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I don't want to buy "papers" or "shares" or "ETF" etc... I want real real estate that comes with hassles of being a landlord.
You touched on the core problem with cryptocurrency, and it is not a technology problem.

The problem is that cryptocurrency and the community around it is absolutely crawling with scams to the point that it's hard to find things that are not scams. Bad drives out good. Even if the tech works perfectly and can be made to scale, if the ecosystem is full of scams it will never be used for anything but scams and black/grey market applications. Anyone not looking to scam will run away.

Contrast with the stock market. There are scams, sure, but the majority of stocks are not scams. If you bought stocks at random you have at least >50% odds of buying stock in a real and honest business of some kind. If you participate in cryptocurrency stuff at random I'd say you have a >90% chance of being scammed... probably closer to 99%.

All the ad-hoc regulations and institutions around conventional finance are the outcome of a multiple century long Red Queen's race between productive economic activity and noise. Noise includes scams, frauds, bubbles, and other forms of undesirable action or emergent behaviors in markets that get in the way of productive economic activity. That hodge-podge of adaptations is almost certainly sub-optimal, but you're not going to do better by just ignoring the problem domain and offloading everything onto individual market participants. That means every market participant has to operate their own SEC and investigative journalist outfit to have any chance of not being scammed. Not going to happen.

A recurrent fallacy of techno-libertarians and techno-utopians is to vastly underestimate human avarice and opportunism. The people designing these systems are usually fairly honest, so they have a hard time imagining what sociopaths and con artists will do with the things they create. If you create anything that offers even the tiniest chance at making money or obtaining some form of status or power, it will be DDOSed with fraud and con artistry of every kind.

Edit: I am not totally bearish on this stuff and I see valid uses for it, but I don't think it's as broadly world changing as its evangelists do.
I agree. Choosing a cost limit is smart. People long for 'things' less and less, excluding the very poor or unfortunate.

Buying for loved ones should not be stressful, and should not be criticized. Setting a spend limit aids this.
Yeah, I did all that. I think there is something wrong with the WiFi on the device. It can connect to my WAP just fine, but any operation involving a network update (like refreshing the Warehouse listing, or updating software) fails.
Sounds like it has nothing to do with microservices and more that they just blew everything up instead of fixing their firebase schema. But hey, sometimes that's way simpler.
Look into the Amazfit Bip. A bit more than $20, but cheap and the battery lasts ~40 days. If you're using GPS a lot it will be less than 40.

Even so, battery life is measured in weeks, not days.
it's interpreted bytecode. The bytecode is a highly optimized constrained language that looks a whole lot like machine language. It would not be unreasonable to build hardware that runs it, if you wanted to. I guess it would not be unreasonable to say, it's interpreted in the same way that running arm-compiled code on qemu on an x86 is interpreted.
https://www.serverless.com/ abstracts a bit, so there's less lock in, but agree typical lambda workflows aren't just plain code you can move to a different vendor. A big perk is easy triggers to glue things together like new S3 file -> run lambda
Ok, I've just tried that but I also needed to add `/force` otherwise it complained about missing symbols. So the full compile line is:

cl small2.c /link /force /nodefaultlib /entry:_start /subsystem:CONSOLE kernel32.lib

This gets it down to 3kb.
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My family does an email thread where everyone posts gifts ideas... I'd actually really want the donation, but I don't want to say that publicly for fear of seeming "holier than thou" and ruining other people's fun.
I wrote this in another comment here, but just so you don't miss it: Don't.

Dependencies for the dynamic languages matter A LOT! Take a look at what it'll cost you for requiring the AWS SDK in Node.js, for your cold starts https://theburningmonk.com/2019/03/just-how-expensive-is-the...

Personal benchmarks puts Rust as the most optimal language that I've tried to run on AWS Lambda so far.
From the perspective of someone who suffers from gift-choice anxiety, that was a useful article. (Kudos, too, to several commenters here, particularly @afton wrt domain expertise. This is so easy to mess up, especially buying for kids/teens.)

But - tangential, I realise - what about asking why we buy Christmas (or holiday) gifts, and especially with a scattergun approach: buy for everyone you know (family, friends, colleagues - driven in some cases by fear that they might have got you something but you haven't got them anything - it gets ridiculous), just because, er, xmas? (Comment here about power and gifts by @blueyes gave me pause for uneasy thought - genuine thanks for that.)

I spent quite a few years in places where Christmas wasn't a thing. In a couple of places, Eid was the big celebration, and the emphasis seemed to me to be on hospitality, a lot of food, loads of get-togethers, but not so much on presents. I sort of miss that - and miss the emphasis on charity in the run-up to Eid during Ramadan.

