skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except when they use `unsafe`, which they do, a lot.
Bluesky's Growing Pains
ER docs definitely get PTSD. Cops too.
Our big company locked all cloud resources behind a floating/company-wide DevOps team (git and CI too). We have an old on-prem server that we jealously guard because it allows us to create remotes for new git repos and deploy prototypes without consulting anyone.

(To be fair, I can see why they did it - a lot of deployments were an absolute mess before.)
Your comment is confusing because you start this one saying your inbox is full of spam, but respond to a suggestion to mark it as spam by saying it's not actually spam.

If something is not spam but you want it out of your inbox there's a few options:

- click Unsubscribe next to the sender. This should be possible for essentially all promotional email.

- click Actions -> click Block <sender>. Messages from this address will now immediately go to trash.

- click Actions -> click Add rule from message (-> optionally change the suggested conditions) -> check Archive (or if you don't use labels click Move to) -> click Save. Messages matching the conditions will now skip your inbox.

There's not much they could do to make that easier without magically knowing what you care about and what you don't.
The SMB I work for runs a small on-premise data center that is shared between teams and projects, with maybe 3-4 FTEs managing it (the respective employees also do dev and other work). This includes self-hosting email, storage, databases, authentication, source control, CI, ticketing, company wiki, chat, and other services. The current infrastructure didn’t start out that way and developed over many years, so it’s not necessarily something a small startup can start out with, but beyond a certain company size (a couple dozen employees or more) it shouldn’t really be a problem to develop that, if management shares the philosophy. I certainly find it preferable culturally, if not technically, to maximize independence in that way, have the local expertise and much better control over everything.

One (the only?) indisputable benefit of cloud is the ability to scale up faster (elasticity), but most companies don’t really need that. And if you do end up needing it after all, then it’s a good problem to have, as they say.
Anybody know where to find an archive of Morph's Outpost on the Digital Frontier?

https://morphsoutpostonthedigitalfrontier.blogspot.com/

https://www.wired.com/1993/04/morphs-outpost/
Looks like they changed it to $0.08/GB. Which loses them at most $300/month at 50TB, and makes money after that.
> couldn’t figure out how to build it

Well, no. They evaluated the existing choices and decided that KDE's code was a better fit.

> Melton explained in an e-mail to KDE developers that KHTML and KJS allowed easier development than other available technologies by virtue of being small (fewer than 140,000 lines of code), cleanly designed and standards-compliant.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit
The Venn diagram for EMTs, paramedics, and motorbikes is disjoint.
For purposes of this discussion, isn't AWS just a very large hosting provider?

I.e. most hosting providers give you the option for virtual or dedicated hardware. So does Amazon (metal instances).

Like, "cloud" was always an ill-defined term, but in the case of "how do I provision full servers" I think there's no qualitative difference between Amazon and other hosting providers. Quantitative, sure.
using humans to pretend the AI works better than actual, is how you generate serious concerns for investors, and shareholders.
Street fight videos, where the guy recording is Hooting and egging people on are disgusting
So the ratification of a spec that will enable high performance implementation would be another 4.54 billion years after 2019?

It's actually worse than that, because until it's done there's no guarantee it will ever get there.
A cow walks into the kitchen, it gets a captive bolt shoved into its brain with a person holding a compressed air tank. Its hide is ripped off and it is cut into two pieces with all of its guts on the ground and the flesh and bones now hang as slabs.

I am asserting that you could do all of that in front of a random assortment of modern Americans, and then cut steaks off of it and grill them and serve them to half of the crowd, and most of those people would not have an problem eating those steaks.

Then if you were to scoop up all the leftover, non-steak bits from the ground with shovels, throw it all into a giant meat grinder and then take the intestines from a pig, remove the feces from them and fill them with the output of the grinder, cook that and serve it to the other half of the crowd, then a statistically larger proportion of that crowd would not want to eat that compared to the ones who ate the steak.
If every user is collecting 36mb a day like in the story here, your droplet wouldn’t even be capable of serving 500 users a month without hitting your bandwidth limit. With their current rates, your one million requests would cost you around 10 million USD.
> And running your own hardware is not incompatible with Kubernetes: on the contrary

Kubernetes actually makes so much more sense on bare-metal hardware.

On the cloud, I think the value prop is dubious - your cloud provider is already giving you VMs, why would you need to subdivide them further and add yet another layer of orchestration?

Not to mention that you're getting 2010s-era performance on those VMs, so subdividing them is terrible from a performance point of view too.
AWS deploys using cfn internally
I'd be asking "how bad is the fentanyl situation in your are?"
I have to agree. It's still a bit hit or miss, but the hits are a huge time and money saver especially in refactoring. And unlike what most of the rather demeaning comments in those HN threads state, I am not some 'grunt' doing 'boilerplate work'. I mostly do geometry/math stuff, and the AIs really do know what they're talking about there sometimes. I don't have many peers I can talk to most of the time, and Claude is really helping me gather my thoughts.

