skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We migrated to Cloud Run at work last year and there were some gotchas that other people might want to be aware of:

1. Long running TCP connections. By default, Cloud Run terminates inbound TCP connections after 5 minutes. If you're doing anything that uses a long-running connection (e.g. a websocket), you'll want to change that setting otherwise you will have weird bugs in production that nobody can reproduce in local. The upper limit on connections is 1 hour, so you will need some kind of reconnection logic on clients if you're running longer than that.

Ref: https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/configuring/request-timeou...

2. First/second generation. Cloud Run has 2 separate execution environments that come with tradeoffs. First generation emulates Linux (imperfectly) and has faster cold starts. Second generation runs on actual Linux and has faster CPU and faster network throughput. If you don't specify a choice, it defaults to first generation.

Ref: https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/about-execution-environmen...

3. Autoscaling. Cloud Run autoscales at 60% CPU and you can't change that parameter. You'll want to monitor your instance count closely to make sure you're not scaling too much or too little. For us it turned out to be more useful to restrict scaling on request count, which you can control in settings.

Ref: https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/about-instance-autoscaling
Presumption of innocence until proven guilty is straightforward and one size fits all. No state nuance necessary.
Taken as a whole, scientists are fairly open to new evidence, but conservative about making non-orthodox claims about that evidence. Climate research is harder because it's a slow-moving phenomenon. 'People all over' are not in a position to understand that.

'People' also tend to be slow at recognizing how much different their lives are from those a century ago - because of science discoveries. Taking away all those advantages for a while would put a quick stop to most of their negativity. So what they think is not terribly significant.
I don't know, can Leibniz answer the challenges of modernity? Paul Ricœur famously identified three masters of suspicion, Marx, Freud and Nietzsche. What's Leibniz responses to their challenges?
How is it possible to "abuse" volunteer labor? Can't they just... stop volunteering?
To me the most important quote in the whole writeup is this "Our new stack is boring.". When you are creating a solution to a problem, boring is good. Strive to be boring. Only be exciting when you must.
Honey contains oligosaccharides that act as stabilizers.
> You just need an ELB backed by an autoscaling group

Sure, and then you can neither 1.) test your setup locally nor 2.) easily move to another cloud provider. So that doesn't really fit what I asked.

If they answer is "there is nothing, just accept the vendor lock-in" then fine, but please don't reply with "30 lines of bash" and make me have expectations. :-(
The graphics side of my program is structured as a tree of objects. The root is the entire display. Each object contains zero or more children, and masks those children so they only appear within the rectangular bounds of the object. If an object has an image class, and there are several of these using different data structures - then it further masks its children according to the image's alpha channel. I also have some blending modes that can be turned on. Any object can have a blending mode that affects appearance of the object based on the image of the object, or the images below it.

Is that something I could port to WebGL? Can objects contain or be parents of other objects in that way, and mask thier children to only appear directly in front of them? I have done a tiny bit of WebGL for a CS assignment but it was ages ago. Hopefully once I make this public I'll be able to get some feedback on all this. I don't want to say too much more as it would begin to spoil things!
Ah, that's neat, close to what I've been imagining. :D
These devices were produced back on 2011 I believe. Even with the CRA, I don't think much would change. A decade is definitely the high end of reasonable required software support for cheap budget NASes in my opinion. Of course stores would be forced to stop selling any remaining stock of them, but I doubt that's much of a problem, really.
They are free to stop doing it for free? I don't understand.
Can you explain a little what are the similarities you found?
Arbitrarily decided is how all judicial and jury decisions are made. They're all arbitrary. There are no objective court cases like this one. We have a justice system, it arbitrates. Sometimes those decisions are surprising. But like, using arbitrary in this way suggests you don't like the judicial apparatus generally.
5 years ago everyone and their uncle would swear that kubernetes was the new way of doing things and by not jumping on it you were missing out and potentially harming your career.
> Obvious conclusion: Gray rats have higher IQ than white rats on average.

Well, they did, didn't they?

The wrong conclusion would be "This is the limit of what white rats can do", which is not how I interpreted GP's comment.

TBH, this is not an easily solved problem: some cultures are better at producing superior students and productive people than other cultures. Those superior individuals are not superior due to inherent traits, but due to environment (culture).

How on earth do you change those under-performing cultures? Any attempt to do so will be met with cries of racism or similar.

[As an aside, my general observation with the the GP's list of IQ is that those cultures who prioritize sport less do better. While GP showed a correlation between race-groups and IQ, I observe the same correlation, but inverse, between sports-focused-cultures and IQ. Removing pro-sports-tracks programs from schools is probably going to do wonders for the bottom 10% of performers in a school]
But the title says it has great effect
Nah, you just have to double-down on what Musk himself has started: Complete the poisoning of the Tesla brand.

