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Technologies: "DevOps"/SRE (IaC, CI/CD, ISO 27001, SLOs), cloud (GCP, AWS), back-end (Rails, Django, Java and other JVM languages, you name it), DBA/SQL (Postgres, Mariadb/MySQL, MongoDB, Riak, Redis)

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Email: hn.work.2412@laszlo.nu

SRE/backend engineer with 15 years of experience. I've mainly focused on infrastructure,
operations, and cloud technologies. I've optimized highly available systems, improved uptime,
automated key processes, and built scalable, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure.

I have experience with GCP, AWS, and Terraform, including leading cloud migrations and
automation, CI/CD, Kubernetes and Docker. Colleagues describe me as friendly, helpful, hardworking, reliable,
and skilled at simplifying complex problems.
For those unfamiliar:

> Dennard’s Law states that as the dimensions of a device go down, so does power consumption. While this held, smaller transistors ran faster, used less power, and cost less. But there was a limit to how long this would last.

* https://semiengineering.com/knowledge_centers/standards-laws...

> In semiconductor electronics, Dennard scaling, also known as MOSFET scaling, is a scaling law which states roughly that, as transistors get smaller, their power density stays constant, so that the power use stays in proportion with area; both voltage and current scale (downward) with length.[1][2] The law, originally formulated for MOSFETs, is based on a 1974 paper co-authored by Robert H. Dennard, after whom it is named.[3]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling
America's Hidden Racial Divide: A Mysterious Gap in Psychosis Rates
> UK Universities receive taxpayer funding

For research, and for taking UK students. NOT for taking overseas students.

Universities are private institutions that get paid by the state to do specific things. A few do opt out of this.
http://archive.today/58rKA
I am happy with the apple Magic Keyboard with touchid. The Touch ID itself would be hard to part with.
VMware was worth the money because it just worked and worked decently. I chose it in the past to avoid wasting my time on crashes, incompatibilities, and lacking performances that were typical for other VMs.
Or xcp-ng + xen orchestra.
You are assuming that incentive to create keeps increasing with more monetary reward. Incentive doesn't start out at zero without rewards (see history before copyright) and is never infinite (what good is infinite money if you never get to use it).
Agreed. Don't express changes in percentages, express them as multiples.

In addition, don't express changes in terms of ratios, express them in terms of actual quantities.

So instead of saying "our efficiency increased by 100%", get rid of the ratio and express it as a multiple of the relevant underlying quantities, e.g. "our costs are 0.5x".
Look for ASUS Alder Lake-N, roughly 100eur incl vat. (that's mobo with N100)

You do need to buy SODIMM DDR4 (12-14eur for 8gb), m2 NVME for storage and power supply (which you have to buy for rpi5 also).

You end up with a board with way better ports and IO, better audio dac, and significantly faster performance all across the board.

Raspberry PIs 5 and such offer poor value and are very overpriced.

Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, Orange Pi Zero 3 and RP Pico still provide good value. (for 3d printers and such)
Americans Risk Losing Life Savings When Retirement Homes Go Bust
Unless they have a monopoly on the tech, that's not how the free market works. Raising your prices x10 without having a government mandated monopoly, is a great incentive to create competitors.
it's also because a 200% increase is 3x, but 200% of the old price is 2x
Isn't what you are describing the curse of Lisps ? That is it is so easy to just roll your own but that there is no third-party consensual libraries and since there isn't there is little adoption ?
This is the classic "golden goose" strategy. Why wait around all week for steady returns when you can just rip the thing open and see what you can get for the internal organs.
I don't know that accusing the current ruling party (I'm not familiar with UK politics so I'm not for or against this party) of irrational policy that results in the hard-working natives to pay more and more tax money to support all those freeloading foreigners, without including any substantial argument to support that claim, or alternatively linking a source, is a good fit for an HN discussion
Which Maze Algorithm is best for Minecraft? [video]
> A few years ago a CEO of Intel (not Gelsinger) said something like "our CPU architecture is so well-known every college student can work on it". A friend working at Intel at that time translated it to me: "we will hire cheap students to work on chips and we will let the expensive engineers leave"

Reminds me of the Boeing managers saying that they didn't need senior engineers because its products were mature..

