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Sure - but the "just live without them" argument is the main one used against having public policy about them!

If they really are inescapable, they should not escape public scrutiny.
"Asked by marketing" or something like that.

Fucking suits spoil everything. Engineers are in general, more ethical than suits.
I moved back from AWS (and AWS with docker for a while) to plain linux debian with fixed number of instances,
and I am quite happy with the move.

But the app/services are not installed manually, instead I use debian packages.
Every package will copy itself into a 'backup' directory during installation, so in case of
of rollback I reinstall a copy from there. I have it working for 2 years this way without issues.
Configuration is preloaded inside the packages.

-Must build an image before deploying and it takes time ... still the same ...
-If I need quick hot fix RIGHT NOW, I can't just log in ... perhaps this is more related to having fixed instances vs auto scaling.
-Must remember that launched containers do not close when ssh breaks ... + memory issues , disk issues... this is fixed and it is the biggest benefit for me.
Agreed those are not the best examples.

This one (JFK reading the Rick & Morty copypasta) strikes me as much more convincing however:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkH2zEHJ2Ng
I implemented a new feature at a big well established company.

Feature broke then companies replication.

After an extremely confusing conversation with the database team, i realized that they only replicated writes and updates.

I was the first in the history of the company to delete records.

They couldn’t imagine deleting anything. I couldn’t imagine keeping stale user data.
In my experience companies are pretty bad at always using their own domain even for legitimate things. I suspect it is because getting IT to do something like setting up a subdomain in any company I've worked in is virtually impossible, whereas buying a new domain is easy.

So I think most users wouldn't think something like `microsoft-it-support.com` would be suspicious.
Where Should You Start Marketing a New Business or Product?
>In reality these projects are far too huge to be purely community projects.

Mozilla is far too huge to not have money. Just 200M from those 600 million per year it took from Google, put in the bank, could pay for 50 developers/graphic designers/ $200K per year to work on it for 20 years. That would have taken care of the engine for 2 decades...

Instead they burnt money in BS ventures, Cxx salaries, events, and so on...
Why is this Red Alert 2-like game on the top of HN?
> When you load a webpage or an app that's hosted on AWS you give Amazon a lot of information about your browser, location, etc.

You can give them a lot, but you don't have to. Using a VPN and randomizing your browser user agent (if you even terminate SSL with an AWS service and not a VM run by the website owner).
Plus the code is ROCK SOLID and always has been -- it hardly ever crashes. Yet it's like a pinball machine with 5 million balls in play, and still amazingly fast.

Also the beautiful hires Czechnological artwork.

It's top-notch design, execution, and graphics.
Wouldn't this be something like a "Kevin Bacon" game of tech giants? Anyone is only a certain number of degrees of separation away from any company in an interconnected world. I could find a very obscure company and show that if both of us participate in a global economy, there are transitive relationships between us.

So I could choose not to use Amazon, but if I do business with only a few others, some of those people will do business with Amazon. The same goes for the Chinese Communist Party. Would that mean it's impossible for me to live without the CCP? There's a sense in which I could say that's true, but that wouldn't necessarily mean I shouldn't look for alternatives for who I depend on directly.
I don't mean to sound like I'm gatekeeping, but IMO, this thought process is not conducive to successful entrepreneurship. A true entrepreneur doesn't care about things like job security or financial independence. They take risks to make something and try to invent the future. Money has little to do with it.
How in the world did farmers and ranchers do it before July 5, 1994? How did humanity survive?
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A lot of those 12 year old apps still run and you use them enough to not switch to a different ecosystem?
Is the policy is to have 0 death and to ignore the damage from lockdown? Then yeah its not the best policy.
That's why the fines can be ramped up. The largest fines were a substantial fraction of the revenues for the companies they were addressed to and there is no practical limit once you take per violation figures into account. You ignore this at your peril.
Recreation is important and one form is not more "real" than another. Notwithstanding the fact that some games feel like work (and therefore suck, in my view), for those that are enjoyable, that provides value, whether it be chess, team sports or a video game.

Maybe there's something to be said for opting to lead a more creative rather than consumptive lifestyle. Ultimately though, something only matters if you think it does. My work is largely bullshit, and I can't think of a business I'd want to get into that also wouldn't feel like bullshit. I think the value I'd extract would precisely be in the connections made and the problem-solving itself. How important is another piece of enterprise software to extract money from people that no one thought they wanted until it exists?
Awesome to have an explanation now. Recently watched this video, and this reason was one of the suggestions for explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bvuwTuGnkc
I began using Ansible much before I learnt of Terraform . However , my Ansible scripts have been working flawlessly and the Python plugins and YAML makes it easy for me to figure out what it was that I wrote so many years ago.( Note to self -- must learn Terraform, Packer).
Sigil has been around for a while. I used it a few years ago to typeset a sci-fi novel I published through Amazon KDP. Unfortunately it was not as easy for me to use as Apple Pages, which supports saving to ebook directly.
I see. Do you think I'm permanently setback because of this? What can I do if I can't get into grad school with a 3.92 GPA and just 2 2nd author papers?
The deal has already been renewed: https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/mozilla_google_search...
> When you load a webpage or an app that's hosted on AWS you give Amazon a lot of information about your browser, location, etc.

