skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The initial rush for what is now called the public cloud was caused by many factors, the main ones being "you don't need to manage things as we will do it for you" (=you save on operations) and "you can scale up and down how much you want without any commitment" (=you save on recurring costs) with success stories like the NYT resizing tons of images fast without having to rent servers, configure them etc.

Fast forward and what we now have is a terribly complex beast with nets of dependencies that got developed partly by marketing and product teams, partly by demands of larger customers. And it's more or less clear that if you are small, you will be much better off using VPS (that's why Amazon decided to offer Lightsail), and if you are very big, you will save a lot of money moving at least part of your infra away from the public cloud.

But what remains is a large part of the market: medium sized businesses and large organizations that depend on the public cloud for many reasons. But they are not stupid: once a project becomes expensive, someone starts asking questions. And after you've exhausted the path of reserved instances, spot etc., and still burn a lot of money with not-always-stellar performance, you'll find a way of moving these workloads where it makes business sense.
I don't think it aged well, speaking as a fan of Stephenson.
It seems to me that maybe the most efficient course is to have the person who is sitting in the car drive it, thus removing roughly ten billion dependencies, security vulnerabilities, and failure modes.
I noticed when reading through user reviews for the remarkable 2 that I can find several that are pretty critical of the product, but the rating of the reviewer is apparently 5 stars. https://remarkable.com/store/remarkable-2#user-reviews
It comes from the fact that I'm tired of subscriptions, and some SW being "tailored made" is not always synonymous with very high quality. Community developed FOSS SW can sometimes be better quality and more functional than commercial SW.

For example I see KDE as being far superior than whatever Microsoft is doing now on the Windows desktop side, where one is free developed by the community and the other costs money and is tailor made by a trillion dollar corp.

Case in point, I had a Tolino(Kobo) ebook reader and the KOREADER PDF reader I sideloaded on it from github was way better than the tailor made one it shipped with. HW makers often suck at SW since their dev budget gets eaten away by the HW dev costs and they compensate by skipping on the SW dev side to keep their budget and profit margins in check.
It's pretty simple.

Twitter is following the law in all cases.

In Brazil's case, the orders are illegal and in some cases contradict the law of other countries.
This was all explained pretty well by X Global Affairs:
https://x.com/GlobalAffairs
> what don't you understand about this situation being unique in history?

Because this exact argument is brought every single time someone supports censorship. Free speech is easy to support when you agree with what is being said, what matters is what happens when you disagree.

> I'm just smart enough and sympathetic enough to see how the platform causes issues for democracy and how this is a hard thing to grapple with for western democratic society. Smart people are using our morality against us and plenty of people fall for it.

And other smart people tell us that "actually, we do kinda need to subvert our values in this case, trust me". Now, I do see that there are shades of gray, but Twitter is far from a radical platform (we're not talking about KiwiFarms here) and, usually, when you're right, you don't need to win by silencing the other sides arguments.
Whilst effort in this space is to be congratulated, a job board is only as good as the quality and quantity of the roles offered.

What makes your site any better than the other numerous boards out there?

Why would Acme Inc be drawn to posting jobs with your site and why would Jane Appleseed want to go there to find a new job?
Thank you for teaching me the word "perseverate"!! It's a good one!
How do you feel about branding on the bus you ride?
If you click around in X for a few minutes, I doubt you won't find nazi propaganda or downright illegal content.

The content moderation aspect just doesn't exist. It'll soon become yet another 4chan.

What I'm really surprised about is how X is still operating in the US or here in Europe.
Hey Ben!

Thanks for making Repaint. It looks awesome and I agree with some of the comments here. I'd go absolutely bananas for a convenient web design tool that enabled me as a developer to provide my own transformer.

I'd love to see you make the internal document / node tree you are using into something that is presented to the user and could be parsed into any frontend framework that uses a tree to represent UI. If you created a standard for your underlying data structures and exported/imported the data format defined in the standard. Developers could build to the standard and then write parsers that parsed from and to your data format. So I could use Repaint at any point in my development process and use the transformer someone built to move my design into and out of Repaint and from and into my code.

If you were to create a standard that allowed developers to build their own transformers you would be making a different product then Figma. Since Figma has a better UI and design tool, and you aren't going to catch up. Figma also is already on their way to doing a HTML/CSS mapping, (see their semi-new developer feature)

If you emphasized the open standards approach and built your tooling around leveraging developers you'd have something much more close to a UI platform as opposed to "another website builder". De-emphasize designers, emphasize developers, be the Microsoft of UI building tools.
Lots of FUD against X.

