skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The powerpoint decks that were published were pretty self explanatory and graphical. Journalists would not have been able to make any sense of a bunch of log files anyway.
Why would technological advance be entirely limited by the end of Moore's law? There's still advances to be made in biology, nanotech, materials science, and making full use of the computing we already have. And there are plenty of proposals for future engineering on and off world, if we have the motivation for those projects.
altavista history is "fun"

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I think the problem is that moving from Lambda/FaaS to a container-centric alternative (ECS and friends) requires a complete re-architect of your stack.

Not really. I converted a Node/Express API running in lambda using the proxy integration to a Docker/Fargate implementation in less than a couple of hours by following a Fargate tutorial. Most of that time was spent learning enough Docker to do it.

The only difference between the Docker implementation of the API and the lambda implementation was calling a different startup module.

There is nothing magical about any lambda, from the programming standpoint you just add one function that accepts a JSON request and a lambda context.

Converting it to a standalone service (outside of APIs) is usual a matter of wrapping your lambda in something that runs all of the time and routing whatever event you’re using to trigger to a queue.
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> No because Lambdas are proprietary which means you can't run it in a CI or locally. Also, it becomes stateful if it pulls data from a database, S3 or anywhere else on AWS which it almost always does.

Lambda is a function call. So it makes no difference if it’s proprietary or not.

Are you saying that it’s difficult to test passing an object to a function and asserting that it’s functioning as intended?
You don't need money to have have property and wealth or power over others generated by it.

You don't need money to have prices either. It's just convenient.

Money is just extremely convenient, it has no magical properties.
Who would argue that? Why would you ever want to do 10 times something just because you do it once?
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This thread repeats advice I've heard a few times before, but in a good way. It definitely sounds like the type of advice that bears repetition.
Slower overall very much depends on your workload and the way the code is written. However lambda is supposed to be short lived processes and AWS manage the concurrency so the actual performance difference of each language is mitigated somewhat for the average customer (edge cases will always exist).

It's also worth noting that if you're running the kind of processes that this does become a concern, then lambda is probably the wrong choice anyway. However, as always, the smart thing to do is build then benchmark (as the author did).
And completely loses out in terms of software and productivity.
Can you say more about the autodidacts and the conflict with professional staff? I'm interested in specific areas that were problematic, and if you have any learnings from mitigating it.
> I'm in the container camp

Can anyone explain to me why there's "camps" to this debate?
Weird that they don't trust it to actually display spherical data, and instead drenches it in a flat ticker showing logos...
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Definitely a good point. My trouble in filtering out the small nonsense from the actually meaningful stuff is part of the reason I wanted to ask this in the first place.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TCG.L/balance-sheet?p=TCG.L

This looks really bleak, everybody who had some liabilites to Thomas Cook in any way should at least consider the chance of insolvency.

The hotels should be able to check this information, but consumers?

Every person who gets a new phone contract has his credit rating checked, but if hundreds of thousand people buy expensive flights nobody warns them about the risk.
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Yes! I found Oster's book on pregnancy very enlightening, so this is definitely on my reading list.
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> Enterprise managed laptops typically run Windows or OS/X. I haven't seen a Linux laptop in the wild at the enterprise level for years.

Chicken-egg. If you don't have appropriate management features (like the ones introduced here), then you don't get enterprise deployments.
>> "The issue with root cause analysis is that it can lead to oversimplification and it is rare for there to be one single root cause."

Root cause analysis is a complex and varied topic, discounting it so easily is an oversimplification.
That looks like a good and useful initiative. Will take a look!
DOS had it right all along with the one application at a time system when it comes to ease of use by the general public who is likely to think in one app at a time. The text GUIs were actually fine. It is no coincidence that it was as successful as it was.

On top of that there were clear things such as menus, status bar tips, shortcuts and help docs that were to be found in the same place across programs, one would have to understand the system once and they would be generally fine across various programs.

Now, of course, I am not suggesting we go back to DOS but I am suggesting we take the good principles out of it and consider standardization. Windows had it right as well up to Windows 8 when they made a mess with the tiles and all the push towards a confusing mess (to this day, the settings app still doesn't have proper navigation).
>"You just need to do everything you can, with everyone you can, to change everything you can."

what does that even mean?

