skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW... I was pretty taken aback by this statement as well- and also the "brag" that they moved onto K8s in less than a year. At a very well established firm ~30 years old and with the baggage that came with it, we moved to K8s in far less time- though we made zero attempt to move everything to k8s, just stuff that could benefit from it. Our pitch was more or less- move to k8s and when we do the planned datacenter move at the end of the year, you don't have to do anything aside from a checkout. Otherwise you will have to redeploy your apps to new machines or VMs and deal with all the headache around that. Or you could just containerize now if you aren't already and we take care of the rest. Most migrated and were very happy with the results.

There was plenty of services that were latency sensitive or in the HPC realm where it made no sense to force a migration though, and there was no attempt to force them to shoehorn in.
When I lived in London a bottle shop/bar/coffee shop opened in a railway arch near my house.

In the day it was mainly parents with children or the occasional remote worker, and as it hit 5pm more people would come in for beers - though they served coffee and snacks all night.

One time we were in there having a couple of coffees and chatting while my son was tiny and sleeping - I apologised to the owner that we were having another round of coffee and not drinking beer. He said not to worry - for every coffee we drank he made about £2.50 profit, for every beer it was about 50p.

Really opened my eyes to the potential profit margins at various businesses, especially those that can cater to very different customers at different times of the day.
If there's something I wouldn't mind losing in a post-collapse world, it has to be OOP :)
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Is this true? Is the rebound effect as high as you think? Because I know 2 people who took it for like 3 years, and while they took some weight back, they're not obese anymore.
Recommend you to check out Sideberry [it is, I think, just outright better than tree style tabs].
Cinny's latest update seemed really good and juicy, with lots of important features finally added. Haven't tried it proper yet tho.

My issue with anything not Synapse (for now), is migration and atability. Conduit is still somewhat a young project in comparison, and I'm not entirely confident in the upgrade paths yet. They also use RocksDB (or sled), which furthers this "fear", perhaps irrationally so.
I'd love to host my conduit server with confidence though, but I'd also need Matrix to properly support account migration. IMO it's one of the key features still missing and it's damaging its "decentralized" image.
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If it’s anything like my Hyundai, it uses brakes to slow loose wheels.

It works amazingly well for snow (which is all I’ve tried it in).
I suspect what they really hate is having someone else direct their energy toward objectives they otherwise don't really care much about.

Only one reasonable solution to this problem --- start your own company focused on something you do care about.
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It depends on the cost of complexity you're adding. Adding another database or whatever is really not that complex so yeah sure, go for it.

But a lot of companies are building distributed systems purely because they want this ultra-low downtime. Distributed systems are HARD. You get an entire set of problems you don't get otherwise, and the complexity explodes.

Often, in my opinion, this is not justified. Saving a few minutes of downtime in exchange for making your application orders of magnitude more complex is just not worth it.

Distributed systems solve distributed problems. They're overkill if you just want better uptime or crisis recovery. You can do that with a monolith and a database and get 99.99% of the way there. That's good enough.
it’s the same reason that large public sector construction projects fail, or maybe to put it a better way, eventually get built , way over budget, and immediately begin renovation.
No worries for me, I left Github due to Copilot and 2FA after deleting my items.

But I fully expect what the article is describing will happen or something like it will occur. Just a matter of time.

In a way I expect something similar may happen on gitlab someday also. But I also keep my items on a anon ftp site too in case I need to leave gitlab.
No such thing as free lunch. Up to the individual to decide whats worse but the "miracle cure" positioning these drugs are enjoying in popular media is troubling.

https://www.masseyeandear.org/news/press-releases/2024/07/pr...
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Also discussed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMwepyyaj8I
Some may see usual punishment such as customary fines and jail time as cruel, but the usual-ness making the arguable cruelness moot is convenient as it eliminates the need to argue it.
Actually, my immediate reaction was to, "Selective enforcement of law based on moral preferences leads to bad places," where the implication was that petty theft is the most pressing matter wrt the deleterious social effects of lacking law enforcement. That reaction was, essentially, "That would be a mismanagement of resources." Which it is. Instances of wage theft dwarfs petty theft (and most other types of theft, combined). Employment discrimination - whether racial/ethnic, sexual, or nepotistic in nature - is a massive contributor to both the desperate financial situations and low trust environments that are a major part of why people are willing to steal. My goal is to actually solve the problem, not engage in Two Minutes Hate.
We have written a new blog on: Rails 8 introduces a basic authentication generator.

