skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you click on getdozer.io you get redirected to https://langdb.ai/

Looks like they are pivoting to LLM integration.
yeh I have same thoughts , also if possible , bun can also reduce memory usage in very very basic scenarios https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJmyYosyDDM

Or just https://github.com/mightymoud/sidekick or coolify or dokku or dockify , like there are million of such things , oh just remembered kamala deploy from DHH and docker swarm IIRC (though people have seemed to forget docker swarm !)

I like this idea very much !
All good points. So how about the shifting alliances and goals of Squid Game ?
One of the best projects I worked on had zero-overhead communication (2020)
> This leaves (1). This is why alignment and upward and outward visibility is so important - it banks you social capital with the people who have to allocate limited resources.

The problem is that (1) means that exceptional people in one org miss out (and leave or become demotivated) because they're in a higher bar org and those with low potential/performance in another org are protected because the bar is lower in that one. This is not good for the organization as a whole and is an anti-pattern.
Do you happen to have any fun examples? More for chuckles than anything, I do enjoy reading bogus papers and seeing if I could figure it out.
I'd bet it's young people making these outlandish comparisons.
I suspect you underestimate the complexity of the NYT site and keeping it running.

Especially with a huge election tomorrow.
Or externally! I posted an idea here a while ago, where I thought I'd start a staffing company called "Scapegoat Consultants" and we would offer your team a "low performer" that you could hire and then fire after a year, to protect the rest of your team from stack-ranking. Our consultant will join your team and do as little as you want, or even nothing at all! We'd guarantee that they will at least not actively make your code base worse, but that's it. After a year of this, you can easily make the case that our recruit was a low-performer and manage them out. Don't worry, he won't mind--his job was to be the low performer, and we'll hire him out to the next BigTech company who struggles with stack ranking.

It used to be tongue in cheek, but maybe the industry actually needs something like this.
there was some recent HN post which showed that they didn't even use docker but rather there was some other mechanism and it was so so simple , I really enjoyed that article
What’s the point of a comment listing numbers like this?

Have you looked at what the owners of the New York Times make and compared that to the average “newspaper owner” in the US?
To be fair, I’m not living in a SF proper, there it would cost around 2.5k but still EU is crazy expensive for the low wages they get paid.
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Thank you for the mention. :)
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There is nothing about the shitty office cube farm that imbues magic anti-offshoring properties to your job.
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I'm sorry for you loss but it's silly nonetheless to try and codify a solution to an individuals issues.
I’ve not gotten it working properly in Zed though, have others managed to do so?
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It works on some browsers. I'm normally on Firefox but had to dust off Safari to watch it. Crazy I still have to do this in 2024...
>if they can’t make do with 70k a year after taxes

I don't think the median income is after taxes, is it? That would be more reasonable, for sure. My comment was made in reference to friends who make $70k/yr before taxes.
To be fair the society that idolized those pharaohs is long gone though. It'd be a different story with the statue of liberty if the US was gone.

Landmarks don't have to have legal force. My only point here, that I'm almost certainly over complicating or muddying, is that the statue is still held as a symbol of our country but we seem to fundamentally disagree with what the statue stood for in the first place.

It seems disingenuous but that alone isn't a huge deal. My concern personally is that I do still believe in what the statue stood for, and I think most people arguing immigration miss the fundamental question of should one person be allowed to stop another from choosing to live here and make a life for themselves. The argument usually jumps straight to how to limit it, not whether one should have the right to limit it.
I thought it was fair.

>> We’ll be posting a lot more about Gitpod Flex architecture in the coming weeks or months.

Cramming more detail into this post would have exceeded the average user read time ceiling.
> I would never have guessed so many full-time employees were necessary to maintain a CMS.

Well they also run Cooking and Games, which has gotten pretty big. I imagine they have some hand in audio too.

They run their own services, such as messaging and ad delivery, too.

IIRC, they basically developed things like D3 and Backbone back in the day (or paid the maintainers)
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Funny enough that it’s always “too high” for non executives but executive pay is never policed and any attempts to do so are met with fierce resistance.

Which reminds me of another thing. A good friend of mine is currently getting their MBA from a fairly well regarded school. One thing they recently learned about is structuring compensation. The general adage is that whatever you pay an employee must be in reflection of the multiple you get back from that employee. For example a ratio of 5:1 would be for every 1 dollar you pay you get 5 back.

When you start thinking about it like that, you realize just how underpaid people are. So many companies - in fact the vast majority - it’s much higher, in tech for example it’s usually around 10:1 and often as high as 25:1 or more.

