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Really nicely executed! Love the clean and minimal design. However many of us would be unable use this in a corporate setting due to AWS credentials being shared with a third party service. I am sure if you packaged this service like Sendy (sendy.co) you could find a lot more corporate buy-in.
A lot of people seems to think that monoliths are a bad thing and microservives a good thing. That isn't the case. There is nothing wrong with monoliths.

Trying to make everything work as microservives just for the sake of it, or because it sounds cool is just a terrible idea.

Start out with a monolith, and if you later see a need to create a microservive, then do it, when you have more knowledge about the bounderies of the service.

I love creating high performance services and playing with containers. It sure is cool with microservives that can scale linearly over a lot of machines. I also enjoy using the latest frameworks.

But guess what, my first ever service is just using a cheap dedicated server, serves an average of ~250 highly dynamic webpages each second while still using less than 7 % CPU, on PHP and MariaDB. Last 12 years have resulted in about 6 hours of downtime. A couple of hours planned, a couple as a result of denial of service attacks and a couple when there was a power issue at the datacenter.

So what I'm trying to say is that more complicated doesn't mean that it's better.
Yep, Stack has an atrocious UX that does nothing but cause progressively increasing amounts of pain. I wish someone would just write the Cargo or NPM of Haskell already.
Can you try to dig that up and share it with us? It sounds a lot like some versions of meditation, but I'd be really interested to read it.
I don't think we're facing new problems with cloud computing and large systems. We're facing the same problems we've been faced with again and again since the very beginning of computer science. Over time, the ease and scale of what you can do with computer resources increases and we have to organize and understand the existing resources we have.

But we keep reinventing the same solutions at each scale. At one time we had to invent functions to enforce segregation of responsibilities and create abstractions and shorthand. We had to group these together in modules and libraries. We had this clump of programs running on a computer that we had to organize into an operating system. Now an operating system is nearly a program or function and people are regurgitating the Unix philosophy and the end-to-end principle like it's a new thing. In the end, we're going to wind up with a well-architechted series of integrated microservices which present a comprehensible interface to users through a handful of abstractions that have proven useful over the years.

Computing is cheap enough that we can now talk about meta-computing, a higher level of abstraction from a computer, which is multiple layers of abstraction on top of eachother. Now we just have to build the next layer. And I think it will basically be a sort of meta-operating system. The same things, but we'll call it "orchestration" and "microservices" instead of a file/process/whatever manager and threads.

At the moment, however, we're still offering piecemeal services and products and so we don't have many fully formed concepts of what it is to build a cloud system. So things are still a bit chaotic, but at some point in near future we'll get there.
My condolences for your loss. My grandfather did the same, for the same reason.
They all need to go. Not one is a housing advocate. All spend their energy to limit housing. They say they are for affordable housing, but their mandates are designed to exclude both groups of people and housing.
> A totally free market results in monopolies, which are rife with externalities that exist for the purpose of maintaining the monopoly.

I'd have to disagree. Not many markets have monopolies - where you only have one firm in the market. Tech is an exception.

In fact, I'd say that many government policies, while necessary, are a major contributor to monopolies, by imposing high costs to enter markets.
I'm pretty much the same, but my internal monologue sometimes manifests itself as, I don't know how to describe it, but, as "feelings". This is somewhat usefull, but I need a more formal method sometimes to explain me to myself.
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No infectious disease epidemiologist I know would lump SARs, MERS and seasonal flu together like that, and I'd argue the data very much doesn't support the assertion that this disease is significantly more dangerous.

Serious, yes. But it's quite a hurdle to go from what we're seeing now to "worse than seasonal influenza".
> Satya wasn't an engineer at microsoft.

This is true, strictly speaking. But (also strictly speaking) he was an engineer

> Nadella attended the Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet[7] before receiving a bachelor's in electrical engineering[8] from the Manipal Institute of Technology (then part of Mangalore University) in Karnataka in 1988.[9][10] Nadella subsequently traveled to the U.S. to study for an M.S. in computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee,[11][12] receiving his degree in 1990.[13] Later, he received an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.[14]

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satya_Nadella)

And that's all GP said.

> Good to see an engineer taking helm of the company from the previous CEOs which were from sales.
That's a very good observation on these 10 provinces. But I would apply caution when interpreting a cherry-picked data subset.

Nitpick: I don't claim "20-56%" death rate, but "9-56%", thus your observation of a 10% CFR is in line with my claim.
Yes, they even have a term for the way they infantile themselves.

It is problematic.

Admittedly there are probably 10 year olds on Reddit.
I have read about mass hysteria and it doesn't seem plausible to me.