Also I only ever see pictures of the girl herself. Where are the scientists that she is talking about ? Why are they not touring with her ?
You can do the same thing with Lambda @ Edge and CloudFront for .60 per million requests and there is a free tier. (https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/)
Nice mitigation strategies. Domain modelling is essential imho
Unless its a disclaimer, because the poster knows that there is likely to be bias in their post, is aware of that and doesn't want to fix that.
Hah, yes. And strangers, I suspect! (Based on experience of having dogs, where strangers are surprisingly enthusiastic about telling me about everything I'm doing wrong.)
I read the first part of the sentence as an estimation, and the second part as a joke.
> you probably remember the hand crank. ... Designers dropped the feature almost immediately ... because the winding process ... demanded energy that kids in very poor areas couldn’t spare.

Maybe something other than a $100 would be more life changing and improving if you're circumstances are such that winding a crank is too much.
Of course, as is only natural.

Why change stuff that survived?
This seems plausible. Recommendation Algorithms definitely could play a role as well. I believe that at some point YouTube started recommending videos based on "time watched" so videos slowly got longer over time, as those videos tended to be promoted more.

(Or vice versa, that they became shorter because the algorithm preferred that.)
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Ah well, it’s a significant problem in many parts of America. Pretty much every metropolitan area has ethnic segregation to some extent among geological lines. This is due to a variety of factors- white flight, a long history of oppression and a fairly recent desegregation movement, towns where black people weren’t allowed to stay the night, generational discrepancies exaggerating existing effects, etc.

It’s fairly normal for there to be a wide variety of reasons why specific areas are predominantly one or another ethnicity.
I’ve got downvotes for suggesting the same thing during the hype. In fact all my truths get downvoted. Read them, they are hilarious some of them.

And not only that, breaking news, serverless with aws is severe vendor lockin.
> some obviously pretend to watch the demonstration

It’s easy to watch a lesson or demonstration and think you get it only to discover some time later that you didn’t really understand what was being shown. A much better approach is to walk people through performing the task themselves rather than passively watch it being done. They will be much more likely understand the task and to remember how to carry out the task – and retain that knowledge for a longer time.
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Which is exactly the point.

Enterprise deploys windows machines because there are established tools and mechanisms to manage them.
If you want more deployments of linux laptops, you need ...(see the first few slides).
This is a valid approach, but it does have a problem: it can lead to long back and forth messaging/email exchanges, including lengthy messages.

I don't, generally, have time to write long messages, nor (often) to read them, so as soon as I see this happening I've started to point out the behaviour and set up a short meeting to resolve whatever the issues are.
One could imagine a travel company that operated like a financial services firm - if you pay $3000 for a package holiday they put your money in a ringfenced client money account and contract with an airline and hotel to provide the services with payment in arrears.

That way if the travel company or airline or hotel goes out of business, the holidaymaker hasn't lost any money (although they might face the cost of buying a last-minute flight from a different airline, or similar)

Of course, you could argue consumers who want such peace of mind can already approximate such an arrangement by combining a package holiday with travel insurance.
That's actually a pretty good practical explanation.
3.) are in the process of adopting western-culture norms.

Could you expand on this point? What does it include outside of gender equality. The idea that this is a "western-culture norm" seems slightly misleading in the sense that gender equality in the workplace was much earlier and better developed in communist countries that would usually be contrasted with "western culture" albeit of course also originating in Europe.
I absolutely love terraform. It is so much more readable than cloudformation. Thanks for the tutorial, I will check it out
Interesting. Do you have a link? I guess they are operating a 100% reserve system?

My prediction: bitcoin will become successful iff it evolves a fractional reserve ecosystem.

Where successful means something like it's being used not just for speculation, but routinely for eg making every-day transactions.

(Originally, I was only going to predict fractional reserve as a necessary condition for success. But thinking about it, I realized that no-one would bother with the legal complexities in the non-success case.)
Metal and rock both put out some great albums still. And I still look forward to those releases to just experience half an hour of (mostly) new content all at once.

OTOH, Taylor Swift also just released a new album. So there's definitely still albums being made in the "top 50" as well.
You may not have been locked out of your money by an arbitrary decision of a banker, but I don't follow how you are "annoyed" that I have.
That’s also conditioned by how hard it is to escape debt. In my country if you can’t pay back what you owe you turn into an indentured servant for life. No matter where you hide and what job you pick, the state will come and take most of your pay leaving you with just enough to get by.
:) the entire article's subtle humor is refreshing. I had a literal laugh-out-loud about the sharing streaming services login joke; ironic b/c such services are usually consumed en solo, which runs contrary to the thesis of the whole article in general
I don’t think it’s possible to produce empirical evidence to prove or disprove this claim, but it’s just common sense:
Using managed services leads to writing less code and minimizing devops work, both resulting in more time for feature development that takes less time overall and produces higher quality service (latency, availability, etc). Then there is the added benefit of clear financial insight into the inner workings of the application (one can trace capital flows through functions) which will result in better resource allocation decisions.
Well, millions have. So obviously someone has found a problem it will solve...
This is a blog I've read and enjoyed before. Thanks for the link; will take a look!
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Ah oh well. The motives and information already on hn probably correlate well enough anyway, so:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=10SO7r98DwjkMRj7H2uhK...

