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One of the hardest part getting anyone into Programming is actually setting up their Dev environment. ( You have many different platform, OS version or other compatibles issues... etc. And most student dont have clue about any of these ) You then have to teach them basic Git ( Github ) usage.

Cloud9 could be great but hasn't gotten any traction apart from using it for some tutorials.

This Codespaces brings the best of both world and kill two birds with one stone.

The next step is Azure, hopefully they could have an Amazon Lightsail equivalent that is simple to understand and deploy without scaring beginners away.
> Scaling that up by 4 orders of magnitude would need a 10 MW RF source or amplifier. I'm pretty sure those don't exist and if they did they'd be very large and heavy.

Probably a dumb question, but it's it just a matter of more power and cooling for the magnetron? I'm thinking the size of the magnetron is determined by the wavelengths you're trying to produce. (I don't mean to diminish the challenge of applying this tech, a 10 MW power source would still be quite large for an airplane.)
I think vi is good. I think the modal editing is good. The ZZT external editor I wrote (ZZTQED, and later frezed) is inspired by features of vi, such as modal editing, numeric prefixes, macros, etc. It is also good that vi has the ability to interact with external programs by pipes, which is something that Heirloom-mailx also does and I like that, and my own NNTP client software (bystand) also does, but unfortunately the web browser doesn't (the web browser is one of the worst software). One problem with many newer programs is lack of good documentation as well as using mouse-based interface; I like to make most functions working by keyboard commands. A lot of existing software I don't like so much, so I try to write my own better ones, which can use pipes with external programs, using mostly keyboard-based interface rather than by the mouse, using UNIX philosophy, using you have enough ropes to hang yourself and also a few more just in case, etc, to do what I will think is a good idea to do. And yet, it isn't just a lot of computer software that is badly designed these days, but even user interfaces of VCRs, DVD recorders, etc. I don't really like MSE so much, so I wrote TeXnicard. I don't really like most NNTP software so much, so I wrote bystand. I don't like KevEdit so much, so I wrote ZZTQED. I don't like Inform so much, so I wrote Glasm. etc
I've met other AWS software engineers who are asking themselves the same question. If you want to organize chances are that lots of other people want to do it as well. You should start off by talking to some of your coworkers.
I think with the same editor experience as I use on my own machine, I can fix substantially more complicated issues, with significantly less effort.
How is it even possible to cancel an order hours after it's been delivered?
Hypothetically, say I wanted to build, I don't know, a new spreadsheet that ran Python, runs on macOS and Linux. I hope it will give Excel a run for its money. Since Excel is so disappointing outside Windows.

Now I know Microsoft has a long history of safeguarding trade secrets, they were always very aggressive in this regard, from the beginning, the Xerox Parc days, and they still are. They state in their Investor Report that in Research & Development, they safeguard trade secrets, and are a world leader in patent pursuit [1].

Surely I don't need to worry that this platform for online development, tied to my source code, is not just another step towards making it easier for them to have a sneak peak into what I'm building? I know they can see my code in Github, but as a developer I know source code is one thing, but getting code to compile and run is a lot more work (on a very big project). This would make it even easier to dip into project runtimes, since IDE and environment settings are stored online now.

I mean, there's no way that strategically, they would aggressively try to bulwark their own business lines, by snooping on competing tech, and using insights to help strategically direct their patent lawyers, advising them on who to go after an how. And anyway, even if they did do that occasionally, there's no way they would bully me unjustly, I would surely deserve it. Right?

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar13/financial-re...
Would you explain what you mean by "cross chain to another root"?
Policies aren’t being “thought out” in the eyes of the status quo of the old system. There’s potentially a great deal of thinking to be done, towards something new. Ugly free-for-all or not, was what was beautiful?
I think the biggest challenge to do this is trying to quantify probable outcomes from inputs. I don't necessarily have a model at hand that can predict my fitness level from inputs of time, and effort.

I wonder if it's useful to incorporate Bayesian probability here to account for this. Like, I could start with my prior belief of what my fitness level would be given time/effort input, collect the data, then update my priors based on collected data. In theory, given enough time, the Bayesian method would have to converge on the right coefficients for your model.
Hacker news loves landlords. No faster way to get downvoted on here.
Yup (I’m a Spaniard as well).

Take this with a grain of salt as I’m talking from memory, but I think he’s acted as a middleman with North Korea to set up trips to the country for tourism, including for some Spanish journalists that were taken through very controlled routes. I remember the guy kept talking about how the North Koreans don’t mess around and so the people should be careful, about how great the Kim family is and about how proud he is to be so well considered by the regime.

I remember wondering if it’s all just a charade for him that allows him to have contact with North Korea (as in, him being some sort of agent), if he just found his business niche, of if he’s an idiot who drank the kool aid because he likes to feel he’s important.