David Heinemeier Hansson recently posted the followings in an issue titled: Add basic authentication generator.

"Rails now include all the key building blocks needed to do basic authentication, but many new developers are still uncertain of how to put them together, so they end up leaning on all-in-one gems that hide the mechanics."

To address this, Rails 8 has introduced a generator that simplifies the addition of basic authentication to hashtag#Rails applications.

In this blog post, we'll explore the components included in this authentication scaffold.

Read more: https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/rails-8-introduces-a-basic-au...
This same base capsule design is also supposed to operate autonomously. It previously attempted an autonomous docking. The code was written, it was approved for flight previously. It is not like "autonomous docking" was never a part of the specification for this model of craft; it just wasn't the expected process for this particular mission.

Boeing just didn't bother to make it so the mission could potentially be changed in-flight, they just decided they'll load a software profile on the ground and that missions will just never change.
It's a bit surprising that they put so much effort into security for the second microcontroller from a young consumer-oriented* company. My first instinct was to distrust it's security, simply due to lack of experience. However, the "experienced" vendors' secure micros have lots of known security bugs and, more crucially, a demonstrated desire to sweep them under the rug. Two security architecture audits, a $10k bug bounty, and designing a board for glitching as the DEF CON badge shows a pretty big commitment to security. I'm curious about how the Redundancy Coprocessor works. I still wouldn't be surprised if someone breaks it, at least partially.

* By perception at least. They have been prioritizing industrial users from a revenue and supply standpoint, it seems.
the matrix server where i have my account, run by a small tech community with one admin recently had to switch from a blacklist to a whitelist approach in order to curb the amount of fake accounts and spam they were getting. as a side effect since that change i had to bother the admin multiple times because one of the groups i was participating in was not reachable. the amount of work the admin has in order to keep the server im shape is much more than i would be willing to tolerate.

on top of that not a month goes by where something doesn't break.

a security conscious friend who joined matrix because of me (well, he was interested before, but i finally gave him a reason)
just deleted his matrix clients in disgust after some messages randomly could not be decrypted.

i suspect that there is still a problem on the server i am using, therefore more potential work for its already overworked admin.
I've bought i7 machines whenever I bought a new machine with my own money (so have my employers) but I've had various i3 and i5 desktops come into my possession and always been disappointed by limitations baked in. For instance I was hoping to install Steam & Proton on an i3 machine for entry level gaming but found it wouldn't talk to a 1030 card I had laying around.

On paper it looks like Intel machines from 2010-2020 have sufficient I/O bandwidth but when you look at the artificial restrictions Intel puts on i3 and i5 machines (unless you get some special motherboard with PCIe switches) it's best to assume that you won't be able to "get there from here" and that many seemingly reasonable configurations of on-board peripherals and add-on peripherals "just won't work."

It reminds me of the hassle it was to get expansion cards to work in the day of the "PC compatibles" that used the ISA and other early busses: back then you had to mess with jumper cables and which card went in what slot to resolve IRQ conflicts. It was well documented, PC builders all knew it, and I was always able to get it to work.

In the PCIe age though I have often been running into undocumented or poorly documented limits, PC builders who are totally ignorant of this (they always buy i7 and/or high end motherboards I guess.), etc.

Related to that in my mind is the equally obscure situation with USB 3 which is the laptops I've had have all had undocumented limits on how many USB devices you can plug in. In the USB 1 era it was documented that you could plug in 127 devices into a USB tree, the USB 3 doc doesn't guarantee anything! You would think you could plug your laptop into one or two USB 3 hubs with a lot of ports but my experience is that I'd start having trouble when I had 4-5 devices plugged in, then I plug in a mouse and either the sound card or a mass storage device gets unmounted.
Perl dominated before Python, and had a massive library of modules via CPAN.

Clearly Python eclipsed Perl. Just say'n.
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Many reasons. For example, using negative voltage will reduce DC component in the wires, that will improve reliability over long lines, as now all you need is to sense the polarity of the signal, not the level. You'd also need high power reference voltage (for "1") wire going all over the board, which will be nasty polluted with uncorrelated switching noise, will sag in uncorellated way with respect to the "2" (Vcc wire) etc.
Hating the JOB is very different from hating the WORK.

