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Who in these days uses partitions? I use virtual machines. Get as hosting your preferred OS and then contain any and all operating systems inside VM's.
Implementing a queue in XML why on earth would you do that
I used be like that when I was younger. Hell, I taught myself to program doing this exact thing. But nowadays, I really don't want to spend weekends looking at a monitor all day. Before you know it, you've spent 8 or 10 or whatever hours tinkering away.

There's a point where it's not healthy. It'll catch up with you and there's a danger you'll find yourself not having the enthusiasm to do your hobby projects and also your real job.
Among other reasons, enterprises love serverless b/c it relieves them of many server maintenance costs and risks. This includes things like:

- OS patches and emergent fixes
- Compliance certification
- SSH access control and auditing
- Secret distribution
- Log rotation and storage
- TLS termination
- Configuring and testing auto-scaling policies
- Deployment configuration (rolling deploys, blue/green deployments, connection draining, etc.)
The innards have to be different for styles from different eras unless you're really making only a token attempt at styling, because the proportions used in different eras were different.

But in the UK at least you can buy traditional styled homes in kit form from a framing/panelling manufacturer https://www.potton.co.uk/our-show-homes
But the concept is run by Libertarians. The philosophy is rooted in the belief that avarice is greatest good.

They don't actually care about the poor.
> I don't understand this attitude. No, we will go back to normal. This cannot continue forever. We cannot live the rest of our lives in fear. This is not how we evolved and I'm honestly sick of it.

It's not about living in fear, it's about not catching the virus. The facts are that COVID-19 is still out there actively infecting people, deaths are still climbing at more or less a steady rate, and it doesn't really care about how you or anyone else feels about it. Many a school has opened under the rationale of "we can't just hide from it forever", only to go into shutdown again because of the inevitable outbreak that occurs when a bunch of kids are packed like sardines into a hallway or classroom environment.

> Mississippi, Florida and other states are starting to go back to normal without any increase in fatalities (and don't go on about cases, because there is no distinction between people who test positive and people who test positive because they've actually been sick). Fatalities are going down across the board. Exponential growth does not go on forever. It ends.

Just because COVID-19 isn't immediately fatal doesn't make it harmless. What are the rates of reinfection, and how does that impact a patient? What are the chronic effects of being infected, if any? You may have a cavalier attitude about the virus's effects, but plenty others (including the elderly, infants, the immunocompromised, etc.) do not, and the virus doesn't discriminate between who cares about it and who doesn't. It is far better to be overly cautious than not cautious enough in such a case, even if it comes at the expense of inconvenience.
How can the device provide those guarantees? If the system crashes hard in a power surge and the head crashes there's not going to be any use in claiming 'but the API guaranteed it'. There's no true durability.
And now people just use mufflers. I'd imagine banning mesh masks on etsy will have a similar usefulness.
Let me clarify. Most managers I have seen in tech are sub-par. So, it might be that it is not that the hiring problem is a process problem, or a market problem, but a manager-quality problem.
Of course, I can present only anecdotes from my own experience; but I can confidently say that, before getting into tech, I was expecting the quality of managers and decision-makers to be much higher, especially considering the money they make. Instead, I have noticed the usual skewed distribution: a bunch of brilliant decision-makers that move the company in the hopefully right direction, and a ton of minor managerial figures who are surprisingly terrible at being managers, when not total frauds.

I hope it is clearer now.
> My friend, this isn't personal, but a fact: you're privileged.

Oh man, only if you truly knew how off-base this is :) My parents moved to the US with $2000, two kids (I was 11), and two carry-ons. But I'm not here to compete in the Victim Olympics.

> Most people don't know any CEOs, PMs, or hiring managers.

Good thing attending a hackathon is free. Good thing you can interact with literal SV royalty here on HN for free. Good thing you can contribute to famous OSS projects with minimal investment...

> In the situation I described above, where you absolutely need that job, all the people you mention have a good chance of forgetting about you due to day-to-day politics. Guess who won't? That recruiter. Because they get a cut of your salary.

Yeah, I disagree with this. I've been "forgotten about" and "ghosted" by more recruiters than I can remember. Not to mention that half the time my area of expertise wasn't even lined up with what they were looking for, and as soon as they hear about a potential pivot (front end to back end, engineering to product management, etc.) they jump ship. But people I've impressed (old bosses, old PMs, people I met through hackathons, obviously old founding partners) are always willing to come up to bat.
They'll know what they want but not where or how they want it. It might just be "a sink" and the competent designer will find out about their usage patterns to know number of sinks, size, style, colour, depth, faucet type -- and have it work within the constraints of the space. ...while also aware of the macro organization of the space itself.
It happens in my single-family home and duplex filled neighboorhood in urban Austin TX.
All the data may be on the disk, but (last I checked) POSIX didn't require that filesystems not get completely corrupted in the event of a system crash. Obviously it would be nice if filesystems were not corrupted by a system crash, but I'm pretty sure POSIX doesn't guarantee it. And just because the data is on the disk, that (unfortunately) doesn't mean that you'll necessarily be able to find it.

