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I the Serverless framework and have been able to successfully redeploy functions from AWS to GCP (all node, this was in 2018) with only a few changes to the Provider section off serverless.yml. We are adopting Kubernetes now and I'm feeling out the landscape, so I'm planning on trying the same thing with Kubeless. AFAIK it should be pretty seemless- I'm more worried about Ingress working properly than Kubeless not being able to run my code.

FaaS has an important role to play: we often prototype things with Zapier, then redeploy them as FaaS functions when we need to scale them or process any PII. I can't imagine trying to make a full app with them with the current state of the dev/testing workflow, but for internal systems, integration, and stream processing they are pretty tough to beat.
>Wealth needs to be redistributed

It is not a zero-sum game. It would be more productive to facilitate wealth creation rather than devise new ways to forcibly take-away private property that offends you.

Reducing the countless barriers to entry that stunt human ingenuity is where the real fight is. People can learn, and they are already (e.g Make/Lambda School) when provided with cost-effective training that delivers on investment.

Wanting more of the same (tax + regulations) is not going to cut it now. We are past ridiculous levels (1:3 avg OCDE tax:gdp) and diminishing returns kicked in.
> we use a pre-receive hook

But in the context of this discussion, LLVM is moving to GitHub and there is no possibility of custom pre-receive hook there as far as I know.
Doing first-class work and achieving something significant(Richard Hamming,1998)
It is my wealth that is going to be “redistributed”. I am a relatively well off software engineer; I was born in a poor family on the outskirts of a Siberian town. I learned to program all on my own, by visiting my friends with computers and taking programming books from the local library. It wasn’t a “function of circumstance” — it was a function of my interest and targeted activity. What is unfair here?
None of my list is esoteric - a website with a caching layer, a database, a CDN, a search index, and a user pool that can survive a data center outage and some place to store assets.
The Mpemba effect: fact or fiction?
Or they riot and rebel. The surest way to see how violent people can be is to offer them no choice in the matter. This is a country with a lot of guns, tons of space, and a poorly paid police and military. It’s not hard to imagine how the prospect of a quiet, ignominious death would go over. There are already militias and preppers, and I for one want those movements to do something other than flourish and expand.
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Frank, thank you for sharing your story. I've been in a similar situation for the last twelve years (chasing some dream, trying to make it work), and I'm finally letting it go too. Reading your post was so helpful for me (helping me know I'm not alone), and also just tremendously heartwarming because you've found stable ground after all this while. Keep being awesome.
> There is a version of this exercise you could do where you say you are intentionally giving bad answers and give none!!!

This might seem clever, but it could backfire. If the other person trusts you, they will take it as axiomatic that some of your answers are bad; therefore, if all of your answers are actually pretty good, they will desperately look for nits to pick, and possibly end up making criticisms that they don't really believe in (or at least wouldn't have believed in when unbiased). This can take you from one extreme (too polite/respectful/humble to be critical) to another (finding things to criticise no matter what), skipping the middle ground that you really want.
You want to have a few pints with folks. You start to pick a pub. After hours of negotiations (nobody wants to go an extra mile) you realize it is a disaster. As a result, you end up with a bottle of wine on your comfy sofa.

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> would likely look down on

The reason for this is because 40 years ago, you had to write everything to get something on screen.

The modern generation benefits from the foundational knowledge and be able to do more.
What does your friend think of this?

This is just more fuel to add to the pro-ad-blocking argument.

Ad companies are filth.
It's not that simple though - if you read the article it talks about how

1: High paying jobs aren't really increasing in number but are becoming ever better paid
and
2: Low paying jobs are exploding in number but not in wages paid.

So part of the problem is that there aren't many mid level jobs that get people in and help them then increase. Tech doesn't really automate the stuff that's not super low level (like cleaning toilets, or mopping floors), and it doesn't do stuff at the high end (M&A banking, negotiating policy, writing code). But it eats a ton of stuff in the middle.
Looking at the bar chart on that page - NY scores a lot higher on "Business Environment" than SF, enough to pip SF (#2) at the post.

They have a bunch of categories and add up the scores, that's all. Pretty arbitrary, like any such list. Most of the comments sound here like it's someone's personal opinion, or deliberately fixed, or an insult to SF, or a joke etc.
How do you expect to compete with fully reusable boosters a la SpaceX? Are you building your own and when do you hope to have them delivering paying payloads? Or does ULA hope to buy reusable rockets from Blue Origin, not just engines?
This would be nice in theory, but most organized sports are seasonal with the majority occurring over the summer break. They'd need to subsidize for year long programs, and that doesn't seem financially feasible.

