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I've been in the cloud space for a relatively long time, worked at AWS 2008-2014, and have followed all three big cloud providers since inception.

My personal view is that both Azure and GCP boost their "cloud" revenues by 50-60% - e.g. GSuite is included in GCP, some various Office and Enterprise software products by Microsoft are included in Azure.

They do this primarily to convince corporate customers that they've closed the gap with AWS, and their service is now comparable.

From a technical standpoint, and still IMHO, Google has fewer products, but several of the ones already available are usually quite superior to AWS. AWS has of course the broadest set of services. Azure is still quite a mess, but that doesn't prevent a thriving ecosystem, an easier integration, etc, to convince many customers to use Azure.

It's going to be a long battle, for a huge and growing market. And unfortunately for their customers, it means that lock-in, FUD, and other nefarious practices will be common.
Thanks for the tip. I was wondering about an easy way to boot like this. Better than nothing.
Managers have a perverse incentive to use 100 engineers to do something that a team of 20 with adequate support and equipment could do just as well.
>Bring the best and brightest minds in the world together to conquer this debilitating condition once and for all.

Sorry, they’re all busy working on optimizing ad revenue and search optimization algorithms.
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Have you? Find it very hard to believe that there's such a disproportionate number of criminals in the US.

China is locking up huge numbers of Muslims simply for having a religion and it still comes no where near the number of Americans incarcerated today without even having faced trial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...
It's in C again, but since you mentioned rewrites and rsync: https://github.com/kristapsdz/openrsync
Using SRS for memorizing words is usually a mistake unless they truly are discrete pieces of information and map one to one to something you already know how to express. 99% of the time you're better off doing extensive reading. SRS works well for technical vocabulary, though.

From my podcast on SRS I linked in another comment:

> [00:11:27] These SRS flash card apps are very good for learning vocabulary and depending on what's included in the flashcards, they could be for grammar as well. But the problem for a language learner is that it's de-contextualized. So say if you just study vocabulary words, then they're going to be a lot of things that you'll miss like collocations. You won't know which words are normal to use with which other words. For example, in English, if someone asks, "How are you?" it would be completely normal to answer, "pretty good". It would also be fairly normal to answer, "absolutely fantastic". But it would be strange to answer that you're doing "absolutely good". There's no grammatical reason. It's just not something that English speakers tend to say.

> [00:12:17] And there are many, many, many language features that are like this. There are also questions of word boundaries. For example, in English, the word "nose" refers to a person's nose or a dog's nose, but not every kind of animal. For example, an elephant in English doesn't have a nose. It has a trunk. In Japanese, the same word, 鼻 (hana), is for a person's nose and the elephant's nose. So the question is, what exactly does "nose" mean? Well, really tedious language teacher could explain this for every single word that you study, or even put this on the back of every flash card for every word that you're reviewing. But, it's not going to be efficient. You'll spend so much time worrying about edge cases for every single word that you're learning that you're actually not going to get anywhere.

Extensive reading avoids all of these problems. It feels slower than cramming words at the beginning, but over time, it's a much faster way to build a functional vocabulary.
Maybe so. But hats aren't hair, and as I said, I like having hair. I like the sun protection in the day. I like the cold protection at night. I like how it feels when a woman runs her fingers through it.

These are not life-shattering things. If and when I eventually go bald, I'll be fine. I am capable of wearing hats, and head scratches feel pretty good, too.

But, if I had a safe way of keeping mine, I'd do so. Just because a project isn't solving cancer or world hunger doesn't mean it isn't something worth doing.
>It would have been SO SIMPLE to have a nicer pattern. short press to disconnect, long press to turn off.

Indeed, this is exactly what I expected would happen when I long pressed and I was disappointed when it didn’t. There are definitely times like this when Apple’s UX gets more credit than it deserves.
Is there any dynamic evolutionary system that actually follows these rules?

Arguably, not really. Bernhardt J. Stern's 1930s-40s explorations into resistance of technological innovation has been revelatory to me:

"Resistances to the Adoption of Technological Innovations" (1937)
https://archive.org/details/technologicaltre1937unitrich/pag...

Markdown: https://pastebin.com/raw/fZajYSGa

Having some item, totem, or mechanism for producing, securing, or controlling wealth, the cheapest way to grow power further is often to defend that against new advances or competition.

Stern describes both technology and housing in his article.
Why does a web-based map 'need' webgl in order to display anything? openstreetmap.org (and even google's map thing) work perfectly fine without it, what makes this an exception?
In the ensuing 35+ years, a new anticompetitive situation has developed around different technology and different shared resources. Should we judge the solution to a problem by whether more problems of the same class arise independently for future generations?
As a self taught engineer, very unhappy to see the role of a 'relevant Bachelor’s degree' stated in every single level.