If this were a crowd of people witnessing something and jumping to a strange conclusion where their beliefs were reinforced by each other's behavior - e.g. we both hear a car backfire, you look scared so I start to run and before you know it we're all talking about how we survived a mass shooting, then sure, I'd accept mass hysteria.

This is very different. It is many independent people over many days making reports of strange, but completely natural phenomenon. Nobody is seeing vampires, they are witnessing drones do the kind of things drones do. That a government agency can't find evidence of illegal drone activity after the fact is interesting, but it's absurd to conclude that this is mass hysteria.

If I flew a drone over you at night, and the police showed up a month later to inspect and found no evidence, would you believe that you had been suffering from mass hysteria?
The varieties people plant in their gardens aren't bred specifically for a high alkaloid content, but the chemicals are still present.
You can implement emptiness with the wrapper message types, e.g. StringValue: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/src/...

and sometimes defining your own, e.g. nullable lists.

It's not elegant, but it is simple.
Yeah, I had no idea it was doing that. Looks like it's detecting the traffic from HN. In any case, the fosdem article is on the front page and is full of fun tidbits like anagrams.
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He means an ecosystem where 99% of the work needed to build yet another CRUD app is done for you.
Prop 13 also applies to commercial real estate. The difference is that commercial properties require fewer public services, so costs are less. But the real difference is that there's usually much less NIMBY opposition to changes in commercial zoning than residential. Talk is cheap. What matters is who shows up to zoning board meetings. People tend to only show up when it effects their neighborhood, not so much when it effects the business district a mile down the road. Likewise for voting preferences.

Rescinding Prop 13 is unlikely to change anything because assessed values will be even more if developers can build bigger, multifamily dwellings in the neighborhood. So, yes, taxes would go up, but the local pressure to restrict zoning won't change as the incentives still line up the same way relatively.
Sure you can do that, but it's not as efficient as deploying only the code that is getting hit. Also, it might be taking up most of your resources, but it might not be as well.

For example, let's say in an eCommerce application that the shipping calculator is getting hit a lot. You'd like to be able to scale this independently as a service, so you can handle all the requests without also having to replicate all of the other resources, such as the cart persistence, user sessions, etc. that are a lot more memory intensive.
Clear boundaries and contracts are just a side effect of working in a service architecture, I've found. If this is your reason for doing it - just define a style guide on how to isolate code and make sure people (or procedures) keep it.

But there are many other valid reasons for services - different deployment cycles, better resource utilization, faster and safe deploys, etc. It's just about using the right tool and thinking about implications.

I don't know if such a framework exists, but I really want a system that abstracts this to a certain degree - while the contracts between parts of the system are defined, whether any module works as a service with its own deployment policy over network or as part of a monolith is not expressed in application code but as a configuration, and code generation handles the underlying logic. So you can write your app as a modular monolith, but when you think that for operational reasons there is a reason to spin off some part of it as a service, you reconfigure your build rules instead of your code.
Yeah, I feel really sorry for the retired person sitting on millions of dollars of equity. Real sob story.

Why not just give the option to defer increases in property taxes?

It makes zero sense to give tax breaks to people who won the housing lottery.
Sadly we are still doing them at my company. I feel like we lose good candidates because of it.
Waze also likes to overflow neighborhoods with traffic because it thinks there is a shorter path, which just isn’t a very nice thing to do.
Sure, if VirnetX's ordeal with Apple is any indication, Apple/Broadcomm would drag out the suit as long as they could -- and I predict that this can last 5-7 years easily.

>If the patents were so valuable why wouldn't the universities be starting unicorns left and right with actual investors or actual revenue? Instead they try to get the money through litigation.

Not sure where you are coming from, but there are many University research tech spinoff's in the US, especially in the SF Bay area.
apparently science is not working as "how things feel/look like", but about evidence and proof. Same thing applies to gov or org, it's not guided by message on social media, but according to the guidance and standard procedure. This kind of practice are very normal cross every industry, from construction safety guide to medicine testing.
According to [1], WHO or CDC will only report phase 2 and take actions when there is no evidence of human-to-human infection, and declare phase 5 or 6 base on the information unveiled. And from [2], declare PHEIC when there is human-to-human infection cross border.

> A PHEIC is defined in the IHR (2005) as, “an extraordinary event which is determined to constitute a public health risk to other States through the international spread of disease and to potentially require a coordinated international response”. This definition implies a situation that is:

* serious, sudden, unusual or unexpected;

* carries implications for public health beyond the affected State’s national border; and

* may require immediate international action.

