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Which of their competitors can you still buy new faster hardware from? Does anyone sell Stratus VOS or DEC VAX VMS compatible systems?

Yeah I know I am showing my age....
They even still offer "reduced redundancy storage" even though it's been made obsolete (and is more expensive than the regular S3 storage).
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>Haha, seriously? You think that reading all those pages would help me understand that there is such a thing as a valuer absent the valuer? Like, reading will help with accepting a logical contradiction as truth?

>fortunately, that's no reason to stay ignorant?

Do you see the irony?

You really need to read more about intrinsic value before you dismiss it. Your arguments have been made and debated in academia, some of them have been refuted, and some of them are still being argued.

Most of what you're saying is exactly as convincing as someone who argues that God must exist because nothing can exist without a cause.

Also given how grayed out most of your responses are, maybe consensus isn't self evidently preferable.
I'm aware of defaultdict, but when I saw that method on dict I got excited because I thought it meant I didn't need defaultdict anymore.
I've built a number of serverless systems over the past few years on AWS and GCP. None were too extreme, but ranged from moderately complex SPA to silly chat bot. Some saw light, but real, usage.

To echo what others have already said: the lock in isn't in the compute, it's in the ecosystem, which also happens to be where all of the value is.

Like everything else in our industry, serverless is a series of trade offs. There are a number of classes of problems where it is absolutely worth trading the downsides of serverless for the agility and velocity the ecosystem can provide you. As with anything, the key is knowing when it is the right tool and how to use it properly.
> Acquisition by Google is the only reason YouTube exists. If they had to pay for their networking they could not have survived (Google owns its own fiber and doesn't pay anyone for transit).

By this logic Netflix shouldn’t exist because it doesn’t use Google’s network assets. I’m pretty sure YouTube’s advertising revenue should cover its cost of building out CDN and transport infrastructure.
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You don't necessarily have to host this yourself. With this, there's a relatively straightforward (but obviously not necessarily easy) way for Joe Entrepreneur to set up a hosted service to compete with AWS Lambda, thus helping the community avoid vendor lock-in.
in a sense there is a split between bodies and brains.

The bodies are competing with robotics and other physical manifestations of things that people value. This field seems to be decades ahead of the other group.

The brains are competing with AI and other informational/decision value sets.
I love it when reposts get traction https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19072647

Anyway can't wait to test this. Right now my library still is mainly h264. Wanted to get everything to vp9 a while back which was too slow, then tried hevc which was faster, but not really satisfactorily either. Hope this will get down to vp9 encoding speed so that it's at least feasible...
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Thanks for the feedback, I'm working on the first issue of curated jobs.

I'll be sure to add some listings to the page when they are ready.
Obviously, there's a huge cost associated with the learning curve, but this the part of the reason that Kubernetes is so attractive. It abstracts away the underlying infrastructure, which is nice.

At any kind of scale, though, one is loosely coupled to the cloud provider in any case for things like persistent disk, identity management, etc.
Hi!

Cylc is a GPL system written in Python, and used in some countries (Au/NZ, UK, South Africa, Korea, other institutions in Europe and US) mainly to run cyclic workflows, e.g. forecast models.

It supports the same syntax as Cron for scheduling jobs (called suites in Cylc) but with the concept of time points. So you are able to configure a workflow with some tasks that would run every midnight, other tasks that would run every 5 minutes. And in case any of these tasks fail, Cylc has a mechanism to restart the workflow and catch-up with these tasks.

There are a couple of commercial systems that provide similar features, and also Luigi, Airflow, but with limitations (mainly around cyclic tasks, and the catch-up mechanism).

There is a new web GUI under development, and questions, suggestions, or issues/pull requests welcome!

Its web site is https://cylc.github.io/cylc/ but we also just (yesterday) acquired cylc.org and will start updating the site and documentation soon.

Cheers
I highly doubt that education reform will come by any time soon. Studying STEM is not natural to many kids, yet the reality is that people in the US have been living comfortably for so long that they would rather give up teaching tough subjects for so-called children's happiness, or shit like no kids left behind.

As a result, it is the ordinary kids, which is the majority middle, who will hurt -- they think they learn something in high school and college, but they really don't.
Won't help. About half of the people in the US with a college diploma work at jobs which don't require college.
This (pay for what you use, so many fewer scalability issues) is so big it, by itself, can give you a competitive advantage against anyone who isn't doing this, which is almost everyone.

