skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly this, limit your apache processes to match the ram you have available so the machine returns 4xx or 5xx to excess requests but otherwise remains responsive and normal. Problem solved. The options are right there in the conf.

Start with a super low limit then slowly increase while watching reqs/sec. When reqs/sec stops increasing or you run out of ram then there’s your sweet spot.
Scale-Up of Solar and Wind Puts Existing Coal, Gas at Risk
Shouldn't you be using localStorage for that?
I took it from the article that dropping requests was permitted (since that happens when all servers go down). So my assumption is still that a better solution is that the load balancer allows only a specific number of requests per server and rejects or caches the rest. I would even argue that requests being rejected is more understandable for the user than the website simply not being there for a certain time.
I was thinking the same, it could be that the OP isn't familiar with the term yet.
https://archive.is/jA5jJ
While not actively developing infrastructure myself, I've always like the concept presented in the Hystrix package: https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix

Even though it seems it is no longer maintained, the circuit breakers, fail over modes and all that are well documented.

And I don't know why Hystrix hasn't been adopted by a wide audience yet. It seems like a necessity in the micro service landscape.
USA PATRIOT Act. It's an initialism.
You're missing developer tools in your browser, I think. :)
https://archive.vn/Bg5Dx
This one is absolutely genius.
Typically microservices form a tree – the end user probably directly interacts with a single service, that service talks to more, they each talk to more, etc.

From what I can tell, this is suggesting that a user should be interacting directly with each "Self-Contained System".
I think Wolfram's claims are even more egregious than that.

His model is inherently computational. It would be like saying "here's a computer that can execute things" and then proving that you'd created the Linux kernel or something.

It's not a very surprising claim to say that a particular fact can be represented in a system which can represent anything. Mathematicians (well, most anyways) don't go around claiming they've discovered the secrets of the universe because math _could_ describe it in principle.
If I use S3 + EMR what exactly falls into the category of "a ton of stuff there that you probably don’t use"?

>> Your infra would be better tailored to your workloads

How do you scale elastically with an on-prem infra? What part do you tune more to your own workload when an average company cannot even tune the GC for Java for their own workload?

Your claims do not reflect on reality, it is rather your imagination. I have migrated countless companies to the cloud, and almost every single migration was driven by a single factor: cost. Everything else was an added bonus: inscrased security, availability and elasticity.
This conversation sounds a lot like the debate around globalization and outsourcing manufacturing to me. It might be a stretch but there is something here.

There is room for both Cloud and On-Prem to exist. This endless drive by industry to push everyone to cloud infrastructure and SaaS, in my humble opinion, will look exactly like the whole supply chain coming from the east during a pandemic.

The economics of it look great in a lot of use cases, but putting our whole company at the mercy of a few providers sounds terrible to me. Even more so when I see posts on HN about folks getting locked out of their accounts with little notice.

It does not take much to bring our modern cloud to a grinding halt. For example, a mistake by an mostly unheard of ISP lead to a massive outage not less than a year ago(1).

It was amazing to see the interconnections turn to cascading issues. 1 ISP goofs. 1-2 major providers have issues and the trickle down effect was such that even services that thought they were immune from cloud issues were realizing that they rely on a 3rd party that relies on a different 3th party that uses cloudflare or AWS.

So, even though I think the cloud is (usually) secure, stable, resilient, etc... I still advocate for its use in moderation and for 2 main use cases.

1 - elastic demands. Those non-critical systems that add some value or make work easier. Things we could do without for several days and not hurt the business much.

2 - DR / Backup / redundancy. We have a robust 2 data center / DR fail over system. Adding cloud components to that seems reasonable to me.

(1)https://slate.com/technology/2019/06/verizon-dqe-outage-inte...

Edit: Spelling and clarity

Edit2: New reasons to stay on prem are happening all the time. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsofts-gi...
Sorry, I need more coffee before I write comments.
You are all correct and I'm totally wrong. I confused it with the research on neurons surrounding the dead areas. These neurons become dormant because of disuse.
Well, it's fine that they are in the early stages, but Wolfram went ahead with a press bonanza to announce that he had solved physics without the corresponding predictions that would demonstrate it.

That's why it's important to point out that it's not falsifiable and has no explanatory power at the moment. What he's doing is bad for science and does real harm, eroding the public understanding of how science actually works in favor of flashy headlines.
The fact is people are forced to participate in our current society. There is more freedom than in Cuba, but there are still huge number of things constraining my freedom, how I can use it, how much would cost to exercise this freedom...

How capital and revenue is unequally (and many says unethically) shared in our current system, and how it is structured to favor people who have more capital, create many huge constraints for most people, while favoring few.

The goal of Pikety and of many others is to change the rules of the game, the rules we are force to live with and that have huge impact on our freedom.

