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Ask HN: Have you shipped anything serious with a “serverless” architecture?
I've been watching the rise and maturing of AWS lambda and similar offerings with excitement. I've also shipped several microservices in both node and Java that are entirely serverless, making use of API gateway, lambda, dynamo db, sqs, kinesis, and others.

For the simple case, I found the experience to be great. Deployment was simple and made use of shell scripts and the excellent AWS CLI.

I've been hesitant to build anything serious with it tho. The primary concern has been visibility into the app. The app's operation can be quite opaque when deployed that way.
Further exacerbating the issue, we've a few times lost Cloudwatch logs and other reporting due to both configuration issues and improper error handling, but these are things that would have been much easier to identify and diagnose on a real server.

Have you shipped anything serious with a serverless architecture? Has scaling and cost been favorable? Did you run into any challenges? Would you do it again?
But if the secret is hand pollination, it doesn’t have to be in Madagascar? Couldn’t it be done anywhere where the weather’s right, or indeed anywhere indoors?
Didn't say it was an irc client, but that it's today's (equivalent) of an irc client.

It's kind of laid out like some irc clients, have you used an irc client before?
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for political and nationalistic battle. That's not ok here, as the site guidelines make clear: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
So I can hire a personal assistant and manage every minute of their day and call them a contractor?
All the modifier keys on the left side of my MBP 2017 are starting to get flaky. I have to press them longer and harder to get them to register and they often register a key up while they key is still down. I’m dreading finding a service center and being without a machine for who knows how long while I’m doing the digital nomad thing.

Between this and the mostly useless touch bar I’d gladly take a MBP 2015 design with an updated CPU any day. I get that Apple likes to take chances on new ideas and that often pays off spectacularly for them but not this time.
That's in the Photos app settings. I have no idea if Google Photos does automatic conversion too.

I think someone mentioned before in this thread the syncing between Android and iPhone using Google Photos and finding the format incompatible on Android.
I really wonder if the 2018 will be any better, or if they will simply just push for more of the same.
I saw the post about the repair plan, it's kind of ridiculous, yet sadly unsurprising..

Perhaps going for one of the developer Dells with Ubuntu is the safest future bet..
You need to set an overarching goal system and then get buy in either explicitly or implicitly.
Here’s a detailed view of the outcome she’s trying to prevent: https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/features/johnny-depp-law...

> It's estimated that Depp has made $650 million on films that netted $3.6 billion. Almost all of it is gone.
Pigout beta version
Pigout app in beta!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.company.Pigout

https://www.facebook.com/Pigout-178997682768397/

You're at a cafeteria, you've got your lunch ... and then you just don't know where to sit. You don't want to sit alone, but you also don't know who would be friendly and let you sit with them. You had a pretty lonely experience at lunchtime, dinnertime and more.

Pigout introduces concept "Never Eat Alone, let's Pigout with new friends."

Swipe, Match, Chat, Pigout. It is easy and fun, enjoy your breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper with new friends. – Just swipe to see people's favourite cuisines as same as you. That's good match!

Then chat online with your matches, then step away from your phone, meet up in the real world and Pigout for food.

Cooking is all about people. Food is the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat. Let's Pigout
Here's an idea. All the tabs you've opened are in your browser history.

So in theory you could go back and re-read all those tabs later just by accessing them there....
Seems cringey and indicative of the current state of SV, and web startups running out of good ideas, that this is a YC company. “Rolled into an appearance on GMA” ... give me a break. You’re well connected and can probably make money selling an artificial product category to some subset of stupid people, and will probably sell the company to whoever owns AXE for a decent amount using the same connections. But is this really something you or YC can be proud of, even after attaching whatever gobbledygook about gender equality and B(S)-Corp?
You should have installed the PostScript error handler that prints up giant posters of your error messages and stack dumps scaled and tiled across many pages in a gargantuan font. Maybe they would have given you a really big printer instead of a Sun running NeWS.
Just curious about your eviction comment. I haven't seen or experienced anything like that, but maybe I am in a bubble.
Did not record password to 'asdfasdfklj' throwaway acc.

I agree that great power horse trading before and after WW1 has caused a lot of issues. A rules based world order is an improvement on that. I wish USA followed the rules and did not invade nations such as Iraq.

I forgot to mention relative GDP is a bad measure. Absolute GDP (on a log scale) is a much better measure. The relative GDP graph will falsely make it look like India and China declined far worse than they did around 200 years ago. The reason is the industrial revolutions, which separated population size from a nation's GDP (at least until recent globalization). One nation growing due to industrial revolution by itself does not make a stagnating non industrial economy weaker in absolute terms.

I think a large fraction of that relative decline would have happened even if there was not an absolute decline due to misdeeds of certain British and American people in the 1800s.
Even in the FLOSS world this is a somewhat extremist position - see https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.en.html
Housing projects are another question altogether, since people who live in subsidized housing don't really have the same choice and don't participate in the market the same way.

