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To me this is completely okay and a heartwarming success story.

Sure there is the alternate history where you stayed in touch and he still remembers you and cherishes the relationship…

But it’s also wonderful that he impacted you so strongly and positively, yet has taught so many students that he doesn’t remember you specifically. If he did this for you he likely did it for other students too and we are lucky that we have him as a teacher in our world.

It also reminds us that though we know ourselves to be human with very human limits, we can still pay forward the kindness and guidance we received to the next generation.
> The resources are trivial.

I think I as a user should get to decide that.
It's a crying shame. The reason I chose .io for porntoken is because .io which is for Indian Ocean is also a dual meaning pun that in the context of sex is often interpreted as in/out like as in a peepee going in and out of a vajayjay or poop chute.
I think the terminology is confusing. If I quote Wikipedia, which should never be done: "Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage and computing power, without direct active management by the user".

I personally refer to servers as "cloud" only if they have auto-scaling and usually to services such as AWS or GCP instead of VPSs such as DO, Linode, Vultr, etc.
In my case they are public/customer facing services. Our internal stuff like CI runs on premise.
> At best, you're an NPC in their game. Many of them probably even want to help you, because you are another person in the world, and that feels good.

Oh man, I learned the opposite lesson that changed my life: Sociopaths and psychopaths will not help you because you are not a person in their world but an object that either helps them achieve their goals and can be discarded when your usefulness is expired, or you are an obstacle that needs to be destroyed. Helping you doesn't make them feel good, and they can sleep just fine at night after destroying your world because they have no semblance of empathy.
>The resources are trivial.

Some of them aren't, though. The Facebook SDK isn't a trivial resource. It also depends a lot on the specific device the software is being loaded on to. It may be trivial to a newer device or one with upgraded hardware, but perhaps not so with baseline hardware or devices several years old.

>If you don't like it you don't have to use the app that you chose to install.

This argument may work with someone working in the software industry, but falls flat the moment the implied obligation is place on the unsuspecting.
With years of muscle memory, I reverted this change back to its original behavior (double tap minimizes the window to the Dock).
For years, I used the walk to school (30 mins each way) to memorize many poems, especially Poe. The Bells, For Annie, The Raven - word for word. Walking was time to turn over the poetry in my mind and reflect on its meaning.

25 years later, and I can recite every poem from my youth, flawlessly. But they don't comfort me at night. I have the poems with me forever, but they are not useful day-to-day.

I don't recommend memorizing old poetry.
That is a tradeoff. Also most lower paid workers in the US don’t have the luxury to save money at all.
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CLA's are imposed by companies, not licenses. I'm quire sure that companies with OSS projects under GPL licenses would still want external contributors to certify that the code they contribute is theirs to contribute and can legally be licensed as GPL.
Don't conflate Git with GitHub. Git is decentralized and always will be, and you're free to use Git however and wherever you'd like. GitHub is a collaborative code repository with social features, and the ability to edit code in place is an interesting evolution. The fact that GitHub happens to use Git is incidental. The entire product would be a useful and viable venture even if it were backed by CVS or Mercurial or Perforce. Git just happened to be the best choice when they started.
Nice, but a bit deadly in an enclosed space due to fumes.
You’re not paying Google $5B for raw infra, you’re paying for cloud services like top-tier horizontally scalable databases, global availability, CDNs, datastores of different flavors, and transparently managed monitoring and hardware fault resolution.
I can speak at least a little bit about my field (computational chemistry). A lot of academic software is free and/or open source (like NWChem). These are installed by the cluster support for use by anyone. This is helpful because the software can be optimized beyond what most end users can do.

Beyond that, a lot of academics run custom software or uncommon packages. By definition, many academics are doing something no one else has really done, so they are writing their own software and then running that on the clusters.

There is one large commercial package that takes up a significant amount of time on many clusters -- VASP. But no idea the details of how that ends up on HPC systems :)

My impression from running on lots of clusters is that the software installed is more by 'pull' (user request) than 'push' (cluster dictating what is used). Clusters have to be very accommodating of user software.

If you are working in computational chemistry, I would be interested in hearing more details (if you are willing).
> - I would like to change the scrolling direction (it's the opposite of Windows).

You can. You want to turn off "natural scrolling" in settings, somewhere.
Sounds like the modern day definition of socialism, which is largely rejected by rural populations, as evidenced by voting patterns.

It seems logical to allow people who reject a the system that provides them care to endure the consequences of that decision.
Name a localstorage auth mechanism on 1st request ?
So you consider cloud servers to be what most people call serverless (S3/serverless functions/etc)?
'How much does Codespaces cost?
Codespaces is free while in beta. Plans and pricing will be announced as the beta progresses.'
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The netflix CDN specifically exists because of cloud bandwidth charges.
Yes, I've noticed this... I think it's something to do with their cookie consent?
Consider:

- Programs we wanted to write so badly that we invented computers along the way.

