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Hi there, Hey there, I lead Developer Advocacy at AWS for Serverless (https://twitter.com/chrismunns).

I'll give you that this 80% number seems pretty out there. I don't know how that is measured or what it would be referencing.

If you step back and remove all the commercial software from the argument (something like 50%+ of enterprise workloads, the kind of things you buy from a 3rd party and just run it, like Sharepoint, SAP, or similar) and then look at how many business applications take on a trivial amount of load over time, then the author's post becomes more of an outlier. Few folks have apps that do 100rps realistically. And so for data processing/streaming/batch or web/api workloads serverless actually does work out pretty well. Is this 80%, I am not sure.

There is 100% an inflection point where if your operator cost is low enough(human work+3p tools+process+care and feeding) then the "metal to metal" costs can be comparable. Even the author admits that's leaving something on the floor and so it really comes down to what your organization values most.

I would love for most of our serverless app workloads to be top-down organizationally driven but the reality of it is that it comes often from developers themselves and/or line of business organizations with skin in the game of seeing things move faster in most organizations. This will then typically require buy in from security and ops groups. If these folks you know have the trick to driving top down incompetent strategic management towards serverless I'd buy in on that newsletter.

In terms of HN sentiment and in being a member of this community for almost a decade, I don't know if I'd say it widely represents most of the dev world as it tends to lean way more open-source and less enterprisey. I think there's also a larger number of people that represent IT vendors that would love to see AWS fail here :)

Thanks, - Chris Munns - AWS - Serverless - https://twitter.com/chrismunns
I’ve noticed this can happen in Slack. I see someone is typing - and because I assume it’s a full duplex channel, I start typing too while I wait for their answer. And they stop typing. When I delete what I began to type, they resume.
>1920 x 1080p full HD display

...that's 5 inches. pixel count isn't everything. I'd rather take a 14" 1366 * 768 laptop than a than a 1920 * 1080 5" phone.
If they didn't have it on hand they could go down to the local Walmart, I've used it many times to treat my fish with ich.
FaaS is one example of a serverless service. Workflow or object storage services are others. It was the arrival of FaaS that stimulated the term.
I haven't thought about step 3 before, but makes sense. Maybe I should show this to the guy who used Google Cloud Functions to upload images in our previous project :)

I guess the reasoning would be that this way the actual time spent in serverless code is shorter and by proxy the service becomes cheaper?
Is that your personal definition? On App Engine I deploy a function that gets invoked whenever an HTTP endpoint is requested. It clearly maps to the semantic of "function as a service" and I don't know about or control the number of servers so it also has the properties of "serverless".
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Yes, it's unusable on macos and windows.

Hopefully WSL2 will solve this.
Thought this article was interesting as I've been working with a piece of hardware lately that doesn't close STMP connections after sending mail. Took me a while to figure that out, it would always send email properly the first time but then wouldn't be able to again until after a reboot. Turns out it doesn't close TCP sockets created while sending mail, unless you jump through some hoops. Such is the world of embedded industrial devices, unfortunately.
There is a ton of conflicting advice. We're currently using Ferber and happy with it. But there's so much variance among kids, so you can't rely blindly on any method.

You just need to gather evidence from your own kid (n=1) by being attentive, responsive and malleable.
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I see a bunch of "this is why software UI sucks" things in the comments here but did anyone read the example tasks?

> An example of level-2 task is “You want to find a sustainability-related document that was sent to you by John Smith in October last year.”

This varies from easy to really, really hard depending on the specifics. I know that to do this in my specific condition I've had to do work to make it easier, and for my academic paper collection it still doesn't work consistently because Google OCR sowmtimes fails on older papers.

> The meeting room task described above requires level-3 skills. Another example of level-3 task is “You want to know what percentage of the emails sent by John Smith last month were about sustainability.”

Has anyone here ever, EVER asked this question about a peer? Or even a client? I work with computers for a living and off the top of my head I'd say, "This is incredibly annoying to do using normal tools at my disposal."

I can't help but feel like a great deal of bias went into these categorization metrics, especially past Level 1, which artificially deflate and cluster the resulting users into a group with skills in data processing and analysis.

I'd surely believe that cohort is rare.
Fortunately there were other alternatives!

Raspberry Pis with a recycled TV that has HDMI input and an old USB keyboard and can get someone up and running, often for under $100. (There are a lot of old TVs around!)
That's normal in the service industry, or in shops, for example. You get what you want, then pay on leaving. If you don't pay they detain you.

Try leaving your local restaurant without someone paying for the food. They won't care if you paid your friend for the meal and he kept the money.
The planes that have landed in the UK are being impounded by their airports. If an airport is not paid the unpaid fees within 56 days, they are entitled to auction the impounded plane to recover lost costs.

