skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simple. Imagine you are using tor and one of the relay has problems(unstable, high latency or packet loss). You don’t know which of the 3 hops failed. We have no option but to build a new circuit and we don’t want that. That’s why tor needs stable, trustworthy relays.

From tor blog:

A new relay, assuming it is reliable and has plenty of bandwidth, goes through four phases: the unmeasured phase (days 0-3) where it gets roughly no use, the remote-measurement phase (days 3-8) where load starts to increase, the ramp-up guard phase (days 8-68) where load counterintuitively drops and then rises higher, and the steady-state guard phase (days 68+).

https://blog.torproject.org/lifecycle-new-relay
> the disease talking

This is a remarkably clever way to dismiss those with whom you disagree - "If you don't, that must be the disease talking." As pointed out by jcoffland, the counterpart could be the drugs talking. There is not necessarily a known psychiatric ground state for a given person, so it's difficult to evaluate what's talking, and you'll probably never get a person free of all possible confounding variables. I'm not saying it's not true in some cases, but there are legitimate concerns and it's not reasonable to toss them out.

> When working properly (i.e., right dose, right med)

This is the no-true-scotsman problem. Theoretically, if you have the _exact_ right dose and the _exact right med_, you'll do better. Problem is that these are very fine-grained meds and it can take years to work through them all and get it exactly right. By that point, you might have changed. Sure, it's possible, but saying, "Oh, if you just had the right dose, it would work better!" isn't a solution. You can't just "get the right dose", even if you move shrinks.
> you now have to manage APIGW and Lambda, and any other "wiring" that you need to put in to do what you needed.

You know those url.py files in a django install? Those are the equivalent of ELB/APIGW thing. You don't manage those, you make them once.

Not sure where you personally draw the line between app development and infra work, but for me "request that comes on this path, calls this function", either via ELB -> backend or APIGW -> lambda, or you know, whatever you use for your django app -> a function defined in a view.py, is app, not infra.
Truly: I would encourage you to develop something better, then. Please put your wisdom to good use.
Has anyone migrated in the other direction, away from AWS onto their own servers?

There was a response to a comment I made some time ago that seemed to imply Netflix was doing this (beyond edge delivery) because of AWS costs or funding their direct competitor. A few of us asked for specifics but never got any confirmation that this was happening.

Has anyone been unhappy with cloud?
My goto topics for office chitchat are TV shows, video games, and sports in that order. Most people have at least some show they watch and will talk about, and others typically have a video game of some sort they play. Sports used to be first, but I've run into many people who have zero interest or knowledge in any sport personal or otherwise.

Topics I love to talk about but avoid, diet and exercise. Topics I avoid completely, politics.
I wonder whether this sentiment evolved naturally, or was created by merchants (the way we have an ever growing amount of holidays and customs that somehow oblige you to spend lots of money).

On the one hand, giving a well-received physical gift shows that you know the person enough to get them something they wanted. On the other hand, it also risks they'll have an unplanned item that kind-of-but-not-quite matches what they actually wanted, creating friction and inconvenience in their lives. I know this is a custom, but personally, I'd much prefer to get a monetary equivalent instead.

(One custom in my area I know where giving actual money is still expected is weddings. This is usually justified by the fact that organizing a wedding costs a ton of money, so this helps the newlyweds recoup the expense.)
I built an azure function that runs for free that just pings my .NET MVC pages periodically so they are always hot on my cheap hosting.
one reason I do like working remote is that I don't have to deal with others' grade 8 drama skills!
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Strongly disagree. I don't want to have to think about structured data or syntactic validity, or trust a magical autocomplete to show me what options are available (and if it doesn't, does that mean it's a freetext preference? Or the autocomplete is broken? Or I invalidated the syntax somewhere else in the file and it no longer knows what I'm trying to do?) when I'm trying to configure software.

Configuration is not like building things. Unless I'm truly tinkering for fun, I usually have a goal in mind. Like, sure, I have to mess around with program code and structured data formats all the time. I'm pretty good at it. But when I want to [re]configure something about my IDE or terminal, I want to be in and out as fast as possible and basically not have to think about it; configuration is a brief diversion not an end in itself.

I'd be less entitled and ranty if these were CLI/unix internal tools we're talking about. The convention with that ecosystem is config files and manpages to learn how to use them. Given that convention and the resources of the OSS community it would be silly to insist on GUIs there (though some do exist!). But Windows Terminal and VS are graphical programs that are made by a GUI-first software company with basically unlimited resources. Come on.

Also, re: backup and restore, "export" or "store configuration at so-and-so path" are far better options--see iTerm2's config export/sync-via-dropbox-or-whatever option; coupled with that terminal's excellent preference UI, it makes config management a breeze, and that software was mostly developed by one person!