(shades of MS Fnd in a Lbry by Hal Draper here)
Every travel decision is a purchase decision, you're paying for that gas or electricity no matter what.
“Can I Get a Light?” The Smoking Kid Campaign
Any skilled job that can be done poorly with little training becomes a bit of a lemon market.

I hate painting. I'm also a terrible painter. However, I've given up on ever hiring painters. Every professional painter I've used has either prepped the surface improperly, or put the coats on too thick, to the point where I rub paint off if I brush up against the wall.

I'm willing to pay more for better work, but I can't easily tell who will do a better job.
It’s not really “important” in any sense except everyone is extremely excited to share the news and his friends and family want to celebrate the ultimate capstone to his career as soon as possible.
I disagree here.

In the business world, delivered functionality matters.

I think building something for the community that the community actually uses teaches you a lot about product management and building reliable systems and designing products people want. You learn a whole lot about the reality of the industry by doing something purposeful.

There's a big difference, for example, in machine learning engineers who can train a model in a Jupyter notebook and an engineer who can both train and actually deploy a model like that on a self-driving car. Companies often very much appreciate having dipped into the practical aspect of things, where things like optimization, uptime, and consistency matter.

Also, building things that give you a feeling of success make you more driven and motivated to learn and improve. Sometimes having a thousand users is that feeling of success that is the driving force for more learning.
Architect here. This gets much more difficult if you dive into the deeper problems that architecture attempts to address. Victorian/Queen Anne homes are based around smaller, more numerous, and more specific rooms. The exterior appearance flows from the way that people lived in that time, with the HVAC and construction materials and methods available to them. Ornate hand detailing on the high-quality surviving examples looks right because of the scale and use of the spaces within, as well as the market of hand carpenters. Applying a kit of modern materials to diverse spatial problems won't really yield good designs.

There's a reason that modern architecture developed around the international style when concrete, steel, glass, and mechanical HVAC all developed and became cost effective at the same time as open-floor plan living and the decreasing number of household staff. All of these factors go hand in hand and a robust solution would have to touch on these deeper considerations. Not to say it's impossible, but trying to put out there that architectural design is more than skin deep.

To use your analogy, you can use React to build what used to be a mid-90s static styled HTML site, but you probably wouldn't.
For the first couple years of my career, I never met a 10x engineer and I didn't think they existed. There were people very experienced in the company's systems, who could move much more quickly than the rest of us, but a lot of us were pretty new so that wasn't too surprising.

Later, at a FAANG company, I was working on a new full-stack system with a team of 4. It took us 2 months to plan and build out about half the functionality. Progress felt a bit slow, but no one was alarmed by how long it was taking and things were basically on track. Then my team hired a senior guy, internal transfer, with about 10 years of experience. He got up to speed on the project and did the other half of the work himself in about two weeks. The bottleneck was the rest of us reviewing his code (which was pristine; he was on the internal standards committee for the language we were using). I realized that sedate big-company speeds had become normalized for the rest of us, while this guy had never stopped asking himself if something could be done faster.

If I'm worth my salary (debatable) this guy was worth 10x mine.
AI Is Throwing Battery Development into Overdrive
Huh. Hacker News normally shows only the domain of the submission in parentheses. For Twitter it looks like it now shows (twitter.com/user).
this kind of reads like an astroturfed advertisement for "ring" / "nest" type doorbells and security cameras.
Site is unreachable for me. Anyone have text?
major public cloud providers offer rather suboptimal pricing for serverless services
Don’t take offense, sir, but how did you wind up in your unfortunate position?

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”

Your implication is precisely that recruiters are useful as a last resort. Wisdom beseeches to avoid decisions where that becomes necessary. Where, clearly, the recruiter is just using you and you are using them as a stop-gap measure.

Yet wisdom is considered privilege now?
I agree with you but want to point out that "well meaning" and empathic are not the same thing.
It will never go away. Unless vendors will create a CPU that runs natively web, you'll always have "desktop Office". It's just that performance cannot be matched by web apps.
I haven’t found a one stop solution for a good home router yet, but I’ve played with most of the popular brands at this point.

