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I am using Terraform daily, and it's excruciating at times. First, HCL is very limited - HashiCorp didn't even use it for Sentinel! I won't switch to TypeScript either - I wish they've adopted an embedded language like Starlark like in this POC [0].

There are many inconsistencies; refactoring is very, very painful. While `terraform import` and `terraform state mv` work, it's all manual, and the first doesn't work with their SaaS - Terraform Cloud as imports, unlike runs, are always local, but sensitive variables are only available in the cloud. As pointed out, secrets are in plain text - GCP state even had my personal access token, which it's not supposed to as it's not something that has to be shared with the team.

The good thing is that the velocity is greatly improving - we had v0.13 this year, and v0.14 is almost out - many features of v0.15 are done, so that pace compared to v0.12 is new!

My biggest issue is how much copypasta you need for just reusing modules! There's no clean way to do Dependency Inject, and you have to replicate code all over the place as you can't "export" resources or data sources - you can only export primitive values, and then you need to have a data source, which uses that primary key of the resource.

Terraform could turn into a huge, missed opportunity. I hope they realized the potential and that they need to execute fast.

Also, it's very maddening that their prioritization is based on the number of thumbs-ups!

Last but not least - many key providers are run by people who don't follow standards and are working part-time on key projects instead of HashiCorp making sure there's great DX with major vendors. One such example is the GitHub provider. A huge fiasco recently had a backward-incompatible minor release, which also didn't update the docs. After three weeks, the maintainer was still considering unreleasing when people already have found workarounds and reverse-engineered the issues and the missing documentation. Same provider still does not provide organization-level secrets even though this features has been available for more than 6 months!

[0]: https://ascode.run/
> Of course you know this, but are merely stating this as some kind of "gotcha".

It wasn't meant as a gotcha, just a reminder that lack of English isn't quite the black mark you were making it out to be.

> not with a massive backlog of educated, English-speaking, law-abiding people waiting in the queue.

I don't see much support for reducing the backlog either.

> What do you think happens to the people who have their SSNs used?

I actually don't know. Can you tell me more please? It can't be identity fraud to open lines of credit. As you said, the migrants who use the SSNs are uneducated, relatively unsophisticated people who have very little knowledge of English.

> Then you may hear it right now, businesses that knowingly employ illegal aliens should be prosecuted for breaking the law.

It's admirable you say that, but it happens relatively rarely. Making an example (e.g RICO-ing assets) out of a few big fish, and performing consistent enforcement thereafter would provide a strong deterrent to hiring migrants illegally, and a strong disincentive to migrate illegally. It should also cost the government less money; fewer investigations to pursue, fewer government agents and less bureaucracy required. Ask yourself why this doesn't happen, why it's not part of any campaign platform, and who benefits.

> Unfortunately in our current two-party system, the options are "Build the wall" or "Give them all free health care, and a path to citizenship".

"Give them all free health care" (not actually free free, since migrants are also taxpayers) is internally consistent with "Health care is a human right". It may understandably be unpalatable to many, but at least it's honest. "a path to citizenship" appears to have widespread bipartisan support among voters, at least according to some polls I saw long ago, but maybe I'm wrong about that.

The problem is "Build the wall", isn't just less effective than "Punish the employers" at reducing illegal migration to help domestic workers, it's also inconsistent with smaller government. Policies such as the war on drugs, foreign interventions, weakening unions, opposing strong health and safety laws, or denying climate change (we're going to start hearing about climate refugees in North America in the next decade or two) also undermine domestic workers, increase illegal migration, and/or increase the size of the government. It's dishonest.
The primary incumbents interested in keeping the status quo are not merely US companies though, quite a few EU companies especially Swiss figure in the list too. This is a field where developed countries do not want to give any perceived advantage over up and coming countries.

For better or worse, only country that can break the monopoly is China imo. I hope they follow a different model of rewarding useful research.
China Launches World's First 6G Satellite. We Don't even know what 6G is yet
There is no mind control program. It's just bahavioral biology, psychology and advertising. Calling it mind control is like saying I can control a person because I can get them to show up to a certain grocery store if I give them a coupon.
Do you want a totally different perspective on modern life that is well-written and will force you out of normal patterns of thinking?

Read old magazines. Not early Wired old. 1800s/early to mid 1900s old. Very old. The Spectator...of Addison and Steele. Life magazine, but not that upstart that started in the 1930s, but the original humor magazine.

A short list

Early Fortune magazines (1930s-1950s) to get a sense of the evolution of modern business and technology. Wonderful graphics.

The first hundred years of Harpers...up to, say, 1970. McClures. Saturday Evening Post. Scribners. Colliers. The Nation preWWII.

Early Scientific Americans. Read the 75th anniversary issue talking about all the early tech wonders that led to its 75th anniversary...celebrated in 1920. The issues of the 1870s have wonderful illustrations of intricate machinery.