If I have performed above expectations in an engineering role for 5 years, do not have a bachelor’s degree, and I am judged against it, it is not a company I would be working for.

Most companies acknowledge this and allow the substitution of a 'relevant Bachelor’s degree' by experience.
You are right. People typically won't know how good they have it until they are separated from it, either temporarily or permanently.
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It's a problem only for nuclear reactors that use waters from rivers. Nuclear plants near seas don't have this problem.
On Hobby

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Roses are pink

Tulips are black

I like to think

That's why I hack

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On the importance of sleep

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In the ev'ning when the sun

Was setting, it went down

Said it needed have some rest

So that it could be the best

Rising fresh again next day

Shining bright all the way

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On Friendship

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Better hungry than eat rotten

Let this precept not forgotten

Even birds belong to flocks

See them penguins on the rocks?

Better shoeless than in pain

Better be alone, and sane

■ I wrote these impromptu just for you. They may be childish but they certainly make sense (compared to the what the imagists etc write).
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The nuclear plant itself can run just fine, but the river water temperature would go up too high, damaging life in it.

Coal plants are air cooled, not water cooled (i.e. they have exhaust), and are not affected.
You have it backwards. If the government/public corporations keep everything secret, that's the Orwellian nightmare.

The person you are suggesting has the right to privacy is acting in an official capacity, paid for by public money. These are not personal emails.

Just that fact that one person is bringing a litigation, is not a valid reason to mark everything top secret.

If you make everything in the machinations of government secret, then these things (and much worse) will still happen, but there will be no transparency or recourse. That is the worst possible outcome.
If true, this seems like it would be a huge scandal. Or at least an issue in Github.
A more readable version may be found at, or generated from, the Markdown text here: https://pastebin.com/raw/fZajYSGa
> "makes excuses for a tyrant while the blood is still dripping from his hands"

Precisely the argument used to support pretty much every war. Iraq, Afghanistan, Cuba, Vietnam - it's all the same. Bad evil guy that needs to be killed by the good American empire. Only the dictator changes. How Americans fall for this every single time despite knowing well how disastrous the previous one was is beyond me.
US sanctions worsen the already bad economic situation but to claim the problem is caused by US sanctions is extremely misleading. We were already seeing severe shortages way before the 2014 sanctions (which were placed on individuals, anyway). The reasons are too complex to put in a short snippet.

Crimea and Venezuela are hard to compare. While there's the common point of having an authoritarian government, they're different in many other factors such as public support of the government, geography, pre-existing economy and timing and severity of the sanctions.

Though this is very true for both, I think:

> What these policies forget is a lot of general citizens don't have much choice over the regime that leads them. They are just often people doing their thing.

and from the POV of the authoritarian government on the sanctioned country it makes sense to double down upon receiving sanctions because the sanctioning country(ies) don't have a bigger stick than that (unless they resort to military aggression).
I caught and ate a 12 pound spiny lobster recently and it was as good as any smaller lobster I’ve ever eaten (many!).
So they stimulated norepinephrine release in rats in an fMRI machine and they found it increased "activity" in sensory processing and the amygdala. Presumably it would increase "activity" in "higher" regions of the brain, except those only exist to a limited extent in rats.

For most humans, the question about stress is, "what is the effect of chronic stress?" which this paper did not answer. I'm sure it was still a good study, largely because it's demonstrating concrete mechanisms for things we think are happening anyway, but I can't confirm that because it's behind a paywall, like most publicly-funded research.
A bit late to the party, but I wrote a generator for a project last year running on vanilla JS with a simple HTML front end. There is no recording feature, but I'm sure you could just record the playback externally.

https://github.com/gee842/genmusic

hosted here: http://genmusic.byethost11.com/genmusic/
They are a private company. They offer free services that make it feel that way but they are not.

We should be putting our collection of code in something else with a mission around those ideals.
That oil could theoretically be burned and the carbon sequestered. Hence no climate impact.

The hazard to fragile ecosystems from an industrial accident is still huge.

Edit: the point is that some environmental protection actions have to be driven by moral/ethical forces. We can't leave everything to the economy.

Having said this there might be ways to use market forces to implement the ethically required environmental protections.
My thought is that hot and humid air is holding more moisture as it is, so it’s harder to evaporate more into it.

