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> Heh, same. Any of the cloud-provided orchestration tools (Cloudformation, Openstack Heat etc.) are great only for the most basic tasks; using them to provision complex infrastructure is just begging for a world of hurt.

I disagree- I can't speak to OpenStack Heat (and I have no idea what you're referring to by 'cloud-provided orchestration tools' beyond these two specifically), but my own experience using CloudFormation to provision complex infrastructure is that it is in fact great for all but the most basic tasks (where any orchestration tool would just add unnecessary overhead).
Optimisation isn't the problem, optimisation is always a good thing. Deciding what the objective is on the other hand, that's the tricky part. Right now we're optimising to an incomplete or incorrect objective function.

Of course it's not that simple, no doubt someone will be along to mention Goodhart's Law or the inherent problem with essentially quantifying the meaning of life. Still, I don't think people applying logic to their daily lives can be a problem on its own.
Overall, I'm not sure, but ensuing versions of the PS3 Fat model lost retro-compatibility.
Population.

Haber-Bosch converts oil into people.

The "conditions for a pandemic" are just modern global society.

(The jury is out, if over-population causes an environmental crash that kills billions, will it all have been worth it? We are victims of our own success, and have a needle to thread.)
Its a landing page my friend...Made with Mailchimp service...
You can check it...Hope you will like it!
Isn't this exactly the same as css-tabs (e.g. https://css-tricks.com/css3-tabs/ from 2015), just you styled the tabs header like a top menu?
TFA specifically says that the colors added to greys and primary are there to convey states: warnings, destructive operations, tendencies and so on.

> They are almost imperceptible on my screen, but I would say that the page would look even better if the thin separator was black, and there were no different background shades.

Most would disagree. Separating the content from sidebar and asides such as the table of contents is useful because your eyes can follow where you are.
"our policies are a living document" -- Twitter
Good gosh. You're right. Maybe I should tip to avoid future problems. Needless to say, I'm loving the tipping system where I should tip to stay alive.
masks were never necessary for the masses, as opposed to care workers and others who deal with the public in the course of their work. they're very marginal for common interaction scenarios we see day-to-day, but a huge political distraction keeping us from honing in on the main sensible measure we need to "flatten the curve", which is reasonable distancing at private social gatherings, not any of the additional political noise of mask-wearing outside for signaling or social pressure, and limiting certain businesses from operating but not others. mask mandates were only essential for politicians to show that they were tackling the problem, not to actually reduce infection rates.
I was confused by this too a long time, since i am living in a metric world. Tablespoon and teaspoon are units and you can buy measurement tools for tablespoons, teaspoons and cups.

Weight is far superior as a cooking unit, due to flour compression etc. So if possible use weights :)
Next: Magpies develop "capsitalism".

I'm sorry, it was right there.
Instagram IG TV and TikTok are video repositories, aren't they? They're not searchable though.
How can they have afforded to sell their vehicles at a competitive price?
Large companies can just sell debt on the open market. When Bain's subsidiary "merged" with Guitar Center, Guitar Center sold $1.78 billion in debt and Bain paid $1.9bn for the company. Guitar Center got murdered on the interest rates of between 6 and 10% on these debts, which were rated as junk even at the time. The details are in the various SEC filings, you can read them online.

"""In connection with the execution and delivery of the merger agreement, Parent and Merger Sub entered into a debt financing commitment letter with J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. to provide up to $1.815 billion in debt financing, consisting of (1) a senior secured asset-based revolving facility with a maximum availability of $375 million, (2) a senior secured loan term facility in an aggregate principal amount of $800 million, (3) a senior unsecured bridge loan facility in an aggregate principal amount of up to $300 million and (4) a senior subordinated unsecured bridge loan facility in an aggregate principal amount of up to $340 million. """

As to the question of why company management would agree to do this, it's because they personal get paid a huge amount of money to execute the merger. Guitar Center's old CEO got paid $25 million by immediately paying out all his future stock grants on the date of the merger.

"""Each stock option to purchase our common stock outstanding immediately prior to the merger, whether or not then exercisable or vested, will become fully vested and will be deemed to be exercised and canceled at the effective time of the merger, and each holder of such stock option will be entitled to receive a cash payment..."""
I think you are being a bit too finicky here. "true black" is generally accepted to mean #000 in digital media.

We're talking design here, not physics.
Current projections of the effect of an RCP 8.5 scenario (a “do nothing” approach) suggest severe impacts to the Florida and gulf coasts, creating significant migrations inland. But the projected GDP hit will be an estimated 5%—i.e. losing a few years of growth.

