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I know quite a few founders in France and elsewhere.

First off - and I hate doing this - there is the definition game at play here. I sincerely loathe how the start-up community has decided to redefine the word start-up to mean 'business with very large scaling potential' or something to that effect. This removes a lot of the companies that one would normally consider to be start-ups from the equation and also from many discussions.

Of course if your start-up does not have the potential to become a billion dollar company that does not help. So for the moment let's assume those are all still 'in'.

Then, of those companies that you refer to: high tech with international exposure that can sustain a mid-to small company is precisely the sweet spot, SME (small-to-medium sized enterprises), it is the backbone of the economy in many places.

But hardly any of those will be names that people recognize. In Europe we had several of those, and Dailymotion was one of them.

There are quite a few EU based brands that have global recognition: Nokia, Airbus, TomTom, TeamViewer, Skype, HelloFresh, N26, WeTransfer, Revolut, Deliveroo and so on all - maybe except for the first two - at some point in time could claim 'startup' status according to the HN/YC definition of the term.

But for every one of those there are 1000's that do just fine in their local eco-system. The important point is that France is quite underrepresented in that segment, and that is something worrying. More capital isn't necessarily going to solve it, for France to thrive in this sense it would have to change a lot more than just to hold out a bag of money.
OK any argument in favor of this technique shatters in front of the fact that in practice, Ad blocking on iOS is useless, and requires more resources, since some older devices still cant use it.
There is a lot to ask here. There is no way you are operating outside of the free tier based on the description you provided.
But it doesn't list those projects? Or does nobody take a closer look at them before inviting them? I mean if they can't solve a problem like that, they couldn't have made anything remotely useful, right?
Sure, it's not FaaS, but it fits the "you don't have to care for OS and servers" criteria, and it's always on (and auto-scalable).

Running FaaS on AWS without knowing anything about servers and "OS stuff" screams like building the roof without the foundation. And I know that it sounds convenient to run everything as isolated little abstract functions, and ... it works, but it's pricey. But you can do it for cheap, you can deploy Kubless or OpenFaaS (or OpenWhisk or whatever is Apache's equivalent). Naturally AWS exploits this knowledge gap for a lot of their managed services.
We find it handy to have multi-master, which leans towards being more active-active: we have keepalived doing health checks on two systems, and point our app server(s) at a vIP.

The app server runs Galera's arbd so we don't need three DBs.
His phrasing could be worded better, but I still agree with the message he is trying to convey.

In this context, I interpret the word "insurance" as the belief that the government will "defend" their savings.
I don't agree with this assessment. Most of us are not natural born consumers. In fact, excessive consumption is so against human nature that it takes a massive constant propaganda campaign to keep the desire to consume alive. Campaign that costs us about 1% of GDP. It's called marketing.
Except they don't care about you. Someone could burst through the door and skin you alive, but your coworkers won't be in the least bit perturbed unless:

1) Your mutilation was against company policy
2) Some bits of you got on their shirt.

Personally, I'd much rather deal with people knives drawn rather than work hard pretending to care if each other lives or dies.
And bad things happen when the high/low wires get crossed. A high-overt arguing with a low-overt often leads to confusion and resentment, because the exchange was no big deal to the high-overt, but a hostile act to the low-overt.
I find this kind of behavior on HN both surprising and depressing. Do we really care more about SV pollution than about the entire planet?

I am honestly not sure if I want to continue to participate in this community.
It flies in the face of the "curation" and "privacy" arguments.
Restaurants, bars, and events around town are a good topic as well. Travel is a good one too since many coworkers are either planning a vacation or were on one recently.
The number was illustrative. If it helps, feel free to imagine a different one.
Having used serverless a bit, I’ve run into many of the same issues and generally agree with the advice but depending on your use case it may not be worth contorting your architecture to fit serverless. Instead, I’d look at it as a set of criteria for if serverless would fit your use case.

At this point in time the only places I’d use lambda are for low-volume services with few dependencies where I don’t particularly care about p99 latency, or DevOps-related internal triggered jobs.
That last approach would go down very well in some British offices.
You should work in enterprises where you have to deal with stringent security requirements, emergency CVE mitigation across multiple regions, compliance requirements, etc., and you’ll quickly gain an appreciation for why enterprise folks don’t want to manage servers.
I did absolutely learn how to zoom out on the web, so many dialog modals would have off-screen buttons with no scrolling. It's still a pet peeve of mine to this day that I test with any modals.

