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I also prefer shorter titles.

Do you consider my suggested title editorializing? If so, how?
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Not to me. A company had a problem (version spread) so they fixed it.

Then the community asked for a feature, the company implemented it at a price point.
> As of 2018, the althttpd instance for sqlite.org answers about 500,000 HTTP requests per day (about 5 or 6 per second) delivering about 50GB of content per day (about 4.6 megabits/second) on a $40/month Linode. The load average on this machine normally stays around 0.1 or 0.2

Interesting. If the load avg is consistently low, it could mean they're over-paying for CPU. If this was a non-dedicated AWS instance you might want low load so you don't chew up CPU credits, but you'd also want to use an instance type that creates some load so you're utilizing what you're paying for. Linode VPCs don't use cpu credits so the calculation is a bit simpler. I'm also curious how much of that bandwidth couldn't be offset by a CDN or mirrors.

If you were using a serverless platform, you'd ideally want to use something like static site hosting feature where you're mostly just paying for storage and egress. Or a serverless application platform to auto-scale traffic as needed. The main problem with doing this, of course, is the cost of egress: cloud providers with fancy serverless platforms often have redonkulous egress costs, so using a plain old VM on a VPC provider can be cheaper if you have more bandwidth demands than compute.

(I am aware none of this is a concern if you'd rather just spend $40 and forget about it. I am a nerd.)
Neither of your points impact Billionaires. They are meant to save small business owners.
but we have multiple compilers for the same language though.
And multiple OS too.
I see everyone raving about Terraform but I always found it awkward how the DSL works. It might be an improvement over stuff like CloudFormation but feels strange to move the complexity into the language.

Things like the CDK which operate on top of CF feel much more natural and more flexible to me.
I expect current UI trends are informed by focus group testing that starts with the application in a blank state and adds small amounts of data. You’d get very different results if the focus groups concentrated on using the application in a mature state with ~months worth of data in it.
tf specifically or what does codifying infrastructure provide?
> I agree that it is disgusting that the public unknowing funds human suffering.

The public knows, they simply do not care enough to pay the extra $x. We have known about sweatshops since I was a kid in the 90s, and it is even possible to but clothing made in the US. Yet the vast, vast majority comes from east and South Asia.
Some folks suspect Vladimir Putin is the richest man in the world, but there isn't the sort of public documentation that would land him on the Forbes list.

https://www.voanews.com/usa/us-politics/terrible-crimes-made...
Nubank Raises $750M
Freedom of speech, freedom of doubt and "abuse of facts"* is massively abused as there is in most of cases no or a very little consequences for it.

*abuse of facts is when you present selectively true information that without overall context mislead reception
The correct response is to use your legislators to change the tax code to be more fair.

Yelling at people for properly taking legal deductions, when you yourself take deductions on your taxes, reeks of hypocrisy and being mad because Joey got a cookie and you didn't.
It's definitely not you. There is a general term for this called "Poe's Law" that says something like: "a sufficiently thorough parody is indistinguishable from the original". That GP might be an example of this.
How does terraform compare to ansible?
It makes things repeatable, organized, and most importantly checked into source control.

It is actually useable unlike cloudformation which is for a nightmare of unreadable, barely editable yaml files and fifty commands to then upload and apply the files. Lets not even get into debugging or unsticking cloudformation when it breaks, something that usually requires writing a support ticket.

Additionally you can build your own modules. I can have a module that is `ServiceFoo`. Pass in a param that causes it to switch between different backends. Yea I have to write the AWS and GCP part seperately, but then anything that needs `ServiceFoo` can just call the module and have the things split across both sides.

You can then also do things like have your DNS in AWS, but have nodes in both GCP and AWS. Use the settings pulled from GCP to input into Route53, etc.
Exactly my thoughts from the last time this was posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26522208 .

I hope some talented hacker/s somehow manage/s to actually pull it off.
Next: "We've secretly been torturing people for the last three years — look at all the cases it helped us crack!”
There's nothing that can't be justified by this reasoning.
This is a valid criticism. There are several threads in science that are seemingly funded indefinitely despite modest to negligible progress and other threads that are utterly starved for funding.

Is there a bias at funding agencies that research in "carbon nanotubules" gets picked over "X research" year after year?
Positive and negative freedoms aren't something new and even the US has plenty of examples. They merely stipulate what the state has to do to ensure them. A positive freedom is one where the state has to act to preserve them. A negative freedom is one where the state has to not act to preserve them.