This makes it much more straightforward in understanding things and the power imbalance when thinking about it like this
> Ie: maybe I trust a mechanism by Google/Apple where tap becomes powered locally and the phone/device itself carries a balance.

That's something I'd definitely love to see, but it doesn't exist at the moment (in the US, at least; in Japan, there are stored-value cards in Apple Wallet that can support two-side offline transactions).

> Also, credit cards used to work in a similar way to checks. The information would be recorded and the transaction would be finalized later.

They used to, but they don't anymore. Almost all terminals and many cards won't let you do an offline transaction these days, for both credit and debit cards.

> it’s pretty fascinating how currency has evolved in the last half-century. There is no reason for me to think that it will stop where we are at today.

True, but unfortunately as far as I can see, it's all been moving towards a more centralized/connection-dependent system. That's great for when everything is working as expected, but raises some concerns about resilience.
> The person couldn't find out why they could no longer solve the cube.

If you got to the point where you can routinely solve cubes, i.e. you know your algorithms or you developed a good intuition, then unsolvable cubes should be pretty obvious. Some algorithms are like: if you are in this position, do this, if you are in that position, do that, other positions are illegal. If you are in an illegal position, then you know there is a problem with your cube.

The Rubik's cube is a really hard puzzle unless you know some theory, and the existence of unsolvable cubes is a rather well known fact, meaning that there shouldn't be that many people who are able to solve the cube and don't know about unsolvable cubes.

Or maybe that's just me. I learned on a terrible cube that had a tendency to dismantle itself, so knowing that it had to be put back properly was a requirement for a successful solve.
Can retain that and add a vcs-exclude, right?
Just because you can't be comfortable in a used car with a fixer upper home doesn't mean other people can't be. You're talking about your preferences like they're a bare minimum and they're not. Plenty of people live perfectly comfortable lives without those luxuries.
Doing this the day before the election is savage

Wirecutter (also a Times property) went on strike during Black Friday.

Unions can be pretty savage.

Like the one in Chicago that was striking at a hotel, but couldn't get any traction, so for weeks took to blaring bullhorns and sirens outside a children's hospital at 2am to put pressure on the city to put pressure on the hotel.

In the end, the hotel closed and the people who tortured the sick children ended up losing their jobs.
It makes no sense as a policy.
They charge a lot of money for that. DOA for me.
> Doing away with syntax and writing in plain English might sound nice

Welcome to the world of lawyers. That is exactly what they are doing all days and the outcome is a mess.
Can’t. Paywalled.
How so? I always figured it was simply a decryption service/library with the dongle serving as a the secret. So e.g. samples (or important information about the samples) can only be read when the dongle is present. Is that view too simple?
The problem with "development environments", like other interactive workloads, is that there is a human at the other end that desires a good interactive experience with every keypress. It's a radically different problem space than what k8s was designed for.

From a resource provider productive, the only way to squeeze a margin out of that space would be to reverse engineer 100% of human developer behavior so that you can ~perfectly predict "slack" in the system that could be reallocated to other users. Otherwise it's just a worse DX, like TFA gives examples of. Not a business I'm envious too be in... Just give everyone a dedicated VM or desktop, and make sure there's a batch system for big workloads.
> I'd investigate getting a build out to Node.js (looks like you already have this) and then just doing a simple SCP of the build to a VPS. From there, just use a systemd script to handle startup/restart on errors. For logging, something like the Winston package does the trick.
If you want some guidance, shoot me an email (in profile). You can run most stuff for peanuts.

I appreciate the offer! But it is not as robust and it is more expensive and misses a lot of benefits.

Back in the 1990s I did FTP my website to a VPS after I graduated from Geocities.

Google Cloud charges based on CPU used. Thus my servers have no traffic, they cost less than a $1/month. If they have traffic, they are still cost effective. https://web3dsurvey.com has about 500,000 hits per month and it costs me $4/month to run both the Remix web server and the Fastify API server. Details here: https://x.com/benhouston3d/status/1840811854911668641

Also it will autoscale under load. Thus when one of my posts was briefly the top story on Hacker News last month, Google Cloud Run added more instances to my server to handle the load (because I do not run my personal site behind a CDN, it cost too much, I prefer to pay $1/month for hosting.)

Also deploying Docker containers that build on Github Actions CI in a few minutes is a great automated experience.

I do also use Google services like Cloud Storage, Firestore, BigQuery etc. And it is easier to just run it on GCP infrastructure for speed.

I also have to version various tools that get installed in the docker like Blender, Chromium, etc. This is the perfect use case for Docker.