/rant
Your skepticism is healthy, but its directed on the wrong target.
I knew someone working on a system like that who could 'type ahead' a couple of screens worth because the layout had not changed in a decade, it 'just worked' and the system had trouble keeping up with the user because of that. Very impressive.
Yes, but then you are somewhat assuming the mantle of the resident stand-up comedian, might be hard to live up to!

(Funny enough, I did brainstorm solutions as thought experiments. The one I saw working was to mercilessly point out what he was doing, every time he did it. "A-ha! Captain Obvious speaks!" "Got any obvious observations for me today?". But that would have been staggeringly cruel, after all the poor guy was only trying to be friendly!)
Exactly the same for Peru where I live.
I don't know why anyone would think it is impossible, but it would take significant money and time to do it and it is unclear what benefit there would be except some small good will gained from developers that care about the FSF mission.
State is saved somewhere, sure. How many useful applications are truly stateless when considered in their entirety?

This isn't the sense in which servers are usually said to be stateless, however. A Lambda that reads and writes state from a database when invoked is not maintaining state outside of the request-response cycle itself, so it can be said to be stateless.
Sure, but it should at least differentiate between GPLv3 and GPLv3 or later. The SPDX license list does this: "GPL-3.0-only" vs "GPL-3.0-or-later". GitHub does not.

(Also, GitHub already does recommend licenses to some extent; there's a short list of highlighted ones in the license selection dropdown.)
Author doesn’t even attempt to explain the 15% performance hit, but I suspect it’s cold start related... ASP.NET is a poor choice for Lambda if you’re hoping for good performance.

The authors use case isn’t well suited to Lambda. In fact, something like ECS would be a much better fit and an improvement over Elastic Beanstalk.
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My answer to that question: "Whiskey"

As to the drinking after work... I think it's appropriate to set boundaries. I only drink a handful of times a year but will participate in some activities including outside work hours, I also don't have more than a single drink if I'm going to drive within a couple hours. Also, get two non-alcoholic drinks or glasses of water per alcoholic beverage, could pretty much stay close to sober all evening when I was in my 20s by doing that.

In the end, it's about striking a balance of being sociable without being irresponsible at the same time.
Logged in to say that this has actually been done (not by me) and my team has been finding it very helpful for local “serverless” SDLC: https://github.com/lambci/docker-lambda . It‘s billed as “ A sandboxed local environment that replicates the live AWS Lambda environment almost identically – including installed software and libraries, file structure and permissions, environment variables, context objects and behaviors – even the user and running process are the same.” We test our functions mocked and against local deployments of that lambci container . There also lambda “layers” (container images for building custom runtimes for AWS Lambda) but we have not used that feature at this point. Interesting space with lots of room for improvement in this tool chain though for sure
One of the best way to make coworkers friends is to talk about drugs you’ve done. Now that you have mutual comprimate it will be very difficult for one of you to fuck the other without it backfiring. Another good way is to hang out with the smokers, even if you don’t smoke. I’ve noticed that people smoking together is a nexus of power, especially if a higher up or the CEO does it.
Typically, in a corrupt country, the 'take' of corrupt institutions and actors critically diminishes available (finite) Capital and distorts the distribution of what remains.

What is unusual is that Israel is the recipient of largess of the American tax payers and enjoys continual replenishment of available Capital. Enjoy it while it lasts.
A sick society is one that lets people suffer out of a desire for revenge.
What about proprietary HTML ? CSS ?
Yes, but the parent was talking sharing the competitive advantage of the patch.

But (a) what other streaming services even have CDN appliances, and (b) of the ones that do, which are using FreeBSD as a base?

If none of Netflix's competitors will use this patch, then it makes no material difference whether they share it or not.
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> The FAA has no regulations on shades up or down, though many countries require windows in exit rows to be clear for takeoff and landing, when an accident could jam a closed shade and prevent passengers from seeing if they were opening an emergency door into fire.

Is this for real? I was under the impression that SOP is, all shades up during takeoff and landing, for safety reasons. I this mandated in Europe, or do I use a skewed selection of airlines as this has been enforced on every flights in the last years?
Really unions for Tech works from IT services companies. God bless tech industry.

Not good for anyone.
I don't think he meant this as a slur. As I parse the sentence, I see a high probability that he meant to use the word "autistic" on himself.
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You could also take a look at portfoliocharts.com, which shows you how that and other portfolios have worked out over the past 50 years, in both the US and Japan. You can play around with your own variations too.

