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> I am pretty honest about my position.

This is normal honesty: you say what you think, and your feelings are in harmony with your thoughts. It is good enough for normal life, but it is not what I mean by intellectual honesty, and it has led you astray in arguing here on HN with people who demand that special kind of honesty.
I think that one argument that does hold some weight is that each new infection is an opportunity for a new mutation and a new variant. This variant could be milder or it could be worse (delta). So in that view, vaccinating young children reduces the risk for all of us of a new variant arising that is much more infectious or even escapes the natural or vaccine induced immunity.

All that being said, one reason I live HN is that this question can be asked in a respectful manner and hopefully garner reasonable and respectful responses. Any other site this would turn into a flame war in 0.2us
The wasm blob has to undergo the hardest parts of optimization to get native code from it. You need to select instructions and allocate registers. Those things are time consuming; they are on the same order of magnitude of time consumption than most full compiler pipelines.

Compiling wasm to native is only faster than downloading if you compile without optimization. That’s common in wasm VMs but then there’s an optimizing JIT that runs adaptively later, just like a JS or Java VM would do.

The fact that JS VMs share the ICU implementation between instances is a huge deal. That’s not the only thing that gets shared. Also, it’s not about just sharing code; it’s about sharing memory for the runtime’s state and for allowing elastic reuse of space for objects. In wasm the sharing is page granularity at best.
> something that everyone uses

Thankfully that's not the case. Even kubernetes, that still uses containers, moved away from docker.
I'm sure there are plenty of companies that are happy to throw $5,000/mo at a problem that can be solved better for $250/mo. Not mine though.
It’s not a 1-1 analogy but reminds me of English sailors preventing scurvy by using lemons only to later start getting scurvy again because they used limes and copper pots.

But for a more 1-1 example: A lot of food is cooked by habit, I’m not sure how many people actually know uncooked beans or potatoes will make you sick but they all do “y” and cook them. Skipping “y” in some cases will make you sick or poisoned.
I just note things everyday and I grep interesting bits, using n.py: https://git.bitmycode.com/sodimel/n
So none of you edits the code directly in the production machine?
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This lazy constant pulling of dependencies by CI systems and containers is not very substainable. pypi should set up limits and make people use some cache proxy.
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I have regularly seen a lot of "advice" to lie on your resume.

I don't take it and I advise against it.

However, there are folks who swear to high water that lying on the resume is the only way to get a job.
Beyond Meat is a fairly big % of this and they had a bad Q1 (11% growth) but a good Q2 (30%+). I personally don't like the taste of Beyond Meat (although I find the Impossible Burger delicious - and tastes exactly like high quality meat.)
Didn’t you still have to stamp the actual lease contract ? (+ guarantee paper, insurance etc.)

We went through the whole dance a few months ago, and while most of the discussions were done by chat/mail, we still ended up snail mailing a ton of paper back and forth to close the deal.

Also most bank ATM still have closing hours, it can be way later than it was 10 or 20 years ago, but it still closes at night e.g. Mufg’s Kouenji branch: https://map.bk.mufg.jp/b/bk_mufg_s/info/BA592126/

Going further west and some will close at 18h or 20h without remorse.

For soundproofing, it’s less a matter of modernity than of price. Foreigners often will only get access the super low and middle-high offers, so there is a higher chance to land on a pretty well soundproofed building. Your random Leopalace built this year will still have paper thin walls, and so do cheaper appartments in general,
There are quite a few chrome extensions that just fix the referer on medium, and work just fine. You can also trivially use your own version, as well as limit them to only medium.com.

(Or use one of the more generic referer rewriters)
I'm sure you are being rhetorical but the answer is "no" to all of your questions. Also, few places provide pensions these days.
Boston is /very/ walkable, the whole city can be walked end to end in a few hours and Somerville is one of the densest neighborhoods in the U.S.

