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I pretty much share all your views, here.

My everlasting-optimism is only tempered by a somewhat keen awareness of that Fermi paradox thingy, a Darwinian observation that species just disappear and the world just keeps spinning.

I think the greatest invincible filter — one we just couldn't overcome — is the idea of a fatal flaw in our genetic make-up, or relatingly in the evolution of our environment, that we simply couldn't fix in time (it could be hidden, insiduous, e.g. increasingly more 'cancers' until we become born with it in majority).

In many instances, species do not entirely die from such evolutionary filters, a few survivors with just the right genes may appear and spread their immunity.

But in many instances, species just die at those filters. We still don't really know why Neanderthal disappeared, iirc there are clues pointing at a possible genetic flaw, combined with environmental pressure (sorta contra-variant doom scenario).

Which is why I think we should massively spend to solve as much of the "bio" stuff as we can, grab all low-hanging fruits now and buckle up to kick off major projects spanning generations. The value and security to be gained, in terms of ultimate survival and progress, is just too critical to miss or delay. IMHO. And it's likely to take all of tech with it, a poster-child client sector to buy and fund all manners of extravagantly awesome technology.

I'd be curious to know how your optimism shapes things in imagination, regarding our past and/or future. :)
"Can a web hook automatically instantiate enough VMs on demand without reducing throughput?"

Yes, there are various cgi-bin implementations with horizontal auto-scaling.
Avoid meta writing when doing technical writing, not when writing about technical writing. It's already meta.
Across multiple servers or do you still have to provision your server to handle peak load?
China’s Financial Services Industry Is Banking on AI
Mailgun would seem cheaper than this.

I use Postfix/dovecot to self host.
The thing you fear most is fear itself. But you shouldn’t. Fear is human and probably not going to stop being a thing any time soon, despite your demands.
TL;DR no, because Amazon licenses the API with Apache 2.0. Shame on you arstechnica.
Much CLI code is installed around the distros repos.
So racists are behind racism?!
The title is oddly circular in its logic.
> track the sun and calculate angle of reflection to hit a target

I didn't see anything about that in TFA, did you mean to comment on a different submission?

EDIT: I guess it's this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21955247
Short answer: yes, you're missing. Books (usually) have more curated content, have more research and are better at keeping you focused.

Here are some good pointers on how to start/improve your reading, using a medium you're already into (podcast):

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/21/781673493/how-to-read-more-bo...

https://www.npr.org/2019/11/26/782946619/not-a-regular-reade...

Also, it's totally fine to not like a book: just start reading it, or skip chapters, etc. Number of books read also means nothing, just read what you want to read.

Finally, fiction/novels are also a great source of wisdom/inspiration. Don't disregard them. Some of my favorites: the Foundation Series, LOTR (of course :P), old books by Stephen King, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky.
I’ve thought about this a lot too. You feel stuck inside a vortex against your will at times.
What is the target knowledge representation that you expect to produce here? Are you suggesting the neural nets will output formal knowledge represented according to an ontology? This is very vague.
Tesseract is a great solution for scanning books -- but agree that it doesn't work very well for most other use cases, especially when compared to cloud providers. FWIW, I have started trying to compare keras-ocr against the cloud options. [1]

[1] https://github.com/faustomorales/keras-ocr#comparing-keras-o...
As I understand it, he was opposed to the idea of composing a list like that, i.e. a definitive list of what the canon is and what you should read. There's no contradiction with such a disavowal and defending the canon as such. Obviously there are some works that are core to the canon, that I'm sure he would urge everyone to read, such as the works he mainly discusses in the book (Shakespeare, Dante, Chaucer, Goethe, the Bible, etc). That doesn't mean that he has to be a proponent of compiling them into a neat list.
I do know how the specifics of how these rankings are calculated because they're publicly visible[0]. I'm not arguing that behind the scenes Hearthstone's matchmaking isn't sophisticated enough (although it probably isn't), I'm arguing that publicly, the public mechanisms for determining rank are really bad and encourage bad play habits.

Hearthstone ranking is not a good proxy for skill, it's a good proxy for the amount of time you have to play and the speed of your deck. Objectively, the best strategy to get good ranks at Hearthstone is to build a fast, >50% win-rate deck and then to grind. That's not a good proxy for skill.

[0]: https://hearthstone.gamepedia.com/Ranked
The idea of a canon might be controversial, but you really can’t go wrong with anything on the list. Although the lack of Marx is questionable considering his immense influence.
The poor state of Kubernetes autoscaling
As I understand it, the change makes it easier to identify tracking cookies.
There is no “overreaching area”. Amazon Aurora falls under RDS along with all of their other database offerings.

