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The normal, healthy version of this is building on things that are decent at what they do, but would be easier to work with for common use cases with another layer of abstraction.

Doing it primarily because multiple layers suck when used for their intended purpose may very well be useful, but it's not a sign of health.

This is like having three layers of assembly that are all horrible to write and are built one on top of the other, all operating at roughly the same "level" of the hardware/software stack, and then coming along and writing C for the third one, which will in turn generate the second, and that, the first, which will, finally, actually generate something a processor understands.

Whatever demand there is for this isn't this product or company's fault, but it's definitely a sign that something's not right. Config primitives being driven by orchestration scripts being driven by orchestration scripts being driven by orchestration scripts.

The product may be entirely fine, but the situation is ridiculous.
I don't see how this is a solution. I agree rarely should be utilized, but they certainly should be utilized if someone is being held hostage in their home or something like that. This is what SWATters capitalize on.
Believe it or not a big part of cloud migration is figuring out how to cost it and get the finance people on board with after-the-fact operational expenses (*aaS) replacing capital/labor expenses (servers, sysadmins, network engineers, etc). When I worked in defense contracting I sat through half a dozen meetings with cloud vendors and virtually all of them took the time to explain how the costing model was distinct from on-prem, how to estimate and budget, governance, etc. At the end of the day many orgs with deep pockets also have very entrenched financial processes. AWS is doing everything that it can to make a play for these dollars by creating on-ramps such as this one.
The article seems to be written from a perspective where integration and unit testing don't exist. IMO the main advantage of monorepos is that you can have end-to-end tests within the same project structure. In that case you wouldn't need to do these incremental changes hoping things don't break in production, because your test suite would prove to you that it works.
Is there any actual information for building it? I really am having a hard time finding anything that doesn't just link to a SourceForge repo last updated in 2016.
I think one part of this the lack of accepted nomenclature in CS - naming convention is typically not enforced, unlike if you'd have to produce an engineering drawing for it and have it conform to a standard.

For engineering, the common way is to use a couple of descriptive words + basic noun so things do get boring quite quickly but very easy to understand, say something like Google 'Cloud Container Orchestrator' instead of Kubernetes.
Future humans will say the same thing about us for letting non-God billionaires have disproportionate control of our economic behavior.

“They sat around playing banal number games, trying to manipulate each other’s agency, pointing at some other typical human called “Jeff Bezos”, seeking to get rich like him not realizing he’s actually protected by their consent to then contemporary political arrangements. They played along with all of it!”

The only difference is they’ll probably have a perfect digital record of our acquiescence to laugh at over.
Define "fairly".
The government is only to blame insofar as they let the capitalistic system run unfettered which has created this obscene level of inequality and this rare breed of what it is effectively working class people defending 10-20 oligarchs.
> It isn't nearly enough time, he'll be out in 2 years. He fucking killed someone and he's walking away with a slap on the wrist. Fuck that guy.

You're being downvoted. I cannot fathom the kind of thought process it takes to downvote you for this statement.

This was a heinous crime that should have been prosecuted as first degree murder.
Please see this heartbreaking Twitter thread from Jason Scott on Sparky Herring and QWK

https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1417941046781259782?s=2...
I hope they can charge rest of this group as well. Unfortunately the person who actually called in the swat was a British minor so not sure how the law can be applied there.
We can't pretend Microsoft doesn't have the resources to do something like this right. They just don't focus on user experience.

This is not limited to teams. Azure Active Directory, Windows Servers, Sharepoint, OneDrive... they all have terrible UX.
In passing, the article reveals that in the Netherlands, there is a place called "Monster", and Willy is a woman's name.

But the archaeology is fascinating, too, of course. It is both sad and exciting to think about how much human culture and history has been lost to time, and how there still is out there, waiting to be discovered.

There is an episode of Star Trek TNG where Captain Picard gets neurally linked to an alien probe and gets to experience the life of a person in a civilization that has long since ceased to exist. It is frustrating sometimes how Sci-fi can implant such appealing ideas in our minds that are - AFAIK - scientifically impossible. But how amazing would it be to live for just one day among the mammoth hunters of Doggerland.

Also, this makes me think about what we leave behind for some future explorer to unearth. Maybe we should start creating time capsules, so future archaeologists won't have such a hard time figuring out what life was like back in the 21st century.
> Remember the days of assuming that your box was secure without having to do 10123 layers of abstraction?

Yep, I remember when I deployed insecure apps to prod and copied secrets into running instances, too.
Beer.Art NFT Market place? To do or not to do?
As passionate brewers, keen technologists and huge art fans we are building a niche NFT marketplace for Beer.Art https://beerart.io/

Where you can buy, sell collect and trade digital beer art (NFT's).

Being honest we are looking for early feedback and adopters as we build the platform.

