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Thanks for response! Sure, I'm down with AWS lock-in, for the sake of argument.

But how do you manage this EC2 fleet and collection of other AWS services? Changes happen -- new version of your local software, change your mind about some configuration, new version of a database, whatever.

OK, it's immutable. But I still need to launch a new EC2, and get everyone else that's supposed to know about it to know about it and start talking to it instead of the old one (or get public traffic to go to it or whatever), and then take down the old one once it's safe to do so. (I also need to figure out how to construct it as immutable).

Purely manually? Just manual operations in the AWS console?

There may be an obvious answer here I am missing not being familiar with the tools. What can be overwhelming here is figuring out the "right" way to orchestrate this stuff, there are so many options (or sometimes you can't find any options but suspect you are not looking in the right place) and so many partisans. One reason for kubernetes popularity is the succesful awareness marketting, I've heard of it and know it is supposed to solve these challenges I'm having and don't really understand what the options are and am overwhelmed trying to figure it out... but k8 seems popular, it must be good?
The Human Genome Project has a diversity problem
She doesn't mention when it started paying her all her bills exactly but the cloud version started in 2013 and the CD from 2010 so presumably it's been her full time living for at least most of a decade. Even if it all comes apart tomorrow that's still a pretty good run for any single product/sole proprietor-ish small business.
If "more than likely" he's talking about "the types of text relevant to startups" then surely that would be stated in an essay tooting the virtues of "simple." However, that doesn't appear to be the case.

It seems more like Paul Graham might be talking about the kind of writing he does himself. Like essays. However, even in such a case, his point is debatable. Which is what people are doing here — debating.

No one is assuming he's "talking about James Joyce." You must be confused. He's talking about a certain type of writing style and making contestable generalizations about it. People are illustrating the contestable points with examples.
Now theres going to be a gold rush of anyone and everyone trying to capitalize on this.

Also, am I the only one that feels this is a new level of bonkers?
I didn't make myself clear. My wife freaks out, not the car. She responds badly to every alert. Mostly because, I think, she's quit paying any attention and the alert startles her into checking out her mirrors etc.
Linkerd 2.10: Extensions, Opaque Ports, Multi-Cluster TCP, and More
This reminds me of an interview with Ernest Hemingway who mentions how he was influenced by great artists who were not writers, for instance, Cezanne, and (I think) Mozart, and others. When the interviewer pushes for more detail, he elaborates briefly on one example and then, tantalizingly, says the other examples are too obvious to explain. Always wondered about what he had in mind.
Hm, that's bizarre, I can watch Amazon Prime on Linux.
How to Build a DevSecOps Pipeline in Jenkins – Part 1
Is this high-class money laundering, or something else?
Another factor is the operating model.

People bitching about K8S, systemd, etc miss the point that these systems allow a qualified generalist ops admin pop in and fix stuff without knowing the app well.

For a little company with <500 servers, it doesn’t matter. As size and complexity increase, figuring out how the guy left last year setup FreeBSD becomes a liability.
Agreed, but entirely dependent on context.

Most writing on the web (including most of my work) is designed for reach, for all of the narcissistic reasons like retweets and shares, but also the reason that we live in a more democratic world today, and ideas that have more reach often have more impact.

When you write, you want yourself to succeed through your writing, but to me it's far more important that my ideas succeed - that they find life in another mind.

Early writing (especially from the era you mentioned, alongside the vedas and the upanishads before it) was poetic not only for the purpose of aesthetics, but also so that the work can self-select who can understand it. Interpreters and translators were common (and still are when concerning these and religious works), which concentrates power. If I need you to tell me what the mahabharata says, you have more power than if I could understand it myself.

Overall, pulling to either extreme - simplicity or purple prose - is not recommended, but I think everyday writing (especially policy) should be clearer and not cleverer.
No, you can abstract over "color".

You can implement a trait that lets you call both sync and async functions in the same way. You can with the same code and same syntax, get results of either `Fn()->T` or `Fn()->Future<Output=T>`.
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Webex is going to have a hard time with so many of its customers already paying for Office365 and getting MS Teams bundled in. Or, if Teams isn't good enough, the same customers are using Zoom. It's hard to justify the need for Webex if you already have Teams and/or Zoom.
and when he says "you", he means tiny little side projects that do nearly nothing.
Beeple's 'The First 5000 Days' NFT sells for over $69M
But today, 16 years of Moore's law later, you could now have gone way, way, way, way past that.

