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rsstack··on New Mac Mini
At checkout you can add memory, up to 32GB total.
rsstack··on Can the double-slit experiment distinguish between quantum interpretations?
If you see something absurd in a HN comment, it's worthwhile to check their comment history. You aren't missing anything or miscomprehending - it's just a troll.
rsstack··on NYC officials say they can't find EV garbage trucks powerful enough to plow snow
It is essentially impossible to add anything underground in NYC _because_ of the extensive underground infrastructure. It is all but saturated.
rsstack··on NYC officials say they can't find EV garbage trucks powerful enough to plow snow
I don't think it snows enough in big Australian cities :D And there aren't (yet) electric super-jumbo cargo planes to ship these mechanical monstrosities.
rsstack··on NYC officials say they can't find EV garbage trucks powerful enough to plow snow
Just context for international readers: Roosevelt Island has 11,000 residents, or 0.1% of NYC's population. The point stands, just providing context.
rsstack··on NYC officials say they can't find EV garbage trucks powerful enough to plow snow
First: I don't go out in snow beyond a couple of blocks, things can wait. But that's me.

Second: Just because the snow stops falling doesn't mean the problem goes away. The snow can take a couple of weeks to melt (essentially until the next rain, or a hot enough day), so stopping and waiting for nature to resolve the situation on its own would shut down the city for a month or so every year.

rsstack··on NYC officials say they can't find EV garbage trucks powerful enough to plow snow
NYC has 30,000 streets and only a handful of days of snow in the year. By having garbage trucks that can deal with a few inches of snow, you avoid the need of buying dozens of dedicated vehicles that will rot 360 days a year.
rsstack··on Salesforce will lay off 10% of staff as part of restructuring
She woke up at a normal hour and saw an email from 3 AM. "Woke up to find a notification on her phone", not "woken up by a notification on her phone".
rsstack··on In 2022, Web3 went just great
Br'er / Brother is the name of the rabbit, who is thrown into the briar patch.
rsstack··on Ask HN: What's a build vs. buy decision that you got wrong?
I twice worked at companies that built authentication as part of their application (using open source libraries, not from scratch). It's a mistake, and a mistake that's very expensive to fix later. Even more expensive not to fix given the sensitivity of this area of software.
rsstack··on AWS releases Finch: An open source client for container development
That's really cool and I didn't realize that! For future readers, key points from the article:

"Note that while pulls from ECR Public do work from outside AWS, they are rate limited if not authenticated with an Amazon account, and you should generally use the Docker Hub addresses if you are pulling from outside AWS. Please see the ECR Public quotas documentation for more about how limits work with ECR Public.

If you are an AWS customer, pulling Docker Official Images from ECR Public offers several advantages. ECR Public is replicated across all AWS regions, so pulls are local to the region you pull from. This helps ensure lower latency for requests and ensures that all your resources are in the same failure zone, which is the recommended architectural pattern."

rsstack··on AWS releases Finch: An open source client for container development
Yeah. All of our proprietary images are on GHCR, so we also rehost the public ones on it as well. We have GitHub Actions that repull and republish, whether on cron or on trigger.
rsstack··on AWS releases Finch: An open source client for container development
If it's an important image part of prod, they're pinned to a specific version anyway and get upgraded like software dependencies after testing about once a week. If it's a utility image (e.g. for the cloud dev environment), there's a periodic job that checks for updates every hour because no one would care enough to update manually.
rsstack··on AWS releases Finch: An open source client for container development
Very low rate limits. We rehost images we use often off Docker Hub.
rsstack··on McDonalds Event Driven Architecture
Plexure are only used in select McDonald's markets. Almost all Hacker News readers are in markets where the McDonald's app is developed in-house by McDonald's.
rsstack··on Ask HN: How do you fight unjust bans from online platforms?
> All the examples are US companies. One way to look at the problem is US companies disregarding

Another is that there aren't many European companies that are internationally dominant. Customers and partners get banned from Booking.com (a Dutch company), so there's that.

rsstack··on A Sun-like star orbiting a black hole
It isn't actively consuming new matter, which means it doesn't emit easily-visible radiation.
rsstack··on Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete my websites
If his site qualifies as a public site in Israel, and the main content of the site is the videos, it would be required. Since his sites' purpose was almost entirely the videos, I think it would be hard for him to defend his case in court.