Judge magazine and the first Life Magazine...both humor magazines about the foibles of lived modern life in the early 20th Century.

Niles Weekly Register, published 1810-1840. Learn how early US cities grew up...the bones of many Eastern cities formed during this period.

Early Popular Science and Popular Mechanics from 1920s-1950s.

Early enthusiast radio magazines from the 1910s to 1950s...the Internet of its time.

Everyday Engineering and Everyday Mechanics magazines of the late 1910s. A boy’s magazine focusing on simple projects teenagers could build on their own: movie cameras, radio telephones, small gasoline engines starting from raw iron and doing your own castings, wireless controlled torpedoes...

The illustrator art on the front covers of some of these are worth the price of admission alone. You can pick up vintage issues for anywhere from $7.00 to $50.00...mostly $15-$20.

Binge-reading ten or so issues of magazines of a given decade, say 1930s, is a psychedelic experience. You lift your eyes and your head is still in the 1930s. And you start asking interesting questions...
And yet we do because it's a real and useful concept, just like "apolitical".
Thanks for the pointer. Just looked. This announcement [1] says the rk3566a, which isn't quite as fancy. Still looks like a nice board. People on the message boards back in March [2] were guessing there won't be an rk3399-based Pine64 until early 2022. :-(

[1] https://www.pine64.org/2020/11/15/november-update-kde-pineph...

[2] https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=9382&pid=61929#p...
Kinda reminds me of the Erdos number (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s_number)
So when I read the article, I know there are a lot of people who trust the police in their community. They are fine with "mass surveillance" (though they would never see it like that) to help keep crime down.

Much of that may be racist in nature to keep minorities out of neighborhoods, but much of it is also people trying to keep their amazon deliveries from being stolen.

It's not hard to see that far into the future where police departments offer an app that will tell you who is at the front door before you open it -- and something like that will probably triple the sales of home security cameras.
I like dark reader too, with the most gpu intensive mode and sepia it makes for some really good dark modes for most websites. And I’ve built dark mode css off of it as an inspiration.

Edit: the "Dynamic" (GPU) mode doesn't work on all sites. On HN I'll use Filter+ with the settings -20 brightness, contrast off, sepia +30, grayscale off.

While on Github I'll do -5, 0, +30, 0. Mainly just tweaking the brightness while having Sepia on most sites.
Slave owner, 1865: "Who's gonna pick my cotton?"

@tayo42, 2020: "Who's gonna pick my food and mow my lawn?"
I too have just been running ARM Homebrew the past few days.

For the most part, no real complaints. It'll depend heavily on what you install, and obviously you have to be OK with compiling things, but yeah no real complaints so far here either.

Other than the Python scientific ecosystem, Rust is really the main thing in my end-user stack I'm waiting on since fzy, bat, exa, etc. still don't compile, but other than that I'm fairly OK.
The whole point of politics is that the law does not and cannot fully capture what’s right and wrong. Just because something is legal, it doesn’t mean it isn’t wrong, and I don’t like the idea that companies ought to act as though that’s the case.
I don't know what kind of musician is rolling the dice on instruments sight unseen. It's not like buying a $2000 computer where every single one pumped out of the factory is the same or you warranty it. There's a ton of variance in instruments. A $2000 guitar can play and sound like a $200 guitar and vice versa, even factory new. It's like buying a used car sight unseen online: you might end up with a knocking engine and cigarette stench.
Here: the scientufic world view is pretty clear on the abortion issue, yet whole voting blocks reject right to choose and often scientific discourse altogether simply on this issue. And we know it as fact: people don't vote based on scientific evidence.

So why not?

My argument is simple. Modern science does not concern itself with telling people what they want to hear to maintain authoritative reality. Religion was a science of telling people what they wanted to hear to maintain authoritative reality. Same methodology, different paradigm. Different objective.

My point is that either way, you area generating reality. So we say, yes but science is more accurate as true, so we have washers and dryers and cars and medicine. But we also have atom bombs and given extinction event and multiple potential ways to wipe ourselves out. We are also more ideologically divided than in any period in history, I'd argue, and precisely when it is most necessary that we be informed and unified.

So science is a more powerful paradigm for building certain technocultural realities at the expense of others. I would say it fails in ways that the older science of cultural uniformity and authority succeeded.
Whether he was justified or not, I think the point OP was making was that it is still a political decision.
(5/2020)
Exactly. There is a difference in kind that results from the difference in degree. One person recording their front door isn't an issue. Each person recording their own front door isn't an issue. The conglomeration of all those front door recordings into a single frictionless searchable product is a massive, massive privay issue.
Biggest quality of life benefit I've given myself in the past two months:

Turn off the news.

If something is actually important, you'll hear about it anyway. And if you don't hear about it, it wasn't actually as important as the reporters made it out to be.