That article should be considered more of an opinion than actual news.
You can self host in any number of solutions like bitbucket or gitlab. Not sure about their hosted version.
As the story explains, these people aren't driving the car. They're just providing it with high level assistance. "Try moving to here, and then... OK, now we can see there actually is a road, drive to there... and now you're back to a situation you understand".

Latency prohibits "just" remote driving cars, the car needs local smarts to drive itself.
I had trouble with the Baroque Cycle and did not bother to finish, but stuck with Cryptonomicon and it was completely worth it. Otherwise agree with your picks.

On Seveneves, no two people seem to agree on which half of the book is "bad", but I will say in general that the first half is more popular among the base. I thought the latter was fine.
I think the cloud is great; however, most people go way overboard for what they need. You don't need 15 lambdas, 4 micro-services, dynamoDB, API Gateway, etc. to build your internal app that gets 10 TPS. Most engineers over build things because it is how you show "complexity" to get promoted. When in reality a monolith running on some bare metal will work just fine.

I agree with others that the cloud vendors make it complex just to setup a simple service and push you to have these complex architectures. While they are beneficial for availability reasons, I question how often it is really needed.
If you can run everything on just a couple servers then the cloud doesn't make sense. There are a lot of companies that have tens of thousands of servers scattered around the world. just tracking them is a headache and you can offload a lot other overhead as well. Remember you are paying for the people full time to be in that computer room either if you do it in the cloud or not, but the cloud allows sharing those costs better when you don't need the computer.
I don’t go as far as the car, but I do strive to not have branding on most everything else, but specifically clothes.

A logo on a shirt is pretty much a non-starter.
> Who's going to do that?

The point is that if you require more security there are tools to check it. For me I'm comfortable enough that an attack requires physical access to my keys, so I don't.

> Maybe someone will figure it out if they're tracking the numbers written on the outside.

So if your opsec requires it keep track of which keys you have and their identities. If one is fried remove it from all the services you authenticate with.

I'm not saying its perfect but you can create practices/procedures that protect (or at least let you know it happened) from most realistic attacks.
It is a very interesting question why the world hasn’t seen a good “bookmark manager” or “history browser”. Usually the experience is that it is a roach motel, you put bookmarks in but never actually get them out. As you say the “clean folder system” just doesn’t work.

There are many products with such a history of failure that it is rumoured there is no way you could get funding to develop them, bookmark managers are that. Particularly if your product depends on close integration with Chrome or Safari you’d expect Big Tech to shut you down any time they like and I am not so sure about Firefox although after integrating the thoroughly hated Pocket they might not want to try again. On the other hand “… but with AI” is fashionable today and actually plausible.

I have an “intelligent RSS reader” which does classification of articles to show me ones I like, I forked the code for that to make an “image sorter” which has a sort of “bookmark manager” in the sense that I find an image gallery I am interested in, click on a bookmarklet which cues a web crawler to import all the images and the metadata, then there is a tagging system where I can classify the images which has been highly successful. I forked it again to make something to organize the notes in somebody’s Evernote notebook (and download all the web pages that are referenced) and I’m also looking to download about 6000 search results from PubMed on a certain condition and pick out the interesting ones, make a list of researchers in the field, etc.

What I have therefore is a “construction kit” to build systems that systematize document processing and one of the many things I could do is put together the bookmark/document capture system with full text search, the BIGtags system and dense vector search and clustering which I think would be a nice product for me.

A product like this could be single user or cooperative, if you have tagged 1000 or so web pages I can get a good idea of what you like and offer recommendations but I think people are sick and tired of social media toxicity and products that want to shove unwanted content in your face. (e.g. Pocket)
Is there an equity option?
Uh, the energy from those installations would be consumed directly by the entity that installed them. It's not hard.
That that sounds like you are solving your internal organisational dysfunctions by outsourcing the function rather than trying to fix the organisation.
They just told you they bought a car, so why would they take the bus?

Also, you've totally missed the point. They own the car. A person riding the bus does not own the bus nor get a say in how the bus is decorated
That is assuming spam can be solved. Not really sure if this can be done without a budget. Maybe it also is not possible even with a massive budget.
I wonder if we'll ever get a truthful biography of the reasons for and circumstances around his public actions over time? It would be great to peer past rumour and conjecture.
It's marked as a slur and falls under their hateful conduct policy.

>Elon Musk has deemed the words “cis” and “cisgender” slurs on Twitter and warned that anyone who harasses others on Twitter will receive at least temporary suspension.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimelsesser/2023/07/02/elon-mus...

https://www.fastcompany.com/91126082/elon-musk-x-cisgender-c...