I guess you'll have to download to see exif info.

Ed: i guess a photo sharing site that both values exif (exposure etc) and privacy (allow whitelisting) might be a nice side project..
> Sean Carroll argues that all physics, which could matter to us, has been discovered.

This seems to be a case of "not knowing what we don't know", as Donald Rumsfeld would say.

His claim implies that we know what we don't know. The reality is that we most likely don't...
My take is that it's your job as a developer / software engineer to find the the best jobs. Most jobs may be boring, but we are lucky to be in demand as developers so it's relatively easier to find fulfilling jobs (compared to other sectors).
For example, I left my semi-boring job as an web+data engineer to create an ML-based crypto trader. Is it easy? No. And I happy with that choice? Hell yeah

Also, most of my relatives / family don't quite understand or approve of that choice, and that's fine. Sometimes you have to be a little daring
IANAL but "educational project" won't fly in court, and nor should it.
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This seems to be a recurring theme. I get the impression it's very hard to screw up so bad it would be statistically repeatable.
That's arguably consequence of the discussion being over the phone, not of it being about computers.

In my experience, any kind of task which involves giving people instructions is extremely frustrating when done over the phone; there's just too much context missing, so you have to start being extra precise to compensate - but then, most regular people aren't used to being talked to with precision, so they start getting annoyed and push back.

The most common example I can think of is trying to explain someone over the phone how to get somewhere, when you know the lay of the land but they don't. A lot of frustration and useless info gets exchanged before they're even able to communicate you where they are.
I think we have a test case for your hypothesis. The snowden disclosures started with a single court order and then the prism slide deck. Go look at the initial redirections and denials about the first prism slides for a pretty good taste of where things would have stopped if that was all he put out: https://www.google.com/search?q=prism+slides+denial
Great work - would love to read your thesis if it’s available online?
> That first link makes no sense. The C# is not reflective us my real-world usage in the slightest bit. The 2nd link is more accurate to my experience, and obviously contradicts the first link.

They don't contradict each other. They're different graphs demonstrating different workloads. You'd be surprised just how much peoples "real-world usage" can vary from one customer to another.

> I haven't tested the new VPC stuff yet to know what the impact is

Pretty significant for high demand lambda's. Unfortunately I'm not sure how much of what I know is covered by NDA so apologies for not being more specific.
90% of Americans using their personal devices for work, risking their workplace
I absolutely love the VSC way of doing things, it means you can backup all your settings in a single JSON file. The UI they've built on top of it seems to work well enough too and is quickly searchable.
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In tech you either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
That one appears anti-glare, but there are also privacy oriented ones that prevent reading the screen from the side.
Thank you, you've put my blood pressure up.
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"No because Lambdas are proprietary which means you can't run it in a CI or locally."

It kinda is, but not really. You get an event object as param and often only need a few fields from it.

Also, you can run Lambda locally, AWS SAM CLI lets you run them in Docker for debugging purposes.
Well, the "You already have to manage patches for your app and its libraries, so OS (really container) patching is just another part of your patching strategy." is close to making that argument.

Just because I have to manage patches for 'my app and it's libraries' doesn't mean also handling the OS and everything else that would already be covered by the serverless service is no biggie...
Wikipedia articles *do very little to accurately convey cultures/situations one doesn't actually have experience with. The clear majority of Igbo people live in their homeland in Southeastern Nigeria. Even with the quarter to a third of Igbos that live in other parts of Nigeria I find the Western arrogance in calling people living in their own country a "merchant minority" rather dull.

(For more context, there are three dominant ethnic groups in Nigeria, and none of them form a majority. The largest group - the Hausa - doesn't make up even 30% of the population, and the Igbo make up over 20% in current estimates)

> The Igbo tried to secede from Nigeria after independence and it was an utter bloodbath.

