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I don't fully understand how cold starts would manifest in Cloud Run, but in any case they should be MUCH less of an issue than in Cold Functions.

Cloud Run has a default (and max) concurrency threshold of 80 requests per container. Thus, for example, if you are running Node, you could conceivably be handling 80 concurrent requests before needing to start another container.

Cloud Functions have no concurrent requests (each instance can only handle 1 request at a time) so every concurrent request results in a cold start if additional instances are needed to scale up.

Note, though, that this means you can't put per-request state in the global scope in Cloud Run, but this is safe to do in Cloud Functions because you know there that each instance is only handling one request at a time.
We could, back when using C meant having to enjoy access to an UNIX computer center.
I’m on a lazy keto and never been one to crave sweets so it wasn’t that difficult for me to give it up completely. Occasionally if I’m having a rare drink I’ll make a margarita with truvia and can’t really taste any difference between it and real sugar.
No. I follow a lot of blogs and feel the same way about most of them as I do about HN. I do not feel that way about truly high-quality blogs. By the way, RSS is the best thing ever.

I also use IRC whenever I have some question or need help with something and it's great. I never feel my time spent on IRC is a waste, but my usage of it is quite focused and I don't hang out in rooms compulsively like I do on HN.
Like me not finding incentive for renting out my existing apartment when I'm out of town?
Go Cloud Run:
https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/quickstarts/build-and-depl...

Vs. Go Lambda:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/go-programming-...

The Cloud Run steps aren't that complex and you get something you can easily run on your local computer too.
What I kind of like about it is that those fake influencers burn money of advertisers without producing results by forcing ads on real people. At least in the short run this means less ads for the people which is a really good thing so I support it.
Just like when it was born, for C to die, UNIX has to die, that's the only reason it will be an herculean task to ever replace it.
> or you could help them.

What you call help is not what I would call help - using a wealth of scientific literature to design information that when conveyed can optimally take advantage of statistically likely emotional or physiological triggers to exploit people into buying something they didn't already want is evil.

Marketing as a concept could make some sense in information scarce environments like the era before global instant communication between anyone anywhere to any number of people. Since then, absolutely nobody has asked the question "I don't know what to spend my money on, I sure wish a corporation would suggest something".
There are search engines that offer search without collecting user data. Advertising provides enough revenue to make this sustainable. I doubt that google will switch to this model of it's own volition of course.
Next time your kernel breaks and there’s no fix or you can’t use some new device because no one has written a driver for it yet, I hope you remember this post.
You should really consider caching results and only fetching them again after a certain amount of time has passed since the last time you scraped them. This way you're not blowing through your ScraperAPI limit.
Isn't the whole premise of the discussion jilted? This is a security person doing forensics on the USB stick. Why should he not examine it (if lawful) and why would you call this "random"?
I think the tech that allows Google to measure the use of its infrastructure in the way they're doing here might be a part of the strategy for Stadia (stadia.google.com). Pricing info was conspicuously missing from Google's Stadia introduction, and I've been wondering if Google's use-based cloud billing model could work if it were just passed on to the user - bill the user (or player) to the minute or even to the second.

Deals could be structured so publishers get a cut of fees that are tied how long players want to play the game. Billing individual seconds of gameplay would be a radical shift in the incentives that drives how games are designed and distributed.

Not to mention how you play games and pay for them. Perhaps there would be a small base monthly fee but also, perhaps not.

High-performing flagship titles could bill players at 3-4 cents a minute, while less popular or less computationally demanding games could be a significant fraction of that. And streamers that are successful enough will see Google paying them to play.

This certainly feeds Google, but it also ties publisher revenue to the playtime their titles get. I'm sure there are pros and cons to that, but it's interesting. So is the potential opportunity for players to have a chance at a piece of the action too if streaming is monetizable.

All this, by effectively _removing_ a layer of pricing abstraction. Of course, Stadia has to work first. But even if it's not from Google I think something like this is coming.
RPC over what? If the discussion isn’t about HTTP, and we can set MQTT aside... what format and layer would the RPC go over?
His debit card ended up declining it anyway, but that's not the point. The point is Google thinks he owes them thousands of dollars, and a collection agency is hounding him for the money.

Disputing a charge with your credit card company doesn't change that. The credit card company might side in your favor and reverse the charges, but the original company can still pursue payment with you directly. Their claim can even show up on your credit report. I remember working with a payment processor in Europe that even automated sending a bill to collections if it was charged back by the consumer's credit card company.
The complexity grows the more users you need to serve. And the available percentage you need. For example, maintaining your own e-mail client, on your own computer, is not that much work, compared to what Google needs to host Gmail.com
Roblox has a nice parental control system, and is totally playable with chat disabled (and the preference password-locked with a special parent-held password).
What's your favorite 100%?
Hey boulos, upvoted your response. Thanks for taking action on this. Agreed that GCP != Google consumer support.