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/x-cisgender-slur-cis-elon...
Interventionism refers to foreign policy. The right wing is also statist, they’d just prefer to use the power of the state to hammer others down rather than lift them up.
That's fine but don't editorialize titles to add your own question/commentary which is what the comments are for.
Oh wow, imagine that, a forced meme in tech pushed primarily by marketers, this is totally not a trend at all. /sarcasm
this is like when UX designers mess with a GUI just because they need to make themselves look useful on occasion.
Vue is great. I loved the old Options API and was resistant to the new setup/composables way of doing things. But as soon as I tried the new way I loved it. I think it will scale much better as well.
If a website breaks the law...
Yep. The business case for cloud solutions is TTM, availability and capacity. The argument that on prem never delivered on its promise to be cheaper is a lie by omission. It CAN be cheaper, but that was never the main reason.
They had a legal representative.
They were about to be arrested by the tyrant judge, so they fled to Argentina IIRC.

Also, the orders are all illegal.
God, how HN can be disappointing sometimes when it comes to politics...
It's interesting to me that this happens in an industry where the entire business is one of trying to aid someone who's lost something precious. Some things shouldn't have corporate branding. They definitely know better.
I have spent the last few weeks getting totally detailed to the point of losing all focus. For me it has been missing functionality in a framework. Apparently, they never anticipated .NET MAUI using SVG images for icons. They convert the SVG to PNG for you automatically, and make it easy to display but I need to alter the stroke color with theme bindings. Easy and convenient in WPF. Shit show in MAUI.

My biggest impediments to finishing in recent years has been setting too big of a scope for "done" and running into hundreds of yaks that need shaving off from some buggy-ass framework or library (literally all of them). Rarely anything is as advertised and it has major impacts on delivery.

The only frameworks that let me get shit done without six ways of hell was WPF and Swing.
I'm not saying I'm "in favor" of what Brazil is doing - despite having read some news articles, I'm not confident I fully understand the entire situation. But what I am saying is that I'm having a hard time getting up in arms about this or feeling like X is fighting a righteous fight.

Here's my own thought experiment: if X overtly and publicly said they would fight all censorship-related actions by left-wing governments, but acquiesce willingly to all right-wing governments, should I be happier about that than if they treated all governments equally? I can understand why the answer for some is "yes, because for those individuals in those countries they deserve freedom of expression even if it's only given as a tool to power structures trying to erode their rights." But while I get it, that's not how I feel, because then the actions aren't motivated by principal, but by an effort to shape global politics.
And even less than that. All Twitter had to do was maintain the legal representative which they already had.
How about the cost of needing to hire more admins to handle on-premises machines, and their time spent trying to save data from faulty end-user machines instead of just replacing them and thinking twice about it?
You really trust X Global Affairs over an entire government, with no research?
Brazil is a meme machine. A trendsetter with disproportional importance.

Xitter was already a struggling, much duller shadow of its former self. This is another huge blow, perhaps the last.
This.

I have seen thousands of job boards and most people just stay on LinkedIn and posting a job there is way cheaper than the OP's solution and includes a free job posting as well.
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It isn't engineers that are lazy, it is management that tells the engineers to work on features that make money not performance that will save money.

Sometimes management is correct in that decision, sometimes it is "penny wise, pound foolish".
I guess it's a bit like putting lemon on fish, in the beginning we did so for a purpose but after a while people just got used to it and now it's a established thing.

Similarly, we're so used to feeling at least a tiny bit of resistance when writing that when it isn't there, things feels "greasy" or unnatural.

I personally agree with that it feels nicer with a bit of contrast compared to sliding around. Drawing on a Wacom tablet gives me a lot better results than drawing on an iPad, even when I get to see the lines where I draw it with an iPad and with the Wacom that drawing appears on the monitor instead at on the tablet.
I've never had a real employment contract. Most Americans haven't. It's typically at will employment.

Every job I've had is as I've described. First day you go into HR to do your W2, set up insurance, 401K, etc and then you are also handed a surprise non complete. Don't want to sign it? No job.

If it was part of the employment contract you'd be aware of it during the negotiations. Since you haven't even seen the paperwork until this point, how could you have proper consideration for it rolled up in the employment agreement? Why is it even a separate document if that is the case?
Location: Dubai, UAE (EU citizen)

Remote: Yes, any timezone. Also hybrid and on-site.

Willing to relocate: Only to the U.S.

Technologies: Penetration testing, Reverse engineering, Python, C, Assembler, Low-level development, Emulation, Embedded, Electronics, Linux/Unix/BSD/Windows

GitHub: https://github.com/chris-pcguy

Email: chris.jobshn2409@broke-the-inter.net

Hi,

Preferred positions: Penetration tester > Reverse engineer > Embedded > Software developer

I would be glad to hear from you.
They're doing the opposite. They are refusing the break the law and comply with illegal orders.
Two big buttons to choose one of the folios and a small radio button below for no folio. And the Type Folio is + 249 € but also Save up to 49 € with bundle, so it actually "only" costs 200 €. Why would you even do this, make it appear more expensive then it is and on top of that confuse me, is selecting a folio already the bundle or can I somewhere buy a bundle that saves 49 € instead?
>> It is typical of racists to use phrases with double meanings like this.

