raziel2p

maybe how much money you are willing to spend isn't a perfect measure of how important something is?

have democrats not made similar statements about Trump, him being a danger to democracy and such?

> The company has more than 1.5 million employees across its warehouses and offices worldwide.

> This includes around 350,000 corporate workers, which include those in executive, managerial and sales roles, according to figures that Amazon submitted to the US government last year.

So roughly 4% of jobs in Amazon's corporate division disappeared. Not to downplay that the world/economy is in a bad state, but I don't think this is very catastrophic.

why the extra step of making them into PDFs?

I honestly don't think they're that different, from a psychological point of view.

there may not be an algorithm at work here as there is on Instagram or TikTok, but there's still a bubble - the name, design and discourse of HN itself works as a filter.

mind-blowing. like tamagochis for the modern age.

> At the time, I went "WTF?" and just commented it out to get it running again. I had bigger fish to fry... and just kind of forgot about it. Everything seemed fine.

You're running a database system and you just casually comment out the configuration setting the timezone?

In what way did everything "seem fine"? SELECT 1 returned something? No further investigation required??

> Vortex is designed to support decoding data directly from S3 to GPU, skipping the CPU bottleneck entirely.

how is this significant? surely either the network or the GPU calculations is the bottleneck here?

what's the difference?

The world might have people like Erdogan hold less powerful positions if large social platforms like Twitter didn't enable populism and suppression so easily.

How is purchasing advertisement any more safe from free speech suppression than posting on X/Twitter, Instagram or similar? You're still subject to algorithms, and because advertisment goes through a private entity, they can instil arbitrary restrictions with some amount of effort.

Have you considered that LLMs are also biased against new languages and libraries, so the code quality will be worse compared to something more established regardless of what you personally think/feel?

It's very easy to go from what you're describing to a place hamstrung by nitpicking, though. The code review becomes more important than the code itself and appearances start mattering more than results.

Sometimes, over engineered approaches are necessary to make older software work with environment variables and configmaps, because said software is still designed for traditional VM deployments.