- Programs we realized we could write & benefit from once familiar with computers and their capabilities.

Infrastructure shouldn't be totally clueless about anticipated use cases, but it shouldn't be too subservient to them either.
Save it where? What if there's no budget for server infrastructre? Say... a hobby project.
I feel like even with one-line fixes, having the tests run before committing (to see the CI/CD results instead) would give people a lot more confidence in making those changes.

Personally speaking, I'd be worried that I end up making 15 commits to get everything right and the history in that PR would be slightly embarrassing. Having the live linting, intellisense and tests makes pushing a single commit a lot easier.
This is not consistent with an NIH study previously discussed here in:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23006202

In that study

"Covid-19 Coagulopathy in Caucasian Patients":

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32330308/

Covid-19 was shown to kill/wound preferably African-Americans, then Caucasians and lastly Chinese:
"Critically however, ethnicity has major effects on thrombotic risk, with a 3-4 fold lower risk in Chinese compared to Caucasians and a significantly higher risk in African-Americans."

Sound like an effective ethnic bioweapon. And, since most Chinese American citizens are Republicans and most African-Americans are Democrats, there may be just enough lethality to change the outcome of a USA Presidential election.

P.S. Curiously Africa shows low numbers of Covid-19 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23010276), the above article seems to indicate that African-Americans do less well than Caucasians or Chinese, so isn't this another part of the puzzle?
Why is your company (and I quote your footer)

"©Axiom AI limited 2020"

If it was purely for convenience of domain name availability? I don't think I've ever seen a company register their name in the format ot

"COMPANY_NAME [TLD_EXTENSION]"
My only gripe with the smart keyboard is the touchpad uses a mechanical button for clicking. It feels clunky compared to the crispness of the last few mbp generations which use a haptic electromechanical component to (perfectly) simulate a click feel.
In what way were you a director? Did you manage people? How many? Who did you report to? How many managers reported to you?
I organize stand-up comedy on Zoom and it's not terrible
This. I chalked it up to aggressive Firefox settings.
Same! I wasn't expecting much, but they were in the top few concerts I've ever seen.

Here's a recentish live performance of "Computer Love"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2SklZ5mNpg
Just to give a few examples, we are typically much more aggressive with RAID, ECC, redundant network links, redundant time sources, redundant cooling, redundant power supplies, etc. than cloud providers.
Yep! My startup is https://kubesail.com, so I agree :)

As for ML on Kube, I agree, there have been and still are some rough edges. The kernel drivers alone make a lot of out-of-the-box Kubernetes solutions unusable. That said, we've had a lot of success helping people move entirely onto kube - the mental gain alone from ditching the bash scripts or ansible playbooks (etC) alone is pretty freeing.
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I misunderstood your original question. When you asked how they procure domain specific application software I thought you meant "how do they get it?," which includes writing it themselves. (Not just procure as in "procurement" processes.)
I believe you when you say your intentions are good, but I'm skeptical. Even if it's not the official stance, getting as many people as possible onto the SaaS offering has to be the goal and, IMO, there could be a point where maintaining the standalone product isn't worth it.

I'm worried that Microsoft's going to be successful in shifting a bunch of developer workload onto Azure and that'll create a power imbalance where developers will see increasing prices while they lose control their own workflows.

Is it true that Nadella frequents the gym and chastises people for running on treadmills instead of Azure? Lol.
Everything beyond the most rudimentary food, clothing, and shelter is a luxury. It's not very insightful to stick your nose in the air and loftily proclaim something a "luxury," as if your opinion should be taken into account in the boardrooms and executive suites at Uber.
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Its always seemed so passive aggressive that they call that "natural scrolling".
Because many people don't want the responsibilities of home ownership, or to be exposed to the risk. Also makes relocation a lot more complicated.

There's no particular guarantee that land value will continue to increase either, or that market rates for rentals will continue to increase.
Having the things you mentioned (or easy access to them) only frees you up to see if you are happy and to figure out what will make you happy if you aren't. They don't, by themselves, make you happy.
Not at all. It was so “not core” that it was outsourced.

The core of their business is recommendations, encoding, and authentication. All of those are done 100% on the cloud.
I think if you look at the pricing for github actions minutes, you'd gather an extremely rough idea of what they feel is a fair price for docker hosting. Maybe add some buffer to make the VS Code investment worth it, etc.
It’s 5mb zipped man. That’s almost twice the size of chrono trigger
Absolutely!
But corporations can also treat you like shit. When they do, try to ditch them. Well, that is a challenge.
It makes sense in my head, I'm "pushing the page up" with my fingers, like a long sheet of paper.

