BillFranklin

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by BillFranklin 3mo ago
I reckon Sony get a few more years of even more profitable rent seeking before the EU regulates them like Apple’s App Store and forces a game purchase to be valid on all platforms it’s playable on.
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by BillFranklin 2y ago
There are some pretty callous comments on this thread. This is really sad. Suchir was just 26, and graduated from Berkeley 3 years ago. Here’s his personal site: https://suchir.net/ . I think he was pretty brave for standing
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by BillFranklin 2y ago
I found the same - market is actually getting worse (if HN is representative of the market). This month there were more job seekers on HN than jobs for the first time since 2014. https://bilbof.com/posts/tech-hiring-is-
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by BillFranklin 2y ago
Quicker to type and scan! Though I admit this is preference, delimiters would work fine too. Parsing works the same but is based on a simple regex rather than splitting on a hyphen. euc=eu central; 1=zone/dc; p=production; wkr=worker;
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by BillFranklin 2y ago
Thank you! The cloud servers are sufficiently cheap for us that we could afford the extra flexibility we get from them. Hetzner can move around VMs without us noticing but in contrast they are rebooting a number of metal machines for mainte
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by BillFranklin 2y ago
I didn’t touch on that in the article, but essentially it’s a one line change to add a worker node (or nodes) to the cluster, then it’s automatically enrolled. We don’t have such bursty requirements fortunately so I have not needed to autom
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by BillFranklin 2y ago
Thanks, hadn’t heard of pigsty. As you say, I had to use nvme ssds for the dbs, the performance is pretty good so I didn’t look to get metal nodes.
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Kubernetes on Hetzner: cutting my infra bill by 75%(bilbof.com)
375 points by BillFranklin 2y ago|220 comments
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by BillFranklin 2y ago
I read about 30 LLM papers a couple months ago dated from 2018-2024. Mostly folks are publishing on the “how do we prompt better” problem, and you can kind of get the gist in about a day by reading a few blogs (RAG, fine tuning, tool use, e
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by BillFranklin 2y ago
I stopped using GitHub copilot. I really didn’t like my train of thought being interrupted. I have heard more comprehensive “leave the thinking to us” tools like cursor give better results. Personally I think if your tools or projects are s
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Undersea cable between Germany and Finland severed(bbc.co.uk)
69 points by BillFranklin 2y ago|2 comments
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by BillFranklin 2y ago
To be fair to them, they have done a significant amount of work to design the network to be open to competing servers, and I think it would be quite tricky to unpick that. In comparison to successful networks like TikTok, Twitter, Facebook,
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by BillFranklin 2y ago
It looked like a PR stunt
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by BillFranklin 2y ago
Depends why you are doing outbound for a low ARPA product. What problem is cold email solving, and will it eventually solve it? If the product is good enough for the initial customers, I’d switch to marketing and inbound sales. One reason t
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by BillFranklin 2y ago
Cold email by definition is not inbound interest. You can still do cold email don’t get me wrong. But generally for a low ARPA service (<$2k) you want the product to be simple, self-serve, and for customer acquisition to be mostly inboun
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by BillFranklin 2y ago
Personal network to get the first 20 - literally going to meet people and helping them set up over coffee, then marketing for the rest. The audience were SaaS founders mostly, since it's a marketing tool for SaaS SMEs. What's impo
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by BillFranklin 2y ago
This would be a tremendous amount of steel for the size of building they are creating. Crude steel production in 2023: 18.88 billion mt. 20% = 3,776,000,000 metric tons. If you just laid that on the ground in 1 meter square blocks it would
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by BillFranklin 2y ago
+1 Fred's book is great -- I learned Erlang using it
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by BillFranklin 2y ago
Yes I hope they’ll find a solution and get re-elected. In some cases changes to frameworks require a 1 year consultation (planning permission to change planning permission rules!) so I am sure it will take years to see an increase. My point
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by BillFranklin 2y ago
This is pretty bleak reading for a resident of the UK! It's a good explanation for why there's stagnation (generally not allowed to build here). I'm a fan of their work (see the housing theory of everything [1] which is also
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by BillFranklin 2y ago
Someone got a $10m bounty in another crypto platform Wormhole
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by BillFranklin 2y ago
This is great to hear, though I'm curious why photos on your phone / pinterest would be relevant to a recommendation system? Surely the biggest signal would be what Spotify already uses: the features of various relevant factors (y
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Cracking the Productivity Code: An international comparison of UK productivity [pdf](cep.lse.ac.uk)
2 points by BillFranklin 2y ago|0 comments
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by BillFranklin 2y ago
This might help you: https://bilbof.com/migrations/table I mined HN last year for all migrations. You can filter by various fields like technologies etc. The table will probably be most useful since it links off to the
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by BillFranklin 2y ago
Higher is more jobs
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by BillFranklin 2y ago
It is indeed, judging by the HN Who Is Hiring / Wants To Be Hired comment ratio [1]. [1]: https://github.com/bilbof/whoishiring-ratio
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by BillFranklin 2y ago
I think they were trying to stop resellers price gouging during the chip shortage crisis. On ebay you could buy Pis for well over what they were available for on first-party sites (just like PlayStation 5s!). As a counterpoint, they let me
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by BillFranklin 2y ago
> Like what? Not sure what this is in response to, sorry. I appreciate there are projects which will hit no limits with the Hotwire/stimulus/turbo mix. I’ve worked on them before and would choose Hotwire when appropriate (eg fo
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by BillFranklin 2y ago
I’ve been using Hotwire for a greenfield project for the last year. The hotwire framework they’ve created is pretty nice but I miss React and will probably choose it for my next project. Not just because it’s decoupled from the backend api.
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by BillFranklin 2y ago
Yeah it is a bit muddled honestly. I had to read it a couple times and I still don’t completely get what happened: 1. Employee installs a key logger 2. Snowflake does not expire session cookies 3. Malware steals their session cookie and pas

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