The biggest requirement I have is CAKE [1] support as I think it’s an absolutely incredible feature that makes non gigabit/upload limited connections with multiple users much more usable.

Unfortunately, this limits us to a few routers. OpenWRT does it wonderfully, but OpenWRT is only a great choice if you’re a rather technical user and can be around to upgrade it/futz with it as needed. Ubiquiti doesn’t have support yet (I think the edge router has some custom packages you can install, but these aren’t official last I checked).

Eero does support this, and is my current recommendation, but it is worth noting that Eero is locking features behind a subscription plan that costs up to 10$ a month. Want adblocking, a feature that other routers are now adding for free? You have to pay. I seriously doubt this plan is ever going to work for them, but keep it in mind. I’m guessing it’ll eventually morph into a “sign in with your Amazon Prime account” style thing for bonus features/selling your DNS/tracking data to Amazon, but who knows.

Thus, I think Eero is a great stopgap for the next 1-2 years until Ubiquiti stabilizes their Amplifi line and/or finally adds CAKE to the Unifi stuff.

[1] https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/codel/wiki/Cake/
> how many kwh of solar and wind people are selling back

Not just selling back. Producing - and then either using or selling.
Wouldn’t surprise me
That’s what the coding screen is for.
The problem is getting K8s to the point that it can go almost anywhere.
I think you make fine points, but they're not universal. I disagree with pretty much all of them:

> Then friends won't visit, it's more of a hassle to schedule - however infrequent these visits are they'll be even less frequent.

I would MUCH rather stay in a nearby hotel (and have my guests stay in a hotel). I would feel less like I was imposing.

> You'll go fewer places and do fewer things if everytime you want to go somewhere you have to deal with getting a rideshare van.

I think there's likely some truth to that, but it also means I rearrange my life to plan for this better and also to make those outings more meaningful.

> No backyard cookouts, no sitting on the deck, you'll go to the park less frequently

The analogy I use is the gym: I can do workouts at home, but the mental routine I have for getting up and going to the gym means I actually go much more often. Similarly, if there was a nearby park I liked I'd use it much more frequently. I know I felt that way when I lived in the city vs. where I do now in the burbs (note - the burbs weren't my choice ;)
If that was true, FreeBSD would be ahead of Linux in adaptation. But it is not.
All hobbies are irrelevant.
you suck at writing
Because they have to make the announcement, and as soon as they do, the press start hounding the recipient.
Keep in mind Firebase has a big caveat. Firebase is great... for what it does. However, there's no way to easily migrate the Firebase resources to the larger GCP ecosystem. Firebase does what it does, and if you need anything else, you're out of luck.

Firebase is magic... but I never recommend it for anyone, until there's some sort of migration path.
Yes, it would surprise me if Stanford and the Nobel committee were being paid by Nest to perform low-key brand advertising.
We use terraform and terragrunt by themselves to deploy lambdas. No frameworks. It's slightly more work, I guess. But deploying and understanding how deployments happen is easier this way. Plus, getting any kind of framework approved in a corporation is annoying as heck, whereas we already use terraform and terragrunt.

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest...

The biggest annoyance is unit testing, although it forces certain good habits on us. So for example, since we don't use SAM, we have to do unit testing separately (our code is in Python). But because we can't exactly run a lambda via Python, we have to put most of our code in the layers that our lambdas import.

So we run unit tests on the layers, and the positive is that we can essentially copy and paste the code that our lambdas would run into the unit tests. And then we can keep it DRY because almost all the code is in layers, and that incentivizes us to create generic functions that can be used across all of our lambdas.

For things like unit testing DynamoDB, we use Moto which works exceptionally well.

https://pypi.org/project/moto/

More detail:

Our terraform has infrastructure code for:

API Gateways

Hard-coded API keys we use for testing

DynamoDB tables

IAM roles used by the Lambdas and Step Functions

Lambdas themselves

s3 buckets used for the Lambda zip files and state

Step functions
Maybe a custom format for twitter (and even github: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com)
Basically, the announcement is a secret until it happens. It happens at a specific time, in Sweden, and they attempt to contact the winners at that time with a personal call (https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/the-nobel-call/).

My cynical side suggests it's done mostly to generate PR.
See also: https://worldneurologyonline.com/article/receiving-the-call-... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/04/science/where...

Most scientists joke they wouldn't mind receiving a 2:30AM call informing them they won the prize because then at least they could go to work in the morning, have some champagne and relax because getting grants was going to get a lot easier...
yeah, it's cheaper.
In my experience there are only a few edge-cases that need workarounds and even those get fewer with every release.
They don't seem to accept applications, their site says they only take referrals from existing consultants and clients.
SixXS is the one that shut down: https://www.sixxs.net/main/
Decade old bitcoins moved for the first time
I think they want to announce it to the press in Stockholm with as little risk of leaks as possible.