Musk committed CEO malpractice. Utter malpractice. One of the cornerstone pillars of Tesla is environmentalist progressivism. There is no way any democrat or environmentalist or liberal can look at this election and stomach buying a Tesla in the future.

At LEAST 50% of Tesla's existing customer base is identified democrats. Every time Trump speaks in the next four years, identified democrats will viscerally feel that, and remember Musk, and blame Tesla.

A car company's MOST IMPORTANT customers are recurring customers. Brand loyalty is paramount to a car brand. Tesla does not have enough right wing converts, especially since they are generally in rural areas underserved or not served by charging infrastructure, to make up for the customer loss.

IMO Musk's stewardship of Tesla has shown huge amounts of failed opportunities:

Primarily, is that after 17 years, Tesla basically sells two cars: a crossover and a sedan, with two sizes. Medium sized and slightly bigger. No delivery trucks, minivans, real pickups, city cars, kei cars, station wagons, sports cars, convertibles, large SUVs, large pickups/commercial vehicle platforms. No heavy machinery, heavy equipment.

To that end, Tesla likely had ample opportunity to push its battery tech, drivetrains, and expertise into far more markets and segments by simply acquiring or partnering with a struggling ICE company (pick any one of a half-dozen that Geely or China have acquired in the last decade).

Tesla could have pushed for advanced/capable PHEVs of high quality (think the Chevy Volt but better) with that cross-partnership and achieved electrification and profits and education of mass market buyers into EV advantages much more quickly and at scale

Tesla could have used the acquired company for downmarket branding and cheaper EVs. It could allow the use of conventional OEM design to more rapidly bring vehicle types to market.

Tesla has not scaled production sufficiently in the last couple years in my opinion. A lot of that is lack of diversification of models, an inability/resistance to use OEM suppliers, and no longer being interested in "gigafactory"
construction with the same aggression.

Home solar and home storage is basically a joke and forgotten in Tesla, again, a waste of their once-great brand.

Repairability, quality, customer service, parts availability is pathetically bad, again because of resistance to OEM usage.

Finally, Tesla is likely the least favorite company of the three major ones he heads. He is AWOL from leadership essentially, and it shows.
I believe CloudRun is based on KNative which runs on Kubernetes. Thus, you’re still running on Kubernetes, it’s just abstracted away from you.
Do they mean PAAS vs IAAS when they say "move to cloud"?
That's assuming you have no transferrable skills from one career to the next and that there's a well-mapped career path in existence for a given role.

What about new careers that suddenly pop into existence around nascent technologies like AI?

I've transferred into product management now that enough companies officially recognise it as a career. I had been doing it in various guises for years where it was called 'project designer', 'project manager' or 'programme manager'.

Regardless of title, the common theme has been aligning business needs and engineering needs to deliver customer value they're willing to pay for. That meant I didn't start at the bottom when 'moving career'.
The book I read on K8S written by a core maintainer made is very clear.
Context for those who aren't up to date.

InfoWars does tens of millions in revenue per year, but is nothing without Alex Jones.

A Jones-friendly bid was made for $3.5M, while Onion bidded $1.75M.

Onion won the 'auction' (where you get a single bid, and no knowledge of other bids), because with their bid also came commitments from some of the Sandy Hook families to drop their claims for compensation ($1.5B in total). This $1.5B was never collectable in the first place.
I have a couple of TP-Link unmanaged 4 port SOHO switches. They're pretty reliable so far.
Care to expand on it? Not much to converse about with this kind of reply.

Unless you're just an ideological parrot, then carry on.
Firefox on MacOS also doesn't seem to have it.

I can't find it on Chrome on MacOS, either..

EDIT: it shows up for me, once you actually start playing.
> It is running smooth as a whistle

... until you get hit by a DDoS attack. Not much you can do about it unless your ISP offers protection, or you end up going for Cloudflare or the like instead of exposing your IP and ports.
I enjoyed this book’s practical take. It’s a big part of why I am currently learning Janet by doing Everybody Codes in it right now.

https://everybody.codes
> The original reaction for that pathology is "The Mythical Man-Month", it's what started everything.

In software, Gerald Weinberg was writing about how to organize and optimize this stuff at least a decade before Brooks.

And Edwards Deming's work led to a lot of agile ideas. That strain of thinking is traceable at least back to the Napoleonic-era's Prussian artillery. The mythical man month isn't really a software problem; it's a human organization problem.
Honey and agave syrup have oligosaccharides that act as stabilizers. Fructans in agave, specifically.

