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This is a shallow view of AWS and Amazon.

Amazon is successful because it has mostly everything in stock and can get most of it to you in 2 days. Amazon is logistics and trust. The trust is eroding and the logistics is worse because they're delivering things themselves, but still that is why it is.

AWS has more than Azure and GCP.

Appearances and experience aren't the whole of a product. Overfocus on them as a producer or consumer is a problem.
Dev ex machina :)
It's even worse because neither you nor the people treating you actually know how much cost you are incurring. You find out a few weeks later when you get the bill. Imagine if anything else worked like that?
exactly ;) so well-designed that you can't even tell it's non mechanical (unless you turn the clicky sound and vibrations off)

I still prefer the 2015 Macbook Pros to the current release and that's just sad. How is it so easy for Apple to throw away so much good design research and implementation? They don't even have the mag-safe chargers, nor the the battery indicator lights on the chargers, what a step backwards on such simple but great functionality!
IMO using the web console for your cloud development sounds like your a tiny shop. Your infrastructure and all that configuration should be in code and version control.

I think CloudFormation is difficult to use and could be much easier, but ops rant about the AWS UI being unfriendly makes it sound like he’s not really the kind of customer AWS is really after.
What exactly confuses you about these terms?

I’m not here to play word games.
> With my MacBook Pro, I would be lucky to get 4 hours out of a charge.

I have never gotten battery life this poor out of the 2016 MacBook Pros, even when running Xcode continuously with a bunch of other apps open. 6 hours, maybe. I think you'd have to use every single battery guzzler at once: Chrome, VirtualBox, a Java IDE, antiviruses…
Reinforcement Learning: Super Mario, AlphaGo and Beyond
They really need to stop gauging for memory upgrades. It’s honestly obscene what they charge to get a bigger hard drive.
Sounds like some people need to take a look at the TRT thread.
> I lost faith in their ability to innovate and understand their users.

Consider the possibility that you represent an extremely tiny segment of users.
Well, it was sold, and then unsold. They took money for preorders, and then changed their minds and gave everyone who preordered their money back along with a free Nexus Q.
I was surprised to not find any product that could create a perfect static clone of the original, as far as maintaining the incoming link structure.

I know there would be a tonne of edge cases and obviously it would need to be targeted to a particular platform, but I think we came pretty close with this simple technique.
Those would count themselves lucky /s

Arguing musical taste is rather pointless anyway.
We don't have that many spare buses close enough to any city that would have to be evacuated. Paradise had only a few hours warning. That's just not enough time to gather resources from outside the immediate area.
Do you feel that adding tasks and managing bossasaservice.life becomes more of a distraction and effort than not having it though?
Fair points, but these are all anecdotes. They don’t speak to macro trends. I certainly wouldn’t use these to state that FB is dying. The FB platforms demographics may be shifting, and the company itself has several offerings in its product line. The doom and gloom is purely speculative though. On paper, FB is a very solid company despite the recent stock sell offs.
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It is, but I haven't found it to be significantly worse. About an hour less.
I specifically said 'some people may feel the opposite i.e. America is a force for good'.

I'm not making a statement, I'm indicating that some may feel the opposite of the much touted group of G staff who don't want to do Mil Contracts.

To be clear, I do think America is a force for good ... but still not sure if G should work on Mil contracts, I think it depends on the case. Intelligence gathering, AI in general, maybe communications, but I certainly wouldn't be supportive of designing weapons systems, or imagine things like 'first strike Nuclear weapons capabilities'. I don't think the line is arbitrary. I respect that everyone has feelings about that so my point is: it's tough for Sundar and Diane.
Well said, about the highest praise I think can be given for HN moderation (or moderation anywhere really) is that, like much of the best IT and security work and such, it's often like air: noticeable mainly through the continued existence of what it supports, or in its rare absences. The evidence of how hard a balance it is to strike even on a project mailing list or IRC channel let alone a bit public site is there in how many communities have collapsed over the years. Yet HN has continued to be, to be I guess different from the norm in terms of the intellectually stimulating things you can see and fascinating people you can come across, agree or not. It doesn't try to be everything or grow farther but do its thing well and it generally succeeds. The guidelines are human [1]. At this scale that continuing is itself pretty amazing and testament to what has to go on behind the scenes. So thank you to the team for that!

1: Perhaps this one more then anything is maybe my favorite nugget:

>"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

This really does make such a different to repeat to myself. And even if the other person is not in fact acting in good faith, it doesn't hurt to try first and then disengage with reason rather then pure emotion.
Singing - it may not seem like there's much overlap, but the amount of pattern recognition and other compatible skills required is surprising. Flow state is a common element in both, and I find it a great stress reliever. It also helps to balance a left-brain career with right-brain hobbies.