Also, certain sports cost more than others, so certain families getting more money because their child picked a more expensive sport doesn't seem fair.
I like that he has examples that show CNF formulations next to SMT formulations. SMT is really easy to write, but it seems like magic. CNF draws back the curtain a bit.
> It is not a zero-sum game.

I agree, but when it comes to government funding of programs to facilitate wealth creation, many act like it is zero sum.
AWS drives most of Amazon’s profits these days. It isn’t running at a loss.
Halite III: It's a Wrap
Is this backed up by any stats? Last I saw the stats on America showed the top % is unimaginably rich and the inequality is massively worse than other countries like Australia where the average person is much better off.
Edit: Just 1 GPS satellite, I misread.

Satellites don't last forever. SpaceX launched 10 gps sattelites in 2018... (or more, not sure, that's just one launch)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_Block_IIIA
shit. startup idea: "encyclopedia dramatica for work"
I came here and searched for the Bayh-Dole Act and am surprised to find only this single mention of it. It really does seem to me to be at the root of the current policies around federally funded research artifacts.

I disagree with the causation you infer regarding public benefits as a result of this change in IP rules. After all, we saw many post WW2 benefits of federal spending long before 1980. The most visible were in aerospace developments that gave us the jet age, but of course even Silicon Valley was well on its way in the 1970s with lots of computer industry groundwork already in place.

I think a lot of the computer industry developments of the 1980-1990s were almost inevitable once that stage was set. It was mostly a coincidence that Bayh-Dole was passed and universities ramped up their strip-mining of the federal budget around the same period. An awful lot of the current Internet age was built by people like me, working on open source projects and federal funding in spite of Bayh-Dole, not because of it.
This seems like a "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." kind of answer. At what point is circumstance not responsible? How much of our circumstances are we responsible for? Can we change other people's circumstances? By how much, and how does it affect outcome?
It's unfair that you were born into a world of people who want your stuff. It's also unfair they were born into a world with no frontier they could homestead to make their own stuff.
> all cloud providers have an exorbitant premium when it comes to running Windows on their VMs

Speaking from first hand running-a-cloud-platform experience, it's because running Windows on a cloud platform is not easy, and comes with licensing costs that have to be paid to Microsoft for each running instance (plus a bunch of infrastructure to support it). It's not even a per-instance-per-time-interval cost, there's all sorts of stuff wrapped up in it and impact the effective cost. It requires a bunch of administrative work and specific coding to try to optimise the costs to the cloud provider.

In addition, where Linux will happily transfer between different hardware configurations, you'll often have to have separate Windows images for each hardware configuration, so that means even more overhead on staffing both producing and supporting. So e.g. SR-IOV images, PV images, bare metal images (for each flavour of bare metal hardware), etc. While a bunch of this work can be fully automated, it's still not a trivial task, and producing that first image for a new hardware configuration can take a whole bunch of work, even where you'd think it would be trivial.
A big problem is looking at markets locally and ignoring all the people who contribute to that economy but don't live locally. Many of the tools and other resources used by those in Arizona are produced by workers elsewhere. Software might be created by people in the Bay Area. Robots may be designed and engineered by people in Germany or Japan. Etc.

When you only looking locally, you miss out on all the employment elsewhere that contributes to the local economy you're analyzing.
Much less. Wealth without force only provides more options, not takea it away. Wealth is a great force multiplier, though, and force can be used for evil.
Super useful. The question is when this Api will be implemented in Chrome and Firefox?
Wholeheartedly agree. Once you're dead, you're dead. One's last wishes should definitely be respected to the first degree. That is, whomever you will your money, possessions, or property to should get those things. There should not be any strings attached beyond that, to the extent that a living person could not tie those same strings (or choose later to untie them)
Only for UK?
Some people think germ theory is meaningless. So what?
There will be a big status update in a few days here: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/

Or you can subscribe in one of these places :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/oilshell

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I'm hung up on that I, as a member of the general public, can essentially do the same thing when using the service more-or-less as intended.

In talking about searching a pool of people, I'm not really seeing how this is different than using Facebook to search for Criminal McEvildoer's name. The police are searching a pool of people (facebook users) to match a string. It's effectively the same thing, yeah?

The big issue here is that people are making privacy decisions without thinking through the ramifications of the privacy decisions.
The entire world is a frontier. I was born in Siberia; I wouldn’t want to stay there, so when I was old enough, I saved some money and bought one way tickets first to Moscow, then to Europe.
I wonder how effective this will be. About a decade ago the Tasmanian government successfully eradicated rabbits & rats on Macquarie Island - an important nesting place for penguins and albatross halfway to Antarctica.