[1]: https://www.who.int/influenza/resources/documents/pandemic_p...

[2]: https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/what-are-the-intern...
I can relate, as I do this all the time, being inside my head, a mashup of multi-verses, projecting myself in alternate realities, being able to time-travel in to the future and opening a conversational 1-on-1 portal to my present self, to answer the question like Dr. Banks from the movie Arrival or when Brand reaches out to her past self in Interstellar, all while taking bus home, or while taking a long shower.

I can watch an entire movie inside my head from another character's point of view or vantage point.

I'm also able to on the spot improv storytelling, something that I was able to do easily as a teen during summer camps and recently I got introduced to the world of DnD which got my mind racing and volunteered to become a DM.

Loneliness is a rarity for me as I feel content wandering off, writing and art is my way of projecting to this world, which I have plucked out from the sea of infinite realities through dreams and daydreaming.

When someone talks to me, asks me a question/opinion or solution, a whole mindmap/flowchart,timeline appears before me which I can navigate spatially in 3d.

When someone asks for direction or trying to find out where I am, I literally see a 3d flyover or bird's eyeview from where I'm standing.

When I dream, not only that I dream in colors but they have a feel to it like watching something nostalgic or when I travel. Sometimes dreams has visual filters as a part of it. Have you dreamed being inside a cartoon/comicbook, painting or noir movie?

I do have a hard time turning my brain off which sucks when trying to go to sleep.
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> It’s been a long time since a "new" city was created

huh?

the I-25 corridor north of Denver is sprinkled with towns and such that were nothing but an intersection and a gas station 20 (15?) years ago. right now they're bedroom community type things, but they've got some big box stores. they'll keep growing.

are they big cities right now? no. (was your claim very specific? nope.)
What missing is .folderinfo/ to hold those things, akin to HFS resource fork or file attributes
Isn't this pretty much everywhere?

No. In the United States, the majority of businesses get funding because the founders have a good business plan. It's sometimes easier if you know the right people, but only if you seek capital from those types of people.
The comments on this thread are immensely frustrating. Just because all the work you need to do can be done on an iPad doesn't mean that all the work everyone needs to do can be done on an iPad, or that it wouldn't be easier on a desktop/laptop OS.

And yes I know there's some (creative/primary - not augmenting something else you're doing) work that does work better on iOS^. But that's an exception, not the rule.

^I mention the OS and not the tablet form factor because (as the article mentions) that is the main problem here.

And none of this really matters, it's fine to have a tablet with an OS that's tailored for certain use cases. But people keep trying to claim that an iPad can replace a regular PC, and that's just not true for a lot of people.
A great many abstract concepts can be put into words (which are, to generalize, abstract symbols) - that is one of the great powers of human language. I wanted to ask what ideas cannot be so expressed, but of course there is a problem...

There may be candidates in qualia, the subjective experiences that tend to tie the philosophy of mind in knots, and which, being subjective, cannot be communicated precisely in language (can you tell a blind person what it is like to see red, such that they can learn it from your words?) In these cases, however, our internal monologue could refer to them indexically ("seeing red is like that", where that picks out an aggregation of memories.)

Bizzarre as this may seem to you, I can assure you that it feels very natural, easy and straightforward, though it might be something of an illusion, merely the way we explain thinking to ourselves when we pay attention to doing it (see my other post.)
Wondering if they could instead have saved money by going the Formula 1 route. There you have a bunch of teams which develop very different cars, but certain parts are standardized and made by one common supplier.

Then again, I know nothing about designing war planes so.
No, Eric Ding has been tweeting pretty terrible misinformation, and is being rightly dragged for it by pretty much every epidemiologist I know on Twitter, including myself.

His takes are bad.

He's called this virus's R0 the worst he's seen in his career, which is absurd. He's conflated R0 and attack rate. Familiar errors because no one pays attention to ID epidemiology until there's an outbreak, and then suddenly decides they're an expert.

If one must go to Twitter for ones epidemiology, I'd suggest Tara Smith (@aetiology) or Maia Majumder (@maiamajumder), both of whom are actual ID epidemiologists and science communicators.
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Inflationary currency. We are printing more and more money already. Dealing with 1 trillion in deficits every year will be quite something
The assumption is also that hacker news readers are not subjected to fear mongering but I guess that assumption of mine was also comical.

Assumptions here obviously won’t be 100% accurate given it’s a simulation conducted 2 months before outbreak.

The point of this exercise is “what if” and seeing if useful extrapolations can be drawn from tweaking the variables.
Well, don't shoot the messenger. I just talk to people. That's what I've consistently heard.

