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Why pay premium when there are cheaper cloud alternatives? Just get your team to learn a thing or two than being sold by AWS.

I'd take it most people just feel enthusiastic about technologies they don't even need and being able to run stuff with mouse clicks makes them feel accomplishing.

To me, AWS is just an expensive provider that only makes sense to put backup files because of cheap storage and no incoming bandwidth cost.
Very good question, seems to be a strange decision. Maybe it doesn't meet what they deem up to the standards to include it in RDS due to the nature of how the backend is hosted (just a guess). Could be something as simple as the dependencies the extension requires are incompatible with what the RDS servers run. It would be very nice if the RDS team had some guidelines on what it takes to get an extension accepted for RDS with a good framework people can follow to ensure their extension complies with the security requirements, etc. Then have a way to submit an extension to be included and have it be reviewed and given guidance on any changes needed to comply (for a fee potentially).
It was for personal operating systems (and ancient mainframes) that had a multitasking OS but without any MMU support in the hardware. Relocatable executables were required so that you could load multiple executables at different addresses within the single address space of the memory. This is now called Position Independent Code[1].

Modern MMUs meant that the OS would define specific addresses for use by a program, so for example all ELF programs in a distribution would have the same starting address in memory hard coded into the executable (one virtual address within a process is mapped to a different physical memory address for each process by the MMU).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position-independent_code
Re: Reason 1

Well sure, but a hypothetical new structure is also going to require cables, just hopefully a more reliable construction. So why not keep the dish for now, and consider rebuilding the cables in a more modern fashion, and with redundant cables?
Sounds a lot like the McDonalds budget that forgot to mention things like eating, heat, and commuting to work.
Weird, the region-agnostic version works for me; will keep that in mind for future submissions. Thanks!

The en-us version has been submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25269644
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So this doesn't matter
I agree that scalability is rarely an appropriate reason to go in on AWS; however, “managed services” is a really good reason. You don’t have to operate your own equivalent services, but rather you pay for Amazon engineers to operate them on your behalf. Of course, there are some people for whom running their own services is the more appropriate scenario, but I think this is not a good default for anything more complex than a Rails app.

Someone will snarkily mention that Amazon services go down from time to time across an availability zone or even a whole region, and presumably this never happens on prem (I guess the idea is that Amazon engineers are well-below average?) simply because you rarely hear about it when $MomAndPopCRUDShop goes down. On that note, in my experience, customers are really sympathetic when an Amazon outage brings you down (because half of the Internet is also down) but not very sympathetic when it’s just your site that’s down.
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QEMU in fact does dynamic translation, which is more like how JIT works in bytecode languages; this is why it's much faster than some earlier machine emulator software. (I think e.g. Bochs didn't have dynamic translation back when QEMU was coming into play, but the Web suggests that there's at least discussion around that feature so maybe that's not true anymore.)

The BEAM is currently a bytecode interpreter. The article describes it as using threaded code, which if you look at the C source is true in a sense on platforms where the C compiler provides the GNU-style extension of being able to take the address of labels for dynamic `goto` (https://stenmans.org/happi_blog/?p=194 agrees with my skim of `beam_emu.c`)—though if that's the only use as it seems, I might find that an edge case of the term, since I associate “threaded code” with the style used in Forth where “user-level” subroutines can be pointed to directly. If computed `goto` isn't available, then it uses a conventional switch/case loop, repeatedly dispatching the result of fetching the next bytecode instruction pointer value.
If you haven't you may want to consider https://www.macincloud.com/ where you can rent it for $1 per hour when you need. Your use case seems very suitable for that. It is roughly same price point as AWS but can stretch your dollars longer vs AWS 24 hour upfront.
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When will the Covid-19 pandemic end?
Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death is also an interesting read. He talks about how TV is an awful medium that encourages even the most serious content to be treated as entertainment. I wonder what he would have to say about the media we consume today :)

My own view is there is some truth to what he says but overall he is too cynical. TV didn't have the damage on our society that he expected. I suspect people who talk about the damage social media and cellphones are doing to us today are also too cynical. We are incredibly adaptive creatures and while initially struggle with new technology we eventually learn healthy ways to use it.
If I understand correctly, the evaluation licence is very restrictive. You essentially aren't allowed to use it for any purpose other than, well, evaluation.
> A 20 core Xeon v3/v4 system with 128gb of ram

Where's the most affordable to buy an off-lease server?