If they’re drawing from the river to evaporate, and flows are sluggish (because of evaporation upstream or lack of precipitation), they also have to draw less when they need more.
Don't use a mirror to shave your head. Shave and verify using your hands, then go back and hit anything you missed the first time around.
> It seems like the US has become what the USSR was

As somebody who actually lived in the USSR I call bullshit on this. There's a huge difference between arresting people for saying something the powers don't like and restricting business links to certain aggressive dictatorial regimes. True, many citizens of those regimes suffer twice - once because they live under a dictatorial regime and second time because of the effect of economic sanctions. And it is true that economic sanctions disrupt free flow of information and trade. They are a kind of warfare but one where people don't get killed - which is not good, all warfare is bad, but better than the other kind.

It is bad when there is a war between two countries. It is worse when the government wages war on its people, and that what happened in the USSR. It is nothing like what is happening in the US. Nowhere in the US you can be arrested or imprisoned for saying anything - including praising USSR, Russia, Putin, ayatollas, Hezbollah, whatever you like.

> The US doesn't yet have massive prison camp systems full of political dissidents

"Yet" is extremely disingenuous here - there's absolutely no indication US is anywhere close to have it, on the contrary, US has the strongest free speech laws among all developed countries, and the high courts consistently reject any attempt to change that. In fact, what I am hearing every day is how there's too much free speech and how it should be suppressed and restricted for my own good, lest I read something wrong and get offended.

> but then, for the first couple of decades, neither did the USSR.

Technically might be true, if you say reduce first couple of decades to first decade - Gulag started in 1929. But not because the bolsheviks were kind of heart - before, they just murdered whoever they considered the enemy of the people (or, in rare cases, kicked them out of the country). After Stalin came to power, he realized there's a lot of work to be done and he can't use the capitalist way of paying people for the work, and if he just keeps killing everybody there would be nobody left to do his grand projects. So he used the other way - put people in prison and force to work (of course, he still killed plenty but some were spared for prison camps). Even Soviet space program and nuclear program was done by people who were effectively prisoners (word to look for is "sharashka").
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The rider was available for any telecommunications company in the US to apply for grants. Our local one did a bunch of homework and got several hundred million on their grant. Of course, they also used the money to lay the fiber, instead of paying CEO bonuses or shareholder dividends.
Not OP, but in my experience it's the broad range of SD card quality on the market, and the sketchy/'temporary' physical connection between the gold contacts on the card and the gold contacts in the card reader. In this case, the reliability issues result in the storage device dropping out sporadically entirely during reads and/or writes, or dramatically varying speeds sometimes as low as several KB/s.
Might be the hair, or it might be improved posture from more self confidence.
baldness cures from The Atlantic do not belong on hacker news. this place will become just another trash heap if you don't flag and downvote stories and sources like this
I'm sure there are some overzealous folks who are misdiagnosing themselves with chronic Lyme, but I think the author's attitude is a bit too dismissive. I have a close family friend who became paranoid after getting Lyme, and I have another friend who's sister committed suicide because of Lyme symptoms that didn't go away. If the mainstream medical establishment is ignoring what seems to be a real issue, then they're partially responsible for the quackery that's come about in the vacuum they've created.
It's functionally the same, because attackers can brute force all phone numbers to reverse the hash.
It all comes down to your personal goals. If gaining 20-30% comp for the effort of building you resume and phonescreening and day long interview loops is worth it then it sounds like you shouldn’t stay somewhere for more than 2-4 years.

If doing the job above you for 6-10 months to maybe get 10-15% is more your speed, then find a company you wanna stick with for a while.

I’ve done both. Jumped until I reached a comp level I’m content with and now playing the promo game expecting minimal reward increase for my labor but enjoying the stability.
I live within blocks of most of my friends. But they are as busy as I am.
Paradoxically, advances in transport and comms tech seem to increase rather than decrease hub concentration. Greater friction and more need for local presence might reverse the trend.
Set standard loan terms according to worst-case credit risk. Offer personalized terms to those who agree to the data collection and processing necessary for personalization.

Subprime loan products already exist. They do typically run your credit, but they don't need to: the fact that you would pay for one says all that needs to be said. They're also typically offered under different branding from a respectable financial institution's loan products for people with good credit. An opt-in requirement for credit reporting only changes these basically cosmetic facts.

Better-than-worst-case credit history is immensely valuable. So valuable that a lender will cut you in on tens of thousands of dollars in savings for sharing it. Of all the things you could need opt-in consent for, it's an easy sell. Everyone would buy it. We'd be in the same position.
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You confuse trade war with censorship. I'll explain the difference. Censorship is based on content: if you can say "long live Communist Party" but can't say "long live Republican Party", that's censorship. Trade war is based on origin: if you are not allowed to do trade (business) or provide services to residents of certain place, regardless of the content or purpose, that's embargo.