Looking forward to exploring and need some honest feedback to learn.
There's no probation in the federal system. He will serve the 60 months.
I've seen research finding that the children of widows resemble the children of married couples more than the children raised by single mothers. Children typically do not fall in social class when their father dies by accident. Fatherless children do worse primarily because of the characteristics of their parents.
This is exactly right. Producers get hyper-optimized on change, while users want either no change, or obvious improvements. Majority of incentives and goals of producers rarely align with every individual user.

In this regard, I find Linux XWindows and WMs to strike a good balance. It allows me to choose Xfce, or even i3. It gets most of the bad bits about modern computing (notifications, desktop sounds, panels, popups, windows-fiddling, desktop icons, shortcuts, ads, whatever will they come up with next), to just go away and not torment me anymore.
As someone who now does suffer from chronic pain due to abdominal adhesions post-pancreatic trauma and having had issues with depression in the past, I'll take the adhesions.

At least I can take a pill to get some relief on occasion. People understand.

Your description and analogy is dead on.
What are you afraid that humanity will do to Mars? There's no life there to disrupt, no ecosystem, no environment to destroy, nothing to displace.
Rust has no concept of a process, same as it has no concept of a thread. So you'd build a safe abstraction for sharing memory across processes the same way you do today with threads.
Exactly. Small town police departments, officers with little to no training, fancy military equipment at their disposal that they are itching to use. There's no wonder that so many random routine police encounters are escalated to injury or death.
> drunk drivers are permitted to continue killing people.

Driving drunk, and killing people, are both illegal. What is being permitted, exactly?
"It's possible" because a functional society requires trust in the case of extremity and extreme situations are difficult to adequately plan for, difficult to test, and once set in their ways difficult to change for next time due to significant institutional inertia. (Which, before one starts, is not evil, it is inevitable, and part of management and problem-solving is understanding this.)

You can certainly be concerned about the procedures followed and whether they are wise or followed correctly. And should they be looked at and changed? Probably! Almost certainly! But somehow I doubt that the people who you are low-key castigating for their reaction towards the person breaking that societal trust are forgetting this. Most people are, after all, able to care about more than one thing at once.

But the proximate cause is that broken trust, and that the safety measures have not succeeded does not reduce the magnitude of that broken trust. That breaking of that trust is primarily alarming to people is not a particularly humane reason to adjust one's pince-nez and hrm at them.
> It shouldn't be possible to be murdered from a phone call.

It shouldn't be possible to be murdered at all. But phone calls can transmit arbitrary information to arbitrary parties. So it's going to pretty tough to limit any particular consequence of them.
What is your solution if police have to respond to the real crimes?
What is this rockets and co2 argument that's being parroted everywhere lately? Yes it does emit co2, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to cars.
This isn't my observation. Every time this topic comes up, there is tons of (rightfully) critical comments about what the feasibility of this murder tactic says about the responding police and the system in general.
This seems silly to me. I (personally) think it is much more likely for your computer to be stolen/hacked/ransomed than a single account credential to be leaked. If so, "the blast radius" will be whatever you're logged into ... and if you're logged into everything, what's the point?
I was just kidding of course, but the idea of defined acronyms is interesting. Hover over an acronym and see the expanded text.
It is illegal to kill oneself because it deprives the state of a taxpayer, and the state will not tolerate theft of its human resources.
He was the main lead, doxxing was one of his works leading to more. The trigger man in this case was a minor
The US is a militarized police state where citizens are armed to the teeth. This is a natural consequence of that reality.
> The thing that will kill Kubernetes, though, is Helm. I'm out of time to write this comment but I promise a thorough analysis and rant in the future ;)

Too much of a cliffhanger! Now I want to know your pow :)
Edit: deleted

Reacted before getting the facts right, my bad
Part of the issue here was his agreement with the prosecutor to plead to one count of a crime, thereby leading to a maximum sentence of 60 months.

Had he been tried, found guilty and convicted of all counts of all crimes it’s likely the sentence would have been higher and the judge may have had latitude to order them served serially instead of concurrently.
The book looks pretty great!,pretty much in spirit to what I wanted. It is very slim but it has a big bibliography so it is perfect as an initial roadmap.
You need to master the art of sleeping in your office chair with your back to the door. Keep an interesting piece of paper handy to be reading when someone comes in instead of staring at a blank screen.
Thanks! And I couldn't possibly comment on which company that could be...

Hope you're doing well too!
> This is something that everyone seems to ask for (I know I'd love it), but they haven't implemented it. To me that suggests that they _can't_.

Or maybe it is a costly implementation that would not bring any profits.