No one on HN would accept an argument that technology is “confusing” that the poster didn’t take time to learn unless it involves AWS.
Promiscuous cookies and their impending death via the SameSite policy
Just to emphasize, that's not like a train station worth. It's like a complete bullet train system between all major USA cities would cost less then the iraq war. That's the scale of the invisible, opportunity cost "infrastructure damage" cause by these wars.
But this is a non-technical piece of writing about technical writing, not a piece of technical writing :)
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Yes please give some configuration and performance details.
I don't get the faux-naivety over the term "serverless". Most modern cars have "keyless" unlocking and ignition, yet.. you still need a key present. You just don't have to think about or manipulate the key. Serverless is much the same.
I backed the Light Phone 2 with the thought that it's kind of like being an early Tesla buyer. People buy the Tesla to look cool, sure, but some also buy it because they want to see a world where cars become something they weren't before, and solve problems with existing cars (pollution, etc).

I'd love to see a world where people talk to each other again rather than sit at lunch, dinner, watching TV, whatever, with their phones out and ignoring each other. There aren't a lot of phones in this space so backing something like this may help create the market I want to see. I don't want to "live disconnected", but I do want to limit my behaviors like "hey let me interrupt this conversation so you can watch while I google that random thing we'll forget about in a minute".

Previously I had an LG slider phone with a physical qwerty keyboard for 5-6 years before buying the Light Phone 2.

I also hate the size of current smart phones, they're just so big. I'm weird I know, but I actually liked the size of my iphone 3G.

As a software engineer I'm hoping they get the custom "tools" available soon so I can tinker with that. I'd like to experiment with making a 2FA tool like Authy or some kind of push notification.

All in all, the Light Phone 2 is kind of slow to use, but it works, and it's not red like my LG was, so it starts less conversations when I use it.
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Wouldn't ipns and ipfs be enough to achieve most of this?
Consulting is a relationship business. The quality of your relationships determines how much you can sell your services for. Furthermore, solo consultants tend to specialize in a few specific niches where their services aren't a commodity. For commoditized consulting services, buyers will just go to a body shop.
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It's fine to ignore those parts as long as you still vote and advocate for increased funding to renewable & no-carbon energy deployment and reduced tax incentives for legacy fuel generation (i.e. the depletion allowance, which is solely afforded to fossil fuel extractors).
That's a completely false dichotomy.

Electric prices could sky rocket when generated from fossil sources, and be left alone or get cheaper from neutral sources. Which one is the poor family going to sign up for?

If that doesn't go far enough, simply take the proceeds of the carbon tax or levy and use some of it to assist the poorest -- to insulate, to afford generation until the country has enough sustainable sources, or more generally just to rebalance the impact.

It is perfectly possible to have a developed, sustainable life. Perhaps without monthly flights, or the worst of consumer excess and unrepairable shite, but something we'd all recognise as a modern, comfortable, developed life. Government can help with public transport, regulations of fuel use, bike lanes and all the rest.

It's perfectly possible to educate and reduce birth rates, potentially globally without need of genocide, death squads or even one child policies. We have to do it at some point, or we'll end up with everyone packed in like sardines and nowhere left to grow food. Then there would be a mass die off... Far better to promote it as policy and aim for a sustainable amount, low enough that there's headroom for any unforeseen crises, and to keep a decent amount of wilderness, forest and wildlife that everyone enjoys for a holiday.

Bombing ourselves back to 10,000 years ago is pure hyperbole.
Bloom was one of the greatest proponents of the concept of the canon as such, but it is not my impression that he thought of it as some neat shopping list.
In the broad, reading books is worth it. Not every book. Not even most of them. (It's helpful to avoid the sunk-cost fallacy. You've already incurred whatever cost or risk came with obtaining the book--it's fine to give it the lesser of 1/5th or 50 pages to hook you, and move on if it doesn't.)

I find that I'm more generative than usual (i.e., I become a fountain of creative ideas) when I'm reading an engaging book.

In the specific, it depends who you are (generally, but also like at a specific time) and what you're looking for. I think there is value in reading Great Works, but I've also read plenty of them that I found boring and unrewarding.