Maybe I'm overstating it, but I don't think I am...
I think it is a bit strange to ask "could science 'discover' meditation completely independently of a religious context?". Given that meditation is so common in eastern practices it seems unlikely that science would ever be needed to discover it - someone else is likely to stumble upon it first. If it were rarer than that, however, I'm reasonably confident that science could discover it. Given that science is all about discovering how things work, learning the quirks of the brain and consciousness is high on the list of things to do.

To flip that question on its head however, perhaps we should ask "could religion discover gravitational waves independently of a scientific context?". I would be very hard pressed to answer anything other than an emphatic "no". Indeed only a few hundred years ago you were probably likely to be imprisoned or killed for suggesting much less.

In terms of how long it took science to find meditation worthwhile - not long at all. Science is new. It wasn't until recently that we had the tools to be able to study the brain and study meditation. Any delay in attention toward meditation from then on may well be due to a bias against religion among scientists - but then so much of religion can be explained away leaving the signal to noise ratio so low it's unlikely to be of any interest to many scientists anyway. You don't go shopping for motorcycles in the grocery store. No doubt western religion itself would have contributed to delays though anti-eastern religious bias as well.

Of the people that are interested in religion - psychologists, neuroscientists, social scientists, historians - I have no doubt that they are already interested in it for all the reasons mentioned in the article. It's not as if religion is such a small part of our lives and we need to go digging to uncover it's secrets.

I very much doubt that there is any scientist out there whose area of expertise abuts religion that is inclined to disregard the entirety of religion as irrelevant. Richard Dawkins himself - quoted in the article - recommends that everybody should read the King James version of the Bible as a piece of literature and an important text culturally [1]. There just happens to be very little reason to bring along the hocus pocus with it.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/may/19/richard-dawk...
I have hired from Upwork and Reddit at both low and high prices. Giving a view from the other side, I think one can command high prices as long as they also do the work upfront to show that they can deliver. As someone trying to get my work done with good quality, the quality crowd tends to thin out pretty quickly. I am always surprised that even after looking at 20 promising profiles, only 1-2 stand out.

Biggest way to stand out IMO is to demonstrate polished previous work, with working links. Most developers have screenshots of old de-funct stuff. They do a half assed job of convincing that they have done good work before. IMHO, if you don't have a personal polished website, demonstrating amazing work, you don't deserve to command good prices. Show, don't tell.
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This sounds exactly like me, except I didn't make it to the Falcon. I always wonder if I should have gone C64 > Amiga, there just always seemed to be more stuff available for them. I did love the ST though.
Study means little as it takes a specific forest in Canada. We should probably look at Amazonian forests, California's redwoods, India's Vindhyas and Namibia's rainforests too.
What if the jobs require higher IQs than 85? Suddenly we have 15% of the population entirely unemployable?

Wealth redistribution is a choice of ethics.

What if we start to create better technologies that augment the economic usefulness of the lowest IQ people?
One theory would be that CSA's draconian conscription operation (watch or read Cold Mountain, for example) emptied the countryside of its natural defenders. The conscription level may have been necessary given the idiotic location of the CSA capital, but quite a bit about CSA was idiotic.

In Missouri, which didn't secede but had a lot of Southern sympathizers, this conscription wasn't really a thing, and there was lots of asymmetric warfare. It actually started in the 1850s in what would become Kansas. (There are good movies about this too: The Outlaw Josey Wales and Ride with the Devil.)
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yea you're right, we have to work on it for sure. You can blame me :)
I'm generally a proponent of DIY, this doesn't make sense. When an org needs to scale, it makes sense to cultivate skill in the underlying infrastructure. On day 1, serverless makes a lot of sense because it encourages development patterns that eventually will scale nicely.
That sounds a bit outdated. “Web-scale hosting” has that little bit of extra oomph.
Why would this mean something was wrong with the market? Slack has a firehose of revenue from paying customers.
I believe the only way for the author to succeed is to provide exactly what the visitors want. If there is an automatic video / audio, it is probably there because the majority of visitors like it. So probably, you are in the minority, but want to forbid something for the majority.

Honestly, I am quite scared by people, who so easily agree to ban or restrict things for the whole population, just to avoid those 3 seconds of a day, during which they may feel uncomfortable.
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That's what part two is for.
Is there any evidence of that? A lot of anti-smoking efforts seem to just take credit for the natural long term decline, at best the nudge it along 1 or 2 percent.
That's what the wealth redistribution is for. For the 15% that are unemployable.
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Not the person you're responding to, but I worry about (and have experienced) both with my tech stack, even as I've purposefully switched vendors multiple times with minimal headaches.

