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> but if everyone can get their heads out of the hobbyist-tinkerer mindset for a moment and consider that lifetime TCO is a real and meaningful consideration for businesses

This is the hard thing for me. I just like having so much control of having hardware at home, and I've got static IPs. But it costs to power and cool them, and they aren't elastic like cloud/IaaS. Having started the move to VPSs and finding them very good for the price, I'm now trying to wrap my head around "cattle, not pets", but still with a micropreneur mindset. I think it's still worth it, and my home office is getting quieter with every server I relocate to somebody else's hardware.
The pro-life position gets flagged, welcome to HN.
It is quite visible here every time someone posts a GPL based library/application, or the recurring mentions of using Electron, Chromebooks or Chrome developer tools.
In Belgium they are quite expenseive (ç24 to send one MMS) but are more often than not bundled for free in the mobile plan.

But it never took off, I don't know of anyone using it. I must have received two in my whole life.

edit: I just checked. I can send MMS. This could have been useful. I sill send and receive SMS and I'd feel like I wouldn't try to send an MMS out of fear of the other side not getting it.

edit 2: ah, looks like it doesn't deliver. shrug
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This would seem to be quite obviously correct. Perhaps this comment’s downvoters could explain why they disagree?
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The IR systems are space-based and look for rocket plumes in the ascent phase. Once a rocket gets above the troposphere there's no clouds to obscure it. It's an intensely bright IR source that easily stands out from the -60°C surrounding atmosphere.

Just a second of observing the plume's trajectory will tell the difference between and orbital or ballistic one. Ballistic missiles will also be launched over the poles to travel the shortest distance to their targets. So IR plumes over the North Pole either means Santa's upped his present delivery game or there's an incoming ballistic missile attack.
Care to elaborate? Because I'm not aware of any tool that could be used to combine a binary and all its .so dependencies (and all of theirs recursively) into a single statically-linked binary.
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"vote with your wallet" would say some purists.
That would be ideal, as it more closely fits consumption to billing. But potentially harder for end users to reason about. AWS's bills are already notorious.
Woof :)
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Windows 10 is rubbish.

It reminds me of one of those cheap Android phones that come free with the activation of a mobile subscription.

Ads running on your desktop, a UI that looks like cartoon graphics and an App Store full of questionable apps.

How anyone can deal with that OS on a daily basis is beyond me.
My experience is that Go cold start takes around 900ms. Processing (parsing a JSON message, verifying it with one DynamoDB look-up, and storing it in DynamoDB) then takes between 11ms and 105ms. Go does use less memory than node, though, and that also counts in Lambda.

I hadn't expected it either, but it loads node faster. Perhaps via some VM trick?
I'm doing exactly the same thing right now. But with a desktop..

macOS is so pissing me off, half the file system is being locked down, Apple makes exceptions for their own stuff (like the recent thing where they disable network filtering for their apps). Every app has to be sent to Apple for notarisation, and much more.

I got into macOS because it was a great POSIX system with great desktop apps and a consistent UI. But Apple is making it into an iPad with keyboard now. The UI is getting more and more bulky, apps are being dumbed down (and promoting even dumber iOS ports) etc. The NeXT underpinnings are neglected. The benefit is gone.

I chose FreeBSD over Linux because most mainstream distros are doing the same thing. Ubuntu is pushing snap too much, redhat is pushing systemd into everything. I don't want this commercial control again, even though it's not as bad as on Windows. Windows 10 has similar crap like Apple, forced updates, telemetry etc.

Also I like FreeBSD's consistent environment and excellent documentation among many other things.
I used to say the same, but my perception - and I know it's not reality, but every day with it feels like this:

* I log in.

* I start setting things up so I can start work.

* I'm notified about critical updates. There will be a forced reboot soon...

* I'm watching out in case something pops up while I'm typing and whatever key I was about to press causes the 'reboot' question to be answered - and I wait several minutes and lose flow entirely.

* I log in.

* I start setting things up again as they were so I can start work again.

* There are more critical updates...

Turning off auto-update is not an option, because there are so many security holes and I don't want to end up a victim. I also don't like having to fight to try and keep the OS from doing something it will push against, so trying to creep around letting it do updates when I'm not busy and reboots when I want it to but not asking me - waiting to be told - it's hard work and stressful.

Windows is an amazing piece of tech and gets better all the time, but I find myself much more able to stay in the 'flow' and avoid stress in MacOS or Linux.
I don't understand why the bug fuss about M1. After all M1 is 5nm CPU. AMD Renoir is better than Intel for the same reason, it's 7nm while Intel can't get below 10nm yet.

So while M1 is probably a great CPU I expect its advantages will mostly vanish once AMD and Intel move to 5nm also.
> I think I proposed previously that this would be an awesome piece of kit for a mobile business wanting to give receipts for cash purchases.

The printer makes sense for that, but nothing else about the rest of the machine suggests "Mobile sales machine".

> Once you've got an SD card, support cables, etc, you're looking at quite a reasonable second-hand laptop. If you're able to go desktop, sometimes you can even pick up something for free.