Let me ask you this--why don't the very richest people in your city live in very expensive suburbs instead of very expensive high-density areas?
Plain `pub` actually isn't quite local, and that's part of the confusion that `crate` is intended to address.

There's also the confusion of looking at a `pub` declaration and not knowing whether or not it's visible to the parent module or visible to the world- at which point maybe you don't want a purely local visibility mechanism.
A lot of OpenBSD's other subprojects (like OpenSMTPd and relayd/httpd) use a similar syntax. Really makes OpenBSD configuration a breeze.
I don't expect journalism to be non-partisan. I expect it to be affirmatively transparent about its partisanship.

You're right, though, that nothing actually meets that bar. It's a human institution; it's necessarily flawed. That's why you source across biases and ideologies, and correct accordingly.

The thing I'm talking about is instead the deliberate pretense of not being partisan. Fox News calling itself "fair and balanced", or claiming "We report. You decide." are just particularly egregious examples. When you aren't presenting enough of the picture for someone to form an informed opinion, you're peddling propaganda. I know the propagandist can't admit that's what he's doing, so I hold journalism to the standard of integrity of knowing, and owning, its biases.

But it's ultimately a spectrum, and it's on me to gauge where on that spectrum any given source lands. Some things are more propaganda than journalism. Some things are more or less one or the other to different degrees on different topics, at the same time. Sometimes they're at different points on the same topic, on different days, or in different stories.

It's complicated, sure. But, holding as nuanced an appreciation of this mess as I hope I've implied, I hope also that you'll give me the credit of not merely talking out my ass when I say I find Assange to be towards the propagandist pole.
I totally agree that sometimes they do ask for high fees for repairs --- you still get to talk to a person though, and I definitely know a good number of people who didn't have to pay for their mistakes. (Even things that were definitely their fault, and they didn't have accidental coverage)
To be fair, that is pretty much all retail though. Never admit liability unless forced to do so, and then you better have permission and explicit instructions as to how from higher-ups lest there be a "reckoning."
Because anything put on a screen makes it look like shit to me. I didn't pay that much money on a top of the line phone only to make it look like a low-end one.

I don't understand people with screen protectors. Unless they plan on reselling it.

BTW, I think people with iPhone X but with a screen protector are making a fundamental signaling mistake: you show to people that you can't really afford the phone.
Big fan of Trent. Hes one of the few artists with actual messages to his art beyond the Taylor Swift's and Kanye's who are more worried about keeping their brand strong than making meaningful art.
> Risk of borrowers defaulting is the entire ethical justification for lending with interest.

Ethics has little to do with it. The lender has money you want, and you pay them for the privilege of using that money for a while. Supply and demand.

One can't collateralize a mind aside from claiming a fraction of the attached body's output.
Maybe to extend a good open standard. Which would also be of benefit to people currently using it. Personally, I'm not keen on using some proprietary, inflexible solution like Slack. To me referring to this as 'rebuilding Slack' is sort of like talking about Thunderbird or Gmail as 'rebuilding Facebook Messenger'.
My other comment is below. Have you read the complaint? The government is claiming that there is essentially 8 years of evidence on that VM, that in addition to the actual CP, there is a long trail of metadata and inode data that would be fairly difficult to fake.

I mean, think about it: if you were the defendant, all you'd have to do is have someone examine it and find inode activity when you had a clear alibi that the government didn't know about (which would be easy, given we're talking 8 years here, he'd just have to find when he was on a date or out to dinner or something, the government isn't going to know his entire life history for 8 years), and you'd be well on your way to creating enough doubt with a jury.

Now, it's possible the government is lying, but if they're not, it strains credulity to think that they'd go to the effort, cost, and risk to fake that VM in such elaborate detail. If they wanted to ruin his life, there are hundreds of easier ways to do it than such an elaborate fraud.
I understand the thrust of your argument, but I interpret the meaning as not requiring the release of personal data as a precondition if using the service. I’d wager that if you could show that the price you’re charging isn’t attempting to be prohibitively high, then you would be compliant.
Broadcasts in a Native Language, Speaking to Every Corner of Peru
The economy has seen substantial wage growth at the low end. The local McDonald's was advertising pay of $13-$17 an hour - significantly above minimum wage.
Thanks for the detailed reply. My post may have seemed like partly-informed sour grapes but your information fits in well with what I've seen.

In a number of the applications I've seen the other killers are the fact that not only do you have the transfer costs you mentioned to the device, you also:

1. Have to get information back from the device - and in regular expression matching this might be 1 match in 1000 or 1 match in 5 if you're unlucky, and

2. Have to have a lot of parallelism to hit peak performance, yielding great throughput but so-so latency. At Sensory Networks during our hardware stage, we had a "2 Gbps regex accelerator" (hah) that didn't even hit that modest number on a single stream - it actually required 14 streams or so running at 142Mbps.