Starting a non-profit does not change the rule of the game, it change only the way we live with the rule.
I am unfamiliar with Wolfram's new theory, but some have said it is similar to his previous "Theory of Everything" via cellular automaton.

It often can be quick to determine whether a theory will ever be falsifiable - it has to do with the nature of the claims being made by the theory.

> such as the existence of lighter weight particles than electrons that still have mass

That's not a prediction, as we know that neutrinos exist.
I'm making a political statement by using the word Taiwan, as is facebook. Just using that word instead of the word chinese Taipei says a lot
more review:

https://videocardz.com/86840/amd-ryzen-3-3300x-and-ryzen-3-3...
I think a lot of HN members are subscribers to these publications, just as a matter of culture.

As for what you're missing? If you weren't already a subscriber to the NYT, you probably aren't that interested in it. I find the NYT, especially editorials, to be extremely long-winded. This could have been summarized as "My opinion: MTA is a horrible employer that conditions my employment on coming to work when we don't have the sanitation and protective supplies or procedures that MTA tells us to recommend to our customers".
That sounds interesting! I'll check it out.

For me, I think the most important thing is simply having a plan and focusing on a few tasks at a time and not worrying about _everything_ to do. It sounds like a prioritized tasklist would be a nice addition to my current workflow. Thanks!
Books that should be blog posts, papers that should be tweets.
I have always preferred the library approach myself, but it seems like people are converging on "sidecar" proxies to connect up their microservices. Istio and Linkerd are the big ones. Istio uses Envoy which you can use without a whole "service mesh" to add things like circuit breaking, load balancing, rate limiting, etc.
It's actually a specific offer regarding two Microsoft initiatives, "the Pluton security subsystem or Secure World sandbox".

Almost as if they assume Linux can be breached, but not their fabulous software. ;)
Using that logic, all tech with vulnerabilities should be removed.

While I understand the urge want to humanize the process, give people jobs, this is not the way to do it.

Future of human employees inside of Starbucks is clearly focused on what the baristas do best as humans, being friendly person that’s humanize the experience of getting coffee.

As for including humans in food safety procedures, what exactly are you referring too? Inserting 30-60 IoT continuous environmental and systems monitoring sensors into a store clearing makes more sense that paying a human to be in the store 24/7 and writing it down on paper. If I am recalling correctly, Starbucks has already saved millions by not letting the on site employees control the HVAC systems.
You and I are clearly living in two completely different worlds.

I estimate at least 20% of parents don't love their children, based on my personal experience and observations.

Even if terrible parents who do terrible things actually love their children, it is not like it actually matters. If someone, for example, molests you because they love you, molests you because they hate you, or molests you because they don't have any particular emotion towards you. You still are molested.
Link redirects me to `guce.advertising.com`, which my adblock blocks. If I unblock it, it redirects to yahoo, where I have to agree with YAHOO's terms of use, and only after agreeing I'm taken to techcrunch's home page.

When did the web become such an unusable place?
Because it’s interesting
Respectfully, I think that this is a misunderstanding of the context in which Einstein made his theoretical innovations. He did not do it in a vacuum and he absolutely built upon incremental scientific progress.

The fact that someone else came up with the EFE at essentially the same time as Einstein is telling.
Oh, well, it literally depends on what you pick as a definition for "excellent" in a way I hadn't considered then :-)

Food for thought however: what is implemented elsewhere may be an indicator of was level of excellence is achievable.
The norm of private property rights gives citizens a powerful tool against government overreach. Norms alter how power is legitimized and as such make new things possible---it's not just about pointy sticks.
I wonder if they changed the licensing to something you can actually use in a non FOSS product. Way way back (8 years ago?) we were deciding between webkit and gecko for our solution (we needed a web engine for server side GFX rendering) and the licence made it very simple for us to decide - WebKit was MIT, Gecko wasn't.
I never understood that. Why do you need a skeuomorphic click? You don't trust that tapping works? Whenever I set up a new phone it's a mad dash to disable the haptic tap feedback before I go crazy.
Not easily; you’re making the argument that there can be high expenses for collocating but you’re talking about a -lot- of computational power.

I know that hardware varies a lot for sure, but for context I put together 3 racks 50% density with an 800gbit backplane for around 18k eur/mo.

I spared no expense, official juniper QSFPs (which are egregiously overpriced) and top of the line Dell servers with full out of band licenses.

And once there: interconnected bandwidth and IOPs became “free” (or, no extra charge).

We put the same application in cloud And it costs us 40k eur/mo with a heavy amount of optimisation, with half-sized instances and an aggressive optimisation in bandwidth/iops.

Clouds “sticker price” to us is 4x that of physical. You can buy a lot of human time for that price.
Ask HN: Do microservices just shift complexity from app to ops?
Here is how we went about w/ CSPs (AWS, Azure, GC, Oracle). Thoughts welcome

Getting Started --> Definitely go w/ CSPs. No need to worry about infra.