It will be bad and disruptive and many people will die. But based on what we know about the “science” it’s not going to be “existential.” For example the wildfires on the west coast killed 35-40 people. We could have a dozen of those a year and it wouldn’t threaten the existence of humanity or really even civilization as we know it.
Theft seems to be such a problem in the Magpie bottle cap gig that the Magpies are so fast to claim their lot. They seem to be aware that other birds can snatch their hard-work.

It's only a matter of time before they implement a tax system to finance a police operation.
> Show me the alternative to Amazon.

there aren't any other companies that offer the full range of what you can get from amazon (cloud services, audio/video streaming, physical goods, etc.), but there is viable competition in each of those markets.

for cloud: google and microsoft

for streaming: spotify, google, apple, netflix, hulu

for physical goods, walmart also has a huge inventory of many different SKUs and they offer free two-day shipping on a lot of them (without needing a subscription). there are also tons of specialty retailers like newegg and microcenter.
Mean value theorem hardly allows that :)

Maybe I misinterpret what you’re saying, can you give me exactly the source for your numbers?

Your last paragraph feels like you have personal grief against him.
Where I work the director has a monthly lunch with female employees so they can talk about their careers and how to advance and get promoted. I don't know, due to lack of experience, but I assume this is beneficial to one's career. Presumably benefiting careers is why they're doing it.

And yet, it feels like sexism to me. Women get an explicit benefit that men don't. Women are also explicitly privileged in the hiring process and higher ups are rewarded based on the number of women they employ, hire, and promote. This isn't a conspiracy theory but an explicitly articulated and documented process. Even before that, in college, we had events for women who code, women in STEM, career opportunities for women, etc.

I get that these things are all because women are underrepresented in tech and surely there are challenges for women and sexism against women. However, the examples above still feel like sexism to me. I am not all men, so the fact that men have better representation in upper levels is meaningless to me as an individual. The fact that my female peers have a monthly meeting with higher-ups to discuss how they get promoted and I don't get that isn't as meaningless.

On top of all that, I also know that if I were to ever suggest this was sexism or wrong in any way using my real name or at work, I'd fully expect to be fired and reviled by my coworkers as a deplorable sexist.

My point in writing all this is just to say that I would much prefer my company stay dispassionate and neutral and try to treat everyone fairly. I don't really support the company taking up political, social, or ideological agendas and using them to make decisions about what happens at work.
When I used to play competitively, my teacher and I would spend countless hours figuring out hacky fingerings to use because I just couldn't play many passages or notes, normally. I could never consider playing Rachmaninoff haha, which I'm sure anyone without extremely large hands can relate to.
Plus with instant communications and the consolidation of languages means that it’s easier for markets to be winner take all (or maybe two).
This is precisely what I’m talking about. You’re continuing to assert that if you support civil rights you must support BLM. Others have pointed out why this comes from a faulty assumption.
Joshua Klein did something like this over ten years ago with crows. One of my favorite og TED talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mm1H5DYdlk
Yes, it is true. However, I am hesitant to say the AWS CloudFormation is a bulletproof tool that does not need help from the support side. If somebody was too impatient and manually removed a resource that was managed by CFN, then he might end with a deadlock, where only help was actually a support team member. Been there, don't repeat that error - please do not create (not auto-detectable) drift changes on a purpose (it could be hard to modify/remove the stack in future).

Edit: My memories are from Q1 2020.
For many of the smaller, just-make-it-easier tasks, I definitely agree with you regarding the greater accessibility on Mac. It's certainly not in exactly the same bucket as Windows. I think the thing I had in my head was the lack of deeper accessibility in Apple products. On Linux, there's a really neat transition that can happen, where (imho, often by accident) you switch from just being a user of your computing environment to being its owner, which I think is a gateway to higher levels of technical engagement. Apple's approach seems sort of like a high-pass filter; you can only go so far in that environment before you start running into barriers. For the general population, I agree that it's probably not a high priority, but I think the trade-off in terms of gateway potential is worth acknowledging.
But what about when the hungry human tries to trick the computer by cooking plain looking food that packs tons of calories but appears healthy on the food log

Sounds stupid but it's exactly the kind of fat logic my unconscious hungry brain will use.
Your friends are going to insist on properly indented code no matter what your compiler/interpreter wants, so rather than following one set of rules for your friends and a different set of rules for your compiler, why not teach the compiler to think like your friends so that you only have one set of rules to think about?

I'd call it pragmatic.
Maildev: An SMTP server and web interface for testing emails during development
I recently learned that the programming language for the Navision ERP system (now Microsoft 365 Business Central) is a Pascal variant called AL.
Im very concerned hearing this from a newspaper that told us Saddam had WMDs
But he did mention Terragrunt:

> Terraform: Up & Running is excellent, and Terragrunt makes it even easier. Huge thanks to their team for providing the duct tape we need.
Magpies are definitively more cognitively able than the smartest dogs. They can recognize themselves and they have sophisticated relations.
You're challenging an anecdote? Please keep the HN Guidelines in mind:

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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.

