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These toy projects are worth doing if you want to continuously build your skills and like knowing how things work at a fundamental level. If you want to create an OS, it will obviously never be used by anyone ever and in that sense it's "useless", but you learn a lot in the process and it's fun.
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Bit of a miss on why “serverless” (though author & I have different definitions), possibly because of language / toolset.

Lambda / Step Functions make for an easy combo for easily understandable units that you can use without a bunch of servers. Combine it with AWS CDK and you end up with a low boilerplate, auto-completeable environment (with types!) that’s actually easy to unit test locally!

I agree that yaml config and figuring out how to wire things up sucks. I’m open to Smalltalk being better.

But we’ve been using Lambda / Step for a few years now and it’s been highly robust, easy to understand, monitoring / logging essentially free and - best of all - we haven’t had to manage any server upgrades / patches / etc the whole time. (And super easy to spin up stack per user)

Have a queue of items to work on? Combine lambda + sqs (just a few lines with cdk) and now you have code that auto scales linearly with how many entries are in your queue.

We did write our own tool to handle boilerplate of linking python functions to their lambda handlers (but again this is the beauty of actually being able to use programming language to define your stack)
Nothing in the article tells me this is some exaggerated terminology for "people who weren't business owners". Everything in it is pretty clear that these people earned that wage while they were actual slaves.
I think you can toggle the smart quotes. I don't like them either. And if they happen to end up in code, it's insanely irritating.
Yes, it's in other countries too eg Australia and Netherlands.
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It's not always Israeli companies. For example we have seen attacks in journalists, NGO workers and activists from Hacking Team which is Italian, Finisher / Gamma International which is Germany or British (IIRC), then there are other hacking groups for hire from India. Of course then there is state stuff from Russia, China amongst others.
I'm not sure about the current state of affairs but a few years ago Ionic used to be a default choice for cross-platform apps among Angular devs. And Angular itself was probably more popular then React in corporate world back then.
So if people enjoy there work we don't have to compensate them competitively?
This should be the official position when communicating this information. There simply is not enough data at this point.

I was really shocked to read German Minister statements saying the vacine is still effective for this variant. Sure theoretical the spike is majority unchanged but there is no evidence or data for a government official to make such an absolute statement.
This is a supplier of Apple, a two TRILLION dollar megacorp by marketcap, which had 11 billion in profit.

I'm as capitalist as the next guy, but this is just shameful.
HFT is so latency-sensitive that it matters how physically close you are on Manhattan island.

It is so latency-sensitive that new “hollow” fiber-optic cables are being installed, because light moves faster in air than in glass.
The more interesting comparison point might be other CNC machining techniques which share the ability to create one off products directly from CAD with raw material, but seem to get a fraction of the attention of 'printing'. Leaving aside them being less suited to some use cases than 'printing' (and much more suited to others), is computer controlled manufacturing using an additive process really that much more magical than computer controlled manufacturing using a subtractive process?
Spare vaxen were not just sitting on shelves back then.
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This is such a silly thing to argue about. Sales are very dependent on product quality, availability and dare I say delivering features customers need when they need them.
> Amazon Linux is a CentOS rebrand

AL2 doesn’t map up to a single version of CentOS already and Amazon would probably be happy to move to being upstream of RHEL for the sake of their kernel team.

Note AWS has a known limited set of hardware. While they do allow install of Amazon Linux outside AWS, that isn’t core to the business or product.
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A Man Lost Everything Betting on Stocks
Startups are a financial vehicle created to transfer the value created by the employee to the founders and capitalists.

Often the founders have done very little of value before hiring a team to actually build the company. These people toil away, a decade later, the founder makes 20-100 million, the first employee, a few hundred thousand.

There are exceptions, but this is largely what it is.
Millennials 4 Times Poorer Than Baby Boomers Were at Age 34
I just started working somewhere that does a different equity scheme called “profit interest.” The gist is, they issue you equity whose worth is based on growth in valuation from when you joined. So if you’re granted 1% shares and the company grows from 100m to 200m on liquidity, you’re entitled to 1m. It avoids you having to front money for stock options, and it also avoids the tax burden b/c when issued, the shares are worth zero dollars
This is the most common error people on HN make. This is not startup VS FAANG. A small percentage of people make FAANG salary. A startup is mostly paying as much as any other company
It lowers employee salary in a time a company is supposedly the least profitable (Starting up and having no products or customers) You're essentially loaning from your employees untill you become profitable and their stock options become something of worth. No matter how big or small your company, everyone has a limited budget. or at least seeks to not overspend on trivialities. Though the real world often doesn't reflect the theory due to unforeseen complexities.

