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gazarsgoon Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin

Cool story but what's the token spend?

gazarsgoon Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days

http://github.com/buzz/block is quickly becoming a reasonable approach to shared agent compute, though it's still a bit more hands-on than the older 'compute donation' projects like SETI or Folding@Home.

gazarsgoon Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

https://www.instagram.com/aist.aistories/ has tons of counterpoints, the Sam Altman vs Zuckerberg matrix recreation has been making the rounds...

gazarsgoon Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?

I dunno I ran `ollama run gpt-oss:20b` locally and it only used 16GB locally and I had decent enough inference on my Macbook.

gazarsgoon Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Messages, Location Data Exposed

AWS does actively send warnings of this nature. https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/6ogmbp/interesting_ema...

gazarsgoon Jepsen: Dgraph 1.0.2

For each Jepsen release my favorite thing is the code for the tests themselves -- https://github.com/jepsen-io/jepsen/tree/master/dgraph/src/j... -- which seems surprisingly unreferenced in the post itself.

gazarsgoon What they don’t tell you about event sourcing

It's really important to manage versioned schema for events and defining rules around evolution of schemas, hopefully with tooling support like via Avro's Schema Registry or Protobuf's forward and backwards compatibility guarantees.

gazarsgoon Serverless, Inc. lands $10M Series A to build serverless dev platform

in AWS Fargate, of course...

gazarsgoon How the Blog Broke the Web (2017)

thanks, just reminded me to delete my LJ

gazarsgoon Show HN: Hacker News job trends

check out https://www.levels.fyi/

gazarsgoon Growing a Golf Simulator Business to $50k/month

No, it's really not a high number. It's right on the money for 3 years in-the-trenches experience making the move into consultancy -- around $130-140/hr billable, which is what I was billed out at in the mid 2000s as a .NET consultant.

gazarsgoon Old Internet Files

http://web.archive.org/web/19980210071108/http://www.soup.or...

looks like TIAC (The Internet Access Company), an old ISP. Wow, I haven't seen a reference to Erol's in forever...

gazarsgoon Show HN: Instagram-scraper – Scrape instagram photos by tags, without API

There are plenty of fair use exemptions to copyright. That said, US law is not the highest of moral standards to aspire to. Especially US copyright law. We've been flaunting it online forever, because it's obviously ridiculous and still hasn't caught up with what's fair and equitable in 30 years.

gazarsgoon Ask HN: What’s your “Everyone has a price” experience?

FEIE means there is a sizable dollar for dollar advantage, depending on the taxation rules of the host country. https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...

gazarsgoon Cyberpunk 2077 world premiere: 50 minutes of William Gibson-level insanity

I'm reasonably skeptical of cryptocoin but I think it's absurd to judge utility of a work product so soon.

gazarsgoon Netflix and Alphabet will need to become ISPs, fast

don't worry, SpaceX Starlink will kneecap every other ISP.

gazarsgoon Stripe is building a Ruby typechecker

am i mistaken, or do generics specifically eliminate that last case...?

gazarsgoon Microsoft acquires Github

Skype grabs port 80 and 443 by default, which is not very nice. Since at least 2010, but ISTR even earlier than that.

gazarsgoon Microsoft acquires Github

For Terraform integration you might be interested in https://github.com/runatlantis/atlantis no affiliation, just a fan of the project

gazarsgoon What I’ve Been Doing Since Quitting My Job

I can't decide whether this is noble or simply pragmatic. Kudos, either way.

I wonder if there will be a trend towards bootstrapping?

gazarsgoon Philip Roth has died

Both terms seem equally redundant. Why stress?

gazarsgoon Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police, Critics See Surveillance Risk

if only there were a hero among us who could free us from our database driven shackles

gazarsgoon Elon Musk hires 2 Newfoundland interns who solved problems at Tesla factory

Interns are great. It's really the only interview process that doesn't suck right now, and I have a newfound respect for new college grads after working at a company with a solid intern pipeline.

gazarsgoon Commanding infinite streaming storage with Apache Kafka and Pyrostore

What pendulum do you see? From here, architectural patterns are clearly converging on a "distributed mainframe" model between containerization and lambda/kappa architectures...

I think Joyent's Manta was ahead of its time in colocating compute and storage and I suspect we'll see more along this vein with the recent open sourcing of FoundationDB.

gazarsgoon Commanding infinite streaming storage with Apache Kafka and Pyrostore

There's no downtime in mirroring a cluster with MirrorMaker, and it's become common to isolate producers from consumers to separate clusters, see https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/kafka-inside-keystone-pi...

Ordering of messages is completely unaffected, it's the routing of future events that's affected when you increase partition count. This is critical for some use cases (windowing of data for analytics purposes, for example) but irrelevant to others.

Data duplication issues? This sounds like FUD also, but common guidance is to design your events to be idempotent, or utilize Kafka's new exactly-once delivery.

You can expand partition counts for a topic dynamically.

You can't currently decrease partition counts, because given the current design that could orphan both data and consumers.

gazarsgoon 'Demonically Clever' Backdoor Hides Inside Computer Chip

so like port knocking but at an electrical level, nice.

gazarsgoon The oldest copper mines in Timna National Park date back to 4500BC

Silicon photonics is changing this dynamic some, right?

gazarsgoon Apple open-sources FoundationDB

HDFS is supported by Solr+Lucene, but rather than my own poor paraphrasing, see what you think of this writeup: https://engineering.linkedin.com/search/did-you-mean-galene

gazarsgoon Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (2009)

I barf out intermediate state to JSON all the time now that jq is a thing.

gazarsgoon Walmart Whistle-Blower Claims Cheating in Race with Amazon

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E55243_01/pt854pbr0/eng/pt/tiba/t...

That said, fuck Oracle.