The strange thing is that the lack of this feature seems too incur a cost as it causes more calls to customer support. So, maybe it's that implement this feature will reduce profit more that it will reduce cost.
> Ross Ulbricht of Silk Road fame is doing far more time just for attempting to pay someone to perform a hit.

I’m fairly sure those charges were dropped and did not come up at trial.
It's weird, but I remember a completely different consensus on journalists publishing and using "hacked" information just last year.

Abusing one's admin position to dox someone is not really distinguishable from any principled position against publishing hacked information.

It's weird to me that this ethical consideration seems to be something that can be ignored whenever convenient.
At least according to the article, the crime in question was conspiring to swat him.

Nothing particularly new here. That's generally how you convict people who get other people to do their dirty work.
I’m not thinking of those who have opinions favoring surveillance. I’m thinking of those will accept that privacy is not attainable.
>then a tremendous amount of farmland would open up.

I'm not so sure. CorpFarmUSA will still want to continue growing the exact same crop, and would probably just find alternate buyers. They have so much clout with their lobby. Knee jerk reaction is to Save The Farmers!!!, yet if people actually stopped and looked at what how these farms are operating, the knee jerk reaction might change.

However, it is 2021 and I'm very cynical, so I do not believe people are willing to consider any view outside their own to be able to come to comprimise.
While I fully agree w your sentiment the legal definition of “murder” is not what you’re implying it is.
> A public space race of billionaires is exactly the kind of thing we should all be hoping for.

I'd rather see them paying fair wages and taxes. It's hugely inappropriate that they make billions while their workers struggle to pay rent.

It's only possible, because those poor people are too worked out to protest and do something about effectively being slaves.

These rockets seem more like modern day pyramids, only difference is that they will not last 3000 years.
No. It just means that you can give money to AWS without having a bill, you are still responsible for the charges incurred regardless of how much you paid in advance.
The problem is relying on this "good will" and "one time only" to credit back compared with having a way to set hard billing limits so you don't need to have this conversation as a part of your business as usual. Mistakes will always happen with something as complex as this and that's what billing and rate limits are supposed to protect your against.
The punishment for drunk driving in US is piddling, because, you know, lack of intent.
I live in DC so I don't have any Senators and barely any say in how my tax dollars get spent.
Pre-MVP, development and ops are likely the same people.
The federal government that Amazon spends millions lobbying.

I'm well aware that what they're doing is legal; I'm saying it shouldn't be.
Yeah it's fine to call Electron a little memory piggy, but there's no reason stable apps can't be built on it. A company like MS should be embarrassed that their app sucks so badly.
I can agree with DFW on that because it sounds reasonable and consistent with people I've known. The error is in thinking there is a single train of thought leading to the end. "Hopelessness" may not be sufficient, but Demoralization is probably an indicator. I would also posit that excessive or increased rumination (possibly leading to an increased sense of demoralization) is also an indicator. It is apparently also a thing that Borderline patients are at increased risk, though I have no idea what goes through their mind in that moment.

So DFW rejected others ideas on the subject in favor of his own experience? Sounds a little narcissistic doesn't it?
Yes! Super excited about this too. We love seeing information being shared about this industry more freely than before! And an increased interest doesn't hurt either. =)
Haha, you're right about that. It's the only method of communication with many people and businesses around here. Which puts it roughly in on a par with the old-school phone network, except that has an oligopoly of spyware companies.
Mandatory privacy is quickly becoming a requirement for anyone wanting Cryptocurrency to achieve the goal of non state controlled money! If anyone is interested, check out https://www.getmonero.org/ Monero is not a Bitcoin fork, it's its own codebase with mandatory privacy
Yeah well my father in law got the vaccine Moderna and died from complications.
For one thing the callback-based interface in yacc is unergonomic.

In a language like C# or Python you usually want to get an object tree for the AST and you shouldn't have to write any code to get that. It should come "for free" with the grammar.

Another missing capability that people don't know they are missing is the ability to "unparse" the AST back to text. This is valuable when you want to write a code transformer: for instance in query languages like SQL there is a lot of value in doing a transformation on the query and then writing it back to SQL. You should be able to transform the AST and not have to write a line of code to transform it.

Another problem is composability of grammars. If you want to support SQLLite, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle SQL dialects you should have a base SQL grammar and extended grammars that inherit from the base.

All of these capabilities are so beyond the pale of what parser generator "insiders" are used to that it's a very hard conversation to communicate that these capabilities are both possible and useful.
Doesn't this assume you have the "spec" before you start implementing it? But then how do you estimate how long it will take to come up with that spec?

If you have a very good detailed spec you have already done much of to work to make the implementation easy.

If the spec is high-level and "fuzzy" it leaves the work of "resolving the spec" to the programmer.

So trying to estimate the time it takes to code a system depends on the quality of the spec, and therefore is difficult if there is no standard on how detailed the spec is to be.
Yeah, I do know what the intention was.