I would suspect airports are very unwilling to let those aircraft go anywhere until all the bills are paid as they might be only guaranteed way of getting money at this point.
It's all about the topologs.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos)
A/B testing is not enough
Very interesting. Last question, do you mind linking the exact CCTV led model you're using? Just so that I have a baseline for experimentation. Thanks for the info!
It should be noted that the major pain of the price tag came from AWS API gateway, not Lambda itself, according to the article.
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Do you think I should add a license in Github to mention that? To protect me and the users who will use the crawler?
If we valued productivity, and those were indeed easier, then we should.

There's no real pride in not valuing easy if it's also good.
They'll probably be grumpier about the bad bots thing.
He article mentions that the hemoglobin variant which is blue doesn’t release oxygen well. This would be bad.
The paper is here (link from further down in their discussion): https://drive.google.com/file/d/19lv8p1fB47z1pEZVlfDXhop082L...
Yep, I think you hit the nail on the head. When it comes to new companies and business models, timing is super important. A great example of this was the dotcom boom where you saw a bunch of companies with (arguably) the right idea go bust, and then years later another company picked up where they left off and succeeded.
To eliminate the need of a web framework? I don’t understand the rationale, if I can get all what’s mentioned done with a good web framework, I will be more than happy to do that.
Blame your graphics drivers. The lack of working modern graphics on Linux is one of the reasons I moved away from it. It works fine for me locally, so it's an issue with your machine. Stare at chrome://gpu and https://webglreport.com/?v=2 for a bit, or maybe file a bug with your graphics driver.
Why does having a sexual interaction make you feel better for some time?
This may be the dumbest question ever... but I notice that if i go more than a few weeks without having an interaction, I start getting depressed and feeling tight. If I get some, I feel noticeably calmer and more confident/at ease for at least a week or more. Why is this, besides the obvious answer?
Thanks for summarising, what a poor headline. It's like saying "Man Retrieved From Sea After Dying" [article: man was attacked by a shark].
The article devoted to design challenge and clearly states that it was almost a year before design research started, while other researches were conducted, regarding the security model principally.

Later there would be separate articles for aspects of security approaches implied within the design of U-HODL, when whitepapers are polished, finished and ready for publishing. Anyway, I would gladly answer any direct questions about the issues you might be interested in, I just don't have a whole article at the moment for your consideration.

In short, the statement is as follows: the product would be able to comply with payment processing protocols, like every banking card for example.

Additionally, as stated in the article and in the author's comment above - the product designed with the user in mind, what is no less important for customers security according to our vision of the problem.

Security is more about a process, and just finally as a result. And hardware wallet is one of the most important instruments that should help customer to build and maintain his own security protocols and behaviour patterns. If the instrument is "cutting your own hands" than it is much less likely that user would apply it most securely and regularly. The simplest example with PIN-code which needed to be entered repeatedly at every simple step or recurring operation, it is most likely that user wouldn't use device at all, or just use a shorter PIN, than doing his replay attack without measure every day. Thus we provide the convenience for user to authorize himself biometrically much faster within a reasonable timeframe, value cap and proximity limitations (very similar to major smartphone industry biometrical practice).
Doing our "user experience" homework, we see our contribution to customers security and assets safety much bigger than just provide yet another "the most secure wallet". It is the most secure both from the technical and usability point of view.
Read a paper: Do programmers like gradual typing?
Cold starts for node are ~500ms.
This is not limited to the UK
> I don't quite understand why that is a goal in itself.

It's just like you should not need to take orders from people on the street so as to be able to understand what they're trying to tell you.
Ok so because a publication reports facts it is part of the deep state. I presume then that Fox, which makes shit up falls into the non-deep state type of media you get your information from.
Lambda is the kiddie-pool of cloud computing.
I looked at his site and he's pushing game state over websockets. I think he could eliminate almost all of his back end calls to his servers besides game initialization by using DynamoDB directly via Cognito, though the logic for proposing a move from one user and having it accepted in the game state by another user becomes an interesting problem.
You're assuming you can know (or rather, that a bureaucracy can know) what the 'correct' size for any given business is.

Google is a medium sized company by many measures. There are companies with far more employees, offices, and physical footprint for example. Who are you to say that this company is a "behemoth" but for example Volkswagen ($221 billion of yearly revenues) is not? Where is the line drawn?

I think a lot of entrepreneurs are motivated by the thoughts of huge success. If a government says that success will be punished the moment two-bit competitors complain (as e.g. tiny websites that nobody ever cared about complained about Google Shopping), then why set out on the arduous journey to create a big firm?

AMD vs Intel is different. In cases like that, it's obvious how to avoid problems: don't pay companies to not use your competitors. That seems reasonable.