For example, owning property is a negative freedom, because the state must not act against your property to ensure this freedom.

Being free of violence is a positive freedom, as the state will have to act to ensure this freedom (by sending a police officer when you dial 911 for example). In this note, not being a victim of theft would be another positive freedom, as the state will act to prevent it or redress you as a victim.

Negative rights don't have to be removed, as you fear, they're simply rights that the state can passively guarantee without having to interfere. Generally, such negative rights/freedoms don't require protection from the state, (hence they're negative).

On the flipside, the positive rights and freedoms do need to be protected. You have a freedom of speech/opinion, which is positive in that the state should act that you can enjoy them. If it were a negative freedom, then they could be lost at the toss of a hat the next time a truth dictator comes to power, as they aren't required to be protected.

So by the very nature you say you fight the removal of these rights, you're already reinforcing that freedom of speech is a positive right. (I don't even get were truth dictator comes in?)

To point out, there is gov departments in a few countries that already do what I describe or very close to. While generally not perfect, they have been useful in digging out neonazi groups and fighting for your freedoms more than the armies of those countries.
“We need to eliminate foreign tax havens”

or more succinctly:

“We need to condemn the families and businesses in places like those tiny island nations in the Caribbean to more poverty”

Those tax havens exist because they realize that a very real thing they can offer as a service is a place to domicile a business and capital. Not everyone wants to go to Ireland for its nice beaches you know.
That’s why they were approached to do sons things but not others, I guess. I assume that means there was some kind of oversight.

Also it’s not entrapment if the criminals are soliciting them.
Can't even use the "Clearly they were using the cold war era definition" excuse, as Romania would be a second world country by that definition.
It probably directs to a static page saying "YES" because after entering all that information your account will be under investigation for sure ;)
> Taxes aren't and shouldn't be secret.

Cool. Would you mind sending me your tax returns (assuming you're in the US), or similar income history?

You can oppose tax loopholes without encroaching on the privacy of others. To use your example, imagine dumping hacked Facebook user data because you don't like bugs in Facebook software
This is Apple, the inventor of walled garden tech for consumers. I wouldn't have been surprised if they had some proprietary extensions in Safari that made it so Safari was the only browser that could do it.
> most Westerners are never going to be subject to Russian or Chinese authorities

Coercible locals are a valuable asset. Not sure why countries with zero rule of law would be attractive to someone valuing a principle like privacy.
I received a lot of feedback by people with music background. I recently talked to someone from the music production industry and it was interesting to hear that they have the same workflow and problems as the graphics industry. Snowtrack could be used with any DAW but the missing thumbnails are a downer at the moment
Creating and destroying infra resources with the click of a button. Better visibility into what's provisioned and their configuration. If you need to main many individual pieces of infrastructure then it's nice to have a central codified manner to achieve that
I read all three books. The first was a couple of years ago. But from memory, half-way through the first should be enough to tell. If you haven't seen anything worthwhile yet, you won't by continuing.
Bigger thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27433863
But then why not train them to use <form> correctly? Since you mentioned the reason for not using it was that

> I have seen less experienced developers do weird things with form tags and submit event
I agree. Although DDG isn't exactly a bed of roses either.
Trainers and coaches are different roles. Coaches are concerned with high-level performance ("Are you scoring points?"), trainers are concerned with physiological performance ("Is your body moving effectively for your athletic goals?"). For trainers, a broken body is the exact opposite of what they would tolerate. What you could tell me is, "I didn't understand the subject, sorry for the erroneous comment."
The idea you can have an executable that is incredibly small, and runs on macOS/Linux/Windows, and is very fast, and has features, is mind-blowing.

Justine Tunney is a treasure!
Bankers aren't stupid. At some point, they'll stop lending you money and will just seize your collateral.
I've almost quit my successful side project several times
> This experimental repository contains software which is still being developed and in the alpha testing stage. It is not ready for production use.

Not sure how much you'll want to invest in being essentially an alpha tester. That being said, if you're currently using Terraform and can wait, it's worth keeping an eye on.
Snowtrack focuses on local file versioning with tools that are locally installed (e.g. Photoshop, Blender, Cinema 4D, Pixelmator, ...)
has anyone tested if arbitrary third party extensions (non mac store ones) are installable? and if not, how are developers expected to write & test mobile safari extensions?

i'm pretty skeptic of the prospects that apple would open up a hole in their walled garden on their own initiative. it's not like they're (currently) under any pressure or competition there.
i’ve talked to some companies asking if they need help with projects (contracting) and every time they say they are looking to fill roles with employees. makes no sense?
In Finland, everyone's taxable income is a matter of public record. One theoretical benefit of such a policy is that it eliminates information asymmetries between workers and employers in wage bargaining.
So privacy is only for those that aren't celebrities? Do you have some barometer for what makes a "celebrity"? Blue check mark?

