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oksurewhynot··on Google Cloud Run cost me $4,676 in 6 weeks with zero traff
Hetzner
oksurewhynot··on Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant
Does this mean you can catch pig kidney diseases (they specifically mention turning of a few retroviruses)? I'm assuming pig kidneys are immune to certain human diseases and vice versa. Kind of wild that you have a single organ running an entirely different mammalian OS distro but it is similar enough that it Just Works.
oksurewhynot··on Show HN: 1 Million Rows
I can only see 670k rows
oksurewhynot··on You probably don't need query builders
I use SQlAlchemy and just generate a pydantic model that specifies which fields are allowed and what kind of filtering or sorting is allowed on them. Bonus is the resulting generated typescript client and use of the same pydantic model on the endpoint basically make this a validation issue instead of a query building issue.
oksurewhynot··on 100x defect tolerance: How we solved the yield problem
I live in a small city/large town that has a large number of craft breweries. I always marveled at how these small operations were able to churn out so many different varieties. Turns out they are actually trying to make their few core recipes but the yield is so low they market the less consistent results as...all that variety I was so impressed with.
oksurewhynot··on My failed attempt at AGI on the Tokio Runtime
Damn AGI got hands
oksurewhynot··on Weight-loss drug found to shrink heart muscle in mice, human cells
I thought this was known about older GLP-1 antagonists like semaglutide, which is why there's some excitement around the newer dual-action types like tirzepatide? My understanding is the newer drugs cause substantially less muscle mass loss.
oksurewhynot··on The Bluesky firehose viewed in the style of a Windows XP screensaver
I would like to know how far through the firehose I have traveled
oksurewhynot··on Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers
Sorry this is the same company whose application mentions safety/alignment/ethics like 20 times and asked how applicants will uphold those principles?
oksurewhynot··on Forbes 30 under 30 inductee charged with fraud in the same week (2020)
speedrun any%
oksurewhynot··on How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping”
Ah yes Tom Boonen, famously ill suited to the flandrian classics
oksurewhynot··on How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping”
For those wondering what egregious motor doping (probably) looks like, here's an extremely famous (and some would say obvious) example of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6z7uUe0tVA

For those not familiar with Tom Boonen, Cancellara effortlessly spinning up the Kapelmuur and putting in so much time that the chase helicopter can't even find him would be like beating Usain Bolt in the 100m by 5 seconds.

oksurewhynot··on Tom Waits vs. Frito-Lay, Inc (2003)
Yet another weird parallel: Scarlet Johansson did a cover album of Tom Waits songs in 2008
oksurewhynot··on When do we stop finding new music?
In my mid-30s and I can’t imagine not being interested in new music.
oksurewhynot··on Ask HN: What is the, currently, best Programming LLM (copilot) subscription?
Supermaven slaps
oksurewhynot··on Grindavik [video]
Does the footage look slo-mo to anyone else? Is that really how lava (magma, idk what its called) actually move through the air?
oksurewhynot··on Onboarding Antipatterns
Just completed (failed) a contract-role-as-job-interview that fell into pretty much every one of these categories. No clear goals, no measure of success, completely left to my own devices. Even had an engineer tell me not to DM them questions. Good stuff!
oksurewhynot··on Woman with untreated TB finally in custody – held in “negative pressure” room
Ladies and gentlemen, we got her
oksurewhynot··on A stable protein nanowire of electric bacteria gives clues to climate change
I don’t know about you guys but I’m sick and tired of stable protein nanowires of electric bacteria jerking us around like this. Quit playing with clues and just TELL US already smdh
oksurewhynot··on US police receive less training than plumbers
Yeah we can tell
oksurewhynot··on Malcolm Gladwell opposes WFH while he works from his couch for the last 20 years
I realize this is ad hominem, but when I used to live in the west village I would see him all over the place in the middle of the day, working, but notably not in an office. It was A Thing. I would see him (frequently, he was a fixture of the Joe's on Waverly in particular) and with envy think about what a great gig he's got, that he had the freedom to work wherever he wanted. Reading about him literally tear up at the thought of all those empty desks in all those empty buildings across Manhattan is hilarious.

I also happen to have it on good authority that when he did show up to an office he would arrive, and I am not making this up, in pajamas.

oksurewhynot··on Fifteen years of Ringo Starr's computer art
How long before these get minted as NFTs?
oksurewhynot··on A different kind of Covid vaccine is about ready to roll
So a subunit protein vaccine is (in the case of the SARS-CoV-2) _just_ the spike protein?

I'm guessing the subunit protein vaccine has to inject all the spike proteins the immune system will need in one go, vs the mRNA vaccine which can take advantage of the body's cells to manufacture them.

oksurewhynot··on Show HN: A webcam made out of HTML checkboxes
I was there for this! I actually use this as an example of a perfect mini-batch project to anyone who's skeptical of what they can get done in a week.
oksurewhynot··on The Houseboat Wars of Richardson Bay
rip to Runt Girl :(
oksurewhynot··on Experience synesthesia: Google tool lets you 'hear' colors and shapes
I have mild-strong synesthesia and it's fascinating to see how someone else sees sounds - and also how physically uncomfortable it made me.
oksurewhynot··on The computers rejecting job applications
From Pymetrics' CEO's Linkedin:

Avid technophile who believes audited AI can act like CRISPR: retaining all the wisdom of humans while stripping out ineradicable bias.

lol wut

oksurewhynot··on My 2 Year Journey to $10K MRR
was this really hard to read for anyone else? The spacing and layout is really hard to make sense of.
oksurewhynot··on Handtrack.js: A library for prototyping realtime hand detection in the browser
I used handtrack.js a few months ago to write an in browser theremin. It's not perfect but it allowed me to write the whole thing in about three hours and only kind of blew up my 2011 mbp.

https://github.com/msmedes/theremin

oksurewhynot··on Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12-month RCT
what is the deal with hn and vitamin d
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