I also used a chromebook for a few years... tbh, I only went back to a rmbp because I needed better VPN support where I was working... Of course, I generally avoid taking it with me anywhere, I use my work laptop at work (docked) and my desktop at home.. or my phone for the most part.
Beware of doing this, as it can easily backfire when abused by HR. Stick to exchanging stories that could not be deemed to have an impact on your job, or explain bad performance.
Yes. Maybe 75% of the time i discover that the random stranger is a total lunatic. If they arent a flat-earther or trying to convert me to thier cult, they want to complain about how nobody wants to listen to them anymore.
Just say that then? He was intentionally misleading or he was lying.
Nope. They've won as long as you still hate and remember them.
Yes it can

Not only because Beyond meat is popular. It's because of the door Beyond meat open for innovation in the space.

Many companies are following their success, causing VCs and hedge funds to follow aswell
Workstations, not servers.
I can't talk about every European countries, but this comment offers a really shallow analysis of the late stage funding situation regarding France at least.

The differences between France and the US, in terms of Culture, wealth distribution, financial and fiscal environment, country size (& heterogeneity of the European market) are really important factors, much more than “the American always shoot first”.
I think there is a difference between "informal" corruption (where some officials need to be bribed) and the "institutionalized" corruption of a monolithic and completely unnecessary bureaucracy. At least in the first instance, there is a path to get things done. European bureaucracy is a tar pit where innovative business goes to die.
I had a chalk board in my office for 6 years during a phd. Glad I work with a whiteboard now; hated getting chalk dust on my clothing and computer gadgets. I admit chalk feels better than dry erase, but the dust....
Many people get paid to write free software. Some people write free software and sell it (for example, some paid android and iphone apps have their code available under the GPL, but still make money).

There are many companies, including facebook/google/etc, that employ kernel developers who primarily write free software. There are companies that follow the opencore model, and many of their developers only work on the open portion (e.g. elasticsearch, mongodb, nginx, etc). There are some people who offer consulting for their free software and make good money by that. There are some companies where almost all development is free software, and money is gotten through other means (e.g. mozilla, redhat).

Free software does not have to mean working for free. It doesn't even mean you can't charge money for it (free as in libre, not free as in beer).

That being said, I agree that funding free software development is a large problem. Right now, the most sustainable model is a company to be interested in a project and to pay developers to work on it (e.g. linux), or for a company to own the project (e.g. firefox, mongodb).

There's no great funding story I know of for open source projects that are important, but maintained by people on the side (e.g. most of gnu coreutils, random libraries big projects depend on, etc).

However, your comment sounds more grim than reality is, and also conflates free as in libre with free as in beer.

Yeah, sure, you can't work for free, but that doesn't mean you can't make free software and charge people for it.
If you application, due to the requests it receives, consumes enough CPU time to occupy all the cores available in a server and/or most of its RAM, how can they not?
A Software Security Field Guide for the Bewildered
He is not forcing his views on you, don't like him don't read what he writes.

If you want to have a discussion about freedom then let's do it in a rigorous way, go read the GNU page, read about the 4 freedoms then get back and explain your point more clearly.

His point is that proprietary software is bad and you should now write it and not use it, I agree with him and I still run some proprietary blobs, I do not feel forced to do anything or feel shamed.
I disagree. Whether it's a good design depends critically on what the future holds. Will costs go through the floor? We should, and can predict this.

What does it cost to host lambdas? Not a lot. So we are good from that PoV.

Will it be commoditized, or will there be crazy markups? Can any random guy set this up? If you really want to check this, try setting one up yourself and see if there are any roadblocks. (I didn't)
On building a “personal brand” in tech
About the 4th National Climate Assessment Charts [video]
"In any case, if you have a Node.js module or code with a native C/C++ build, that runs shell commands, that writes to disk (not allowed besides /tmp in Lambda) or makes assumptions about the OS, your "simple" function will absolutely return different results."

This is true, but it's not Lambda qua Lambda. That's just normal production vs. testing environment issues, with the same basic solutions.

Lambda may offer some minor additional hindrances vs. something like Docker, but I wouldn't consider that catastrophic.
Small talk is an extremely high-risk low reward activity depending on your status with the company, especially if your manager has told you your status is utterly fixed.

How in the hell are you supposed to build a rapport with people who would as soon skin you alive as look at you, and only tolerate you for what you can do that no one else can?
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Hah! Thanks, edited.

It might be also said that their innovation most recently has focused on some less-than legal technologies. But innovation it is, nonetheless.
I went from a MBP (2015?) -> Dell XPS 15 -> X1 Extreme (not carbon), all windows.

For Linux I went to an X1 Carbon with Ubuntu. I am not a Linux power user but it does everything for me fine.
TIL, thanks :-)
From what I've seen of the samsung desktop/docking options, it's pretty cool... looks like it'll be in android proper before long. As long as I can SSH and/or RDP to something beefier, I'd be happier docking my phone at work.
> > it isn't totally impossible.

