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> Scaling up within a colo can be troublesome due to procuring hw, having remote hands rack it, setup, etc.

One senior sysadmin/infrastructure engineer with on-prem experience is enough to scale up your colo presence. You can either assemble your own servers or custom order and have them shipped directly to the colo. Remote console and power management (PDUs) is a solved problem. Out of band management, also solved. Virtualization, solved. Push your VM snapshots, content, artifacts, and database backups into your object store of choice for offsite backups. Ideally, your colo facility is within driving distance of your office if you absolutely need physical access. Otherwise, you pay someone at the colo a few hundred bucks a month for remote hands services.

EDIT: k8s arguably makes this easier than in the past. You want to run on your own cluster? You can. You need to burst your containers to spot instances in someone else's cloud? You can.
> but we are talking about sub $30k/year jobs that nobody wants to do.

Yes, that's the problem. There is no law of nature that says we need to pay people with the jobs that are worst for their health the worst and give them no respect or acknowledgement.

If there are other jobs that is true for, yes, those too.

I wouldn't tell you what to care about, but I would say that we all would benefit by taking care of those of us whose jobs harm them. Your job should be less shitty too, it doesn't take away from that to point out other people who's jobs are harming them and aren't getting what they need. It is reasonable to begin focus on the jobs that are the _worst_, mentally or physically. Maybe yours is one of those too.

It's also reasonable in the HN venue to focus on the jobs that are the worst that make possible the economy that many of us reading this benefit from by being paid a lot more than $15/hour to contribute to, and probably aren't as harmful to our health as those for many of us. If your situation is especially dire, then, yes, you too.
From wikipedia:

> Seasonal affective disorder is a mood disorder subset in which people who have normal mental health throughout most of the year exhibit depressive symptoms at the same time each year, most commonly in the winter.

I usually get depressed in the summer though, even when I get enough unfiltered sunlight.
You need to keep a set of global pointers to arrays for all internal state of the function, increment it on the entry point and decrement it before the subroutine's RETURN.

It's a nightmare, but doable.
I mean, the closer the number is to financial ruin, don't you think it's more likely that someone will negotiate? What you're saying, essentially, is: the higher the price of something, the less likely someone will negotiate.

Clearly, that is not the case.

And in regards to your last point, what has made the system so perverse is the insurance companies in the first place. If most people were actually responsible for paying all of their healthcare costs themselves, the prices would be pretty cheap.

For example, I live in Tanzania, and I can get medication that is over $500/month without insurance in the US, or like $75 with insurance, for around $1-$2. Also, I can get a tooth pulled for under $5.

No one has health insurance here, I don't think it even exists, and therefore, hospitals are forced to charge an amount that the people can pay for. The system actually works, and if for some reason you can't pay, you can volunteer at the hospital until your bill is paid off.

Consequentially, even though there aren't laws about accepting all patients (hospitals are allowed to turn away whoever they like), they don't, because they know they will be paid at the very least in labor.

Though, honestly, at this point in the US the system is so fucked up that I'm not sure it's even possible to create a free-market system anymore. It pains me to say this (as a staunch libertarian), but I think maybe it would be better at this point for the government to just foot the bill for everyone.
Can't blame the horrible way they implemented long filename support on CP/M.

I was mildly impressed at how they packed the datefield into a 16 bit value, losing only odd numbered seconds in the process.
“The Cloud” is a euphemism for extreme centralization of web and other hosting.
technically node achieves it as well.
Well, that might just be because there's not actually much to say about consciousness. If you strip all the things we know it's not (memory, thoughts, etc) we're actually left with very little, if anything.

I think this is also what some meditation based philosophies are trying to teach. That is, they're saying something along the lines of: you are in one way everything at once, but you are not any of the things you think you are. They spend a lot of effort trying to teach people, essentially nothing. Not just the label "nothing" but something like a deep realisation of the concept.