EDIT: please, if you’re going to downvote me please discuss why
That’s not true. It exists because Akamai and friends couldn’t serve the data fast enough.
It is too high if you are paying for it personally. As a company benefit for top execs and managers? $25 isn't so bad given that the alternative solution is an executive assistant.
I do hate the term "serverless" as it makes no sense, but I think of cloud as a system that automatically spins-up/down VPSs based on your current usage. This means the infrastructure/software also allows for automatically load-balancing between those VPSs. So I think of cloud as the VPS servers that are used to host the actual data + the layer on top that does all the scaling, provisioning, load-balancing, etc.
I think the real lesson here is you never know exactly how profoundly you're going to impact someone, especially young people. What was just another day for your teacher, helping one student in an endless stream of students, was a life-changing formative experience for you.
A consulting company or a company that makes "white label" apps like for restaurants or stores.
I'll be honest I never thought of it that way but it's a good point. Food production is the main export of the states I had in mind in my original post. However, food production shouldn't be counted as a "value added" (arguably, since they don't export enough outside US borders to turn a standalone profit) to the American economy. In the same way that Quality Control is not considered "value added" to a factory, but it is still very much a required part of manufacturing.

However, Japan has very few arable farming areas and get something like 70% (I made that up) of their food from the ocean. In the absence of American farmlands, I'd wager that fisheries would be able to sustain urban coastal areas almost indefinitely.

In all the Mad Maxx/Book of Eli style movies, the characters are almost always inland, trying to get to a populated coastal area where survival is more practical.
The power of the subconscious mind.

Without actively seeking it, I happened to stumble on this idea about 8 years ago, at a time when I was struggling with some pretty big problems in my relationships, career and physical+mental health.

Since then, I've been living "as-if" the biggest factors that influence my reactions, choices and outcomes are in my subconscious, and that by continually undertaking practices that identify and resolve subconscious fears, biases, resentments, attachments, etc, I can keep my life on a steady path of improvement.

Over 8 years on, so far so good.

It also helps me to be more understanding and patient with others, when I can remind myself that this applies in different ways to all of us, and that everyone is doing the best they can in the moment.

Related: the idea of living "as-if" something is true, even if it isn't true yet, or it's unknown (but testable) whether it's true or not.

I.e., building a business for market conditions or technologies that don't exist yet but are reasonably likely to within a reasonable timeframe, and/or that may be more likely to come to exist through your work.

Or thinking/operating in a way that may not be consistent with existing laws/norms/established science, but in doing so you help to change said laws/norms or make new scientific discoveries.

Obviously, considerable risk management is necessary with this approach.
Yes, you’re paying for a ton of stuff there that you probably don’t use and then are susceptible to bugs that have nothing to do with your use case. At $5B it would not cost anywhere near that much to replicate. Your infra would be better tailored to your workloads and your sw teams which would further drive costs down. The upsides are that you only drive features you need and keep things simple. The downside is that your need a big org to do this. It’s a long term play.
I live in a software engineering world professionally but my background is in traditional "neckbeard" Linux system administration. This ends up making me "DevOps" but honestly a lot of what I've ended up doing in my career is basic sysadmin for organizations that get a remarkably long ways before realizing they need it - things like telephony and video surveillance become really unreasonably expensive when you end up relying on a cloud service because you don't have the skillset to manage them in-house.

This is purely my opinion, but I think that 1) there is a strange shortage of IT professionals (people who are not software engineers but instead understand systems) in much of the industry today, and 2) a lot of tech companies, even those that are currently well functioning, might be able to save a lot of money if they hired someone with a conventional IT background. This is a little self-serving of course, but it really does astound me when I see the bills that some companies are paying cloud services to do something that is traditionally done in-house by an IT department. And not everything can readily be outsourced to some "aaS" provider, so on top of that you end up with things like software companies with multi-million budgets running an office network that consists of a consumer WiFi router someone picked up at Fry's - not realizing that they are losing a lot of time to dealing with how poorly that ends up working.

I think part of the problem rests in academia - at least in my area a lot of universities seem to have really backed off on IT programs in favor of CS. I went through an undergraduate program that involved project management, decision analysis, and finance courses because these were considered by the college (I would say accurately) critical skills for the IT field. But that program had an incredible two students and was widely considered inferior to the CS program with hundreds.

