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Ask HN: How to Learn AWS?
How can I learn how to deploy modern software on a public cloud safely, securely and in a cost efficient manner?

I'm asking because i'm trying to get a semi complicated software stack out of docker-compose and into the world via AWS. I am trying and failing due to the overwhelming amount of options out there to deploy anything.

Maybe it's helpful to give the stack I have created. I have a react front end, postgres DB for user login and session management, mongodb for a document store, and redis for handling a job queue. This was all running in a docker-compose file with a single network.

When I tried to get this running on AWS I read a lot about Kubernetes and came away with the impression that it's too complicated for most people, and in fact most people don't even need it. But I wanted to stay with Docker so I could deploy updates simply.

So using ECS Fargate I was able to get my front-end and back-end running but when it came to getting redis and postgres running I wanted to use the fully-managed versions on AWS, but then I started reading about VPC's and started to realise I don't know enough about the fundamentals to make informed decisions on how these bits should all talk to each other - hence me asking here.

Are there good websites, tutorial series or books out there I could read to understand the complexity of all this?
Recently got an X-Bows keyboard [1] which bills itself as a keyboard with "Natural Ergonomics For Better Typing". Haven't had a chance to put it through its paces yet, though.

[1] https://x-bows.com/
- Apple Laptop $3k

- Apple Monitor $1.5k

- Microsoft Mouse $5

Doesn't matter how pretty or expensive Mac gear gets, the mouse will always be a good 'ol fashioned cheapo one.
Wash trading is buying and selling to yourself to create the illusion of volume, which is fraudulent. Buying OTM call options on an exchange does nothing to distort volume or manipulate price, it’s simply part of price discovery, just like buying or selling shares.
Anyone who want's an good read which features anarchism, I'd recommend "The Dispossessed" by Ursula Le Guin. It's an incredible story in it's own right, and has a very complete description of how a completely anarchist society might function.
I don't even think many would, the problem is that it only takes a few. The damage that a dedicated antisocial hyperminority can do to a society that lacks rules and enforcement of said is significant... Even more so in an age where technology acts as a force multiplier.
The sheer scale of the natural birth and death rate is hard to comprehend. Most major world events with major death and suffering barely show up in the population chart
"I think fear beats anger," <- American politics in a nutshell. Former Yugoslavia was more coherent than this, it is essentially a description of social gunpowder, a loose collection of highly volatile ingredients waiting for sufficient activation energy to let loose.
Not just empowerment but education. The higher educated a woman is the more TFR goes down.
If what this article says is true, then anarchism will fail for the same reason libertarianism fails. They’re both exercises in ideal realities. They’re experiments with frictionless ramps, and ideal pulleys, and objects falling in a vacuum.

Both in physics and in society, the world is more complicated than “government is unnecessary” or “don’t tread on me”.
Haven't grown up in a 3rd world country - I disagree with you.
Most countries in SG's state at that time never made it past these initial stages of growth.
Might be I didn't get your point; sorry then.

But centralization is good until someone gonna try to censor and deplatform your project or it's contributors. And this can happen for all kind of reasons starting with non-exiting copyright infringement (like with popcorn-time), bypassing some DRM or creating tools that can be used for malware development or even breaking ToS on some API.

Today people think it's good idea to deplatform people for their political views or ban them based on region where they living, but tomorrow that's can happen with software projects too.
I upvoted you. But these corporations do this to themselves with region locking and other DRM shenanigans. The only way for me to truly “own” some content is to pirate it.
> "The event you are referring to was also a freak event. The Tohoku earthquake was the 4th largest _ever_ recorded and the largest ever recorded in Japan"

There is no doubt that the 2011 earthquake was an extreme event, but it's incorrect to say that it was not foreseeable or that the plant's safety systems could not have prevented the disaster.

Further up Japan's coast, the Onagawa nuclear plant was much closer to the earthquake's epicentre. It was subjected to extreme shaking, far more than any other nuclear plant in history, and like Fukushima was also flooded by the tsunami.

Yet it was able to shut down safely as designed in the hours that followed, and its structure was "remarkably undamaged" considering the extreme magnitude and duration of the shaking. 2 of its 3 reactors are expected to be restarted soon following structural repairs and seismic upgrades.
I've never had the need to connect any SBC to a monitor. A lot of people use them as servers, sensors and so on.
How many hardened sociopaths can an anarchy sustain before it either collapses or becomes a mockery of its own self-direction and mutualism principles?
The line you quoted doesn't say that people will act reasonably, but rather that they are capable of acting reasonably.

The interesting (and massive) problem is figuring out why some people act unreasonably in the same situation as someone else who doesn't. If it's something that can be addressed through mechanisms like the provision of healthcare, UBI, equality, or addressing inequality then perhaps society can be structured to have a very minimal government without the need for so many laws simply by making sure everyone is treated fairly and not left in a position where unreasonable actions are a solution to their immediate problems.
> A pointer is a variable that contains the address of a variable.