But with something like Google Shopping vs companies so small and worthless that the EU's press release doesn't even bother to name them (nor does Wikipedia's page on the case), it's not at all clear what lessons entrepreneurs should draw. Don't add features to your own product? Don't be too successful? I followed all three cases closely and frankly to me the enforcement looks arbitrary and vindictive (and yes I'm an "EU citizen"). The Commission decided - entirely arbitrarily - that Google Shopping must be the dominant way to buy things online, which will come as news to people who use Amazon or Ebay or European equivalents like Zalando.
Sci fi fan. These ones are my favorites ones, any recommendations?
All I know is the Contiki OS running on a Commodore 64 is(was?) quite capable and used Protothreads a fair bit.

http://contiki.sourceforge.net/docs/2.6/a01802.html
To me, serverless promises "no hassles" hosting. If what I save on sysadmin stuff needs to be replaced with a lot of new accounting stuff, where's the saving?
> I work with computers for a living and off the top of my head I'd say, "This is incredibly annoying to do using normal tools at my disposal."

I think you're overthinking this. They aren't looking for a NN based solution with sentiment analysis.

from:John Smith sustainability -> results: 300

from:John Smith -> results: 800

37.5%
> No, your lockfile doesn't care about build steps so any post-install script might run differently for the many other reasons listed.

You shouldn’t be uploading node_modules folder to your deployed lambda so this is an issue of your development environment, not lambda.

> Maybe, but serverless doesn't answer those questions at all.

“Serverless” or lambda/Azure functions, etc, are not a silver bullet that solve every single scenario. Just like docker doesn’t solve every single scenario, not does cloud servers or bare metal. It’s just another tool for us to do our job.
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Help, I can’t learn/do something because it is boring
So ? Doesn't mean he can't have a filter.
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We would only be able to detect our own everyday transmissions at a distance of a few dozen light years. So the galaxy might be full of EM emitting civilizations, and we wouldn't have detected them.
I assure you that there are less than 10k unique onion addresses. This is a huge overkill to have a distributed system to crawl something this small.

edit: onion services, not addresses
I dislike Kubernetes in general, and much prefer something like LXD for WordPress.

My point was that most people consider my way of doing things "boring", while everything else, i.e., serverless technology, is over hyped.
Thinking about the reasons why people engage in smalltalk (in other areas of life too such as family and friends, dating, service providers, etc) helps (me) cope with its banality and even enjoy it; The irrationality is quite rational.

A conversation, especially a face-to-face one, contains something beyond content: Something like a meeting of souls. The (hopefully positive) feeling of the presence of another human being. The breadth and importance of this non-verbal communication is obvious.

Smalltalk then, is basically a request to engage only in this non-verbal connection for a fleeting moment. The content is almost completely irrelevant. It's just the excuse to be in a bubble together for a while. Seen this way helps (me) in two ways:

0. You don't need to be "good" at it. It really doesn't matter what you say. Say anything and the ball keeps rolling for a few moments longer.
1. You can find compassion towards the person who initiates it instead of contempt: They are actually asking to warm by your fire for a little bit. They are not testing/dueling you.

Or in the more sentimental words of L. Armstrong: "I see friends shaking hands, saying How Do You Do. They're really saying I Love You"
Serverless works great for my apps. My traffic is driven by hourly notifications so I get 100x more traffic on the hour than the rest of the hour. I could write a bunch of ML to figure out load scaling but that is code I don't want to focus on.
For the typical case, yeah, you don't want communication.

But if CPU#1 wants to access a file that is on CPU#2 NVMe nodes, NUMA allows you to share those files across memory (and its a "local" file according to the OS), instead of over NFS or SMB.

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And yes, as much as we like to pretend that there's no communication and everything scales horizontally... in practice... people like sharing files between systems. NUMA allows for these files (and other resources: such as PCIe network cards or GPUs) to be shared between systems at the speed of DDR4 memory.
I agree. I would say that the Chromebook is its spiritual successor. Chromebook is very popular in the education sector. OLPC has changed the world.
In many jurisdictions around the world it is enough. In Germany you need a "begründeter Anfangsverdacht" (reasonable initial suspicion) and what's reasonable is essentially up to the judge signing the warrant.

Hell, they used to raid people accused by third parties of copyright infringement (for private personal use), about a decade back or one and a half, but thankfully that stopped now. They would come early in the morning, present you with a warrant that said "based on evidence provided by <third party>..." (i.e. somebody somehow collected an IP address you might have used off of some file sharing swarm), take all your shit and scare your neighbors and quite often your parents because they raided a lot of minors too.