They probably could have done most of America on a single server.

For example, even in 2009 Stack Overflow was running off two dedicated servers:

https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/01/12/new-stack-overflow-ser...
Not sure why you are using such a condescending tone, but I do understand how rent and the costs of living work.

The difference is that if I brought another person into my home then yes, we could split the rent, but it would also halve the amount of living space per person.
Show HN: Scrape podcast series off Audioboom
The spacing of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune actually seem quite natural in that image. It's the cluster of tiny rocks near the sun that distorts our perception!
"lopped off"
Beeple NFT becomes most expensive ever sold at auction after fetching over $60M
Fair point. But people just love to over-complicate things and it is far more often that you come across absolutely ridiculous infrastructure monstrosities for very small business than that you come across the opposite.
Here's a direct link to Christie's which has a photo of the artwork:

https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/beeple-first-5000-days/be...
Most of the early negative comments here make little sense.

>Who here is going to spend countless hours on that thankless task?

If someone wants to and feels that it is worth their time that is great.

>You've visited my site that I have built, you can either use it as is, or not use it - >your choice

A lot of people are doing this already.

Depending on source between 27% to 58% of users use som form of
adblocker.

This is already changing the website from what the owner wanted.

Then you have various features of browsers to modify the page to
be easier to read, easier to print.

There are also security products that will modify content for
various reasons.

Then you have user script via Greasmonkey, Violentmonkey and such,
I dont think many people use them, but you cuold write a user script
that does what is suggested in the article.

My philosphy is that you wish to run code I have no reason to trust
on a computer I own, I should have the ability to limit what it can do.

We have reached the state than just trusing and running Javascripts
is getting closer and closer to someone emailing you an exe and
ask you to run it.
I thought it was the PH level of the food. That would being cool
I would say it has to be at least double that and maybe even higher.
So what does the person wear who's on top of the pyramid? Probably Birkenstocks and a hoodie...
> An equally good way to state his point would be to echo Feynman: if you can't write it simply, you probably don't understand it.

Probably applies to writing programs too.
Nim is a very flexible language where things that would, in almost any other language (besides Lisp/Racket/etc) require direct compiler support (like async/coloring) can be done as libraries.

Consequently, people disagreeing the way they do in their opinions, even if there were not seven ways to do something in the core language/stdlib, libraries would add those ways. So, the ecosystem would still have them all and more (eventually).

Personal opinion, but I would say Nim is remarkable in being able to support & manage all this diversity. One does not see Nim style guides like C++ style guides where you are only supposed to use the 5..10% or whatever of the specified language that everyone on a team understands, for example. { Yet! Famous last words... :-) }
Yeah, there are no incentives. No one will praise you for writing them, they will probably not be well maintained and other people will make changes and not update them. People will still ask you privately instead of reading the docs and will get annoyed if you tell them to read the docs. You yourself will likely not really refer to them anyway, as you probably already have them memorized for the 3 year period when they are relevant to you.
Fortunately, since this is not natural but artificial scarcity, a lot can be done about it - see e.g. Denmark's approach to domain ownership[0].

On a broader point:

> The same concepts tend to exist in the digital world. They don't have to exist in the digital world, but surprise! Us humans make it so.

Yes. And that's what's ruining the digital world. People creating artificial scarcity to extract money from trading things that should be freely accessible, instead of finding a business model where one gets paid by contributing something of value to the society.

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[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26422159
Hmm...

NFTs, BTC and USDT printer still going brrr, GME double squeeze, TSLA's extreme valuation, near zero interest rates and the $1.9T stimulus checks.

Is this the next big crash waiting to happen?
Researchers set new resolution record for imaging the human eye
> I would argue that academic writing tends to be pretty poor.

The above-namedropped David Foster Wallace certainly thought so.

Among people who spend their days thinking about language I'm pretty sure academese is considered more of an elaborate, extended shibboleth than an effective communication tool, going beyond merely being sprinkled with jargon and fake-fancy clichés (like, say, business language) so that it serves as an effective gatekeeping tool. Hard(er than it needs to be) to read, hard to correctly write.
Quantum Mischief Rewrites the Laws of Cause and Effect
One of my knocks against it is using white space for scoping/blocks a la Python.

