happens close to an election, that will definitely be used against any incumbent politician who could be portrayed as responsible.

Politicians want to avoid a scenario like that. But it does require several things to line up for that scenario to unfold, so they have no incentive to care beyond what is necessary to prevent it.
Most certainly. In the first case one can actually use data to base decisions on. In the latter, one is merely hallucinating something which has less information value.
You seem to be taking the stance that this is an attack on the United States. I think a better stance is to view big tech anti-consumer behavior as the attacking force.
Economical viably? No software.

It's a platform for games.

With input devices targeted for games.

With an operational system target for games.
I appreciate when blogs include a "start here" section, like https://tomcritchlow.com/start-here/, or equivalent. Sometimes a bunch of content can overwhelm a new visitor, so entry points are appreciated. See also:

- random post button

- most popular posts

- author's favorite posts
This is what's so strange to me. They weren't testing for the presence of hazmats and seemed to not care. This lab clearly isn't a prod lab, likely just research, and maybe that's why they were so comfortable leaving everything where it was.

The one thing I found most disgusting, though, was the open tank in the basement. They said the tank would explode if they left it closed, so VOCs must have been venting out. But they left it open in... the basement... without any REAL ventilation. This belongs on r/OSHA.
There are two standard ways of doing box plots. One is miniums and maximums, the other is the 1.5 IQR method.

The very Wikipedia article your image comes from explains this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_plot#Whiskers
That makes much of the sword part of the ceremony, but surely it's the "red cord raised by City police" that signifies some self-authority -- what other part of the country may purposefully and physically stop the monarch and receive no investigation or punishment?
I think you go too far. I too have a deep dislike for dealerships, but they are not useless. Specifically, it's a place you can go to test drive cars and they have OEM-certified garages for warranty repairs. Can't test drive when you buy online.

I think the main problem with dealerships is the government granted monopoly. If a dealership is in a region, most states prevent any other dealership from setting up shop in that region. That's why so many of them are passed from father to son like a dynasty. No competition at all -- and they act like it.

Restore competition and the "stealership" aspect should go away.
So this is my takeaway:

You can start a company with the very end goal of providing a carefully curated ecosystem to your customers.

No one will say shit.

Then, once your company beats the odds and becomes successful, f you you have to share.

It’s not like apple didn’t set out with this goal in mind.
cost savings is generally what companies care about
It's interesting, because in theory the requirement for independent dealerships could promote competition - they can compete to offer the lowest markup over MSRP, offer different addons, or offer better service. Just like going to a specialist shop for computer parts or audio gear or whatnot.

But instead we ended up with a system where car dealerships basically own local lawmakers and got laws passed that not only prevent the manufacturer from competing with them, but make it really hard for people to start new dealerships to compete with them. And the experience shopping for cars at a dealership is absolutely terrible, which shows you that they don't feel any pressure to compete.
> I don't understand why so many people think that if Apple didn't take a percentage cut of sales, prices would go down. Products are typically priced at what customers are willing to pay, which likely wouldn't change.

You can trivially find countless counter examples where prices are higher only on the app store like netflix[1], spotify, etc.. subscriptions. They don't make their web & Android users pay more just to cover for iOS users, why would they? That makes no sense. So of course the price would drop if they were allowed to steer as they already sell it at the lower price on the website, they just aren't being allowed to tell iOS users that.

And that is what Apple is getting hit for here. Not the 30% fee, but the rules forbidding developers from telling the user about alternative sign ups or purchasing locations.

1: well before Apple cut a special deal for Netflix anyway
Me too. Plus, since this is the 'first' article about it on HN, all the others are being closed as duplicates. I feel like this deserves more attention.
Even when the system is working they have to go search the lot, because half the cars listed in the system are phantoms.
I’m not sure why companies think it’s okay to not translate products in my language just because I could possibly know some other.
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