Locking yourself into a single vendor is easier to voluntarily work your way out of than your vendor shutting down or shutting you out unexpectedly. But the good news is if you plan for one you get the other for free.
Are you new to Slack? People have been joking about the resource demands of the Slack desktop client for years. If anything, that situation is actually improving.
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I've been preaching education to anyone who will listen. It's the skeleton key for every other issue, I dunno how else to put it.

You can trace a direct line from each of the top 10 problems in the world to ignorance. People don't actually suck nearly as much as it seems, people are just missing information. We're not econs, but we'd act a lot more closely to that model if we were, on average, more educated.
Can you give a rough idea about how long it will take for Dendrite to be ready? I want to run a homeserver for friends, but I'd like to go straight to Dendrite and not have to deal with Synapse if possible.
thanks for the link. do you have a sense of whether the slowness is more in the web client or in the server response times?
Isn't the first one basically "learn to code"?
We used Teamware, then Mercurial. Always in a rebase workflow, at least from 1992 onward IIRC (I was there from late 2002 through one year past the completion of the Oracle acquisition).
So can Joe Entrepreneur also host my databases? my storage? My CDN around the world? My ElasticSearch cluster? My Redis cluster? All of my objects? Can he provide 24 hour support? Can he duplicate my data center for my developers in India so they don’t have lag? What about my identity provider? My Active Directory?

Can he do all that across multiple geographically dispersed redundant data centers?
I support both of those ideas, but I'm not sure I see how those solve the underlying problems highlighted by the article.

We're going to continue to introduce technology to improve quality and enhance productivity. Will jobs continue to fall in industries that introduce technologies to enhance productivity? If so, education and wealth redistribution seem insufficient (albeit still necessary).

(I haven't checked the linked paper to see if this is answered.)
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There's a world of organizations between Netflix and Twitter scale and small startups with 2-3 person infrastructure teams in which Kubernetes makes good sense.

At some point, it becomes cost effective to have a two-pizza team of engineers dedicated to it. Once an org hits that level, then the scale that can be achieved with Kubernetes is pretty immense.
education isn't the answer because no matter what you do a good chunk of the population simply isn't capable of high skilled jobs. The US military learned that below a certain IQ there's literally no job people can do that makes it worth the time to train them

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_100,000
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I don't have a problem with using indices for anything, they are fine. Distinguishing upper and lower indices is even better. The exact complaint I have is the implicit sums. For example, a matrix A would be written with one upper and one lower index, which I'll just write as A[i, j]. In einstein (implicit sum) notation, the trace of the matrix is written Tr A = A[i, i]. Is this really better than saying Tr A = Sum[i] A[i, i]?
Google isn't providing a service to you, they are providing a service to the site that uses the captcha. And they haven't put any roadblocks, the site did - by installing a captcha.

You should complain to the site that decided to offload their captcha costs to you.
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Most shops I've seen are small boutiques rather than auto manufacturers and they're priced accordingly (no economy of scale). Seems hard to get something that isn't a literal golf cart (i.e., has no cargo space or doors) for under $10k.
With the USA seeing a decline in IQ and the IQ bar raising for tech jobs, It seems that percentage is going to be growing a lot more into the future.
If the average IQ of a STEM graduate is a standard deviation or more above average [0][1], then how does a more educated populace result in something besides the stratification we see today? STEM education can help a person get on the right side of the tech split, but the STEM education itself is already prohibitively difficult.

[0] https://thetab.com/us/2017/04/10/which-major-has-highest-iq-...
[1] http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/25/average-iq-of-students...
LOL, no. If you want to work in finance, the best city is NY. If you want to work in film/media, the best city is LA. If you want to work in tech, the best city is SF/Silicon Valley. It may not be the best city to live in, but it's where you go if you want to be at the center of the action.

SV is where you'll find the headquarters of Apple, Facebook, Google, Intel, Netflix, Oracle, HP, Cisco, Brocade, NVIDIA, Salesforce, Adobe, Seagate, Slack, Uber, Twitter, Quicken, Paypal, Gilead, Applied Materials, VMWare, Symantec, Juniper, Electronic Arts, Brocade, Xilinx and many, many others.

Of the 10 largest tech companies by revenue, 7 are headquartered in Silicon Valley (the others are IBM, MSFT, Amazon) https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/21/ten-largest-us-tech-firms-20...