A few blown doors and deadly crashes later, that didn't age well..

https://archive.is/H9eh9#selection-3935.0-3935.163
Eleanor – The Cheetah Supermom
My kids started asking for vintage digicams about five years ago. At first I wrote it off as a fad. And it is definitely partially that.

But when my kids started taking pictures with these cameras, I realized that the pictures were, subjectively at least, better.

We were in the Rockies and the pictures taken on their iPhones are sharper, more vibrant, but those photos lack perspective. It’s not just aesthetic. The mountains feel more like massive objects on these older cameras than they do on modern iPhone cameras.

Something else happens with digital cameras. My kids think more intentionally about the framing of the shot. They move into better positions. They think about light and shadows. With the iPhone it’s click and forget. So that contributes to better photos too.

Even with the point and click models that my kids bring to social gatherings, there’s clearly a sense of posture and special-ness about the photos that changes the dynamic more than everyone posing for a phone selfie or photo.

There are obvious limitations. My kids didn’t fully understand why older cameras perform so poorly in darker light without the flash.

But otherwise they really love their digital cameras. My eldest is studying abroad in France and it’s a real treat to get a batch of digital camera shots of life in Paris.

I now buy digital cameras in bulk and repair them slowly as a hobby and then resell them on eBay. It gives me a little spending money. I avoid the TikTok trend cameras - they’re too expensive to buy - but I make some nice pocket money on selling the in between models that perform really well.

And my kids get to pick their favorite models now and then.
Yeah, but a 1000% increase is roughly a 10x increase. Good enough for me.
I am a 100% programmer
>In around 2000, the only realistic options was either vmware

Let's not forget user mode linux. :-) I ran hundreds of "VMs" using UML and it worked surprisingly well.
People here in the comments seem to focus on whether it is possible to predict an artist's success based on secondary "civic" virtues, and criticize the author for having subjective criteria for what "success" means.
I'd argue that independently of how you measure success, all other things being equal, having diligence and other civic virtues will get you further, on average.

That said, the most interesting lessons are in the first and sixth (the 2nd 6th, the actual 6th) item: How to do a better/more widely scoped job than what you got hired for (by understanding how interests, incentives and responsibilities align in an org) and the fact that in most places, most people are not serious (meaning they tend to not go deeper, look at the big picture, etc.).
Access to their support portal is limited to the handful of people your IT department allows, and in the enterprise space it’s not uncommon for the Cisco people to be defensive about the products they recommended buying or dismissive of problems which aren’t critical or only impact platforms they don’t favor (often Linux or macOS).
Do you imagine that all the worlds sea captains, when in foreign ports, cannot communicate with anyone there?
I don't think there is any scholarly basis for the term "late-stage capitalism". It's just a meme that kids started using. Power-hungry, unprincipled people will exist regardless of a country's economic system. But people are very imaginative in attributing various social ills to capitalism in particular.
Afaik Russia isn't losing its own army, all those soldiers lost are foreign mercenaries

As far as you know?

This isn't even remotely true.

Let alone something you "know" to be true.
Steam hardware survey: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/processormfg/

Windows:

Intel: 64.23%

AMD: 35.71%

Linux:

Intel: 30.15%

AMD: 69.85%
Is virtualization really a growing pie, these days? Big players eat everything, and they have their own solutions typically.
I like to think that the bacteria are only on the outermost layer of the body, i.e. skin. It just happens so that the respiratory and the digestive systems are the exterior part of the body which are inside our body. In other words epithelial cells mark the boundary of inside and outside and bacteria are usually tolerated on the outside and not inside.
So, their whole decision is based off of which VMM can support qcow import out of the box
This is exactly the problem with optimizing metrics though. It seems like they’re getting more money from less customers but it puts them at might higher risk that those big customers will churn and tank the company which also increases as the price goes up as it will eventually hit a point where they can find something cheaper.
It isn't necessarily your eyesight.

