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You are right, but talking about whether to use k8s or not would make the article 2-3x longer. It is a totally different topic.

ECS (with Fargate or EC2) is awesome but one might argue that it is still an overkill for a lot of people.

Some people look for scaling, immutability, effective resource utilization and they think they NEED containers. That is not entirely true. A lot of people would do totally ok with one EC2 instance.

Either way, kubernetes is awesome, there is a big community behind it maintaining a lot of tooling, docs, how-to guides, etc. That is very valuable for a lot of people too :)
Actually it's not as simple as that. Office is still making billions because of inertia in some cases.

I have 5 Office 2019 licenses at home because my family is used to it, they're using it and happy; however I work in a big, continent-wide project and everything is done (spreadsheets to reports to slide decks to coffee) on Google Docs & Google Drive. No one is using Microsoft Office or any other desktop office software and, it works.

Lines are not that clear cut anymore.
I agree, I think good thing to point out is that incentivizing and monetizing is not the same thing. If you would excuse a tangential argument, I notice that in Eastern culture 'social cache' is much stronger contender to monetary benefit than west; and in Western incentivization = monetization is more stronger. (my theory is that with more individualistic society with less strict societal norm money is one thing most can agreed upon)
This is interesting, so it's based on address? I am also a Hangouts user and never did actual 'couchsurfing' so seeing it disappear esp. in countries like Vietnam or Thailand is a sad thought. Still, having this paywall slapped on for the majority of users means that a lot of 'casual users' like me who open the app occassionally will fall away, which then means far less people available on Hangouts.

Maybe someone else will step in and build a Hangout clone? Their app is a massive battery hog full of bugs, and I dread opening it every time I get a new message.
Belgian here. This has gotten considerably better over the years. 10-15 years ago, it felt like every website threw a 2-sided dice to decide between Dutch and French. Even though I'm in the Dutch-speaking part, and not particularly close to the French-speaking part (for Belgian standards).
If you are in need why on earth are you couchsurfing and traveling at all? If you cant afford $15 for the site what happens when you get sick or any emergency whatsoever forces you to shell out money?
Also the 2008 Universal Studios fire.
If we consider a large group of people as a whole, can we say that this group has its own consciousness? For example Congress is a bunch of old dudes with their own consciousnesses, but as a whole it makes decisions by voting and other complex internal interactions between these individual consciousnesses. For an outsider, this organization behaves like a conscious being.

Another way to look at this idea is that consciousness is when we impose a boundary condition on a "medium" made of conscious "particles". I'd even compare humans with a liquid. When it flows freely, it obeys some general fluid laws and its behavior is rather uninteresting. It's when you confine a part of this liquid into some boundaries, the captured liquid starts to demonstrate some interesting effects. Same with humans. When they act freely and barely interact with each other, they form a uniform mess, but once we impose various boundaries, such as countries, companies or various forms of organizations, humans captured in those boundaries are forced to interact with each other more often and those interactions are governed by various laws, and at that moment these fictional entities start to look like conscious beings.
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So sad to see this aggressive shift. I have made many good friends from Couchsurfing, and I was paying the annually fee both to support the site and to be "Verified by CouchSurfing". Even though on March they received my annually payment, today after reading this article I tried to login to CS after some months, only to find out I had to pay _again_ to even access my profile. I could not see my photos, references, messages, nothing.

I'm really disappointed and sad, and I guess I'm also switching to BeWelcome.
As a bonus, the author also released an user-agent parsing library for Go:

https://github.com/zgoat/gadget
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Ask HN: How to write multilanguage documentation?
What kind of solutions you have found to write documentation in multiple languages? It would possible to control the document format and paragraph discrepancies between the different languages?
People don't realize, I think, how much modern science owes its tools and methodologies to alchemy.

I like your comparison between alchemy and AI. Even modern neural nets would fit alchemical concepts pretty well - "we flattened a rock, put lightning inside it, and made it speak to us with a human voice!"
The real arbitrage opportunity is for a competitor to DoorDash to place orders through DoorDash, and pay the delivery person a small fee plus let the delivery person collect the DoorDash fee. You could scale this up to huge numbers.

Curious if doing so would survive a lawsuit. On the one hand, DoorDash could argue that it's unfair competition, but only by admitting that their deliveries are priced too low, which itself is unfair competition. I don't know how unfair competition is regulated.
I share the same feelings.

UNIX seemed a better architecture than the archaic MS-DOS/Windows 3.1 (not so much when compared against Amiga).

However thanks to my university I was able to plunge into Xerox PARC universe and its influences on ETHZ, and the more I learned reading their papers and manuals, with playing with Smalltalk/V and Native Oberon, made me a very grumpy UNIX user and eventually back into Windows/macOS world a couple of years later.