Yeah. Much better suggestions.
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About 10 years back my company hired consultants, spent close to 6 months translating SQL queries/stored procs to be Oracle. The goal was to support both MSSQL Server & Oracle for the on-premise product. It was quite costly undertaking. Then few years later they just abandoned Oracle because of maintenance costs.

I wonder if anyone starting out today chooses Oracle as their relational database.
1. Sorry you are disappointed by this.
2. This is why I wanted to post here, to make it really clear. Andy only got to spend a few seconds on this and couldn't get into all the nuances. The launch post does, and we'll have more posts over the next 3 weeks just on this topic.

Containerization solves a few things. One big one was the container image as a packaging model. As customers struggle with dependency management or installing native packages (RPMs) we're basically faced with reinvent Dockerfile... or just use Dockerfile. This is an over simplification of what's happening, but that was the initial spark of this, many many cycles ago.

I think this is still going to be really valuable for folks, but what you are looking for already exists I'd say, and is Fargate.

Btw, ppl shouldn't be downvoting this, its all very valid.

- Chris, Serverless@AWS
> I want big, bloated libraries like Qt or Gtk or Boost to be dynamically linked

These fall under "GUI" in the "base system" category in my opinion.

> and OS facilities like libc to be statically linked.

If you're not being sarcastic right now, I'm really curious as to your reasoning.
Aye. My reader (which is one of clutch of Sony Readers I'm keeping alive, which for various reasons ended up my preferred reader) is an excellent substitute for a stack of novels I'll read front to back, and that's it. The reader wins on weight and volume, which for a stack of novels is a serious inconvenience.

For everything else thus far, the paper version wins.
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Thanks for putting this up. It's a nice relatively simple paper, good for showing bto clients. I'm getting about a query a week re phytoremediation.
True, but ECS and K8s both abstract aware the hardware and offer cheaper 24/7 workloads and get past the cold start problem (at the expense of slower spike responses).
If you're at the scale where a data center going down is a problem and thus you need to run in multiple coasts for disaster recovery, you're going to have to be able to handle the kinds of distributed computing issues that'll crop up in both cases.

The advantage of AWS is that in theory you can script your infrastructure. Deploy to multiple zones, add hosts, remove hosts, deploy artifact, etc. Makes all kinds of things very easy. Dedicated SQL / Cassandra / DynamoDB offerings make that a few clicks to get going.

This saves people costs, but just so happens to be more expensive in terms of hardware costs.

You can replicate all of this in your own DC or whatever. You do need to invest in tooling, hardware, etc. which is worth it at the highest scales. Or worth it if you don't need everything and thus don't need to pay for it.

Personally, I think many large organizations can optimize by running with a mix of on-prem and cloud services.

Demand may be elastic but not totally elastic, so your base load could be cheaper in house. Storage is cheaper on premise for huge datasets.

You can afford enough staff to rack servers, but you aren't dominated by the lack of servers.

You buy more EC2 instances to scale your business, letting the product team deliver the product, and deploy on-prem to squeeze out more efficiency behind them. Yes, you probably don't use the full offerings of a cloud provider, but that also means less lock in at a cost of a little lower convenience and more staff.
This affidavit is proof along with the countless others. That argument no longer applies. There is plenty of circumstantial evidence worthy of investigation. Dismissal of it at this point is willful ignorance.

Go watch the testimony from the different states:

Michigan (Live): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0-vyw9qbdw

Arizona: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rri6flxaXww

Pennsylvania: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSDZkXxFVEU
Speed has always mattered, though I agree we are light-years away from optimization levels once considered standard. OTOH, so are we WRT complexity of applications.

Amazon is not going to change software development per se, but at least at some of their customers' sites calculations will be done how many hours can be allocated for a n% reduction in runtime. So, if you live in an amazon-universe, this is a real "game changer". Bystanders may chuckle ;)
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Some of the big benefits of major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP):

- the sheer number of services available
- managed services
- high availability, within and/or across regions
- APIs/SDKs for many of their services, for many languages
- monitoring and alerting built-in
- RBAC
- means of grouping and organising resources and subscriptions

I work as an architect in the enterprise space, where those last 2 are pretty important because a lot of different teams are building/using a lot of different systems, and often multiple organisations are involved. High availability of some services is vital, because downtime can affect the bottom line, or mean an entire workforce has to down their tools.

Considering only the first 3 items, most of the non-huge systems I design - and, I would imagine, most non-enterprise/FAANG-scale systems - have only modest availability requirements, very rarely needing cross-region availability. And most of those systems only really need web apps and APIs, proxies/gateways, a database, a message queue, blob storage, and often some form of background processing (VMs, containers, serverless). OK, that's still a fairly long list, but it's a tiny fraction of what the big cloud providers have on offer, and the database is probably the only tricky thing on the list.
It's not going to be replaced. Congress never funded these radio telescope projects in the 1960s and 1970s for the "science". For the first couple of years the primary purpose of Aricebo was locating and intercepting Soviet radio transmissions bouncing off the atmosphere.