I currently have a stock scanning project that I'd like to take online where I'd need 128gb RAM+, 2TB+ drive space, and 20-60 cores (more the better).
Most Haskellers do not know much about category theory, I don't know why you'd imply that.

Just look at how much Haskell you can write without thinking about how Functor is covariant, or that Contravariant even exists.
What even is your point here and in this thread? Acquiring customers and giving them an incentive to stay is a cornerstone of any enterprise.

Saying lambda is bad because of lock-in is like saying their VPC offering is bad because of lock-in, or IAM is bad because of lock-in. It's not a generic component that you can flip between providers, they usually respond to a specific event from an AWS service and nobody really gives a rats about deploying their specific lambda to a cloud they don't use.

So yeah it seems like a real awesome idea to avoid vendor lock in for a small python function that responds to S3 change events from a SQS queue and updates a DynamoDB table with some values.

If you want "generic" lambdas go check out serverless.com.
What I want to know is how the vaccine works given:
1. You must recieve a certain viral load to contract covid and become a spreader
2. The problematic symptoms are thought to be an immune overreaction/dysfunction and vaccines stimulate the immune system to create antibodies for the virus
3. Moderna says you can still transmit the virus after receiving the vaccine, so I would only be protecting myself (not others as other comments claim)

So apparently I can recieve a vaccine that still allows me to contract the virus to the point where I can still have enough vital load to spread it, but I'm somehow protected from the severe symptoms which are thought to be an overreaction of the immune system which was previously stimulated into producing the antibodies to target this virus. I'd be interested to know how that works since I must be missing some mechanism.
So is L@E multi region then? Like if I have two concurrent requests across the globe are they serviced from two locations?
I've always wondered if someone could make a browser plugin to filter anything involving cryptocurrency out of web sites like HN, /. or reddit? Having to read about all this every day contributes to unnecessary anxieties and stressors some folks don't need.
I don't follow you.

Normally, real estate markets are tracked in isolation.
Salesforce buys Slack in a $27.7B megadeal
Places like netflix wants to put liability off its shoulders and wants someone to blame at. Very different demand than most.
I have multiple Wyze cams and recently got hit with a big surprise, if Wyze cam lost power suddenly, the past 4 mins event footage is NOT stored on the local SD card, and the actual event is not stored on the cloud as well. Wyze still has a long way to go for resiliency comparing with Ring or Nest.
Moderna has already stated that even if you are vaccinated, you could still spread the virus. So it wouldn't help your mom if you were vaccinated.
Why does the lambda container has to pull events from the lambda runtime using an HTTP GET request, instead of having the runtime push the events with an HTTP POST?
So will this be a new currency or will existing ETH switch to it?
But... But....It's cloud. And savi gs.
It sounds to me that “JIT” here just means “not a batch compiler”? This seems to me to be more like the way Common Lisp compilers work than what I think of a JITs
This comment would be much more useful if you gave some clear examples of the difference (presumably something you get on Lambda that makes it worth more per ms than Cloudflare).

Otherwise it's just "AWS said, Cloudflare said"
The useful apps I have paid for (but not subscribed to) are (1) Dark Sky, (2) Forest, and (3) WaterMinder.

If you have a gift card you can also put it towards an Apple product as well.
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Give me a social network that sets dark pattern "themes":

* default-- show me a single page posts of my friends by date

* sadness-- choose post order and timings to maximize my sadness

* filter bubble-- choose posts to maximize my outrage about alternative viewpoints

* rabbit hole-- capture maximum amount of my attention on the platform by feeding me conspiratorial and junk content

* gamblevision-- infinite scroll, maximize my time clicking upvote/like buttons, karma building, interacting with a/b tested time-wasting games, spending karma points on loot box type bullshit, etc.

* human bioweapon-- fake news injections, with an intersection between my inferred personal tastes and a slowly increasing menu of anti-scientific covid conspiracies

Then give me, the user, an analytics page where I can see my engagement, sentiment analysis, and measurements of my changing viewpoints for each theme.