As does molasses like when making refined sugar. Most unrefined sources of sugar naturally contain chemicals that act as stabilizers because it’s a side effect of many polysaccharides.
> It helps to sometimes keep stateful (databases generally) workloads on one cluster, have another for stateless workloads etc. Sometimes customers demand complete isolation

Are these not covered by taint/toleration? I guess maybe isolation depending on what exactly they're demanding but even then I'd think it could work.
Congratulations to all of the employees at Databricks. This is a huge milestone.
From what I understand, Jains are lacto-vegetarian [1]. Vegans draw that line further (because they also don't take milk).

As a human being, if you avoid eating plants, or things that eat plants, you die.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism
You've moved the goal post. You said "we're better than this". You got several instances where, clearly, we are not.

Take the L here. Acknowledge we're not better than this and arguably never have been. Next time consider, "we should aspire to be better than this".

And to be clear, I didn't vote Harris or Trump, both parties do this gross stuff.
Well you can't say Ireland+80s+student without having alcohol as a factor! I was exactly 10 years after you, and nothing changed, except the music.
> So it would seem that the whole operation failed. This surely draws into question the quantity theory of money, one of the basic tenets of monetary economics. A decline in the money supply, all things staying the same, is supposed to cause a fall in prices. Here is a glaring case in which it didn't.

Anthropologist Christoffer Gregory (backed up by the Swedish central bank and others) posits a companion to the quantity theory of money, which is the quality theory of money. Gregory studied how it is that people come to value the things they do[1] and brings up several clear cases where people don't value money as highly as they should according to domninant theory.

Is it possible that this Gutt operation had a negative effect on the perceived quality of Belgian currency, that this decreased demand for it, and thus lowered its value enough to offset the effect of the reduction in supply?

Seems sensical to me that if people worry about the government cutting their notes in half they will request more notes in exchange for another commodity than if they had more faith in the currency.

[1]: https://entropicthoughts.com/book-review-savage-money
I don't think I have the skill to learn a stenographer's keyboard, but I would love to have a small chorded keyboard just for macros.

I always liked the look of Doug Engelbart's one in the Mother of All Demos. It's very basic, but I'd be quite satisfied with something like that today. He demonstrates it at about 1:40:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6rKUf9DWRI
Trust me, I learned this pretty quickly. Areas are only queued when the display has to chnage in some way. There's also a bunch of prepratation before drawing a region of the screen; only the objects that appear within the specified bounds are even considered.
Jumbo frames? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumbo_frame
This is also why it is surprisingly easy to break your dependencies when installing lots of stuff in pip: sooner or later you're going to end up with some dependency-of-dependency incompatible with a dependency. The practical solution is that you don't install everything in the same environment but set up a separate virtual environment for each project, and then install only what you need there.
That's really an issue of you throwing the keys in the ocean...
The same way you can abuse paid labor, "can't they just quit?"
Would you consider sending him the seemingly thousands of academics who aren't poisonous vipers who are quite happy to be in academia?
< Agile is like communism - it sounds like a great idea. Except it never seems to work anywhere

Agile always fails because it's undermined from the inside.

Communism always fails because it's undermined from the outside.
> A company can be sold including its assets (its X account)

The argument would be that a company's X account is not one of its assets -- it is one of X's.
Less than one percent of Americans are trans, yet republicans have put forth hundreds of bills to make their lives difficult.

The parent is suggesting that the other side does already do the "imagine if..." thing.
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Because electronics got so much better so much faster, that the vast majority of customers did not want to use old hardware.

Especially if customers allowing shorter lifetimes allowed companies to lower the prices.
Politically, I generally put my chips down on the liberal side of things - and this ain’t it. This is the kind of stuff that makes you go “maybe Ayn Rand had a point”.

Arguably, the only reason Musk has decided to wade into politics is exactly this kind of shit - how can one build a business in an arbitrarily regulated environment, where it’s one rule for me, and one for thee? The regulatory environment is supposed to be impartial, and to act for the greater good - not to be a political weapon to wield against your enemies.

Things which spring to mind:

- the FCC excluding starlink from rural broadband subsidies

- never ending DFEH investigations in California

- disproportionate NHTSA scrutiny compared to other automakers and self-drive systems

- federal EV tax credit exclusion

- FAA foot-dragging over starship

I’m not saying that these are universally regulatory harassment, but one can readily see from how his perspective this paints a pretty damning overall picture, and I can’t say that in his shoes I wouldn’t be going the same way.
It’s not blocked, and there is no improper sale. Well, there is if you listen to Jones.