Perhaps we have lost something. I'm a fan of the poet Louis MacNeice. Here's an amateur animation to illustrate his section of Autumn Journal which starts, " A week to Christmas"[1], which I voiced quite a few years ago. (I can't find a stand-alone version of the text online.)

I am not religious, but the commercialisation of Christmas does make me uncomfortable.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fV5hOWChnE

Edited to add: another amateur animation (same software, now sadly defunct) of Tim Minchin's Christmas song "White Wine in the Sun", which celebrates Christmas from the perspective of an atheist, but which also abhors the hypocrisy of its commercialism:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWQuDtxD2-c
Whenever someone mentions smart contracts I'm instantly reminded of that Jean Luc Picard quote:

"I don't know how to communicate this, or even if it is possible to do so... but the question of justice has concerned me greatly of late. And so I say to any creature who may be listening: There can be no justice, so long as laws are absolute. Life itself is an exercise in exceptions."
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Since I know about knives, I would buy them a knife.

If I was an accomplished bread baker, I would give them a couple of loaves each week for a month -- unless I knew they had a dietary issue.

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To be fair, Samba4 setups are super easy, so for the HN crowd it probably isn't terrible advice.

I've been running one at home since the first TP in 2006, and I don't spend any time thinking about or maintaining them (running on Debian)
The interface of golang are really need to improve and refactoring
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This is a good idea. A "white elephant" gift exchange is another alternative, though with gifts that are desirable and not just amusing.
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+1. Highly recommend Amazfit Bip!
The battery life is so long that I forget where I keep my charging cable.
>Velox

Arcan would be interesting on this, too.
It’s quite fascinating watching the robotic landing procedure.

For all the talk about America being the first to send a man to the moon, which is nice. But I’d much rather have a robot do the automated landing for me. Cold. Calculated. Reliable. Fearless. Every time.

In a way, you can say that, NASA “had” to send a man to the moon, because they couldn’t build the computers, electronics, and software in the 1960s, to automatically land the machine itself.

NASA and the Soviets did send robotic probes to the moon, but they were on a ballistic trajectory. Basically, it was a controlled crash landing. The probes could’ve landed on a boulder and tumbled over. I’m surprised it didn’t.

Neil Armstrong had to take over the robotic controls from the lander, and go into manual mode, because the lander was about to land on a boulder, and topple over.

The Chinese probes here, did an initial ground survey first, before finding a safe landing spot. Granted, they had the benefit of 40 years of additional advancements in technology.

Next up: Mars, then Europa.

Looking forward to them releasing the full HD videos of the landing sequence, that they need to download from the lander itself. It seems the transmitted images from the lander, were sampling progress shots. It seems there isn’t enough bandwidth to do a full HD transmission of the live landing.

And it would also be nice if America can put aside its political differences, and work together with China, like they did with the Soviets. But I don’t see this happening in my lifetime.
> harvesting their usage data through telemetry for a profit

Does MS sell their telemetry data?
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I think the most interesting development is the increasing amount of Bitcoin being wrapped in Ethereum, somewhat validating the store of value idea, I could see it giving Bitcoin some legs

But... is it like sports memorabilia at that point, the value is all perception rather than utility and could one day just.. collapse
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It's funny - i avoid Wyze because it seems such a good deal. Something seems off about that, the price is simply too good - and i loathe being the product these days.
I'd agree with Dijkstra, provided that he wrote about individual human beings, rather than computers. It is humans that are characterized by radical novelty, not computers, which can be understood by metaphors. It is easy to predict computers (that is why they are useful), and impossible to predict humans.
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There's definitely a balance. I tend to be more concerned about things which store or update data durably — testing a Lambda function is relatively easy, and if you're calling other services but your code isn't a complete mess that's a relatively manageable problem, but something like DynamoDB poses both a migration challenge (especially for a running system) but also questions about correctness if you aren't really careful about how you handle things like concurrent access. That doesn't mean they're not worth using but it definitely tells me where you want robust validation, testing, etc. since it's a lot harder to recover from missing/corrupted data than it is to resolve a 500 error on a particular endpoint.
It isn’t about absolute peace, that is practically impossible.

It’s about relative peace, worldwide number of conflicts, casualty rate by population, geographical spread of conflicts, etc.

What is unprecedented is your chance of being killed in war has gone down substantially and stayed down after WWII. The types of conflicts have changed, civil wars now dominate, other types have gone down significantly or have been eliminated. There have not been conflicts between major military powers.
Edit: it appears other possible disasters cause INCREASED fertility.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...