I didn't mean for my response to be perceived as negative for GCP, was only hoping to inspire those at GCP to continue to focus on the customer experience rather than features. AWS certainly needs the competition and I've also had great experiences using Google's cloud platform.
Aha, I missed that piece of the puzzle. Thank you.
> You mean under 1% of users that intentionally broke their browser?

I'd say: configured their browser to work like a browser instead of like a platform to run arbitrary code from the Internet.

Ideally we should be able to trust most of the web sites we visit. The last few years have shown us this is a bad idea, here are my two top reasons:

- security: while I'm personally less concerned with reasonable ads there are a number of problems with ad technology, like infectious ads and creepy tracking.

- a bigger problem for now IMO: poorly written web apps that makes the machine noticably slower.
> fully transparent light source

Thanks. So, in the analogy between gravity and light, you have to change all "massive bodies" to "fully transparent light sources" to make the analogy complete.

A nontransparent light source would not translate as a (straightforward) massive body.
Not sure where you got the stat on sugar consumption...it’s not really just sugar it’s carb consumption in general and I would be very surprised if that was trending downward at all.

Vegetable oils are not good but would not say that by itself is the issue. It’s the carbs you’re eating that is being cooked in vegetable oils.
"Compared to the vendor supplied tools, they were high quality, and without the arbitrary limitations that the supplied tools had."

I've been using both GNU and SVR4 tools for almost 30 years and GNU tools are horrible, even worse than horrible when compared to SVR4. Which limitations?
Versus 1 on Lambda.
The irony is much more, that a man with no respect for privacy got his own privacy invaded. Serves him right. Until he takes drastic measures with FB, he should not have a single private minute.
This is what honestly terrifies me more than anything - being in a dire enough financial situation to need to do bullshit work and waste my short time on this Earth for food and shelter. In my experience meaningful jobs are in insanely high demand - they substantially underpay, require substantially more qualifications, and are much more scarce than adding another cog to the cancer of finance, advertising, or business service.
There are two reasons why our company will not use Cloud Run, even though we would love to, the concept is just what we are looking for for our containers:

1) We are on AWS and expanding to Google is too expensive. Support costs for three engineers to be able to contact Google is $750/month for production workloads. At AWS we pay $200/month as our total spend on infra is about $2000/month. We are a startup with a tight budget, hence the increased spend is too tough to swallow even though we would love to use Cloud Run.

2) We have an Android app. Having seen how other companies have been hell-banned and shut down from having invited devs and other with flagged accounts we just don't dare to use Google Cloud while having an Android app should we end up on the automatic hell ban list at Google. Too risky.
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Message received! I just wanted to highlight that it's easy to extrapolate from individual accounts, but that can trick you. That doesn't make the current situation okay, and we get that.
Generally agree. One thing can nevertheless be used as an excuse for the others, as certain little aides carry out their certain little agendas.
By startup heuristics, user growth would be the important thing. Idk if those apply well to banks or not
Just one of my blood tests alone cost $4,600. Surprise billing. "Out of network". Didn't even know to ask. Doctor, lab, everything all under the same roof. Why would any one even think to ask?
How can something be a “status symbol” that over 50% of people have? People have been saying Apple products are status symbols since the iPod.
Typical middle class suburbs come with ~30 minute commute times. From downtown SF, that still puts you well within the urban core. Maybe Oakland's urban core when BART works.

Living in the Bay Area's suburbs is more like living in the next metro area over from your job, i.e. Milwaukee to Chicago.
SVR UNIXes like HP-UX, Solaris and IRIX were very consistent (I used all three of them simultaneously): if one understood SVR4, one could move between those three seamlessly.

DEC UNIX, OSF/1 and Ultrix were a variation of BSD. If one knew that, there was no problem either.

No comment on AIX, since my brush-ins with it were far too short to be able to claim anything.

What else was there? 14 is a large number when it comes to operating systems.
Coming back to the first point "Freedom is for the user do as he wants". I am not even an American but i know how important Freedom is. You can't just give it up for privacy walled garden, corporate profits.
> Why isn't their broad-based support of it for medical care

Because the American medical system is perhaps the finest example in the world of regulatory capture, ironically masquerading as an example of pure capitalism, while decrying the "socialism" in other countries.
> It is unlikely that there exists a subset of users with a modern enough computer to even hit our web servers that is under-powered to the point of not handling JavaScript. Our analytics definitely don't show this.

Does your analytics correctly register hits from clients that doesn't support Javascript (I'm thinking about survivorship bias).
I do smoothies like that as well and have assumed it’s ok to have a banana in the mix. I add milk, kefir, and frozen spinach (much tastier than fresh blended) and peanut butter powder to mask the flavor. My young daughter loves it. What’s your recipe?
He's saying they are basically sugar, so not okay.