My main problem with this philosophy is figuring out why we're conscious of a very specific subset of things at a time. Does the brain create a kind of nexus where several items of complex information are available in a small physical, and that makes it easy to be conscious of these things at once? But what limits it?

And the other problem is the link between consciousness and action. Most actions seem like a product of cause-and-effect.. but at the very least it seems that the existence of consciousness is making us talk about consciousness.
I'm using an i7, mid-2010 17" MacBook Pro at work, its been upgraded to 16Gb of RAM and an SSD installed but otherwise its stock and works great.

I am a software-programmer and use ColdFusion builder, SQL (Azure Data Studio), and various other tools like TextWrangler, RDP, Firefox, Chrome, etc. The only complaint I have is that it won't run Mojave so no "Dark-mode" but that's ok--having used this laptop for a year now, if I can squeeze another year out of it I'll probably qualify to get a more recent model.
Oh no no no. If we do a 21st century version, we'll throw in all sorts of opinionated CS jerkoffery into it, and then it will look just like everything else--where we have to pass through three different toolchains before we can even think about running something.

Bicycles are already pretty good just the way they are.
I wonder how much there is actual difference for React Native vs Native. With better and better phone components development speed / ability to test / debug will become more important then being close to the metal.
We used to just call them NeoCons.
pug is really nice (as is haml).

The only reason I bear with the superfluous verbosity of JSX is because it plays well with typescript. The moment you switch to text based templates typesafety goes out of the window.

I really wish javascript/typescript had a good builder syntax like Ruby. Hyperstack [1] (previously Hyperloop) is a great project that uses ruby blocks for component composition. I wish this was possible in javascript.

[1] https://hyperstack.org/
> 50 years ago was the golden age to be born in the West imo.

I disagree. The western world was more violent, racist, and less tolerant of women/minorities 50 years ago. Average life expectancy was also ~10 years lower. None of these are 'perfect' today, but they are much better overall than they were during your 'golden age'.
I think this is a worthy comment. It reminds me of getting dumped by a girlfriend by text message with a refusal to talk about what happened and why she wanted to end the relationship. How is anyone supposed to learn from that behavior?
DNS over HTTPS would help
Ummm taxes.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/new-tab-cat-video-...

I built this Chrome Extension as a small project to learn how to code. This extension plays a new cat video every time you open a new tab in Chrome.

I am 1/3 complete the Udemy Complete Web Developer Course 2.0 and am having fun applying what I am learning on small projects like this!
Cargo culting Feynman's beliefs would be ironic indeed. :)
> Its use of dynamic typing makes me a little bit hesitant to use it, though, as I really love the help provided by static typing.

There is dialyzer, a static type (and not only) analysis tool for Erlang. It is part of Erlang/OTP (i. e. built-in.)

http://erlang.org/doc/apps/dialyzer/users_guide.html
Hmm, it's like early stage funding and then reaping the benefits from the small number who make it to unicorn level ...
Up until last month I used a MBP from early 2011 daily. I did get (over time) 16 GB ram, an SSD, new battery, GPU replace (by Apple for free due to an issue) and a new charger. Lost month it really died though, no idea what it is (not the ssd, not the ram).
You don't know what you don't know. That's the danger.
Prevent route leaks by explicitly defining policy
I believe Stripe’s Atlas uses this as well.
> If you use AMIs (which you probably should) to launch EC2 instances with all your software baked in already, you will probably end up with dozens or hundreds of old, unused AMIs.

We previously had this issue. What we do now is instead of leaving old ones on S3, we download and archive them. We just tag them on the dashboard and a nightly script does the rest.

