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rchon Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3

This has been my solution as well. It has recently been added as an integrated service via devenv:

https://devenv.sh/services/rustfs/

rchon Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'

Legible News has a weekly edition for subscribers:

https://legiblenews.com/week

rchon Apache DataFusion

Maybe your data is stored in a multi-PB pile of HDF5.

rchon Show HN: Execute SQL against Bluesky firehose

How do you position this relative to Flink SQL?

rchon Alibaba releases an 'open' challenger to OpenAI's O1 reasoning model

Ensemble with coder-instruct

rchon Model Context Protocol

Strange place for WS* to respawn.

rchon Llama-OCR: Document to Markdown

I've had trouble with pulling scientific content out of poster PDFs, mostly because e.g. nougat falls apart with different layouts.

Have you considered that usage yet?

rchon Ask HN: What type of Auth are you using on your side projects?

+1 for FusionAuth

rchon Moshi: A speech-text foundation model for real time dialogue

Do app running in an a-shell terminal on the iPad have a convenient way provide a tts interface?

rchon Breaking down a record-setting day on the Texas grid

Next day load shapes are predictable, so devices should optimize their charging accordingly.

rchon Google is a monopoly – the fix isn't obvious

Break them all up simultaneously or find a better approach.

My perception is that there are too many politicians trying to pick winners for their own benefit.

rchon Student uses black soldier flies to grow pea plants in simulated Martian soil

Soldier flies are amazing protein generating/converting factories, amenable to closed cycle modular environments. Ducks love them too.

rchon Ask HN: Who's been hired through Hacker News?

Twice. Both worked out well for me.

Neither was a startup though.

rchon The economics of the Birkin handbag

Everybody is more than welcome to buy into my long positions.

rchon Rete algorithm

I've been experimenting with Evrete:

https://www.evrete.org/

It's a little strange, but very flexible. I'd like to try adapting it to evaluate rules specified using annotated Kotlin.

rchon I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software

This is very effective - it consistently yields great results.

rchon You can't just assume UTF-8

Don't assume; force UTF-8.

rchon Synthetic data generation for tabular data

IANL but I've taken it to mean that releases acquired under the original license would continue to be governed by those terms.

I'm liking this new approach better than e.g. perpetual AGPL though, as it provides incentives for businesses to acquire commercial rights while avoiding any dead end agreements that outlive the startup entity.

rchon Is the "modern data stack" still a useful idea?

Pretty much, but updated for 2024.

rchon Is the "modern data stack" still a useful idea?

  - Postgres and Kafka
  - Airflow and Flink
  - Kudu+Impala or Clickhouse
  - Iceberg/Parquet or Delta
  - Ozone(HDFS) or Ceph
  - Spark Rapids and/or Ray+Metaflow
  - Open Metadata or Atlas+Ranger

rchon RustPython

Your examples in particular have been excellent lately.

rchon Substack won't make you rich

I'm not sure how many paid substacks I'm signed up for, but it's a few.

Average writers, like most professionals, need to associate themselves with a well known brand. No surprise there.

rchon America lost the chestnut, its "perfect tree"

The most effective method was to hack into the bark to apply an herbicide, and give it a couple of weeks to make its way into the roots. Dig out as much as you can once the leaves all die. Good luck!

rchon America lost the chestnut, its "perfect tree"

Tree of Heaven is worse still. I tried to clear a small property of it for a couple of seasons, and failed, so I unconsciously take note whenever I see it growing: it's seemingly everywhere.

rchon Dolphin-2_6-Phi-2

Possibly an artifact from synthetic datasets. It could probably be tuned out without outright filtering.

rchon The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis

It's a broad topic, but in this context I'd settle for an extension of Whatmore's earlier book The History of Political Thought.

rchon The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis

This seems like an indictment the Enlightenment itself, instead of the critique of current social philosophy that I'd be interested in.

rchon Five Apache projects you probably didn't know about

I've used this one too. It works well.

rchon Five Apache projects you probably didn't know about

I'm using Apache Ratis (and Nifi) for a side project. It's a nice Raft implementation that's actively used and maintained:

https://ratis.apache.org/

rchon Ask HN: Does anyone here use Haxe?

There was a company in Boulder that was using it, at least a little, as recently as 2019.