> how about: "It's totally possible"

That completely changes the meaning.
I agree with your second suggestion (although you added an unnecessary that in there), but your first changes the meaning significantly. To my reading, “it isn’t totally impossible” signifies a thing being very to extremely difficult—perhaps close enough to impossible that the difficulty is worth recognizing as potentially insurmountable—though not entirely outside the realm of possibility. “It’s totally possible”, on the other hand, seems to indicate a thing of such negligible difficulty the obstacles are not worth mentioning.
I don't use a Red Hat distribution, but I am pretty happy that their technology is used on the distributions I use. Maybe they are optimizing things for their own use cases, but they definitely work for me. And this presentation on this new management of home directories sounds like good news for me. Problems I have noticed are being solved now.

Frankly, thanks to Red Hat for making my laptop and my servers work. I have a sound management that works and is nice to use, an init system that I can understand and use (just a few lines to write in a file to add a custom service) and makes my computers boot fast, a log that is readable, network management that is dead simple to use (and that can easily be disabled to restore the former behavior), a network discovery service that just works and makes printing (among other things) easier and probably other things. Those things are not perfect but nothing is.

So how do we do? There will always be some people happy with some change and other, not happy with it.
POS Developer here. Offline capability (both kinds, with regard to a store server and with regard to an internet connection out of the store) is actually a very important requirement for any serious retailer, but not necessarily 100%, in terms of functionality. Today, you usually want to support some features that are impossible to realize in an offline capable way, like accepting gift cards. For these it's acceptable to be unavailable in an offline scenario. However, this actually creates the next big problem: you need to isolate these services and any connectivity-related errors with them from your offline-capable core ringing process in a way that ensures that your predictable response times of the core ringing process (which are super important for good UX, as the previous commenter already explained correctly) are compromised as little as possible if your online-only feature goes into a failure state - a typical example for "you're doing it wrong" would be waiting for a timeout on an online service on every single request while the connection is down before signaling the cashier that this service cannot be used right now.
I also got one through an employer that supported "Give One, Get One". Fantastic idea, but I never really figured out what to do with it. The UI looked like it was headed somewhere really interesting, but it wasn't clear how to get there.

My son did use it to play some games at some point, but to learn programming, Minecraft's redstone system turned out to be far more attractive.
I think there's a third possibly: namely that Congress has somehow allowed the FBI to make such rules, but could reclaim control in the future.

As I understand it, a lot of things work like this in some unitary (as opposed to federal), parliamentary (as opposed to presidential) democracies. In at least some such countries all governmental power ultimately depends on the elected legislature, but it can be delegated to other bodies (including to the executive and to local government) as the legislature chooses. The legislature can reclaim its power, too, even from directly-elected local authorities.
With Gifu-Hashima and other "rural" Shinkansen stations the reason is usually political. For example Gifu Prefecture would not allow the line to pass through the prefecture without a station being built. From Gifu city center it's actually faster to take a train to Nagoya and change to Shinkansen there, especially since every train stops at Nagoya and only a few at Gifu-Hashima.
Death Stranding: Very Easy Mode
This doesn’t sound like a random sample.
Were you ever affected by the GPL3 vs GPL2 license? I am just wondering who is affected(not everybody makes kernels and drivers)
Uhhh did you check what a vserver costs on aws and compare it to digital Ocean? The cost increase is quit a too!

What you actually buy is abstraction and the need to not manage... Well everything beside code (in simple terms)... It is not an apple to Apple comparison...
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I'd agree except for the last sentence. A measure of civilization is precisely just how much things strangers would "lift a finger" to help you with without money getting involved.
Can we add a tag [paywall] to these posts, so I don't waste my time clicking on them?
This is very insightful.

Incidentally, the essence of what you say (the mind is always predicting and learns from prediction failure) is also the essence of idealist philosophy, and has found its most advanced expression in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Unfortunately, Kant uses a language that's difficult to access today, so a lot Kant's insight has fallen out of today.
Two important capabilities of managers and leaders are communication and influence. Having a drink at the pub, or just making smalltalk on a regular basis, support both of those. It's easier to influence someone who trusts you, and who you know well.

Senior management look for communicators and influencers when deciding whom to promote. A solid performer they have talked to, have seen interacting with others, and know a thing or two about is more likely to get the nod.
Startups is such a loosely qualified term these days that it practically means any business that has "recently started", so no you don't need a citation because the word in of itself is subjective.
I probably don't literally sleep the whole time either, but I do still just put on an eye mask, headphones and sit there and zone out, and don't really expect reasonably to be able to achieve anything more than that.
2-3 hours commuting is not the norm. The average commute in the US is around 25 minutes each way, so roughly 1 hour total. Super-long commutes are almost non-existent outside a handful of metro areas.