Strawberries are a good fruit to eat.

Edit: The graph here is pretty helpful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit#Nutritional_value
Unfortunately it doesn't show the amount of sugar in each fruit.
Because they finally realized everyone is using bitcoin to exfiltrate currency?
When was the last time you worked on a true UNIX subsystem source? Have you looked at illumos code?
This will probably crush Bitmain and other Chinese bitcoin mining giants and they will probably move elsewhere, however Chinese courts have said bitcoin itself is legally allowed. Probably what is going to happen is that you can own but you can't mine or even obtain more bitcoins in China.

https://www.ccn.com/chinas-merchants-are-legally-allowed-to-...
I could not successfully sign up and the information on the site is very limited. What exactly does your service do? It implies all tax compliance, but I find that hard to believe. Perhaps you can confirm you comply with all the payroll requirements of the jurisdictions you operate in?

A US company that employs an individual resident in Canada is required to:
- Keep W-8 on file
- Register for a Canadian tax ID
- Keep a "shadow" payroll system in Canada, and report monthly the payroll to the Canada Revenue Agency
- Deduct Canada Pension Plan, Employment Insurance, and income taxes, and remit to the Crown (1)
- Issue a T4 slip at the end of the Year (W-2 equivalent)

The above process is very different for a US company that employs an individual resident in the UK or France.

There are other factors to consider: residency status, hypothetical tax and equalization payments, and treaty relief comes to mind. I ask because, what we would call "Global Mobility Services" consisting of cross-border taxation of employees, is pretty much done in Excel because of the thousands of permutations possible with the above factors and 190 odd countries of the world.

(1) See Regulation 102 and Regulation 105 withholdings
The meritocracy was always a sham. The "natural aristocracy of talent" is just an attempt to gaslight those cut out of the opportunities so that they will acquiesce to their exploitation.
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I would tend to believe it does considering the people I work with from university like the EPFL.
But more generally, it might be a today problem where people has to be hand carried to do anything with 0 critical thinking.
Quick question out of curiosity, we have a Google Cloud org of three members at work. One member had access to Cloud Run some days ago, he stumbled upon it incidentally in the sidebar. All other members couldn't access Cloud Run. So, how come? Is early access account, not org-based?
What the hell? Which meme? UNIX(R) is a registered trademark.
Because of insurance. It often leads the peculiar case that a healthcare provider might have no real clue about how much a person will ultimately end up being required to pay for some procedure they're undergoing. It has no clear connection to the price that the provider will bill the insurance for.

In many developing nations insurance is the exception, rather than the rule. This changes two big things. The first is that you're expected to pay for things that would have more than a negligible cost before these procedures are done. If you don't like the cost - you go somewhere else. Emergency care, like the US, is an exception - and nobody can be turned away, so you are billed afterwards.

But the really big thing this changes is that costs are such that people can actually pay them. For instance in one procedure I had a consultation, x-ray, and medicine. Total cost was about $20, and that's not government subsidized in any way - the hospital is making profit on that cost. And this is not a "hospital" with "doctors". Most of the medical staff are educated in the west and then come back home to work afterwards. As an aside, it also means they generally have great English. It's why developing nations are increasingly a destination for medical care - 'medical tourism'.
Isn't porn be it movies or books also available to women?

Riiight, but it is much safer for a woman to hookup on Tinder with a hot stranger than to watch porn like the nerds who absolutely preffer porn to actual sex do.
What's wrong with the red squares?
GNU/Linux operating sytstems are still very primitive (and very broken) by UNIX standards, especially by SVR4 standards.

For example, things like fault management architecture, correctly implemented NFS V3 and V4, or correctly working fiberchannel stack are science fiction on GNU/Linux.
Yeah, me too. I provide such great value to humanity. Unlike these other people. How pitiable to be them!
Bitmain makes huge margins on selling equipment, not mining. They make shovels in the gold rush.
They don't have manual pitch control through the yoke (elevator) when the stabilizer is severely mistrimmed because the stabilizer is "stronger" than the elevator -- it's a much larger surface, the entire horizonal stabilizer moves. Yoke movement doesn't move the stabilizer.
How much support stuff does your doctor have? Industry wide, admin expenses are now 5x the cost of the care providers. Your doctor probably needs $X revenue per hour just to keep the lights on.
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The cognitive dissonance in marketing starts very early. I read this book cover to cover in a previous startup life (1) because it was a recommended first year college text in marketing. I have it in front of me right now. They define marketing as "the process by which companied create value for customers and build strong customer relationships in order to capture value from customers in return" (page 5). Then, in chapter 15, they have a detailed case study spanning multiple pages of the "I'm a Mac"/"I'm a PC" ads Apple ran a few years ago. These are some direct quotes from that book, though I have shortened them somewhat, without changing any of the overall tone or message:

"The ads portrayed Mac as a young, hip, laid back guy in a hoodie, whereas PC was a stodgy, befuddled, error-prone, middle-aged nerd... not surprisingly, adroit and modern Mac always got the best of outdated and inflexible PC ... The campaign produced results... less than 2 years later its [market] share had doubled... the cool campaign also helped boost customer value perception... Good advertising wasn't the only thing contributing to Apple's success..."