Given the way the C-standard is relatively carefully written, that explanation is a useful lie, but not necessarily true in every implementation of C.
You are right, I forgot about this. Though, as always, you need to obtain your peer's IP trough a side channel (also the case without firewall), if your firewall isn't too picky about answering to blocked requests, and doesn't meddle with source ports, punching a hole should be quite straightforward (one side just has to co-ordinate with the other to pretend the firewall didn't block the first incoming packet, right?).
What a mealy-mouth, I'm an anarchist because I oppose the state's monopoly on violence with violence.
I carry a Swiss+Tech multitool https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AY2WLU/ . Its pliers acts as a keychain, and no blade means I can keep it through airports.
These articles on HN always remind me how much more work crypto has to do in terms of education to the general technical public. Crypto Twitter is a recursive bubble.
if it's so easy we would see more 3rd world countries advancing past their current state.
At the time of independence, people were very pessimistic about Singapore's prospects, it just looks inevitable now given their rise.
> blogging take off as a shared response to the US invasion of Iraq

Blogging took off because half the worlds population started having access to the internet in the early 2000s. That seems incredibly myopic and US centric.
I think it's an particularly interesting thing posted here at the moment because of the protests and the frequent demonisation of anarchism in the media.

But it's also interesting on hacker news because of the popularity of libertarianism amongst some here. It must be obvious how close anarchism and libertarianism are. In fact when I was first made aware of libertarianism many years ago it was regarded as a branch of anarchist thought.
There is a press release by Imagination Technologies stating that they are partners in the project, would be a bit difficult to pick a different GPU.
I'M NOT AN ANARCHIST.

Consider the difference between a faceless government and something with a face.

Faceless means impartial, once removed, not having skin in the game. Faceless means not having to take aside. Faceless allows more formality.

Face means somebody who knows you personally. Anarchism means a governing body with a face. People close to you. Society 'freely organizing itself' means politics and people gaining power with social influence. Instead of visible hierarchies, it means invisible hierarchies build from personal relationships.

I want more participatory democracy, more deliberative democracy, not anarchism. Modern liberal democracy with laws and principles and visible hierarchies allows individuals to separate themselves from the village, the mob and the social games involved.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_democracy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliberative_democracy
I supposed you're a life long Mac user who does NOT use right click often?

By default, Solid modelling apps (many of which do not even exist for Mac) make heavy use of right click. In blender you select the target of manipulation by right clicking.

Then, I obviously left out just doing normal context menu which requires right click.

In magic mouse, if you need to enable right click you need to spend most of the time with right click finger raised. Everyone I know who learned to use right click in non-mac systems have complained about the magic mouse precisely for this problem. All move on to use touchpads (superb in Mac world) or some logitech or Microsoft mouse.
Since most of the weight of the car is on the back wheels, do it really need an aileron? I’ve heard ailerons were of discussable usefulness in general already, since they are only useful when turning and problematic in straight line (friction of air, and adding artificial weight, risk of flying), and therefore they needed to be adjusted in live. Is it just for the looks on the Porsche?
Snap sucks. The way open source is straying further and further from its principles is highly annoying. The whole idea that you'd need a container like environment to install an application on a Unix system is very far from where we should be. What's the point of dynamic linking if we then end up shipping half an OS with an application just to get around dependency hell? Might as well ship a pre-linked binary that just does system calls.

And it's yet another way to do an end run around repositories, instead you will sooner or later get an app-store like environment that can be controlled by some entity. These large companies should stop fucking around with Linux, it was fine the way it was. Just fix the bugs and leave the rest to the application developers.
The tail has been wagging the dog for a very long time.

I have been researching this aspect of the options and futures market for along time.

Many of my strategies factor in the weight of when the derivatives markets are controlling underlying prices. You can often take advantage of how markets are formed, and stop using those strategies when something macro is occurring.

I used to trade butterflies back in the early 2010s for this, the max pain concept is based around this as well.

Its only funny that Softbank is the perpetrator because it is so large and full of dumb money whose LP's are recipients of money supply expansion. Thats a new scale for the options market.
It would be facepalm if it were true. These are exactly the kinds of facts that could potentially lead to summary judgment of non-infringement or even invalidity.

There must be more to the story.
Anarchy doesn't mean "absence of law". Absence of law is anomie. One is often confused for the other, but there is a slight difference.

Anarchy is more about you and your community having the autonomy to decide your own rules, not a central authority. I believe "autonomy" is the key word here, not "law".
>Moreover, since I have no university affiliation, it seems like these groups are not particularly motivated to help me bridge that gap; I have not received much in the way of advice in terms of getting up to speed.