Right to privacy is a human right. Do you agree? If so, are there classes of human rights that aren't applicable to some groups of individuals?
I've been thinking about this a lot recently. For most of my career I've been a Java programmer and for the majority of projects, each class is put in its own file. The amount of jumping (between files / following method calls) can get really tedious when you're trying to grok a code base. I've been working on Typescript projects recently where the standard has been to have slightly larger files -- possibly containing a class definition, but more often it's an entire module -- and it's actually been kind of nice to just read the entire thing top to bottom in one go. I've looked for studies on "locality" of source code, but haven't really found anything.
Indeed. The other problem is that the news is often filled with misleading narratives that lead people to be less informed than before, and that it creates a huge opportunity cost in terms of attention. When you cut out the news you start to notice a lot of things around you that you were glossing over before.
Cheap transfer of food from developed to developing nations poses its own risks (which this article touches on). It can undercut developing nations own farmers, and realigns incentives, and is also more easily corruptible (these large imports usually need to pass through government hands).

Here's a paper (I am certain there are a lot, expressing every possible view point) http://www.fao.org/3/ag301t/ag301t.pdf

I think the abstract sums things up well:

> Although food aid can have negative unintended consequences, the empirical evidence is thin and often contradictory. The available evidence suggests that harmful effects are most likely to occur when food aid arrives or is purchased at the wrong time, when food aid distribution is not well targeted to the most food insecure households, and when the local market is relatively poorly integrated with broader national, regional and global markets

This assertion (which I think is sound) re-emphasis the importance of the entire system working well, not just having cheap supply.

Another thing to help think about the first world's "food waste" problem (and I do think its something we need to manage), is to imagine what the target food waste goal should be. How much over-supply on average do we want to insure us against shocks and disruptions? For shits and giggles, I looked at the USDA's stats on bushels of wheat harvested (https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_Subject/result.php?9...) from 2000 to 2019. The average (both mean and median) production divided by minimal over that time frame is ~1.3. I think that helps set an useful scale.
It took me couple of hours to write a TF module years ago, it was that easy.
100%. Terraform is half-way between a tool for generating the configuration and applying it. I think Terraform's application engine is actually quite good, but I would like to use a much better tool to generate the config. (And be able to diff that config)

You can feed JSON to Terraform however this falls over if you need dependencies for output values. This usually isn't an issue because most Cloud provider resources have predictable IDs but as soon as you have one that doesn't you are up for a lot of pain and suffering.
You can believe in the power of a legal system without respecting the specific legal system that you're currently living under.

Would it be a disconnect to illegally oppose an immoral law - like, say, the legal protection of slaves as property - while simultaneously wanting to pass laws that you expect people to follow - like, say, making slavery illegal? Probably not.

It's inaccurate to treat obedience to the law as a moral act. It can only be moral because the law itself reflects moral attitudes. Wherever there is a disconnect between the law and morality, it is the law that bends - which is exactly why laws can be rewritten in the first place.
Yes, agreed. A big part of why that's the case is that the individual market is one huge adverse sample, in its current form. Because most healthy people in the US are employed, they tend to receive their health insurance through employer sponsored group plans, which by design pools risk only within that group.

What ends up happening is that anyone left over has to participate in risky markets with higher premiums in general, resulting in the mostly broken state of the US individual market.

In contrast, you have countries like Switzerland where pretty much all health insurance is purchased on the individual market, and risk is pooled across larger and more diverse populations.
Houses usually taxed on an ongoing basis. Not really comparable to stocks.
When the sun is wrapped in a Dyson sphere covered in solar panels made from Jupiter’s mass?
Blog has more information:
https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-hashicorp-terrafor...
What, iCab is still around!? Amazing, thanks!

I use Firefox on iOS myself (which supports ad blocking under the name of "enhanced privacy protection") but might give it a shot.
If this means a better experience for paying customers, I'm all for it. I have no problem with companies charging for their services.
>> unless we're talking about some sort of progressive inheritance tax, it's not just about filthy rich people, but all of us.

Agreed. It cannot be abrupt. There needs to be gradations and caveats*.

