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AWS Lambda made both deployment and development a pain, even though the decision to use that platform for their use-case (a regular API) was just one of the mistakes done by a team that was brainwashed by expensive marketing and then paid the price for having only cheap and proprietary tools for development and deployment at their disposal.

If only AWS was open source, then we could have deployed our own cognito and lambda instances to develop locally, instead of the open source mocks that didn't pass the field test in my opinion: lack of quality, maintenance, documentation were critical factors.
> You really have to architect your app from the ground-up for serverless by designing single-responsibility microservices that run in separate lambdas, building a heavy javascript front-end in your favorite framework (React/Ember/Amber/etc), and taking advantage of every service you can (Cognito, AppSync, S3, Cloudfront, API Gateway, etc) to eliminate the need for a web framework.

At least I don't have to learn that complex "systems admin" stuff.
The government "prints money" when it sells treasuries on the public market.

The Fed creates most of the money, but it isn't the only mechanism.
This study caught my interest as someone with evolving tastes. Some time ago, I got into home roasting coffee and learned a little bit about making custom blends. This introduced me to the coffee flavor wheel: https://coffeeperception.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/flavor-...

I've often thought about creating an approach like this for pizza-- having a vocabulary and visual tools describing pizza and the experience eating pizza..
> I replied that it is one of my own creation that I call the “Move more, eat less” diet.

Christ, I'm starting to think this guy and I might be related.
Unlike IDF, the army is only mandatory for men in Switzerland. A lot of men are also doing alternative services (civil service or civil protection) instead of the army. In 2008 [0], only ~65% of men was declared fit for the military during the recruitment process (on 38.597 young people).

IMO I wouldn't conclude that the "high quality manpower" is due to the half of the half of the population.

[0] - https://web.archive.org/web/20110724085052/http://www.vtg.ad...
> No, the lockfile does that.

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

> Agree, but how much does one Linux+systemd different from other Linux+systemd? How much does the FS?

Plenty. For example filesystem change events are known to have filesystem and OS dependent behaviours and quirks / bugs.

When a Node module runs a shell command, it's possible that you have a BSD vs a GNU flavour of a tool, or maybe a different version altogether.

The Linux user with which you are running the function might also have different rights which could become an issue when accessing the filesystem in any way.

> VMs, docker and having to care about and manage isolation platforms is the reason people started using serverless.

Maybe, but serverless doesn't answer those questions at all. It just hand waves testing and vendor independent infrastructure.
The Dark Side of Techno-Utopianism
^ This.
In my family, the quickest way to find out if you're wrong is to assert something that's false. It may not surprise you to find out that both of my parents were once programmers.
It is way, way, way easier to ensure that you follow a commercial license.
It's always been recognition over recollection. Users don't want to learn how the computer works. They just want to get to their desired solution as quick as possible. So they'll pay attention long enough to learn the correct sequence of buttons to push that achieves that then stop there. Any change to that mechanical process, no matter how innate to the UI it is, will be seen as a disruption.

I used to think that UX inertia was a quality for old people not comfortable with computers. I thought that a younger generation which grew up using computers would be more comfortable and not show the same monkey-see-monkey-do habits. I was wrong. I watched a teenager consistently prefer to delete by right-clicking and selecting "Cut" instead of pressing the delete key, even though he knew it was the same thing and would occasionally use the keyboard. But because the "Cut" command was the first thing he learned that made an item disappear that's what he does. This application has different actions if you drag with left-click or right-click; he frequently confuses them. He didn't know that you can select multiple items by holding down the shift key. This is an honors student who has been using computers his whole life.

Other than students pursuing a computer career, this is the typical teenage computer user. It's not that the UI is too difficult or opaque. They simply don't care to learn more than a surface level understanding.

The objective isn't to create a world of gurus. It's to improve quality of life for everyone. I'd certainly appreciate a computer that allows me to geek out to my hearts content, but I am not the target audience. And the thing about a well designed simplified interface is it's simpler and more efficient for everyone, including the gurus. The catch is a lot of simplified interfaces aren't so well designed.
Sometimes there is no practical solution, and running away is the pragmatist approach
I just saw that episode too. But I think a problem is that when using oysters in areas that are polluted you really shouldn't eat them. So it'll be awhile before it's a business venture of eating them. I know in NYC they are growing oysters in order to improve the water conditions with no intention of eating them yet.
This.

I worked with someone who rotated the same asinine 1/2 dozen or so comments about me and my appearance or arrival time etc. It annoyed the shit out of me, but, I also realized he probably didn't know another way. Sometimes people are trying to find any way, in their limited ability, to connect with someone who is clearly smarter than they are. So they pick on you. A good first attempt to stop this is to try to connect with them. Sometimes that stops this behavior.

This really doesn't fall into the 'I need to report this person' category, but, my guy didn't stop even when I got to know him.