It also makes sense from a game theory perspective, If your below market rate employees do not believe in your company or are agnostic to the companies success then the chance that their stock options become worth something will be less. It should also attract more people who understand the value or direction of your company yielding better decisions and hopefully increase their stock option worth.

Again, just theory. but its solid nonetheless
Yeah, it's hard to protest after being a double-lung transplant donor.
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Why do you think that not "anyone is happy with that." Jenkins for one works very well.
For years, companies like Nike and Samsung have justifiably gone under fire for similar issues with their suppliers. I have never witnessed so many who found it more important to cleanse the name of these companies. It really says a lot about consumer cultism.
Nikon hasn’t really made an amazing camera since the days of the F5 (the weapon of choice for greats such as Peter Lindbergh).

I really feel that Japan Inc. needs a version of that Stephen Elop “burning platform” rant.
As creator/chief architect of Meltemi (p.132 of the pdf), I was way too close to the events in the book. In the end, I think that Elop was pretty honest, if not too bright, "good old boy" type of person. Sadly, he never came to really trust anyone inside Nokia, but relied for advice primarily on Ballmer, who is another personality altogether...
A lot of the disfunction mentioned above really comes from the social climbing nature of the EVP team, since OPK didn't hold them to account for operating numbers until quite late.
Direct link to the thread where he explains why the evidence, although not conclusive, strongly supports a higher infectivity of the new variant: https://mobile.twitter.com/jcbarret/status/13407169016101724...
SolarWinds Sunburst attack will spur the cybersecurity field to evolve
this is one of the most clickbaited titles I'll see all day.
Stop projecting your own issues.
I don't know enough about epidemiology but I would imagine they have done modelling to determine the likely transmissibility or R number of this new variant to be 70% higher. The probability that this new variant has come to dominate by pure chance must be small.

You are right that London is a densely populated area prone to easy spread for the virus but the same must be true for all variants. This variant started its existence as a single strand of viral DNA and has managed to spread far enough to become the dominant strand against competition from many other well established variants.
I would be curious what you think of these examples. Isn’t this accelerators using RISC-V rather than custom ISA?

https://www.european-processor-initiative.eu/accelerator/

https://www.embedded.com/extending-the-risc-v-architecture-w...
This is already super-popular among large Japanese companies. Uniqlo was built on that tactic.
What protocol would you choose for end-to-end encryption, Double Ratchet Algorithm, or another lightweight one?
> to protect the planet

Oh, hello there, my breakfast.

If it were about the planet they would say something like: "You're eligible for a free charger if you need it."

It's the company that sells headphone ear cushions for 77 EUR.
That's not what stoicism is.

Stoicism has more to do with things that happen to you vs how you treat other people.

It's great that you disclaim it a bit with "can't think of a better word", but it's just inaccurate.

Perhaps "libertarian"? Or "rugged individualist"?
This variant was not dominant in London some weeks ago, and now is.
Um why would there need to be 'media coverage' around technologies that everyone knows about and has basically been around forever?

Media coverage dominates new technology [3d printing]... SHOCKER I TELL YOU!
I can only speak to my own experience, but that isn’t necessarily be true.

There’s a scale, and ‘made in Japan’ seems to so far be better than not.

That said, if they can halve their prices by building in Thailand, maybe customers will forgive them.

Since the only thing left is the high end market though, I’m not sure cutting prices is most relevant now though.
Didn't know HN could lead to this type of addiction.

I use it only as a news delivery system, and in there there's already pathological signs - for instance I rarely skip reading anything that pushbullet displays. And if by accident I "brush it aside" (literally), then I open the app and recover the link.
Sounds like disruptor? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptor_(software)
These are the same companies that will claim to desire diversity, but actively work to remove any personality in the workplace.
The world’s first under-display selfie camera isn’t good
Has anyone here made significant (2x exercise price) amounts from stock options at a non-unicorn in the last 5 years?
Only in your head. What part of "start to finish" is ambiguous? Don't put words in my mouth.
Sure, there's constant mutation and most of it is phenotypically meaningless. What caused the concern is that this particular set of mutations seem to be associated with a part of the country where the measured dose-response of lockdown measures suddenly went way down. In other words, the effectiveness of a particular set of lockdown measures seemed to suddenly go down in Kent and London but not other parts of the country including parts of the country that had previously shown similar responses to lockdown measures. Either everyone in Kent is suddenly breaking the rules more than people elsewhere, this is unfortunate random variation driven by a few super spreading events (totally possible), or this is the first phenotypically distinct variant (as opposed to irrelevant sequence mutations) which has emerged.