And you don't.

And how dare you presume to tell me otherwise?

Asshole.
Benchmarks: Intel Fortran vs. GNU Fortran
Government did indeed put man on the moon. But they did it at an insane and unsustainable cost, which is why the moon was then abandoned.

Musk/Bezos/Branson are making space travel a paying proposition, which makes all the difference.
Read the article. The police did not kill the man. He died of a heart attack after he dropped the weapon. Not that police don't kill plenty of other innocent people in all kinds of fuckups, but please get the facts right.
Can you come up with any projects the US government has done successfully in the last 50 years though?
Would you say that it's reasonable that if you start a business, you get to keep 10% of the value created?
5k?! That's seriously low. Other velomobiles (going by velomobiel.nl) aren't even ebikes and still go for at least 8k (or 6.6k without VAT to be fair).

That's an exciting development, hopefully it's not vaporware.
> my experience with this mindset is that you won't be mad, but you'll just say "that's too long/expensive" and cancel the project entirely

Well, as far as this stuff goes, I kind of have it on easymode because I'm a VP Eng who also does a bunch of product management work. When I'm doing product design, I have the benefit of knowing approximate engineering LoE/order of magnitude, so I can make sure that I design products where the engineering effort fits into the product development cycle.

But it's not unusual for something to be harder than I thought because of some detail that I'm just too far from to realize, and in those cases it's clear to the team that they should be honest with challenges and we'll work around them together, vs. some bullshit because they're afraid I won't like their estimate. The last part is built with trust though and basically never "shooting the messenger" when someone tells me that there's a challenge.
Hi, thanks for the heads up, will resolve that issue.
You meant that the stock prices can be predicted from the options patterns right? Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Coffee might bind to the cream more and then absorb slower. I notice with a teaspoon of butter I get a much less jittery experience. (The bullet coffee thing).
>discussed

War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Flagged is discussed.
Am I the only one who calls bullshit on this? Let's say Elon pulls off going to Mars and establishing a permanent colony within the next 50 years. What plausible doomsday scenarios are there where everyone on Earth dies, but the people on Mars survive and are completely self-sustainable and able to grow their population exponentially?

I mean, even if 99.99% of all humans on Earth are killed, there will be several orders of magnitude more people left on Earth than in the colony on Mars, and they will have a lot more resources to play with.
I honestly did not know spoonerisms were a speech impediment. In fact, I only learnt of them recently when I discovered Nacker Hews[1] here on HN, and thought it was quite humorous. I am sorry to have hurt you in any way. I should definitely research more next time.

[1] http://www.nackerhews.com/
This is where the ideal meets the annoying reality of The Enterprise (tm).

I can't talk in too much detail, but in general, the deadline date was fixed through commercial contracts signed at a high enough level that engineering didn't have sight of them. The concept and commercial case was sound, but the implementation hadn't been worked out yet, when a date was set.

My strong preference would be for estimation to come first, of course, before a deadline is picked (and even then, only picked if it is really a necessary deadline), which is then based on reality, and also include some slack for unintended discoveries.
Oh, it’s llcrabtree! We didn’t cross paths but I’ve seen your name all over Confluence. :) (I was on the training team after you left.) This is gonna be rad. Can’t wait to see where it goes.
Civil and Criminal violations are not the only things that are wrong.

For good reason, many wrong things are completely legal, and still should be condemned.
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I mean I'd say Mackenzie Scott (fka: Mackenzie Bezos) is someone who should be lauded more here. Not that it's a competition or that one takes away from the other but she's doing more to chip away at the status quo of philanthropic giving vs others.

In 2020, she gave away nearly $6 billion to 500 organizations. And has distributed $2.74 billion so far this year to about 286 orgs. From what I've read, these grants/donations don't come with any strings attached unlike grants from a lot of big foundations.
agreed. obviously the police should have never been there, but once they were involved, they had the power to prevent this by not, for example, demanding that this man "somehow climb over the fence with his hands up". this is the kind of nonsensical order that got Daniel Shaver killed in 2016.
> Bezos is planning for a future where all polluting industry is moved to outer space instead of being done here on Earth.

Highly doubtful …

> He has publicly stated this on multiple occasions recently.

He can say whatever he likes. I still don't trust that he cares about anything beyond amassing personal control of more money/resources.
I don't understand why you think sustaining human life anywhere beyond earth is an absurdity. The large technological hurdles you mentioned aren't going to solve themselves, we have to start somewhere, and the sooner the better.
Lets take a situation where someone reports something like a shootout inside a house. What would you have the cops do in that situation?

If this is a real event, they don't go in quickly in order to confirm the situation and someone dies because of it would you blame the cops?
Their security model is more reasonable in my opinion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27908661