That being said, I definitely believe it's only useful for isolated problems. Even with Copilot, I feel like the AIs just lack a bigger context of the projects.

Another thing that helped me was designing an initial prompt that really works for me. I think most people just expect to throw in their issue and get a tailored solution, but that's just not how it works in my experience.
> perfect translation

Hah, no. They're good, but they definitely make stuff up when the context gets too long. Always check their output, just the same as you already note they need for small code and scripts.
Yes, they will be much more able to deal with the consequences of that trauma than someone who gets a pittance to do the same thing. A low-wage peon won't even be able to afford therapy if they need it.
More like 15 seconds.
I feel like IAM may be the sleeper killer-app of cloud.

I self-host a lot of things, but boy oh boy if I were running a company it would be a helluvalotta work to get IAM properly set up.
How much does The Cloud really cost?
Plenty of westerners are not as sheltered from their food as you. Have you never gone fishing and watched your catch die? Have you never boiled a live crab or lobster? You've clearly never gone hunting.

Not to mention the millions of Americans working in the livestock and agriculture business who see up close every day how food comes to be.

A significant portion of the American population engages directly with their food and the death process. Citing one gimmicky example of Asian culture where squirmy seafood is part of the show doesn't say anything about the culture of entire nations. That is not how the majority of Japanese consume seafood. It's just as anomalous there. You only know about it because it's unusual enough to get reported.

You can pick your lobster out of the tank and eat it at American restaurants too. Oysters and clams on the half-shell are still alive when we eat them.
> All the pro-cloud talking points are just that - talking points that don't persuade anyone with any real technical understanding, but serve to introduce doubt to non-technical people and to trick people who don't examine what they're told.

This feels like "no true scotsman" to me. I've been building software for close to two decades, but I guess I don't have "any real technical understanding" because I think there's a compelling case for using "cloud" services for many (honestly I would say most) businesses.

Nobody is "afraid to openly discuss how cloud isn't right for many things". This is extremely commonly discussed. We're discussing it right now! I truly cannot stand this modern innovation in discourse of yelling "nobody can talk about XYZ thing!" while noisily talking about XYZ thing on the lowest-friction publishing platforms ever devised by humanity. Nobody is afraid to talk about your thing! People just disagree with you about it! That's ok, differing opinions are normal!

Your comment focuses a lot on cost. But that's just not really what this is all about. Everyone knows that on a long enough timescale with a relatively stable business, the total cost of having your own infrastructure is usually lower than cloud hosting.

But cost is simply not the only thing businesses care about. Many businesses, especially new ones, care more about time to market and flexibility. Questions like "how many servers do we need? with what specs? and where should we put them?" are a giant distraction for a startup, or even for a new product inside a mature firm.

Cloud providers provide the service of "don't worry about all that, figure it out after you have customers and know what you actually need".

It is also true that this (purposefully) creates lock-in that is expensive either to leave in place or unwind later, and it definitely behooves every company to keep that in mind when making architecture decisions, but lots of products never make it to that point, and very few of those teams regret the time they didn't spend building up their own infrastructure in order to save money later.
It seems that the preference is less about understanding or misunderstanding the technical requirements but more that it moves a capital expenditure with some recurring operational expenditure entirely into the opex column.
How are you determining what is and isn't relevant?
> LLMs let people generate marginal code quickly.

What's weird to me is why people think this is some kind of great benefit. Not once have I ever worked on a project where the big problem was that everyone was already maxed out coding 8 hours a day.

Figuring out what to actually code and how to do it the right way seemed to always be the real time
sink.
This is the translation I was referring to in a previous comment! Interesting how it has been brought up twice in a single thread.
They should put impact sensors inside the the gloves and use those readings to flash points on the screen video game style.
No, using Ansible to distribute public keys does not get you very far. It's fine for a personal project or even a team of 5-6 with a handful, but beyond that you really need a better way to onboard, offboard, and modify accounts. If you're doing anything but a toy project, you're better off starting off with something like IPA for host access controls.
Raimondo Says Holding Back China in Chips Race Is a 'Fool's Errand'
I use spreadsheets a lot, and often they end up serving as an MVP «prototype» until it’s obvious I need a proper database and custom UI, then build an application for the task instead.
At this point in history, we can't tell which 90% is absolutely pointless.
Learn Git and GitHub the practical way
> If an individual can do that, a company, no matter its size, can do it too.

Fully agreed. I don't have physical HA – if someone stole my rack, I would be SOL – but I can easily ride out a power outage for as long as I want to be hauling cans of gasoline to my house. The rack's UPS can keep it up at full load for at least 30 minutes, and I can get my generator running and hooked up in under 10. I've done it multiple times. I can lose a single server without issue. My only SPOF is internet, and that's only by choice, since I can get both AT&T and Spectrum here, and my router supports dual-WAN with auto-failover.