So, realizing he was stuck in a loop I came up with my own canned, corny, responses.

'Got your hair cut!' --> 'No, I got them all cut!'
'You are early today!' --> 'Yep, I couldn't wait to be here!'
'Red shirt today!' --> 'Yep, I read it before I put it on!'

Note: These are not confrontational.

Two things happened.

1. I didn't have to think about what to say but once, then I repeated that. Cognitive offload.
2. He began to recognize how repetitive he was and eventually he either said 'good morning' or nothing. A win for everyone.

I have a million stories of idiots at work who are intimidated by the smart, quiet computer guy and so they pull dumb shit like this.

The one I hate the most is when someone gives you a nickname.

Rarely is it flattering and I struggled with how to deal with that for a long time. We intentionally don't call each other names in my family so it was always bit jarring. I tried everything: getting mad, addressing it directly nicely, ignoring it hoping it would stop, joking about it.

Nothing worked, until I tried the following.

The very first time someone gave me a nickname, I immediately gave them one. It doesn't have to be mean, just anything really. If it has a little stank on it thats ok too. Just don't get personal. Idiots will give you a nickname and smile. So, do that too, smile. Then every single time you hear it, you say their nickname. You don't call them their nickname except as a response to hearing yours. That's the key. If you use it outside of this context it does not communicate your message.

Eventually they will stop or find someone else to annoy.
>>> I co-founded olpc Nepal and its succeeding organization OLE Nepal together with rabi karmacharya who is referenced in the article.

The project looks very interesting. I'm a 35-year veteran developer looking to maybe volunteer my services, and would like to have a chat with someone about how I could perhaps help out. I just sent them an email, but do you still have contacts there?

Thing is, I'm going to be in Kathmandu for 4 or 5 days from Wednesday this week, and Pokhara after that, so if someone would like to have a sit down and a chat, I'd be more than happy to do that.
I run a small publication (7K users/mo) with my wife (a Journalist) on digital ocean VPS.

I have cloudflare setup on top and a custom backup plugin for wordpress.

I am now considering the kubernetes route to split the editing and frontend workflows.
Yup! If something goes wrong with compliance, who is going to win the finger pointing game? A smaller company that needs to outsource their compute, or Amazon?
Measuring DNS Resolver Centrality
Cunningham's Law: The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is
I found Morocco worse than Tunisia on this aspect, tbh.
1) Hacker News ranking isn't about "what is more important/pressing right now" to a global audience. This is about what's interesting for the hacker audience at this moment.

2) It's generally frowned upon to comment about "why isn't this story getting more upvotes", etc. In other words, it's not adding value to the conversation, so please refrain from doing so and use the upvote/flagging features if you feel outraged something isn't getting the attention it deserves.

3) If you don't like something on the frontpage then don't upvote it. Simple.

4) I don't live in SV, but many people who are "Hackers" do. The article specifically targets tech companies who have offices in SV and are impacting the environment.
You could say that about the distinctions between most groups of humans. There's almost always overlap/normal distribution
Betteridge's law says no.

Less glibly, this article presents a good set of arguments for why not. The doomsayers need to be clearer with exactly how their proposed doom would come about - and why there would be no effective government response, and how this could happen without the rest of the world economy also getting into trouble and fleeing to the safety of the US dollar.
I had a tab opened with this HN thread, and started reading your comment (at the moment, it was the first one).

Two paragraphs in, I was ready to write that it makes no sense at all, and the Smalltalk experience is nothing like it.

Then I realized that you're not talking about Smalltalk the language, and people e.g. sharing the "hot potato" of vm images (in some other tab I also had opened today's Smalltalk-72 HN thread)...
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I’m not sure about this. The fractional reserve we have today is based on a system where the underlying monetary base can be created out of thin air.

A Bitcoin based fractional reserve would be based on something which fundamentally can’t be created at the whim of any single government at the base monetary level.

So yes, you could still over promise Bitcoin but the difference is you cannot be bailed out on a whim.

This is an important distinction that would lead to (IMO) healthy outcomes like banks genuinely going bankrupt if they can’t get a ‘real’ bail out of hard Bitcoin instead of bail out socialised by future tax payers’ money and inflation.
So basically they are forcing the speaker to explain the same thing as they would have continued anyway, plus they even force the same speakers to fix the interrupters' mistakes in their thinking. Why is that good?
This is wrong. The risk free rate is equal to the real risk free rate plus expected inflation. If there's a significant risk of excess inflation, then the yields on treasuries will rise correspondingly.
You have to make your grant proposals sexy.
Try compartmentalizing

Everyone and everything is multifaceted
Oh god this is totally me haha. I worked as a cashier for 8ish years before getting into tech so I think it is just ingrained in me to notice inane details and use them to start conversations. It sounds like this person is just picking really really boring facts to attempt to start the conversation with.
Agreed. Or when anyone comments on your food in general. Like at the grocery store, that's the one that irks me the most. "Ohhh someone is having a BBQ!!". "You know, I should try this wine". Stuff like that.
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Also, get high quality sleep.
I'm still not sold on video games and coffee/tea. I'll have to look at it more. If you some research that shows the beneficial effects of coffee/tea and video games, please share
They can be a lot cheaper. Maybe only in some cases but then it can make a difference.
Guess why the remaining search engines are so good at classifying certain types of sites of the "adult entertainment" and and other such types?