Another part of the problem though seems to rest in industry. The salary differential between "DevOps Engineer" and "IT Analyst" is incredible when in practice they end up doing mostly the same thing in a lot of small orgs. So I end up walking sort of an odd line of "I have a long background in IaC but I also know about conference room equipment." And I'm not saying that everything with a Cisco/Tandberg badge isn't overpriced, but Zoom rooms can end up costing just as much and seem to be less reliable - not surprising for a platform which, by practical necessity of the lack of IT support in many orgs, is built on the Silicon Valley time-tested architecture of "five apple consumer products taped together."
That's not the issue. The issue is that if the user has and sends Google cookies AdSense will use them. (And many people have third party cookies on, and AdSense might be using some tricky bypass there too.) Getting sneaky about tracking is their business model. And then cookie law is in full force.
Interesting topic, deeper than the OP message.

But you can be very motivated and ruining your life, as much as you only focus in arrive to your goal and reject the present (especially if you don’t like your current situation, don’t enjoy the ride and only want to reach the goal to let yourself to be happy)

It's not so much about not having goals at all but about not having a bitter present
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If "Cloud = lower upfront, higher long term, but no ceiling. On-prem = higher upfront, lower long term, but ceiling" is true, then how come the revenue of cloud companies keeps going up?

That would mean the incoming rate of users who are just starting off and find Cloud worthwhile is more exit rate of mature users who are finding on-prem more worthwhile than cloud
Tomte keeps pushing this article, but nobody cares (except mods?)

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=surviving+the+hits
No problem, we are on the same page now. Thank you, again, for your feedback.
> unless you build your applications in a cloud suitable way

Right, we have not done this. We basically decided it was cheaper to keep doing the “old school” thing and not spend a bunch of dev time trying to do it in a way that supports arbitrary failure of N boxes. We just spent the money to make it unlikely our boxes or networks will fail, and if they do fail we may be sad (but it rarely happens, and has not yet happened in a catastrophic way).

> Are these inter-region network dropouts or between the internet and the cloud data center?

I’ve seen multi-second dropouts within a DC (cloud, not my current company), and multi-hour single-path failures between DCs (usually something like a fire or construction cutting a line). But all of our DCs have at least 2 physically independent routes to the internet, so it’s never taken us fully offline.
of course, there is a PG essay about this: http://www.paulgraham.com/noob.html
Why reddit comments and not their own user comment data?

Oh I know - what better way to avoid those pesky privacy people by pinning it onto another company.
I think that's a fair point.
There has also been an incredible propaganda campaign by the cloud providers to make this seem incredibly hard.
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Everything that happens to me is a consequence of decisions I have made based on decisions others have made based on decisions others have made... Everything is playing out how it should.
They probably do contract app development, with 1000s of clients
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
This has advantages even in situations where you are sure the counter-party has malign intent. You can suspect someone, yet still speak and act in good faith. The worst case is your suspicions were correct and now they think they have you at a disadvantage, but the best cases include them lowering their guard and being more forthright, or even your suspicions proving unfounded.
I think I’ve done things like what Facebook did, when I was writing one-off security exploit scripts. Someone needs to stop that team.
> Upstream, Red Team

Forgive my ignorance, what does this mean in this context?
There are several ways to do it. At home I run mitm-proxy and sometimes squid.

For on-phone use, so you can grab cellular data, Charles:

https://www.charlesproxy.com/documentation/ios/
I don't disagree with you (certainly I'm bullish on Kubernetes, hence the startup) but I have to say many people felt similarly about running web-servers in general back in the day. Init script management, maintaining RAID arrays, etc was a project for nerds, not a mainstream activity. Today though, we have replicating databases, we have cloud storage available for backups, we have intelligent disk-replication systems... In my view, it's just a matter of time until Kubernetes can be run by beginners at home. In the late 90s I probably re-installed Linux on my home server at least a hundred times after messing up some component I didn't understand. Kube is no different. Eventually, (I think we're incredibly close), you just install it and forget about it! `microk8s` among others are really close to one-click these days.
Oh, I thought it was intentional, seeing as, uh, that spelling is used to refer to p*ographic fanworks of that work of fiction
If you think that minimum wage should increase, or whatever, then just do that, lol.

We have that for a reason. But it should apply across the board.

Also, doing the thing that you are suggesting is basically equivalent to saying that all poor should be fired. Because that is what would happen.

I don't think it is a good idea to give companies a huge incentive to never hire poor people. What you are suggesting would just ensure that poor people get screwed over, because they would never be hired.
Sorry about that, it should be fixed now
Lebanon has had a rough time this past year. The global pandemic is accelerating a dire financial situation that was created by 3 decades of corruption and petty sectarianism.

Lebanon has a long history (millennia) of rising from the ashes. So whatever happens will happen... Hopefully the lessons from this crisis are taken to heart on the next go around