Could bringing your software engineering skills to these groups be your way in? Specifically, developing software for them, automating, version control, experiment tracking, environment setting, reducing the "I lost a month worth of work because I spilled coffee on my computer/double clicked on an article with .exe extension" type of issues many people in academia encounter.

I believe that there's a quantum leap in research that could be achieved just by using version control, let alone having someone like you on the team.

In other words, reduce their toil and overhead and accelerate their research. Once you're really useful and bringing value, the conversation changes. You can therefore leverage your existing skillset.
Very enjoyable, if long, read, and a fascinating website I hadn't come across before. Thanks for posting.
The patent office has largely stopped granting software patents, from what I've gathered, or they're at least being more careful. So we're just waiting for the existing ones to expire.
this

the most intolerant wins :

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
Facebook to pay users to deactivate their accounts until Election Day
Only looks like 16-bit RAM too.
Often having everything in one compilation unit results in a smaller and/or faster binary. I’ve seen this happen even when using LTO. It’s a common practice when developing firmware for small micros.
It's not often you hear someone criticise a tool for not having enough unnecessary encoding and parsing steps involved.
I mean... Users wrote us. A User even wrote you!
That’s because all the other kinds of anarchism: anarcho-communism, left wing market anarchism, primitivism, syndicalism, individualist anarchism (unrelated to right-wing libertarianism), communalism, etc… they all agree that anarchism is fundamentally anti-capitalist.

Furthermore anarcho-capitalism has no connection to the wider anarchist movement (and is quite recent) and did not grew out of the anarchist tradition.
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> Demonstrably how?

Tens of thousands of years of human history. Feuding warlords, and slaves, rather than everyone acting together in unity.

> What is a demonstrably false fairy tale is that we don't act righteously when law enforcement is present. So asking what would happen in its absence seems irrelevant.

Well, we don't have mass rape, looting, or murder. One really needs to compare scale. Democracy seems to be a horrible system, and indeed the worst system, except for all the others (paraphrasing Churchill).

> Self-regulating organisations are possible, the only real condition is the removal of external incentives for those organisations to misbehave.

You're missing scale. SMALL self-regulating organizations do very well. The key condition isn't just about removing external incentives, but also about scale.

Once you're at some scale, you're guaranteed to have a few psychopaths who work to game the system to personal benefit. A key thing about small-scale is everyone can say "Adolf is a jerk. Let's swing clear of him." Large scale, he takes over Germany, and onto the world!

Likewise, large-scale, you're missing social incentives. Small scale, I can say "I won't steal from you, because you'll think I'm a jerk." Large-scale, try leaving your wallet in the train in almost any major city for 10 minutes.

Tribal culture was pretty good on isolated islands. It didn't go Lord of the Flies. That only happened at scale.

I've seen largish organizations sustain this for maybe a half-decade or decade, but never longer. At some point, game-theoretical organizational models take over, and things never go back.
> Learn Dvorak…unless you use vim

I’ve been using vim with Dvorak for close to a decade now and it’s completely fine. J and K are where C and V are on QWERTY and it works great, I’ve even heard people say they like it more than where they’re supposed to be.

H is one to the left of where it is on QWERTY, but L is in the far top left, it’s my least favorite letter to type. It doesn’t matter much though, because you rarely use H and L, it’s usually W and B or 0.
Fixing Include_bytes
I still have no idea what Anarchists want. In an ideal anarchist society are there laws? Who enforces? Do you pay taxes? Can you own property or you just build a house wherever you want and defend it? Is there money and who organizes it? Something like a big hydro dam, factories, ships - who owns/builds these and why? Even googling now gives no straight answer.
The user always loses because the user is not the paying customer. Advertisers, surveillance agencies, and propagandists are the paying customers. Businesses serve the paying customer, not the “user” who in this model is the product.

This is not much better than old media really, which was always mostly ad supported. Media has always been a deflationary race to the bottom. When one player offers something cheap or free everyone else must follow suit and the economic model collapses. The cheapest crap and/or content with ulterior motives funded by someone else wins.
What is really being discussed when the word anarchy is produced in contexts like this, is power. Those who see themselves as connected to power will of course vote no. Those who do not see themselves connected to power know enough to shut up about it.
LSE has a history as a hotbed of activism ever since it was the focal point of UK student rebellions in the late 60s.

It's not nearly as Conservative as you might think.
Can somebody explain why this is only for .NET developers if it’s running on PG?
Anarchism does not mean no leader. It means no authority. Hence why it is fundamentally different than democracy because democracy implies an authority somehow attributed to the people (directly or indirectly).
We are reaping what we have sown. Science turned into the new state religion and now authoritarians are misusing it believing they can do no harm because God (erm, Science rather) is on their side
Agreed. I’ve been using the base model $20 Logitech wireless mice for years / they fit my hand perfectly, have a pleasing ‘click’, work flawlessly and only require a AA battery change perhaps once every 6 months. They do accumulate some gunk on the edges of the four outside edges but are easily cleanable.
Yes, they are both kinds of libertarianism[1], the main difference is that left wing reject private property (not personal property), which is argued that its existence will create power structures thus defeating the purpose of said libertarianism.