Picking up on your examples, ironically with DBUS, gobject, KParts, gRPC one could replicate the experience of such workstations on GNU/Linux, even something similar to OLE (which goes back to Xerox PARC inline documents), or OS wide REPL instead of plain old UNIX shell, but given the fragmentation of Linux distributions it is in vain to try to offer such experience.
“What working in an average company has taught me”
> I don't know how Hacker News manages to stay so pure

It's heavily moderated, more so than Reddit. Right now is an interesting time because COVID posts are weighted to quickly fall off the front page (I'm not really complaining, this is a tech link site and I can see how those get annoying; no one wants to think about that right now, but if you see one of those threads, they are some of the most interesting and controversial, so check them out before they fall off).
Here's the thing. Very likely Chinese companies with interest in doing business will comply with any local regulation. That leaves everyone red faced with no further arguments other than raise the concern that you can't trust that there is no backdoor, that there are no secret strings attached etc.
No one is having a nuclear war over Taiwan. It's important, but not that important.

If China invaded Taiwan, the US would not defend it. Super powers don't go to war. They have wars through proxy countries. If super powers did go to war, it would be nuclear war, and it would be bad.
I am building my business fully based on RSS. It is a news API. I got all my data solely form RSS. And I can confirm that the vast majority of news outlets still have it.

https://newscatcherapi.com/

I probably should write a post with exact numbers:
* how frequently it is updated
* how many websites still support it
* etc
Uber is convinced I live in Brazil and speak Portuguese now.
Cheating in higher education is a serious offense. Think loss of scholarships, failed classes the kill your gpa, expulsion.
This is a very 'tech' response in a good way, it made me smile. I think they meant why would a bank give an anybody a loan? You have no way of knowing if an anybody already has a loan out with you and you have no ability to evaluate their risk. Why would you loan money to someone with no ability to review their credit health and financial situation? It's an impossible battle without inventing a user specific metric.
> To preface, firstly - I am a supporter of free global trade and greater collaboration between countries to maximize the benefit of each other.

"To preface", "As an X", etc are easy tells that you really aren't what you claim. Just say what you want rather than defensively qualifying it. Most of us here see right through it and it's a waste of bits.

> America should protect its own interests and interests of other democratic nations before they get eroded

Then we wouldn't be bullying other democratic nations by telling them who they can or cannot trade with. Also, I wish we'd stop with the "democracy" nonsense considering how many democracies we've attacked/overthrown in our history - the most recent being bolivia. Also, "CCP" is a dead giveaway of propaganda/bias. I don't think I've seen "CCP" as much as I've seen in the last few weeks. It's like everyone at propaganda camp got the same memo.

> Can someone tell me why the US/EU shouldn't do the same?

Can you tell me what "US/EU" is? Isn't the EU their own political entity?

Your comment, like so many comments on social media reek of anti-"CCP" propaganda. I believe in protectionism and I agree that you shouldn't be able to buy a $1.99 USB cable from china, mexico, india or EU or anywhere else. The US should set up tariffs on all products against all countries to protect american workers and reindustrialize. Not selectively use protectionism to attack one single nation which doesn't help any american worker. It seems like most of the "pro-american" commenters are foreigners who want to hurt china rather than help america. It's amazing how many "americans" online supported moving jobs from china to india rather than back to the US.

Globalism has been a disaster for workers, environment, etc. Everything from climate change to coronavirus pandemic is due to globalism. I've always felt a more national or even regional trading is appropriate. Why doesn't the EU have their own google, facebook, etc? Why doesn't india? Why doesn't japan? Why are we manufacturing the iphone in china? Tariffs/protectionism should be used by nations to protect their workers and industries. In order for that to happen, globalism has to die.

This "I am a supporter of free global trade and greater collaboration between countries to maximize the benefit of each other." does not align with everything else you wrote. If you truly believed that, you'd be praising china since they are doing exactly that.
If you compare the aqueducts to software, you might draw the completely wrong conclusions. Software that was extremely well built in the 70s is mostly gone (or if it's still there, it's not exactly admired by todays software craftsmen (looking at you, airline ticket booking systems)).