If you ask, "Why would anyone ever use such a manipulative, unhealthy platform?" well...
.12c/gbit?? I need to renegotiate my transit bill...
I would bet its software issue. Cheap androids are more than OK. People who only buy high-end don't realize how good cheep phones like xiaomi mi a123 are. It's mostly worse camera... they are solid metal build and don't even feel slower.

I've had the pleasure with pinephone manjaro edition and its ok build. Once the software is better i will go for it.
Wow that's.. tiny. I was also surprised to learn that Twitter has just 187M daily users, even smaller than Snap (249M), which in my mind was only an app used by American teenagers.
>With AWS or any other IaaS provider you're paying to outsource shifts of people around the clock that will work to keep servers and network connections up and running.

This is so often repeated, but at my previous company, the amount of internal outages was smaller than the amount of outages on AWS or GCP. We then migrated to AWS for some stupid reason (we didn't need scalability, that's for sure) and we had a problem with redis nodes: the instances they were running on were too small and an upgrade went wrong. We waited until the next shift for the fix. The irony.
(2) is not accurate. SQL Server Standard Edition supports up to 128 GB RAM

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/sql-server/editions-and...
I have OpenBSD on my Thinkpad T480s and pretty much everything worked great out of the box. Even something like the Volume buttons that on Linux with DWM I had to manually map to amixer they just work. Of course there are some trade-offs. Bluetooth is a big one that might not work for people. Overall compared to FreeBSD the setup was dead simple with hardly any work. I know people complain about speed on OBSD, but I have not noticed it being that much slower. I am in love and don't see myself hopping again for a while (famous last words obviously).
What's the current status of eWASM?

Seems like there's discussion of scrapping the whole phase 2 "execution environments" and just allowing heterogenous execution on rollups.
That's fine but to act like new small scale experiments and designs obsolete technology that has never before been developed at scale is silly and frankly runs contrary to how technological and scientific progress are made. I'll never understand the biases of theorists. They act as if all theory isn't deeply indebted to practical learnings. You don't commit to a project like ITER because you believe it will turn out a cutting edge solution to a problem. You do so because you believe that whatever happens, in the end you will harvest many learnings that are widely useful.
The first couple years of a kid's life often really, really sucks for the parents. If you don't just intrinsically adore babies, you've just got a whole lot of work with no immediate payoff. Sleep deprivation has a way of making everything worse, too.

There are fun bits later, and some people will insist childrearing is 'fun', but I don't think so.

It's loads of work, but fulfilling, interesting work, getting to know a new person. It is full of joy. Fun / contentment? Not so much. The amount of work decreases as the kids get older, but the complexities of the problems that present themselves increase, too.

In some ways, you could view it as an increased opportunity for individuality. You're not just doing you anymore, but creating your own miniature culture around you. You're choosing who you are and how you're going to pass it on to a new generation. Hopefully, you start to take a really intentional view of the structure of your life at this point, too.

I'm not really looking forward to my kids growing up and having my individuality back. Though I do sure wish there was a chance to take a couple weeks vacation each year. ;)
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regarding podcasts, I am getting a pinephone in a week or two and am building a podcast player as a side project. It is the first gui/app I have ever made and currently it cant even play anything, that is when it compiles, but if you take a look in 2 weeks I might have something (ugly and) functional. https://github.com/dskleingeld/pods
Damn. I can't see how this ends well for Slack users in the long term.

> Combining Slack with Salesforce Customer 360 will be transformative for customers and the industry. The combination will create the operating system for the new way to work, uniquely enabling companies to grow and succeed in the all-digital world.

Oh. Oh no.
> Combining Slack with Salesforce Customer 360 will be transformative for customers and the industry. The combination will create the operating system for the new way to work, uniquely enabling companies to grow and succeed in the all-digital world.

oh no. It sounds like they're not even going to try to maintain the whole "wholly independent subsidiary" act. Slack is being swallowed wholesale.
It's not that Amazon has worse engineers: They have great engineers. The difference is they are Amazon's engineers, not your engineers.

My IT team is not going to break something on the most important day of the month for my business. Sometimes even when I want to do something mundane on the network, it's "eh, let's wait until not (insert key date here), just in case". Amazon does not care what day is important to my business, they're Amazon and they do what they want.

