KyeRussell

> because some job fits being its own service

Determining this at all takes skill. Determining it that far ahead of time requires so much skill and foresight that suggesting that people try is bad advice.

> If Amazon to implement built-in option to track suspicious jumps of AWS costs then it's not only gonna cut on fraud, but on overall AWS profits.

OK. https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/aws-cost-anomaly-...

Comparing with self-hosting or renting a server is just dishonest. At that point you may as well compare with spinning up an actual EC2 instance. Your alternatives miss the main original value proposition of EC2 altogether, let alone spot instances.

AWS will tell you as much as you want to know about how munch you’re spending. Cost breakdowns and billing alerts are more configurable than you’ll see pretty much anywhere else. This is a miscategorisation of the problem with AWS billing. The actual problem - which is not misunderstood - is that it’s complicated. There’s a reason that AWS has an unwritten ‘one-time get out of jail free card’ system if you accidentally mess up and charge $50,000 to your corporate credit card. And there’s a reason that a condition of this escape hatch is that you set up billing alerts like you should as a responsible person hooking up a PAYG service to what’s sometimes an effectively infinite line of credit.

Really sounds to me like you’re speaking from your own professional context and are talking to consider the huge spectrum of circumstances in which web code is written.

Yeah. As someone that’s quite bearish on JS altogether, and as someone that’s worked on a few old-school multi-step forms recently, we can’t pretend that this was and still is anything other than a code and UX disaster. And…I’m not an idiot, I understand different HTTP request types and how browsers handle going back through history. I know that there’s not something obvious I’m missing. I’ve put the work in. The reality is that non-JS web technologies aren’t very good at some things that are quite common and that many people expect in anything more than a brochure site.

I’m just so miffed that it can end up necessitating roping in so much BS. Mind you, not necessarily in this example. Things like HTMX excite me. And, on the other side, things like Next.js and Remix that IMO are a breath of fresh air, even if they might not ultimately be heading in the right direction (I genuinely have no idea).

Understanding them probably isn’t as important (or as likely) as someone- the right person-simply being held responsible for their actions, or for relying on them.

Amen. After suffering through many years of people telling me to use document databases when I was much better served with—at most—Postgres with a jsonb field, I feel vindicated enough to feel justified in doing my due diligence before going off the beaten track.

Not that document databases don’t have their place, but…MongoDB is webscale and all that.

Nowhere in your comment do you consider the possibility that some of these employees were doing something that just didn’t matter.

It’ll be a very confusing day for you when you grow up and have just one direct report, and you’ll need to face the reality of them calling you “management” on snarky Hacker News comments.

This is like hearing that your aunt bought an iPhone and ridiculing them because the latest Samsung fire hazard has more megahertz of RAMs.

Nobody cares, and if you aren’t tying this to user value from the get-go, you’re fighting a losing battle.

Yeah and who’s doing the training for that? Your Grandma’s iPad?

This stuff is hard, and it’s incredibly easy to sit here on Hacker News talking about how things will be when we finally get to the fireworks factory. But for the time being, the reality is that there’s serious money and smarts behind the development and ongoing operation of this stuff.

I, a nobody, got access to GPT-4 pretty soon after it was released. Maybe your stated use case wasn’t compelling enough to get access to the beta?

I, after getting access to GPT-4 mind you, signed up for ChatGPT Plus or Pro or whatever it’s called. GPT-4 calls are still very heavily capped.

What’s the motive behind the conspiracy theory to which you’re alluding?

Sorry but this is well and truly into the realm of unsubstantiated and unrealistic conspiracy theory.

OpenAI can basically do whatever the hell they want here. I imagine there might be more favourable terms for the big kids. But for your average Joe, OpenAI makes basically no commitment. OpenAI aren’t trapped. Not even remotely. You’re basically buying something at the local swap meet. I imagine that the terms via Azure are effectively the same in this particular regard, though I do understand them to be different in other ways.

I like to think that Waltzing Matilda is much more understood than Born In The USA. It’s a bit more in the Aussie culture to run with something like that. The Born In the USA American crowd on the other hand self-identifies is infallible and their homeland is their sacred cow. I’d eat my hat if the majority of people who like that song know more than 4 words from it.

Yeah. I lock my front door at night, despite it being perfect.

This is such a blindspot for ‘24/7 engineer mindset’ people. And, in a professional context, things like this serve as a great litmus test for if someone is capable and geared to look at things at a bigger-picture level instead of just ‘computer problems’.

…not to equate looking at porn with getting burglarised. This is obviously BS.

If people want to survive they can choose to not buy a MAX. It’s the free market at work, people! /s

I got my uni CS club going on IRC. I’ve recently discovered that they’re now on Discord. I get it, like, IRC is increasingly undesirable these days, especially without a bouncer. It still hurt though.

I am 100% sure I had some petty manually-initiated retaliatory action taken against me by a sysadmin at my university. I never heard a peep through any channel, official or otherwise.

Completely lost on me “babying kids and not showing them that actions can have consequences” is fetishised as soon as computers are involved. I guess because we all grew up doing this stuff.

As an adult that writes software used by a lot of students in a classroom environment, I am glad to see that the spirit it still alive whenever I have a Sentry error come through indicating quite clearly that someone is trying to cheat by dicking around in dev tools. However I’m also certainly going to make the troublemakers shit their pants with a strongly worded console.log().

Nothing beats walling the undergrad project server.

Someone turned up the temperature hyperparameter.

Ah, an American conflating healthcare with American healthcare. You love to see it.

If you can’t deal with a one-character typo in a comment, then ChatGPT certainly has you beat. The bot paranoia is the icing on the cake.

Calling this an “internal process” that’s none of your concern, a much more egregious wilful misrepresentation of this situation. There is a situation or phenomenon of human behaviour, this is how the healthcare system deals with it.

Who are you as presumably some software person to come in telling them to knock the gate down without understanding why it was put there in the first place? God knows you’d hate it if someone did that to you in your area of expertise. I understand that the proliferation of VC-backed money-losing companies which parachute clueless software people into other domains have given developers an undue sense of transferable expertise, but perhaps exercise some self-awareness.

The first project I worked on as a solo backend dev is still in production. God knows how we won that tender. I was a 20-year-old clueless university dropout that definitely shouldn’t have been trusted, working for a boutique agency operating out of a converted barn out the back of some house.

It is a scheduling system for a department at a major public hospital in the area.

It’s still one of the projects I’m happiest with. Despite subsequent developers making a bit of a mess of it, it is a nice piece of software. And, compared to the rest of the stuff in health system, is it a shining beacon of hope for generations to come.

As I’ve progressed and started working for some bigger companies, I’m incredibly impressed by what we all, myself included, did with so little.

Christ. That says it all.

As has been talked to death, the quantity distribution of bread in the US is atrocious. It was certainly my experience when I visited the US. There is a hilariously culturally significant post in /r/Australia where an American tourist talks almost erotically about a loaf of bread they bought here once, and it’s later discovered that it was just cheap, standard, supermarket bread.

I barely get the Happy Meal down.

The auditory input is the same…pretty much. Most other aspects of the experience are different.

“You realise you can…”

Just admit that you don’t yet understand the other perspective. Resorting to this sort of snark really isn’t in service of reaching a shared understanding.