Jones is alleging that there was fraud and collusion between the Sandy Hook parents/victims and the executor of the sale. The judge will make a decision in a couple of weeks. There are two things being discussed with the judge—Jones’ allegations and a request from the appointee to approve the sale, and the judge has decided to handle both things in a single session.

Jones is trying to delay thing, and spouting a lot of nonsense in the process as usual.

https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-infowars-auction-onion...
Only one metric of 'quality' has plummeted.

A rock lasts billions of years, but its quality as a TV is rather questionable.
Absolutely, a reasonably sophisticated scalable app platform looks like a half-baked and undocumented reimagination of Kubernetes.

Admittedly: The ecosystem is huge and less is more in most cases, but the foundation is cohesive and sane.

Would love to read the k8s for greybeards book.
Knows of the existence of /dev/urandom, must be old! ;)
“We want to use one standard Helm chart for all applications but then we need it to support all possible variations and use cases across the whole company”
But that doesn't (directly) impact inflation in other countries.
Economics teaches us that the cost of something is often its opportunity cost.

The opportunity cost of a world that refuses to stop emitting greenhouse gases because its "impractical to schedule your life around it" gets to pay the costs of climate disaster, food shortages and such. That cost is much higher, but in the future so (perhaps irrationally) time-discounted to appear lower currently.
Which book would that be, out of interest?
Looks interesting. What is it?
So I’d lose the bet? I’m not sure I’d be any worse off than those winning it!
Maybe they object to the idea that anyone's labor should be used, for free, to enrich the wealthy. I don't think that's a terrible stance to have, abstractly. I dunno if that was the case here.
Please don't mention it's name, we don't want anyone else reading it..
The gripe many have against this legislation is that it is being rushed for no good reason.

It hasn't been clear how they intend to enforce this. Will it just be an "By using this service, I confirm I am 16 or older" clause like the current system? Will we be required to submit ID to social media companies (it's claimed not)? Will the government be making verification through the updated 'MyGov' portal or the newly renamed 'myID' 'digital passport'?

Nobody is sure, and nobody is sure who is sure. There is tons of conflicting information out there.

NewsCorp have been pushing for it as well, which, as a rule, isn't a good thing, and the rest of our media seem just as confused as the populace.
Show HN: Tool for humans to guide AI agents in production
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I am building Phantasm, an open-source tool that allows folks who build AI agents to have human approval layer on top of the agent. With tool-calling becoming more mainstream in agentic AI, I build Phantasm to be a layer of safety allowing humans to guide the AI agent workflow in real-time production.

It is still in early stage of development but I make sure to include components and features that makes it not too far from being production-ready. Phantasm comes with a custom server, dashboard and a Python SDK with multi-approver load balancing for growing teams. I'd love to hear more feedback from the community to make this tool something that brings value to the AI community.

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I wrote a guide here to get started with LangChain and Phantasm quickly:

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This makes sense when laid out like this. The reason I’m doubting it is that I live in a country (Germany) where theoretically everyone could get housing assistance at step 1. And there’s still homeless people here. So I don’t think eliminating the housing problem from this pipeline would suddenly lead to no more homeless people.
You know that you can scale servers just as well, you can use good practices with scripts and deployments in bash and having them documented and in version control.

Equating bash scripts and running servers to duct taping and poor engineering vs k8s yaml being „proper engineering„ is well wrong.
I'm just going off what the judge in the case is saying in the hearings. The judge was not happy at all with how the auction was done as he had intended for it not to be a closed bid auction (the trustee may have sunk an order past him to kinda allow it)

https://youtu.be/ZqQNBhz9JHM?t=11820 Where the judge asks if he authorized waivers of recoveries and the trustee says the judge didn't. And the judge raises his issue about the lack of transparency in the process - which is the main issue here.

The onion's bid may be the better deal, but because of the sealed bid process the judge wasn't expecting, the bids from other parties could have been more, but its mainly about the lack of transparency in the process that the judge is pissed at.
Regarding supporting devices long-term, I can still get current version official OpenWrt for the Netgear WNDR3700v2, which I think is about 15 years old at this point.

https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=23.05.5&targe...

https://openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wndr3700

I always try to find out what's one of the best-supported OpenWrt routers at the time I'm shopping. And can I get one (or a few) of them on eBay at great prices.

WRT54-GL, WNDR3700(v2,v4) and WNDR3800, Netgear R7800.

I also have an OPNsense box that I'm evaluating. But, since OPNsense (FreeBSD) isn't strong on WiFi, I'd need to pair it with separate WiFi APs (running OpenWrt). I'm not liking the extra complexity, when an OpenWrt R7800 still does everything I really need right now.