The PP does pretty well at limiting drawdowns. A variation that works especially well is the "Golden Butterfly," which just takes the PP and weights a little more towards stocks. In my own experiments on the site, I've found it also helps a lot to include international stocks, and weight towards small value.
I used a 2008 eee PC exclusively for all personal computing needs for about two or three years (web browser, videos, music, chat and programming in python, C++ and clojure), running Arch Linux. The only thing I didn't do on it was play games and I had a desktop in the office for professional work at the time. It worked perfectly fine. Hell, I miss it sometimes.
Good idea regardless of motivation to be honest.
Nice!

I saw that the SAM CLI uses an Alpine based image, does yours use Amazon Linux 2?

I'm jusz asking, because I compiled some libs on Cloud9 (which uses AL) and they worked on Lambda, so I assumed it's the same dist.
Summary: open source cannot pay your rent.
- Where are my socks?

- Did you look in the drawer?

- Why, I've searched everywhere! I can't find them!

- Well, then - you must have no socks. Your socks never existed.
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> A lot of non-free software is written in Javascript

Dropping JS will just lead to a lot of non-free software written in [something else]. It's not like non-free software will suddenly stop existing. You're not banning English because of the content that might use it.

There must be a better approach to this than "I'm not running any code because some of it may be non-free".
The English "engineer" is split into three in French: 1) technicien, 2) technicien supérieur and 3) ingénieur. DUT is for techniciens, BTS is for techniciens supérieurs. Ingénieur can come from university, but most come from a side system (grandes écoles), with the écoles further split into 3 tiers depending on selectivity and prestige. Complicated? Yes... Even for most French ;) But in the business world in France this is all known and will influence your career.

A technicien is supposed to be on top of ones field techniques, and know how to apply them. A techicien supérieur is the same but for more advanced and complex fields. An ingénieur is not only supposed to understand the "what" and "how", but also the "why" and be able to evolve things, of design from scratch when needed. That, of course, is the theory: there are plenty of techs with an ingénieur mindset (good), and unfortunately plenty of people with an ingénieur degree who couldn't innovate out of a paper bag.
Great story about a creature making a comeback with the help of some hard-working humans. But, in my opinion, the best place for an oyster is in the ocean, not anywhere near my mouth.
Specially considering the staggering effect due to predisposition to picking a cardinal direction - 0/15/30/45 minute - in the clock. This is a real issue specially for SaaS offerings in the IoT space.
I somehow want to quote this too:

> Direct GitHub to promote correct and clear use of licenses and the best use of copyleft (GPL version 3-or-later).

I remember when I was very green, that list of licenses on the GitHub repository creation page is very very confusing to me. I don't know which is which and which one I should use, and most importantly, what's the effect of my choice.

It could be great if GitHub can improve that list a bit to help people to make wiser choice before a repository is created.
Aeropress and a hario hand grinder (for coffee) my morning ritual makes me happy
11-12'' screen notebooks offer the best of two worlds: portability and performance. I wouldn't trade my X240 Thinkpad for anything else as it takes (bag included) less than half the space in my motorcycle topcase, and the dual battery runs it well over 8 hours.

It has a nasty hardware problem though, as it completely freezes down to requiring a cold reboot if I grab it with my left hand in the empty space left of the trackpad, but it appears other Thinkpads share the same problem as well. However after some years I had absolutely no problems in normal use.
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Thank you for posting that, its nice to see an "authority" validating something that I've often felt the need to point out: people tend to misattribute to ease of use what is merely familiarity.
What linking to your uk subsidiary?

Was that the 1890's they are stuck in :-)
> I resisted Steve Jobs's snow job in 1989 or 1990; I am no easy mark for those who want me to change my views.

Why do people still prop this insufferable person up? Interacting with everyone like an angsty teen is no way for anyone who considers themself a professional to publicly talk.

IMO FOSS is where it is today more despite Stallman than because of him. Being an asshole isn't necessarily a sign of being a savant. Sometimes people are just assholes.

Edit: Just a reminder that, only a week ago, this man was fired for using a technology forum to defend a 74 year old man having sex with a 17 year old prostitute on pedophile island.
I've been doing the same. I even tell recruiters and interviewers "if I was unemployed, you'd be getting a very different version of me". It adds more fuel to the notion of why employed people are so much better to recruit, because you get more signal and less noise.

We've all known for a while that being unemployed, and having that desperation stink on you, is a bad situation. But I'd never really considered it from the hiring side, that when you are interviewing someone who desperately needs a job, you're interviewing more of an actor.
Given that Windows is a considered a "service" it makes sense unless there is something to hide (some odious telemetrics, perhaps). No one is going to replace Microsoft in selling Support and Updates, unless it isn't some niche that it doesn't care about anyway, just like Oracle didn't destroy the RHEL market with their own Linux.