Meditation - not really a hobby per se, but the amount of clarity it can bring to programming later that day is incredible.

Nutrition / health optimization - understanding how the body works and how to support it through your lifestyle and nutrition can be a hobby in and of itself, and as a bonus, it helps maintain a healthy brain to program with.

Cooking - this will save you money, gain you friends, and can be looked at as 'food engineering'. It's just chemistry you can eat, in the end.

Homebrewing - much like cooking, this is biology and chemistry you can eat. Or in this case, drink.

Geocaching - I've been meaning to try this. I gather it's essentially world-wide interactive scavenger hunts that use GPS.
There are alternatives: https://searchcode.com and https://sourcegraph.com/search
Yes, I think part of the problem is that they think everyone expects them to "innovate" every year. I want them to just leave the basics the alone, and do incremental improvements like CPU, GPU and battery updates, until they get another really good idea. Take 5 years, if you need it.

It's a laptop, it's not a fusion reactor. It's mature technology, as far as humans are concerned.
It's a hell of a drug. The long term effects are why I discontinued, but it made the decade at Amazon not just bearable, but fun. That and half the other SDEs there were taking it too.
that would be the WSL I said isnt quite ready for what I do yet
Not as much as running Windows 95
I think it mattered originally, when they were one of many. But once you are on the website the reliability of shipping, and simply the fact they already have my credit card is a major factor in repeat business.

It was probably much more important in the early days than it is now.
It's relatively easy to quickly move 100K people in a city of 10M. But it's impossible to quickly move 100K in a city of 100K. It's all about proportions. There's not enough transportation infrastructure anywhere to get 100% of the population out.
The lighter the material the larger they can make using less materials. On site installation and other related things also become easier.
That's the thing, it largely _doesn't_ have more than Azure or GCP these days. And for 80%, maybe 90% of all use cases in existence, AWS v Azure v GCP from a pure catalog offering perspective is identical. And when that compounds with other factors, it falls far behind.

Obviously Amazon.com is different and it's mostly about logistics, inventory and reduced buyer friction among some other things.
I split file changes into multiple commits all the time. That alone makes many diffs much more readable and changes easier to follow, even if it results in occasional git-log clutter.
Compassionate? It reads like an automated message that scans for suicide related words and posts a generic text with the hotline number.
Start with Chip-8 or Space Invaders, both of which are substantially easier than the NES and Gameboy.
The only computer Apple sells with 128 GB of RAM is the iMac Pro. There's no way they will sell a laptop with that much in the foreseeable future.
You might not use it to do partial commits but many others do.
I am thankful that after about 6+ years, I found a solution to my leg issue where I could not stand for more than few mins. It actually turned out to be lack of proper sleep which was resolved using sleeping medication. Thank you!
which leads to forceful loss of freedom and medical and ambulance bills that put the caller in a spiral of debt.

This is beyond disgusting. Who comes up with these stupid laws? Take freedom and money from someone already depressed? WTF
Not really - keep in mind interacting with Boss as a Service is a normal human conversation. In that way, it's very fluid and natural. You tell them what you want to work on, they help keep you accountable via reaching out, you report back when you finish it. If you needed to re-prioritize anything, it'd be as simple as saying, 'Hey, I'd like to work on A instead of B' or 'I'm going on vacation for a week' or whatever else you might need to say.

This isn't really a web task/todo list service - think of it more like someone helping keep you accountable to tasks where you'd find it helpful for someone to do so, if that makes sense.
I’m actually considering doing this as part of a side business,but more personal. I’m pretty good at managing people, but why work for a company? I’d rather help people push themselves to achieve their goals, while giving a bit of advice on how to accomplish something
I like the idea of working with the simple datastore of git - immutable objects pointing to each other - and manipulate them with a programming language.

But there's lots of things you routinely want to do that aren't convenient this way. Still has some appeal.
1) Possible, but you've got significant traffic in both directions. You need to get bus's in as well as out.

2) Absolutely. And really you could probably stuff 80 people into your a bus in an emergency. But you're going to have a real problem organizing people onto buses so I worry that in reality you'd be running many well below peak capacity.
1. Just being alive, for starters. Just a hair over four years ago I had a heart attack[1] and very easily could have died.

2. My parents, and friends and family. Guess that one is so obvious as to not really need to be said, but just to be complete.

3. All the amazing knowledge that's available, mostly for free, on the Internet. Youtube, videolectures.net, arxiv.org, khan academy, HN, Wikipedia, sci-hub, ligben, and so many other great resources for learning.

4. Open source and all the various OSS contributors out there.

5. Coffee, key-lime pie, and cheesecake.

6. Thai food.

7. Heavy metal. Especially the first "wave" of bands that sucked me in all those years ago: Iron Maiden, Mötley Crüe, Twisted Sister, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, AC/DC, Quiet Riot, etc.