I am not sure if the courts distinguish between automatically generated pages and authored/curated content that involves human input in its creation. Courts haven't been exactly consistent on these points.
it was not only that, it was revealed they ran bots to chat with users to convince them they had a shot with beautiful women that made up the bulk of user activity iirc. no sympathy obviously but it was a total scam
Am I the only one who thinks this article is total nonsense. Really? You “need” to do small talk in order to get promotion and be liked around the office. How about we leave this to the individual’s personality. If you are in the right culture fit then you don”need” to do anything. You will love to chichat with your colleagues and if not that is okay to. Some people just love to work on their craft and small talk is just a distraction.
This is great. We have written agendas but they're usually, "we will be discussing these three documents in this order" not an itemized list of concerns. The itemized list is dynamic depending on what comes up in the conversation. Do you try to solicit more granularity from participants beforehand to build into the agenda, or how does that work?
I don't have much faith for governments to get this right. They already infringe on mental autonomy heavily.
You asked my experience and I told you with a disclaimer. You clearly aren't interested in it, rather than some platitudes like "everyone is the same". Again, I have no personal grudge against you or NCSU or other state schools. For that matter NCSU has a good systems program from what I hear.
what i meant was not that constructionist education was a failure in itself but that it was rejected by the established education system.
This is fetishizing complexity for no reason. Makes for an interesting blog post, but if any company told me they were doing this I would run the other direction immediately.
It would be interesting to know how significant a factor it is that established b2b companies try their best to rip off the new companies.
Interesting article, but I think it is missing a solid comparison of such "overlay SQL" with more traditional database engine.

It isn't enough to show something can be done. One must also think if it should be done.
Who cares about functional programming?
Commercial licenses are long and frequently contain terms that are unintuitive or ambiguous which are trivial to violate when most of the employees using the software aren't aware they exist.

And the easiest way to violate them is simply to have installed more copies than you're licensed for, which is an issue the GPL doesn't have.
By chipset, you mean northbridge? Or the CPU?

The part I know of that is built into the CPU is a DMA engine called I/OAT; it just does DMA and maybe basic checksum and RAID transformations. It is sometimes confused with QAT (I've personally confused the two...):

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/wireless-network/acc...
Farm animals in India and China are becoming more resistant to antibiotics
It's far from failed, but Argentina used to be a top 10 country in the world. Most of their woes are self-inflicted.
I'm not a quantum physicist, but I pretend that copious amounts of reading and watching PBS Space Time and Infinite has made me somewhat knowledgeable on this. The author looks to have previously been a theoretical physicist, so I might be very off base here, but... this thread doesn't square up with my understanding of things at all.

>QUANTUM INTERFERENCE IS JUST WHAT QUANTUM PROCESSORS DO, ITS A BUG, NOT A FEATURE

This sort of throws the whole series of tweets into question for me. Of course interference is a feature - you want to create a pattern of interference where paths leading to the wrong answer interfere with each other and cancel out! Without interference I don't understand how quantum computers could even work, what they would look like, and why we would want to use them for anything.

>which, to me, is an infuriating thing to label “quantum supremacy” because quantum interference is EXACTLY WHY WE CAN’T USE CURRENT QUANTUM PROCESSORS TO “BREAK ALL CRYPTO” IN THE FIRST PLACE BECAUSE WE CANNOT DO EFFICIENT QUANTUM ERROR CORRECTING CODES

Error correction requires more qubits to do the error correction. We need the current qubits just to do the calculations, leaving us no qubits to use for error correction. Quantum interference certainly isn't the reason we can't do error correction.

If the author is confusing decoherence and interference, then I can understand why they believe what they do, though that confusion ultimately removes a significant portion of their point. Decoherence is what takes something in superposition and puts it back into the realm of classical physics - we lose the ability to utilize that quantum interference and entangled qubits. Ultimately to get a result we have to de-cohere the qubit, because we have to observe it, so not all decoherence is bad. The problem is all sorts of things besides our desired observation can cause decoherence, which results in errors, and avoiding this requires implementing error correction, which takes additional physical qubits. We need a lot more physical qubits, qubits that are more resistant to decohering when we don't want them to, and/or for someone to come through with a breakthrough that does error correcting much more efficiently than the methods Shor came up with.