Maybe a better place to start is with a deep (but general-audience-friendly) dive into an event, place, time, person, thing, or technology that you've either found intriguing for a long time, or find yourself surprised that you've never heard about. Looking for something narrow (i.e., probably not a war or a country or an industry--but maybe a battle, person, unit, company, neighborhood) may help you filter for books on topics that the writer also found deeply engaging.
Simply educating one's self requires no risk, just time. But no one wants to read the minutes of a city council meeting, or delve into the numbers behind issues. For example, it's telling to me that only a handful of US states offer parental leave, when I ask my family members in child rearing ages if they voted are not, they say no.

I know there were candidates who supported laws that would have benefited my family members, such as sick leave, parental leave, etc. I informed my family members who these candidates were. I even asked them what kind of life would they want for their daughters. But nevertheless, on voting day, none could muster the will to visit a polling booth or request an absentee ballot via mail. Yet it's not as if they are wealthy enough to forgo having jobs.

Therefore, I must surmise it's simply laziness.
Barring any advice or input on the idea (which I do think is solid), this was a really fun read.
Because you can tell right away if they're third-party cookies and don't need to wait for them to be used in that manner, you mean? That's an interesting (and welcome, to me) side-effect, you're right.
>Really? If you want to try and give your argument legs at least try not to contradict yourself in the same thread. And please don't state I made a claim falsely.

I was explaining how the "we're all just going to pass laws" plan is the plan which leads to violence. You even copied the part where I said "That is why this is a failed approach."

>This isn't actually true [0].

The report I was reading is from 2009. If you include its emissions from deforestation and farming (as much as 1/3 of its emissions) it's still very closely on track.

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/China-to-Double-P...
I would use google apis for sheets, tasks and keep. Comes with a nice UI out of the box.

Why do most hack the itch projects start from scratch and not use and build on best in class apis?
It's just going to keep getting worse until climate denialists and fossil fuel fetishists are pushed aside.
I think he misspelled "Blondie".
We accidentally had ses credentials set up on our QA server and quickly got banned for sending too many sdf@sdf.com emails. Took quite some time to get it unbanned. Since then we switched to Mailgun for email delivery but ses is still useful for processing incoming email via Lambda
I don't know about the fake accounts. But (almost) every real person I know in Iran is on Telegram.
I've had pretty good luck with them.
The reason it’s burning so much now is it’s hotter and drier than before?

I can’t imagine prescribed burns would’ve made it rain and stopped the temperature from reaching 48.9 in Sydney, can you ?
Indeed, I did the calculation myself as well. If you're logging every RPC including database lookups in production you might have a problem with your logging principles (signal vs noise etc) and if you really need that log data for every request but can't afford $1.27 per million you might have a product problem.
8-year-old is YouTube's highest earner with $26M
Makes me think that the big tech companies which absorb a large amount of new college grads each year have a bunch of copyright violations but won't be audited.

These companies have "strict" code review policies but often the reviewers are just a recent previous year's new college grad, now overconfident by a small amount of work experience.
Wow... just use a glorified Bluetooth speaker and you’re there! Put all the configuration in an app on your “real” phone and it’s barely a hardware project and a contract programming job.

If you really want to minimize distraction that’s fine. The Bluetooth accessory can even limit logins (through TFA) by time and number (length would be complicated).
I am open-minded to the idea that "Machine Learning" is conservative in the manner Doctorow describes.

However, I do wish we would not use the word "conservative" as an epithet. I think it's quite likely that "conservative" is exactly what we should be looking for in algorithms and prediction engines.

The fact that their properties are misused and infused with reactionary (not necessarily conservative) biases by humans should not make us attach morally negative properties to being conservative.

FWIW, my conservatism leads me to be suspicious of employing these tools in the first place ...
the opposite would be also described as terrifying: machine learning making up the future of humanity. I m not sure if the author's point is particularly important. ML learns from the past, it doesn't have enough personality or 'intent' to be a 'conservative'. On average it will keep doing what people did. Also, not all ML systems do, a RL system may be trained with another objective, e.g. radicalism.
I have no experience with parking meters, but surprising that software updates need to be done at the site/hardware (as opposed to, say, online or "over the air" or updates).
I gave my 6yro an old WiFi-only iPhone to futz around with and download a few games. She ended up with a bunch of shovelware that shows ads after every level, and the "levels" are trivial things built on top of some kind of physics engine. It is sad beyond belief.