I'm in my 30s and have great eyesight and have noticed that with vehicles getting taller (especially trucks) and lights getting much brighter that oncoming traffic can really shine right into your eyes and make driving at night a pain. I'm convinced it's entirely a problem of our own fault that really impacts drivers of normal cars.
For me it shows as €233.82
xcp-ng is far from stable and lacks significant features
ahoy!! thanks for spotting the issue I wrote the post in a stream of consciousness after a long day! I'll make that edit and call it out!

the statement about what historically constitutes a large erlang cluster was an anecdote told to by Francesco Cesarini during lunch a few years ago — I'm not actually sure of the time frame (or my memory!)

likewise I'll update the post to reflect that! thanks ( ◜ ‿ ◝ ) ♡
So many people misunderstand what is actually happening.

Broadcom aren't hiking the price 10x for everyone.

If you previously used:

- VMWare Vsphere

- Cloudify Automation

- CISCO ASI Software Defined Network

- Splunk log collection

- Nutanix Acropolis Distributed Storage

- etc..

Then you're going to see you vSphere costs jump massively because you're only option to buy vSphere now also comes with:

- VMWare Vsphere

- VMWare Aria Automation

- VMWare NSX Software Defined Network

- VMWare Log Insight

- VMWare vSan

- etc..

So, if you're already heavily invested in VMWare, you might even see your costs reduce.
This is everyone though. Some people are natural communicators who can make everyone feel at ease in a room whilst saying nothing of value, and others provide pure factual content in the most unintelligible manner.

There are those who can converse with incomplete information, building off the emotional content of the conversation, and those who can only deal with specifics and abhor any uncertainty or generalisation.

I guess what I'm saying is, we all put our minds to work in different ways and are all experts in our own particular niches.

Those who can communicate their ideas better tend to be branded more intelligent, whereas those who can put their mind directly to action with little outside input might not be seen so favourably.
> You can actually monitor the temperature of the sdram and it reports if refresh at half or quarter the rate can be done. That allows the overhead due to refresh to be reduced by a half or a quarter which does improve benchmark results.

I wonder why this is not available on PCs. tREFI tuning has a big impact on performance, and having an automated guided optimization based on temperature would be nice.
1k% = 1 kilo% = 1e-2 kilo = 3.22 troy ounces
Shape up is so far superior
How does a headband work? will it be FDA approved ?
Black plastics may contain toxic compounds that can leach into food, experts say
Jaguar absolutely has a very long history of making exclusive low production volume sports cars and supercars that fit all 3 of those criteria. In the 90s they were selling the XJ220 for what would nowadays be about 1.3 million- it was both one of the fastest, and one of the most expensive cars in the world at the time.

In general, they also have a long - "storied" racing history, and have consistently moved that racing technology into production high performance automobiles. At many points in history, starting with the XK120 in the 1940s they were selling the fastest supercars in the world.

Jaguar's reputation for reliability is no worse than the French and Italian exotic cars... you didn't buy a European car with a V12 in the 1970s if you couldn't afford a lot to keep it up.
Well, it's not just that - Blizzard is actively selling the non-remastered original versions (running on DOSBox exactly like the GoG ones) directly from the Battle.net launcher now too. They've essentially in-housed the exact same product that they originally commissioned for GoG.

It may or may not be a jerk move, business-wise (I have no idea what their original agreement with GoG was when they launched it there), but from a purely preservationist point of view, nothing has yet been lost as a result of this.

(And while it's tempting to say that in the long run GoG would have been better stewards of the old builds than Blizzard, and that would certainly be true for 99% of publishers out there, keep in mind that Blizzard has successfully kept up servers and downloads for games going back to the mid-90s up to the present day. Blizzard takes preservation much more seriously than almost anyone else.)
I recommend taking a look at the various open source Riak applications too! Might not be updated to any sort of recent versions of erlang but was a great resource to me early on.
> ..., meaning restarting VMs on another host if one host fails.