There's nothing worse than a job where you can do incredible work, but it doesn't even _matter_ because the project will get dropped at the end anyways. (And that's obvious to anyone who looks.) Absolutely soul-sucking.
Several things that aren't regularly talked about: to meet increasingly stringent emissions standards without massive losses in engine power (and resulting customer dissatisfaction), companies spend heavily on powertrain R&D to eke the remaining emissions improvements out (99.9% reduction to 99.99% reduction). To meet increasing safety standards, manufacturers have to have much more complicated base models than before, which drives up even the lowest car prices -- backup cameras, automatic emergency braking cameras and logic, immobilizer standards, etc. Then, for the products that everyone wants, some manufacturers aren't even making the new CAFE standards, so they buy "indulgences" (EV offset credits) from Tesla, which is literally a regulatory tax for the incorrect outcomes, but customers don't want GM and Ford EVs at the moment. Beyond that, some solutions to the above problems (hybrids) are simply insanely expensive (ballpark $20k extra manufacturing cost for a hybrid powertrain on some high end hybrid SUVs vs the identical engine without the electric components). All of that shifts parts of the curve to the right, some of it only shifts the high end, some of it shifts the entire curve.
> In English, it means specifically an earth oven because when English speakers started using the word, they always used it to mean that kind of oven.

Sorry, I was not aware of this. Can you point me to another source, besides this video, that mentions the usage of "horno" as an earth oven?
I don't think it's just that. Imagine the kind of money the more unscrupulous could make selling sugar pills for $100 each saying that it's the cure for whatever is killing you.

Desperation can cloud even the most rational of minds.
Freelancers.
While that's certainly the plan, Matrix is still not at the "can't use it wrong" stage Signal has gotten to. Verifying multiple devices is still inconsistent and often requires multiple tries (may be an issue with the matrix.org server, dunno) and "Unable to decrypt" errors are still somewhat a common sight.

It has gotten much better in recent times, but not quite there just yet.
That was total nonsense. Don't shoot the golden goose.
A cost centre is, by definition, somewhere that only produces costs and is never attributed with any revenue or profit.

A smart management team can figure out that investing in IT, Software, etc is going to have a positive ROI overall by increasing efficiency among other things.

Unfortunately my experience (and many others') is that only the balance sheet will be considered and the goal will always be to reduce the costs in cost centres as much as possible.

Even in a company that doesn't fall fully into that trap, often times a lot of effort needs to be expended to keep funding at current levels, never mind the rituals involved in getting increased funding for new projects, hardware, staff, etc.

Generally the more obvious the connection between your work and company revenue, the easier your life will be.
Have you touched grass recently? I wholeheartedly recommend it.
I would prototype this by duplicating a vertical slice of the business that is (presumably) well understood and easy to teach. Don't start with the hardest thing and definitely don't try to plan it all up front. Hire some cheaper contract labor to begin with. If you find you can't even replicate a small part of something you thought you understood, you should probably abandon the overall effort.

The last thing I would do is make some grand decision, locate an 8-figure budget, hire a bunch of people, and then hope for the best. Incrementalism is the key to not blowing this idea up. You already have a ~working system. Leverage the hell out of that. At the end of the day this is probably going to be more of a people problem than a technology problem - managing scope and expectations throughout, etc.
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Also consider you're asking this question to a forum of mostly developers.

And developers love to build things.

So be aware, you might be getting biased responses by people who don't have anything to lose if they are wrong.
Feels like even the model is nauseated by its own trite, overly nice answer to a user that was praising her own attitude ("that's such a.. pure and.. admirable approach! It's clear you're driven by a genuine passion... it's refreshing to hear that kind of perspective") so after finishing it, it bursts out in a "No!" before starting to imitate the user's voice back. Cool.
The key is to pick a winning criteria that is sufficiently meaningful looking and then really sell the heck out of it.

There were lots of good arguments for the Soviet space program having been ahead, lots of landmarks they hit first. But, ya know, the dude standing on the moon couldn’t hear these arguments.
I am extremely doubtful about your last claim; is there work being done in that direction that you can point to? Don't get me wrong, it would really be exciting if we could get actual efficiencies by increasing the number of states, but all the experts I have talked to so far are very pessimistic about the possibility. The problems introduced by ternary circuits seem to offset any claimed efficiency.
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you joke but I've thought about doing this
Not according to Novo Nordisk.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240521-what-happens-whe...

