ocius

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by ocius 1mo ago
Regarding the first point: owners typically pay themselves a salary in addition to owning the company and thus benefit from both. Employees do not have this advantage. The two problems are not mutually exclusive, and certainly unskilled lab
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by ocius 1mo ago
The public already gets its share via taxes, I'd argue, the problem that I see right now is really that the wins for the employees are (usually) limited to their salary, whereas owners get everything that's left over. And the more
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by ocius 1mo ago
Most such discussion suffer from an inadequate definition of what is meant by "socialism" vs what is meant by "capitalism". The most important aspect to me is ownership / control of the means of production, and I th
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by ocius 2y ago
I have anecdotal evidence that at least a part of this is due to Musk's behaviour. My father is in charge of the car fleet for a large German company, and they have decided to exclude Tesla from their fleet because of Musk's recen
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by ocius 2y ago
Installments of this type are not very helpful, as they proliferate the notion that the so called "debt" of a nation in its own currency has to be repaid or is in any way bad. The goal of a nation with a sovereign currency should
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by ocius 2y ago
Just as a side note because you mentioned it in relation to DOGE: the US government cannot go bankrupt in its own currency. As long as prices are kept in check, there is no reason not to create more money. The fact that the US has to pay in
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by ocius 3y ago
We're expecting the amount of data to double every year for the next couple of years. That would require a lot of storage hardware and maintenance cost, don't you think?
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by ocius 3y ago
We are expecting the amount of data to at least double every year for the next couple of years. That would mean that in 5 years, we'd have to manage more than 500 16 TiB hard drives in our office :D We don't really have that many
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Ask HN: Best practices for backing up object storage?
1 points by ocius 3y ago|5 comments
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by ocius 3y ago
Some good points! There are, however, also changes that you do not want to propagate to your teammates or production unless you are 100% sure that they are the final solution to the problem you are trying to solve. Sometimes, the complexity
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by ocius 4y ago
Good point. You are not dependent on Cloudflare, though, you can use other similar services or open the port on your router if it supports it. And if you pay for it, you can get an SLA so that they can't mess with you by terminating yo
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by ocius 4y ago
Depending on your write load, the SD card could become a problem, but you could mount a USB SSD. You can even boot from a USB SSD now ( https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-boot-raspberry-pi-ssd-perma... )
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by ocius 4y ago
I can recommend the Rasperry Pi for self-hosting, if you pick one of the more recent models with more RAM (3 or 4 with 4GB of RAM at least). You just need to keep in mind that the availability of your website is not quite as good as if you
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by ocius 4y ago
Python is simpler than Java. This might not be a very important factor in software engineering of large products, but it is very important for prototyping. Also, a lot of research in ML is done in Python, and there are quite a lot of startu
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by ocius 4y ago
Really impressive! World-spanning infrastructure. Beautiful map, also.
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by ocius 4y ago
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality ( http://www.hpmor.com ), also available as podcast ( https://hpmorpodcast.com ) A Harry Potter fan-fiction where Harry is a master of rational thinking and decision making. Th
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by ocius 4y ago
"it polluted my search results with geographically relevant search results" Oh my! Perhaps they also polluted the search with search results relevant to your search term? If you want to be completely anonymous on the web, use othe
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by ocius 4y ago
I would say it's a strength of his that the guests just get to say what they have to say. He always prepares a couple of questions in case the conversation stalls, but other than that, he let's the guest talk about their ideas, in
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by ocius 4y ago
My standpoint is that banning encryption or adding backdoors to it is not a feasible way of attacking this problem. Encryption methods don't stop to exist just because the government declares them illegal. Programs to encrypt messages
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by ocius 4y ago
How would you even ban encrypted communication in practice? It takes only one expert cryptographer who is willing to build a communication platform that encrypts its traffic and hides it as part of legitimate traffic to counter any such law
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by ocius 4y ago
You can't really tell for a Web App whether it'll be faster in JS or Python, but you can definitely expect a Computer Vision application with lots of heavy number crunching to be a lot faster in C++ than in Python. We have actuall
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by ocius 4y ago
We try to limit the amount of languages we use, but we have high performance Computer Vision code that is written in C++, we're interfacing that with Python for simplicity, and a web app in JS. Right tool for the job!
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by ocius 4y ago
I'm not an expert on auto scaling groups, but we have used the Google Cloud equivalent for a time. The biggest issue for us was that deployment is not as easy. Can you update the software on the ec2 instance without turning it on, for
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by ocius 4y ago
Our startup has a webapp that acts as a UI for a machine learning application. We have two different types of heavy workloads (ML and something else). The workers for these run on Kubernetes, which makes them easy to scale (which we do a lo
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by ocius 4y ago
I'm a Software Engineer from Germany, living in Switzerland and Germany. Working in tech you'll have more than enough to live a very good life in Germany. While the absolute amount may not be as much as in the US, the amount relat
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by ocius 5y ago
For comparison: 14 or 15 killings by police in Germany in 2019 (depending on the source). Germany has ~80 million inhabitants, compared to the ~330 million in the US, so you'd expect roughly 60 killings by police in the US if the level