What makes software endure over time is its ability to react to changes of wildly different varieties (market shifts, changing hardware, new technology, ...). The Linux kernel might still be popular in 30 years, but it will likely look very different from today. If it looks the same in the way the aqueducts do, it won't be relevant anymore and will most likely be forgotten eventually.
I would recommend using this period to create a good bond with your kid. While taking parental leave and having absence have negative impact on your management, you can switch jobs and all is forgotten.
So I have news for your, not only is Win32 sandbox a thing, it is part of Windows 10X experience which uses sandboxes for everything, and Windows 10X is also coming to a laptop near you in the future.
They are taking a loss on every order, but they are hoping to make up for it with volume.
The blog itself seemed like an example of content marketing, As is evident from "I challenge you to signup for Feedly" at the end of the article.
David Bohm's Implicate vs Explicate Order seems to be a root question here (as indicated in the article)... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicate_and_explicate_order
Yah, life is dangerous. More so during flu season, and even more so with COVID-19 around. You seem indignant. It's just reality though. Sometimes it can be harsh.
We're talking about a "flu" that, even with _heavy_ travel restrictions, has a death rate of about 1%, going up to 10% on the over 65. We're talking about a "flu" that is so contagious that, even with orders to stay at home, manages to keep itself alive through new infections easily and we're struggling to get the R0 down. We're talking about a "flu" that has, in a matter of weeks, completely overwhelmed every single health system in the world.

Your relativization of your fellow citizens as just a matter of numbers and "how old will they die anyways?" is absolutely heartless. These are actual people, with families, friends and close people. Not just numbers on the John Hopkins charts.

But hey, what could happen if you reopened ? After all, New York only had to deal with a shortage of medical equipment, medical personnel being exhausted and overworked, a need to bring cooling trucks just to hold the dead bodies. Combine that with the fact that the moment your health system gets overwhelmed and cannot treat other illnesses, those deaths will go through the roof. It's not a crazy theory. It's something epidemiologists have studied for a while, and we have seen its effect with cases in Europe, where deaths not related to Covid-19 have gone up, because we couldn't treat heart diseases, other pulmonary diseases, etc. Oh, and, an overwhelmed medical system also leads to a shutdown of other parts of your precious economy. People will not go to work because being injured means you cannot be treated. Half of construction gone. Half of any job that involves dangerous conditions gone. And how many other jobs will that destroy ? This lockdown is a necessary evil, and the best option we have.

So, yes. The government has every right to protect millions of citizens from dying. You can handle staying home. I know it's hard at times, and I truly hope that you will get better. But it's not complicated. Sit. at. home.
You had me until the whole “invest in government...”
Good thing they were not terminating anybody for this, making your entire argument moot.
I like the nipple rubbing!
I did interview some of the devs about their reasoning, and they kind of admitted that they probably had screwed up. The problem is the "tech-lead" that claims that he has 20 years [sic] of .NET experience, but can't implement the strategy pattern correctly, but most importantly doesn't understand when and how to use it, which is evident by him hardcoding the "strategies" in the calling methods. He also has six layers before above dapper (no exageration, I have counted them) of classes for a simple stored procedure call. One of the problem is that five of those classes don't add any functionality, since they just pass through the string with the name of the stored procedure and the arguments. "This is how it done", is the answer I get when I question the wisdom of all the empty classes, and then he walks around and telling other people that I don't understand OOP.

After failing in my attempts to be transferred to an other team I'm sending out my resumé.
> I studied only for 4 years, but I'm native Sinhalese, which isn't really that far from Sanskrit.

It's interesting you say that. My native tongue is Hindi, but growing up I had a friend whose mother tongue was Malayalam, and according to him Malayalam was closer to Sanskrit than Hindi.

Do you know if there are similarities between Sinhalese and Malyalam?
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> how brands like Varsity become synonymous with a sport's skill bracket

Is it bad I did not know that was a company's name?
I crave native apps, especially ones that get out of the way. Web apps take up screen real estate, and are cumbersome if they involve login details or if you want to access the API (if one even exists). There is definitely a place for more native apps, and more creative designs as well. Creatively, I am always seeking inspiration, and web apps are just the same design patterns repeated everywhere. A fresh app like TweetBot or OmniFocus is valuable for its creativity and sleekness, it's just something you could never find in a web application.
2x the line item cost but generally much cheaper in terms of Total Cost of Ownership.
> the best and hardest working people in the world

That's not the majority of international students in the US. It's those whose parents can afford to pay for them to study abroad.
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I assume that it works more like a filter - does the voter know the promises and policies of each candidate in his region? Or is the voter voting blindly?

There was an idea going around that instead of voting for candidate, you would answer a questionnaire about policies, and would be matched with best fit candidate.

The questions itself would be compiled from candidates' policies, and candidate would assign the weights to each of the answers.
Huawei is a competitor in the mobile SoC field.
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I think you're missing the mark on property. Property ownership is now done by the capital class. They own property and can move. They've pushed rents and real estate prices up globally and have so much money they can leave their properties empty. If you're in the position that you can buy a property but then can't move because the property takes up all your spare income then you are closer to serf than capitalist.
I'd disagree. They're better off getting some feedback on books that might appeal to their learning style and background better. Otherwise they may tire quickly and not learn well-enough.
Taxpayers are paying for the schools, the schools do contribute to the economy in a big way, but are also massive externalities on the communities. Perhaps by scaling back a big on admin and other costs the people will get a better bang for their buck -- as well as having their own kids gain the instruction.