As an aside, I was impressed watching those documentaries by how many North Korean officials spoke perfect Spanish without any
trace of an accent. Apparently some of them had lived and studied in Cuba for some time.

Edit: I found it, the documentary is called 'En tierra hostil', from 2015. It's currently only legally available under subscription from A3player, a streaming service from a private Spanish TV channel, but it might be viewable in other sites.
That’s actually a good question. Yes hosting static htmls have been super easy for a decade. (Might have been getting harder recently actually lol) But managing comments always have been a headache.
You won't see the black hole in your telescope, because it's black, and there isn't any stuff currently falling into it (which is one way that black holes can make themselves very visible).

Also, using "your telescope", you won't see the orbits of the black hole's companions with sufficient precision to deduce that the black hole exists and that it's a black hole.
What should be done with social security funds instead? I’ve never heard anyone provide a better option.
An ambassador is a citizen of their country and is subject to getting recalled and being sent to reform-through-labor camp to forage corn kernels from frozen pig shit if they don't toe the line.

This guy, on the hand, has voluntarily chosen to be an apologist and enabler for one of the most oppressive regimes on the planet.
This comment seems a little misinformed. I don’t like the banners either, but you could study a little about the GDPR and what’s been happening.

> some feel-good legislation that accomplishes nothing

It hasn’t been all 100% positive, and doesn’t apply to everyone, but GDPR has definitely had an overall positive impact on digital privacy practices globally. I say this as founder of a for-profit US web company affected by the legislation.

> Nobody has ever been hurt by a tracking cookie in the history of the internet.

This is really demonstrably false. Tracking cookies, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies, have been and are still being used to de-anonymize people and cross-correlate browsing behavior of people visiting sites other than the one they’re on. The concern is over privacy, and tracking cookies are a real threat to privacy, hence the legislation.
I think of it as more relevant to the inner game.
HN is probably not the best medium to discuss this but the "Free to Choose" series I mentioned touches on those issues and is available for free on YouTube. It's still quite relevant today despite its age.
I have often (pre-COVID) employed my comparative economic advantage and had other people make meals for me in a restaurant. I have occasionally had my assistant pick up a meal when I am working. I still don’t see the appeal of having two other legal entities involved in a fast food transaction.
https://crt.sh is a popular search engine for them, and there are other tools (like Censys) that also expose this data.
Easy: https://github.com/glosa/glosa-server
https://anonaddy.me

I use this service a lot.
It was true of UniPress Emacs, running on a 4 meg Sun 3/50. It's been a long time since UniPress sold any version of Emacs.
> They will feel pressure to allow tourist visits, certainly from ‘safe’ regions such as Australia and New Zealand.

As a New Zealander, I'm not sure that there would be much appetite for visiting any country outside this potential trans-tasman bubble for tourism purposes as we would be looking at a two week quarantine on returning home.
Seems like a technical problem or a shortcoming of the platform, but regardless, someone refusing video evidence like that (especially from who is essentially their business partner and has little incentive to commit fraud) is unacceptable. The problem is that support is outsourced to monkeys with no real power to investigate or change things and it's cheaper to fob you off than to assign the issue to someone with at least half a brain to see what's going on and make it right.
The vast majority of web usage these days happens on YouTube, Instagram, etc. Ads certainly keep those parts of the web free.
Not an RFC standard but it is a "de facto" standard. Everyone implements it, the config line for it is just commented out on postfix, super easy to use.
Microsoft has been adopting standards to then extend them and lock-in users for two decades.

> Microsoft has been providing some amazing tools completely free of charge

Yes, and they are the opposite of a no-profit.

This are just the first steps: "embrace" and "extend".
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Positive intent is a somewhat subjective term. I prefer the term good faith.

Assuming good faith does have two downsides. Firstly, handling in good faith isn't the same as handling in your best interests. Secondly not all people are handling in good faith, and some collectives are subject to selection bias.
My hope and suspicion is this will have a significant impact on the number of improvements to open-source projects and particularly little things like js components.

Just in the last few days, I've come across a few very minor bugs, with a one-line fix. In order to make that change, I currently need to fork the repo, download it, make the change (turn off my prettier or adapt to the repo's) then make the PR.

I'm hoping with this I can just make a PR in the owner's package. It's the difference between a 10 minute commit and a 1 minute change.
You’ve obviously never owned property and failed to make your payments for, what, four months now? I just got off the phone with a property owner who lost their house (as did their renter). He called me from a homeless shelter.
> Hundreds of terabytes a day is really not that much

How much would it cost to move this across boxes in EC2? I actually don't know, that's not a rhetorical question. A lot of our servers have 10-40gbit links that we saturate for minutes/hours at a time, which I suspect would be expensive without the kind of topology optimization we do in our datacenters.