What major tech company has their HQ in NYC? Fog creek software? Reddit?
>Studying STEM is not natural to many kids

That is purely a systemic problem, there's no reason that it couldn't be natural.

Also there's no support for you argument, its mere opinion and unsubstantiated conjecture based upon false premises, but stated like fact.
Wealth redistribution is a choice of ethics.

If you study world history you’ll quickly realize that it’s ultimately the choice of the mob with the torches and pitchforks. You’d be amazed at how disinterested they are in moral relativism or a chat about Atlas Shrugged. Personally I’d prefer a more equitable redistribution based on planning, rather than a redistribution based on plutocrats being put up against a wall.

What if we start to create better technologies that augment the economic usefulness of the lowest IQ people?

They definitely won’t be amused at the cries of “But wait, I want my tech to add economic value to you, low IQ person! sound of a gun cocking Waaait! Haven’t you even heard of a meritocra- BANG”
> Part one, a more educated populace. Education will help those that can work in the "good jobs" get the good jobs.

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Same. I do make some aliases like status instead of git status but use them like 10% of the time. I mean I already know all the commands I need for my work, it seems like memorizing their short forms is the same amount of mental load. Also completions exist.
As far as I know, reCaptcha stopped being used for books a long time ago. It's now used to improve Google's mapping data instead.
Because providing a better base eduction lets those who are in that 1 SD above category actually use it. There are probably a lot of people right now who are 1 SD above but can't get the education they need to make use of it.
Ah I missed that, nice work guys!
it'll be a while yet. we've been focusing on hitting Matrix 1.0 by iterating on the Python codebase (Synapse) rather than diluting the effort by doing it on Dendrite in parallel. Once 1.0 is safely out the door and the first wave of post-1.0 features and perf have landed in Synapse then I suspect Dendrite will see more love.

tl;dr: Synapse is getting (much) better; i wouldn't wait for Dendrite but give Synapse a go on Py3 instead for now.

that said, once Dendrite lands, it should be 1-2 orders of magnitude more efficient by most metrics :)
I agree with you. I think we will see the Universal Basic Income appearing sooner rather than later. The economy needs a recycling mechanism and if it can't be through wages than it must take another form.
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Fortunately, there are lots and lots of "technology" jobs that do not fit people's preconceived notions of what it means to be working in "STEM".

Think, things like being a designer, product manager, analyst, ect, ect, ect.

Even the job I do today, working as a web developer, is something that the "hardcore" programmers of 40 years ago, would likely look down on, as I do not fit into their traditional opinion, from 40 years ago, of what it means to work in STEM.

There will likely be more jobs like that in the future
I still feel that the whole expression could be clarified quite easily be writing a \Sum_{a, b} at the front?
While I appreciate the distinction between license and classification, does it really matter if a piece of software is "in the public domain" if its very existence and content is classified and non-disclosable? It may as well not exist as far as open-source or public domain is concerned.
aws lambda is probably has the least vendor lock in than any of their offerings.
Our Lambda deployments handle REST API Gateway calls, SQS events, and Step functions. Basically the entire middleware of a classic 3-tier stack.

Except for some proprietary light AWS proxy code, the bulk of the Lambdas delegate to pre-existing Java POJO classes.

The cold start issues and VPC configuration were a painful learning curve, but nothing I would consider proprietary to AWS. Those are universal deployment tasks.
The basics of photosynthesis are more or less identical across green plants. All the cool evolutionary shit has been going on in preserving water and capturing light, pointing at CO2 probably not being a limiting factor.

Even the one neat CO2 trick I remember was really a hack to preserve water: some desert plants have a mechanism to store a day’s worth of CO2, allowing them to close pores and prevent evaporation.

Anyway, if you’re looking for a counterexample, I’d switch environments altogether and try again in bacteria, algae, and maybe grasses. While I doubt there would be much of a difference to trees, the first two are at least a few degrees further away from them in the deity’s org chart. All three categories also strike me as possibly being more relevant than trees in terms of total biomass, although that’s just a hunch that may be completely wrong.
Why wasn't this done 65 versions ago?
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Because IQ is not scientifically proven and is inherently flawed.
Or it would make the organization even more about hierarchies of domination.
Aren't we all talking about how we would like it to be and not what is legal or contractual? I thought so at least. If we are talking about contract, it's all stacked against us. We have no bargaining power. We have no rights whatsoever. Google absolutely has the right to do what they want within legal boundaries. These discussions and the noise we generate is how we are flexing our muscle and accomplishing what we want from Google.
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