While it may be great for beginners or for short scripts, over time it becomes a real pain when refactoring. Editors mess up indentation all the time when copying and pasting. You only have to inadvertently make a statement either incorrectly part of, or not part of an if a few times, before you become leery of that choice.
Easy: no killer app nor big corps support.

According to Wikipedia it started in 2008 and is still very alive. It's a good sign.
Now imagine an ITTT-style automation of this collection, so it requires virtually no input from you to have a dossier on almost everyone around you based on their ambient presence.

Could even potentially use Facebook et.al. facial recognition.

Bundle it up with your Instagram or Google glasses.
Girls do better in boards, and boys do better in math-intensive tests like JEEs. It's balanced out here.
Seriously!? They don't discuss the artwork; what file format, if any, that the artist used; how it was stored; how it's accessed, nothing!

While the concept sounds very interesting, the reporting leaves much to be desired!
I noticed the author is active on this thread, so

> I recommend Will Deacon’s talks, such as this one and this one.

They're both the same link! Is the talk that amazing, or is there a second one? I've been looking into ARM lately, and I'll take anything that'll help me understand memory ordering/synchronization.
Show HN: A Deterministic City Generator
Whoops, this should read "the TV is reading the incoming HDR signal". Just wanted to clarify.
Or just not tax unemployment...
Analyzing other aspects of Rosetta 2 runtime and AOT shared cache files
Note: my experience is in private equity from VC backed companies. ESOPs are a bit different in ways I don't have experience with.

The monetary value of private equity is in most cases nonexistent. If it is a private company that is not already riding high (think airbnb when everyone knew it had struck gold) then the equity offer is nothing but a lottery ticket. I took a pay cut at a startup that sold me on accepting the offer with the pitch: "if we were to sell for $100 million like XYZ company, you'll be a millionaire". We ended up unable to raise another round of funding and my equity became worthless. Obviously this is my own biased personal experience and if you believe in the company and think the experience + shot at growing something is worth it to you, go for it! My experience was financially less ideal, but it led to a number of opportunities down the line that I wouldn't take back. But understand that trying to convert your esops into a direct monetary value isn't easy to do because they aren't terribly liquid (unlike vested equity in a publicly traded company).

Things to ask: Have they recently raised a round of funds and at what valuation? Why are they raising the money? What sort of operational runway do they have?
Depends. I just commented on the "Dolphin Letters" item, and there I did read first.
Contractors are often hired for budgetary reasons. It can be easier to get sign off to hire a resource for 6 months at $x per month than to hire a full time employee whose salary is seen as an ongoing cost, year on year.

6 month cost can be an easy sell. Lifetime employee can be more difficult.

I work as a contractor myself in Ireland, and it's usually large companies, consultancy companies or government agencies who hire contractors. It's rare (but not unheard of) for startups here to hire contractors.

Those 6 month contracts usually roll on, so effectively you're working as if you were a permanent employee, but on paper you're always only ever a 6 month expense.
Hugging Face raises $40M for its natural language processing library
How to Leave Discord for Matrix Without Losing Your Friends
You're probably right about why some people find it easier than others. As a predominantly backend dev who has to maintain frontend systems, I'm a fan of anything (such as Tailwind) that helps me do that more effectively. I'm not going to refuse to use it out of a sense of pride that I "should be able to do this in CSS myself".
Is Precise Language (Always) Good?
Why the heck would anyone want that? That’s arguably worse than adding spaces in file names
but it doesn't come with any rights.

You don't get the copyright for this artwork, you own the token, not the art it's self.

its sheer lunacy.
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What workers did the UK say Airbnb is exploiting?
If you wanted to launder money there surely has to be more discreet ways than making a highly unusual sale worth millions?
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Except this “entertainment” is enraging people and causing them to attack the capitol, among other things. It’s much more dangerous than typical entertainment.
> I am afraid, your observations and conclusions are incorrect.

You say that, and then you go on to demonstrate that you have no idea what you're talking about.

It's quite true that the earlier waves of Chinese immigrants spoke Min and Yue languages. That is the reason I didn't use 周 Chow/Zhou as an example. Those aren't the same sounds.

But it's not at all true that Wong and Lee reflect different sounds than do Wang and Li. They are one and the same. Furthermore, the Mandarin pronunciation of the surname 魯 is not lü, it is lu.