Plus in all likelihood the events being reported on are thousands of miles away from you and have zero impact on your daily life.

Obviously this pairs well with cutting out all the nonsense on your social media feeds.
Do you actually believe this is a real risk? Can you articulate how the dangerous outcome you're referring to actually plays out?
Absolutely, because politics is what government is specifically for, unlike, say, toy stores and individual people doing their non-government jobs.

(edit: not endorsing either the government's position, just saying that yes, government is exactly where we see politics being forced on things)
This is a mic drop comment.

Tons of competition to Amazon. Tons. For anything you want to buy, there are other places that sell it.
Using somebody else’s domain name as your incoming links and branding is obviously setting yourself up for future pain.
That's just the price they give you for your gear vs. the price they mark it up when they put it out on the floor
What exactly is Substack? I asked a few weeks ago if it was the new Medium, and that was apparently the wrong way to ask the question because it got downvoted through the floor.
Firefox 83. I did a search for "section" and got 4 hits but none of them were visible.
15 years of floppy disk copy protection
I think Ceph has the right model. The only abstraction is physical disk to addressable binary/object storage. Everything else is implemented on top of that so you can do S3, filesystems, databases all close to the metal.
Your grandparents had the expectation that other people would listen at any time, so they would self censor as needed.

Your grandparents also received a direct benefit in the form of a more affordable land line. Presumably, if they were wealthy enough to pay for a dedicated line, they had they choice to go one way or another.
Drinking coffee or tea from paper cups may be bad for your health
> jurassic hardware

Like the late 1980s, when Guido was creating Python?
I am not very sure a single man can fight against Google/Apple/Mozilla/Microsoft(Github) etc who use and develop Chromium based softwares. He has to take the help of community otherwise the project is dead.

I think c-smile has got the thing late TBH. Going open source before Electron (at least on Linux) would have given him a lot of leverage over Electron. But its ultimately his product, his life.
Reducing the scope to content you categorize as "hate speech" doesn't change the problems with trying to claim that refusal to remove content condoning that content. Say group X posts content proclaiming superiority over group Y. And group Y also posts content proclaiming superiority over group X. Say website does not take action on either instance of hate speech. It would follow that the website is condoning two contradictory views.

The reality is that hosting content is not condoning it. An approach of "we're treating this like a whiteboard, we are not going to be involved in taking action against particular content" isn't an endorsement of anything. Whatever objectionable content someone might post, another person could post the complete opposite.

Not getting involved is exactly that: not getting involved. Ultimately, this claim that refusal to take action against hate speech is the same "inaction with respect to _____ is condoning ______" rhetoric that's been trotted out time and time again. At best, it's a misguided effort to inspire opposition to harmful views.
> 50 dollars could have gotten you a watch that would have lasted 30 years.

You're not counting new batteries.

It's true that you can buy a tool to change your own. But a small, rarely used tool is very hard to keep track of.
Another alternative that I've been using for ~5 years is MailHog https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog
I suppose when they were dropped in iOS 12 it wasn’t nearly as old. They’ve done well to keep the same devices supported since then.

You probably don't want to buy a new phone again, but I recently went from an SE (2016) to a 12 Mini and can tell you it's a pretty great device. If the new SE feels too large, you might like it too. More expensive, of course.
But potentially also the enemy of fake Amazon product sellers. And the enemy of that enemy is my friend.
Agreed, science excels are building objective reality. However I'd propose that it does come at the expense of subjective reality. So most people believe in God while most reject climate change.

To your second point, it was similar when monks were the only ones who could read. But everyone can own a lighter or watch a tv - these are the artifacts and participatory culture of the scientific "religion". I'd argue that they are superior in some ways but inferior in others.
You didn't ask me, but:

(1) Yes, bigotry against LGBT people makes Switzerland, India, and Indonesia less reasonable.

(2) The United States is generally underrated when it comes to moral clarity. We get a lot of stuff distinctively right and should pat ourselves on the back more often than we do.

(3) There clearly is a threshold past which we can refer directly to moral clarity, and can't hide behind the ambiguity of politics. It's been 73 years, and a lot of people on this thread don't have to Google "IG Farben", or, for that matter, to consult Wikipedia to know what I mean when I allude to IBM's complicity in the early 20th century. Some issues just are clear.
Problem is that most generators just give you your two or three primaries. You’d need to turn those into the 50 to 900 range of shades that the author talks about.
We (rsync.net) will test this out immediately - we're always happy to see tools like this that support plain old SFTP.

If, for any reason, you'd like a free test account, just email info@rsync.net.

Thank you for building this!
Community, Building, Tools
To add to the discussion, I haven't seen anyone mention that this will effectively give the police departments the ability to do surveillance without a warrant
Interesting. I find them distracting. I thought the cruft might be more distracting when it doesn't fade into the background via syntax highlighting.
The difference is between raw performance and "voicing".