Many of the same sins are repeated for GPGPU.

The other thing that I notice is that the "noddy s/w solution" sometimes is the only thing out there. I looked at some accelerator work on Random Forest inference (not training) and - wow - all the RF implementations are naive. There are a lot of s/w tasks out there that no-one has bothered to optimize with any effort at all.

However, when your adviser says "make a GPGPU/FPGA thesis" I think a smart PhD just goes and does that, rather than sinking 6 months into building a really great s/w comparison. :-)
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Did not work well at all for me, and now I'm left wondering if it's the neural networks fault, or if I'm just very bad at writing kanji now.
Oh wow, reading that link was really useful. Thank you.
They sound absolutely terrible at the moment to be honest!
What I found super interesting from part I is that they envisioned the FET first (which is closer in analogy to a vacuum tube), ended up building the contact point transistor and then much later the FET idea returned and became extremely important.

This passage:

"Just as Lee De Forest had taken a vacuum tube rectifier and placed an electrified grid between the source and the sink of the current, so did Brattain and Becker imagine inserting a grid into the interface between the copper and copper oxide, where the act of rectification was presumed to occur. However, given the thinness of this layer, it seemed to them impossible to actually do this, and they made no real headway."

Clearly presages the FET.
I haven't used Discord in a while, but when I did I just ended up logging in via a browser. (The binary blob client had some major cpu/memory issues when I tried it.)
Random data is very likely to give you e.g. “invalid instruction” runtime error when executing.
And I'm willing to bet they use the singular they quite often without even realizing it
Facing the same problem with iPad Pro 2017. Thought it was just built-in obsolescence, because I had previous iPad 3 for 5 Years with no issues.
Hey Frey Team, I'm having a hard time reading your content with Firefox on Android!

The text containers are overlapping on my phone, so I can't make out what it says.
And they run Private Internet Access VPN:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Internet_Access
I like his delivery. He speaks clearly, goes over the main points in a slow, methodical, easy to understand manner -- and best of all, doesn't have generic YouTuber, "WHAT'S UP GUYS THIS IS DROWYOSHI3288 BACK WITH ANOTHER VIDEO" type presentation.
In case anyone was curious, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/literally states R"(This type of usage is common in informal speech ("she was literally in floods of tears") and is attested since 1769.)"
To the designers at Apple any sort of hole is like a disease that needs to be fix.
Lp0 on fire
Interesting, I'm inclined to support some way of removing code obfuscation. I wonder if a neural network could be trained to do that.
It has been identified as a new economic class : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precariat
The SSD is socketed but proprietary, using a non-standard connector and an Apple-designed controller chip. The RAM is soldered.

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Function...
Updated with more detail and maybe fewer typos:

I certainly considered tape and used it in the past, but there are two huge upsides to hard disks:

1. Obviously access and transfer time is much better.

2. I can access hard disks from 30+ years ago. My oldest drives use SCSI and IDE, but even SATA has been around for ages. My tapes however can only be read of the particular branch of tape drives and there are an infinitude of standards/models around so I'd have to store the tape drive along with it. I'm not sure I'd be able to restore my father old backups as the tape drive was some weird PC thing.

A few years ago I finally transferred my tapes to my FreeNAS box and breathed a sigh of relief as I don't know when I'd be able to run my DAT changer again.

So, no thanks, I'll stay with hard drives (mind you, drives _will_ die as well so you still need redundancy).

PS: I want to emphasize that I was talking about shelf life. For data sitting in a good NAS, like ZFS based FreeNAS, I have little worries as there's redundancy and weekly scrubbing (and I do have a backup of that as well). I do worry a great deal about any data that might sit on a USBKey or an SSD in the closet.
It seems to me like if a company makes claims that aren't true, then that is sometimes illegal --- that's what I meant by that statement. I don't think it's a matter of if something is a "legal document" so much as if their claims are legally binding, but I'm also not a lawyer. (But hence why I asked).

I 100% agree that the total number they have for repair could be small for other reasons, but it's fair to say that we just don't know. I certainly know people who hate the touchpad, but not everyone I know has had issues with the butterfly style keyboard. So again, some form of data, but still inconclusive.

Also, regardless, sorry you had to go through the shitty keyboard =/. I hope whatever other computer you consider in the future is better. FWIW, I'm also debating whether the current generation of Macbooks is something I'm interested in, and I'm still not sure.
Twitter may have sufficient scale that the additional data aren't meaningful.

Friend worked on a large, multi-institutional risk-modelling project ... until the largest institution decided it had enough data on its own, and didn't need competitors who were competitive in this regard, and pulled the plug.