The same trend was seen after the 2021 trial, known as Step 1. After 68 weeks of semaglutide injections, the average patient lost more than 15% of their body weight, but within 12 months of treatment ending, patients regained two thirds of their prior weight loss on average. This was associated with a similar level of reversion to the patients' original baselines in some markers of their cardiometabolic health – a category which includes conditions such as diabetes and heart attacks.

Both Rubino and other experts around the world have seen similar patterns when administering GLP-1 drugs in their clinics. "There will be a small proportion of people, 10% maximum, that are able to maintain [all] the weight they've lost," says Alex Miras, a clinical professor of medicine at Ulster University.
I think it is yet another "bears walking on redsqare" level of claim (I mean about ternary systems). There was only one minor ternary computer produced by USSR ("Setun"); it has never been a big thing.
There are just three primary reasons why public sector digital projects fail, although you can break them out into a myriad of more detailed reasons/examples:

1. Competency Gap: Public sector organizations don't have the right people of the right quality as part of the organization with the right skill-set to not only do the project, but even to appropriately evaluate vendors. Entire books could be (and have been) written on this topic, but the competency gap is now so bad in the public sector that they're not even capable of hiring the right people, and therefore it is intractable for them to ever solve this problem.

2. Misaligned Organizational Incentives: Public sector acquisition rules disallow the public sector from forcing companies to take losses except under very narrow conditions, this type of cost-plus modeling, even on what would otherwise be a fixed-priced contract, incentivizes external entities to milk the government teat for all its worth rather than delivering on time and under budget.

3. Misaligned Personal Incentives: Public sector projects are inherently politic, and are rife with corruption and abuse. Going beyond the obvious, this also exacerbates point 1 above, because anyone involved in a public sector project that's not either naively selfless or an idiot will take a private sector job at a many times multiple of their public sector pay to do the exact same work on behalf of the selected vendor. In fact, the revolving door of public sector / private sector is a form of blatant but "legal" corruption that exists effectively globally without much comment from anyone.

If I was being pithy, the short answer is that at least in the US, and most of the West, Boomers broke the government to exploit it for their own personal greed, and by violating the social contract made it a toxic place for anyone who isn't similarly interested in the grift from being involved in.
Those are not the only reasons to put people in jail. There is also 3. Deterring others from similar actions, and 4. Rehabilitation.

Number 4 obviously doesn't apply in the US justice system, but number 3, deterrence, is imho the major argument for putting executives or employees in prison. The threat of punishment can be a strong motivator, especially in corporate settings. But it only works if punishments are actually delivered after someone crosses the line
back around 2007, the scam: "send you a check for a mistakenly huge amount and ask you to refund the difference" was in full swing. In their email they said they'd overnight a check, and I thought "good, overnight shipping is very expensive, at least if I scam them I'm costing them $20 in fees", but no. Brought the envelope to a friend at UPS, he gave it to their fraud department, and behold the letter was sent using a stolen corporate shipping account. Maybe I helped by getting that account shut down, but I also ended up costing them money.
Another advantage of Whisper.CPP is that it can use cublas to accelerate models too large for your GPU memory; I can run the medium and large models with cublas on my 1050, but only the small if I use the pure GPU mode.
If I was hiring a full-timer to join our team, and we were an AWS shop, I would be open to hiring someone with a predominantly GCP background as long as they were really good at GCP. Because then of course they can also get good at AWS.

IMHO the recruiting side is over-indexing on very specific technologies rather than personal skills/capabilities (oh, you are a C# expert, great, mind learning Java?). To fight that you could make your resume more buzzword compliant - do a small project in AWS, write a blog post or create a YouTube or TikToc about the differences/similarities, and do a couple of certifications.
> I was shocked as I hosted this before with no issues and there were only the Instagram logo without any login page or anything on the clone.

Yeah, someone owns the Instagram logos and doing 1:1 visual clone probably violates some copyright too.
I've been following his story for quite a while. I knew this was coming when I opened up Hacker News today; I just had that feeling — not that it made seeing it in type any easier.

He had a way with words that I was impressed to see him cling onto until the very end.

Thanks Jake, you'll be missed.