You can say "this model of headphones produces peaks at 4kHz, 11kHz and 26kHz compared to a flat reference model" and add that effect with a DSP or pre-rendered sound clips.

That will give you some of the "voice" but it won't add the performance aspects-- power handling capacity, responsiveness of the drivers, sharpness of the crossovers, etc.

TBH, it's a fascinating idea and I wish it had existed last time I bought speakers-- I recall going all over town to Best Buys and Fry's back when they still had stock to listen to floor samples in rooms completely unlike the ones I would be listening in, using sample media and amplification unlike what I was going to use.
using macports wouldn't make it such that "more things will work". it's really about the applications now needing to be compiled in the ARM architecture.

here are some examples:

aom: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/57976

boost: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/59257

...

if you notice the code changes for the items above, they make changes to detect if the compile target is ARM and make the necessary changes so it would compile.
In this price class, the w800 line cannot be beat. 100M water resistance, a second time zone, and a ten year battery life for less than 20 bucks is a real bargain.
Some countries/states don't have that issue.
I cackled.
In what world does separating them from their parents, shipping them 2000 miles away and giving them away to evangelical groups a solution to any problem?

Kidnapping doesn't cease to be kidnapping just because it was done by a government official.
Those people exist - they are called successful founders or senior executives.
So basically it's like being a 'human compiler'? They don't execute the project but they are involved in its design and development.
> I find the binary exceedingly demanding and almost insane.

Classic HN... "Can't you just let me rake in all this cash without the guilt trip over all the bad things I'm doing?"
Outside of the cities, this isn't true - Australian speed limits and average driving speed on highways is much lower than basically anywhere in Europe.

Inside cities, Australia definitely does have higher average speeds than inside most European cities though.
Webview is okay for most apps to be honest. Performance isn't that snappy, but for many apps like Markdown readers and stuff, its great. Now I do support Electron that push web technologies to the limit. e.g. Signal, Skype, VS Code etc.
I do not, and will not, fully understand the desire to put JavaScript or Python interpreters on a microcontroller.

Forty (40) years ago, children were writing assembly on home computers! No internet to run to for help, back then, but somehow, millions of kids learned how to do it.

Today, with all the resources available, assembly is "scary," and "too hard to teach."

I call BS on this notion. Complete BS.

JavaScript doesn't even really belong where it is on desktops and laptops. The very last place it belongs is on a constrained platform.
Are you fucking serious with shit like this?

I'm saying treating illegal immigrants like criminals isn't helping anyone. They're people doing what they can to better their lives. The US should do more for them, not shoot them at the fucking border.

What's wrong with you?
Maybe we’re not perfect for grains, but I’d say we’re doing pretty damn well :P
You know, this comes up frequently.

I have had to think about the CIA more than I would like to admit. There are some wounds in my life related to the evil of perceived unaccountability - and the perceived unaccountability was my own.

When it comes to someone being harmed by a government institution that has the same problem, especially when it has done much to consciously avoid accountability, the result is only worse for those who have chosen to participate. I no longer worry about what is not known. I worry only about what will, and it most certainly will, become known.

And we are at our best when there is mutually painful self-reflection on the roles we as individuals and collectives play in bringing one another to harm. When we would prefer to bring one another to safety, we are delivered the means to do so, Inshallah. God willing.
I have a Coinbase account that I haven’t logged in to since 2017. Apart from speculation, there’s simply nothing to do with this stuff. Ethereum has promised “Web 3.0” applications since forever but they don’t even have the bandwidth for a novelty cat picture exchange service.

This was not the case for any early internet service. They were all immediately useful and became part of my life. The only reason I stopped using something (eg Usenet) was that a better replacement became available.
And how do you think Google, Facebook and Reddit became dominant in the first place? They didn’t overrun their competitors by being just like them.
I highly recommend turning off all audible/vibrational alerts on your devices, allowing exceptions for channels that are only used for true emergencies.

After that, try not using your phone at all for 24 hours, laptops/desktops still allowed.
“To be safe allocate 5 bytes more than you need”
> As someone who lives outside America, the obvious answer to me is unless your product is directly related to politics, a company as an entity should have no public stance on politics.

Statements like yours are very easy to make and sound fine at a superficial level, but quickly run into problems when you try to actually apply the rule. For instance: does a company that sells drugs that can be used off-label for executions of human beings have a "product [that] is directly related to politics?"

This problem is a lot like writing good requirements. Your rule above is a lot like a requirement of an HR system that states simply "the system will reject the resumes of all unqualified candidates." There's a lot to unpack there, and that requirement, as stated, doesn't even get you 1% of the way there.
I refuse to give my mobile number at grocery stores though they tempt me with offers/discounts :)