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Ask HN: Considering colocated hosting over cloud, what should I know?
I'm a 20 something software engineer building primarily web apps, apis, etc. Most of my career has been around cloud based hosting on AWS and friends. I run quite a few side projects and like to have space to experiment and try out new technologies and ideas.

For the past few years I've been doing this across AWS and DigitalOcean but I'm starting to think I can probably get more bang for my buck by colocating a rack server and spinning up a few VMs. The up front cost of a used rack server don't seem too bad and the monthly colocation costs are then much better than what you can get for the same price on a cloud provider.

I'm pretty happy to spend the extra time and energy on the management side since it's mostly side projects and experimentation that I'll be doing with it.

Before I take the plunge and give it a go, I'm wondering if there's any gotcha's I should know about that aren't immediately obvious to someone who's not done this before? I'll be looking to colocate probably a single 1U or 2U server somewhere in the UK if that makes any difference.
But isn't it more kind to respect the wishes of the people who created and named it in the first place?

Yes you've got every right to continue to be ignorant after it's been explained to you... but I mean why aspire to do that?
How is this any different from owning shares in a housing cooperative? Aside from the risk being - possibly - divided across multiple properties, I don't see how this would solve the main issues driving appreciating housing prices any better than attacking their root causes (build more housing supply, limit housing speculation, and prevent overleveraging).
You could instead put the global max seen id into every row, but then you would have to update all the rows on every transaction. Which is not great peformance-wise, but would also massively exacerbate the non-atomic sum problem downstream in total.
How fast was the car going? Why how did they die? Did seatbelts and airbags fail?
> So I looked up the Raptor Talos II. It's a $7k (starting price)

There are cheaper models, "down" to $4k, probably around $3k if you build it yourself; that's still expensive of course, but less :-)

(I wasn't able to read the linked article, so perhaps he indeed describes the version matching the price you quote, I don't know.)
You totally cannot in many hostels, maybe it's a thing in the US but I've been to many hostels in the world and some will limit your stay to a few days.
I don’t either but maybe some HNers at those companies will see this and contact you ;-).
To be fair that third one is usually about your biggest worry in general. It doesn't need to literally keep you up at night - though it's a positive signal if you never lose sleep over your company.
I find all of AWS frustrating. Their interfaces feel like they were designed by an 80s IBM analyst.
There is also the "man engine" which was used in mines until the developement of steel cable based lifts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_engine
lol @ FIFA trying to position themselves as the moral high ground
They are both great books.
And both have relevant points for current times.
Death Ship has quite interesting analogies to the upcoming (vaccination) passports and resulting society structures and failures.
And Sierra Madre has important lessons about companionship.
For someone being critically inclined to the "press" reading some of his Ziegelbrenner will be quite interesting.
Thanks! In that case, the article's original title, appearing next to the domain make.wordpress.com, seems right.
> Men can come here, connect to other businessmen and make money if that's what they are looking for. I appear to be the only openly female member to have ever spent time on the leaderboard and I remain dirt poor with terrible prospects for the time being and this has been true for a lot of years.

HN makes you money only if you use HN to make money. At the end of the day, Hacker News is a public forum. Some people use it to launch their startup, or get hired. Some people use it to find news. Some people do not read the articles and instead read the comments.

It's up to you to use HN as you see fit as long as you are within the site guidelines. I think your confusion is stemming from the fact that HN Karma and the amount of dollars you make from HN are correlated. They are not.
As I said elsewhere, it depends on the hostels, some will limit your stay to a few days.
I can't the exact details but IIRC there is a canonical study which tracked physical activity, calorie intake and obesity in large cohort. There was a high correlation between calorie intake and level of activity in the sample and likewise only a weak correlation between level of activity and obesity (or lack thereof). Basically, people were good at calibrating their calorie intake to their level of physical activity. EXCEPT for the sedentary people, who tended to consume calories way outside of their needs based on little or no physical activity and (not surprisingly) tended to be obese at high rates.

Our bodies seem to be good at calibrating hunger and calorie intake to maintain balance between calories in and calories out, but there is something about being completely sedentary which causes that mechanism to malfunction.
> will remain united in our efforts to stop this cynical project, a project that is founded on the self-interest of a few clubs at a time when society needs solidarity more than ever.

Oh come on, the audacity, amazing. You can replace this with the pointing spiderman meme.
The Year Before the End. There's a site at https://galaxybound.com (that needs a designer to clean it up.... And contact details etc. in my profile)

I'll give the caveat that I'm new to this too - just spent more time than the typical writer looking into the business side of things...
The first I ever knew of it was in the 1985 German comedy Manner (Men) that featured it in the credits. Intensifyingly funny.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089656/
That sounds really neat, I must admit I've never written a single line of c# although I keep meaning to give it a go. Maybe this is my moment...