This was far, far more complicated than is being made out here.
When Linux finishes initializing itself it runs /sbin/init (it is one path it tries among a bunch of others, though i think /sbin/init is the first it attempts to run - you can override that with the init= kernel parameter at boot time, e.g. in GRUB). So just make /sbin/init be your binary and make sure it can run by itself without any other initialization and it should work.
> but it’s just common sense

No. There's nothing common sense about it. It only seems plausible if you read the sales brochure from a cloud vendor and have no experience with all the weird and whacky failure modes of these systems and the fact that none of the major selling points of serverless actually work as advertised unless you dedicate significant engineering time to make them work - as the GP comment has demonstrated. The amount of engineering time required to make serverless work quickly catches up to or even exceeds just doing the damn thing the normal way.

And that engineering time is not transferable to any other cloud vendor, and neither is your solution now. So congratulations you just locked your business in.

Serverless only makes sense if you have a fairly trivial problem and operate on really narrow margins where you need your infra and associated costs to scale up/down infinitely.
Here is the article with intact screenshots: https://web.archive.org/web/20000819105036/http://mactech.co....
These people know something is wrong with their car and probably couldn’t afford to get it fixed. No one chooses to not get their car fixed if they have money in the bank to take it to the car dealership.
Something about the Lambda/FaaS/serverless hype reminds me of early 2000s enterprise Java, when everyone was trying to replace code with XML configuration.

It's obviously at a different point in the stack, but the promise is similar: "Just say what you want and it magically happens" — and indeed that's the case for FaaS when your problem is small enough. But XML-configured frameworks also offered that convenience for their "happy problem space". You could get things done quickly as long as you were within the guard rails, but as soon as you stepped outside, the difficulty exploded.

I'm not convinced AWS Lambda is all that different from a web framework, it's just on a higher level. Instead of threads responding to requests, you have these opaque execution instances that hopefully will be spun up in time. Instead of XML files, you have a dense forest of AWS-specific APIs that hold your configuration. That's how it looks from the outside anyway.
1 programmer/ops guy can do what it took 10 before.

The myth: devs are expensive and hardware is cheap

The reality: webdevs are a commodity and AWS is making record profits
But at least they show early that they missed the point and let you catch it early and explain better.

Instead of politely listening and after you finish ask what does the first thing (vital to understanding the whole speech) even mean.
>productivity

You've obviously never tried to use a 2008 netbook for anything productive...
She has a book to sell :)
That's RedHat's wishful thinking at work. Linux on the desktop is called 'Chromebooks', not 'RedHat'. They missed that boat by a couple of years and it is not coming back.
I should show this to the head of engineering at my last company! I got a verbal warning for talking too much to coworkers when I first started. People were just introducing themselves! That is the disadvantage of having a desk right next to the big boss's office. After that warning I tried hard to avoid any conversations.
> Before we had regulation, fire fighters from neighboring towns couldn't help in a serious emergency because their equipment wasn't compatible

Establishing conventions solves this problem, and doesn't imply any regulation.
> The market will decide, and you, will decide.

Given that Poettering works for Red Hat, and RH is one of the tent pole Linux distros, is that really true? RH throws around a lot of money and resources in the Linux space, so they have an out-sized amount of influence on where things go.
>>>Being a stereotypically "manly" man would prevent me in particular from expressing some of the things that make me feel the least lonely, from simple things like cooking

HUH?!?!?! Who's giving you the impression that cooking is unmanly? Every man should know how to prepare healthy and tasty meals, not only for his own nutrition objectives (like meal prep in support of a fitness regimen), but women also find it attractive.
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> The "blockchain-based" part is misleading.

I don't agree. Maybe for one who doesn't understand what a blockchain is and only has an association with crypto currencies. They are just using a private blockchain as a ledger for all commits to the database. It seems a bit far fetched to me to assume they chose this core technology to "capitalize on the cryptocurrency hype".
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There are multiple definitions of money. You are using what the Fed calls the "M2" definition. I have in mind the "monetary base" definition.

Why are bank accounts denominated in units of currency? It's because demand deposits are an extremely close substitutes of actual currency. Anyway, they work the same way. Money in the bank is an asset to you, and a liability to the bank.
Should I also know how to do my own plumbing and electrical work? Carpentry? Go out and hunt and grow a garden?
Well... one may read this without irony, given that a large part of the problems users encounter actually comes from the package manager (and the applications packaging) of their distro, and a large part of the bloat is coming from their dependencies management that pulls everything it can pull even when it is not needed or wanted.

After getting tired of the last years of constant updates of some packages triggering the pull a whole tree of updates of other dependent packages, I finally move back to the old way. No more package manager. I build or download stuff I want when I want it and axe the dependency tree as much as possible.
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Paw is a good alternative.