I need this, and I need it for seats, but I need it on-prem or it will never get approved. You should sell an iOS subscription based version that allows changing the api/auth url so we can self host. Plenty of companies would be willing to do the infra/config schlep in exchange for holding onto their data, and I mean if you charge 100 bucks per month per seat for the app, can I really complain?
Readit Newsfrazbin commented on Show HN: Omnara – Run Claude Code from anywhere github.com/omnara-ai/omna... · Posted by u/kmansm27
In the first paragraph, he writes, ”I think writing that sounds good is more likely to be right.” So he does indeed make the claim you say he doesn’t make.
The essay itself lacks anything novel, despite the rather breathless framing: “So here we have the most exciting kind of idea: one that seems both preposterous and true.” These ideas are a couple of hundred years old at least. Kant: “the beautiful is the symbol of the morally good”. This is classic Age of Enlightenment stuff, repackaged in classic Silicon Valley VC style.
yep totes. good style is sometimes proximate to good ideas because both indicate the author has spent lots of 'thinking tokens' on the thing, which is a costly and therefore sometimes-more-reliable signal. but i believe it falls apart under intensive selection -- the things we read are popular, and so on average are selection-survivors, which means they'll approach the optimal ratio of thinking token spend on style/vs substance for survival, which may not be the same as the best ratio for precise or insightful communication.
but the best communication survives too because it touches universal truths by connecting them with specific real phenomena. the worst (most harmful) communication survives because it frantically goodharts our quality evaluation process, even when it contradicts truth or reality. e.g. Orwell on the good side, L Ron Hubbard on the bad side. Unfortunately these categories are often not well sorted until after the principals are all dead (probably because everyone has to die before you can tell whether the values are universal or just generationally interesting), and there's a style-bar that has to be cleared before you even get to join the canon for consideration; interestingly this this would tend to increase the illusion that style is associated with substance, especially in older writing.
frazbin commented on So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers? ahmet.im/blog/controller-... · Posted by u/gokhan
I don’t want Kubernetes period. Best decision we’ve made at work is to migrate away from k8s and onto AWS ECS. I just want to deploy containers! DevOps went from something you did when standing up or deploying an application, to an industry-wide jobs program. It’s the TSA of the software world.
If I may ask, just to educate myself
where do you keep the ECS service/task specs and how do you mutate them across your stacks?
How long does it take to stand up/decomm a new instance of your software stack?
How do you handle application lifecycle concerns like database backup/restore, migrations/upgrades?
How have you supported developer stories like "I want to test a commit against our infrastructure without interfering with other development"?
I recognize these can all be solved for ECS but I'm curious about the details and how it's going.
I have found Kubernetes most useful when maintaining lots of isolated tenants within limited (cheap) infrastructure, esp when velocity of software and deployments is high and has many stakeholders (customer needs their demo!)
frazbin commented on We used to get excited about technology. What happened? technologyreview.com/2022... · Posted by u/spking
In so many wayswe don't own the technology we buy anymore, and playing with someone else's toys doesn't invite the same enthusiasm, especially long term where ecosystems are involved.
frazbin commented on Show HN: Doge.hair – Elon's dream – Decentralized social network on Dogecoin · Posted by u/FreeTrade
How can this not be GDPR-illegal?
Apple will just wind up like Amazon: cannibalizing the customer trust now that they have market power.
Consider: Amazon has the majority of e-commerce sales today in the west. This is largely in part of decisions makes 20 years ago to allow honest reviews by real customers, both good and bad, earning strong customer trust. Now they're making money by selling the top spot on their search results and calling it "advertising". It's not. It's the sale of all that customer trust they spent 20 years building up. And the money they make on selling that trust is massive.
Consider: Apple is loved by its customers. They trust them. Apple means quality, security, and all the other good things they want. They're also at 30% of global mobile phone sales- massive market power.
Now it's time to start selling off that customer trust for profit.
Being Apple, the first move is to attack the entire online ad industry via privacy improvements- I'm not saying it's a bad thing that they did it, but I am suggesting they didn't do it for anything other than profit motive. Next, join the industry with a competitor in the space that takes advantage of all the things Apple knows about their customers. Trade the trust they've built up for a payout in cash.
It was either that or try to invent a new product. Since Steve Jobs died that hasn't gone very well.
err nope, now that they've got an Si lead and control teh whole vertical, they can abuse us all the want; we literally have nowhere to go.
frazbin commented on Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News modernhn.com/... · Posted by u/sjdz
doesn't reflow text properly on zoom in firefox, had to disable
frazbin commented on Planting trees not always an effective way of binding carbon dioxide gu.se/en/news/planting-tr... · Posted by u/hhs
So having read the article summary, then the research paper, then reading the article summary again... it seems that the summary isn't at all an accurate summary of the research paper, but rather a narrow focus on the suboptimal cases where tree growing isn't super effective at sequestering carbon. It sort of completely ignores the cases where they observed enhanced carbon sequestration, increases in soil organic carbon, enhanced soil nitrogen availability, etc.
The emphatic message of the research paper is basically like, "tree growing to sequester carbon is very complicated, there's a lot we don't know, and there are a ton of different outcomes depending on how/where the tree growing is carried out."
One part of the paper I found most interesting was the section on nitrogen fixing microorganisms; they made it seem like the nitrogen fixation occurs via microbes pulling nitrogen from the soil and making it available to the plants. However my understanding is that those nitrogen fixing microbes pull N from the air, not the soil. Even good ol' wikipedia says "The bacteria are filamentous and convert atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia via the enzyme nitrogenase, a process known as nitrogen fixation." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankia) ... Undoubtedly there are microbes that can mine nitrogen from the soil, but why focus on those when the real bang-for-your-buck nitrogen fixation occurs when pulling nitrogen from the atmosphere.
Anyhow, great research paper, crappy summary.
hm not sure but I think at high growth rates the majority of soil N does come from decomposition even when nitrogen fixation is present.
frazbin commented on Study first to link weed killer Roundup to convulsions in animals phys.org/news/2022-08-lin... · Posted by u/pseudolus
In the thread: bunch of tech workers acting like 19th century small farmers. The story here is that chemistry is a blunt tool and in 50 years we won't need it for agriculture. Biocontrols will have totally taken over. In the meantime anything we can do to remove incumbent chemical technologies and create economic room for their replacements is.. important. Why? cause we're gonna need those biocontrols anyway to keep farming at current yields under an evolving pest/weed regime.
We got through the 20th century without sustainable farming. I'm OK with that, it led to things like me existing. Now it's time to focus a little more effort on doing the job properly.