Balladeer (u/Balladeer)

Balladeer commented on Trump wins presidency for second time thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba

foxglacier · 10 months ago

I've never heard that before. Have you got a link to those statements? I suspect you're not accurately representing their meaning in your summary.

Balladeer · 10 months ago

"...get out and vote, just this time. You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what? It'll be fixed, it'll be fine. You won't have to vote anymore."

https://youtu.be/gE7xoHJkgvE?si=MVL_GibOGn2WDpLV&t=18

"I think the bigger problem are the people from within. We have some very bad people, we have some sick people, radical left lunatics...and it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard or if really necessary by the military."

https://youtu.be/BfSAOPPSYC8?si=C-6ZUrvU0yoFl9Aw&t=22

Balladeer commented on Vapour: A typed superset of the R programming language vapour.run/... · Posted by u/johncoene

johnnybzane · a year ago

How do I find jobs that use the R language? It's impossible to search the letter "R" on linkedIn or Indeed without getting a bunch of unrelated job postings

"R" is the only programming language I know and I can't find a job that uses a R because job search engines don't allow you to sort by skill

"R language" is the closest substitute on linkedin but the results are still a jumbled mess of jobs, some looking moreso for other skills (SQL/Python)

I know R-heavy jobs exist but finding them on LinkedIn is virtually impossible

Balladeer · a year ago

How does "R language" compare to searching for one of the popular R packages? Searching for "tidyverse", "dplyr", or "ggplot" seems to get a good chunk of hits. That being said, yeah, there does seem to be a trio of skills that often go together (R, python, SQL)

Balladeer commented on Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform hamel.dev/blog/posts/dokk... · Posted by u/tosh

dewey · a year ago

I was looking at many of these "selfhosted Heroku" type of solutions recently and read many HN discussions about the different options (coolify.io, ploi, ...) as I migrated to a new server and always copying, adapting nginx configs got a bit old.

I've landed on Dokku in the end as it's the one with the least amount of "magic" involved and even if I stopped using it I could just uninstall it and have everything still running. Can highly recommend it!

The developer is also super responsive and I even managed to build a custom plugin without knowing too much about it with some assistance. Documented this on my blog too: https://blog.notmyhostna.me/posts/deploying-docker-images-wi...

Balladeer · a year ago

How long did it take you to go from "making a new server / copying configs is fine" to "this is tedious enough I'd like to abstract it?"

Like, was it a years-long journey or is this the type of thing that becomes immediately obvious once you start working w/ N servers or something?

I'm trying to learn the space between "physical machines in my apartment" and "cloud-native everything" and that's led me to the point where I'm happily using cloud-init to configure servers and running fun little docker compose systems on them.

Balladeer commented on The Pile is a 825 GiB diverse, open-source language modelling data set (2020) pile.eleuther.ai/... · Posted by u/bilsbie

zellyn · a year ago

Is the "books3" dataset mentioned in the Pile paper the one that authors are suing over? The one that includes a whole bunch of popular and copyrighted material?

Balladeer · a year ago

I believe it is. See https://www.wired.com/story/battle-over-books3/

Balladeer commented on Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters bsky.social/about/blog/02... · Posted by u/jakebsky

steveklabnik · 2 years ago

How is BlueSky centralized? I could see that argument before this feature shipped, but "BlueSky is trying to be the federated, centralized option" goes counter to what the team has said directly.

I could maybe see an argument not based on technical premises, but instead something like "it will defacto become one because running a relay is too expensive" or such. Is that what you're going for?

Balladeer · 2 years ago

I'm not who you replied to, but yes, that's my main concern: Bluesky is still a company building a thing to pay back the money it owes investors.

I worry that Bluesky becomes the de facto central actor and, due to having no stated business plan and a countdown to repay the money they took, pulls a Google, leveraging its dominance to introduce proprietary, breaking changes.

Yes, right now, the tech, team, interviews, etc sound mission-driven, but "revenue is the dominant term"[2] in the equation of a company's life, and there's still a very real chance that Bluesky dominates whatever federated AT Protocol network ends up forming, then uses that leverage to walk back all this promised openness.

