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by goldinfra 3y ago
I had a crippling fear of flying and I still have anxiety about it. One way I got over it was by learning a lot more about aviation. Now I'm really not afraid of anything happening on a plane short of a. catastrophic failure like a win
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by goldinfra 3y ago
How is it opposed to OpenAI's goals to have a friendly company selling them chips instead of NVIDIA, which is, at-best, a neutral company? Software is always more important than hardware. All the big players have access to NVIDIA chips
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by goldinfra 3y ago
A leader can't do anything on their own, they need people to lead. And those people deserve recognition and rewards. But in most cases there's no one more important than the leader. And thus, no one that deserves more credit tha
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by goldinfra 3y ago
If you want to get really basic: there's no OpenAI at all without Sam Altman, which means there's no ChatGPT either. There are much larger armies of highly qualified scientists and engineers at Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and oth
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by goldinfra 3y ago
It's completely ignorant to discount all organizational leaders based on your extremely limited personal experience. Thousands of years of history proves the difference between successful leaders and unsuccessful leaders. Sam Altman ha
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Ask HN: How is AWS OpenSearch vs. Elasticsearch playing out?
3 points by goldinfra 3y ago|1 comments
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by goldinfra 3y ago
Wrapping every third-party library in defensive code doesn't make a lot of sense since this isn't the most dangerous kind of bug. To make a one example of a million: a third-party database library that corrupts your database is in
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by goldinfra 3y ago
Sounds like you may be confused thinking that a panic in Go is like throw in other languages? Third-party libraries should virtually never panic. Go has panic, and it's useful for a few things, but does not use them as exceptions are u
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by goldinfra 3y ago
My sense is that you probably could help them get their technical act together, if the team was otherwise in good shape, but that you're probably not the right person to provide the kind of comprehensive leadership they need. What&#x27
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by goldinfra 3y ago
Thanks! I wouldn't expect them to be lying but there to be some data hiding in the "average" part of the ARPU. We often want the median or some other percentile, not the mean. "We define ARPU as our total revenue in a gi
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by goldinfra 3y ago
I've used Digital Ocean (and many other hosting providers) for as long as most of them have existed. Most of my servers have been running nearly uninterrupted for many years. Yes, there will be a reboot or move every so often but the u
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by goldinfra 3y ago
That seems plausible but can you cite where these figures are from? Is this just a rough estimate from total numbers for the entire company of $REVENUE / $MAUS?
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by goldinfra 3y ago
Isn't this intentionally priced so that people won't pay for it? Does Facebook really make €12.99 per month per user? It seems designed to be priced as high as possible, so that users don't choose it and they can claim no one
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by goldinfra 3y ago
Most customers care about having the best of the available options. Rarely would any company deliberately choose to be behind where their competitors can be. 1. The way to run into undiscovered issues is to choose a completely custom firmwa
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by goldinfra 3y ago
If you're not rapidly scaling it probably doesn't matter. But if you're still buying (and maybe even using) Haswell CPUs in 2023, you may be missing out in a big way. A moderately large Haswell cluster is equivalent in power
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by goldinfra 3y ago
Coupling requires more integration work, including writing and testing custom firmware. Oxide will be a tiny market player for a long time, even if things go very well. Are AMD and Broadcom really going to spend as much time helping Oxide a
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by goldinfra 3y ago
Beware of cloud providers that don't "charge for egress" but do charge on a metric that is effectively a proxy for egress. For example, a cloud streaming service that charges for video delivery by per minute streamed is just
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by goldinfra 3y ago
Coupling vs Decoupling is not some one-sided thing. It's a major trade-off. One of the most obvious examples of the problem with this approach is that they're shipping previous generation servers on Day 1. One can easily buy curre
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by goldinfra 3y ago
One can easily imagine the privileged son of a medieval samurai attempting to purchase a lemon-lime Shasta from a vending machine outside his castle, only to have his coin repeatedly drop into the return slot.
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by goldinfra 3y ago
You're doing it wrong if you think programming for work is about the code being a means of expressing your inner soul. The most successful professional programmers derive their enjoyment from achieving business objectives, like making
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by goldinfra 3y ago
Go is a complete and simple language, and this is a fairly objective claim. Unless by "incomplete" you mean it could have more features. But C++ and Rust (and Java) have been piling on features for years, with no signs that they
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Ask HN: Raspberry Pi 4G/LTE SIM for business use?
4 points by goldinfra 3y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: What are high performance and viable alternatives to Elasticsearch?
2 points by goldinfra 3y ago|2 comments
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by goldinfra 3y ago
Most jobs do in fact contribute to the well being of humanity, however little. It's few jobs, like most in financial trading, that actively reduce the well being of humanity. Never will you meet a more self-deluded and pathetic set of
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by goldinfra 3y ago
I don't need to be able to accept iMessage messages from random numbers. I'd be happy to enable "Prevent messages from unknown numbers" for example. Is this possible?
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by goldinfra 3y ago
What steps would be reasonable to "verify that their customers actually reside in the United States, or own organizations based in the U.S." and wouldn't be very easily subverted by bad actors? I would object much more strong
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by goldinfra 3y ago
Those of us purchasing bandwidth should boycott HE. I know I will be and I'm a potentially significant customer of theirs. They're completely off the list of providers unless they completely change their tune.
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Ask HN: Favorite distributed systems engineering blog posts?
18 points by goldinfra 3y ago|2 comments