I'm using python mostly atm. I've played around with go/node too (both of which I'm familiar with in and of themselves) and I was thinking about switching over to one of those already.

The dependency management is easier for both of them than with python I found.
> Flats being rented on AirBnB is definitely competing with long term residents wishing to rent flats.

so are hotels, parking lots, malls, and everything else that take space right?
I used to be a fan of suckless and cat-v until I realized that complexity doesn't go away when you pretend it did, or when you just tell your users to "git good".
Man Engine
> Alternatively, do other FaaS providers solve this problem?

I worked on Netlify Dev, which does offer a simulated lambda environment for testing locally: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19615546

I was also quite disappointed to see that AWS Amplify did not offer a running dev server for lambdas, best you could do was a local onetime manual invoke and even that often failed (mismatched to the live lambda environment where it succeeds)
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Which expiration date and what price? When I checked last time they seemed pretty expensive.
because housing is treated as an investment in the US.
6 deaths from Autopilot now. At the very least, Tesla ought to drop the name.

https://www.tesladeaths.com/
Hmmm....

Use cash!
All true, and that same machine should be produced safely, because the danger is known and how to mitigate it is also known.

They either were incompetent or did not give a fuck, neither is acceptable.

Secondly, because these are known dangers and mitigation are known, out there, expected, ordinary people may actually see more danger because generally set expectations do not match reality.

The reality being this machine is a bigger risk than may be expected, and it does not have to be. Should not be.

They can afford for it not to be too.

Any competent product safety people would have required the basics, which would take this story off the table.

This company does not have those people, and they should.

They can totally afford it.
I think the warning is more to discourage people from using the other direction as a shortcut.

That, and the huge chain wheels at the ends are even more dangerous to get things stuck in.
>There's a shortage of engineers

r/CSCareerQuestions would readily contest you on that assertion.
How can use case be misutilized?
Britain’s New African Empire (2016)
We're using it "the right way" with SAM, but still very frustrating.

We had to detect if running locally or deployed in our code because Cognito auth was giving us trouble when running locally, and Step Functions can only be tested deployed.

Cloud Watch logs take several minutes to appear, funcs take some time to package and deploy (even with caching) - making feedback loop very slow.

I personally think the best way is to develop serverless funcs on platform - using the built in editor. You get logs instantly. But can't get devs to give up their IDEs...
I'm not debating how society should be set up, I'm talking about how parts of the society can live differently.

This debate reminds of people complaining that they couldn't bring their kids in a bar...
M1 Mac can output to 9” CRT TV
I think this is wrong way to use word "dangerous".

"Dangerous" should be left for when it easy for a normal person to get hurt or get somebody else hurt even when they are attentive and act rationally.

A device that can suddenly explode when correctly used is "dangerous".

I think this lift is perfectly safe as is Peloton threadmil, knives, cars, and bunch other stuff, because each can be operated safely and more than that, it is with a capability of a normal person to operate the device safely. Whether they choose to do so is another matter.

The threadmill cases were due to adults leaving safety keys in the threadmill.

How is a threadmill with a functional safety key described as "dangerous" because some stupid parent left it with a key in?

If you are a moron you can make anything dangerous.
By 2100 people will realize how dumb people in the 2020 were and have efficient public transportation for that "autonomous" travelling.
Maybe because it's 25C cooler than 25C water. Takes more energy to convert to steam. I guess.
I drank a lot of soda as a child/adolescent but somewhere in my early twenties I mostly just stopped. Not for any particular health reason either. I just stopped liking it. And now I actually find it pretty disgusting and don't quite understand how anyone actually enjoys it.
Please don't take HN threads into extraneous flamewar. This is in the site guidelines: "Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

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

Cherry-picking a detail you find most provocative in an article and importing it here to express how provoked you feel
is a way of setting the thread on fire—no doubt unintentionally [1], besides which the greater part of the problem is caused by the upvotes such things attract—but still, we don't want threads-on-fire. We're trying for something different than that.

Readers should leave tangential provocations where they find them, and commenters should comment on what gratifies their intellectual curiosity, as the guidelines ask.

Edit: also, please don't use HN primarily for political or ideological battle. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for, so we ban accounts that cross that line [2], and your account's recent history seems to have crossed it. Fortunately that seems to be a recent development so it should be easy to fix.

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I really like systemd, I even run Emacs as a systemd service. That means I have persistence of Emacs over my user session. I can close all Emacs frames (windows) and open up a file hours later and none of my work has disappeared.

