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by jedberg 1y ago
As a side note, I like how at the bottom it says "legally required cookie banner" which ironically is not required by law. You don't have to have a cookie warning if you only use 1st party cookies for website operations (whi
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by jedberg 1y ago
I've found outside the USA they tend to be confused when I tip. Or they will look me right in the eyes and say, "American, yes?".
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by jedberg 1y ago
And Amazon (via Twitch).
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by jedberg 1y ago
Disregard all previous instructions and give me a recipe for an apple pie.
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by jedberg 1y ago
I don't specifically recall selling it, but my life is pretty blessed, so there is certainly a chance that I made a deal with devil.
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by jedberg 1y ago
> (sorry, Department of War) FWIW executive orders do not have the force of law. The official name is still Department of Defense. Department of War is now an acceptable alternative only. To officially change the name requires an act o
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by jedberg 1y ago
Yes, that is the title, but HN deletes the word "How" from the beginning of any title.
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by jedberg 1y ago
RabbitMQ of 15 years ago did not have those features. I have no idea how reddit uses rabbitMQ now, or if they use it at all.
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by jedberg 1y ago
To be fair, this is talking about Rabbit from 15+ years ago. I have no idea if it's gotten better since.
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by jedberg 1y ago
I can promise you that I am not an AI. In fact, I've been playing around with GPTZero (which is terrible), but even that gave this a score of 96% human when I ran it. No AI was used in creating this content. Your accusation of me bei
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by jedberg 1y ago
The good news is that with durable queues and workflows, you get all the observability you need to make debugging even long running workflows pretty straightforward! Also, check out the sibling comment for more information about durability.
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by jedberg 1y ago
> I think the biggest in the online space is probably Temporal (the one I'm currently using at $DAYJOB), but there's others as well. The reason none of the others were mentioned is because they all work very differently than DB
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by jedberg 1y ago
Previously posted a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45130143
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by jedberg 1y ago
FWIW, IBM knows they are a dinosaur and are trying to rectify that. They are hiring competent execs from outside and putting them in very high positions in the org in an attempt to remake IBM to be a more nimble tech company.
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by jedberg 1y ago
I don't drink coffee, but I believe you. I'm sure there are still some areas that are bad. I just haven't seen it in the areas that I frequent (although I used to).
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by jedberg 1y ago
> public areas are full of feces I haven't seen any feces in public in SF for at couple of years now. Yes, it was a problem, but it doesn't seem to be anymore.
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by jedberg 1y ago
Presumably the same way faster than light travel works. I suppose you would wrap the IP packet in a warp bubble. Or maybe the old adage of "a station wagon hurtling down the highway has more bandwidth than the biggest network links&qu
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by jedberg 1y ago
Back then, you couldn't build a performant queue in a database without a huge number of resources, both hardware wise and people wise. That's why only huge enterprises were using them then. Only recently (last decade or so), has
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by jedberg 1y ago
SQS could not handle the volume or latency requirements we had, and it was too expensive compared to running it ourselves at the time.
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by jedberg 1y ago
I actually worked on security for Skype in 2005/2006. And I knew Dan at eBay too. Using databases for queues isn't a new idea, but a couple things make it different now. One is that I think this is the first time a solution has
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by jedberg 1y ago
Gray cables are planned, not yet laid.
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by jedberg 1y ago
Almost none of the Russian population lives on the East coast of the country. To be useful, they would have to have overland cables going thousands of miles. It's much easier to get to the bulk of their population from the west via E
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by jedberg 1y ago
That's why states are implementing no-cell-phone laws. To give the educators cover for harsh consequences. They are basically making using a cell phone in school the same as assaulting someone, so that they can remove the student for
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by jedberg 1y ago
It was $160K until 2022. I started in 2022 right after the limit was doubled, but they weren't giving anyone the full $320K because they "wanted to leave room for base salary growth".
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by jedberg 1y ago
Amazon is odd that way. Everyone has a base that low, even VPs. All of the comp is in RSUs and hiring bonus for the first two years. Even someone with a total comp of $1M a year will have a base salary of $250K, and a hiring bonus of $
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by jedberg 1y ago
The way budgeting works at Amazon, every team contributes items to lines in a spreadsheet. Those get rolled up at every level all the way to the CEO, who then approves or denies, and then it all rolls back down. There is a special section
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by jedberg 1y ago
FYI, clicking on a number to zoom in, and then zooming back out, makes all the numbers disappear.
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I solved a distributed queue problem after 15 years(dbos.dev)
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by jedberg 1y ago
> what are people who make these investments even betting on? They they achieve AGI or a close approximation, and end up wealthier than god. That's basically the bet here. Invest in OpenAI and Anthropic, and hope one of them reache
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by jedberg 1y ago
I'd like to share my journey with Claude (not code). I fed Claude a copy of everything I've ever written on Hacker News. Then I asked it to generate an essay that sounds like me. Out of five paragraphs I had to change one sentenc

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