Wow Amazon found a way to crack open TLS. Better file a CVE.

This unnecessary hyperbole is just mental masturbation.

Stop it. Seek help.
It's not DRM, the entire check basically amounts to "if (strcmp(license, "GPL") != 0)", where "license" is a user supplied string.
Unfortunately, still par for the course but changing.
Slavery ended some 157 years ago. The New Deal was before the WW2. The GI Bill happened during WW2.

Now look, we are in 2020. The US has black politicians, CEOs, programmers, philosophers, mathematicians, actors, teachers, cops, soldiers... How come these people got ahead of the rest? Shouldn't the same systemic racism, that oppresses current Marxist[0] BLM supporters, prevent them from getting these jobs?

Is there a chance there's a significant group of politically left-leaning demographic that wants handouts for free? And anyone who disagrees with them is labeled racist, because they have no other arguments for why they should receive something?

[0] https://www.volnation.com/forum/threads/marxist-black-lives-... - Opal Tometi, founder of BLM, hugging Hugo Chavez. There are several other instances of various BLM leaders/activists describing themselves as communists or socialists. Nothing against socialism, but communism is a bit too much.
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Yep, it's more like 40%. See https://collegedunia.com/exams/jee-advanced/reservation
Do you not see programming as a trade? Do you not see accounting as a trade? Nursing? Medicine? Law? Pharmacology? I would consider all of those “trades.”

The non-trade courses of study aren’t particularly popular with college students anymore. I don’t know many people with degrees in english or latin or history or philosophy. And the few that I do always planned to go to trade school (law school) so their undergrad course of study didn’t much matter.
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Google plans to change that as part of it's current focus on Core Web Vitals and non-AMP sites will be eligible to be in the Top Stories carousel if they're fast enough
Specifically how does this change benefit Google?

The security problems that it addresses are very concrete and specific. I can clearly see how this change helps novice users.

How does this change benefit Google? It seems very hand-wavy.

Edit: downvotes, but no explanation of any specific benefit to Google from this change
Governments both state and federal could provide incentives for low cost trade schools if they wanted to. What is to stop them from granting favorable loan interest or even forgiving the loans like they do for the peace corp?
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In so many words, you've just described an oligarchy!
The degree to which HN is obsessed with AMP is hilarious at times. You'd think every single one of the 100k engineers that work there do nothing but dream up ways to trick people into using AMP for some secret illuminati end goal.

If you don't like AMP, that's fine. If you don't like this UX change that's fine too (and I suspect will be easily fixed with an extension). But maybe consider for a moment that not every single UX change to a product with a billion users is part of the vast AMPiracy.
My local bike shop is something of a throwback. They don’t sell $2500 wheels, in fact, I don’t think they sell a whole bike that costs that much.

They sell a lot of kids bikes and a few medium-end hybrids and road bikes to the parents. Like you said, though, most of their revenue comes from service.

Before the pandemic, I was worried about them going under like a lot of wonderful brick and mortar, mom and pops have. I would buy some parts or gear from them even though I could get it cheaper on amazon just to support them.

These days, amid the COVID biking boom, I have to call at least a month in advance for a tune up. They are swamped.
What's the scope of Gecko/Firefox anymore?

If they don't invest in a new engine, and given that the old engine is not much to compare with Blink or even Webkit, what's left for them? Pocket and some BS VPN service?
One of my favorite macOS/iOS features is URLs. Most good native apps-- Things, Drafts, DEVONThink, etc.-- support URLs. URLs such as `things://` and `drafts://`. Some accept POST as well as GET.

There's even a specification of an iOS/macOS protocol very reminiscent of webhooks. http://x-callback-url.com/
If you dont mind, how did you set it up? I have vault right now but I dont know exactly how to use it for ssh'ing.
Depends. I have seen a lot of people who don't understand such things. And I have seen teachers who think using a different editor to write a program might affect output.
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We use the Keybase SSH CA. It's secure, removes the need for individual ssh keys, a d moves things over to chatops.

https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-ssh-ca
Tomorrow (https://www.tomorrow.one/en-de/about) is based in Germany. They are focusing on financing green projects and so on. Not sure how successful they are… I have an account there and use it for Google Pay in Germany and it works fine, but it lacks a lot of features the big ones like Revolut have. Its completely fine for my use-case for mobile payments though.
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We should try addressing another issue, there shouldn't be expiring skills in the first place. A lot of the tools and software that are being called "expired skills" aren't even old enough or mature enough to expire in the first place.

