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> 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?

Because my IT staff budget would go up if they have all of the additional responsibilities that we currently outsource to Amazon by considerably more than what we would save on our AWS bill by doing it in house. This makes sense because Amazon has a lot more customers besides just me paying for their engineers to manage a given service. So I would be paying a premium "for IT that takes orders from me and cares about my business" and that premium is rarely worthwhile. In the worst case, I have an important customer demo and an Amazon outage occurs--I just explain to my customer that we're affected by the same Amazon outage that's affecting all of their other vendors and half of the rest of the Internet and I forward them the Amazon post-mortem. This has never been a problem for me to date, and I doubt there are many people who have lost deals on account of Amazon in excess of their savings for using Amazon (no doubt there are a few companies for whom this doesn't hold and they should seriously consider on prem).

> 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.

If I had claimed that every managed service was worth its price for every user, then you'd have successfully refuted me. :) No doubt there are some managed services that aren't worth the price, and even an individual managed AWS service probably doesn't justify the cost of integrating with AWS; however, if you're going to be needing analogs for IAM, Lambda, EKS, SQS, CloudWatch, etc, you're probably going to be spending more on balance (and incurring more downtime) by doing it in house (consider also the difficulty in finding engineers with experience in your exact matrix of tech choices versus general AWS experience).
I'm not as sure about that, given the extent of the chaos that ensues every time S3 goes down for half a day.
Safari uses APIs to protect its data directory that isn’t made available to third-party apps.
Are there any developer-friendly hackable smartwatches?
Hey guys, Instead of me trying to put together Jupyter and this can I just use Python in Grist like use the Pandas and everything else? Combining this plus the magic of Jupyter seems like my dream environment now :). No need to worry about anything else :).
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My org definitely has switched for the most part. But I'm sure it's a phased-rollout.
Very true. Even worse, there's a significant selection bias that occurs where people pre-filter for opinions that match their pre-conceived notions.

On the topic of children, someone can spend their entire life around coworkers, extended family, and friends who are happy parents without thinking twice about it. Yet as soon as they read some comments online about someone struggling with their children, they have an "I knew it!" reaction.

As a parent, I don't try to push other people to have children. I do, however, roll my eyes at how out of touch the anti-child rhetoric on the internet has become. It's almost as if young people are convinced that all parents are actually secretly miserable but we're all collectively lying about enjoying it out of a sense of societal obligation.
This strongly feels like the story someone tells themselves when they're doing something wrong. Just you wait! One of these days I'm gonna show you! What this post sort of assumes (in typical silicon valley style) is that you're a misunderstood genius, so even if people are pointing out your links to genocide in Myanmar, it's just their time frame isn't long enough.

What you should be concerned about is a different 2 degrees of freedom- who you care about, and whether they're right.
Yup.

Ask me if I like meeting new people and I'll say yes.

Ask me if I like meeting new people in a gym, when all I want is to break some sweat, have a shower and go home and I'll say no.

Go figure.
Ah, but that's the best thing about being given food, you can share it with other people in a way you can't with other presents. In fact I often find the person who gave me the food will be really up for trying whatever it was with me.
We've tried to continue patronizing independent bookstores during the pandemic, but it's not surprising they are struggling (our favorite recently closed). The value-add over Amazon was always the warm atmosphere, personalized recommendations and the sense that you might discover a great book you didn't know about while perusing the shelves. Very hard to recreate that online, and independent shops can't compete with Amazon's shipping speed - so you're left with no value-add other than the store still being there in the future. Sad state of affairs.
Was thinking that too. I saw that MediaTek SOC in the Ben Heck teardown and started wondering about whether it was running Linux.
Teams suck.

Google Chat? What’s that?

I’ll stick with Slack.
I think the angle he has is “Apple should remove these protections because they can’t implement them correctly”.
Microservices didn't particularly cause technical issues. Just unnecessary operational overhead. While I'd probably go with a monolith if I was building for scratch, in this case we've stuck with ~5 microservices (we did have over 10) as it works well enough.

Firebase is fundamentally limited though. You simply cannot do things like joins and even filtering and updating is very limited compared to a SQL database. Of course you can implement these things in code, and precompute them and store them denormalised. But at that point you're implementing your own database and it's much less work to move the data to a different database platform. We did a gradual migration which made it relatively painless, although it was still a lot of work. And we're able to move much faster on new features now we have the flexibility of a fully-featured database.
Threads are by far the worst part of using Slack. A few coworkers use them, but most do not use them. It causes lots of unnecessary clicking and keeping track of an additional place where conversation is happening.
You started and perpetuated multiple flamewars in this thread. That's criminal negligence if not arson. Would you please review the site guidelines and stick to the rules in the future? Note these:

"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say."

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

"Flesh of murdered babies" is an extreme violation of these rules. The internet is flammable and we ban accounts that blow threads up in this way, so please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
To add...

> ”the key observation is that as long as you are right, being misunderstood by most people is a strength not a weakness.”

