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I agree with splitting up CF stacks this way. It reduces the the blast radius, that saved me on a number of occasions when stack updates went sideways.

The problem introduced by that approach is how to manage a large number of CF stacks. First I used a homegrown Python library to manage them, then switched to having Terraform manage CF.

At first Terraform on CF was just intended to be an expedient measure to facilitate migrating everything to Terraform, and eventually we did migrate to pure Terraform. But then we started hitting all the rough edges in Terraform. In hindsight, the hybrid approach had actually been more stable and manageable than using either tool in isolation.
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Actually the europeans are following a similar logic. Try to cushion the pain, amortize it over a long period, hope the problem goes away by itself. You end up 10 years after the financial crisis with an unhealthy banking sector, high unemployment, etc. So it doesn't have to crash but you basically end up having to live with the problem instead of fixing it. The US approach of taking the pain upfront and starting clean works better in the long run in my opinion.
It depends how tight censorship gets. Much tighter and it may be more hassle free to run decentralized. But currently, it is still easier just to start another centralized platform. It isn't so much easier, however, that with a few hundred million, a proper niche, and a quality decentralized app couldn't make it as #1 in it's category.
There is a lot of scientific evidence for that last point. (Which, ironically, puts environmentalists on the back foot, causing them to deny science because a big chunk of environmentalism is based on political ideology and not the science or economics of the environment.)
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Nice explanation about myths, invention of zero and difference in lifestyle of East and west
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I've actually been working on this exact idea combined with a few other features. The main finding so far is that adding a simple contact list to your email that blocks all messages from senders not in your contacts has some far reaching potential. The biggest one is how it can drastically reduce spam: not worrying about whether some website is going to abuse or share your email is a big advantage. The other big win, is that you don't have to be as secretive of your email address if you don't have to worry about being plagued with spam for life. I plan on making this a public service in the next few weeks.
I started building a small vscode extension that shows you the list of signatures of all of your functions in your elm project. The idea being to quickly find something that matches the signature you want to use at the moment.
Interesting, do you think a 2/3 beef diet would give some results

Were you grilling steak, how else can you prepare straight beef?
Using Sonar + thermal imaging + laser probing and using machine learning to identify different material/distance/texture then using it to create realistic frames seems better to me.
I think the Japanese perfected that approach with their lost decade.
your description about the average Chinese mental feature might be right. But the restaurant example is not correct.
Maybe a little off topic. I'm a Canadian Chinese my self. I learned hard lessons within Canada so I will likely to choose busy restaurant. In China there might have long queues for special brand food from some unique restaurant but usually people don't wait for dinner or lunch. Average Chinese are impatient just like average American. When they expect waiting for a casual lunch, most of time they will turn around to find next restaurant because there are countless attractive options.

Canada in general is a slow country and restaurant market is not competitive with exceptions of a couple of big cities. Waiting is normal for Canadian. In early times, being impatient I've made many wrong choices by turning around to find a less busy restaurant which always led to terrible experience without exception. Before I made wrong choices I was thinking that how those busy restaurants can survive by treating their customers so badly to let them wait in hunger. It turned out that alternatives were always worse. In China both are likely to be replaced by competitors very quickly with better services. In Canada both survived for long time. Differently market ecology. So I leaned to choose the less evil of them
Interestingly, LISP for the PDP-6 was begin written while the machine was still being built.
Here's one example: substances which increase metabolic output (and can cause mania/psychosis) suppress the appetite (Adderall, Ritalin, Meth) and have been marketed as appetite suppressants in the past. I have used their little sister, caffeine for this same purpose earlier this week.
> Every time is a horrible ordeal. I often feel physically sick during the process.

Honest to god question. Have you considered changing domain for a while? I work in a chill software company and I wouldn't trade my free time and lack of anxiety for pretty much anything
Maybe you're picturing "management" on the wrong level. Think "Limited Partners in VC firms", not CEOs. Being in management—even being a CEO!—is still a trade-skill (it is, in fact, the quintessential haute-bourgeoisie trade-skill) and not the sort of thing you'd historically learn in college. Most historical "captains of industry"—think e.g. Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller—never went to college.