In general tagging is an extremely powerful way to organize your AMIs. This article[0] has good examples of tagging you can follow. We use something akin to the "Business Tag" strategy, with an Excel document. Definitely requires some internal organisation but the cost savings speak for themselves.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/answers/configuration-management/aws-...
If I understand the instructions correctly and you need ctrl + click to connect pieces, that is going to be a problem on MacOS. Since on MacOS ctrl + click == right mouse button.
Not sure it's really true that a 1997 laptop would not have been OK for 2007. I nursed a PowerBook G3 "Pismo" along until at least 2007. It had Rage 128 graphics and 1024x768 display just like this ThinkPad. Yes it had an upgraded G4 CPU and replacement batteries, but the X60 on which I am typing this message has a $$$ SSD in it, too.
Set reasonable low Price ceilings on procedures/ per night stays, pills, etc, adjusted on location and make the hospital liable for any costs above those. I don't see why a night in the hospital should cost 8000$ per night or why a pill should cost 100$, or a little ambulance ride should be 2800$ etc.
I think there are significantly more people who eat too many carbs than people who drink too much water.

Speaking for just myself, I used to feel that sugar low after my lunch, and I know that craving for more carbs. I gained too much weight as a result. Now I've cut down on my carbs and I mostly snack on veggies these days and try not to overdo carbs at lunch, and that seems to help at least with that sugar low.
You can always negotiate and threaten to not pay. They might send you to collections or even sue you for the debt, but often they'll agree to a smaller number to avoid the hassle.
And in 20 years we'll watch media from this decade and be shocked at what we put in our media. Society advances, culture changes. Viewing the past through the lens of the present is always going to be a different exercise than viewing the present through the lens of the present.
The political winds in Chicago are blowing against Elon Musk's tunnel project
One problem I had at jobs that used Mongo was that any other tools/systems that connected to the database had to be synchronized as well. It's not enough that this one system enforces a schema.

Classic example being that our code used visibility_score but a tool was adding a visibilityScore property to every document as part of a cron job calculation.
Actually it is a lot easier to negotiate the price after you’ve already gotten the service. They can’t take back the service if you don’t agree to their price.
And commented ROM listings, where one found out there was a line assembler.

Good times.
I disagree. I found the book enlightening as I was experiencing growing pains moving to a more senior role on my team (less time for getting things done, more time helping others, etc) and this book helped me realize that it was to be expected.

That may be obvious for others, but it wasn't for me.
No. Definitely pink from slight burn. Google says some side windows aren't the same as the front and back.
And it's worth noting that Spolsky left MS & wrote that essay well before MS had its "come to Jesus" moment when it came to security. A fanatical emphasis on backwards compatibility & avoiding rewrites was not helpful for avoiding that crisis.
I have successfully migrated to mailbox.org over Christmas and I am very happy with them so far. Excellent quality applications and web app, very reliable service and they use & support a lot of open source projects. They have a heavy emphasis on encryption and privacy.
As long as vendors don’t put crappy parts in them - keyboards being the obvious one currently.
Skookum as frig
Cute name is "strangler": https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/StranglerApplication.html
Good luck with that. Women are too worried about getting hit on or even molested by men to want to do anything like that, and commuters are too tired to want to interact with others.
Quantum – An engine for fast time series data aggregation by Marqeta
No, because nuclear exchange is going to kill them first.
>San Francisco Rush 2049

You and he should make "San Francisco Rush 2019" where you jump around from startups to FAANG all the while trying to make enough money to keep up with housing price increases.
A truly great and inspiring project! Some more links:

- Source: https://github.com/ojack/hydra

- Creator Olivia Jack on twitter: https://twitter.com/_ojack_

- Examples of Hydra patterns: https://twitter.com/hydra_patterns

- Crazy good audio visual performance from Olivia Jack (Hydra) & Alexandra Cardenas (TidalCycles) at the recent International Conference on Live Coding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyEIDNtt9Hs
Apple will fix that for free btw.

