Hacker News: idleprocess

New comment by idleprocess in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

idleprocess — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:26:43 +0000

Larry Ellison, Softbank, and OpenAI invested a lot of money into project Stargate. Would be a shame if Anthropic took a piece of the pie.

New comment by idleprocess in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

idleprocess — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:14:21 +0000

New comment by idleprocess in "QGIS is the mapping software you didn't know you needed"

idleprocess — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 22:39:55 +0000

I love exploring open GIS datasets with QGIS. It's incredible what this tool can do and I keep discovering new features or plugins all the time, which keeps it interesting. The amount of publicly available GIS data combined with tools like QGIS and PostGIS can be a big time saver. I don't work in the space, but occasionally run into problems requiring some form of support for geospatial data. Need a list of US cities and postal codes along with their respective coordinates? Easy. Find the dataset, import into QGIS, export to PostGIS. Done.

New comment by idleprocess in "Lessons learned from running Apache Airflow at scale"

idleprocess — Mon, 23 May 2022 17:00:57 +0000

I can second this. We were up-and-running with Docker on our dev machines in just a few minutes. A native installation involves substantially more setup (Python, databases, Redis and/or Rabbit, etc.). The published docker-compose file will handle all of that for you. We have a very small data engineering team and have been able to move very quickly with Docker and AWS ECS (for orchestrating containers in test and prod environments).