Wait, your VM will still restart if vmware host dies, right? You can't have RAM sync between hosts.
This is really interesting, thank you for sharing this
Murderbot definitely comes off as a she in many of the interactions, imo. Though I'm a gay man so what do I know.
Hey look, Wired finally managed to find a writer who doesn't insult the author's family!
That's more a language issue than a number issue. 1000% is already a factor, it's literally the number 10.

The problem is that the whole sentence doesn't make sense with a number there.
"Company claims 10 price hike drove it from VMware..."
Hundreds of Facebooks?

Very unlikely
Show HN: I quit my job to build a productivity companion app
Hi Hacker News,

I quit my job three months back and I've been working on an app called Hootz since then

Hootz acts like a supportive friend that guides you to stay focused and productive. Below are the key features I've built so far.

Focus Sessions: It prompts you to start focus sessions whenever possible. During these sessions, you can select from various music options to maintain your concentration.

Automatic Distraction Alert: Hootz automatically identifies when you are distracted during focus sessions, and nudges you to get back to work.

Calendar Sync: Syncs with your calendar to help you compare what you planned with what you accomplished.

Daily Overview: Provides a clear summary of your day with details on productive time and downtime.

Productivity Goals: Helps you set and track your productivity goals.

Focus Insights: Identifies the times of day you are most focused and what is causing distractions.

I'd really appreciate your feedback!
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised on a startup forum, but it does surprise me how even in $CURRENT_YEAR, people are this motivated to uphold Market Darwinism Truth, in defiance of all the evidence that markets at the scale of the United States are dominated by power.
Ask HN: How much has your company spent on cloud infrastructure?
I have been trying to get (and compare) this information somewhere, but among technical blogs and the like I can't find much information where I can make a “sensible” comparison.

It would be good to know the size of your company and how much money you currently spend on infrastructure.
I doubt many people are making purchasing decisions based on Intel branding. Any kind of speed advantage has not been a dominant factor in the minds of most low information/brand influenceable consumers who are buying x86 machines. Everybody else looks at reviews and benchmarks where Intel has to show up with a good product and their branding doesn't get them much.
My first reaction was that you're wrong, but you're probably correct in that large scale VMware installations are much larger than 3000 servers. The small side is going to be a large set of customers, probably the majority.

There are tons of VMware installation that are 3 - 20 physical server, more so than 10.000 server installations. Right now Broadcom is telling those customers, and those with 500, or 1000 servers, that they can take their business elsewhere. Broadcom is much happier to milk the top 5% of customers, compared to servicing the "bottom" 95%.

Broadcom seems to be cutting of to large a chunk of customers. They also are preventing new large customers from coming in. No one starts out with 10.000 physical servers and no one wants to switch a growing 5000 server datacenter from HyperV, KVM or Nutanix to VMware.
A lot of these college teams are mentored by someone in the HPR (high powered rocketry) hobby. Many of the college level competitions require it.

HPR hobbyists have flown above 300k feet, and once you’ve reached 100k going higher it largely a propellant cost problem. 100k feet is a goal for many hobbyists because you’re above Mach2, doing staging, plus recovery and altimeters have to work differently at that altitude. However, going higher just means more propellant.

There’s an annual event called BALLS out in Nevada where HPR flyers can go as high as they want. There’s also a site called FAR (friends of amateur rocketry) where you can fly above 100k ft as well as liquid biprop engines if you want.

https://www.tripoli.org/content.aspx?page_id=4002&club_id=79...

https://friendsofamateurrocketry.org/
I agree and I have practical proof to say that. In an experiment we did at Athina, we made a cookbook for every RAG Technique out there and then evaluated it. We used different vector Db's, different embeddings and we saw different results. You should check out the Github Repo: https://github.com/athina-ai/rag-cookbooks
I guess we can think of it like one giant funnel; it gets narrower as it goes down.