A huge percentage of radio astronomy equipment is just military leftovers. It's not gonna get funded for science purposes alone.
I am not a lawyer but it doesn't seem like a gray area at all to me; you are providing inputs to GitHub and they provide the outputs of mac software over the internet.

What's maybe more of a gray area is whether apple can assert the user doesnt have these rights in their eula.
DC has nearly the same amount of people as North Dakota.

Having two Dakotas doesn't make any sense from a political representation point of view either, but here we are.
Also, when it comes time to scale, it's a lot easier to bring up a relatively simple (but scalable) infrastructure on AWS than deal with: colo location, buying servers, buying spares, replacing failing hardware, imaging, setting up backups, etc etc. Those typically become concerns once you're at big scale where the cost savings are significant.
I'm pretty sure the original article is talking about Colo.
Yeah, this is Day 1 for this and I think we've got a bunch of ideas to make it easier in the future. Most importantly we're looking for feedback just like this!

Thanks,
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> cannot be maintained because the governing bodies deny the necessary funding for maintenance/repairs/operation.

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory#Funding_re... funding was reduced 15 years ago.

Around 5 years ago there was talk about shutting this facility down. So yah, it was knowingly given up, but it wasn't just a short term thought, this was decades of administrators all saying the same thing.
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Yeah, I was a little confused by the 3 day comment. When I get a new Mac I use Apple's Migration Assistant to move my environment from the old machine to the new one. That brings over all of my customizations and I am ready to go. I'll go through my change list and make sure everything came over. Sometimes something in /etc needs to be updated or perhaps a license key for an app. It is a simple process, at least for me.
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The translucent menus don't make them easier to read.
Nah, I like my job. I'm equally unproductive on weekends on my hobbies etc. I'm just groggy in the mornings and get better in the afternoon, and after dinner I'm the sharpest and most energetic both mentally and physically.
It's not really a very good comparison to be honest, because Lambdas integrate with a whole bunch of AWS services that send them events that aren't HTTP requests via a port.

I had exactly the same thought you're expressing here when I first built a Lambda to serve as a HTTP API manually after previously using Azure a tiny bit. In Azure you write their equivalent function and one of the built-in trigger options is HTTP, you enable that and immediately get a URL. Lambdas are quite close to that now I think if you're using the console UI, but you used to have to go through API gateway and set everything up manually.

But the point is that Lambdas aren't HTTP APIs that listen on a single port. They receive events that can be proxied HTTP requests via API Gateway, or messages on queues, or completely arbitrary invocations from step functions, or notifications that look nothing like HTTP from S3 buckets. I'd like the Cloud Run model when my lambda is acting like an HTTP API, but I don't think it'd be much fun to have to treat every AWS event as a full HTTP request for everything else.

I'm not very familiar with Google Cloud, but I think their equivalent is Cloud Functions which looks very similar to Lambda's pre-container model: https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/writing
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I'm sure the later stuff lasted, once we had perfected the technique of producing ceramic (still probably a lot is buried under earth somewhere and over time will be crushed with pressure). But I'm talking about the early to late-stone age period (10K YA and earlier), when we probably still produced containers, but they were probably made from less durable materials or techniques.
I agree here. This isn't a case where someone took a similar picture. The pictures are identical except OPs is more cropped than the competitor.

This is similar to a common practice in the art world where you photograph the borders of a painting before framing it. If there's ever any doubt about whether the painting was swapped for a forgerie, just look at the photos of the borders and compare them.

I'd have similar questions if I was on the Amazon team receiving this complaint.
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Nah, I worked on a "platform engineering team"/DevOps for a year and I have no idea what this service does or what it's for. I have a vague inkling, like I could make a guess, but even thinking about that makes my head hurt.

Probably relevant tho is that I left after a year and am no longer doing DevOps because C/C++ low level mathy or systems oriented coding is fun, and actually makes sense to me. :)
Does Lambda still lag from awake?
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If I'm on a road trip when my car comes due for service, it doesn't automatically exit the interstate and drive to the first available mechanic.

I wish Windows would let me treat it like a car.
I find it interesting how definitions of words drift away from their original meaning.

> is becoming less Unix-y every year

And the examples given are: no package manager, outdates packages, not open free software

Doesn't this exactly describe the original UNIX OSs? Solaris, IRIX, HP-UX and so on?

It sounds to me like a self fulfilling prophecy - he models his expectations on a modern Linux or BSD distribution, and of course at the end they will match what he wants.
Despite having read hundreds of books in my life, I've failed to discover the sacred connection between me and the physical book that some avid readers like to ramble about.

Sure, some books are nice. Some are even more comfortable to use (books with lots of images or diagrams) than ebooks. Sometimes the typography is really something. But they're still ink-covered dead trees, they take up lots of space, weigh tens or hundreds of kilograms, are a pain to move between apartments, are an even bigger pain to pack for a vacation.

High resolution e-ink displays are just as nice to look at, and ebooks are much easier to self-publish without all the middlemen.

It's sad to see the bookstore go as an interesting kind of place, but I won't miss books at all.
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