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I think the example you give is more because there's a mismatch between technologies, rather than the "fault" of serverless. In serverless, your endpoints become infinitely scalable. This doesn't go well when they're backed by technologies where there is a hard limit on the number of connections, for instance SQL servers or a Redis server. I think therefore that SQL database technologies have to adapt to the serverless paradigm rather than dismissing serverless "because it brings so many other issues". I think AWS has already started that with Amazon Aurora.

That aside, I agree that there are a lot of secondary concerns that are important when running things in production but that aren't available out-of-the-box when you run something on AWS Lambda. I'm thinking about error monitoring, performance monitoring, logging,... All those things need to be set up and that's quite time-consuming.

However, I think that's more due to serverless being relatively new and not as mature as the traditional way of doing. I don't think it will take long before we'll have the equivalent for serverless of adding `gem 'newrelic_rpm'` to your Gemfile and magically having performance and error monitoring across your app.
Yep, that's the place... if it's the one I'm thinking of, then I think it's a diagram of a search through a set of potential models during a RA (Reconstructability Analysis) of 3 independent variables with 1 dependent variable.

It's Dr. Marty Zwick's favorite picture since he's the one who teaches DMM (Discrete Multivariate Modeling) which deals with RA. I haven't taken it yet, but he was at ISSS and gave a plenary on RA, as well as chaired a full day of RA related presentations.

Here is some more information, which also has the diagram I think you're referencing:

https://www.pdx.edu/sysc/research-discrete-multivariate-mode...
I feel the same way brother. And it took me 10 years to diagnose it. Just took one good GP
If you want to help out with a similar project, Ted Nelson (of Xanadu etc) used to sign up for "junk mail" about the present and future of computing, archiving ephemera that might not exist anywhere else anymore. Recently they've been scanned and uploaded to the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/tednelsonjunkmail The project is finished and the scanner has been paid, but the project overall is still in the red. Financials and paypal link at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rqfc2R_Ti6-WnuneaMfH...

Selections: https://twitter.com/hashtag/TedNelsonMail?src=hash
No offense but BS. What you have claimed is totally unsubstantiated, and not aligned with my experience working on highly-trafficked eCommerce applications.

If you know what your doing you can write elegant, performance tuned, secure and maintainable code in a dynamic language. I've also seen poorly written code written in statically typed languages.

It really comes to who is writing the code, what kind of standards they abide to, and their architectural prowess.
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That's the same argument these colleges used to keep Jews out in the 30's. Now they're saying Asians have bad personalities so they shouldn't be admitted. This sounds ethical to you?
So why not take the time off sometime else?

One possible solution is to make the maternity/paternity leave mandatory "within a year" rather than immediately.

Also, keep in mind you're not, in any event, being forced. It's your choice whether to have kids or not.
> I'm a pacifist, so obviously I'm for the idea of a nuke free world. But I don't understand how it could be achievable. I mean, is it that hard to build a nuke? The required knowledge has spread globally by now. As a side effect of general progress in science and engineering it will be cheaper, not more expensive, to build nukes. Do people share my pessimism about this?

Nukes are expensive to build even if you know how, and expensive to maintain. That puts a bit of a stop on small countries. But those costs will obviously get smaller with time, as this is what technology generally does - makes difficult things easier, expensive things cheaper.

Regardless, things are going to get more dangerous with time, really, simply because from where we stand now, all interesting technologies we can conceive are either directly or indirectly powerful enough to be dangerous. Here are few thoughts.

- Power storage. Destructive capability is tied to power density. Which is the same thing we're trying to improve, as our world needs more energy and more portable energy. The difference between a battery and a grenade now is how rapidly it releases accumulated energy.

- Interplanetary travel. As they say, any drive technology that's powerful enough to be interesting - that is, giving us weeks/months of travel time within the Solar System - is also a weapon of mass destruction. With our current understanding of physics, we'll need to be able to handle in day-to-day usage amounts of energy comparable to nuclear weapons. And that's not even touching the kinetic energy (relative to Earth) stored in asteroids flying around the Sun, that could be unleashed on this world with just a slight nudge at the right time.

- Nanotechnology and biotechnology. They're one in the limit (life itself is nothing but advanced nanotech we didn't create, and don't know how to control yet). They offer unprecedented capabilities all across the board, from healthcare through manufacturing to quality-of-life, and of course, military. If we crack that, we'll be pretty much on fast track to godhood. And yet even today we can see the potential for disasters - from genetically engineered plagues, through precise genetic attacks, gene drives, plastic-eating bacteria, to the well-known grey goo scenario.

- Superhuman AI - if we actually get a self-improving mind working, that's most likely game over for humanity.