From the outside looking in, American politics has long since ceased being about policy and idea's, it is now a contest of identity where it doesn't matter what someone stands for so long as they are on the team I support.

In this kind of climate, for a business or other entity to involve themselves in politics would be consciously choosing to more or less blacklist themselves from doing business with the other side or run the risk of having their brand tarnished via social media for whatever stance they take.

Finally, a business that takes a political stance does damage not just to themselves but to their employees as in the current political climate, both sides have no problems harassing a person or worse if they are viewed as not "on their team". Once a company takes a political stance, it doesn't matter if what that employee believes or does nor does it matter that said employee might be working for this company because they have a family to feed and don't have the luxury of quitting and looking for a new job, the very fact that they work for said company means that they should be treated as persona-non-grata.

Make it simple, a company can't vote, so a company doesn't have a political affiliation (unless of course, it is some kind of lobbying company etc).
I recently became curious about whether vinyl records might be a good choice for long term widespread backup of the information needed to bootstrap back to a full working Turing complete runtime, sort of as seeds for some future where much of the knowledge about computing had been lost. Somewhat absurd scenario, but interesting from a technical point of view due the the constraints you have to optimize for.

Depending on what assumptions you make about the effective bandwidth available on a 33 rpm lp record is somewhere between 225MB and 15MB. That is easily enough space to fit a full fledged implementation of Common Lisp on somewhere between 1 and 4 records (SBCL's working tree is 40MB, and with its .git folder it is 152MB). There are countless other factors that would need to be considered, but I still like to imagine a sci-fi story about the search for the 5th record of lp-lisp needed to reboot civilization! The fact that someone has actually done something even remotely related to this is fantastic.
"Not doing politics" is itself a political position. It is a tacit endorsement of the political status quo.
The Mistery of Free Will
I used to love 2600 - until I understood that Emmanuel Goldstein is a real asshole. That kind of ruined it for me.
A lot has to do with motivation, too.

von Neumann was not out there endlessly trying to figure out ways to make more and more money.

Enormously intelligent and talented people like that are rarely motivated by things like that (though, of course, there are exceptions, but sadly even there they're often not successful, for a variety of reasons having little to do with their intelligence).

In my own reading of biographies of people who managed to accumulate a lot of money or power, it's remarkable how often they come from extremely poor and powerless families.

It's tempting to try to armchair analyze them and attribute their tunnel vision and tenacity at making ever more and more money and aquiring more and more power to their childhood deprivation and fear of ever being destitute again, even long after they've achieved far more than enough to support themselves and their families without working another day in their life again.

Of course, this is rarely the case for tech billionaires, who tend to come from middle class or even wealthy families, but it has often been true of extremely wealthy or powerful people in other fields.
Chinese flower has evolved to be less visible to pickers
Get your eyes tested. I used to get headaches all the time, they've disappeared completely since getting glasses.
Kanye West won 270 electoral college votes.
Needing to contact support for this issue in 2019 only means that the user didn't know how to use the 'continue update rollback' feature properly, which was a feature added back in 2016 specifically to support the rollback-failed scenarios.
I’ll take it.
I don't think so. Hot code reloading is hot code reloading. The parent to your comment is talking about in production so it's the 'real thing'.
I was surprised when a Romanian friend told me tips were common in hospitals over there. The national healthcare system was "free", but a surgery might still cost a couple hundred in gifts to the surgeon, anesthesiologist, etc. A couple bucks to the nurses that check in on you during your stay.

Good luck getting your bedding changed regularly if you're in a coma and don't have a family member around to dispense tips in your behalf.

Sample size of 1 is pretty small. Anyone else from the region able to corroborate? Sometimes it is good to get a 2nd opinion.
I have a lambda that runs every day to cycle the RDS master password. I create the password using the random provider, and save it to a secrets manager secret - the first time the environment is created, the secret is in plaintext in the state, but it will not be valid the next time the lambda runs (less than 24 hours).

You can do the same with ElastiCache auth tokens, and ensure your application reads the token from a value in secrets manager.
I started getting headaches a few weeks ago since it became colder and my screen time increased.

1. Adjust the brightness of your screen multiple times a day. Auto-brightness is too bright often.

2.Do not use smartphones or tablets in the dark before sleeping, even with blue-filter.
I feel deeply sad for his child(ren) and wife.
We often think the urgency is to succeed and grow our startup.
It is.

But the Tik tok of the clock is there to remind us that we are not just founders but also humains, humains living a short life in the big timeline of history of innovation.