Original question:
Does anyone know if people reacted similarly to the threat of nuclear war back in the 60s?
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Similar here. I hadn't heard of them before but took a look at their site and am impressed by the range. If they shopped to the UK I'd be buying a few bits for sure.

Similar prices to xiaomi etc but their apps look good. (though the xiaomi apps are pretty good too)
That is not at all what my words say and I won't reply to that thread which was started by a former competitor to troll this convo today.

The perceived lock-in is really no different than consuming other technologies. You make a trade-off on what you want to manage vs. handoff to a managed service. For many customers the benefits are well worth it.

It's fine that Lambda wasn't for you, but you aren't being clear here about what issues you saw, just waving the lock-in boogey man so many misunderstand.
Excel can connect to PostgreSQL as well.
Build an arbitrarily large fleet of ships to captain.

More realistically, between ceremony and bureaucracy you can just keep creating positions and titles until everyone at least feels like they're the king of something.
It was probably originally written in Arabic and then translated. All of the English errors I noticed seemed likely to be from that.
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I guess it's not mentioned a lot as it's still ~2 years away in Phase 2, AFAIK.
Last I looked Cloudflare Workers had different limits and constraints:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/limits

It's a quick Google. 128MB max memory, 6 concurrent out going connections max, 1MB code size limit. The use case here is a subset of what AWS Lambda can handle. The supported languages also differ (only things that have a JS / wasm conversion for Cloudflare Workers).

I haven't looked deeply, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand there's also restrictions on the built-in APIs available [1] and npm packages supported for NodeJS.

I would assume some of the above contributes to the price difference.

1 - https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/web-s...
This 'middle ground' you describe is essentially how macOS and Windows work, isn't it?
Lambda is $0.20 per 1M requests, + $0.0000000021 per ms of runtime (assuming the "small utility" takes 128 MB RAM or less).

So by my estimates, even if the small utility is #1 on HN for a whole day, it's not going to cost more than a dollar.

Maybe there are more hidden costs, or maybe the small utility uses a lot of runtime though, so you could be right in the right circumstances.
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What they really need to do to this counterproductivity tool is remove the ability for managers to see anything about any of their underlings, and for anyone else to see anything but aggregated and anonymized data. (Which means adding noise to the data.)
I've got a Bip. Using the GPS to track running or hiking does use a lot of power. I need to recharge about every 2 weeks, tracking a 1-hour walk every day.

I do recommend it. Another differentiating factor is the display. The Wyze product doesn't indicate the display tech, but the Amazfit using e-Ink, so it's always on and has good visibility even in bright light, something that competitors like Apple (with its minuscule battery life and disappearing display) can't claim.
When we started building this we were adamant about making something we wanted to use. There are a number of open and successful options out there, they just didn't work the way we wanted it to. Building a general network that appealed to us and our parents / co-workers meant we had to make sure the experience was just right and is why we went for a ground up approach. Unfortunately that puts users in the position that they have to just trust our words when it comes to privacy. Trust is earned and we just got started. I can make promises about not selling out but until we prove it they will just be words. We are users ourselves, we don't want to feel like we're being watched and have every grain of data out there for advertisers to see. In time we hope to prove we want that for everyone else too.

This is not to say we haven't been actively looking at ways we can open up or become compliant with a few of the open protocols that already exist as long as it fits with the personal privacy we want for our users on top of the data privacy.
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Link not working for me, but the en-us version of that link works. Resubmit?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2020/12/0...
This is one of the more exciting remote sensing projects going on right now (IMO), and I was thrilled to see this post! The goal is very admirable, and I hope you can find a great candidate and complete the mission.
There is no better option for temporally sparse compute. If your job can run all the time there is no benefit to these systems, but if it wastes money by being provisioned all the time when not in use, there is no alternative.

Lambda is neither "worse" nor "better" in any general sense. It's just another option that might apply given a particular scenario, and one that got significantly cheaper today.
> but what you are looking for already exists I'd say, and is Fargate.

IIUC though, Fargate doesn't have "scale to zero" like Lambda and API Gateway. Then again, IMO, scale to zero and the associated cold starts probably aren't the best fit for handling HTTP requests that are waiting for an answer right now.
this article mentioned the context package is great, yeah, perhaps, context is easy to control goroutines, but also easy to over-use
I buy myself stuff and various members of my immediately family take credit for it.
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This is completely untrue and has been since 2014. The solution is that validators are "slashed" and lose their tokens if they have been found to sign two blocks at the same height.
Selling at a loss to build up their ecosystem I imagine, same as Amazon with all their devices.
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Huh. That’s actually smaller than I would have guessed.

Still, the high level number doesn’t capture the strong communities embedded within Reddit, which I think is the real value of the site.