College, really, was for the people who boss CEOs around: the patrons (modernly, "angel investors") of the founders who started the company; the capitalists who sit on the boards of the the mutual funds who invest in IPOed companies; etc. People who got taught how to "manage wealth" and the essentials of an MBA on their daddy's knee (with said father possibly being one of the wealthy middle-class "captains of industry"), and are now, in their teenage years, being sent off for "polishing" at college, such that they can be a good person, not just a brutally efficient one. (And, also, to enculturate them into the upper-class by immersion among upper-class children, so that a merely-wealthy family can be thus transmuted into an upper-class dynasty, with descendants worthy of noble status in countries that grant such.)

Or, to put that another way: the humanities were created to turn people like Jeff Bezos into people like Elon Musk. (Or to turn people like during-Microsoft Bill Gates into people like post-Microsoft Bill Gates.) To take people who already have a knack for "making money", but are still fundamentally human with human drives like greed and pride; and inculcate into them a perspective on wealth as being a means to a greater, humanitarian end.
> C ABI

Is there really such a thing? I thought the ABI was dependent on the operating system and compiler.

I agree that C is unique in it's ability to generate programs that can be interfaced with from any language. This also seems to apply to older languages like Fortran and Pascal, for some reason. Higher level languages are an ABI nightmare; seriously doubt anyone will ever dynamically link against a C++ library at runtime and call a method on a C++ object from any language that isn't C++.
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There is also a lot of institutional knowledge missing. The US knows since the 1929 crash that it is very dangerous to let retail investors buy stocks on margin and there are very strict rules to limit that. I understand buying stocks on margin was common for retail investors in China and greatly contributed to the volatility of the Chinese stock market.
Seems like the Falcon extension has not gotten any updates in the last year or two:

https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon
> What part do climate change deniers deny?

It's two fold issue. People question the level to which human activity contributes to climate and they question the remedy to it.

Obviously climate change has always happened. It happened before human existence, climate change occurred throughout human history and climate change will happen after humans aren't around. Nobody is denying climate change. Climate change denier is actually a propaganda term invented by one group to attack another. Similar to christ-denier and other "denier" attacks. I prefer the neutral terms "climate change proponent and opponent".

One of the major pushback against the human created climate change is that we were in an little ice age until the 19th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2000_Year_Temperature_Com...

Climate change opponents say the warming is a result of the natural end to the ice age cycle as has happened for hundreds of thousands of years.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ice_Age_Temperature....

As you see, temperatures have declined and risen for hundreds of thousands of years ( with negligent human input ). So climate change opponents claim that the current climate change is just part of the climate's natural cycle.

Climate change proponents claim that the current warming is a result of human activity ( particularly fossil fuel based industrialization ). After all, we started using oil in the mid 1800s and temperatures started to rise since then. To climate change proponents, that's too much of a coincidence and they believe humans triggered the warming with fossil fuel use.

The second part is the remedy to climate change. Climate change proponents believe it is a "tragedy of commons" problem and we need a global system to manage the problem. Their solution is a global carbon tax system which manages and controls fossil fuel use and the global economy. Climate change opponents are against the globalist policies of climate change since it infringes on national sovereignty and gives too much power to a small group of globalists who can profit by trading on carbon credits/taxes/etc ( essentially another product for traders to gamble on ).

I'm sure I'll be attacked by both sides but this is essentially the core issues of the climate change debate. Is it a natural cycle vs human created? Is the remedy worse than the disease?
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https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20100024508

> The development and verification of the Charring Ablating Thermal Protection Implicit System Solver (CATPISS) is presented. [...]

Not sure industry would try this one either, though it is very memorable.
I agree with you but there was a lot of talk about other approaches like nationalization but they got shot down quickly so the only path left was what the bankers wanted. I still find it hard to believe that the people that ran their banks into the ground walked away with hundreds of millions of dollars.
Laws are supposed to be written in such a way as to communicate their intent. It's already there, it's just in terse, technical language. The problem with spelling out intent is it creates a huge attack surface to get a law thrown out or circumvented. It is sort of like trying to program using natural language. People understand better but it functions worse.
This is actually a very smart video about systemd and the BSD community. Its not a typical anti-systemd rant.
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I want to love Terraform but it's such a horrible platform to code on:

* Error messages are overly verbose yet cryptic, and sometimes even unrelated to the actual error raised by the cloud provider themselves. Coupled with the lack of line numbering or other helpful identifier aside the unnecessarily long module hierarchy and debugging those scripts is a massive exercise in frustration and usually far more time wasted than really should ever be necessary.