This is (implicitly) only applicable to competitive/adversarial endeavors and not collaborative endeavors. Eg: Say you’re worried about climate change. If your plan is to build a safe harbor and charge people when D-day hits, then the quoted strategy might work. However, if you want to get people organized to face the oncoming challenge, it is very very important to seek to understand he understood (to paraphrase Stephen Covey).
Point being, this might not always be the right approach to solve a problem. The same holds, for Eg. if you are trying to get people to adopt your platform.
It appears to be another silo for (as the 'owner' put it elsewhere) reducing 'complexity' (i.e. mastadon is too hard because users have to choose an instance). Instead they want you to use their walled garden. It's a bit silly to claim any focus on privacy when you still have to absolutely trust one group of random people on the internet with no option to host it yourself, etc.
I have a feeling that the practice predates the 20th century by quite some time.
This is super org-dependent -- my entire org has completely switched to Slack, I only use Chime for meetings now (except for the occasional recruiter or someone outside my org who will ping me on Chime).
Can't you do it with a foreign data wrapper or the equivalent in mysql? Maybe keep your mysql-specific queries as views in mysql and call them from pg?

Just spitballing, sorry, I love FDWs.
>For 1, no -- saying "Ethereum is deflationary" is equivalent to saying "the value of Ethereum will always go up", which is clearly nonsensical, because it's saying that Ethereum is a risk-free investment.

It does make sense if you compare a less inflationary currencly to more inflationary currencies. It's risk free in the sense that the USD exchange rate will keep up with inflation of the USD in the long term.
TBH it would be the same in case Microsoft would buy them out. Its really hard to get out of the shadow of failed products.

Products that people started hating with passion.
I'd prefer to forget it.
Agree. Relatedly, services, like massage. Or a few months of flower deliveries. Or for the practical, home cleaning or car detailing. Generally, stuff the giftee might not get for themself.
Quibi is officially dead
I had a similar experience. It was my first introduction to programming, I was rapidly hooked, and feel very lucky that happened.
They might change their 128MB rounding-up structure but they already had per 1ms pricing with the minimum execution time and memory for a single function execution being 100ms and 128MB respectively.

(Google do per 100ms and have 6 pre-defined memory sizes to pick from).
Agreed, the reactions I'm seeing here feel more more emotional than rational. (Which is totally legitimate. Emotions are a dominant factor in product "love".) If the product were to get worse, there are any number of effectively-equivalent (if not as lovable) substitutes.
Flamebait and flamewar rightly get flagged. If you had something substantive and thoughtful to say on the topic, it might have been different (hard to say), but you didn't even try.

Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25270400.
I have an expectation that i shouldn’t have to interact with my computer every 35 days to prevent it from restarting.
Tyler Cowen has an interesting perspective on giving books as gifts: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/09/he...
Plus, that 400PB Dropbox was storing in 2016 was - until around that same time, when they built their Magic Pocket system - itself stored on S3.
Completely agree, threads confuse me and feel unnecessary. One colleague uses them, but no one else and I always miss them.
As an adult I find the gifts that I appreciate most are the luxury versions of simple useful things.

If I wanted aftershave, chocolate, socks, a phone, a laptop (insert any other typical gift here) I would have bought them.

I would not have bought harrods teabags or a cashmere scarf... but everytime I use them they make me smile.
Some people are quite happy getting nothing. I wouldn't be the slightest bit bothered if never got a present again. I know a lot of people find this hard to accept. [As a footnote I'm not Scrooge I certainly don't mind buying gifts for others!]
If it had been Microsoft buying them I would have been like, well, they've done ok with GitHub so far. And I begrudgingly feel that way as someone who reviles their flagship OS and office products.
Format of a techno-optimist essay. Formulate a common neurosis that people are self conscious about. State common knowledge about this neurosis. State that the common knowledge is an oversimplification. Break the problem into a graph on two axes. Bonus points if you help people think they are avoiding identity politics in some way with this new knowledge.
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Amazon would have been frustrating, but I suspect less terrible than Salesforce. What a mess.
I am a Vivoactive HR user and will be buying the Vivoactive 4 soon. The always on display is indispensable, as is the battery life and SpO2 monitoring; Garmin is gold. I've tried Fitbit, Vivosmart 4, and AW4 but the Garmin is what I feel makes the best tradeoffs between functionality, usability, and quality plus they have great customer service. Edit0: fixed model names - darn Garmin with its meaningless model names.
I would love to see IRC make a comeback but the fact is IRC on mobile is a pain in the ass. Users want persistence and IRC is designed for the opposite.
Look for devices supported by the gadgetbridge 3rd party app (found in android's f-droid store). I have an Amazfit Bip S lite. 45days battery, always on lcd. Custom notification filters by gadgetbridge. Great

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They're so focused on privacy, they only tested it on a browser that spews 'telemetry.'
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Hey, could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here?
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Teams, indeed, sucks.