> Also surprised about latency

We've spent a surprising amount of money reducing latency :) We're not a high frequency trading firm or anything, but an extra 1ms (say) between datacenters is generally bad for us and measurably reduces performance of some systems.

> Reliability is "solved" at low levels

To whatever extent this may be true, it's certainly not true for cloud providers. One obvious example is that EC2 has "scheduled maintenance events" where they force you to reboot your box. This would cost us a lot of money (mostly in dev time, to work around it).

Also, multi-second network dropouts in big cloud datacenters are not uncommon (in my limited experience), but that would be really bad for us. We have millisecond-scale failover with 2x or 3x redundancy on important systems.
This comment could describe basically any country in the world.
I thought once of using NNTP for comments (the blog messages themself can also be readable with NNTP). You can have a link from a static web page to separate page that displays read-only comments, and has instructions to post (you could also use iframe, although I do not recommend that; a normal link would do better, I think). That is what I wanted to do, at least.

(I don't know about GDPR, though, sorry)
I'm not okay with anyone being on the street. Lots of people are losing their jobs and homes, and landlords shouldn't have any special protection from that effect than anyone else does.
This sort of underlines how important writing is, even "trivial" writing. Want to help more people? Want to live forever? Write stuff down.
>> You've only failed if you stop trying.

There are more details to the above, which I've explained in my blog: https://alokgovil.com/winners-quit-strategically/
And also not everyone wants to be woken up to receive their groceries at 2am after they've been picked in the middle of the night.
Aint anybody going to mention the video clip for "Musique non stop"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0lIlROWro8

This song got some commercial rotation in Spain in the day, and the videoclip was mesmerizing.
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Same here. Running some ancient OS/software in a VM can be pretty satisfying though, especially since I don't have a whole lot of space for physical hardware.

Many games wouldn't work well in a VM, of course, there's no getting around that.
Property Management (not the ownership part, but the operations part) is very much a job. And how much of a job depends upon the pool of properties, their level of maintenance/upkeep, and the tenants. Managing repairs, proactive maintenance, the finding and of vetting tenants, accounting, landscaping (if applicable) etc ... all add up.
I used to use rubymine a few years ago and maybe I just wasn't using it right but I can do all the stuff in rubymine in vs code. The only thing I'm missing is being able to look through the code for gems.
> dashboards for managers with all sort of stats on developers: code quality with arbitrary rules, productivity (number of lines of codes)

...down to number of keystrokes. Microsoft has a 25+ years history of spying on users.

> being locked-in with the Microsoft toolchain all along from source code edition to deployment in Azure

That's the real endgame. Lock-in has been Microsoft go-to strategy since the beginning.
No, we disagree because it's pretty black and white. It wasn't hard to Ctrl+f for "like" and "automat" in the TOS. Your team needs to do better.
AI compute is so much cheaper on-prem that it's not even in question.

And there are clients that demand it.

And researchers, in general, like to do totally wacky things, and it's often easier/cheaper to let us if you have physical access.
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On-prem makes your cost control proactive, rather than reactive. Nobody gets a new server without first having a purchase order approved - and the burden to get that approval falls on the person who wants the server.

In the cloud, at least the way it's generally used, cost control is reactive: You get a bill from AWS every month, and if you're lucky you'll be able to attribute the costs to different projects.

This is both a strength and a weakness: on-premise assets will end up at much higher utilisation, because people will be keen to share servers and dodge the bureaucracy and costs of adding more. But if you consider isolation a virtue, you might prefer having 100 CPUs spread across 100 SQL DBs instead of 50 CPUs across two mega-databases.
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There is also another opinion: that many people go to the ER who don't really need to go there.

I had to visit the ER recently. I did not want to go but my doctor insisted. A family member who is also a doctor also insisted I go.

The ER was eerily empty. The ER doctor saw me immediately. There were only a couple of other patients that I could see. This contrasts to prior experiences in the ER where there is a long wait as I get triaged, with lots of people waiting to be seen.

Fortunately my situation was nothing serious. When I returned home and told my relative, he said his hospital's emergency department was also very light. In his opinion, there were a lot of people going to the ER who didn't need to go in the first place.

Edit: I am referring to non-trauma related admissions to the ER. E.g. I have a headache and I am going to the ER to be seen now.
The server is in someone else's building. They have hippa compliant stuff for healthcare, but at a point there is just that risk that you have to take with the servers and data not physically being entirely under your control and having to trust the providers
Apps: TikTok, Spotify, Pinterest and many others appear to be down.
Yeah. Previous round of layoffs in 2019 had 3 distinct phases: non-technical (i.e. marketing) first, then engineers in Uber Prime, and then Uber ATG
That every dollar you spend directly translates into pushing your financial independence further into the future.