There are eight new frameworks for every new language someone invents every few years, which is ridiculous. It can take decades for software to mature to the point where it is reasonably stable and secure. It takes millions of collective man hours to write the software, millions more man hours to fully document it and then people spend their whole lives maintaining and defending the software from attackers. People get burned out and all that effort gets wasted so people can create a new "skill".
About the time that descriptive studies departments in the mid 1980's decided that narrative telling was more important than making falsifible claims.
There is not really meaningful difference between service fully hosted on AWS (or GCP/Azure) vs service hosted otherwise on AWS and putting Cloudflare in front of it. That shows how meaningless idea it is to try to block AWS based services as an end-user. On a technical level you can not know what the supply chain of a service is like.

If you are concerned about supply chains, then Microsoft owning GitHub, which almost everyone uses more or less directly, probably should pop up high in the list of things. But for an end-user I'd again question if that is a meaningful concern.
> The comparison to AOL was my first thought also

It doesn't really make sense, though. The AOL thing was always things like "visit AOL keyword lord of the rings" at the end of trailers, and that would take you to the marketing site.

If Chrome wanted to do that, in the example gif the keyword wouldn't be just "en.wikipedia.org" for the URL article, it would be something like "wikipedia URL" that would bring you back to the page you're on through a google search.
Reminds me of when I first saw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_superfamily#/media/Fil... in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_superfamily.

It felt like the biological equivalent of seeing the cosmic background radiation for the first time.
I haven't played minecraft in a while, but I really enjoyed Industrial Craft, and haven't heard of Gregtech.

I looked into it a while ago, and noticed that IC hasn't been kept up to date with the latest minecraft versions, maybe it's a dying community. Would you say GT is a spiritual successor?

Maybe it's time to fire up the servers this weekend :)
The difference is the state government. Stanford doesn't exactly oppose the state's guidance, but I think their announcement makes it clear that they would have opened the campus if the state guidance had been a bit less strict.
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The same place that Mozilla finds it: by making deals with search providers.
Nonsensical argument unless you generally spend time you should be working gaming or spend time you could be relaxing working.

If you want to be a workaholic and spend your free time working, go right ahead.

But you will end up like my father, mid 70s with no real relationships with your family, obsessed with "completing your legacy" and a general inability to enjoy anything that isn't "work".

If that sound like fun to you, go right ahead.

Me, I'll continue to work at work and spend my free time on relaxation.

You only get one life, spending it chasing dollars and dimes is a poor life plan
Sucks because students are signing leases, moving crap, buying meal plans, etc, right now.

This is the whole reason schools want students back. They’re desperate to recover some of this cash flow. They have huge budgets and vast numbers of administrative staff to pay. Without the revenue from residence leases and meal plans, they’re in real trouble.
Hi HN!

Inspired by a recent HN article on QR codes [0], I decided to finally publish [1] and open-source [2] a service I created 7 years ago. I got pulled away from it by projects with higher priority and it has been catching dust and been bitrot eroding since. Now reconstructed the basics and hosted on an AWS instance I would like to share so it might inspire.

Creating a photo realistic QR requires two steps. The first is to create a 93x93 dithered monochrome image. The dithering is calculated to preserve the mandatory QR framework/timing bits and keep the data/crc bits conforming. Trying to maximize the crc bits to match the original image.

The second step is adding colour information as a 186x186 dithered layer. The colour palette is created using Spacial Colour Quantification which uses the 93x93 QR image as constraints on the available colour range.

SCQ also stabilises palettes used for animations (a service not made available through the site yet).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24119124
[1] https://www.qrpicture.com
[2] https://github.com/xyzzy/qrpicture
> I target customers few other bike shops appear bothered about – the older cyclists who are often returning to cycling after many years’ absence . . .

Crazy coincidence that less than 24 hours ago, I was the customer he caters to. I'm 49 now. The summer between high school and college, I road with a friend from Philadelphia to Maine and back -- 1,500 miles over one month -- with a tent and all we needed in the paniers.

Through college and grad school I biked everywhere. Eventually the MTA offered the unlimited Metrocard and I shifted to public transportation and sold my bikes.

Now I inherited a touring bike just after visiting Joe De Sena, founder of the Spartan Race, at his farm in Vermont (here's the episode on his podcast we recorded: https://youtu.be/hP5h9rpd6Jo), and I may go up there again, so it seems the perfect excuse to restart riding. The bike needed a tuneup, a new seat, and maybe more.

