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Thanks very much! Hope to find out more tomorrow, but just wondering if there is any equivalent to the "cold start" issue you have with Cloud Functions on Cloud Run. If not, could you point to any documentation that explains the lifecycle of how containers are loaded, scaled up and scaled down in response to requests?
On build processes, it's surprising to me that the Rust community hasn't developed its own linker. I suppose LD works fine.
Of course. It's not literally a 1990's computer. But the idea that it's just somehow superior because the design is 3 decades old doesn't make any sense. 30 years ago it would have been new technology; so where was that same argument then?
Ghiradelli's 86% was surprisingly awesome imo, compared to the corresponding Lindt, which took some effort to finish off.
Why do so many Indians have this overwhelming desire to prove Einstein wrong?
"Zig is aggressively pursuing its goal of overthrowing C as the de facto language for system programming."

If there's one truth I've learned in my decades of dealing with computers, it's that you can't beat C at being C.

Before now, I'd never heard of Zig in particular, but I can think of several other languages that have tried or are currently trying. A lot of people seem to think they can make something a little better than C, in some ways, and that will be enough. I doubt that even C18 itself, if it were invented from scratch today, would be able to unseat another systems programming language.

Everybody forgot about Worse-is-Better: "Unix and C are the ultimate computer viruses". Any language which isn't more 'viral' than C (in terms of being ported, and attracting users) has no chance. You're starting tiny, and growing less quickly.
Hope it works out with a minimum of hassle!
Actually, yes, lots of pilots prefer ipads. They are lighter, for one, and for many tasks faster than paging through paper.
This post was written by a woman, fwiw.
The investment on 50 loss making houses can be subsidized by the investment on 50 profit making houses.
We used to memorise information, now we memorise search patters and ways to filter and combine sources of information. If anything, it can be exponentially more complex and useful.

It's like the difference between carrying a bag on your own back and managing a transport fleet.
Glad this was posted.

I've used GCP in the past, including decisions on which cloud providers to use where we spent north of 1M USD/month.

Honestly Google's efforts are best focused on support issues like this and customer service rather than features to compete with AWS at the moment. A lot about GCP's setup is simpler and their network/hardware is well known to be better per dollar spent.

However, I've always found the ability to contact an AWS rep and work through a tough situation on billing/quotas to be much more convenient.

That often shifts the decision in Amazon's favor.
Are you suggesting goebbels was evil?
Why not trace renter's check that scammer cashed out through the banking system?
> and in the other I hear stories of people getting a surprise 4-digit bill in the mail three weeks later, after already paying through the nose for insurance.

Lol. I wish. For me it was 5 digits. Closer to 6 than 4. And I had a $1,800/month premium for a family of 4. Spent multiple hours per week for months on end playing phone tag for the hospital and insurance company until it got resolved. Hospital billing also told me to not worry because nothing ever gets paid until both sides start suing eachother.

Yeah, this is peak efficiency. I just love taking up "resolving medical bills" as an unpaid part time job for the better part of a year.
None of this is gonna matter, worldwide, when Musk launches his constellation. And he will launch it eventually. I, for one, will sign up even if I don't need it, provided there's a plan for under $50/mo, just to show my outstretched middle finger to Comcast.
FWIW Cloud Run seems much more analogous to AWS Fargate than Lambdas.
A majority of customers (voters, etc) are morons.

They should expect it and it’s not even Google’s job to teach them that.

Honestly, what is the point of demanding that even most careless users get “protected” (which is impossible) when we already know they’ll eventually install other spyware while everybody else will end up with GDPR-like costa and annoyances?
Can confirm in Australia "emergency" does mean the department with the giant red emergency sign at your local hospital.

We have late-night general practitioner services here (at least in the city), which I have used for less-urgent stuff.
Wow, that's a really nice trope ya got there!
$15k is the norm where I live. It's usually around 5-10 years experience, not quite "senior". The 10% does cap at some point, lol.

If you do want to make an outsourcing agency, the good ones in a developing country make about $60k, which is enough to live in the top 10%. Companies like Accenture specialize in it, but they're not known for good treatment.
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I went through something similar to the author once, where I looked back on all the time I spent playing games in my youth and thought “wow, what a waste!”

What I came to realise, however, (after reading about Self Determination Theory) was that I likely spent so much of my time playing games because it was the only way for me to experience autonomy and competency as a young adult. I had no other way of meeting those needs.

Games taught me that if I practice at something, I can get better. They gave me a world I could exercise control over when everything else in my life was determined by school and my parents.