8. All of my brothers and sisters in the fire-service, all over the world, who are out there putting their lives on the line to protect others. I'm not active with a fire department these days, but it's a brotherhood you never really quit.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8550315
Mid 2012 machines are my favorites.

Lots of ports, Magsafe... sigh.
I was under the impression that this was a bandwidth issue for the HDMI port, so I'm curious to see how a kernel extension would get around this issue.
The network effect keeping people there is the key bit. Other websites might be easier to navigate but they don't have the range, don't have the reviews, often admit they have no stock, usually cost a little more... not to mention how many people are signed up for Prime.

It's not just suboptimal search and categorization, which is a difficult problem across a product range as large and changing as Amazon's (but would be considered intolerably bad on virtually any other ecommerce platform, except possibly eBay). It's also deliberately making choices other websites could never get away with, like sticking banner ads for a third party website right above its additional product recommendations. Someone will have done the calculations on that and figured they make more from the clicks than they lose from people not coming back to Amazon though. Probably the same goes for any product page refresh/reorganization clean enough to make users wonder if they're still on Amazon...
This is a boss idea.
I have to say, every time I come across this book, it seems like bullshit not backed by any science at all and yet it gets rave reviews on HN. As a one-time thing, I can put it off towards some propaganda campaign ala Tim Ferris / The four hour body but this is a pattern. Don't know what to make of it really.
It’s defineatly not comprehensive. When PNaCL was first announced I thought the idea was interesting but Google didn’t really do anything with it and now web assembly is the thing.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2017/...
I use aide for that purpose. Works great, and is pretty fast. http://aide.sourceforge.net

Of course it's not going to tell you if your CMS is unpatched, misconfigured, etc. Just that nothing's changed.
Conceptual problems themselves may be shallow, deep, or both. Wrapping machine code with assembly makes it easier to use but doesn't fix nasty issues with lack of memory boundaries.

Conceptually programmers having to mentally convert every line is poor ergonomics and will reduce speed and increase errors. Going to labels instead of numbers is an improvement even if shallow and able to improved upon further.
I'm not saying that a USB adapter wouldn't be useful, but for your specific use case (which is pretty rare: using an external keyboard and mouse with your laptop) you shouldn't need an adapter at all. You should be able to connect to both through Bluetooth.
I am thankful for the same thing I am thankful for everyday, air in my lungs and a belly full of food. I found out a long time ago that is all it takes to make me happy.
Do Facebook shareholders actually have any power, though?
You spent more time writing this comment than you would've clicking the "Accept" button.
I already have a personal boss, like many other married guys. ducks

Joking aside, wouldn't you just get a friend/family member/spouse to do this with you if you really wanted some accountability?
I am so thankful that I know the meaning of my human life. I have a human spirit, which I can exercise to contact God. I don't know how I would live without this. All of the money and all of the experiences on earth are temporary, and in the end meaningless. Anything temporary compared to eternity is meaningless. Eternity is not only before us in time, but God has put eternity in our heart, and only God can fill that gap. I'm so thankful that my God-shaped gap is filled. Not preaching, just genuinely thankful!
I feel like this is just another "git is hard so lets make it easier" program that makes collaborative development a pain. maybe its just my puritan work ethic.

first we had git, and anyone who cared to spend the time could pick it up and understand it well enough to use it. Then we got github and gitlab, which made remote branches more manageable but introduced and entirely new class of developers who only added code through the web interface and emailed/called when they needed a merge or just merged to master because you were sick of the hand-holding.

then we got the GUI clients for windows, which resulted in armies of programmers who didnt understand keys, or authentication, or why the gitlab/github server existed but just wanted to commit their code and as a result left the codebase with a graveyard of rebase --hard and reset head garbage that had to be explained later. supporting them became a nightmare of screen sharing and shouting.

finally we have gitless? and developers now have to keep straight gui, console, gitlab/hub and some asinine wrapper script between the teams? so when jack commits with his GUI and accidentally drags and drops 3 branches, while jills gitless command wiped half the unprotected master, how does it get sorted out?
Depends on your credit card: it's not uncommon for them to also slap you with foreign transaction fees of 3% or higher.

In general, the hierarchy of fees is no-fee CC < regular CC < ATM withdrawal < exchange cash at destination < exchange cash somewhere else.
Oh.. I just noticed this. I'm not sure why you are complaining about my comment but not the one I was replying to! At least I think you were talking to me. I'm not sure what in what I said was personal attack. At least, it seems you were implying something I said was a personal attack. I strongly criticized his view, words, assumptions, decisions. I'm kind of amazed to be threatened with banning about that. [reviews guidelines] Ah maybe "please reply to the argument instead of calling names" - I guess you mean "That's the most condescending, deluded thing I've heard in years." That seems to me a fact. From memory, I don't think there was an argument, just a string of false assumptions presented as fact. (Can't read his comment now) Or maybe it's a "shallow dismissal"? Not sure. What particularly about my comment deserved being threatened with banning?