I looked up local shops on Yelp and went to one with high service reviews. They gave me attention and service, even referring me to another nearby shop for some things. I felt confident going with their recommendations on pedals, shoes, and a few other things, not defensive about them profiting off me, so I spent more with them without first checking online.

Solid business practices based on customer service got my business.
The fun is once you have the construction bots for me you can make them destroy segments and from then on you can just ghost build everything else.

For example, I am playing on an OARC server, basically new players get their own base space, and I'm trying to get to my friend we both kinda picked 'far away' as options so we wouldnt clash with each other, so I've got blueprints I keep dropping that keep expanding my logistics network + power grid northward / westward as I make my way to him. The construction bots do all the work, my factory gets all the materials to them.

I've taken a break since, but then once I can reach out to him I will probably build train tracks going to and from his base and mine. I'm also using the robots to build a massive base. I can just ghost place whatever I want where I want it as long as the robot tower can cover that area.
I found with "Opus Magnum" that, yeah, it was programming of a sort, but since it was all these wacky physical devices, that it was enough unlike coding that it switched back to being a fun puzzle.

But, yeah, with "TIS-1000" it was just programming, and sort of unnecessarily (and unpleasantly) difficult programming at that.
> as rent prices near school nearly doubled overnight.

Wait is that really what happened? I anticipated that rent prices would drop because most students would just go home and there wouldn't be a market for people wanting to live in the college part of town.
I dunno, AOL was extremely successful and people loved it. I'm not ashamed to say I liked it, having everything in the same window. Google could only hope to achieve that fluidity. Messaging, Email, and web all in one workspace.

AOL really only declined because of the rise in high speed internet, and their awful business model and practices.
I'm a current student at NC State, and have been relatively satisfied with the University's planning and policies on paper...

That said, this is obviously a cash grab, and they're ignoring that students aren't going to follow their rules when they're off campus (Hillsborough St, parties, as you said above.)

I've already seen it happening... this isn't going to go well.
They are faster than average webshit. That matters to user, even if the bootcamp webshit and his accountant manager doesn't think so.
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This tweet is unrelated then ?

@brockjelmore
"i’m sorry everyone. i’ve failed. thank you for the insane support today. i’m sick with grief"

https://twitter.com/brockjelmore/status/1293820056682377216
This should probably be the banner message when you arrive on this site. Well said.
I just finished a 10K SPM base. Finishing a base that big is like finally releasing a product that was in development for a year. I don't know what to do with myself now that its all finished.
> "Sustainable fishing" means just that the populations do not decline. "Zero tolerance for marine mammal bycatch" has nothing to do with this."

Environmental sustainability doesn't "scope creep" for the same reason as other morality terms (eg justice). It scope creeps because of the nature of environmental sustainability. Affecting non-target species (bycatch etc.) tends to have unpredictable effects on target species... and longer time horizons yield more complexity. That's what ecosystems are, interdependent sets of population dynamics.

Anyway, at this point, "sustainability" means environmental decency in the general sense. Like the term "literally," it has evolved with usage. If a beef farm is poisoning a nearby lake and all its neighbors' farms, but could theoretically continue doing so without a decline in beef production... we wouldn't describe this as sustainable.

There's also a practical sense to it. Commercial fishing (and aquaculture) gets away with a lot of environmental harm, for relatively little economic size. This isn't oil & gas. In some places, even recreational fishing is a bigger industry. This is not sustainable politically. Eventually, people will just want to ban it... like most commercial hunting was banned, inland fisheries retired, etc.

That's unsustainable in the literal sense. It will lead to the end of commercial fishing.
You mention phone calls. Right now robocalls are very common. But what if those random calls legitimately sounded like your parents, or your spouse, or your kids. Furthermore, what if they sounded like they were in real trouble and really needed money fast? This technology opens up whole new arenas to more legitimate scams.
Near me, there is a bike shop owner with this same attitude, which is respectable. However, along with high prices, the shop’s service is slow and poor, their brand selection is unpopular, and their knowledge of current bike technology is low. Yet there are always old-timer cyclists in there shooting the breeze at all hours and they have been in business 40 years. I don’t get it.
This could keep the company alive though. If they lose their goog contract (which is 99% certain) they will have very little revenue.
Yeah. But AMP was an initiative for speeding up the web.
A truly non-racist policy would be to remove these ridiculous categories from any official documentation. European countries do not need to rely on these stupid labels to implement social welfare.
Signed certs for ssh is IMHO the best solution for managing this problem in larger orgs. Nice to see Facebook published their process around it.