If a Mandarin speaker surnamed 王 wanted to have their name pronounced as closely as possible by English speakers, they would spell it Wong -- just as the southerners named 王 (and 黄) actually did when they arrived in the 19th century, or as they actually did in Hong Kong under the British. The spelling Wang concerns itself with an "official spelling" at the expense of readers being able to pronounce the name -- which, if you'll notice, is exactly what I said up above.
Don't think I found anyone on facebook when I searched- just an instagram. If that's true, though, that's... par for Facebook I guess? I wish any other better site took off with people (especially teenagers) than something Facebook has their tendrils in.
In practice, unless you're chasing collectibles (in which case this is analogous to domain squatting), you'll find more than one seller if you look around, and a ton of sellers if you're willing to settle for a slightly different make/model - so competitive pressure keeps prices on a reasonable level.

Importantly, unless you literally tell a given seller that you won't settle for a different make/model, they have to assume that you might, and thus in their minds, they're competing for you with a lot of other people. As a buyer, you'd have to work really hard to get an unreasonable quote.
not to mention that the art its self is cheap, derivative and with no inherent meaning, unless you count the act of getting $70m for not actually selling the work as actual art.
Journalist here. While I love that there's a discussion about burying the lede on HN, the practice you reference is known as a kicker. It's a last thought that is meant to twist, undercut, or add complexity to the narrative thrust of the story. The best ones add a ton of value to stories and reward people who read to the end.
It's an NFT. There's nothing stored. They bought a token with a string saying "this is an NFT of artwork.jpg by Beeple" more or less.
You can taste a slight difference between iodized and non iodized salt on its own but I very strongly doubt anyone would be able to detect that difference once the salt has been added to anything.
Kicks, fraidycat is great. Is there text anywhere of the current thoughts on what fraidycat 2: the desktop service may look like?
Reminds me of the Swedish journalist Sigge Ågren who received multiple awards for his work in forming a style in Swedish journalism, he's well known for the quote "Write concisely. Preferably, not at all".

Both the technical field and the academic field (especially the humanities) are plagued with the notion that a complex and therefore "valuable" idea also needs to be expressed in complex terms to be considered valuable. Personally I believe that there's insecurity at the core of this, writers are afraid to mention things that are obvious to some readers, or afraid to use language that is considered too "simple" for the context (the efficiency of the message is not considered at all).

When it comes to technical writing at least, nothing could be further from the truth. I think anyone who writes for a living has a responsibility to not waste the reader's time, and "get on with it" so to speak. Focus on what's important and drop the rest. Almost any sentence can be made 10% shorter, which seems insignificant until you've made the entire text 10% shorter without losing any important messaging.
Wow, Shades on Prestel (while using a BBC Micro). That brings back memories - especially of getting screamed at and grounded/penalised for racking up huge phone bills.

I remember two characters getting "married" on Shades. A scene that was usually described as a derelict church with a grim, cold interior, was for the occasion bedecked with flowers etc - and rather than being empty save for a random player perhaps wandering in when my character was there, it was full of people. Date/time for the ceremony had been widely disseminated.

Cracking game.
I meant anyone who got roughly 7.5K in unemployment or more and did not choose to get taxes taken out of it will likely end up owing whatever stimulus check they may receive and then some.
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Also, we should give authors the benefit of the doubt. If an opinion is not broadly applicable then we shouldn't jump to conclusions and assume that was the authors intent.
You need the TLD. He was just saying that he was looking for TLDs where it was currently possible to register a single emoji as the second-level domain. He found .kz and is now selling <whatever>@<emoji>.kz
This was so bizarre. It was like... Describing the basics of strategy, and saying what strategy should be, but then never actually discussing anything but mission orientation.

The whole "stack" thing was meaningless, ripped from tech discussions with actual dependencies and rehashed without understanding. Like the rest of this bullshit MBA consulting

If you would like to read about actual product strategy methods, there are a ton of good books available. Check out Richard Rumelt for the source of where these basics are ripped. Simon Wardley has some really deep knowledge if you want to go down the tech strategy rabbit hole.
I think network effects have a lot to do with it. If a language has a small ecosystem, it's less attractive for new developers, so the ecosystem stays small. That said, I think the Nim ecosystem might be able to achieve a critical mass of useful libraries soon and break out of that cycle. There's been a lot of good work done in the UI and web domains in the past year, which is such a large market that even capturing a small portion would bring a lot of developers into the ecosystem.
I think there's an under-appreciated pattern to the distances: https://wordloosed.com/the-planets