Let's hope it's nothing but I'm glad that measures have been taken now.
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Sadly it's the exact same situation as with the German covid app. The limitations of what can be done without the iOS/Android APIs are too high to make the app useful, as can be seen in the official documentation: https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-documentation/blob/ma...
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One definition of slavery is, working a day for a day's food. It's a condition almost impossible to get out of, as that involves starving.
China's labour-wages increase. That's why they found their new China in India.
Thanks for your interest!

The new reference manual for version 0.2 (which I'll release within a few days) discusses Bevy specifically. Short version: GameLisp isn't a natural fit for a multithreaded ECS, but it's possible to make it work.

Because the language is so dynamic and late-bound, it shouldn't be too difficult to hack in hotloading yourself. I intend to make it easier in the future. There's some preliminary discussion here:

https://github.com/fleabitdev/glsp/issues/10
Wasn't the point that the great coder suffers in that setup?
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So when will Apple switch to RISC-V 2030? :P
In terms of total compensation, startups seem to be paying less than average.
> Microsoft will be designing its own processors for its Surface laptop line and its cloud servers.

I love Satya’s Microsoft. But every time Microsoft tries to copy Apple they have failed miserably. I wish they don’t and instead focus on their strengths. But you never know, Satya’s proven us wrong on several occasions. So maybe this time is different?
> Worker wages were their main reason to move from China to India.

You mean, after the Foxconn PR fallout? And to my knowledge the "main reason" they moved out of China was to reduce their dependence on China due to ongoing political tensions, not that they were feeling bad about worker wages.
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I am delighted to share the TensorFlow JS variants for the MIRNet model, capable of enhancing low-light images to really great extents.

The Project repo - https://github.com/Rishit-dagli/MIRNet-TFJS

Please consider giving it a star if you like it. More details and an example in this tweet (https://twitter.com/rishit_dagli/status/1340984448343367680).
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At least, they don't get thirsty while working ...
Bandcamp relies on fans buying the music, whereas Spotify relies on streams. It can take thousands of streams to reach the same cash that goes to the artist after one purchase.
>but I've seen superthin flat lens, with a marginal cost of production around ~$2 in a university facility, that work better than some $500 lens -- and the latter are expensive because they are hard to make the traditional way.

I find this very fascinating because while I enjoy my ever-increasing smartphone camera and use it as a daily driver, I have a about 13 year old Canon DSLR (one of the first one they made now) with a few lenses and that 2007 model Canon D-SLR with the 1" large digital sensor can RUN INSANE LAPS AROUND TOP OF THE LINE SMARTPHONES with respect to the ability to take low light photos, get a lot of good light, and of course zoom on the telephoto, macro on the macro, etc. The autofocus is probably five times faster and the ~10 zones are lightyears ahead of the phone.

There's no comparison. Sure, the 7MP megapixels are bad. Sure, the ISO noise is pretty bad compared to modern smartphone postprocessing. But the telephoto isn't some pitiful "optical zoom", it's instead incredible powerful optics. The low aperture prime lenses produce beautiful shots whose distortion is matched to human preference.

The idea that phones can "catch up" to even 10 years ago on DSLR's would be very cool.

Unfortunately, I'm not holding my breath. Phone sensors are what 10X smaller? Doing great things with 10X less light is impressive, but at some point, you need a big sensor and good quality glass.

Would love to see us get DSLR quality pics from a phone tho.
But we gave them a ping pong table and the illusion of flexible hours!
> Note AWS has a known limited set of hardware. While they do allow install of Amazon Linux outside AWS, that isn’t core to the business or product.

Amazon Linux outside of Amazon is purely to facilitate local build and test pipelines, both of which are meant to encourage AWS deployments. They don’t directly make money off it.
I’ve never heard of any startups where you can obtain faster skill or personal growth. “Wear many hats” means you must be whatever type of firefighting janitor the company needs this week, which often causes skill atrophy not skill growth.

Larger companies not only offer better compensation, but usually offer much better career development, responsibility growth, training and “learn by doing” opportunities.

The startup will promise you won’t be blocked by bureaucracy and as an early hire you can lead the design. Total lies. The bureaucracy and dysfunction will be even worse and probably involve a bunch of immature egos and “the design” will be endlessly compromised to get each successive round of diluting funding that yokes you to more and more traditional management bureaucracy through VCs.

After experiencing the special hell of unrestrained founders who don’t know what they are doing and nepotism hires all through middle management, most people quickly realize it’s an insane trap and wish for the comfort of large firm bureaucracy, where at least there’s some minimal policy protection against sexual harassment or cultivating alcoholism as a company value or generally grinding unwitting young people into the ground with 80 hour weeks.
>We'd have naturally evolved the ability to train our immune systems against specific things it hasn't seen before?