I hadn't really reflected on becoming financially independent as a real possibility, but now I'm mentally bookkeeping spending against being locked into needing to work longer. The real revelation was when I realized that this "save 20% of your income for retirement" advice that's thrown around is totally backwards. Your income is not the yardstick, your spending is. Rather than scaling your spending to your income, spend what you need and save the rest. If you have a tech salary, that likely means you'll be financially independent much, much, earlier than traditional retirement age.
Companies that have good principles and act on them do not need to fire people for speaking up.

If they speak up and are right, you thank them and correct the problem.

If they speak up and are not right, you provide proofs or ignore it altogether if it is going to be obvious.

The only reason to fire is if you know they are right but you have no intention to correct it.

Scaring your employees into silence is going to be difficult to defend.
> We also have a number of machines with specs that would be hard to get e.g. on AWS.

What specs are those? I was under the impression AWS has everything from extremely tiny to giant terabytes-of-ram-for-SAP instance types.
We still don't have one for the common cold, people have been trying for decades.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-havent-we-cur...
> Even more interestingly, these "beliefs" seem to be entrenched extremely deeply in the human psyche, and almost "protected" in some way, by some sort of process.

My explanation for this is the brain has lots of mental shortcuts that help it make useful quick decisions when lacking complete information (like in survival situations), but these shortcuts break down in the modern world

E.g. "everyone else is doing it so it must be good" is a decent rule of thumb when you don't have time to look into things but you have to resist this rule of thumb when seeking scientific knowledge, which isn't natural for many.
Bandwidth costs.

Most dedicated servers come with unmetered bandwidth so not only is it cheap to serve large files but your bandwidth costs won't suddenly explode because of heavy usage or a DDoS attack.
Last time it was posted, it was noted that utterances breaks GitHub's ToS in pretty much every way, and they could pull the plug on this really fast.
Remember that time in 2012 when Google replaced the authenticator app with a new one and never really offered an explanation? (afaik?) https://blog.lastpass.com/2012/03/new-google-releases-authen...

Hopefully there wasn't anything more nefarious there.
> Emacs is ALWAYS in insert mode.

You, sir, have won the internet today.
Of course, people hesitate to go to the doctor. But I see a second factor: Maybe it’s because of a slowing down in many regards. Hence, less stress, and less heart attacks?
I think you may mean "My opinions are not me", or "I am not my opinions" gives you the space to separate your identity from your thoughts, giving you the freedom to change.
That's not next-level engineering. It's next-level marketing. The key thing about the [3-digits-here] series was that they were priced right. Not for Detroit ... priced right enough to sell enough of them, so that by the time Detroit (and Chicago) were ready, there were lots of them available second hand for very little money.

And thus: techno (and house) and their progeny.

OK, more precisely, that's not entirely fair. Early electro-funk (say, NYC 1978-1983) and even early hip hop did use these devices. But they were generally in studios and not widely used by everybody and their friend that just wanted to make a jam. By the time the 90s hit, the used market for 303/909 etc was primed and ready to burst.
For several generations, the SP4 with the Iris 540 was as good as it got. I just looked at the SP7 i7 specs, and it looks like you're right, though. I stand corrected!
On my Twitter bio, I labeled myself an infosec noob. I've been doing it for 4 years now, but I'm definitely still a noob.

And I will always be a noob. When I stop calling myself a noob, I stop learning.
What industry? It's good practice to not share information like that in any context, since attackers that have a bank if email addresses that are trying to figure out which if a few reused passwords might be used for a given website would have a harder time if they dont even know if the email has an account with a given website, or if an alternate email is used instead etc.
So what you're telling me is that their position is not really less different than from a renter. Ok, why should this group be protected particularly over a substantially more numerous and vulnerable group?

The solution can be super simple if the government had the balls to deal with it: forbid evictions for the next few months and encode into law deferred payments for mortgages, property taxes and rent.
As an aside, that is also why he declined[1] the MTV Best male artist nomination back in the 1990's. The short of it is "my muse is not a horse".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqdX-aglsXU
This is a bit off-topic, but I've been wanting to speak it for a while...

>The wrong answer could spell the end of capitalism

I've been seeing a lot of Capitalism/Socialism stuff, and 100% of the time it feels like the concepts aren't fully developed in the speakers mind. They aren't binary opposites, they're gradient opposites. Essentially private vs public empowerment.

If I trade vegetables with my neighbor, that's private and therefor capitalist. If the gov builds a road, that's public and therefor socialist. If you add up everything the people and their government do, you'll find where things are on the spectrum.

Every single government is a mix of capitalist and socialist. You literally can not have so much as a tribe before the two begin to exist. Neither of them are going away ever, and they're both good for different things.

Literally the only way for capitalism or socialism to end would be for there to be no communicating humans left.