You are going to pay IT staff either way, if it's your own hires (or an MSP), or you are paying via AWS fees. If you're going to pay for IT, why wouldn't you pay for IT that takes orders from you and cares about your business?

The other thing is, Amazon's maintenance and upgrades is based around Amazon's need to remain competitive and turn a profit, and to support businesses other than yours which may have larger needs. (The rollout of a new feature that causes an outage for you might not have any benefit to you anyways.)

Similarly, a single patched Exchange server running on a single VM on a VM host with a UPS backup on it is generally speaking, more reliable and has better uptime than Office 365. Hilariously, Office 365 also costs a lot more.
You missed the most important part: Which is to jump between advanced/beginner content to build a better image. i.e.: If you are learning a programming language, you start with easy and keep going, but along the way you jump to very hard/advanced stuff. This technique really boosted my learning and solidified it.
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The question here isn't the price change here (which is in some sense mainly about balancing short functions and long functions, removing the penalty for short functions) , it's where the pricing is at overall vs Cloudflare.
In case it helps Terraform users estimate their cloud costs, I updated https://www.infracost.io to support the new ms-based Lambda pricing (https://github.com/infracost/infracost/pull/248/files, it'll be in the next infracost release).

I'm interested to hear what people think about https://www.infracost.io/docs/usage_based_resources - longer term we could extend that to fetch average_request_duration from cloudwatch or datadog.
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> Likewise, the curse of the ‘associated gift’ happens all the time.

My mom does this all the time.

I remember one year I wanted a lava lamp and a fish tank.

Instead she got me a fish tank themed lamp.
Salesforce is rising as a formidable foe to Microsoft.
More context here: https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/01/salesforce-buys-slack/
Damn it, here we go again :-(
Would you wear yeast perfume? Microbes used to brew scent(2015)
Airbus AI Introduces Natural Language QA System for Flight Crews
This is a major win for Discord.
> It feels amoral to ask these questions

Nope.. It's great that you are making an informed decision and really thinking about it. People have different experiences. Mine is that as a baby you are just really into it, the whole baby thing and don't really worry about individualism. As they get a bit older you think about that again - your career, maybe travel etc. and realize it is constraining having kids, and 90% of that is because of cost of living (IMO). I.e. if I had millions that'd fix it, ha ha! (maybe it wouldn't!) but money does help - you can buy time with it by getting help like cleaners, working less, and can afford holidays etc.
The problem is, aiming to create a "high-end" product up front ends up shaping the product design.

Now that it is aimed at the high end, Apple needs to include lots of features, a nice display etc. Lots fancy features means they need to use a powerful processor, which along with the nice display leads to a lot of power draw. This is why they have a small battery life, as you mention, and didn't even have an always on display until S5. Neither of these are technological constraints, since the Pebble had 7 day battery life with an always on display from the first version.

Now, the Apple Watch has sold well, so maybe it's a fine tradeoff to make. But I think this "high-end" constraint has definitely shaped the product (and in a way I think is worse when viewed as a watch first).
We mitigate that risk by having our backup servers and database replicas in the cloud, but the big beefy primary machines are bare metal run on cheap Quebec power w/ unlimited 1Gbps residential bandwidth.
I don't really get why Netflix would want to make customers watch more. I mean, you pay the same price whether you watch or not.

They logically should care about making people watch a minimum amount that ensures they keep paying, but beyond that it's worthless.
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This was a very fun little distraction from work, thank you! I think it probably plays a bit better on mobile than desktop, but it was still great amounts of fun.
A suggestion for making it play better on desktop is to reverse the scrolling so "old" parts go below the "current" part, and maybe mess with some text alignment so options aren't "jumping around" -- makes it easier to navigate quickly :D

Overall this is extremely fun, and looks like it was a very fun little project!
Salesforce is acquiring workplace chat app Slack for $27.7B
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Betting against this trend would be like betting against toothbrushes and floss.
Raspberry Shake (citizen science seismometer network) may be interesting to you. I haven't used it myself, so I'm not sure if it's real time: https://raspberryshake.org/data-center/
I don't remember them force rebooting for nearly 10 years.

A server is easily surviving over 1000 days and it's usually our side that needs to reboot.