If you know someone who you think plays too many games, look to see if they have any other ways of meeting those basic human needs for autonomy, competence, and social interaction. If their lives are deficient in one or all of those areas, games can be a lifesaver.
Is this the thread where we humblebrag about how we find desserts (sometimes even bread) too sweet?
I agree, and looking through some of the doc it looks very easy to set up, but note AWS has Fargate, which is "a FaaS platform without vendor lock-in, supported by a major cloud vendor, and uses regular containers."
On one hand I see your point and agree somewhat, but OTOH the wild unregulated west has had its issues. Look at NPM for example.

> But i bet we will miss the things we have, but dont give much value now.

For a minority. A vast portion of users are happy with the iOS model.

I don't think the majority of Mac users share your ideology.
The amount of processing that those computers do won’t increase over time, it stays the same. So why use something you won’t need?

Also, planes are extremely expensive so they don’t get thrown away, they get constant upgrades. The U2 spy plane is a good example: a 1950/60s airframe running with more modern instruments. So if the need arise they will upgrade those CPUs on the 737s.
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Same here. As if the issues aren't enough, Comcast is also the "preferred" provider at my building and they are citing "safety reasons" to not let another provider who is willing to extend to my place.
That's a very misleading title for a book about computational complexity theory.
We are sugar free in our house w/3 kids and draw the line at fruit juice. Not allowed in our house. We will blend our own smoothies that have some bananas and berries but also include greens.

It is very hard to avoid sugar completely. It’s in everything especially anything marketed toward kids.
Thanks for making this site. I have been wanting one like this for very very long. I am a backend engineer who has trouble understanding the CSS in practice(I have done the tutorials and made many practice questions., but none really clicked). If you have a pay button, I am willing to play (one time fee!)

Also, can you please enable email based signup. Just because I use your site should not mean I have to except Google/twitter/github privacy policy, spectrum sign up policy and what not. I want to work in the relative anonymity of the internet, not show my picture in random places.
> A problem to me involves reading other people's code which uses primitives I haven't learned yet,

I think this attributes to why people (not you I believe) find j/k write-only unless they are experienced. Most seem not to be able to imagine that because it is so terse, to compare reading an a4 sheet of k/j compares to reading 50 java files; if you think of it like that, and imagine those java files using some design patterns you did not know before, you can have at least some form of comparison. In that case I find k/j far easier and faster to read. I need to figure out what those few primitives do and how they work but that will take me less time than unravelling all the abstrzctions across all files to an extend I can start customizing code, while in k/j I am ready to jump in. ymmv ofcourse but I think too many people see the code and compare it to a lovely clean OO class in one file, or some a4 of Python and think wtf this is line noise!
Air France flight 447 had too many alarms go off, and the pilots could not cope. Turns out that getting mid-flight problem diagnostics right is a really difficult problem.

Now, in the Air France flight, part of the problem was the system trying harder than it should have: it would have sufficed to alert the pilots to the lack of air speed indication and let them figure out what to do, but instead the computers cascade alarm after alarm.

You can see the problem: various pieces of the system were engineered separately, and there was no single system that could have suppressed the downstream alarms so that the pilots could focus on first on understanding the first alarm. Then again, that too might not have been a good design: perhaps a stall alarm should take precedence, say, over a frozen pitot alarm.
I have very high standards, but expecting public information to be public wouldn’t even be meeting those. It would be meeting one of my most basic standards.

To reject and fight FOIA requests takes _effort_, more so than simply complying with them. So no, I will not applaud shit. Our government needs to get past “basically good” before I praise them for frosting like this.

But feel free to embrace your feel good powwow approach. It’s done us so well so far.
Complaining about it on HN ain't gonna fix your problem. Either wait for someone to fix it, pay someone to fix it now (perhaps along with other funders), fix it yourself (perhaps with a hack/workaround), use MacOS instead, use different hardware, or ignore it.
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For the record, this is not what marketing professionals do. What you are talking about is somewhere between black-hat advertising and lifestyle advertising (which is much deeper than "manipulation").
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Marketing professionals absolutely use manipulative predatory tactics like that on the people they are trying to convince to buy their products. Just because you nonsensically try to suggest otherwise, doesn't magically make it so.

What's even less shocking is that it has real limitations in that, once trust is lost by a bad actor in one area of marketing, all other areas are suddenly seen as untrustworthy as well. That is the reason marketing only tends to work on younger people with little to no previous experience being targeted for the hard sell.

You can't distance yourself from people who use predatory advertising as a means to increase the "awarenes" metric any more than you can claim marketing isn't actually selling anything.....
Outside the Silicon Valley bubble, cybersecurity means Windows antivirus products, password policies, caution around unsolicited email, etc. Maybe the most sophisticated users of the term have a dim idea of what encryption means. When a government agency has "sophisticated cyber capabilities" I would generally take that to mean reams of paperwork asserting that Norton is properly installed on every desktop.