* HCL is a hateful "language". The fact you cannot order stuff procedurally means you're constantly running into dependency issues on larger deployments. And dont even get me started on the "count" kludge to work around a lack of proper iteration.

* There is a lack of internal consistency with the support of different methods. Eg "count" does t always work with all resource types. Some resources cannot have properties defined with variables.

* Using calling modules requires so much bootstrapping code. It's just painful.

I get Terraform is the best we have for multi-provider deployments but their idea to create a superset of JSON only to then compile that back down to JSON anyway was such a poor decision in my personal opinion. I get the point was to have something that was accessable to non-programmers while still expressive enough for developers to use; however instead what they've created is a monstrous language that is too complex for the former group and too irrational for the latter.

I've been been very tempted to write my own Terraform alternative based on my experiences using it (and CloudFormation) - I even already have another programming language that Ive written a parser for and would be well suited for this type of application. But my time is pretty limited at the moment so I struggle on Terraform.
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Yes, I was cheating occasionally due to severe cravings, so it was about 80% beef. (All beef meals plus occasional carby snack).

The adaptation period was very rough (about 2 weeks). 3-4 weeks in I began to feel amazing. I started with steak, switched to mincemeat (cheaper, and more fat -- you need a lot of fat if you cut out carbs), and now switched to veganism due to being broke.
>For example, the Volkswagen emissions scandal was that they increased particulate pollution in order to decrease greenhouse gas emissions.

? The scandal was that they did it in testing only, so it passed the standards and they could turn it up in normal use.
No mention of what they're going to do with the data after the event is over? Can they just sell it to the highest bidding advertiser? How can you have an article about this kind of tech and not mention anything about privacy?
The only exceptions are APIs and data serialization/storage. Your cost of change on these are huge, so better to eat some extra cost now to future proof.
www.moonlightwork.com is an agency specific for what you're looking for, or toptal and list yourself as weekends or nights/mornings only.

They also hire interview phone screeners all the time, and whenever I've talked to one of these guys they sounded like they were either driving in a car or in a coffee shop lineup so seems like it's something you could easily juggle on the side. They're always looking for experienced developers to do phone interviews. These positions are usually on github jobs and other remote job boards https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job#job-board...

As for time get up early and finish by 11am if it's a flexible enough side gig
People think a diet is something you can just do for a while, and then stop. You need to make a permanent lifestyle change, and most people are unwilling to make the commitment.
This idea that wealth is somehow related to creating value, and these kinds of incentives are necessary in order to induce people to do this kind of work, is a deliberate marketing ploy, and a fairly recent one at that, pretty much dating back only to the 1970s or so. Before that, the kinds of professions we today associate with being "rich and famous" (as if these two things were inherently related to each other somehow) -- actors, sports players, inventors -- were not particularly well paid. Before the 19th century, there was no such thing as a professional athlete. There were professional actors, but that was considered a borderline dishonorable profession. The history of invention since the industrial revolution is chock full of people who made important technological or scientific breakthroughs who never made a dime off their work. Most early science was done by people who were already rich, mostly through inherited wealth, or people who, like today, had wealthy patrons. The truly rich were, still are, and have always been, the ones in a position and with the inclination to bend the system to their advantage by whatever means they could.
Was trying to seek akka support(for native-image), but looks it has sadly been left behind
https://discuss.lightbend.com/t/akka-and-graal-s-native-imag...
This is the kind of application that dat, swarm, ipfs/filecoin are aiming to support.
Dang! - it really is cool - especially the variety of styles and detail in the images.
Previous discussion, with lots of comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9605733
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First of all, many of these people are already quite wealthy and are just speculating how to preserve and increase their capital. For instance, a kid with a Canadian citizenship, when old enough, can be put on a land title and then it's not "foreign owned" any more; that child never has to even set foot in Canada after being born there and returning home. It's an obvious loophole to bypass taxes that discourage speculation that harms the housing market for locals.

Secondly, simply looking for a "better future" for your child doesn't make anyone a saint and it certainly isn't an end which justifies all means. For example, if the future of your child is currently "fair to not bad" (let alone "half decent to pretty good") it is not justifiable to do anything whatsoever for their betterment, like perpetrate crime.

"Anything for my child" is not even remotely close to an irreproachable moral principle.