Now I am despairing because I want to find a good mobile game, something that you can buy and play that feels like a FF6 or a Ultima or Super Mario type thing without annoying in-game purchases or wait-to-play mechanics. But it's slim pickings... it seems the industry has evolved to be codependent on those things and now that's what most of the content is like. :(
Marx is absolutely canon, one of the most important writers in history. I'm not sure how anyone can claim to understand the western tradition without Marx.
You haven't yet listed a specific occasion when Bitcoin is better than the alternatives. Let alone doing it for a significant group of people facing a specific problem. So I'm sticking with "no demonstrated advantage".

Do existing approaches have problems, especially the legacy ones? Sure. Nobody denies that. But Bitcoin needs to be better in practice, not just in theory.

I'm sure you do believe that Bitcoin is on the cusp of change. But Bitcoin has been on the cusp of change for 10 years. It's the same routine some Christians have been running for 2000 years: Jesus is coming back any day now. When they predict a specific date, they always turn out to be wrong, but that does not change things: https://twitter.com/williampietri/status/1071833726294749184

I was very interested when Bitcoin appeared a decade ago. It's an interesting idea backed by interesting technology. Of course, so was 3D TV. In both cases, however much the respective fan groups are sure it's superior, in practice the great majority of humanity turns out not to care because the other options turn out to be as good or better for their actual needs.
Sorry I don't fully understand

>the part-time always gives you plausbile deniability when you can't answer the phone.

Do you mind elaborating as the rest of the comment is good!
just wanted to say that like button doesn't work
You either completely missed the point or you are too invested in going off on a tangent to try to change the subject.

The $100 vs $10 was not intended to argument the merit of $10 savings: it refutes the absurd claim that $100 expenditures justifies adopting a convoluted architecture, because the fact is not adopting a convoluted architecture is actually much cheaper.

Additionally, somehow you've brushed aside the fact that the main cost is developer time, and a convoluted solution based on flavor-of-the-month tech fads requires more maintenance and developer man-hours than basic tried-and-true solutions like standard run-of-the-mill web services.

> How much would it cost to have build servers that could handle peak demand and how much of a waste would it be to have that server sitting idle?

I honestly fail to see what point you're trying to make because: a) you don't need "serverless" services such as AWS lambdas to get CICD pipelines to work, and b) cluster autoscaling is a basic offering provided by pretty much all major cloud providers. Thus, what's your point?

> As far as it taking “two or three weeks” - “its a poor craftsmen who blames his tools”.

So any proof that refutes your baseless assertions is brushed aside by your "you're holding it wrong" baseless assertion? Doesn't sound like a discussion on technical merits.

You're underlining the biggest problem with buzzword-driven development: the lack of technical merit is a constant and everything boils down to petty personal politics.
How much “easier” of a bundle is a Zip file? But there is also Serverless Docker - Fargate.

And you still have to provision and pay for the VM for peak load.

Lambdas do have process isolation.
Downsizing is orthogonal to needing to upgrade. You still need to maintain whatever amount remains and that could call for software upgrades in light of a new issue.
Yes, this surprises me too, since telegram accounts are tied to SIM cards, and my best guess was that it's not easy to get a bunch of SIM's in Iran. But for some reason, Iran bots are considered the cheapest ones out there...
Users like to hate DRMs, even when it's not justified.

Technically Denuvo is not a DRM, it's an anti-tampering system. This is not just a matter of wording - nobody complains about Steam's DRM, so it's not about DRMs, it's about a specific product.

Having said that, Denuvo performance loss is minor. It's quite amusing that in one case, a patch which also included its removal, decreased the performance: https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/rage-2-patch-removes-denuvo-but-p....

Regarding the crashes, there's much hearsay around. However, in absence of rigorous examinations, there's the benefit of doubt. In my opinion, it's not buggy in itself (I've played several games with Denuvo, and they were working fine), rather as the general bug risk of adding extra functionality to software. As the article above points, "[...] that would imply Denuvo checks constantly running within the main game loop, which would make no sense.".

All in all, defining Denuvo as "this DRM stuff causes a lot of problems" is definitely a mischaracterization, although it's not clear if "this DRM" refers to Denuvo, or DRMs in general.
>or each plant you build you need the exact position of each mirror, the oven chamber and the motion of the sun through the day and year

Yeah, depending on the level of precision required, there are _tons_ of variables that could have an impact here. Year to year the angle of the sun changes slightly on any given solar date, as various components of the Earth's orbit "wobble" (axial tilt, eccentricity, precession, etc). Even on an hour by hour basis, thermal expansion could have a significant impact. Any significant structure is going to settle to some extent over time, etc...
In fact it does support unlocking the bootloader. I believe that's true of all current motorola androids.