If you’re dealing with a very long commute, it might be worth it to move to a different metro, even if it requires a substantial pay cut. I think most people under-estimate the negative impact that a long commute has on their life.
> What's the reason? How is it so significant they choose to pay?

I don't know! I'm saying we should find out before advocating policy changes.

> Or could they pay more perhaps? If they could might the money be used to subsidize public transport and remote businesses development?

Funding public transport is nice, but it doesn't actually solve the issue you were complaining about. As for subsiding remote business development, what do you have in mind? It seems to be quite funded already. Would dumping some extra money really change anything?

> Also how does it happen the New York subway is such a disaster while there is so much big business money in New York?

Another good question that should be answered before policy changes can be formulated.
We had a requirement early on in our org where we had to split off long-running tasks to run asynchronously, while remaining painfully easy to test and deploy, configure, or swap out, as our dev team was not very comfortable with new technology and we had to move fast.

I looked in to Serverless before, and decided, then and now, it was wholly unnecessary, and I don't know when it will ever become necessary for our org. Azure already had what was necessary - Webjobs. I set up a simple event framework, drop some events into a DB, which get processed asynchronously by some Webjob. It's easy to run on local as it's just a console application, gets pushed to CI and again, is just a console application so it tests the same as other projects, is easily scalable, configurable, and it uses no new technologies.

I always look to see what pre-existing technology or paradigms are already existing that can accomplish the solution, and I found that serverless, in the idea the cloud providers employ it, is usually unnecessary
> He is not forcing his views on you, don't like him don't read what he writes.

Until just last week, when he was fired for using a technology forum to defend a 74 year old man having sex with a 17 year old prostitute on pedo island, he was the face of an organization that he used specifically to force views like "every website should work without JavaScript".

It's ok to want websites to work without JS. The proper way to go about that is to help build bridges, not to interact with the CEOs of the world's largest tech companies like a whiny teenager that isn't getting what he wants.

Edit: you can flag the truth all you want, but RMS defended the worst behaviors possible of mankind. If you're the one that flagged this comment, you should be ashamed of yourself.
A real reason for papers such as this, even with seemingly bombastic claims as "supremacy" with modest improvements, is to prove real progress at a time where QIS funding is sharply ramping up by DOE/DOD/(NSA/CIA) while also identifying core areas for improvement (where to spend that money).

$300MM has been set aside for DOE QIS alone (with more of a focus on simulation), and that is likely to ramp up with papers like this, probably somewhere over $1B over the next 5 years for DOE Science alone. Throw in DOD/NSA and the number is easily going to be in the $5-10B total over the next 5-10 years, assuming there's no quantum winter.
That’s cool that it works well , but aren’t there trade-offs for everything?

This method seems to help your brain work more because it increases its metabolism but that might also cause your brain to age faster right?

The harder you work something, the faster you wear it down.

Is my logic flawed or am I missing something? Just curious.
Thank you, this is a great paper and contains ideas that have been rattling around in my head since I was a child. The distant future of humanity may be a very dark and scary place. In such a world, an all-encompassing surveillance state may be an unfortunate necessity compared to the alternative. Without it, there might not be a world at all.

This is very difficult to think about as someone who's very pro-individual liberty and privacy, but our current way of thinking may become obsolete if it won't be that difficult for a single, ordinary civilian to kill millions if they become motivated to do so. "Give me liberty, or give me death" will make a lot less sense if liberty implies almost certain death. We should start thinking about how a surveillance state could be created and maintained in the most ethical way possible. For example, automated collection and detection without human analysts invading privacy until something is already flagged by the system (to prevent "LOVEINT"-type abuses).

More people need to be exposed to Bostrom's ideas. I hope he does more podcasts.
That's something very different though. Exit nodes are providing a service and are, for all intents and purposes, the only visible client on the clearnet (and might not even be involved: there's nothing stopping you from running a private proxy on the same machine you run your exit node on). TOR-developers that do not run exit nodes but contribute to TOR typically don't get searched, at least to my knowledge.

Content that's illegal to possess is a different issue, though I'm sure they'd make for an interesting case because a crawler downloading, saving and parsing an HTML page isn't as clear cut as a human evaluating and deciding what to download and store. "The suspect has the hard- and software necessary to download this content" shouldn't be enough to convince a judge to issue a search warrant, but then again, judges probably have very little technical knowledge.