History will forget us, but our close relative will always have this page open at this tragic day.
Ouch, what a shame on my side. Sorry, I must have missed it. Thanks for pointing it out.
Most states are purple. And within almost all states, there focused pockets of extremes on both sides.
The problem with Ruby’s method missing is mostly that Ruby development generally doesn’t happen in an environment where discovering the existence of that method is easy. Macros are even better and tools like the slime macrostep expander make them relatively easy to deal with.
They approach a bank, or issue some bonds, and it goes something like: "Lend us 1 billion to acquire this company. We'll pay the interest from the operating income. It will also be secured against the assets of the company."

So from the point of view of a bank or bond-holder, it's not such a bad deal if the company survives. It's not a bad deal either for the past owner who does cash out. Then, after the acquisition, they put the debt on that company's books because they were technically costs incurred from that company, and there is nobody to stop them anyway.
It's still a PoverVR GPU with serial numbers filed off.
Yes, but why do 1% subscribe? Because everything is on YouTube. Why is everything on YouTube? Because it's free to use. The question then is: how do you keep the flywheel turning without ads?
I was deliberating mirroring my interlocutor's phrasing to make a point. One was resented, and used as a point against the person. The other passed unremarked.

As a rhetorical flourish, it did it was intended to do and exposed an apparent double standard.
To not shun such a vile comment indicates a sick community.

Furthermore I'm replying to comments that needs a response, not starting them. In fact, I'm unsure if I've ever started one.

Unfortunately however, HN provides a lot of comments that requires a response because they're either just vile, pure propaganda, or entirely false. And given the demographics of this site they are rarely, if ever, shunned if they just meet two criteria: they're somewhat articulate and they hold a good tone (bonus points if they contain links to vaguely associated "sources").

So you want to dog-whistle racism on HN without any particular reaction? Don't write something stupid and blatant, pick one of these options instead:

* "Well, your country is much more homogeneous."

* "Inequality is unfortunate but remember that IQ is very much determined by genes and that IQ is the strongest determining factor for future income so it is what it is."

etc etc.

I can't just ignore such bullshit, especially when it's left without any reaction.
I should just write O(n).

Thanks for catching the mistake, @dmurray. I'll fix that.
I assume you are talking about a similar tool to the Atlantis [0] / Terraform SaaS offering [1].

[0]: https://www.runatlantis.io/

[1}: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/terraform-collaboration-for-e...
It might be because their computers are monitored so they're not comfortable goofing off if they come in 15 minutes early?
A starter's guide to design for developers
I screwed the term up, its actually MICCIMAT
Web dev here. I started a small food called https://thatfijitaste.com just to do something different, express my love for food and log the uniqueness of Fijian / Indo Fijian food.

Realized a few years later that it gets decent traffic from all over the world and slapped some google ads on it which now pays for hosting cost etc.

I would definitely recommend starting a blog/ recipe api or youtube channel to harness both your skills.
Big reason for defensive coding like nulling pointers is to make the code fail hard when someone messes up when they make a change. One can imagine the sort of hell unleashed if later the code is changed to make use of a dangling pointer. That's often the type of bug that slips through testing and ends up causing rare unexplained crashes/corruption in shipped code. Worse it can take multiple iterations of changes to finally expose the bug.
>For many people, competition and pressure are essential to enjoying life, and we want to optimize what we do to support that.

This is a good example of finding a middle ground aka finding a local maxima. Either extreme isn't well suited, but the grass is most likely greener in between the two extremes.
Mccarthyism is alive and well in 2020
It's weird the frequency with which the AWS Support Reps agree the issues we find aren't those that would've been resolvable on our own, as each time we file a ticket we follow up with our reps for appropriate training and support.

I understand that you like this tool, but you do not need to fight everyone suggesting it doesn't work as well as you want it to.
Wow, that was a beautiful story. Thank you
> I recently became curious about whether vinyl records might be a good choice for long term widespread backup of the information needed to bootstrap back to a full working Turing complete runtime, sort of as seeds for some future where much of the knowledge about computing had been lost.

> the effective bandwidth available on a 33 rpm lp record is somewhere between 225MB and 15MB. That is easily enough space to fit a full fledged implementation of Common Lisp on somewhere between 1 and 4 records (SBCL's working tree is 40MB, and with its .git folder it is 152MB). There are countless other factors that would need to be considered

Don't vinyl records experience physical decay over time?
LOTR goes into enough detail about Orc society about as much as knowing the tax policy of Aragorn as King of Gondor.

But even then, this analogy falls apart immediately. The uruk-hai were designer soldiers that were the best troops in the army because, you know, they were designed to be the best class of troops.

I do not know of any details in LOTR that goes into the promotion policies of the officers of Sarumans military.