The problem is that the people responsible for mandating its usage don't care how much it sucks, they care that it's working enterprise IM and they get it for free with the Office subs they're already paying for.
I work at a company that spends a lot of money at AWS, and one of the many support channels we have now is through shared Slack channels.

I can imagine that the main driver behind IT announcing Slack support was for their customer-facing staff to be able to provide support for their customers.
> it was literally a process of just making educated guesses and measuring stuff until I found something that worked

Sounds about right. Antenna design is magic.
Right, as I said, composition is faster, not application.
Google Chat, they have exactly one enterprise messenger (surprising, right?).
What you describe is the most important part of Christmas for me. I don't think gift-giving should be the main event, but rather an extra after a lavish meal with the ones you love.
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Yeah, it probably is; maybe it requires substantial changes in the kernel or something. The issue is that Apple never communicates this, they just sit on bugs until they fix them. This is a really poor experience for people reporting issues.
The Intertet Created a Permissionless World
I am confused how DigitalOcean is different than AWS? Why is a $10/mo DO droplet different than a small EC2 instance?
Hey, could you please stop breaking the site guidelines? You've unfortunately been doing it a lot lately, and we're trying for something different in this community.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit to heart, we'd be grateful.
> ... I think Amazon made an exception to their “user support is never our priority” choice ...

Amazon is virtually the singular FAANG company that not only has customer support, but has generally very good customer support.
>I don't personally know anyone that has actually switched to using it. Everyone still uses Chime.

It must be just your org/team, because a few of my friends working there in entirely different orgs had their teams switched to Slack fully within the week of announcement. Not claiming you are wrong though, because my sample size of 3 people/teams is purely anecdata.
> the first time you get ray traced reflections right.

This guy graphics! I remember my highest pleasure in programming was attained when I first drew a rasterized triangle. Of uniform color.
It makes sense for them to buy Slack instead of Discord, since Discord has no ambitions to go into the enterprise business. This tweet is from 2017, but there hasn't been any announcements stating otherwise: https://twitter.com/discord/status/904787004357058561
If you're booting from UEFI you don't even need GRUB. You can make the kernel a UEFI app, register it, and then just select it from the BIOS list (or whatever we're calling that "Press F8 during bootup" thing now)
American PhDs are failing at startups
Might as well train a new GPT for gift giving or a markov chain
Well if you really want to you can get the output handle from the PEB[0]. You can then call NtWriteFile[1] using syscall `0x0008` (Windows 10 x64 only)[2].

[0]: https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/doc/struct___r_t_l___u_...

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/dd...

[2]: https://j00ru.vexillium.org/syscalls/nt/64/
Sam echoes some of the things Paul said. For example, "[T]he best startup ideas seem at first like bad ideas. I've written about this before: if a good idea were obviously good, someone else would already have done it. So the most successful founders tend to work on ideas that few beside them realize are good. Which is not that far from a description of insanity, till you reach the point where you see results." -- http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html
As someone working har on a scrappy alternative to slack, this feels like a major win for us, too. For every competitor, really.
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firebase is probably the most hyped and overused tech I've seen. I've run into far too many startups that went to firebase because they wanted to scale fast and didn't realize how limited firebase was for queries.

If you're starting a startup, use postgres for your database. it will handle damn near anything and you can spawn off functionality into microservices as they become bottle necks as you scale.

Hell, postgres lets you write database extensions that perform novel behavior. I saw one the other day that automatically syncs data to elastic search. Wouldn't be that hard to envision having writes to certain tables sync to firebase if you need subscriptions on records for certain parts of your app.
I've been blacksmithing long enough to have arguably too many knives.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You've unfortunately been doing it a lot lately, and we're trying for something different in this community.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit to heart, we'd be grateful.
As far as I'm aware, if you go for Orka Cloud, you only pay for the physical Mac, not the VMs. I've no idea about the hobbiest market, I've only used MacStadium for a large company. I didn't personally make the purchase but that's the information that has been relayed to me.
I feel like the Bip is the unofficial successor to the beloved Pebble.

That's exactly my story.
You really need to do both with people you care about.
Isn't the whole point of notifications to make it apparent when someone has responded to your thread?
This is why gift cards rub me the wrong way. I don't want 50€ to throw on top of the pile.
If you want a "smart enough" watch and you are mainly care for your health, I highly recommend any of the watches from Withings: https://www.withings.com/hu/en/

They are a really awesome company, not trying to sell you some shit and making money, but honestly wanting to develop good products to improve your life! Very useful features for health monitoring and they don't cost as much. Plus the watches looks super cool!
Yea, google has a competitor called chat. As other comments have said it doesn't really stack up with teams/slack, but the video system is pretty good. It works well enough, an has seen consistent improvements over the year. Doubt any company would specifically choose google chat, but I know that many that already have deals for g-suite are using it. The thing is pretty much every company has a contract for office or google chat these days. Hard to imagine paying for slack when you've already got these free apps available.
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On the other hand, not very good if you're using Amazon and one of the technologies you've picked doesn't make the "survival of the fittest".