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amir734jj

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amir734jj··on Show HN: Simple Docker Hosting
I love the idea. Here is possible next steps: use packer and/or azure image builderto add support for custom azure vm base image. This way people can just run OS with docker and all your cool add-ons everywhere. Next step sell the saas to azure or AWS.
amir734jj··on Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down?
There was a major power outage in the South Carolina data center, and I was on call for that. It's resolved now.
amir734jj··on macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive
Maybe it's just me, but I've been so used to Linux for so many years that I have a really hard time using either Mac (helping relatives) or Windows (for work). I use a system76 laptop and a system76 PC. It's perfect.
amir734jj··on Mkbsd: Download all the wallpapers in MKBHD's "Panels" app for free
$50 annual subscription for the context.
amir734jj··on Comic Mono
I have been using Monaco for everything. It's perfect.
amir734jj··on Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out?
ACE 4.

I passed gifted school entrance exam in my home country of Iran when I was a kid. Didn't tell my parents because I didn't like going there and I wanted to have a normal life.

I currently work at Microsoft and have a PhD in Computer Science / Compilers.

amir734jj··on Why GitHub won
I work at Microsoft, so I write a lot of pipelines and interact a lot with git.

This is my own opinion:

- GitHub looks nice but PR merge window between forks is still bad

- GitLab CI is so much more intuitive than GitHub CI and there is a lot of existing codes that you can copy/paste specially if you use Terraform, AWS, K8S

- I am biased, but AzDevops both looks most intuitive, and its pipeline system is the best

amir734jj··on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
I like the idea, but I have used Azure Pipelines, and the key differentiating it from GitLab.ci is its "service connection" that enables seamless integration with third-party services and a wide range of tasks (PowerShell, pscore, az, docker, etc).

I wish your dependency semantics yaml could be converted to Azure pipeline task, job, and stage similar to how typescript converts to javascript.

I am saying this because there are very complicated infrastructural problems that hundreds of people work on at big companies when creating a ci/cd I see you are not focusing on them yet but that DAG logic could be applied to existing azure pipeline yaml.

amir734jj··on Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?
You are missing compute aspect. R2 only solves the egress problem. YouTube accepts many formats and tries to stores them efficiently such that it makes seeking different timestamps in the video possible (and efficient). They perfected the art of encoding. Read about it.
amir734jj··on Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?
As someone who works in a large cloud company, there is a lot going on to create a data center. By data center I mean compute and storage. These large companies have perfected the economics and engineering needed to create a data center. They spend billions on R&D. They basically own everything in their supply chain. Smaller companies can't compete.

Additionally, they don't pay the same electricity and water bill that others pay for their data center. They get a discount because they are creating jobs.

Getting streaming to be cost effective starts from decades of R&D investment + getting low cost electricity and water + owning supply chain.

amir734jj··on The Worst Website in the Entire World
I totally agree. Their UI is hot garbage.
amir734jj··on Show HN: Floro – Visual Version Control
One of struggles we had at Microsoft is versioning power bi pbix files. Someone publishes a change and the old version is gone unless they saved it somewhere else.
amir734jj··on Garnet – A new remote cache-store from Microsoft Research
If you look at the store code you see a lot of "unsafe" C# code (i.e pointer manipulation)
amir734jj··on The Suicide PhD Candidate Huixiang Chen (2019)
As someone who very recently finished his Ph.D. in CS and was working full-time as a software engineer at the same time, I must say that getting a Ph.D. is difficult and takes a lot of willpower and dedication. It's not easy. Some people will say this person wastes years learning about this particular obscure problem, some people say this person doesn't have industry experience. But after getting a PhD myself, I have a huge respect for anyone who has a PhD. It's not easy. Too many times 5 minutes before meeting my advisor I wanted to tell him I wanted to quit or take 1 year off. I was under immense mental pressure and was having similar thoughts because my parents thought I was close to finishing but I was not. I don't know this particular person but I feel the pain he went through.
amir734jj··on SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud
Kind of funny but we use similar idea in Azure.
amir734jj··on Milwaukee reporter investigates cousin's 1978 car bombing death
We need a hacker news meetup in Milwaukee lol
amir734jj··on Milwaukee reporter investigates cousin's 1978 car bombing death
Completely unrelated to the post but greetings from Milwaukee :) it's awesome to see another hacker news user from Milwaukee
amir734jj··on US home sales see worst year since 1995
I live in the midwest (Wisconsin), the newer houses are from the 1950s and the older ones are from the 1900s. People prefer to live in specific villages or suburbs because of safety and community. The inner city is ridden with crime. These villages cannot expand as they were (in most cases) already developed in the 1950s. Here, multi-family houses don't sell well. Newer houses cost a lot more than older ones. To make matters worse, usually, families combine their income to buy a house but all of my friends and coworkers that are in their 30s are still single. Additionally, we have apartments here that cost more than single-family and they are usually advertised as "luxury apartments". To summarize,

- multi-family houses don't sell well

- no new housing development in years

- people are single and can't combine their income

- house prices have increased a lot more than people's income

amir734jj··on 802.11ah Wi-Fi HaLOW: The 1 Kilometer WiFi Standard
Specially this https://anjielo.com/products/wireless-signal-wall-through-et...
amir734jj··on Show HN: The Sage Programming Language
I used SageMath for my masters. It was a life saver.
amir734jj··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2024)
SEEKING WORK | Remote (part-time) | C#, .NET and cloud

I have 7+ years of experience working as a software engineer. Very familiar with C#, .NET, and cloud (Docker, PaaS, and Azure). I'm just searching for interesting projects to contribute to part-time, whether through hands-on coding or design work. Thank you.

https://github.com/amir734jj

amir734jj··on Apple to restart watch sales after court temporarily blocks import ban
So Apple won?
amir734jj··on Amazon Prime Video starts showing ads in January unless you pay $2.99/month xtra
Prime is already expensive. The only show I watch on Prime is Invincible because I love the comic book. We have to show these companies that it's not right to include ads if you pay $140/year. I will be canceling my Prime. I am very disappointed.
amir734jj··on Ask HN: Vite or NextJS?
Go with Vite/React. It's minimal and customizable. Next.js is too much new stuff to learn.
amir734jj··on Mistral: Our first AI endpoints are available in early access
Azure VMSS (uniform orchestration) + 2000 to 3000 GPU enabled servers. I'm not sure about what kind of GPU is on these servers.
amir734jj··on Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta
People forget that private universities are for profit businesses.
amir734jj··on Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?
Attribute Grammars for type checking in compilers in a declarative way
amir734jj··on Music-Map – Find Similar Music
I searched "Modern Talking" and it worked. Thank you
amir734jj··on Victor Mono Typeface
This is unrelated ... is it just me but I have been in love with Monaco, I can't use anything else.
amir734jj··on 280M e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles
I live in a suburb of a cold midwest US city, electric cars are not popular here because of cold weather. People always drive large pick-ups or Harley in the summer. But electric bikes are very common here. All types of types of them, including the ones that have no paddle and the paddle assist ones. All are very common here. If I hadn't bought a expensive road bike recently I would have bought an electric bike already. My only problem with them is they are not "bikes" as in exercise, they are a means of commute.
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