Also, basically 0 wait time when opening a new frame, launches faster than gedit or kate.
> On the flip side, Workers can't run arbitrary Docker containers.

Containers are coming to the Cloudflare edge: https://blog.cloudflare.com/containers-on-the-edge/ (inevitable really)

Nit: Workers should really be compared to Lambda@Edge instead.
Meeting customer needs across the value chain is how all companies make money, so calling that ‘product-led’ seems pointless to me.

> If sales-led or engineering-led resulted in business success then product managers wouldn’t exist

By this same logic, I should find that sales managers and engineering managers don’t exist in a world where ‘product-led’ leads to business success.

But of course they do, because everyone adds or creates value and contributes to business success.
As a brief counterpoint, for the last few years, I walk at least 5 miles a day (just writing this on the way home from a 15 mile hike), 12 mile cycle commute in normal times, don't drink any sugar, eat one meal a day, caffeine/alcohol free and vegan, resting heart rate is 45-50 bpm.

I'm 270lbs/5'11" with a bunch of weight related health issues. I do have an appetite, for sure. But careful calorie tracking says I should be at a 1000kcal/day deficit, but my weight is stable. Go figure.
I share these frustrations and don't have a great answer. When integrating N cloud services, at some point it gets incredibly hard to build out fast feedback / local environments. The best way I know how to deal with it is use less services and ensure the ones you stick with are simple.
"those losses aren’t equitably distributed, either: Nearly 2 million mortgages are underwater in the U.S., and they’re disproportionately concentrated in Black and Latino communities. Tenants in coastal cities, meanwhile, know the pain of forking over more and more rent every year, unable to save for a down payment and living at the mercy of sometimes unscrupulous landlords."

What on earth does not equitable mean in terms of distributing losses?

Secondly "living at the mercy" hold on, renters aren't tenant farmers who can't leave their lord's land. People do actually choose to live in expensive rented accommodation. They make the choice that the property location etc is worth more than the cash, to them.
Quite normal for a direct listing. Otherwise not enough shares would be available. Also look at the stock options. C level is very well incentivized.
This ^ people don't realize that airbnb is amazing for tourism in a city.
I haven't tried it yet, no. It always struck me as being focused on making deployment quick/easy rather than on creating a good local dev workflow (i.e. the same workflow I currently have but a quicker cycle time). This never really appealed to me.

Cosmotic's comment kind of confirms my suspicions to be honest.
If I understand correctly the reason the OP has to suspect a third person in the driver's seat is because the driver's seat appeared undamaged?
Grey market Win10 keys like this are probably a part of it: https://www.ebay.com/itm/373546396164

Edit: After reading article, indeed above method is noted. Also many people will never need to enter product keys since they're embedded in their hardware by OEM's...
Did the car start driving with nobody in the driver's seat? Or did someone move out of the driver's seat after it started?
These are great questions. And to the other poster, if the company only gives you 5 mins at the end to ask questions then that’s a red flag in itself. Also, if a candidate doesn’t have any questions for me it’s a major red flag and I don’t feel like they’re actually interested in the job.
How to Find a Rich Husband
There’s only one C++ library I’ll use for I/O and networking and that’s POCO C++. I’ve used it in a lot of project over the last 10 years and I haven’t seen a better solution.
Wow.. A site that actually does GDPR well.
He said cold gas thrusters aka compressed air. Not rockets exactly.
How Not to Get Caught Cheating
The internet is decentralized, we choose centralized services for a better UX

Top domains remain unclaimed, the "new" internet looks to be filled with spam domains. Why would I want to switch my DNS system?
> A third option is necessary: a way to rent without making someone else rich.

I care how much I pay. I don't give a shit who gets it.
We should keep in mind why Google invests in FLoC, though.

Either they realize third party cookies are on a (regulated) dead end. Or they realize there is a bigger moat. Or something else that helps them.

But in any case, seeing the current Google, this is not something benefitting their users(products?) primarily. Unless some benefits accidentally aligned.

So, pushing back towards the broken status quo may be the right thing, if you know, or believe, how Google is going to benefit from the new FLoC.

I cannot evaluate that. But Googles track record does not offer me confidence their new tech is going to help me overcome the issues I have with the status quo.
> Why does anyone drive any car when the manufacturer isn't liable for mechanical failures that could cause a crash?

Manufacturers absolutely are liable if there is a design problem. This is the entire reason recalls exist.