The whole dimension of vulnerabilities and exploits, protocol flaws, trust boundaries, techniques for selecting or creating less vulnerable software, getting crypto implementation details right, principle of least privilege... none of that stuff even registers. I briefly worked in an IT consulting company that sold security and PCI compliance services; nobody was talking about any of that stuff. It was all password policies, antivirus products, phishing awareness campaigns.

The government definitely has real computer security engineering work happening in the NSA, NIST (FIPS 140-2 in particular is no joke), and other very high end defense-related areas. But I would not generally expect people using the word "cyber" to have a fighting chance against a nation-state-level evil USB stick.
Generally, job sites are the least effective way. You'll end up running the resume lottery as well as the tech interview gauntlet. You can probably skip a couple of layers of interviews, drastically increasing your odds by knowing someone.

For my first job, I ran through generic job sites for 3 months with no luck and a lot of frustrating idiotic questions (one person rejected it because she couldn't open PDF and another rejected me in a phone interview for not knowing the company's address by heart).

I eventually just ran through all my Facebook friends asking for a job, and got one with an old family friend. Another two friends referred to me other job opportunities which I later turned down. And I basically just went through 15 people.
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> So why use something you won’t need?

The whole point of this issue that the technology and cockpit design is purposely 30 years old to prevent the need for re-certification not for safety issues.

I'm not suggesting technology be used that isn't needed; I'm just suggesting using the technology to make air travel safer and easier for pilots.
Is lambda size related to cold start time ?
This seems like a competitor more to Fargate than to Lambda, right?
>eventually the cap is going to achieve equilibrium with the environment

the environment is probably around 25 degrees. It's sitting between the environment and some heat producing element, so it will reach steady state somewhere between 25 degrees and the temp of that element. Making it as far away (thermally) as you can from that element should lower it's steady state temperature.
Abusive relationships have a lot to do with one party believing to be entitled to control the other party. And those who order a bride are in that category. It is not like they would be ordering her for any other reason.

That is simple risk factor evaluation one does when selecting partners. Normaly you guess on small hints, in this case it is pretty easy to see where you stand.

For sex, there is prostitution. This mail oder thing is about other wishes. And plan to be cool with whatever she decides to do is not one of them.
You gain complete flexibility over the language, environment, and running time, whereas cloud functions have a fixed set of runtimes and hard execution timeouts. When it’s ‘I just want to run my container’ this seems a lot more appealing than K8s and arguably requires less cognitive overhead to fit your app into the Function as a service paradigm. If you already have Cloud Functions working then run with that!
I was at 18F for almost 4 years. In that time, many of the projects I worked on were internally-facing. The US Government runs thousands of internally-facing websites and web applications. Many of them are entirely internal to single agencies, others are for inter-agency collaboration. Many of them require PIV or CAC cards for auth. And yes, many of them - whether card-authenticated or not - are utterly horrific.

This is a big part of why the USWDS project was created. 18F is tiny, and there's no way it could address even 1% of .gov by itself. Fortunately, there are many people all across government who want to improve UX on sites and apps. USWDS is a good starter kit that significantly reduces the cost of such projects for everyone, not just 18F.
Disclosure: I work on GCP.

To be clear, this person seems to have reached Support (I'll know more if they reach out to me) but is probably mid-way through the "Are you sure you didn't do this?" or something particular to debit cards.

Enterprises don't have the same experience, because you don't use a credit/debit card to pay for $1M/month in anything :). As an Enterprise, you also have dedicated folks in sales and professional services working with you, and so on.

I don't disagree that Support and customer empathy are huge factors of what goes into picking a provider. We need to improve, likely more than other providers. We all hate knowing that if you happen to know someone at Google, you get better help.

But, tl;dr: GCP Support != Google consumer "support" and individuals on credit/debit cards != Enterprises.
First off, thanks for the overview text. I really hate how many tech people just assume ‘you’ know what they mean because ‘they’ know what they mean. It’s like they’re trying to accentuate the autistic stereotypes!

>Pretty much what I have wanted since I first started learning about Docker.

Why? I have a use for lambdas in an application I’m working on. But I don’t really get why you want stateless containers that spool up and down on demand. Is it for things like “I need this entire existing program to run and can’t refactor it to a lambda itself”? I only need to do some API processing and data we work, so I’m not entirely sure what starless containers are for. Might be a dumb question!
My parents still have a 32" Panasonic LCD from the early 2000s as their main TV. The buttons on the remote are worn out, but the TV still works fine.

It has HDMI (720p or 1080i) so they have a Roku connected to it so they can watch streaming services. It has previously been supplied by DVD, VHS and terrestrial TV, all of which are now defunt :D

I've been wondering whether it's worth opening it up, as the inside must be full of dust.
This is good, sort of.