I took my out of warranty 2017 mob and had no issues getting a repair.
With respect, what you linked to is a conspiracy theory that the ME is used in ways other than explicitly stated by Intel and unsupported by any evidence other than allegation.
Nah, sometimes using a debug build changes too many things, and being able to debug a release build is still valuable.
If you cancelled your AWS account entirely, but people were still trying to reach that deleted S3 bucket, who would pay for that?
Taming Time Series Data with Quantum – Marqeta Engineering
Mozilla and Scroll partner to test alternative funding models for the web
The article discusses the history of the concept, but completely misses Disney's fair treatment of the topic in Flight of the Navigator(1) CA. 1986;)

1. https://youtu.be/gVebPEYiq2o
Yes. My bad. Shoe Dog.
I still use an ASUS A6000 from 2006.
It’s horrible, but compatibility often leads to horrible things. Remember that they wanted disks with long file names to work on old systems, and have them be able to manipulate files with long file names as usual (through their short names), in all kinds of manners.

I’m not saying it’s good, but MS at the time had compatibility as one of their highest priority, so that’s what they were going for.

(But the parent’s comment is about the initial implementation, not long file names.)
Your comment doesn't contribute to the discussion. It's more of an advertisement than a comment.
Amazon Bolts New York City to Keep Truckin’
Yes. I think it was Atari BASIC that allowed GOTO (X*100)+1000

Lol, found out later why that was bad, but as a kid, why not?

What else are the numbers for?
I want to know what the legal basis for collecting from an ER patient is. At the point of needing ER services, most people are not able to form a binding contract so it cannot be that.

I do agree that hospitals should be paid for the services they perform. It's just that our society's free market notion of price-agreement is predicated on voluntary contracts.

> I talked about this with some of my physician friends, and they told me this is typical. In fact, the original bill doesn't represent what they expect to be paid

For instance, if the hospital is billing under a theory of reimbursement for services provided on your behalf, lying about their costs is textbook fraud.

Or are there explicit state laws that allow hospitals to collect from ER patients without a contract in place? If so these need to be reformed to have uniform charges no matter who the payer is. Like say towing.
> as users can take care of what they watch themselves.

I don't know what you mean by that. If you visit facebook, you don't get to pick what you see. Certainly a few seconds of a murder is going to be less than desirable.
An Iceberg 30 Times the Size of Manhattan Is About to Break Off Antarctica
> What happened is that _software_ stopped bloating and inflating like a balloon, as was the norm through the '80s, '90s and early '00s.

I don't think this is true, especially with the growing trend towards web apps being repackaged as desktop applications.
> I can't even imagine not having a numpad like she doesn't have.

My wrist pain got better when I ditched my number pad.

Lots of people have reported the same.

I also use 1 monitor, I use to use a lot, now my main monitor at home is an ultra wide. It provides less real estate than 2 monitors, it is about 1.5 monitors in width, but unlike dual monitor setups there isn't a line in the center of my vision and my main work window is straight in front, with emulators and terminals off to either side.

But I also have a setup with just 1 1900x1200 monitor. Honestly it doesn't make much difference. I am not using keepass at the same time I am coding, while I am coding I am writing code. Heck zen mode in various editors, full screen no menu bars, exists for a reason.

The OSs we all use today were written in text mode editors. Much of the work is still done in text mode editors (I know quite a few devs at Microsoft who use Vim!)

Don't judge others for doing what works for them.

FWIW, Visual Studio Code does most of what you have, all in one UI. It supports shells, scratchpads, and expression evaluation in pick your favorite language. I use deployment scripts instead of FTP, running from a console, so again one less thing.

IMHO multiple monitors are great for those times when I am manually taking data from one place to another, or for when I am live viewing changes.

I have never had a productivity boost from seeing email appear in the corner of my eye. How in the world is that good for coding? Likewise for a blinking tab in Slack or Skype. I'll check Slack once an hour or so, but I honestly don't want to see the notifications while I am focusing!

Let people do what works for them.
Because we only got to do it during the 8 bit era, there were tons of books and magazine listings to learn it, and for many of us it was the only way to get software.

16 bit home computers already had structured BASIC compilers, producing native code, for example I learned Turbo Basic in 1990.

Here is how it looked like,

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_borlandBorsHandbook198...

Amiga demoscene was presented with AMOS.