See my response to another comment. We must have dealt with countless species and strains of coronaviruses already. So, our genes have a lot of training they need. Even if we haven't trained for this particular strain or species, we will most likely fare better than the solution that has never been tried ever.

What if the children of those vaccinated turn out to be much weaker against other common antigens start dropping dead? It will set humanity back by a lot.

These are not exaggerated hypotheticals. These are VERY REAL possibilities: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5607155/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK233000/

>since people don't already have immunity, so your "millions of years" thing is completely off base.

We do. Most people are completely unaffeted by the virus. It's a relatively small percentage that has severe problems. To endanger EVERYONE because a small percentage is affected is downright retarded. Having said that, I'm not at all against trying different things out. The best way to roll it out would be to do it over a VERY LONG PERIOD, spanning generations. And most importantly, keeping significant number of people completely unvaccinated. This has not been a problem until now because big enough population chose to be unvaccinated. However, the scale of current problem might mean that this could change... which is terrifying.
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Great storytelling in the broadest sense, so not just writing, but world-building and branching narratives where my choices actually matter.
I think there are also tax implications of leaving a start-up with vested stock that you may not be able to sell on the market for another 8 years?
I am now suitably terrified. The vaccine won’t be deployed fast enough. Coronavirus and humanity are in for a roller-coaster ride over the next few years...
Nikon have slowly been moving their camera body manufacturing to Thailand for 20+ years, starting at the bottom and moving to the top.

Agreed on customer service.

Nikon still make many of their top tier lenses in Japan as well. I don’t see that changing any time soon.
> Since better doesn't exist, don't take away whatever exists for them for now

LOL, isn't that what Wistron, and by proxy Apple, is doing to them? Taking whatever exists for them already?
The word “communist” seems to have lost all meaning, and China isn’t an enemy of the US. Rival might be a better word.
Almost everyone I knew who used CentOS was doing so because they were targeting RHEL but didn’t want to buy RHEL licenses for everything (e.g. run RHEL on production servers & CentOS everywhere else). If you didn’t want a close to RHEL experience, you’d likely go with Debian to get more packages and a truly open community.

One way of looking at that is to see CentOS as a gateway into the RHEL world, and especially a way for people to get experience with it or test open source software on it. I think that viewpoint just lost out to the other one seeing every CentOS install at a company as lost revenue. That’s not entirely unfounded but I suspect it will produce less revenue and cost them more in network effects than they anticipated. Any open source project, for example, has just been told that they need pay to test Red Hat compatibility.
It's about making your lifestyle fit around the expected income and making a choice to accept lower wages in industries which align greater with your morals.
Vietnam will be far more probable. Thanks RCEP!
Unless I'm reading this wrong, it seems like they have access to your data if they have access to your device. That doesn't seem like a "breach" to me - if someone has an "end" in the end-to-end encryption scheme, they almost certainly can access the data. (I don't use Signal, so I may be missing something specific here that makes a difference.)
> From what we know today quantum copmuters aren't magical computers that make everything faster. Instead there are a couple of very special problems that QCs can calculate much faster.

More details: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3
Voided as a term doesn’t make sense. The vaccine will be less effective for sure, correlated to the distribution of the variant vs. the original strain in the population.
Mockery in a friendly setting does not equal a lack of empathy. It reads like you're being too hard on yourself. What is the reason you feel bad about taste of mocking even in a friendly way?
You I guess need the knowledge that you need to do that.
https://twitter.com/The_Soup_Dragon/status/13403496399466291...

If this chart is true EU countries announcing the closing borders the last couple of days is waaay to late to prevent the spread of the new strain in Europe.
The official message from the UK government when they announced concern about this new strain was "we have no evidence to suggest that the Pfizer vaccine is not just as effective against this new strain". Somehow that gets twisted by some people into "we believe the vaccine is just as effective against this new strain". I think it's party due to not wanting to appear to be doomsaying but also very misleading in terms of communicating the facts.
The game is not nearly as broken as the butthurt "community" on Reddit and other sites would have you believe.

I've played this game for about 80 hours on a PC, it hasn't crashed once and I haven't encountered a single game-breaking bug.

Sure, there are T-posing NPCs here and there and the vehicle AI could use some work but it's really not that bad...

Skyrim has been out for almost 10 years now and at times it still feels more broken than Cyberpunk...

What really drives me up the wall however is people blaming CDPR for this. It's 100% the investors' fault. They pushed CDPR to release the game ASAP and immediately after the release started bitching about how the game is broken... The Investor Call transcripts on the CDPR website make for some... interesting reading.

And if I may offer a personal opinion, they should've focused on PC and next-gen consoles and left the last-gen port to an external company who specialize in this kind of thing...
If the founders have the same class of shares as you, will this effect them equally?