Pre Product Market Fit + Steady Growth --> On Premise, because CSPs might be expensive until you find a consistently profitable business.

Pre Product Market Fit + HyperGrowth --> CSPs since you wont be able to keep up [we never got to this stage]

Product Market Fit w/ Sustainable Good Margins --> CSPs, pay to remove the headache [we never got to this stage]

Side Note: w/ GPUs, CSPs rarely make sense
Oddly, globally, Starbucks around the world are not the same; for example, the percent of fat in the milk differs from region to region.
No idea. Generally reserved instances will give you 30-75% off though, I believe.

This is for a hobby project, so no way I'm committing to that, haha.

I'm also building the architecture so that I can easily completely destroy it and restore it from backups very quickly.

So, depending what I do with it, may be destroying it regularly and just bringing online when I want it.
We have lots of bumblebees on our property in Norway. We just leave some parts of the garden completely untouched, with a rich variety of wild plants growing, and they’ll move in there and seemingly thrive well.
Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovahs! Moloch whose factories dream and croak in the fog! Moloch whose smoke-stacks and antennae crown the cities!

Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone! Moloch whose soul is electricity and banks! Moloch whose poverty is the specter of genius! Moloch whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen! Moloch whose name is the Mind!

...

Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible madhouses! granite cocks! monstrous bombs!
Kimsufi if you're looking at OVH already
I'm looking forward to be able to embed GeckoView in my Ionic apps to support older android versions, as a replacement for the now defunct crosswalk project.
Bad though that was, massacres and genocides go back millenia and went on without much tech involved. eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history#Neanderth..., Pinker's stuff, the book Demonic Males on how chimps do it
Let's compare quickly to a Brand X. I'll choose string theory. Concrete forms of string theory have been proposed, and they predict surprising things that folks could not have easily predicted; in particular, supersymmetry and multiple compactified dimensions are concrete predictions that could be tested with particle accelerators, and we have tested (and rejected!) some supersymmetries this way.

String theory also predicts some things that are congruent with existing theories but, by dint of building them differently, gives different predictions for how they work. In this, we get new explanatory power. For example, string theory predicts fuzzball black holes, giving a resolution to the firewall problem. All string theories have tachyons, which is surprising but would not be the first time that they've shown up theoretically, and they solve some questions about spacetime (while opening many others!) Some string theories have photons and gravitons, which can unify our existing conflicts between GR and QM.

And, crucially, string theory admits narrowing of conjectures and explanatory regimes. It's easy to take a string theory, combine it with an observation from a satellite or a particle accelerator, and conclude that no, the theory was wrong. Horribly wrong, completely wrong, totally wrong. String theory is actually sufficiently formal that the current source of realizing wrongness is from "swampland" critiques, which are merely observations that a working string theory ought to pass some basic arithmetic sanity checks.

Sure, maybe my conclusions are premature. As a cousin comment notes, though, a particle theory that doesn't immediately spit out the Standard Model is a little suspect, and one that admits basically any model of particle physics is also a little suspect.
I've noticed small companies are more worried about the actual bills coming in where as big companies are more worried about the perceived lack of speed/agility in their development.

We could spend time making sure we use the smallest aurora instances possible in AWS or we could standardize on a version to support and use the smallest size of that version that's available. We spend a lot on this extra capacity in some places, but it greatly increases our speed in other places.

It's all about trade-offs and what your organization values.
Would be nice if I could export everything when I'm done.
I don't quite know how to feel about this. Perhaps it is my mistrust against Zoom, but I did enjoy the run Keybase had as a semi-independent key and ID manager.
In that case it's still statistically significant ;)
I'm pretty sure Matlab will last forever. There is a healthy company backing it with technology lock in from many, many companies where programming is not their core competence.
yeah, we’re whiffing hard enough in real life..
That's a somewhat misleading wording for a classic rule of parallel algorithm: a thread is the owner of its computations.

So, each actor own a group of cells and is the only one able to modify them. This highly simplifies most algorithms, removes a lot of synchronization issues ...

This is also why in parallel algorithm you should split the outputs rather than the inputs.
Just an idiom :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon_my_French
And I’m done with Keybase.

What’s that open source alternative that someone recently posted here?
‘It’s irresponsible’: Washington state sees sudden rise in Covid parties
This is the one I use in Notion: https://www.notion.so/71c525aa1d8f41a7bbbe5159807c8d74?v=8ac...
It's a bit confusing but it's usable even if you ignore everything to the right of the time column

It's based on the SuperMemo tasklist system which works quite well but is annoying to use when I'm on the go.
Clearly they've put a lot of work into this and are willing to pay out for a "3rd party audit" so to speak.

But my schadenfreude is hoping for an outcome similar to what happened to an old co-worker of mine back in 2005.