I'm cautiously interested in Bluesky, but I'm watching for this kind of de facto dominance and we're probably too early on to see where the AT network is headed.

- [1] https://somehowmanage.com/2020/09/20/revenue-model-not-cultu...

Balladeer commented on The Techno-Optimist Manifesto a16z.com/the-techno-optim... · Posted by u/packym

hemloc_io · 2 years ago

Sigh, sad b/c I actually know this, but just a small correction.

That's an anonymous Twitter/X account @BasedBeffJezos not the actual head Jeff himself.

Founder(?) of the e/acc philosophy

Balladeer · 2 years ago

Hah! Thanks for the correction / info; I do appreciate it.

Balladeer commented on The Techno-Optimist Manifesto a16z.com/the-techno-optim... · Posted by u/packym

Balladeer · 2 years ago

> Markets prevent monopolies and cartels.

A lot of the optimism seems to rely on this statement and...I'm not convinced? But I also admit I'm not well informed on the topic. Does anyone have suggested reading on 'market discipline', as they're calling it?

I mean, the first person on their "Patron Saints of Techno-Optimism" is Jeff Bezos, who is actively dealing with an antitrust lawsuit from the FTC regarding Amazon's frequent and regular push toward monopoly power.

Balladeer commented on Working remotely can more than halve an office employee’s carbon footprint scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/rustoo

ipnon · 2 years ago

Remote work seems like one of many missed “Jetsons opportunities.”[a] Why wouldn’t we, given the ability, work from our own comfy homes instead of rolling into a crowded, stuffy office everyday? Why isn’t this practice that workers clearly love, and are willing to leave companies to keep, seen as a great step in the progress of labor? We should be counting our blessings instead of counting beans, that such a way of working is even possible today.

[a] A Jetsons opportunity is any missed prediction of the future from the past, usually in a form like “where’s my flying car?”

Balladeer · 2 years ago

I understand and even expect the lack of empathy from RTO executives, but the lack of empathy on the part of the 'remote work for everyone, always' camp saddens me.

I've worked primarily remote since 2016; but I have the option of going to an office a few miles away when I want to. My wife, forced to work from home, finds the entire experience to be socially isolating and misery inducing.

> work from our own comfy homes instead of rolling into a crowded, stuffy office everyday?

This one-sidedness is a strawman. Not everyone's home is comfy or has space for working; some people made housing decisions based on one person leaving the home for most of every day (e.g. choosing a smaller apartment closer to city). Not every office is crowded and stuffy; some are quite pleasant. Not every worker gets their social needs met outside of work, and forcing them home ends up isolating them from the primary source of social interaction in their world, with all of the mental health and well-being issues that entails.

Personally, think that "more remote work" is the way to go, but the issue is more nuanced than "why are people resisting this obviously beneficial change?"

Balladeer commented on My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022) getwaitlist.com/blog/solo... · Posted by u/acqbu

intelVISA · 2 years ago

If you know what you're doing it's easy enough to roll out a multi-region distributed system with HA and backups on a pretty modest (<100pcm) budget that can handle competitive QPS.

However, most people do not - some will learn, but most will fall for the cloud marketing depts and become infra renters for life. Teach a man to fish, and so on.

Balladeer · 2 years ago

> some will learn, but most will fall for the cloud marketing depts and become infra renters for life

Do you have any learning recommendations for someone looking to start down this path? I've only ever worked in an infra-renter context, and I've begun exploring the 'rent from Hetzner, manage your own infra' for personal projects, but I would love to learn from the paths of experts where possible.

Balladeer commented on 99% of top Python packages are now wheels pythonwheels.com/... · Posted by u/groodt

pdimitar · 2 years ago

EDIT: Reduced my original comment to this:

This only outlines that the article is very niche and not very interesting to be posted for non-Python audience.

--- ORIGINAL COMMENT:

Need I explain that if you arrive at such a title you would have to reevaluate if it's worth posting at all? Apparently I need to explain it. ;)

This article is more or less pointless anyhow. Using better terminology would have made that clearer much earlier in the process IMO.

Balladeer · 2 years ago

This "article" is a 10+ year-old website that's been tracking an ecosystem-wide migration from one style of preparing python code for distribution to another, more robust style of preparation.