> And arguably 99.9% of all the companies out there don't have the need for an infra as powerful as the one most homelab enthusiast have.

THIS. So many people have no idea how tremendously fast computers are, and how much of an impact latency has on speed. I've benchmarked my 12-year old Dells against the newest and shiniest RDS and Aurora instances on both MySQL and Postgres, and the only ones that kept up were the ones with local NVMe disks. Mine don't even technically have _local_ disks; they're NVMe via Ceph over Infiniband.

Does that scale? Of course not; as soon as you want geo-redundant, consistent writes, you _will_ have additional latency. But most smaller and medium companies don't _need_ that.
I appreciate your response, but I just don’t think any of the technologies you cite come close to the foundational technologies they rely upon like information theory or wire message transmission. Foundational technologies require time, culture and investment not just an influx of VC cash, and a few months of clever experimentation
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/china-biden-c...
I thought of that too, especially since the use case is almost the same:

> I started working on DwarFS in 2013 and my main use case and major motivation was that I had several hundred different versions of Perl that were taking up something around 30 gigabytes of disk space, and I was unwilling to spend more than 10% of my hard drive keeping them around for when I happened to need them.
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How about cheaper? That’s the biggest thing stopping heat pump adoption right now. The prices just don't make sense compared to a traditional natural gas steam boiler, which is a significant amount of legacy heating in the USA.
OP has never said that this is about financial aspects of things.
Code review is also one of the last places to get adequate knowledge-sharing into many processes which have gone fully remote / asynchronous.
Specification-Driven Code Translation Powered by LLMs: How Far Are We?
Fish has been ported to Rust
Too easy to game since the sensor couldn't detect where the glove hit.
Biggest issue isn't even sequential speed but latency. In the cloud all persistent storage is networked and has significantly more latency than direct-attached disks. This is a physical (speed of light) limit, you can't pay your way out of it, or throw more CPU at it. This has a huge impact for certain workloads like relational databases.
Also, by the way, I found it interesting that you framed your side of this disagreement as the technically correct one, but then included this:

> a desire to not centralize the Internet

This is an ideological stance! I happen to share this desire. But you should be aware of your own non-technical - "emotional" - biases when dismissing the arguments of others on the grounds that they are "emotional" and+l "fanatical".
> it doesn't surprise me at all that they are inserting own affiliate links.

I bet it surprises everyone who had their affiliate links quietly swapped out.

> Would I call this scam? No, I wouldn't.

Then your definition of 'scam' needs work.

While we might expect PayPal's Honey to scam people like this, and be less than surprised that they would screw people over in this way, that doesn't mean this doesn't have every element of a scam - deception and trickery (and likely illegality).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42465459
To further this. Look at how easily they are bringing terrorism charges on American citizens now (check out the Mangione case)

And I would guess they’ll use the opportunity to increase the reach as well
I work for a 50 person subsidiary of a 30k person organisation. I needed a domain name. I put in the purchase request and 6 months later eventually gave up, bought it myself and expensed it.

Our AWS account is managed by an SRE team. It’s a 3 day turnaround process to get any resources provisioned, and if you don’t get the exact spec right (you forgot to specify the iops on the volume? Oops) 3 day turnaround. Already started work when you request an adjustment? Better hope as part of your initial request you specified backups correctly or you’re starting again.

The overhead is absolutely enormous, and I actually don’t even have billing access to the AWS account that I’m responsible for.
you forgot cogs

it's all about painting the right picture for your investors, so you make up shit and classify as cogs or opex depending on what is most beneficial for you in the moment
Yes. Focus is about saying “no.” None of the Copland management or marketing people ever said “no”. So instead of just porting the Mac toolbox to C and a microkernel and shipping that as a first step, it had to have a new filesystem API (so abstract that it will support non-hierarchical filesystems!), and a new OO system for handling text strings, and a new UI toolkit, a new help system, oh, and an OpenDoc-based Finder… A lot of potentially good ideas, but you simply cannot do that all at once.

It wasn’t actually a completely lost cause. They could have shipped it in six months if they’d just simplified the damn thing to a native UI toolbox on top of a microkernel, API additions cut to the bone. (One of the problems with that plan, though, is that product marketing wants all the features you can cram in, so you have to be willing to tell them “no” too.)