He was a Windows nut and we were always in a friendly competition about which ecosystem was the better one. One time he had done a bunch of modifications to his own laptop OS, IDS, and tweaking services to have a slimmed down install with a web server. When he was happy he told me "tell your hacker buddies to try and hack this website hehe" :D

He had put up a simple website offering 1000 USD for hacking into the server it was hosted on. His own personal work laptop, with a bunch of other sensitive stuff on it.

I said, ok... And posted it on a certain mailing list that I won't mention.

We sat opposite each other and within 10 minutes I saw him bend down towards the screen with a worried look on his face. Tapping frantically on the keys.

Within another 10 minutes he had disconnected the computer from the internet and said the challenge was off. :D

Apparently his IDS had been throwing up warnings about md5 checksums being changed left and right. That's all we figured out about it. I was 16 years younger so he didn't want to share much more with me.
Yes we do - but it's important that we don't prioritise the rich, famous, connected businessmen and their internet fanboys trumpeting their vanity projects over the obscure patent clerks (and equivalent) doing the actual hard, brave work of letting their theories speak for themselves.
Maybe their “load balancer” was just a simple round robin service which wouldn’t have those abilities.
I can see how a unified board would take a lot of pressure from their companies but society-wise it would probably be better if such boards were separate, both for comparability and power spreading reasons.
The adult filter probably works like a DNS bkackhole and simply bans those websites from getting resolved.
I love the new trackpads, but I prefer the texture of the older glass trackpads. My hands are often quite dry, and it's just a softer feel.
TeX, BLAS, Vim and Emacs
Whoa, how much? The press release doesn’t say, but this will come out eventually since Zoom is publicly traded, right?
i kind of enjoyed that, hope they get it off the ground
Typically people will post a link to bypass the overlay using something like http://archive.is/, or https://outline.com/

I believe there is also a social rule here on HN that it is fine to ask for a bypass link, but it is not fine to complain about websites trying to stay solvent

EDIT: here is a bypass for the article. If you enjoyed it, consider subscribing to the NYT

http://archive.is/jA5jJ
It is, in fact, always about pointy sticks, which becomes shockingly apparent any time norms and the desires of those with the pointy sticks diverge too far, and having and consistently applying pointy sticks with a given rule is a very powerful method of establishing norms aligned with the stick holders desires, which then reduce the need for pointy stick holders to stick people with the sticks.

(This fact is also why a number of people have a strong preference for the norm of the wide distribution of pointy sticks, to try to better align the desires of those holding pointy sticks with general norms.)
I've never had to think about this. Always had the option of just opening up more capacity. My choice for application server (uWSGI) doesn't have easily found configurations for dropping connections on high load. Lots of documentation on fallbacks but no pre-emptive dropping (that I can find).
Take a look at https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes
Custom cursors have been in OSes for decades.
Speaking of iOS terminals, check out iSH. It provides a virtualized linux instance that runs on your phone and a nice terminal emulator. It’s been a big workflow improvement over an iOS ssh client only terminal for me.
Pull Checklist is now on the Github Marketplace too. https://github.com/marketplace/pull-checklist
I did mean PaaS, not Saas! Apologies, and thank you!

I wish i had a good answer about PaaS. There are hosted Cloud Foundry services. I think CF is more sensible than Heroku, myself. The various serverless platforms are PaaS of a specific kind. I think SalesForce counts. Is OpenShift still a thing?
And if you want a less glamorous tidbit to add to that list, OOP originated in Norway with the SIMULA language in the 60s.
I've been waiting for a product like this! Excited to try it out.
Languages are functional if they support higher order functions, recursion, closures, etc.

Code is functional if it separates side-effects to small, clearly marked parts of the codebase.
The issue is crazy. It basically come down to there is no unit test? Unit test traditionally is not done for numerical code in Fortran or C. We sent people to the moon on code without unit test. We build atomic bombs on code without unit test. It doesn’t mean the code is not tested. Those numerical code are just tested in a different way.

Also remember, all models are wrong, some are useful. Is this particular model useful? Probably.
I agree there's nothing original about the basic design, but that's true of a lot of mature products. With USB ports on both sides (in additional to Thunderbolt 3) and an HDMI port, it's a lot like the 2015 MacBook Pro aka the "best laptop ever made"¹. But mine has a great matte touchscreen, so there are some new ideas.

1: https://marco.org/2017/11/14/best-laptop-ever
In this case the article is considered part of NYT's Covid-19 coverage, so is accessible with a free email-based signup.
"Don't become a philosopher until you become rich."
Neurology study finds 'volume dial' for turning neural communication up or down
Agree on the cost for a sane organization. One draw with the cloud is that not all organizations are sane, so doing the work in house / on prem can be more expensive in terms of money, time, and politics than outsourcing to the cloud.