I don't know what happens to sites that are collecting links to videos that were not made by the site author, because clearly the author can't modify other people's videos and can't rehost them without violating copyright. But a human judge wouldn't be fooled by it in this case :)

Also note: the law requires captions, not Hebrew captions. The captions must match the spoken language in the video.

rsstack··on Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete my websites
The EU rules also use WCAG, so I don't know if it's their size as much as WCAG just being that good.
rsstack··on Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete my websites
Just a fun tidbit that I only realized today:

Israel did not invent its own accessibility standard. The law simply enforces "Israeli Standard 5568", which is a PDF that links to WCAG 2.0 with a short figure that changes certain compliance levels (e.g. captions are classified as Level AA instead of Level A).

rsstack··on Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete my websites
The Israeli law uses WCAG's definition. I'm not kidding, the law refers to an "Israeli standard" which is just a PDF that links to WCAG and includes an errata of changes; e.g. captions are Level AA instead of Level A in the Israeli standard.

https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/quickref/?versions=2.0#qr-medi...

Failure F8 seems relevant to the loophole: https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Techniques/failures/F8.html

rsstack··on Thanks to the Israeli accessibility law, I have to delete my websites
Doesn't work in Hebrew.
rsstack··on Blogless – Writing articles online without a blog (2021)
https://blogless.datenbrei.de/license/ MIT + a TinyMCE dependency.
rsstack··on Airplane.dev raises $32M in Series B funding
The post says 100+ customers.
rsstack··on Airplane.dev raises $32M in Series B funding
We're Airplane customers, after evaluating Windmill and trying some AWS feature that might be similar but was too hard to configure. We had two focuses when choosing Airplane and they've been met so far thanks to both their good product and to their amazing team who were responsive & understanding to changing things to make our requirements work.

1. Super easy to use actions & internal UIs, that allow end-users to run things without following Confluence rituals/SOPs. So many things that used to be "ask an engineer to do this when they have time" are now just buttons or interactive screens. But engineering still has control: anything that can can an incident or that is hard to reverse, Airplane automated the approval workflow so that a qualified person can approve it - whether it's a task or a button in an internal UI. Also, several scheduled runbooks/workflows that we could have set up a system to run - but why do that (+ maintain it forever) if it takes 20 minutes to configure in Airplane?

2. Cannot introduce more risk than it reduced (because we _did_ have risk from people doing these things by following written procedures). Everything gets logged, critical things are reported as Datadog events + Slack messages, our tasks and UIs exist in multiple environments (and go through source control) so we can test them like real software. All tasks run on _our_ infrastructure, using our IAM roles (which we've worked with Airplane to get to their minimal form, where they can't touch anything non-Airplane'y - and they changed the default installation to match, so if you start using Airplane you'll benefit from that too) and security groups (which reach dedicated load balancer listeners that can validate the requests). We have set permissions to be as strict as Airplane allows, connected to Google Workspace user groups (and so audited regularly).

Obviously whenever doing Build vs Buy: we could have built this. We could have also soldered our servers' circuitry on our own. But if someone needs something quick to automate their work, it takes less than an hour to set it up from scratch now and it's all straightforward.

rsstack··on Ask HN: How to be less opinionated?
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=paulgraham.com
rsstack··on Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle
Same as putting the wrong letter in a crossword or making 6 wrong guesses in Wordle. Sometimes puzzles have to be started from scratch.
rsstack··on Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle
It isn't stuck, you lost :) Refresh the page to try again.
rsstack··on Drop in Cloudflare Replacement
I'll just comment on this:

> Yes, thank you for making my argument for me?

Agreement isn't "making your argument for you". It is agreeing with your opinion. When discussing things with people, you often agree with things that they say - hopefully.

rsstack··on Drop in Cloudflare Replacement
Who needs to run the local node? The website owner or the website visitor?

(I never used IPFS.)

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