I feel this is pretty close to optimal. Fast, cheap, scalable, automated and robust.
Yep, breakthroughs get announced, but the real-world impact can feel slow
I’d make the argument that the NYT is well positioned in the AI age to be an authority more so than before. The internet will be inundated with AI generated news, and the only way to keep your sanity is to check anything with a legitimate logo on the top of the site.
"Woke" makes absolutely zero sense here. I think the word you're looking for is "sensitive".
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And it's the uneven propagation of price information through the popular consciousness that makes inflation so insidious. You're absolutely right: a lot of people are calibrated on 2010 prices for income despite 2024 prices for expenses.
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Good luck to you! Perhaps sanity is weird these days.
Cash would work, but depending on who/where you ask, many people don't even have enough cash on them (or at home) to get them through a single day.

> but can be worked around with a bit of time to prepare

The prompt was "the Internet goes away tomorrow", and I highly doubt that we'd be able to resurrect branch-based "offline" banking in a single day.
Thats actually a big separator between quality tech companies and lower tier ones ime. Lower tier ones treat devs as a cost center and code monkeys. Higher quality ones treat them as a value generator and expect them to know about and engage with the business. Its what lets them work with more autonomy and intuition to ship the stuff people need most, that generates the most value.
This is why I bought a 4Runner instead of a Tesla. Being able to grab, push, twist, and press buttons makes me feel one with my car. Relying on a screen feels one step removed. I want those buttons to click and clack!
100% out of touch, yes, but not wrong. Before kids I had the same exact sentiment, and now, with kids, I still do.

Raising a family is a choice, and that choice should be made deliberately, considering all aspects, including financial impact.

It is no more the responsibility of the employer to consider the family of the employee anymore than for them to consider if the employee is a gambling addict, or spends frivolously on OnlyFans subs or funko pop collecting.
I was sending a message to my friend on matrix and it didn't work , I tried quite hard.

Ended up going on signal.
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measures of core inflation that sites like this use leave out many things that massively impact purchasing power - namely food, fuel, and interest rates. When factoring these in, the gp comment is quite reasonable, as those costs have soared in the last 20 years for the typical household.
I loved—and still love—this logo. Maybe it's because we have a gazillion startups and companies now, so every single logo looks the same to me. These old logos have spirit and personality.
Sometimes I don't even use virtual envs when developing locally in Python. I just install everything that I need with pip --user and be done with it. Never had any conflicts with system packages whatsoever. If I somehow break my --user environment, I simply delete it and start again. Never had any major version mismatch in dependencies between my machine and what was running in production. At least not anything that would impact the actual task that I was working on.

I'm not recommending this as a best practice. I just believe that we, as developers, end up creating some myths to ourselves of what works and what doesn't. It's good to re-evaluate these beliefs now and then.
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Especially his philosophy of logic and sense/reference (a continuation of the work of Frege and Russell) is mostly forgotten. He published many papers on this topic, yet they aren't discussed e.g. in Wikipedia. At least the SEP entry is better:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/church/

Though I heard that it also neglects some major parts of his work. I assume it was too philosophical for mathematicians and too technical for philosophers.
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What were your first impressions of the Beatles?

That they were the worst musicians in the world. They were no-playing motherfuckers. Paul was the worst bass player I ever heard.

And Ringo?

Don’t even talk about it. I remember once we were in the studio with George Martin, and RingoJones arranged a version of “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” for Starr’s 1970 solo debut album Sentimental Journey, which was produced by the Beatles’ frequent collaborator George Martin. The song, and album, are more than a bit gloopy. had taken three hours for a four-bar thing he was trying to fix on a song. He couldn’t get it. We said, “Mate, why don’t you get some lager and lime, some shepherd’s pie, and take an hour-and-a-half and relax a little bit.” So he did, and we called Ronnie Verrell, a jazz drummer. Ronnie came in for 15 minutes and tore it up. Ringo comes back and says, “George, can you play it back for me one more time?” So George did, and Ringo says, “That didn’t sound so bad.” And I said, “Yeah, motherfucker because it ain’t you.” Great guy, though.
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OP here. There definitely is a place for running things on your local machine. Exactly as you say: one can get a great deal of consistency using VMs.

One of the benefits of moving away from Kubernetes, to a runner-based architecture , is that we can now seamlessly support cloud-based and local environments (https://www.gitpod.io/blog/introducing-gitpod-desktop).