That campaign clearly had nothing to do with 'creating customer value'. It was a smear campaign. Yet in the same textbook these marketing academics praise it as great advertising. There is a laughably tiny section on ethics (2 paragraphs) at the end of the chapter which simply has open-ended questions, no guided discussion or anything.

It should surprise no-one that marketers have a fantastic bullshit story to convince people marketing is some kind of force for good. It is after all their job. Most amusingly I think they have largely pulled the same trick on themselves.

(1) - https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Marketing-14th-Philip-Kotl...
That is nothing special though, just most UK banks are using decades old technology. Five years ago I was living in country where my bank would send me an SMS as soon as I authorised a transaction on the chip&pin machine.

I like Monzo for what they do, but I don't really see why they are considered so valuable. The real value in consumer banking is offering credit, and that's where it starts to get complicated.
There is a summary here: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2015/11/carbohydrate-s...

Data is sourced from USDA, you download it from their website

There are other sources if you feel like Googling
There are low glycemic fruits and high glycemic fruits...stick with the low ones. I’m on keto and will ocassionally have berries (all considered low). Avoid fruits like grapes, mangos, watermelon...etc.
This sounds like an effective way to stall investigations for months in exchange for a movie plot threat scenario.

"Boss, the electron microscope reverse engineering from that USB stick 6 months ago came back. They said they didn't find anything out of ordinary. The bill is $400k. But I guess we can start analyzing the contents now.".
This along with Scott Aaronson's (https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/) make for good reading on the theory of computation.
I use Google Cloud Scheduler, https://cloud.google.com/scheduler/ , to invoke Cloud Functions (actually Firebase Functions which are really Cloud Functions under the hood).

You set up a Firebase function to run on receipt of a message to a pub/sub topic, and then in Cloud Scheduler you schedule a post to that topic.
Disclaimer: I work for Google on App Engine.

We usually extend the deprecation timeline if a product is important or is hard to migrate.

Master/Slave datastore deprecation takes 3 years since the announcement of deprecation.

Python2.5, 4 years since deprecation announcement to fully deprecated.

Java 6 was officially deprecated in July 2017 but if you still have an app deployed in Java 6, chances are they can still serve traffic just fine. Same applies to Java 7 (this is partially due to JVM backward compatibility but there are non-trivial engineer works involved)

I hope this gives you some confidence in Google's cloud offering.

For all deprecated features of App Engine, you can see https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/deprecations/ (note alpha/beta features are deprecated in less than 1 year which is WAI)
“...said should be phased out as they did not adhere to relevant laws and regulations, were unsafe, wasted resources or polluted the environment.“

It surely doesn’t help keeping the rivers clean
More like they are using cheap subsidized Chinese power prices for something that they weren’t intended for. It’s more of an environmental play (since a lot of that electricity is produced by dirty coal burning).
It's almost like we are genetically hard wired to like sugars and fat and fast food chains enable us to get fat.

Oh no, that obviously isn't the case, it must be a conspiracy by the patriarchy to make it look so, we are actually hard-wired to like veggies but the fast food comercials we are bombarded every day brainwash us to eat fats and sugar. Also toxic masculinuty.
On the other hand, it seems unwise for them to not give OP a vote, because it means no tiebreaker vote. Unless they're planning to give it to investors later which could be worse.
Yeah but if California banned mining in the state during the gold rush, not many shovels or picks would be sold.
The Oncoming Attention Apocalypse
Saw this coming back when the Chinese government expressed an interest in Bitcoin. They'll pass a law to confiscate all Bitcoin in China.
Mass media in general is stressing too much the fact that 737 MAX is allegedly based on dated designs.

I think it's fair to say that MAX versions present some compromise solutions (like the now-infamous MCAS, which is there to compensate for the "unnatural" bigger engines). But I think that is not the main point. They would be good solutions it they worked as intended.

There are some other more fundamental and more daunting, afaik unanswered questions.

Like, why does such a critical system like MCAS take only a single AoA sensor as input, when there are two sensors available? Specially considering that the inputs from both are hardware-available to MCAS (the new software version is going to take data from both).

Boeing affirmed in its manuals that the elevators would be able to compensate for the trimmed vertical stabilizers. Now the preliminary report in the Ethiopian's crash shows that the pilots wheren't able to perform such compensation, even by pulling the control columns all the way back.

Those and some other issues are much more critical.