I'm thinking it can help them win some government contracts outside the USA (by saying "you, and anyone else can see that there aren't any backdoors"). The potential open-source community can expand Windows markets the same way it did for Linux, making sure Microsoft remains relevant.
Notice the lack of coverage of the other 450k?

if you read a Swedish newspapers they'll talk about the Swedish customers, read a German newspaper and they'll talk about the German customers and so on.
I do believe we are coming in an age where reputation is going to be increasingly important to companies. Those that change their opinions based on the hype and the short term profits are going to only have features and price as sales arguments whereas a company with a strong reputation and clear values will be able to charge a premium.

I have no doubt that Microsoft is in the first category, but a company that would be in the second one would understand the importance of making public excuses for past stances.
I was ready to look past the title as just the cost of doing "business" in 2019, but the article has a lot of problems. Stuff like measuring latency from 1 computer in Iceland -- gaining empirical results from your actually running user-base (logs & analytics) would be a much better test, as it is you can probably effectively ignore that part of the article because that's not an effective test.

8x multiplier on ~1K a month ignores the actual value proposition of serverless. Which is that you're not spending staff hours designing, building, and maintaining scalable infrastructure. If you don't have scalability issues (which at 1K a month, you don't), then it's maybe not the right technology for your use case. If you do, then maybe it's the right technology -- yeah you're paying more but you gotta do the math on what you'd need to build and then discuss tradeoffs with the business. Classic technology cost analysis, this is not new.
I really did ton of work on MSI Wind. All kinds of work, even maintaining old Delphi codebases. Granted, it had probably the best keyboard of all netbooks of that time and most time I worked with external monitor.
The thinkpads are good. Dell has a good lineup of laptops that support ubuntu right from the factory. XPS line would be my bet and if you want more business leaning laptops the Latitude series.
I'd be interested to know if this is illegal in (specifically) Tunisia.

The closest parallels I can think of are the "mechanic's lien"[0] from English Common Law, or "debtors' prison"[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanic%27s_lien#Creation_and...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debtors%27_prison
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It doesn't read like a joke, nor does it have a /s tag.
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Advantage of a windowless window seat is still ability to rest head at an angle against the wall. I can't sleep when I'm forced to sit straight up, I tend to fall-forward and then snap awake and catch myself.

Being able to put my head against something is the difference between sleeping like a baby on the flight and being awake from coast to coast.
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I'd add religion to the topics to avoid, too :)
This is one of those weird topics where you get two different groups agreeing from quite different perspectives.

You get one side represented by this article, that thinks recycling is a plot by the plastics industry to green wash their products. And that it's shocking that we export plastic to China where it is burnt or landfilled.

Then on the other side you get fossil fuel sponsored libertarians saying that recycling is a big scam perpetrated by the hippies, who do it to feel good but it's actually better economically and environmentally to landfill or incinerate it and keep using oil and gas to make new plastics.

Both narratives seem to turn on the big "recycling is a hoax" twist, which is obviously a big clickbait success but then go in opposite directions with it. I'm not really sure it's possible for both to be true at the same time.

Note that most mainstream sources, the EPA etc. suggest recycling plastic is better environmentally and economically than the other disposal alternatives, though not as good as reducing usage in the first place. Though, there will likely be times when plastic is overall the better option if you take everything into consideration and dispose of it properly.

It's not clear to me why reduction advocates would start by attacking recycling? Does that really make strategic sense? Is this yet another false flag by the devious plastic industry? Or would it simply not get any traction if it just said something boring like "we shouldn't use too much unnecessary plastic when there are better alternatives"?
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What you need to consider [is] that there are a lot of applications like yours hosted by an IoT SaaS. (I work on one.)

So the patterns are (obviously) predictable, but the 'dynamic range' of the load is extremely wide, ranging from stampedes on the cardinal points of the clock face (0/15/30/45 min) to crickets the rest of the time. Some form of elasticity is required unless you are willing to pay for idle servers sized for the episodic peaks.
Thank you for writing this! It’s always interesting to see how other people set up their stacks.

Recently, I created some twitter bots to test out for fun and put them on Lambda with a 12 hr schedule to run from SNS... I was sending 15 tweets a day (from ~15 accounts) and my bill was $35/mth... That is silly
And Snowden was stealing files months before that happened. Maybe Snowden was on the fence about leaking and Clapper's lie pushed him over the edge. Or maybe it was what convinced him he was right.

But he had already been taking documents by the time Clapper got in front of Congress according to the unclassified house intelligence report on Snowden.
> They should, however, be a bit more repentant about starting a McCarthy-esque red scare against all things open source.

Especially since we're still suffering from it. There are enough project & program managers who see the words "open source" on an engineering document & send us back to build or buy some alternative.