What's really nice about this is that with this kind of integration there's very little difference in setting up a dev env in the cloud or locally. The behaviour and qualities of those environments can differ vastly though (network bandwidth, latency, GPU, RAM, CPUs, ARM/x86).
I strongly recommend just switching the Dev environment over to Linux and taking advantage of tools like "distrobox" and "toolbx".

https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox

https://containertoolbx.org/

It is sorta like Vagrant, but instead of using virtualbox virtual machines you use podman containers. This way you get to use OCI images for your "dev environment" that integrates directly into your desktop.

https://podman.io/

There is some challenges related to usermode networking for non-root-managed controllers and desktop integration has some additional complications. But besides that it has almost no overhead and you can have unfettered access to things like GPUs.

Also it is usually pretty easy to convert your normal docker or kubernetes containers over to something you can run on your desktop.

Also it is possible to use things like Kubernetes pods definitions to deploy sets of containers with podman and manage it with systemd and such things. So you can have "clouds of containers" that your dev container needs access to locally.

If there is a corporate need for window-specific applications then running Windows VMs or doing remote applications over RDP is a possible work around.

If everything you are targeting as a deployment is going to be Linux-everything then it doesn't make a lot of sense to jump through a bunch of hoops and cause a bunch of headaches just to avoid having it as workstation OS.
This "don't make a decision unless it is 100% derived from metrics" mentality I just don't get. A robot could do that. Why is your company out there trying to hire/promote smart managers with good judgment if they don't let those managers apply their brains and judgment? "If employee's measured results > threshold, then reward employee" can be done by a computer. No need for a human manager.
Yeah, same. Epic's Matrix demo implemented it and even without a plot, the interactions were so heavily guided that the distinction was pointless. So you can find out what that NPCs spous's name is and their favorite color. It's that neat? Sure it's neat. It's it going to make it a better game? Probably less than hiring another good writer to make NPC dialog. To be truly useful, I think they would have to be able to affect the world in meaningful ways that worked with the game plot, and again, when you clamp that down as much as you'd need to to still have a plot, you're looking at a fancy decision tree.
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Journalist salaries, especially at prestigious piblications, are quite famously set such that only people who can rely on external support to the tune of 5-6 figures a year can become journalists. It makes sense that the journalists union would prioritize things other than salary in bargaining - their W2 job isn't where their money comes from.
Sounds like you are not using a lot of hardware - Rfid, POS, top-spec video cards, etc
I believe they were not created to solve real problems. No one wanted a cron replacement, really.

Thus they are created out of political or ego reasons.
today I learned about .sex as in .com etc.

What a strange place we live in , who needs .sex ? brothels ?
The saddest I've ever been in my life was when my dog died.

I take it you've never lost a child? Because I've lost both and sad as it was, losing a dog doesn't even come close. Losing the dog was sad, but I got over it and eventually adopted another pup. Losing the child was so unimaginably awful that I struggle to find the words...

Police knocking on my door at 2am to tell me.
Calling my wife at 2:30am to tell her (she was away on business).
Waiting for her to find a flight home.
The funeral.
Dealing with the estate.
Waking up every few weeks feeling like it was all a nightmare, only to realize it was not.

It's fucking awful.
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Just here to confirm. I have facetime setup at 5am in the morning with my family across the pacific. I've also started to exercise regularly. It's been 2 months and my sleep pattern is exactly like yours, and I feel exactly like you do.
100%.

At my last org, my eng team (I'm a PM) had no manager for a while, during which leadership instituted metrics that tracked "Planned Points versus Planned Points achieved". My team also handled support escalations and defects. That work is ... unplanned. That was not tracked in their system.

I had to go in and advocate for them... "You have work that they are being required to do that not only doesn't show up on metrics that you are using to evaluate developer productivity, but in fact, you're actually dinging them by flagging that 'planned versus completed points' as unacceptably low. How do you think morale is going?"

They would do things like "The team planned 30 points to be completed in this sprint. They only completed 10 points, 33%, and we expect 90%. Oh? What's that, they actually also completed 25 points in unplanned work due to Sev-0 and -1 bugs and defects? That doesn't count."
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"Official" inflation numbers are fraudulent and have always been. Real life situations is what matters, because we're dealing with real people.

The Soviet Union "officially" had the highest production of food per capita in the world, yet they had to import food. Because you cannot eat government statistics.
Yes, and double yes. How these people view (feel about) their working conditions is more important to them than any explanation of why they ought to, or ought not to, feel that way based on some measure of comparative economics or conditions. If they want, for whatever reason (either allergy or solidarity), a scent-free cleaning product and they're willing to strike for it; well, why not? It's a political negotiation, a bargaining. That's sensible to me. Everything is people and politics. It might be justified by math, but it's not driven by it.
They're all in it together. The journalists should strike for everything they want as well!