I'm not trying to scare people away from science and technology. Hell, I'm looking forward to all things on the above list - I'm just not sure if, as a civilization, we're mature enough not to inflict great suffering on ourselves with such capabilities.
Possibly stupid question: Would battery swaps be a reasonable solution to this?
I maintain that ss is a legitimate substitute in standard German orthography, just as ae for ä etc. not only because I can't be arsed to switch key layouts, but because ß is a useless character. If you compare Fuß, Ruß and Mus; Muss and Bus, Plus; Museeum and Muster. It is derived from a ligature, which is not any less confusing between ss and sz. So Buße implies it was once written Busse (or Busze). Add to that the phonetic difference between jetzt, jezt, and Arzt, is rather ridiculous, I mean, what do we have the c for? We rather standardize an extra letter and use c chiefly in ch and sch, but why? Ich habe da so meine Cweifel, ehh Tsweivel, eh ... ach lassen wir dass.
I find this unacceptable:

int func( type arg,
type arg);

Specifically, the space there after ( . Syntax-aware editors already handle this formatting situation fine.

The remaining use case for this elastic business is aligning reams of comments on the right side.

The best solution solution is not to write those. They are never needed in code, but sometimes they can be beneficial in data structure declarations.

The elastic effect shown can be a achieved without tabs. The text editor simply recognizes that multiple lines have aligned comments, and maintains that with spaces. However, that still leaves the version problem/infelicity that semantic changes to one line trigger surrounding whitespace changes.

The best solution is to leave enough space for the longest declaration you would ever use. Anything longer is then split into multiple lines.

struct foo {
int magic; /* magic number */
int x, y; /* coordinates in bar space */
void (*sudden_big_decl)(struct foo *, /* Phew, That was close! */
int, int, /* Good thing we left all that room. */
double);
};
What is your coffee to theanine ratio?
Power leakage is an increasingly large problem nowadays. (Because yes, semiconductors are nowadays suffering from observable quantum effects.)
I may misunderstand your comment.

That said, where I work (MaaS Global) we have a production PostgreSQL database hosted on AWS Relational Database Service (RDS):

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/

We connect to the AWS RDS instance in our lambda functions using an ES library called knex.js and some environment variables to store the DB credentials:

https://knexjs.org/
If you're trying to align text, then even 2 would fail when the thing you're trying to align with is an odd number of characters (name of a method, etc).
Not everyone is the right person for a specific code review. Even on small teams someone may be more of a subject matter expert in one facet of your system or code. Therefore load balancing isn’t really the right way to look at it. The idea should be to seek feedback inclusively and welcomed from all teammates. As a submitter your job is to make sure you get the right feedback if there is someone more knowledgeable of a topic. This is why standup is a good place to discuss a code review where you can identify need for time and also identify right people.
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Yes, but for the previous few generations of transistor manufacturing, transistors' power consumption has not scaled down as well as their size. This is known as the failure of Dennard Scaling[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling
Haha it is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vas_deferens

To my deferens, it vas vast over my head.
Hahaha, glad you liked it
What will it take to get your grandma into crypto?
Just do a search on google about it. Tons of studies and collected statistics point to that percentage.
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It occurs to me that letting the wound scab over first would also protect fast replicating cells from UV radiation.
How would you build an order-processing & accounting system with only SOLR/Elasticsearch? Can you guarantee data reliability?
Who runs the Wikileaks twitter account these days? I don't imagine it could be Assange as I understand that his access to the 'net is tenuous at best.
I've been cycling to work for the last ~5years, and the practicality of a commute is a key factor in where I decide to accept a job.

I live in Amsterdam and the commute is ~6km each way. It might not seem very much, but I ride whatever the weather and whatever time of day/night. It helps enormously having the dedicated cycle path infrastructure.

I'm a cyclist at heart and did wonder if the oversaturation of daily biking would alter my view from "enjoyable pastime" to "necessary evil". It's almost done the opposite. Not only has my fitness improved (so I can enjoy longer rides with less effort), but the fresh air and independence (leave and arrive by my own steam, not waiting for a bus or stuck in a traffic jam) really does make each day start better. It's also changed my perception of what can be achieved - even if it's chucking down with rain and a howling wind.... I still have to get on two wheels and pedal to work.

If only the government would understand all the benefits having a proper safe cycling infrastructure can bring to the people...
Why is the author’s HN comment dead?

Joe feeneys HN account is indeed iamawalrus; he wasn’t impersonating anyone. Further his comment just said:

“Hey! I’m the author of this post. I’m pretty chuffed to see this here. Happy to answer any questions.”

I want to hear what he has to say.
The answer to that is tricky because it depends on intent.