Law of large numbers (statisttics) is powerful. Even for complex (multvariate) models.

It sounds as if there may well be other considerations at play, but I'm answering your question specifically.
Show HN: Common (co-living startup) subpoenas Slack for any of my communications
A significant problem of the self esteem and positive thinking movements is the way in which it removes focus from the structural political, social and economic reasons that so strongly influence “success” and therefore “happiness” in the world. I think we will see the pendulum swing back as narcissistic populist politicians unwittingly remind us of this.
We should be pleased that someone actually wants to move irc forward and invest in it. I first discovered IRC in 1995 hanging out on #hackerzlair and later various Linux channels on EFnet. Without the countless hours on irssi inside GNU screen (yes, there was something before tmux!) I wouldn’t be where I am today in my career. That said, we need to keep it distributed as much as possible; too few owners could be poisonous.

To my last point, I could easily see a second revival of irc using IPFS as the transport layer. Same feeling of community and privacy in a text terminal, but no central nodes.
I am also fine with assuming we don't really have data on the issue, but "knowing friends that agree with me" isn't really a reason to think you are definitely right.
Practically, while you can share your prescription medications with another person, abortions are not transferable.

The registry is not supposed to about who has a prescription, but rather, who has more than their legitimate share of prescriptions. It’s also supposed to be used to identify over-prescribing doctors.
znc is apt install ...
And a few edits in a config file.
> But if you vote republican, I do very much agree with the first 2 points.

which is funny because now all sides, of two, think each other as fascists.

democrats think republicans are fascist because the lack of reprimanding against insensitive ideas, while the republicans continue to promote bigotry with no focus on civil rights

republicans think democrats are fascist because democrats want to reprimand any voters that don't vote democrat and didn't waste their vote on a non-republican party

all while nobody actually does what fascists actually did
You can pack it together with the dongles :-)
Thanks for bringing this to my attention, although a link to the Stallman article which someone linked below would have been helpful. I've installed LibreJS, I'm curious to see how many things stop working now.
Quite the contrary, colonizing all of Africa, South America, India, and drugging China (at about the same time) did a lot to boost GDP...

Industrial revolution works even better if all prevailing exporters all of a sudden fall off a cliff.

"Mean reversion", word of the century.

Interesting bonus fact for economic historians, in 1890, 30% of Britain's GDP was illegal opium smuggling to China.

Would be interesting to see the numbers for the USA (by some accounts, the biggest exporter by that point)...

Courtesy of Aaron Swartz: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3112527
> There is nothing inherently and outright wrong with such a dependence

This is yet another strawman. The original commenter found it "silly", which, I agree, was a poor choice of wording.

Perhaps "overly risky" would have been better. I don't know. I just take the most charitable reading, per the guidelines.

It also comes after an exhortation to have a contingency plan, so it's at least implied that the "silliness" isn't inherent merely to the dependence but to the dependence without such a plan.

> in many, it's a completely sensible tradeoff

Is the tradeoff actually considered, though? Or is there just an automatic "we're not a nuclear reactor" decision process?

> is 100% uninteresting

Were that true, I doubt there would be replies. This is not one of those traditionally emotional/political issues.

> Including or not including 'in prod'

I (again, charitably) read "in prod" as a metaphor for "business critical". I'm sure we can all come up with examples, even in Internet companies, where one does not necessarily mean the other (or vice-versa). In the instant case, it seems to apply, so it made sense as shorthand.

> It's just lazy grousing.

I would agree if there were no built-in suggestion on how to avoid the problem at all, but there were.

Just because the point has been made before doesn't make it any less valid, until it has been refuted.
How much do you think he spent on litigation? Lawyers are pretty expensive. Even if you don't like the company that was effected, what stops the government agency from using the same tactics on one you do like and putting them out of business without having to win a court case?
The problem is that, given the greenhouse forcing, those leaks will arguably cost society much more than a few $billion per year. It's just that the gas industry isn't legally responsible for that. And that's why they don't want to stop the leaks.
> Not only that, but do you have an existence before you are born?

If you are inventing mysteries out of thin air why stop there? What if you will yourself into existence? What if it is you that is making "time" perceivable for the rest of us? Do your half-existing-yet-unborn-brother dies every time you are reborn into this plane but not if you will yourself to be born into another parallel universe?
I’m currently working through problem solving books for elementary/juniour high school. I’m trying to mainly learn to love math and problem solving as it causes me a lot of anxiety and frustration but every now and then I solve a problem and get a little bit of a rush.
Wow, I've been wanting something just like this for Rust. And it has row polymorphism!
This is the general trend in Apple in making almost everything difficult to service directly to make case more easily manufactured lighter. Course when something goes wrong...
Irc with proper roaming support and push notifications would blow discord or slack out of the water.

Newer is not necessarily better.