Just to cite those which I had more experience with.
It's beyond ridiculous that the richest country in human history cannot even ensure health treatment to its citizens, when countries with 1/20 of its GDP/capita manage that. Goes to show that "economic growth" by itself means nothing, if it does not even translate into something so basic as health care.
of course, I meant it backend-wise
I still use a 2010 MBP. I think it's at the end of MacOS X support. The battery doesn't last long. Rather than spend money buying a new battery, I should probably replace the whole laptop.

But it still works!
Yes. You'd be surprised by how much time people used to spend mindlessly flipping through the glossy coupon sections in the pre-smartphone days. People also used to read shampoo bottles while they pooped before they had phones out of sheer boredom.
‘Let’s escalate this call to the steering group’.
Yes the key is that at certain points in the past there is a nice jump in perf followed by a long plateau. One recent example is in high perf intel laptop CPUs. If you got an i7 laptop 4 years ago and and then again 1 year ago (an i7-7xxx), there was little difference. If you had waited just a little longer for the i7/i9 8xxx gen, it’s suddenly a huge jump.

And one other (but not as extreme) example was the 2011 Sandy Bridge laptops such as the mbp. Several years later if you got a new dual core the difference wasn’t that big.

(I’m now talking perf only, not temp, noise, idle power,... - I typically don’t even use laptops witiut the power cord attached)
I've worked for a certain IoT startup that at one point paid $850k/month (eight hundred and fifty thousand USD per month) for AWS usage. After about a year of full time work by a team of SREs and programmers, the bill was made to go down by half.
Are there examples of decentralized/unmoderated platforms with similar popularity (= success for the purpose of this conversation) to Facebook?

I suspect reddit is the best example of blending "something for everybody" with "default users don't see offensive things", while also being able to remove things like the content in the story, but obviously they still have human moderators.

I think the ultra-open / libertarian model is fundamentally incompatible with broad acceptance, personally [1], but I'm happy to be proven wrong. Early IRC/BBSes aren't very convincing to me because even if they were unmoderated the barrier to entry (knowledge, hardware) was high enough to limit adoption.

[1]: I think sites like Gab indicate that even if you clone a successful product and market it as "<x> but with free speech", the free speech part winds up being a negative factor, concentrating elements that will scare off mainstream users.
What I meant is that it was unsubstantive (i.e. contains little information) and calls names. That's what makes it a bad comment for HN.
I'm the author of this blog post. Soon after I wrote it, I got an X62 and did the daylight LED mod on it: https://geoff.greer.fm/2017/07/16/thinkpad-x62/
Great stuff!

Not affiliated, but my brother uses this to get distribution for his music for free, pretty sure Will.i.am is a cofounder - Amuse (https://amuse.io/free-music-distribution).
How does one actually go about negotiating the ER bill after you've received one?
This isn't really a Hackintosh, since you're running the OS on genuine Apple hardware.
But they can certainly hop on an electric bus (as some MetroKC buses are now)
Referees sometimes miss solid calls. No human can get 100% right when things happen in a fraction of a second. The Rams/Saints playoff game had a famous example (although there are conspiracy claims surrounding that also). I'll go with Hanlon's razor until something solid comes up.
The more we learn about iq the more heritable we believe it to be. Up to 80-85% in more recent studies
I'm not sure you realize that the values that gets in one's mind and govern one's decision towards procreation is one form of current natural selection. It's funny to see some of the world's best and most promising getting bogged down by or getting utterly lost in some "smart people problem" instead of using their capacity to come ahead in the game of life.
Why aren't there services that negotiate people's medical bills, for a fee?
The "adopt" kids usually are the kids of alcoholic parents, who gave them a subtle but unrepairable "drink" too much. You will not be informed about that by government- and you will go through hell trying to repair what alcohol made unrepairable.

Would advise that only if government guarantees no
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_alcohol_spectrum_disorde...
The phrase "familiarity breeds contempt" exists for a reason. A lack of contact with something can certainly lead to ignorance and bigotry, but it's our closest neighbours in geography, culture or ideology that spark actual disgust, anger and hatred.