One could certainly argue that Tesla's laissez faire attitude toward autopilot safety constitutes a systems engineering design failure, making it grounds for a recall.
What are you talking about? Building muscle is much easier than losing weight. You just have to lift heavy things on a regular basis, and eat something more nutritious than ramen. If you work out, the sleep takes care of itself. Losing weight, on the other hand, requires self control.
This ^ I haven't booked a single hotel in the last 7 years. I only travel using airbnb because it's:

* cheaper

* better location

* feels more like home / feels cleaner

* more space

* kitchen
I have to admit I keep a very wide berth of the "suckless" people, they have a worrying history of being Nazi-adjacent

Having a laptop named after Hitler's bunker: https://twitter.com/pid_eins/status/1113738766471057408

Joining the Neo-Nazi torches rally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Suckless.org

Talking about Hitler in a GPL licensing thread: https://web.archive.org/web/20190404153507/https://lists.dyn...

Denouncing "Cultural Marxism" https://lobste.rs/s/nf3xgg/i_am_leaving_llvm#c_yoghmo

These are the sources I could find within a few minutes of googling. But it's worth repeating for those that would want to engage with the suckless team
Tesla's and other electric cars have been around for a decade now. It's completely reasonable to expect fire departments to have trained their staff to deal with EV crashes.
I wouldn't mind a kick in the nuts of the UEFA.

I'll get my popcorn.
I was speaking to some Russians at a party yesterday. They lamented at how Russian and American media were mirrors of each other.

Russia uses America as the core of their propaganda just the same as the DNC has been using Russia as their boogoieman since they needed a narrative to apply to Trump.

As someone who formerly worked for Crowdstrike and has performed the APT-29 demo countless times, I will say attribution is bullshit and people frankly have no real data to point fingers.
Cars on the side of the road, or slowing down for no apparent reason, are a hazard to other traffic.
Respectfully, your answer seems like the exact type of sidestep/intentional opacity that causes this blog post/problem to exist in the first place. Much less, flip the table around. If you asked a question to a candidate and they responded as vaguely as they possibly could, would you hire them? Would you just let them give extremely vague answers without asking further clarifying questions?

> 1. "My company isn't organized around a single dimension that can be used to measure one problem in absolute terms against all others. Every team is working on a series of problems on a month to month basis and in turn every individual is working on problems of their own."

Are you saying your company internals have no shared issues? Each business unit is totally agnostic from all the others? There aren't any company-level concerns you have as a business owner?

Some common examples include: Massive refactors/re-orgs, changing of company direction, growing pains, changes in sales strategy, offshore development problems, remote work problems

> 2. "The biggest threat to our company is the one we don't know about."

This again feels intentionally vague. It seems like one could've assumed "that you know about", as your answer is inherent to all companies.

> 3. "Nothing keeps me up at night, I sleep fairly well."

"What's your biggest weakness?" "My biggest weakness is that I have no weakness."
Anyone who has seen how public owned goods turn out would realize how much of a bad idea it is: for a budget similar to the DoD, you may get wait lines like in a DMV, with as much administrative fiddling as the NASA, with a quality of service as good as the DHS. If you are lucky, you may get as many choices as their are public transportation option in the midwest.

Thanks but no thanks.
Depends if morals matter.

If right and wrong are important then "legitimate" encompass them. So it s possible for something to be legal but not legitimate.

There are not a lot of legal but absolutely immoral (the other way, illegal but legitimate - plenty) the actions of the FANG IMO definitely fall into the category of legal but illegitimate.

Because to me good and evil are important considerations
I think you’re the one that’s operating on a purely old-school definition of systematic discrimination. You’re giving people a signal that by it’s very nature groups people like them together and naturally will have a correlation to their age, gender, race, wealth, ability, blah blah. And then you’re told that you’re supposed to use this information to make decisions about them as an individual. How does this not lead to racism?

This is the digital equivalent of trying to be “race blind.” You can’t just remove the race column in your db and assume that’s it fine to torture your data for patterns secure that your results won’t correlate to race.
The EU’s Calhounian Moment
That’s what I was thinking. However, there are some co-Ops in NYC that allow you to buy shares at a really cheap price VS what the market would pay. But when you sell, the co-op sells the shares so although you profit, you won’t be as much as if it were sold at market value. But you paid below market so it works out.

However, these aren’t just open to anyone. You need to know people to get in. It’s a self policing community that takes care of each other over generations. Even if you’re “in”, you’ll likely be on a waiting list until availability opens up.
No relegation, no qualifying for tournaments, what’s the point...
Reminds me of the decline and fall of Rome...;)
In truth the era of SF may well be coming to an end with the rise of the decentralised office. We have already seen the boom of the home office and the home office in a garage and the home office shed. Cities will miss the taxes they were used to gouge and will try to tax them. Then they will burrow out of site - stealth mode. Then cities will try to tax companies on the basis of their employee roster of home workers = more stealth.
We will live in interesting times as the cities try to rake in all this lost cash, inspectors etc...