As I understand it, the bulk of the work on Chromium is currently being done by google developers and not so strangely, Chromium has a bunch of google services hardwired in to it. Take a look at the list of services Microsoft says that they have replaced or turned of in the linked article.

Having developers that don't have share that google-centric world view working on chromium may give us a more neutral browser.

If we end up with a hard fork, having a major player like Microsoft in the mix may dilute google's total dominance of the browser by giving us a compatible browser that does not feed your data into google.

Either way, time to bring out the pop corn.
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> Pages don't need a fallback to non-Javascript in 2019. Accessibility technologies now fully support a JS enabled web, with accessibility standards following suit.

I think we should broaden the definition of accessibility to make websites aren't unneccesarily annoying or invasive for normal users either ;-)

(And yes, making web applications is part of my job.)
Super late but thanks for clarifying this
Note that it's not downloading anything. Zig ships with musl source code and builds it from source for the target.
I am more wary of any nutrition study though ..
A lot of these scientists aim for newspaper coverage than actual honest research or science. Most of these are touchy-feely social science stuff that shouldn't be in the category of science to begin with.
Thanks for responding to this and offering to escalate boulos.

I certainly don't think a student just learning the ins and outs of a cloud provider's services should be able to spend 10k+ without warnings/thresholds that require configuration to exceed. It would be positive for platform adoption to make that process better.
I guess because we "follow" people who interest us or are like minded. I don't set out to "follow an influencer", but when I subscribe to a podcast, or follow someone on twitter because I find their comedy hilarious; that's what I'm doing.
Couldn't we use Google's bigquery to search for private keys?
Are you saying they're okay to eat? Or not?
I eat 100% chocolate only. I can't stand the sugar even in 87% chocolate -- I find that inedible.

Not all 100% chocolate is great, but some brands are excellent.
I think everyone agrees sugar is bad, but I'm pretty sure it's only part of the picture.

The amount of sugar (and other sweeteners) we eat has actually gone down in the last 20 years, but we haven't seen a drop in obesity or other metabolic diseases at all.

My gut feeling is vegetable oils are another part of the problem. Unlike sugar, we keep eating more and more of them. And unlike sugar, we only started eating them around 100 years ago.

There are a few nutrition people talking about vegetable oils but it doesn't have the same mass consciousness as sugar. Maybe because there are still old school nutritionists telling us we should avoid saturated fats.
You are so right.
I never understood the prevalent idea that traffic accidents are somehow random rolls of the dice. Seemingly the vast majority of them are not. Adjust your speed, not too fast, not too slow; stay focused on road, mirrors, and other traffic; keep your distance; don't be drunk; don't fall asleep; know and follow the rules, and you will hugely reduce your risk of harm.
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There are so many neat design choices in zig that make it a joy to code in it even these days. Can't imagine what we get with 1.0.

Some of my personal highlights:

- clean syntax

- comptime (as explicit and simple as it should be)

- reflection

- minimal/no external dependencies

- single threaded mode (instead of taking cuts at runtime)

- concise and explicit error handling

- build-in build system

- amazing C interop

...

Good sample code can also be found in the standard library, and it has the benefit of being up to date with with language.

Thanks Andy!
A related tip - if you've got a ThinkPad X1 Yoga with its awful internal headphone audio, try Apple's USB-C To Headphone dongle. It's a cheap but effective audio upgrade, and the competition (like the M-Audio Micro-DAC) is about 4x the price. It even adds support for Apple inline headphone volume controls too.
Sure it does. The OP assumed that piracy was bad and compared outline.com to piracy to attempt to argue it is bad. Their premise is false, because actually piracy rules and is good.
Definitely seems like it.
Except for all of the security issues and privacy invasive apps....
> plurality of votes cast

So we'd be electing someone against whom the actual majority of voters voted. Not really an improvement, since either way a minority of voters ends up winning the election.

> the compact us tying it to the national - as opposed to state-level - popular vote

In other words: the states are completely ignoring the voices of their own citizens and completely defeating the whole point of the Electoral College (especially in cases where, say, the majority or plurality of the state's voters voted against the plurality nationwide, in which case the state would be actively betraying its own citizens).

There are surely better ways to fix our political system than to defenestrate what semblance of democracy we actually have (though I will admit that it's a good demonstration of the flaws of the Electoral College - in particular, the flaw that states are apparently not required to actually cast their votes according to the wishes of the citizens of those states).
If you get sugar lows easily, as I do, you learn to hate sugar. I try hard to avoid sugar.
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When Fargate launched it had a very high premium on pricing over EC2(like 3X!) which has really come down, but I still wonder how Cloud Run compares. I’m on my phone and too lazy to do the math, but my experience with other GCP offerings has been that compute and RAM generally cost similar across services and abstractions.