If you're a potential winner, you know to be reachable that night :)
That is just the divide between frontend devs and backend programmers.
High class problem to have ...
Any business loves any fly (potentially profitable good or service) the way a spider does.

Only so long as it recognises a potential gain.

Linux just happens to be Microsoft's fly for now.
I think this changed a few days ago. That's at least when I noticed it for the first time.
We're currently in a system where if a poor person does the wrong thing, a wealthy person has to cover the tab.

On the specific topic of bail bonds, one major argument is that rich people are gaining an advantage in comfort from their wealth - which I think is perfectly reasonable, given that is explicitly the purpose of wealth.

A second major argument is that the system is unreasonably harsh to the poor. Probably true, I don't know. But that isn't an argument I'm dealing with - I'm pointing out that wealthy people buying comfort is the complaint at the root of the threat and it isn't a strong complaint. Because that is what wealth is for.

> I can't imagine whatever costs you're imagining are involved in tracking down people skipping court dates would tax the rich out of their privilege.

People need to control more money than they spend so they can set themselves up for retirement. "This would just come out of their savings" is also a bad argument at all levels of the social tree.

That isn't really going to the point you raise, which I am going to leave alone, but is an aside that I think that argument is fundamentally bad because it could be repeatedly applied until it turns out you misread the future and people start running out of savings.
> How can the device provide those guarantees? If the system crashes hard in a power surge and the head crashes there's not going to be any use in claiming 'but the API guaranteed it'. There's no true durability.

By your logic there is no such thing as a guarantee in this world, period. A meteor could crash into Earth and wreck everything.
I don't get it either. How did they suggest using an XML document to act as a priority queue? I actually would have found that highly amusing!

My naive contribution: A linked list with pointers to the tails of various priorities. The grabber just points to the head and pops things off the top as it goes.
Yeah, it seems like this is a feature that was added for a few domains this week including Medium, GitHub and Twitter.
agreed 100%

AirBnb is looking for bagholders

anyone with half a brain knows now is the absolute worst time to invest in something like AirBnb

On the other hand, if the IPO flops, and prices go down a lot, then it might become a worthwhile risk
dang, is this new? I've never seen this before either.

Pretty useful.
I put my phone in airplane mode at night. Don't a lot of people do that? What are they thinking?
Because it sucks. We’ve been working with serverless for 2 years now and we’re still dealing with issues for which the only solution appears to be to move back to ECS.
Well then your just not optimizing for enjoyment across a long enough time scale
Florida relaxed all state level recommendations and requirements on September 25.

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...

The infection numbers didn't go exponential.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/florida/
Thanks for this. So I’m fairly familiar how MVCC relates to CoW, and the way that I read this is that it’s kind of the inverse of CoW: it’s an in-place update and a copy of the old data.

I can completely imagine the corner cases this ends up touching, as there must be an insane amount of logic in Postgres that assumes immutability of data on disk: if I read data block X for transaction version 1234, it will always remain the same.

It’s a very interesting approach though. Once all the corner cases are solved and delt with, I wonder: are there any reasons not to choose zheap over the standard storage engine?
I like this take, and also add that is perpetual:

You start with some objectively bad things like bash/terminal/c/c++ and then the tools get replaced with js/electron/etc. From bad to other bad. So giving options, eventually as developer you settle with the less bad or the already understood option.

RARELY you start from good, then move to better.

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P.D: I see this in other fields too (ie: That run in a circle of bad to bad...), from my own customers.

My UX skills are bare (I align things, use 2-3 colors max, and some typography that is barely decent, and point when logos and icons are terrible, and have the sense of just use one made by designers...).

In one app, I just deploy bootstrap as-is with slight increase in font size and base. That was all. I still get kudos for that!
Also running an ASUS router, but mine’s on stock firmware. I believe the model number on mine is 68CU. It’s been rock solid for like 5 years now.

It meets all of OP’s requirements as far as I can tell. My favorite feature is that it has USB ports in the back where you can attach discs/printers and share them on the network easily.
Sample of one.

I’ve been working remotely at my current job for a little bit shy of two years. The difference before and since lockdown is crazy: the company definitely got more remote friendly, but the external context weighs heavily.

So to sum up:

Situation A: I work remotely and things are fine, even though the company isn’t the best at remote (but working in it)

VS, later

Situation B: I work remotely, remote things are way better, yet COVID context creates wildly underestimated pressure pervasively

Take what you want out of this but I made up my mind.