In history, people have committed atrocities for the sake of furthering their own kind which is basically for their children.
Very nice, and scary at the same time... I feel that too often we consider that by using some content-blocking extensions (e.g.: uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, etc.) we are 100% safe and privacy leakages are a thing of the past. But from what I understand this is not the case and some PII leakages still happen. As long as we are not aware of them it's hard or impossible to close the gap and I guess the first step to improve those tools is bringing more transparency. Local Sheriff seems to go in the right direction. Thank you for this work.

From your perspective, how well do the most popular privacy-protection extensions protect us from the kind of PII leakage identified by Local Sheriff. And how could we improve those tools to increase the protection?
I know the Pascal's wager argument for action on Climate change (which is that if there is even 1% chance of climate change being real then why not act on it since the downside of acting is nothing <to one political ideology>), but the question is, what if climate change is NOT man-made?

If there is even 1% chance that climate change is a naturally occurring phenomenon then all our efforts to 'stop' greenhouse gas emissions is not going to give the results we want. Maybe building levies and moving cities inland be a better action plan? Maybe faster economic growth is a better solution than subsidized solar and wind.

I am trying to figure our arguments against the above argument.
I'm skeptical of your 10x less code claim. You can definitely get into broken state problems in CloudFormation - with no recourse but to blow it all away and start over. And despite being a native tool, CloudFormation support for new features and services in AWS is often spotty/missing.

That said, my experience has been that both CloudFormation and Terraform are irritating, just in different ways; they both are warty.

I do ultimately prefer Terraform - even in a single-cloud setup.
Power efficiency, performance, concurrency, compile time error detection through strong typing, etc. You know, trivial things. :)
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During pollution testing, the cars sacrificed fuel economy for better emissions. During normal driving, they polluted more but burned less fuel. Drivers notice fuel consumption but not pollution, so this made everyone happy until it was discovered.
With their YouTube Originals channel and all the other channels they fund, Google is clearly a publisher. You wouldn't claim they have no editorial control over YouTube Originals, right?
Honest question: Why such vitriol against "climate deniers?" The term "climate denier" is loading with negative connotation just on it's face, and it's rarely used in isolation in an otherwise respectful way.

There will always be people that disagree with you about something. Some are honest, some are not. Why be an asshole and treat people poorly and disrespectfully? That makes you as bad or worse than them IMHO. Even when they are being assholes (which many are), it is an act of immaturity to lower yourself to that level.

How do you expect to win over hearts and minds when you approach people like that? The worst thing you can do when trying to convince someone of your opinion is offend them by stereotyping, generalizing, and straw-manning their position. How do you feel when people do this to you? Do you find yourself intellectually engaging with them, thinking that they might have some good points?
No, that mode is a weak compromise.
That tagline made me cringe. Redistribution of wealth is not just about enjoying the fruits of someones labor.

It's about giving a larger group of people the chance to use those resources and that safety net to contribute back to society and maybe even become one of those super rich whom the article is talking about.

I agree with the author that the people on the top aren't different than everybody else. They just managed to get to the top. Those skills and that drive can be found in people of all social layers.

So it's not about getting to the top. It's about getting there by contributing back to society.

Most of the article seems to try and justify taxes. I'm sorry the climate is so bad that taxes need to be justified.

Where I'm from in Europe we see a lot of young entrepreneurs and musicians mostly because we have a strong safety net. You can drop out of school and focus on your music without living homeless, and without having rich parents/sponsors.

Then you can change your mind and go back to school without falling into massive debt.

This gives more people the chance at making something of themselves and thereby contributing back to society at some point. Instead of harshly casting them out of society with crippling debt or just living hand to mouth for the rest of their lives.
Right, my point being that most folks would not bother with trying to understand the points this article is making, and instead take the graph showing 'nothing to see here' and run with it.
I don't even believe that people that produce such graphs are real deniers. I think there is a lot of money to be made by for people like this and they are in the "climate denier industry". Someone going out of their way to produce a graph like that must know what they are doing and have ulterior motives.
The rate of increase far exceeds what could be accounted for by the natural cycle, so there's no legitimate question for anyone both informed and intellectually honest about the subject about whether climate change is anthropogenic.
I looked up Dark Matter - it sounds interesting! Thanks for the tip.
Haha. Flailing. It was bad but not that bad.
Since you do not like the term "climate deniers", what's your proposal for an appropriate and respectful term or definition to aggregate the people that believe that climate change is not happening?