Taking an expansive definition of blockchain as a log of sequential, cryptographically verifiable transactions seems okay enough. At the point where we're nitpicking what is/isn't blockchain, that's not a useful exercise, because the real question is whether this is the right solution for the right problem.

On the other hand, "blockchain" is a highly loaded term, and choosing to label something on the margins "blockchain" means diffusing the legitimacy of application onto the marketing term, or vice versa. In that sense, I'd be hesitant to lump this marginal example into "blockchain" specifically instead of just "cryptography stuff".
Illegal family secrets.
L-theanine is a structural analog of L-glutamate and L-glutamine, amino acids that are common in neurotransmitters, so the effects of taking it will be highly variable by person just like any psychiatric drug - although the effects are far less pronounced so it's much safer (liver toxicity aside). Chances are, your diet already has plenty of those building blocks for your unique brain chemistry so you're at an equilibrium where adding more L-* just gets balanced out by the body or it could be that it's saturated so you have to try other levers (although that is much harder since metabolic pathways are nonlinear and incredibly complicated).
I use Goodreads as my main book tracker and reviewer. My impression is that Amazon bought it for whatever reason, and then ignored it. It seems like there's so much more potential to a social community around books than what Goodreads offers. The UI also never fails to disappoint. One of the core user features, searching for books, has all sorts of weird quirks. I'll use a very specific query that should guarantee a hit, and nothing comes up. Or, the book that I want will come up for a second, and right as I'm going to select it, the results completely change and the book I want has vanished.
In practice your statement reduces to holding up a color wheel and making sure the special colors are given a benefit in the selections process and unfavored colors receive a disadvantage in the process.
I'm kind of glad these appear to be targeted at collectors rather than wave riders. $1500 is a high price for a surf board, though plenty of off the rack longboards or large wave can crack the $1000 barrier.

Wonder how a Tesla board would be received in the lineup. My guess is that aside from a few localized breaks, nobody would care much. Might generate more curiosity than hostility at a lot of spots, and where it would generate hostility, well, pretty much anything that stands out is a bad idea there. You know where to keep a low profile (that said, a shiny "Tesla" board in those rare circumstances would seem like an unusually unwise way of standing out, kind of like wearing a t-shirt celebrating your tech IPO at an anti-gentrification rally).

One thing that drives me a little nuts is the very sharp pointy nose, which I consider to be a non-functional hazard done purely for cosmetics. I actually think the smooth rounded edge looks better too, kind of like the corners of an iPhone. But Tesla would hardly be the first or only violator here. And if it's for decoration on the wall, then no harm no foul.

I'm all for buying surfboards as art. It's no crime to hang them on the wall and not ride them, as far as I'm concerned, and I highly doubt a shaper is going to be bummed to get the business. But this Tesla board on my wall as art? Nah.
My current company doesn’t have that problem (at least in my team) but I’m sure some teams do. I think this is everywhere and depends on team culture.
Yeah but power consumption increases with something like the 4th power (heh) of frequency so there's not much you can do even with really low power transistors.
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Yes, but just like Moore's law is on the edge of being mined out of the easy gains, so is Dennard scaling.
Relevant in what way? It’s a work of fiction.
I think the plaintiffs don’t misunderstand this claim, they just think it’s cover for “we don’t want that many Asians” in this case.
That’s really what’s keeping me from developing stuff with it. I can get the job done with dynamodb but I’m really looking forward to building something with Postgres in a “serverless” context.
There's another weird thing with creating with preservation in mind.

I'm sure when Speedo made those suits, they weren't thinking about whether they'd keep for 40 or 50 years. The idea is that it would be like other clothes. You buy it, wear it until it becomes too threadbare or tears or some other normal thing, discard it, then buy another.

That's why historical districts kind of fascinate me. The people who built that house, that pub, that shop, they weren't thinking "Geez, this will stand forever as a perfect representation of life right now", they were thinking "Well. I need a roof over my head".

And they'd build extensions, re-purpose rooms, remodel, etc. All the normal things you do in a house. Then eventually, it becomes a historic landmark and it freezes in time. You can't tear it down, you can't alter it, you can't do much with it anymore. But these weren't concerns of the original builders. It's likely they did tear down something to put this up. It's all very weird to me. Especially since I do like checking out those kinds of places and I know that those preservation efforts are what allows us to have this view into the past.

But it is odd.
It's interesting that one of the ideas this article criticizes is a harebrained combination of closed-circuit television and a "pneumatic page turner", intended to allow readers to study a book in a library many miles away so that only one copy would need to be kept.