They had to literally carpet the entire island in poison dropped from hoppers carried by helicopters. For seven years after that, the island was combed daily by hunters with teams of trained dogs before they could finally declare it pest-free. This was the largest successful island pest eradication program in the world at the time.

https://www.parks.tas.gov.au/file.aspx?id=31160
SpaceX is not available to purchase in an open market. Soon Slack may be. If they were both publicly listed, maybe their market caps would means something. Estimated private valuations, not so much info there.
One example is we have an integration that posts a task that needs attention. I put the construction worker emoji to indicated it’s being handled then replaced it with the check mark emoji once complete.
Team chat is highly valuable, and surprisingly difficult to do well.
> And despite the dreams of techies more than likely after awhile, you aren’t going to change your underlying infrastructure.

sorry -

isn't the _entire context_ of this article (and your response, experience, etc) 'implications of changing an underlying infrastructure' ?

yes, this isn't something one does on a whim, but it does happen, as your own post suggests.
The problem with moving from 8 hours to 6 hours is that there will always be workers willing to do 10 hours or even 12 hours. These workers end up producing 50-100% more with about the same overhead. If you have a worker that will work 12 hours, you only need to pay for one health insurance plan as opposed to having to pay for two insurance plans if you need to get two 6-hour employees.

On top of that, the 12-hour employee is accruing experience at twice the speed of the 6-hour employee. For some fields, putting in the additional hours can make the employee willing to work more hours more productive on a per hour basis. Obviously this doesn't apply to all professions, but for many professions it does apply to some degree.

You'd basically have to outlaw working more than 6 hours to keep overachievers from taking all the good jobs.
I believe SpaceX has launched one next generation GPS satellite so far (Dec, 2018). They are big and take up the full payload of a Falcon 9. So heavy, in fact, that SpaceX has to launch them in disposable mode. It is the Iridium satellites are the ones that SpaceX launches 10 at a time.
I am 5'10" and have 5" of headroom (just went out and measured to write this comment!). The cab is actually really spacious.
What I don't honestly understand is source of money for UBI appearing sooner rather than later.

I mean, US is projected to have one trillion budget deficit for a second straight year - "US Deficit 2019: Treasury to Borrow $1 Trillion for 2nd Year - Bloomberg".

Slap UBI on top of it and this is Greece trajectory.
Tesla is rolling out a firmware update that will prevent you from charging above 90% at high contention Superchargers. Simple solution.
So how does trademark work with a logo that is essentially made entirely out of CC artwork? Wouldn't another company be able to legally "steal" your logo in theory?
Is it? What would it look like to win this competition? To lose?
This is a good part of the reason girls tend to do better in school than boys. I don't know if there's a great answer; if you don't find effective coping strategies then you will suffer.
Seeing that as long as Y combinator has existed, only one company has ever gone public, the rest are still either humming along unprofitably, have been acquired, or gone out of business, the chances of most businesses having to worry about their largest business risk being an over reliance on AWS seems slim.
While Calamus was indeed a great piece of software (IIRC, Linotype-Hell actually sold a very high-end printing system using an Atari ST and Calamus as the control system for a Linotype Imagesetter), it did not predate PageMaker. Aldus PageMaker came out in July 1985; Calamus DTP came out two years later, in July 1987.

Calamus -- at least as a brand -- outlived PageMaker, though! Invers Software, the owners of Calamus, shut their doors only last year, but the web site is still up; a macOS descendant of Calamus called "iCalamus" appears to still be in active development, under relatively new owners (who are longtime Macintosh developers).

https://calamus.net

https://www.lemkesoft.de/en/products/icalamus/
I've been in tech my whole professional life and I can't relate to the second class at all. The technologically enabled upper middle class are fighting over Yeezys, Supreme drops, and Rolexes (seriously, try to find any of those at retail price). My neighborhood is filled with WFH techies, and we all head outside in the evening for our kids to ride bikes with each other while we sample microbrews together.

Those trucks you see electricians and plumbers driving, they cost $50k and up. I don't get that remark, either.
I think perhaps not all vendor lock-in is created equal. I too shudder at the thought of walking into another Oracle like trap, but it's also an error in cognition to make the assumption that all vendors will lock you in to the same degree and in the same way.

I guess the part of us that is cautioning ourselves and others are aware of the pitfalls, but others also have valid points around going all in.

There is a matrix of different scenarios let's say.

You can go all in on a vendor and get Oracled.
You can go all in on an abstraction that lets you be vendor agnostic and lose some velocity while gaining flexibility.
You can go for a vendor and perhaps it turns out that no terrible outcome results because of that.
You can go all in on vendor agnostic and have that be the death of the company.
You can go all in on vendor agnostic and have that be the reason the company was able to dodge death.

Nobody can read the future and even "best practices" have a possibility of resulting in the worst outcomes. The only thing for it is to do your homework, decide what risks are acceptable to you, make your decision, take responsibility for it.
This is why the CC0 is way more useful than just putting "This code is in the public domain" at the top of every header file.
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Unless you are huge corp buying ads by the bucket you are not "really a Google customer", are you?
Given the number of people giving interviews, the likelihood that you could gain much signal from those forums is limited.

