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hiyer··on Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family
Kobo is great. Unfortunately - in India at least - the books are way more expensive on Kobo (often 2x or even more) than on Kindle. So I've found it hard to get rid of the Kindle though I prefer to read on the Kobo.
hiyer··on Neki – Sharded Postgres
They have made it proprietary so that providers like AWS can't build their own service with it, thus eating into PS's income.

Google is big enough to survive open-sourcing Vitess, k8s, angular, etc. Planetscale isn't.

hiyer··on CEO who fired 900 people on Zoom just before Christmas wants his job back
It's not about the post, but the fact that he's referred to as "ceo who fired 900 people on zoom". Nobody calls Mike Cannon-Brookes (Atlassian ceo) as "ceo who fired 1600 people by 6am email", for example.
hiyer··on CEO who fired 900 people on Zoom just before Christmas wants his job back
Why is a layoff on zoom considered worse or more controversial than layoff by 4-6AM emails (which is what other companies like Meta, Oracle, Atlassian, etc did)?
hiyer··on Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack
Already done, though not by Emmerich - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombeavers
hiyer··on Making Postgres queues scale
In a recent interview I was asked to design a job queue and I went with postgres with the first and third optimizations mentioned here. For the scale of the question - 1000 concurrent jobs - I argued that postgres would easily scale. But the interviewer - maybe because they were from aws - felt it wouldn't and wanted me to go with sqs instead.
hiyer··on Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4
I never understood what Atlassian saw worth $ 1 billion in this company (DX). That's even more than what they paid ($700m) for Loom. Loom is at least useful as a screen recorder, and its notetaker (in Zoom calls) is pretty good as well.
hiyer··on Mir Books – Books from the Soviet Era
We used to get these books in the annual international book fair in Delhi back in my childhood days. I still have 2 of them (Mathematics Can Be Fun and How The Steel Was Tempered), but I'm pretty sure we had several more at the time. They were fun reads, and the illustrations used to be great!
hiyer··on 100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time
My next 100 passwords are sorted.
hiyer··on Stdx, Rust's extended standard library
IIUC this just pulls in various other crates with some vibe-coding on top. I'm not familiar with the Rust dependency system, but what is the need to have copies of the code? Would it not suffice to just have an "empty" crate that just depends on the original crates?
hiyer··on First G-SHOCK with a heart rate monitor, also featuring Smartphone Link
Very poor. Hardly lasts a week with step tracking and heart rate enabled. Like someone else mentioned, go for a Garmin instinct 2 or 3 solar. My 2 Solar lasts more than 30 days on a full charge.
hiyer··on Rumor: Anthropic is going to buy Atlassian?
Not unlikely given the crash in Atlassian's share price over the last year or so. When I was in NetApp a long time back, such rumours would often do the rounds when the share price took a dip, with Oracle and IBM usually touted as the likely buyers. NetApp is still doing strong more than a decade later :-).
hiyer··on TigerBeetle: A Trillion Transactions [video]
Amazing. Easily the most learning I've had in 18 minutes (I watched at 1.2x speed) in my life.
hiyer··on S3 Files
I was thinking of using it with Duckdb as well but seems it would be of limited benefit. Parquet objects are in MBs, so they would be streamed directly from S3. With raw parquet objects, it might help with S3 listing if you have a lot of them (shave off a couple of seconds from the query). If you are already on Ducklake, Duckdb will use that for getting the list of relevant objects anyway.
hiyer··on We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year
I was thinking the same - if JSONata was a priority for them, why not choose a language with good support, like JS or Java? OTOH if development language was a priority why not choose a format that is well supported in it?
hiyer··on Java is fast, code might not be
Thanks! I'm using Instant.parse at present and this is supposedly 37x faster. Will definitely give it a try.
hiyer··on Java is fast, code might not be
I ran into 5 and 7 in a Flink app recently - was parsing a timestamp as a number first and then falling back to iso8601 string, which is what it was. The flamegraph showed 10% for the exception handling bit. While fixing that, also found repeated creation of datetimeformatter. Both were not in loops, but both were being done for every event, for 10s of 1000s of events every second.
hiyer··on How do you capture WHY engineering decisions were made, not just what?
> documentation survives when it lives next to the code. 15+ years ago, this was pretty much the standard. Every decision - whether major or just a hack to handle a corner-case - used to be recorded in the code itself. Then tools like Jira and Confluence came in and these things moved to undiscoverable nooks and corners of the organization. AI search tools like Glean and Rovo have improved the discoverability, though I'd still prefer things to remain in the code.
hiyer··on Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI
Rovo dev cli is pretty good though. Though that may just be because it talks to claude or openai in the backend.
hiyer··on Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI
They have enough enterprise customers to pay the bills for years though.
hiyer··on How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier
I loved their dry seasoning [1]. Bought some when I visited the bay area several years back and used to use it on everything from toasts to pasta. Sadly, haven't visited US since to be able to pick up some more :-(

1. https://www.amazon.com/Pepper-Plant-Seasoning-11-oz/dp/B01LY...

hiyer··on Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library
Reminds me of what bootstrap [1] was like around a decade ago. It's gotten quite a bit bloated since then though.

1. https://getbootstrap.com/

hiyer··on Ex-Tech –> Homeless in SF
> A start-up I had been a part of in New York. Where I was the first employee. I had owned equity. They had eventually sold for $350 million.

What happened to the author's equity?

hiyer··on Show HN: I speak 5 languages. Common apps taught me none. So I built lairner
Tried the app for Kannada. The "AI explanation" didn't work for any phrase, but the first lesson seemed to be quite useful otherwise.
hiyer··on Did a celebrated researcher obscure a baby's poisoning?
Not just that, but potentially 17 other guilty caregivers have been cleared of suspicion based on the findings in that paper.
hiyer··on Open sourcing Dicer: Databricks's auto-sharder
Yes he did. I attended a talk from him on the same, so that's how I know.
hiyer··on Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley
Let's not forget Laos and Cambodia, where unexploded munitions dumped by the US decades ago are killing and maiming people even today - https://www.humanium.org/en/unexploded-bombs-still-endanger-...
hiyer··on Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley
Seems like a silly excuse. If his concern is that Israel could use Replit for military purposes, then SA is perfectly capable of doing the same. And SA has - directly or indirectly - killed more people in Yemen than Israel has in Gaza.
hiyer··on The 70% AI productivity myth: why most companies aren't seeing the gains
In my experience, this kind of productivity can only be seen in small startups or, if in a large company, on an entirely new product line when processes like test coverage, reviews, etc are lax. In large firms and existing code-bases, it can take weeks to even get the approach decided. Even once decided, any pull request larger than a few dozen lines will get shot down. Things are even worse if you're working across time zones because the to-and-fro on pull requests takes several days to be completed.
hiyer··on I misused LLMs to diagnose myself and ended up bedridden for a week
The author doesn't say don't trust doctors or trust chatgpt. He says don't trust "a single doctor" and look for a second opinion whenever possible.
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