Yet, I think this basic idea was implemented in the digital realm by iTunes (or someone else) in recent years so that each person would not individually need their own copy of some music file. Instead, they would just stream it from an iTunes server.
I've heard and read about the 10hz frequency inducing altered states of mind [0]. I've also heard anecdotally that both water and fire resonate/flicker at 10hz, which is why people focus and get lost in flame and water.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4990355/
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I think the context there is "But he’s jewish and engaged with the ((()))) issue" which isn't looking to criticize him for being Jewish or his work - but rather some other aspect we can't make a decision about.

Or..... Just jump to pitchforks!

More of that exchange if you do want context instead of pitchforks...

[2016-08-23 01:21:32] <WISE Up Action> Satter is desperately trying to make smoke.

[2016-08-23 03:01:11] <M> Interesting to look through his past tweets re WL. He covered Saudi Cables when they came out, but I didn’t see any mention of personal info concerns (however, I only skimmed his tweets). He seemed to turn against WL after AKP, DNC and has attacked them since.

[2016-08-23 03:11:41] <M> Also note that he is trying to make this a new, recent story (“in the past year”) but Saudi Cables where 95% of claims stem from are over a year old.

[2016-08-23 04:46:09] <WikiLeaks> He’s always ben a rat.

[2016-08-23 04:46:27] <WikiLeaks> But he’s jewish and engaged with the ((()))) issue.

[2016-08-23 05:28:35] <WikiLeaks> http://Govwaste.co.uk*

[2016-08-23 05:35:50] <Emmy B> surprising I don’t see any archived links from there, I thought I had archived some pages*

[2016-08-23 06:04:49] <Emmy B> Last wayback machine capture: https://web.archive.org/web/20160811212406/http://govwaste.c...

[2016-08-23 07:23:25] <M> Looking into it*

[2016-08-23 09:15:15] <WISE Up Action> Satter is keeping going in general and wide-ranging attacks on WL /JA

[2016-08-23 12:58:54] <WikiLeaks> Bog him down. Get him to show statements of his bias.

[2016-08-23 13:03:28] <WikiLeaks> He’s the son of David Satter, who is mentioned in our cables. DS is a senior member of the Hudson institute and a well known Russia basher and NSA apologist. He was expelled from Russia in 2008 and 2014. Rafael grew up in Washington DC

So... is WL being racist? No, it doesn't seem it. Is WL using ((())) in any sort of racist way? No, not at all. What is wrong with some of you? Please leave your nonsense at Reddit.
I think drinking too much is why we are having this problem in the first place, so maybe people should just stop it. You'd end up with Maßßen and Maszen eventually. Ich geh dann mal zum Arz, mir jezt ein attezt holen. Da wird man doch bekloppt.
Not OP, but me 2.5:1 theanine to caffeine. 500mg theanine, 200mg caffeine. It really does wonders for me personally.
Agreed it shouldn’t be an even distribution of review requests across the board. That said, if a few people are getting all the reviews, it’s difficult for them to make progress on their project work, and for other engineers to learn code review best practices and get familiar with the codebase.
Any bias against Asian people has nothing to do with African-American people. Let's leave the racial competition off HN.
Unsure, but I vouched for it so it's undead now.
GDS suck because of compability. Compability to decade old systems and workers, and compability to evertything and anything. The first GDS where 40-50 years ago created, under the stress of very limited resources, aimed for very specific handling. In that time, workflows and concepts were established and brought into productions, which are still used today.

If you think unix-commandline is cryptic in it's usage, then you should try gds-commands, which are often optimized to the single characters. Today you can use XML and JSON, but they are only build on top of those old systems, leading to many old crafty things.
> But we can't genetically engineer humans.

But we can; it is just an opinion that we should not.
I noticed an effect when taking it with coffee, too. I just had some l-theanine as a supplement. I just drink coffee, so I didn't think much of taking it with coffee, so I didn't expect anything. It seemed to "smooth out" the effect of the caffeine. Rather than jittery, it turned it into smoother focus.
Scale is not just user load, but also scale of application complexity. In my experience when one db connection has access to every resource, in a complex application, this can lead to some really convoluted queries and make schema changes very difficult because of cross cutting dependencies built into these queries, triggers, procedures... etc. This is forgetting about the issues of deadlocks when you have 80 consuming services and applications you don't even know about are opening up all sorts of transactions. Even just splitting the DB into schemas for each resource domain and limiting access per service can help to avoid this.

Also performance is relative, I've worked on highly trafficked applications that had to support high throughput. I have also worked on applications backed by relational storage where data size and complexity has impacted performance.
Maybe you should try using a VM with special recording settings.
Any halfway good language has a constant procession of new books being cranked out about it. Reading a new "bible" is required every 3 to 5 years, along with updates to your entire code base.
Also Lisp in a Box is no longer available. Nevertheless this book is always on my desk. I refer to it almost on a weekly basis.