I have noticed that the worse the comment, the harder it is to reply to decently/politely/etc; maybe it was impossible for me to reply to this one, or say what I thought without arguably breaking the guidelines, so OK, point taken, better not to reply in such cases. "Someone is wrong on the internet!" is real. I really did try to stay on-point, not hard enough apparently. I mean, I really do think it was the most condescending, deluded thing I'd read in years, definitely while on here. (I guess you've read much worse!) Again, not sure if that's the part you're objecting to. Apologies if you've read 10,000 replies just like this one. Kind of surprised (and depressed) I'm the problem here though.

ps I only saw your comment by chance, it's pages back in my comment history. Is there a way of getting alerts for replies on here?
Q: Will the new car have to put additional money into that 914 to make it reliable and presentable?

A: Billions and billions....
Mas Ayoob is of that opinion, but I’m not. I’m aware of exactly one example of that happening.
You don't need to lift your finger, which takes time. Just shift your finger left/right a little bit.
It's more obscene that they negatively impact the environment and artificially limit the lifespan of the devices by soldering the memory and the hard drive.
I'm a car enthusiast also. I mostly agree with your list, but I imagine OJ's Bronco will sell well (much like the Bonnie and Clyde Ford).
# Is this a real thing?

Existential question: are we really real if we don't exist on the blockchain?

Immediately bought a subscription.
This does sound like a good idea. It is indeed easier at times to give advice to someone else than it is to yourself.
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The FSF is not a software or technology organization, it's more a political one that uses software as it's platform. They don't care about ease of use or security. They care about how the software did their message.
Indeed. These sorts of finds rarely make the news in countries where metal detecting is explicitly and/or effectively against the law -- not because they're not occurring, but because they happen outside of the law and the artifacts are sold on the black market.
The DAG is the easy part. I can understand perfectly well what I want to do with the DAG and have no idea how to get git to DO it.
I didn't downvote but I think others might have because you leveled an allegation so vague as to be irrefutable. I think dang has been a great mod and have only seen the interactions that involve me, or have been upvoted. Doesn't mean I wouldn't be interested in seeing substantive criticism from those who've experienced differently.
But the thing is that I've looked and can't find anything nearly as good. Some artists brush up against it here and there (Glitch Mob, edIT, even Daft Punk, Weezy, or Kanye) but the density of really good work is no where near what it is today.

Speaking of Kanye, I actually think his last album was his best and that if he hadn't launched it with the following he built up when his work wasn't as developed (pre-Twisted Fantasy) his work would have a quarter of the following or less than it does today. He's one of the rare artists that keeps innovating after hitting it.

The only place I see at least some measure of really quality work in the past compared to today is fiction: Tom Robbins, Greg Egan, PKD, and many, many others. There are some contemporaries I like better (Ted Chiang) but I don't pretend it's not a matter of personal taste. But TV or music or even most film that's pre-2005 is almost unconsumable it's so flat compared to what the 1%-ile is today.
Being alive in this time.

The rich have more things than ever before. The middle class live better than the very richest used to. Even the poor have things that were beyond the reach of the very rich just a short while ago.

Diseases have been conquered. Knowledge is freely available and easily accessed. Poor nations are advancing, rich nations are prosperous.

People have ways of connecting with other people, travelling and communicating that were never before possible.

It's a GREAT time to be alive.
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You should consider the 12.9” iPad Pro if you have a terminal based workflow. The extra vertical space and higher resolution screen compared to my 13”rMBP and the ability to use any keyboard (I use the Apple Magic Keyboard 2) means it’s actually quite a cool device.
Paradise in particular had shockingly little warning. It's hard to imagine coordinating any substantial response in time. Still, I'd like to think about what the best evacuation we could do in general even if we can manage to fix this case (The population was also on 25,000 instead of 100,000).

I'm not from California, I'm from Toronto, and to make life easy on myself I'm going to use Toronto numbers. Here the primary public transit operator has (as of 2010, I doubt it's changed that much) about 2000 buses. That's obviously not all of the buses in the city, there are school buses, private charter buses, etc. But it's probably over half.

If we can get the round trip time down to an hour, we can saturate this road. Obviously the response time (to when we start evacuating people) is no better than the travel distance from Toronto to a location we need to evacuate. If we had plans in place to react to these sorts of situations I imagine we could make in no more than an hour or two more than that.

(This also cripples Toronto's public transit, but that's probably acceptable in a emergency).
> Thankfully Sweden got GDPR, which protects from collecting data "just because you can".

Not really.

https://blog.instantor.com/ultimate-guide-gdpr-impacts-on-cr...