Of course, I might be the one that's confused here.
Yes, but that is unrelated to his post, in fact he said precisely that the "free" is about freedom.
>> Unless the individuals in the species driving the settlement have very long lifetimes (> 100 y) it is dicult to see how a galactic scale culture can arise
(i.e. commerce etc. Krugman (2010)).

Why is a mere "more than 100 years" considered a "very long lifetime"? Is there any reason to assume that the majority of intelligent species, capable of technological civilisation, that may inhabit the galaxy, will not have a lifetime measured in thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of years?

The lifetime of the averarge star is a few billion years. We can assume that mos species will not have naturally evolved lifetimes lasting bilions of years, but a) species may evolve lifetimes lasting millions of years, or, b) a technologically advanced species may extend its lifetime indefinitely.

A species whose individuals lived for a few hundred thousand years would have plenty of time to visit the Earth by travelling in sub-relativistic speeds, from a significant portion of the galaxy. A species whose individuals lived for a few million years would have plenty of time to visit the Earth and wait for our own civilisation to die out. A species whose individuals lived for billions of years could pay us an intergalactic visit and still have time for tea.

Extremey long lifetimes are not impossible and they are not even particularly improbably. Here we are wondering whether there are other technological civilisations among the stars. Why should we assume that they are anything like we are?
>While this 'say what you see' served as a functional ice-breaker, as an introvert I found it strangely confrontational, almost like an interrogation

On the other hand, why see "introvert" or "extrovert" as something that you essentially are, and not an accidental attribute, one can, and perhaps should, work on?

In that case, his 'say what you see' routine would be a good testing ground to stop caring as much for the supposed "confrontation"...
Again this is "lesser" in terms of an offer I would expect from F&G. Not lesser in terms of a person. You're taking this personal for some reason. I'd stop engaging now, best of luck at Amazon !
The Fed might be independent in the law, but the govt makes the law.
This plant:

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

Which is not owned by Kaiser Permanente?
Binary is a no-show to the Quantum,
Both shouldn't be a circus show to which realm?

Let the computation power grow exponentially,
Until one day, computation faces its vulnerability.

Let all be known,
beautiful dawn holds its crown.

Computation is a growing pyramid,
da da da,
dancing on a brittle tip.
I use: https://choosemuse.com/ somehow it worked for me.
Only the shaggy dog jokes.
It seems discussion on climate change is being discouraged on hn. An article from the BBC was also flagged. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21042054
Oh man, Netware in the era of Windows 2000!! I had a few of these hold outs. Many of my clients were on WinNT 3.5 with a Netware 3.1 server. Getting the windows admins to understand loading NLMs and using the different console tools was "fun". I only got to toy with one Netware 4.11. And that was just using NwAdmin95 (so the joys of learning NDS). I had it set up in my home lab too as I was planning on getting my CCNA... then I moved to a Windows only place and worked on getting them to adopt Linux.
"Woman's blood turns blue after benzocaine ingestion" is the story. Being treated by doctors is not.
Hahahahahah! Sorry bro but holy shit that is a great way to look at it. I hope you are ok, but that was funny.
Same boat, here.

And as an aside the best and fastest POS I ever used was a DOS-based system. I ;earned to key on the number pad because of it (now I need any external keyboard I use to have one). We actually got so good we could key up entire processes, invoices before the screens could update! This was pre-iPhone/touchscreens everywhere and I thought it looked old and outdated when I started. My appreciation grew after working with it, though.
My old boss at MIT worked with RMS and he said that everyone hates him. Never helping anyone, always getting into stupid autistic arguments with people. He said that RMS rarely did any real work and that everyone hated him and tried to avoid him as much as possible. My boss said that RMS once started yelling at him because he said “bless you” after RMS sneezed. Of course this is all anecdotal, but RMS strikes me as a profoundly annoying and useless person.

Moreover, I don’t even like the idea of the GPL. Other licenses are better, but still suboptimal in regards to freedom. Real freedom is the public domain. In fact, all of my open source software is released under the public domain.
But how do you test lamba_handler then? Without a way to run lambdas locally, this sounds like a big black hole in your infrastructure.
I'm a bit of a computer history buff, and dig around through old software archives from time to time. It seems to me that developers back in the 80's (at least in the PC / home computer world) were quite possessive of their source code, even for hobbyist projects that they gave away for free. It might seem a little odd to us today, although perhaps they had some rational motivation (e.g. hopes of productizing it or selling the IP later). So I'm not surprised that this program is also closed source, with some vague integrity/security reasons offered.

I say this with all due respect to the developer, who of course is free to distribute his software however he would like. It's a very cool project, and I often wish we could see a resurgence of such simplicity and distraction-free UX. :)
I honestly have no problems developing on windows (except when my macos coworkers dont consider windows). Docker is the only real issue.
Counter-point : Russia.