Vs trying to fill something with just a narrow tube, you spill most of what you put in.
I only use it because VirtualBox was being slow and the 3D hardware acceleration wasn't working even when I think version 7 said it should. Switched to VMWare and it's been almost perfect.
And so what? Companies coming in to fill the gap of the market you're leaving isn't a concern
There is a famous story about business in the UK when some sales manager at Coca Cola raised the price by a small amount for JD Wetherspoons, one of the largest chains of cheap pubs across the country. The manager must have felt very smug about the extra revenue they'd bring in, from a small change that the client could easily absorb and could hardly moan about. What else could they do, move to Pepsi?

They did exactly that, and the sales manager was fired over losing one of the biggest clients and the loss of revenue that came with it.

One needs to be very, very careful about both the pain threshold and the "** you, I'm moving my business elsewhere" threshold.
Every now and then I come across a picture on wikipedia that hits me, colour/texture wise, in a "they don't make 'em like that anymore" way. Usually they're old film pics (e.g. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F-14A_VF-114_over_bu...) but a while ago it was this one, from a 2005 digital compact https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fittja_2007a.jpg

Certainly they can have a pretty special and endearing look.
Wow, somehow I forgot about that despite having read about it multiple times.

I was only thinking just about malicious de-humanising, but yes, you're right, that absolutely is a valid example.
> and there is a high level of cheating.

> [which] is because the problem is [...] they have English that is just not good enough to let them study in English.

Is the cheating due to this language gap, though, or would they have cheated anyway? Evidently they have the money to travel to and live in the UK, spend tens of thousands of pounds on tuition, and pay others to do their assignments. I don't know that the group of "students" taking this approach is there for the knowledge in the first place, foreign or not

That said, I'm open to the problems being different from the sudden focus on the natives' language in the Netherlands, I'm just not sure what to think when the article cites mere anecdotes (of opposing statements at that) and the argument fits great with the recent shift in voting behaviour. The article could be correct in the point it's trying to make, it's just that it's not supported or rejected by the evidence presented and both sides have ulterior motives readily available (tuition money vs. anti-foreigner rhetoric)
A new Protocol Buffers generator for Golang
> It’s not just aesthetic. The mountains feel more like massive objects on these older cameras than they do on modern iPhone cameras.

Can you post a representative mountain photo from each camera? I'm very curious what generates this feeling for you.
Photonic processor could enable ultrafast AI computations, extreme efficiency
How much longer until each site has its own container?
Ruined precisely what?
I sat on the unofficial style committee at a company I used to work for. I guess one of our also unofficial tenets was that usages that people regularly used incorrectly or were regularly incorrectly interpreted should be avoided--even if you're "technically" correct in using them. It's the written language equivalent to not using parentheses and depending on people applying, especially less common, precedence operations in code.

So no, not just your pet peeve. I personally hate 100% increase and that sort of thing. Even if I know the correct interpretation, I have no idea if the writer did.
As someone interested in the gaming sector but with a web dev/full stack experience this seems like an amazing offer. It is however a shame you are not disclosing the salary range. I am not willing spend several hours on the interviweing process just to get to know what you are offering.
VMware are the big players
Yep.

Also note that I’m ELI5 so saying word is fine.
Interesting. You need some local structure with global coherence. But you want it to be complex, not too regular. Like a Penrose Tiling.
Two decades after Enron's bankruptcy, the company is back as a crypto firm?
Based on the definition on Wiktionary https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/goyslop it appears the term you mention is associated with some sort of antisemitic conspiracy theory.
And the solar farm doesn't transpire quite the enormous quantities of water a field of corn does. So much water goes into the air from a corn field it affects the weather.

I wouldn't say biofuels are a dead technology, but they are niche. They may be useful in a post-fossil fuel age for things that are very difficult to electrify, like long distance air travel and production of organic chemical feedstocks.