I don't label people, or toss am in buckets. I just ask em what they want. The general streak is leave me alone, I don't like the game being stacked against me, keep me safe, free, and capable of making an honest living, and most importantly don't rook me.

Also if you think Republicans have ever been pro-labor, you are sadly mistaken in that regard. Public Works are also generally non-starters except for those who were around in the early 1900's in my experience, and are the quintessential of fundamental interdependence, but also have a tendency to be small localized efforts;something appealing to conservatives more so than not. Enforcing responsibility for corporate actions has always been lackluster on the Republican side as well; Democrats haven't done great on that either. Anti-trust is starting to boot back up again bipartisanly, but it has taken some serious levels of gilded age to even rustletbings enough for that.

Did you even read half the things I mentioned? I'll give you there are quote "Republican overtones" there; but I don't ask people to talk to me about their political party, I ask them what they're concerned about. Think people's political label matters a whole lot less in the long run than their input in what represents the biggest problem to deal with. The "Party Branding" as I call it is just mud in the process of trying to chase down what needs to be prioritized and handled. Both sides are spending more time trying to look like they're the best side of humanity that it seems like actually being that seems to fall by the wayside.

The two States I frequent are Texas and Minnesota. If that helps any.

Frankly, I'd probably get thrown out of any modern political rally, because I think they're all doing a terrible job of running an effective government at this point. There are so many systematic warts that have taken root it'll likely be decades til we get to weeding them out, but hey, that's politics.

Just wanted to share my observation, and point out that to the Voters, they aren't voting against their best interest. They just have precious little to go from that the "other guy" will generate better results.
At my place of work, we typically follow the "message type" solution in situations like this. I don't think it's the most legible solution, but it's the best we can do with the proto spec: I always feel like I should qualify these fields with a comment explaining the apparently pointless wrapper.

Google themselves provide https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/src/... to deal with this situation.

Quoted from the documentation:

> Wrappers for primitive (non-message) types.

> These types are useful for places where we need to distinguish between the absence of a primitive typed field and its default value.

It should probably be advertised more, as we've experienced that default values of optional fields are a surprising feature for smart developers who are new to protobufs. Maybe it's seen as a wart in the design? Getting rid of Null is hard.

I kinda wish they went with the approach that all fields are required, unless they are explicitly declared as optional. This is how Rust does it, and people seem to like it.
My dreams are always a mishmash of real and imagined places, scenarios and people. For example studying for exams but in a completely different city or country, stuff like that. My mind just accepts it, never seems to have any issues with it. I only realize the craziness after I wake up (if I remember the dream that is).
Well, maybe. Right now we have webapps like Google Docs, where you get a clean copy of the update application, the data is handled on someone else's computer, and you can copy it locally or load it from local storage. Is this better than that?
Your company didn't have backups until it had a break-in?
Almost 44 years, and the hurricane hasn't seemed to calm down. I just have fewer registers. :/
I had found their best offerings to be their end of year wrap-ups: “The Ones that Got Away” in 2017 and “Tastebreakers” in 2018, and was disappointed they chose to end 2019 with “Music of the decade”, which was all songs I already knew.
Universities want to generate royalty from the patents. Their motivation is not to block others from using their patents.
> to a very bad part of town

As if the quality of the town they got sent to is somehow relevant?
I’d be more concerned about 3rd party developers. It is true that Windows 10 runs on ARM, but from what I’ve heard it’s still kind of rough trying to get a lot of 3rd party apps to run on those laptops. Not to mention the difficulty of trying to get game developers to support Windows+ARM (as opposed to Android or iOS) in large enough numbers that you can fairly say the sentence “you can game on Windows for ARM”.

The distinction of “successfully shipping Windows on ARM” is a subjective one and depends on the needs of each user. Although that being said, I don’t think we can really say “ARM laptops have arrived” until they either have great gaming compatibility or great compatibility with some large group of productivity apps. I think they’ll get there, but they aren’t there in January 2020.
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My hypothesis is that since everyone plus dog in the US is an elected official that is perpetually campaigning, they're incentivized to focus on big splashy headlines.

That and the press loves to pulverize people over spending money to avoid disasters, but celebrates those that help when disaster strikes, even if it was entirely preventable.

Oh, and "Infrastructure Week" has been going on for about three years now.
By “principled,” I mean that the RHNA sends the signal from the state government to the local governments of the state interest (regional quantity of housing to promote housing affordability and availability), while preserving local control over legitimate local concerns, which is what the opposition to SB 50 wanted. It makes sense theoretically; it just doesn’t work in practice due to the lowballed numbers and long time frames.