1: “One gratifying aspect of our rise to some prominence is that, for the first time in my memory, we, ‘our side,’ had captured a crucial word from the enemy . . . ‘Libertarians’ . . . had long been simply a polite word for left-wing anarchists, that is for anti-private property anarchists, either of the communist or syndicalist variety. But now we had taken it over..." - Murray Rothbard
Surprised that it doesn't mention ForgeFed (earlier GitPub). https://forgefed.peers.community/
This troll just took over the conversation with troll nonsense. Don't argue with oxymorons.
Nucleo AlienMind & NLog stand out in my memory, they were and are so great. I think Winamp clearly got a lot right.

https://skins.webamp.org/skin/bfd4187850616fc9b4e433c4b632b6...

https://skins.webamp.org/skin/6edc6d5a5d07ceb361912824a17004...
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Not faster but some variant of HIIT helps. I do 6 cycle of 30 sec high intensity with around 3 min low intensity. It takes away the boredom you feel on treadmill.
I'd say either Blogger or Livejournal was the coming of age for blogging, the Iraq War had nothing to do with that, those things just happened around the same time without any direct connection between the two. The vast majority of blogs had totally different content.
I break the word 'democrat' into demo and crat. 'Demo' meaning the people, the demos, the citizenry. 'Crat' as in hold in Greek. So, citizen-hold. Or alternatively, 'mob rule'!

Really, IMO, you want individual rule for each individual. No system, no groups - just individuals. Anyone free to do what they want as long as they don't harm another individual. Do unto others, and all that.

That would be a closer definition of anarchy for me.
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She goes into detail about this in the article that is linked to later in the paragraph you quote.
Many people, for good reason, believe that anarcho-capitalism is an oxymoron. Wikipedia has a short section of some anarchist criticism of anarcho-capitalism [1].

Anarchists such as Brian Morris argue that anarcho-capitalism does not in fact get rid of the state. He says that anarcho-capitalists "simply replaced the state with private security firms, and can hardly be described as anarchists as the term is normally understood".

Similarly, Bob Black argues that an anarcho-capitalist wants to "abolish the state to his own satisfaction by calling it something else". He states that they do not denounce what the state does, they just "object to who's doing it".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism#Criticism
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Just because you haven't been more productive doesn't mean other people aren't. Trackpad / mouse gestures are so convenient and useful for me that multitasking is so much more straightforward when I don't have the extra monitors.

It may surprise you to learn that people are free to use whatever tech they get the most benefit from...
"Approximately correct projection of world population by 2100, given that nothing horrible happens by then."
You should read about how Anarchy treats it's mentally ill before you decide they don't have a solution to that simple problem. The way we treat mentally ill in Capitalism is a crime.
Last time I used a Magic Mouse (the first version I think) it also wasn't possible to simultaneously right & left click, which caused problems in some games and a 3d modeling software I was using.
I think you just described the Keynesian beauty contest: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest
I’ll answer my own question:

India. India is a big country and deaths are going up there.

The US and Europe seem past it to me.
Thanks for putting this out there. As an amateur developer who has picked up just enough linux skills to get by over the years, this looks like a great way to fill in some of the gaps in my knowledge without getting too deep in the weeds.
I meant the people here in the comments with ideas, not the article. Edited to clarify.
I've been using the Magic Mouse since it was released and I have never experienced this - you can rest your fingers on the right side of the mouse and it doesn't "right click" without you clicking. Outside of having to turn it off to charge it, the Magic Mouse is my favorite mouse I've ever used.
Good point. I didn't think it was a deliberate trick, as it wouldn't have been that extreme, if the person wanted to misrepresent themselves. It just made their GH profile worthless, for me.

I do think that tools like GH are important for helping to introduce ourselves to others. As with any tool, it is up to us to use it properly.

For me, I am not actually looking for work, but I get tired of not being taken seriously, so I make a point of ensuring that my work is made available for anyone that wants to see it.

My motto is "Don't just take my word for it. See for yourself." I am grateful for tools like GH, that allow me to do this. The Stack Overflow Story is another one.
> Because evolution itself is randomness unchecked.

Eloquently put
Libertarianism was conceived by the anarcho-communist Joseph Dejacque, who first used the term to call Proudhon, the father of anarchism a mere 'moderate anarchist, liberal but not libertarian'.

For about a century libertarianism was exclusive a far left ideology including mostly anarchists and libertarian Marxists.