Using phrases with double meaning (euphemisms) is a sign of people who read a book or two and have the intelligence to understand the play on words. Some people unfortunately don't have this ability and they take everything as literal.
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While not banned, any tweet with "cis" was labeled as harmful content and immediately hidden. Some people did receive bans iirc. You could type "cis" under actual violent white supremacist posts and your comment would be labeled harmful.

Twitter is not a bastion if free speech. It's a Nazi bar where a certain type ideologically violent free speech is encouraged.
> I wonder what kind of personal fuck-ups end with a partner hating the other so much as to want to kill them, but yet end in a situation where that's preferable to a divorce.

> Maybe home loans and living space? Those last two are a serious concern in Sweden, where a well-paid professional often can't afford more than a few square meters of living space.... Joint debts or properties? Kids?

At a guess, that last lies closest to hand. The usual toxic "Gotta stay together for the kids!" mindset, and if that's not possible, culminating in it somehow being "better" (or "more honourable", perhaps?) to be a single widowed mother than a single divorced mother.
I did re-read.

Quoting you: "There are far more cities with Dem mayors than Republican mayors, so comparing raw counts is pretty meaningless. (Similar to counting comparing total homicide instead of per capita.)"

Quoting me: "I did not compare raw counts, I compared per capita counts."

I did not learn anything I did not know before re-reading.
The cloud is absurdly overpriced. The margins are huge for cloud companies, especially on bandwidth. The gains brought by Moore’s law are pocketed by could providers and barely passed on because once you go “cloud native” they have fairly strong lock in. Even if you can move your work load doing so is painful and usually requires downtime.

It’s also designed to encourage and then monetize a certain style of complex, over-architected, high resource load development: microservices, use of single-cloud-proprietary services, tons of loosely coupled systems, etc. Cloud native is the J2EE of the present era.

This is an anti pattern that keeps happening over and over in our industry. It’s partly a result of the middlebrow meme— that mid developers love complexity— and partly something that is pushed because someone (consultants, cloud providers) are profiting.

Edit: I don’t mean to blast mid developers too much. One must often journey through the middlebrow meme to make it to the hooded dude on the right. The meme describes a learning trajectory. But we should try not to let the complexity explosion of mid developers become industry norm.
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I understand the problem, but I'm not convinced this solution would do much to solve the problem?

1. LLMs give this doc special preference and SEO type optimisation will run rampant by brands.
2. LLMs crawl this as just another page, and then you need to ask yourself why isn't this context already on the website?
You're wrong. I'm Brazilian and this is nothing new. Brazil has always been intense in political lawfare.

Elon just thinks he can make Brazil into an example, while he knows he would get blocked in Turkey in 2 seconds.
Either you pay admins to manage your on-premise systems, or you both pay admins to operate your cloud systems and also pay cloud providers for their admins to provide the cloud systems your admins manage.
In research this is called Online Handwriting Recognition

reMarkable does Online Handwriting Recognition with MyScript running in the cloud, not on the tablet
https://remarkable.com/store/remarkable-2
"entire government"? really?
Nuclear plants are essentially identical levels of ugly to coal: from the outside both are concrete cuboids with cooling towers.

Aesthetics are not a reason either way, or the UK wouldn't have had brutalism.

Actual reason is that nuclear is expensive, while wind is much cheaper even after adding costs for storage etc.

Also that the UK can't cross-subsidise the power plants from the military because they no longer have a big enough military to justify the nuclear weapons they already have, let alone a big enough militarily to justify the capability to breed more plutonium.
Patent issues are a case of circuit shopping, not differences in plain text interpretation of sovereign power cases.
Move everything to cloud, let US companies pay extra, and in the cloud company outsource everything to Pakistan.
Securing a Linux Server
I remember running apps on shared servers that were far weaker than any micro instance you see now. Many services were quick side projects by one or two employees. They didn’t have the same quality as pro teams of 250k / year employees but the business moved forward and rarely got pwnd by some internet exposed endpoint running unpatched Django.
Are they running their own courts and judge the Brazilian courts and came to the legally binding conclusion that this particular Brazilian judge is wrong?
I agree, and suspect the majority of people do.

There's another article on the front page at the moment about grepability as an important metric for codebases.

Similarly, I think Googleability is an important metric for company, service, and product names: X ain't it (although fortunately I have little cause to Google anything related to X/Twitter on a regular basis).