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@zaid_ajaj "I love the idea of IAC as actual code. Too many times I've looked at yet another over engineered templating engine and thought, why couldn't this just be code?" Continues on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363030…

Heyy folks, today I am very happy to announce that @PulumiCorp CLI (v3.71.0) is now able to convert full Terraform projects to TypeScript, Python, C# or Go 🚀 Learn more about this feature here pulumi.com/blog/convertin… Then give it a try and let us know how it works for you 💜🙏

@jreuben1 "If devs write and maintain their own IAC then Pulumi is a good choice since they can write it in a familiar language. If however a dedicated devops team has to manage it eventually, and there are ... " Continues on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363030…

`pulumi convert --from terraform` command is now available pulumi.com/blog/convertin…

@ibrahimcesar "I really dislike pulumi's pricing structure. I absolutely hate the idea of paying credits for each resource that I create - it creates resistance to experiment and just create a bunch of resou... " Continues on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363030…

@DawsonTu3 "Cool. Thats why many dont. No one wants to work in such conditions and no one should. Wondering if he’s going to be as cocky when taiwan will need western help against china." Continues on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=362800…

TSMC will not do well in US. American workers care too much about work life balance while Taiwan companies have zero care about work life balance tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-exec…

@GoroZaisen "I can see why something as capital intensive as semiconductors would need shifts, to use equipment as close to 24/7 as possible. But many other aspects of the working conditions are pretty bad, ... " Continues on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=362800…

Outrageous to see TSMC confirm in writing that Taiwanese are expected to be slaves to lazy Americans: “TSMC's U.S. employees were not expected conform to the same work culture as its Taiwanese employees, according to a report by Focus Taiwan.” tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-exec…

@TransformHRTech "One underrated factor behind poor work conditions in SC is that the industry is highly concentrated, with often only one or two dominant players playing a critical role in process. ASML on ... " Continues on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=362800…

@trainin9 "> You’re in a train station, you’re not part of it. Thank you for posting this. This captures something that I had trouble putting into words. As someone who started using Reddit back in 2006 pre-... " Continues on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=362968…

302 – Killing Community marginalia.nu/log/82_killing…

@tjstebbing "Human communities DO NOT SCALE, which is counter to the usual tech startup ethos. If you take a human community of 100 people and grow it to 1000 people, it's not the same community anymore. I s... " Continues on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=362968…

Great article here about what kills online communities. Topic is reddit but the main points about online villages apply to any online space. marginalia.nu/log/82_killing…

@tldrnewsletter "You can make a village in some interesting ways. 4chan is a village, that's why it's one of the best resources/communities on the internet today. I've learned much of what I know about LLMs ... " Continues on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=362968…

Killing Community (4 minute read) Read more: marginalia.nu/log/82_killing… 9/15

2023-06-13 Protests crash Reddit 📱, Twitter CEO's first email 🐦, Chrome for Testing 👨‍💻 A thread 🧵... 1/15

@AgingBiology "Michael Levin's ideas are truly mind-blowing!" Continues on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=362647…

Aging as a morphostasis defect: a developmental bioelectricity perspective @drmichaellevin osf.io/wkhx4/

@KleinKleinKlein "I would think that a collective concerned with such an award would take the care to ensure their own "small" website works well on mobile, both in terms of performance and presentation. As ... " Continues on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=362673…

There are only a couple days left to get your submissions in for the best of the tiny internet. The winner will receive the first annual Tiny Award trophy and a $500 cash prize. tinyawards.net

@alvaro_montoro "Thanks for the feature. We made the website with build.mmm.page. It is the most fun wysiwyg builder I have used. Highly recommend it, bugs included." Continues on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=362673…

Do you know of a small website that you love and was launched during the past 12 months? Something that embodies the idea of a playful heartfelt Web. You may have created one yourself. Nominate it for the Tiny Awards! You can do it here before June 14: tinyawards.net

@KingOfCoders "To me the idea of a small web is a great one. But then for some reason everyone equates small with "static builder" and before you know it you're into a hellscape of complexity with static sit... " Continues on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=362673…

"Tiny Awards" tinyawards.net

@Top3HackerNews "> a distance of about 79% of an astronomical unit > located about 46% of an AU from its stars Does anyone find it weird that distances are quoted like this, and not 0.79AU and 0.46AU ? Is th... " Continues on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=362989…

Llama.cpp: Full CUDA GPU Acceleration → github.com/ggerganov/llam… BBEdit: Where Respect Is Due → apps.apple.com/us/story/id143… New exoplanet found orbiting twin suns → space.com/tatooine-exopl…

@N8ureNDCosmos "In molecular biology, it's generally considered good practice to avoid giving things stupid names, principally because telling someone "your child has a mutation in their Sonic Hedgehog gene,... " Continues on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=362989…

@OwenGregorian "Time to link one of my favorite plots currently: Orbital period vs mass distribution of known exoplanets: exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/exoplanetplots/ As you can see there, the t... " Continues on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=362989…

New Tatooine-like exoplanet discovered orbiting twin suns. Meet BEBOP-1c. ⁦@ScottAdamsSays⁩ space.com/tatooine-exopl…

@AlternativeTo "If this isn't antitrust behavior going on in broad daylight, then what is? Are the competition commissions of US sleeping in blissful ignorance while enjoying on taxpayer's salary? The least ... " Continues on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363064…

YouTube's legal team has demanded that privacy-focused frontend alternative to YouTube, Invidious, cease offering their client within seven days. alternativeto.net/news/2023/6/yo…

@l__Mar1ee__l "Didn't know invidious, now I do - thanks, Ms. Streisand! Looking at the project, I thought "it would be so cool if this could have a distributed backend that automatically caches videos from o... " Continues on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363064…

Fuck youtube AND google! One of those pampered gender confused twat waffles at the giggle factory JUST NOW discovered Invidious???🤣 That's so last season...They're gonna need a bigger boat if they they're going after youtube front-ends. alternativeto.net/news/2023/6/yo…

@rMdes_ "> In response, the project manager of the Invidious project replied on GitHub that they never agreed to any of YouTube's Terms of Services or Policies, and that Invidious doesn't use YouTube's API t... " Continues on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363064…

@ronaldolobato "I lost my 3 1/2 year old daughter to sudden illness several months ago. So many dreams left our family that day. Now it is up to those of us left behind to pick up the pieces." Continues on HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=362913…

Life Is So Terrible and Beautiful at the Same Time johnpweiss.com/blog/187270/li…