Anyway, Gil Amelio and Ellen Hancock also didn’t know how to manage software projects, so instead of fixing what they had, they decided to buy outside tech. Which means we got the iPod, the iPhone, etc. But, in context, they were total dumbfucks; they could have gotten there with what they had.
Blue-green deployments is a buzzword no matter what color you tack on it.
Very responsive log porn. ;-)
> Amazon (metal instances)

But you still get nickel & dimed and pay insane costs, including on bandwidth (which is free in most conventional hosting providers, and overages are 90x cheaper than AWS' costs).
"Sailing upwind" here -- if you were genuinely tacking, rather than doing something analogous to tacking -- would (with a big enough solar sail) let you propel yourself into the sun more quickly than gravity alone would pull you in.

So yes, you can produce a sideways component and let gravity do the rest, but that component can never actually push you towards the sun.
If OP enabled gzip then this 36mb would be 13mb.

If OP reduced 30 months of posts in rss to 12 months then this 13mb would be 5mb a day.

Using Cloudflare free plan and this static content is cached without any problem.
How to make a Synthetic Diamond [video]
A leak has already happened:

https://www.engadget.com/2018-02-06-grammarly-patches-seriou...
Also a doctor is paid $$$$$ and it mostly is a vocational job

Content moderator is a min wage job with bad working hours, no psychological support, and you spend your day looking at rape, child porn, torture and executions.
> What happens when it passes?

I say "Sorry" to a lot of people and they I try to find the trigger.

I do not think internal family systems is designed for biological triggered mood disorders, but I see where you are going here. I do not see the person that comes out in my everyday pschye.

Think of what happens to me akin to giving someone methamphetamines and trying to get them out of the high by talking about internal family systems. It just will not work.
That is mostly a meme. What really adds up is putting every little thing into its own file and having an interface and a (usually trivial) implementation for everything.
On the flip side, what percent of RSS feed generators actually support conditional requests? I've written many over the last twenty years and I can tell you plainly, none of the ones I wrote have.

I never even considered the option or necessity. It's easy and cheap just to send everything.

I guess static generators with a apache style web server probably do, but I can't imagine any dynamic generators bother to try to save the small handful of bytes.
I don't see much overhype coming from Rust practitioners. I see a lot of people who care about spatial and temporal memory safety, for which the hype with Rust appears largely appropriate. I've yet to see people (incorrectly) extend this to a claim that Rust solves all security problems, which would meet the definition of overhype.

(If there's nothing unique here, it doesn't make sense to single any particular language out. But each language does have unique properties: Python is a great rapid development language, Rust offers zero-cost abstractions for memory safety, etc.)
The risk of cancer fades past the age of 80
> The US Congress is a disgrace to basic principles of competence, honesty and good governance.

In historic or global terms, no. Congress is squeaky-clean compared to your average oligarch.

> Better to have someone transient but competent who is powerful than a known-bad institution.

"transient"? Once an oligarch puts themselves above the government, who is going to take away that power?
Yes, FastMail is a SAAS. But there adepts of a religion which would tell you that companies like FastMail should be built on top of AWS and it is the only true way. It is good to have some counter narrative to this.
ISTR those of us using HP or Apple printers were generally in pretty good shape at the time. Can’t vouch for other brands.
Curl Drops Support for Hyper Rust HTTP Back End Citing Little Demand
Cloud noob here. But if I have a central database what can I distribute across geographic regions? Static assets? Maybe a cache?
Doesn't AWS charge $0.01 intra region and $0.02 between regions, even without setting up private links? Can't you pass part of those savings (compared to the $0.05-$0.09 of egress) on? Or is it too difficult to detect if the remote IP qualifies?
According to Ken Kocienda's book (he was one of the original developers of Safari), that email is a post-hoc rationalization. The "evaluation" was literally him and another guy trying to build Mozilla for weeks and failing, and then someone else joining the team and quickly building Konqueror instead.
Thank you for the information! I'm sure your skills are well trusted.
You can still use pip inside pyenv or similar. Pacman would install the system-wide stuff, so you won't need to bother about the libraries that a package that you have installed is using.

Mentioning this classic XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1987/. This only made sense after using a Mac. While using Manjaro it was quite organized: only the pacman-installed libraries and the ones of my user projects. Now in Mac I have the default Python, the several Python versions installed from several dependencies in Homebrew, and so on.
Yep. The in-a-nutshell argument for AI is that there's an unusual amount of bias and corruption in boxing judges, who usually determine the victor. The in-a-nutshell argument against is that less subjective scoring systems like punch counting have already been tried as an alternative in Olympic boxing, but fans didn't like the adaptations in style that resulted.
(Of course, dropping the punch counting for the 2016 Olympics immediately resulted in subjective judgements that were interesting at best...)
I have never been there, what do you consider to be its speciality comparing to say MIT and Berkeley?
F=MA Several very high speed and high resolution video cameras could collect all this information based on how glove, forearm, head, etc accelerate/rotate in real time.

You don’t need to process it all in real time. A blow by blow after round highlights real based on the most damaging blows could grow the sport by making it more interesting to watch lesser matches.
Maybe a different country than yours ?