I am not sure why state schools exist if not to teach the state students, esp. if taxpayers have to fund them. Is it strictly a jobs program then, to feed local profs, staff, restaurants and so therefore they have a duty to the taxpayer to just bring in the most income?
> people care that it’s worse than it was 40 years ago

Agreed. And since we're currently in an unprecedentedly long period of prosperity it's only a matter of time before some people will be taking quite a few steps back.

My largest worry is that society will simply cease to have a purpose for some groups of people, while still preventing those people from trying another path. In the past such situations usually triggered large migrations of people, but at the moment, there isn't really anywhere for them to go. It's a situation that needs to be resolved within the next 10-20 years if we want to avoid civil unrest in the future.
> Ofcourse this raises the issue of people not willing to part their karma to maintain forum sanctity, but as of now that's manageable when compared to discouragement from down votes.

Not a problem on Stack Overflow. And the website is a neat concept too.
Bytedance, holder of TikTok, launches Internet of Vehicles business
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I wonder why podcasts are thriving while writing-based RSS is declining.
People who use BSD as their desktop os, why do you choose BSD over Linux?
That is an odd example. You are comparing the search for js with the search of js vscode.

Everyday I run into a Google hell. Tonight I was trying to find info on how Github uses let's encrypt for https on custom domains. The only thing that comes up are questions about how to enable it.

I switched my default search to duckduckgo. I always thought DDG would never catch Google, but never realized Google would make their results so useless as to make DDG competitive. (Sorry DDG, I love you.)
Most people don't ride buses to get to work at Tesla. There are shuttles from overflow parking lots but those lots have been empty the last few times I've been by while the rest of the lots are full. In other words people are driving to work.

So that crowded bus for hours thing, not sure where that came from.

Shopping takes less time that working, for sure, but that's missing the point, because the environment at a store is much dirtier. The Tesla plant is pretty clean and you don't have random people wandering in off the streets touching everything.
It's 5 year account with 8K karma and other posts besides Tesla if you give anything more than a cursory glance of a few pages, including posts on deep/technical topics. People are allowed to be anti-Elon/Tesla, it does not mean the account is an antagonist.

Oh no! Linking to recent and relevant NYT articles on Elon! Flamebait!
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>It's an impossible battle without inventing a user specific metric.

And that's exactly what happens over here. There is no credit score, nor other such bullshit.

You get assessed for viability by proving your current income for last X months depending on the loan.

There also exists a national black list of debtors - but to get there you must really mess up and not even try to pay back your loan.
>> For example, your browser's language is set to English. Cool.

That's where this example should stop. Your site should then serve me English, because that's the language I've told you that I understand.

Why are you changing it based on my location? Why are you serving an English-speaking tourist in Mexico "the appropriate version of our Spanish translations" when their browser just fucking told you THEY WANTED THE ENGLISH VERSION?!!
The only way is in-person student code review or in-class projects. You could go over their code with each student and ask poignant questions that can only be answered if the student wrote the code themselves. But I'm not sure how feasible that or the in-class project is for most teachers.

Also, anyone remember the story of the programmer who subcontracted his work to some offshore freelancer for a fraction of his salary? He just sat at his cubicle goofing off all day while the freelancer did all the work.
Qualcomm and Huawei are both "fabless" semiconductor companies, like NVidia or AMD. These companies design chips, but do not own foundries to manufacture them. TSMC is a "pure-play foundry", a company that does not design chips, but only manufactures chips that other companies have designed. TSMC is the largest and most advanced foundry.

Huawei (a Chinese company) and Qualcomm (a US company) both design modems[1]. Huawei and Qualcomm both need TSMC's fabs, or else they will not be able to manufacture their most advanced designs. If Huawei can't buy from TSMC, then new Huawei modems will have to be manufactured with inferior or more expensive alternatives.

With Huawei chips now more expensive or less performant, products designed by Qualcomm will be better in comparison. Presumably, this will cause Qualcomm's stock to rise in value, although it may be a net negative for the worldwide economy.

See also the recent announcement that TSMC reached an agreement with the US government to move some of its production to Arizona [2].

[1] Huawei's Kirin/Balong chips directly compete with Qualcomm's Snapdragon chips: both are currently manufactured on TSMC's 7nm process.

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23187698
Is the argument you really want to use "two wrongs make a right"? Sure, society is exploitative all the way down: but, you can always choose to be less exploitative like... not doing selfish things that very very directly impact the actual life and death of other people, maybe?
Why do people who don't even know what the candidates said have any business voting?