>> why shouldn't I be able to pass my house onto my children

That should be reduced for equalizing opportunity for those children who are born without such a previledge.

Yes, I agree we love our own children more, naturally. That's a result of biological evolution.

However, social policies are inherently by nature aimed at balancing the good of individuals with the good of the society overall. (For sake of example, lairs lie as they reap some advantages out of doing so. However, we consider lying bad as it takes the society farther away from the optimal point of operation.)

We can't also take away what nature built, so self-interest or the love for children cannot be taken off completely. And that's how "progressive inheritance tax" would come back into the picture.

* Sample caveat: If a child develops some illness, a parent should be able to spend more on her/him. There are again different means to handle this too -- the two extremes being all children being treated equal irrespective of who the parents are, children of God, one may say :-), and then insurance or government funds handle such caveats. The other extreme is where parents solely help the children. The answer I believe lies somewhere in the middle of the two extremes.
> It’s still not acceptable. At least the tax minimizer is following applicable laws, this vigilante is not.

The total harm of stealing billions from the public dwarfs any concern for the thieves' privacy.

They are following the law, sure... the unfair law they pay for to their advantage.
Seems pretty clear to me based on the description. What specifically are you unsure about?
This is a tool to manage your infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure/etc) as a code.

You write code, apply it, cloud providers spin up resources you declared, you commit your code (infrastructure) to git.

Now your infrastructure is version controlled, can be "easily" build from ground up in minutes, instead of someone doing 3124 things manually in the UI.
I disagree. I'd say there is a pretty direct route. The kid is trying to construct a building. They face great many object-level challenges: what materials to use, where to get them, how to connect them, how to make the structure stable, how to reduce work, etc. Behind each challenge is a field of study for the kid to dabble in, in order to overcome the problem.

"Real" architecture and civil engineering, as done by adult professionals, deals with exact same challenges (and then some more). The work is more complex, you need to explore relevant fields of study much deeper (and professional education gives you just that, in a structured way), but it's fundamentally the same thing, just in hard mode.
> these tools should have a static/yaml-like "assembly language" that describes the state of your infrastructure without any of the DRY

the last five words are a bit of a double negative; i think you mean "without the repetition" but I can't tell.
This is speculation, and doesn't add anything to the conversation. Is there a precedent that TLA's conspire with CPU manufacturers to create backdoors like this? Or are you just a conspiracy theorist?
Seems like duplication and infiltration is becoming a more common tactic amoung LE.

There's some pretty convincing speculation Dream market was setup as a similar operation to this. [0]

If this proves anything it's that the fear mongering by LE about encryption was overblown and they're just lazy lol.

0: https://youtu.be/1VZkiQUzITU
Bezos claiming the child tax credit is gold. Bernie got finger-wagged in the primaries for wanting universal benefits, because others said the rich shouldn’t be able to take advantage of them too. Well, guess what, CTC is a means-tested program - millions of families have to go through BS paperwork to prove they’re deserving of it - and the richest man on earth is somehow able to claim it too! Hilarious.
This is incredibly impressive, especially the ability to immediately download the snippet as an mp4.

How has this not been immediately shut down due to copyright?
Capital gains are not eventually taxed if you hold the stock until you pass them get the step up in cost basis. Easier to do if you can borrow cheaply and deduct the interest.
Having commits that do not build represents the history more accurately. It could very well be a “fix” to some build error that silently introduces an issue, that context is lost when you squash.
I googled a bit, it looks to me that pledged asset lines, typically require you to pay off the capital.

There are loans marketed as interest only, but my understanding is that even with these loans the payment of the capital is deferred to the end of the term, not that you don't have to pay it back at all.

There are annuities, a financial instrument where the seller receives a lump sum and then pays back a fixed amount in perpetuity but I think only insurance companies sell these.

I think the most likely scheme is what the other comment is suggesting, refinancing the loan repeatedly
So much this. If you hate cloudformation, have a look at CDK, which allows you to programmatically define a stack in a language of your choice, instead of trying to use unreadable huge yaml to write code.

I really wish terraform will one day reach the same features and maturity as cloudformation.
Not a tax lawyer but I'm pretty sure there are regulations around what it means to be a charitable organization according to the IRS.

For instance, I'm fairly certain that using the money in a way that provides you a tangible benefit is verboten, as is taking a deduction for a "donation" to said charity that results in a tangible benefit.

Whether these things are enforced or violated is another question; but it does not seem reasonable to assume that every such organization operates by fraud, nor that getting rid of all of them would be no loss.