Even the most common questions aren't aren't common enough that you're sure to encounter one on an interview loop.
U.S. Federal District Court Declared Bitcoin as Legal Money
ha! Only for London for now, but we have plans to expand to the rest of the world!
When British people go to other countries that got wrecked in the war, like Japan or Germany, they will sometimes look around them and comment "How did they do it? How did they build and keep all this manufacturing capacity? Why do they have this awesome infrastructure that we don't? What did they do differently?"

For Germany, this article provides the answer. For Japan, it's a little different, of course, but the principle of judiciously using post-war investment holds for Japan too.

This should be more common knowledge and hopefully it will stop the rumors like "Germany was flattened so they could start from a blank slate". This obviously holds no water as this advantage would have been entirely eroded within 10-20 years as new technologies came in anyway.

The UK squandered Marshall Aid. The UK squandered North Sea oil revenue. The UK ripped up and threw away an advantageous membership of the world's largest free trade bloc.

The UK has an unenviable track record in this area.
How do we convince the wealthy elite classes on our planet that - in order to have the highest odds of sustaining our species in a way that WE desire, it will require the strength of every human being, which will require individual investment to foster each human's strengths for the time we live in ?
On the other hand, some branches like the Department of Energy are making a big push for open source. You can see how many projects Los Alamos has, for example:

https://github.com/lanl

And:

https://github.com/laristra

Keep in mind, Los Alamos is one of the big labs doing nuclear work for the DOE, so obviously a lot of what they do is classified, but of the stuff that isn't they're actually doing a pretty impressive job of open sourcing it.
> The rationale for creating this model is the lack of up-to-date electric grid location data

Certain details about the electrical grid are regarded as a matter of national security in Norway and I would think most other developed countries share this view.

For example, if the exact location of all transmission lines in a country are known to the public then an enemy state or a group of terrorists could use that knowledge to completely cut the power to a city as part of their attack.

The willingness of some to attack the power grid of someone else was demonstrated for example in the December 2015 Ukraine power grid cyberattack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2015_Ukraine_power_gr...
1) Doesn't seem so unsexy to me - though I havent gotten any in a while (actual trust busting that is)

2) If raising the issue, why start with these 2?

Many bigger and much more entrenched fish in our sea
Engagement with Fake News Is Declining
Thankx! fixed :)
>starting a sentence with like.
Hate me all you want. This is HN. I would enjoy a elevated level of grammar.
> No, the deadliest mass shooting in American history was at Wounded Knee. The government, which had been confiscating guns, shot 146 people to death.

You'd have to have a very special configuration of what to include as mass shooting for Wounded Knee to count but none of Antietam, the Lawrence Massacre, the Opelousas Massacre, the Greenwood Massacre, the Fort Pillow Massacre, the Bear River Massacre, any number of major attacks in the California Genocide, etc., to be included.

But, by the usual standards, neither those nor Wounded Knee are included in the scope of that term.
I definitely want those things you say done on the feature branch. Whether push to production happens before or after integration to master isn't critical, but it should be a close 1:1 between master and prod (within minutes).
Contrast Prince with Terry Pratchett, whose estate followed his wishes of destroying the hard drives containing Terry's unfinished works with a steamroller.[0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/30/terry-pratchet...
Now they're gone, so the number should be lower next year.
No, and I might very well be completely wrong. My reasoning is that some one like Jeff Bezos is worth $150 billion, if we take all his money (which we can't do, because most of his wealth isn't exactly in cash), then each American could receive something like $500. That's not really helpful, and we can only do that once, if we take ALL his money.

Maybe I'm underestimating how many rich people the world has, and how much money they have. It just doesn't seem like did have enough to make much of a difference.
Ideally this would have only targeted vehicles that have this problem. I wonder if they didn't want to disadvantage pick up trucks because they are pretty much exclusively made in the US due to existing burden on imported pick ups.
I for one wish we could find a way to address the US pickup and SUV disease and encourage much smaller cars.
Now I want to eat a deep dish pizza to not think about this.
Sounds like you landed in the lucky circumstance of having access to a computer and access to a library with programming books. You also got lucky with finding a job that let you save enough money to go somewhere else.

Should we not do our best to afford that "luck" to everyone?
One has high risk and high capital expenses, the other basically prints money by charging people for web-IRC.
It is so annoying because the reasoning is so insultingly simple and ultimately, the height of irony and stupidity. I can see the middle manager in my mind boasting how this feature increased their key video playback time metric by 5% so it's here to stay!
I think they already support it: https://caniuse.com/#feat=intersectionobserver