Hacker News: endisneigh

New comment by endisneigh in "Cohost to shut down at end of 2024"

endisneigh — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 20:40:22 +0000

Their hosting costs are crazy for such low usage (I assume since they say no one is being paid that the entirety of their expenses is marketing and tech and 25% of that is infra specifically, but it’s hard to tell since its last months and it’s possible that today they’re not being paid).

Regardless, too much expense for too little revenue.

New comment by endisneigh in "Boox Palma Review: A Phone-Sized E-Ink Android Device That Isn't a Phone"

endisneigh — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 01:33:24 +0000

Nearly $300 seems a bit too rich for my blood - will definitely buy one second hand once I can get one for about $100.

New comment by endisneigh in "AnandTech Farewell"

endisneigh — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:08:55 +0000

Unsurprising - people don’t pay, and their audience is perhaps a bit more likely to use Adblock, not to mention the decline in news in general.

New comment by endisneigh in "EcoFlow's $200 PowerStream"

endisneigh — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 00:30:39 +0000

What could go wrong?

New comment by endisneigh in "Dawn of a new era in Search: Balancing innovation, competition, and public good"

endisneigh — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 22:04:57 +0000

You’re getting downvoted but I agree. I didn’t see the value and stopped after a while of paying. It is sad that basically any comment that isn’t pro-Kagi is downvoted but I guess that’s the Reddit-ification of this site.

Most people who complain about Google don’t even use it properly (e.g. PSE).

New comment by endisneigh in "Dawn of a new era in Search: Balancing innovation, competition, and public good"

endisneigh — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 19:21:24 +0000

A smaller competitor wants and advocates for itself. Makes sense but is it really surprising? It would be strange otherwise.

I do wonder how far one can get charging for search.

New comment by endisneigh in "Dutch DPA fines Uber €290M because of transfers of drivers’ data to the US"

endisneigh — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 10:31:28 +0000

It’s really not. It’s just inconvenient.

New comment by endisneigh in "A single server can go a long way these days"

endisneigh — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 00:32:02 +0000

The title and FTA are true but the economics for a startup is tricky.

One of the spectrum is true bare metal - setting up a data center, space, power, cooling and all of that.

Next step might be colocation.

The other end of the spectrum might be something like Firebase or DynamoDB. A step to the left from there might be Cloud Run, and then GKE.

It’s difficult to know how to spend your time and money as a function of the associated costs and maintenance.

Unfortunately from what I’ve seen the big clouds are a bit too expensive compared to the likes of Hetzner et al to just overprovision and forget about it.

I will say that it’s getting easier to have a self hosted set up that supports failover well with CockroachDB, TiDB and such.

The app side still needs refinement. Maintaining a k8s cluster on bare metal isn’t trivial.

New comment by endisneigh in "Just use Postgres"

endisneigh — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 15:58:44 +0000

Looking at the sheer number of rows isn’t really helpful - you’d need to know the query profile. Any database can simply store a billion rows.

New comment by endisneigh in "Just use Postgres"

endisneigh — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 14:03:47 +0000

You do not have to denormalize data to use dynamodb, just like how data doesn’t have to be normalized to use a relational DB.

Man people have no clue what they’re talking about lol

New comment by endisneigh in "Just use Postgres"

endisneigh — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 14:01:54 +0000

Your math is wrong… and it cannot be assumed that traffic is uniformly spread.

Finally what you’re saying is orthogonal to MongoDB - you can self host Mongo on a raspberry pi.

New comment by endisneigh in "Just use Postgres"

endisneigh — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 12:45:59 +0000

You can store normalized information. What you’re saying is still wrong. With respect to schema you can use Atlas Schema. If you’re not really familiar you shouldn’t make these comparisons IMO.

New comment by endisneigh in "Just use Postgres"

endisneigh — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 12:45:19 +0000

It is still true that vanilla Postgres doesn’t scale well beyond multiple machines. There are extensions that help, though.

New comment by endisneigh in "Just use Postgres"

endisneigh — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 11:02:55 +0000

Use what you know, ship useful stuff.

New comment by endisneigh in "Google removed Organic Maps from the Play Store"

endisneigh — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 11:01:07 +0000

You can still download via APK hosted on their website, no (like the FTA says, and provides a link)?

Isn’t that want folks want - to not have to go through the gatekeeper, aka Play Store?

New comment by endisneigh in "I am starting an AI+Education company"

endisneigh — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 18:54:55 +0000

I’m curious - have you ever taught in a public school?

New comment by endisneigh in "First Contact with SQLite"

endisneigh — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 11:15:23 +0000

Fact of the matter is that SQLite shouldn’t be used in a non embedded context. There’s a reason people use Postgres.

There are some neat things you can do with it like using HTTP range queries to query it directly from object store or Litestream, but my point stands.

New comment by endisneigh in "Turbopuffer: Fast search on object storage"

endisneigh — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 01:33:38 +0000

Slightly relevant - do people really want article recommendations? I don’t think I’ve ever read an article and wanted a recommendation. Even with this one - I sort of read it and that’s it; no feeling of wanting recommendations.

Am I alone in this?

In any case this seems like a pretty interesting approach. Reminds me of Warpstream which does something similar with S3 to replace Kafka.

New comment by endisneigh in "Mongo but on Postgres and with strong consistency benefits"

endisneigh — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 16:24:17 +0000

That’s been resolved for a long time now (not to say that MongoDB is perfect, though).

New comment by endisneigh in "Portugal brings back tax breaks for foreigners in bid to woo digital nomads"

endisneigh — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 13:01:34 +0000

Why would you compare bottom US to only Western Europe? Also, do you have a source on your claim? I’m skeptical that the US bottom 10% have it worse than “most or even almost all people from Western Europe”