I know two people who this happened to personally.
One guy wanted his stuff back, to which the DA replied that if they got to keep his stuff they would drop the case (I kid you not), and the other guy had his stuff returned about 2 years later, except for his HDDs. And his stuff not only included computers, CDs, DVDs, a printer, but they had actually seized books... paper ones... wat. Neither was convicted of any crimes in the end (IIRC they both had the thing dropped because "minor offense" not worth pursuing).

Turns out that a little googling of the German internet around that time turned up a lot of similar cases and some people claiming the police and DAs did that to get new computers "cheap"...
I don't understand the prototyping angle.

Can't you just do something on your local machine?

There's stuff like dotnet new for .NET where I can just run that and have a skeleton project for a backend and I can start writing code immediately. I assume there's template creators for other languages as well.
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No, you aren't. I also see it as distraction, which is even worse to programmers who have to keep laser focused on their work.
This is a strange opinion to me because there’s many, many people see it coming so it wouldn’t be especially incorrect for people to say this
100% agree that the site was subpar. Plus, the URL was confusing. Oh well, worth every cent I paid for it :)
> other’s desperate need for anonymity

Can somebody list some positive, legitimate, not illegal uses to desperately be anonymous?
you can be a 'good human' yourself, whatever that means. and if you start a business you can make an effort to try and be a 'good business', whatever that means. you won't earn billions, but perhaps can 'feel good about yourself', whatever that means.
You should reach out to the folks at https://teamhuman.fm/. Might be some connections you could make there along these lines.
So, the root of the problem seems to be in the shipping?

I had assumed this would be a story about Power9-based machines...
This is indeed very problematic, I worked on ONVIF test suite 3 years ago, in some failing test cases, the tcp socket can never die in time, it failed the certification as a whole as all the following unit test cases can not continue. All those immediately-kill-tcp-socket or socket-port-reuse can not help, at least not reliably.
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S3 is just slower but in theory you can do everything you can with rds.

So e.g. if the queries you are making aren't time sensitive or are easily cached switching to s3 can be okay.
Some more context: "Thomas Cook collapses as last-ditch rescue talks fail" https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49791249
Yes, you may recall the scandal around Obama's Senate successor Rob Blagojevich who was later impeached and removed as governor.

Obama's involvement in the matter was hotly debated at the time.
And this is the canonical example of why Twitter gets it wrong :)

I'm not talking about myself. Never even remotely implied it.

HN is filled with the 0.1% that truly are experts on individual topics. You'll find people that wrote papers on quantum mechanics chiming in on QM discussions, people with decades of RF HW experience correcting those 5Ghz conspiracies, start-up founders jumping in on discussions, and (in this case) people that can read spec sheets and understand how systems like these are built and programmed.

No one's an expert on much, but plenty are experts on something. Twitter's often too shallow to even entertain the possibility of being wrong.
He should probably add himself under “troll.” Like this kind of shit is something I would have written when I was 12. RMS is like 65..
Excellent point, thank you. I agree. I meant 'idiot' in the pejorative sense and I felt my audience was the quiet computer types. Your point is well taken though because people can be smart in a lot of different ways.
and I totally posted this from the wrong account... sigh..

this is me.
Thanks, - Chris Munns - AWS - Serverless - https://twitter.com/chrismunns
and I totally posted this from the wrong account... sigh..
this is me. Thanks, - Chris Munns - AWS - Serverless - https://twitter.com/chrismunns
i chose the name "Paid Use Permissive License" thinking that that would make it clear that it's not Open Source. but i'll see if there's any way that i can make it more obvious

which class of users do you see as receiving exceptions ? one of my goals in writing it was to limit (via the assurances) the degree to which an owner could segment a market, eg it requires published prices, and if they provide low-cost licenses to one user, that user can resell them
That's Mitch Bradley's Open Firmware Forth, which was also on Suns, post-NuBus PowerPC Macs, Pegasos, and IBM Power Systems!

I used to call it "L1-A Forth", because that's the Forth you got when you pressed "L1-A" on a Sun keyboard to get into the boot monitor. He also made a great version of that Forth system with a metacompiler that ran under Unix (Forthmacs), which I used a lot.

https://github.com/MitchBradley

https://github.com/MitchBradley/openfirmware

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware

https://elinux.org/Flameman/openfirmware-apple

http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=1965.0

https://github.com/ForthHub/ForthFreak/blob/master/Forthmacs
A preference to not serve someone who has a malicious intent is not revenge.
I'm absolutely shocked who could have predicted this
MS Windows is the great exception to this, where not only do they collect an inflated price for their software, they also spy on their users. So making money on the product is no guarantee that a software vendor won't also invade your privacy.

Apparently the key to success is to get corporate lock-in.
Unless it's with Oracle.
Useful spreadsheet, but there may be more than one Nathan on LinkedIn, might help to specify which Nathan :)