> If that's not a free speech issue, there are no free speech issues.

There are plenty, when exclusion is based on the content. This is not one of them. That's why filing a First Amendment lawsuit against trade embargo wouldn't do you any good.
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Self image is critical to our feelings of well being. A bloated silhouette is a constant source of pain and humiliation that impacts every area of life. Of all the places on the body where fat accumulates, stomach fat is the most unattractive and by far the most unhealthy.

Visceral fat, the kind that accumulates around the organs of the abdomen greatly increases the risk of heart attack, diabetes and cancer. It is also the most uncomfortable when trying to fit into any stylish clothing.

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Any idea how to set a preferred dns for an active lockdown session?
> how do you allow two mutually untrusted client devices to determine that they share a common secret, without disclosing the secret?

Use a PAKE. Although I think they all require two-way communication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password-authenticated_key_agr...
You could flip that and say that AWS under-performs in straight SaaS like github, gsuite etc.
Two decades in SF, moved here in my twenties and have moved a few times within the city and now have a family here.

Ideally you find a rent controlled apartment, which is the majority of older homes and apartments, built prior to 1979. It’ll be very expensive initially (assuming the landlord raises the rent upon move in as they do) but less so over time. My family has been in ours for 8 years now and it’s now cheaper for us to stay in SF on my solo salary than to move to most other major cities. We invest money into other asset classes and property outside of SF since we’ll likely never afford a home in SF proper nor would we want to own one, for multiple reasons.

We love it here, as a software dev I have LinkedIn opportunities knocking down my door, food, activists, weather all amazing imo. We might consider moving to a cheaper city at some point or if our kids end up in the lottery system of public schools.

Homelessness, crime and drug abuse hasn’t improved imo. You take the good with the bad.

Anecdotally I had a close friend leave SF for a year to travel and came back to SF last month after missing it. He stayed in an Airbnb in Bernal heights for a month and managed to find a shared rent control apartment in that time for a below market price. His trick was he accidentally emailed the wrong ad on Zillow that wasn’t listed under apartments for rent. And the home owner emailed him back saying he hadn’t considered renting the home but was interested, they met and he soon moved in.

So as a renter thinking outside the box can pay off. But in general with house hunting be persistent, be early, act fast, have credit reports, references and the biggest paystubs you can procure and network like crazy.

Also some companies will pay for relocation and/or have temporary housing, so maybe get an offer first then move out here.
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The term Dyslexia means difficulty with words. "Dys" means "difficulty" and "lexia" means "words." In common terms the word Dyslexia means a disorder in psychological processes associated with reading, language processing, and learning. A person suffering from this disorder experiences difficulty reading, writing, with letters, words, and numbers, as well as reversing letters and words. It is estimated that 10 to 15% of the children suffer from Dyslexia. Children with Dyslexia are confused with letters and numbers and often learn to think in pictures and images instead. There are three types of Dyslexia, Development dyslexia, Trauma dyslexia and Primary dyslexia. Development dyslexia is caused during the early stages of fetus development and is hormonal in nature. This Dyslexia decreases as a child grows up and is mostly found in boys rather than girls. Trauma Dyslexia occurs if the part of the brain that commands reading and writing abilities is injured. Primary Dyslexia does not change with age and is a malfunction in the left side of brain.

Causes of dyslexia are often hereditary in nature and are not caused by any emotional trauma. Children with Dyslexia face problems at school and this negative experience at school often causes behavior problems. The child gets frustrated due to lack of achievement and hence they abstain from going to school. Dyslexic people may have some exceptional strengths. He/She may learn computers before others of similar age, and may be brighter in sports, and possess great creative abilities. Having Dyslexia doesn't mean that the person is dumb or mentally disturbed, they may be average or above average in intelligence. Dyslexic children are more curious than average. As an adult they may turn up being an architect, engineer, doctor, artist, or designer. With accurate diagnosis and specialized help Dyslexic people can lead a normal life and achieve great heights in their career.
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I don't know if it was really an increase in sophistication. It was more evolution than revolution. You can see that the mastabas were just more elaborate pit graves. The first pyramid (the step pyramid) was originally a mastaba which was enlarged, then had a smaller mastaba added above it, then a smaller mastaba above that. The true pyramid was basically filling in the voids on the sides of the step pyramid.
It might've done well as a PCIe (or thunderbolt) thing. There are definitely large scale users of scalar math that could make use of it but you'd need to build it in 5nm and dozens of cores to be even remotely competitive.
What do you use to observe such phenomenon? Optical microscopes?