I'll also say D.C. (and to some extent Northern Virginia and select parts of Maryland) makes car ownership optional, the transit system does a good job of covering a lot of neighborhoods.

I've been to a few college towns that also, by necessity, are dense and are walkable or at least bikeable oasis in otherwise rural areas.
Immediate vaccination does not inhibit long term protection. If the vaccine efficacy wanes to a significant degree (which is not a given for each individual), then you are still in a better place than having never been vaccinated. The safest way to get covid is as a vaccinated person. Not the other way round. There is no "tak[ing] one for the team" here.
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Wow. Glad I didn’t take a job with them. That’s despicable.

I’ll also be warning my embedded customers that consider their offering.

Telemetry is NOT okay.
My solo ops/data stack is:

- docker

- dokku

- sqlite

- litestream
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You can try a lot of thing with .NET these days.
I don't think this is news to anyone (in general), but it is increasingly becoming the differentiating factor between Android and iOS.

Apple is all-in on customer privacy and Google hasn't really been able to respond on that front since their business model depends on targeted advertising based on data collected about their users.

The question is whether regular people really care about privacy more than they do about the price of a phone. And so far it seems that the lower priced phones are winning.
If you have any migration, you probably want to rollback them as well
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I think a slight improvement over this model is to have a forward-looking CTO/Lead Developer/etc. who incorporates new technologies into the overall plan with sane fail states. This allows the overall technology stack to remain fresh, the developers to stay motivated and current, manages the overall amount of legacy code, while also managing incurred risk effectively. It can also lead to company investment in those new technologies, i.e. training time/budget or conference tickets (depending on what's relevant).

Tl;dr: put your magpies on the top!
Which leads to the imperialism that they claim to hate. Ironic isn't it?
You want her to get infected first so she then has stronger protection... against getting infected again? Compared to having protection for the (potential) first infection (which would also extremely likely lead to a hybrid immunity afterwards, if it doesn't prevent an infection entirely)? I struggle to see the scenario where that's helpful.
>>And this is what makes me angry. Why should I prove I had covid, let alone in any specific moment of time?

Well, or a vaccine. As to why a specific moment in time - because the immunity wanes in time. I fully expect that the vaccine proof won't be accepted any more if it's older than X months either, but we simply haven't reached that step yet.

>>tested for antibodies 2 month after and found out I have them. And I still have them.

Cool, and maybe that should be proof enough that you're safe to be out in a public space or private businesses. It's sad that in some countries that's meaningless, but the vaccine is the next best thing - it's easy enough to prove that you've had it, the systems built around it are straightforward and robust.

>>E.g. Austria doesn't require you to prove you have been sick - they just look at the actual antibodies and this seems the only logical objective measure to me.

Sounds like a great plan, I can support that.

As to why should you.....well, that's a harder one to answer in a simple fashion. I think it's similar to how in order to get a visa to certain places you have to be vaccinated against yellow fever - it's not a matter of personal choice whether you want to or not, it's a hard requirement to keep everyone safe. If we lived in a reasonable society where you could expect everyone to be reasonable and safe things like covid passports wouldn't be necessary, but because we live surrounded by selfish idiots who don't care about anything past their own nose we have to have documents which prove things like vaccination status. Kids don't get admitted to preschool without all their vaccinations for a reason too. Sorry if the comparisons are a little bit on the nose, but I do think that at least right now this is a necessary step. Maybe in a year or two this will change and we'll treat it like the flu vaccine - if you want it then have it.
I agree it is a little out of control.

Some may marvel at the incredible power available to consumers now, but I've been watching with disappointment at how each new generation is only very slightly better in the performance per watt metric. Most of the new compute power is coming from increased energy draw. In an energy-conscious environment it's quite hard to justify.
> A 25 year old on 150k p/a will have major difficulty getting into the property market

errrrr... Australia is a big place so this isn't as concrete as you've made it sound. There's quite a lot of affordable property, but sure, the handful of places (cities) where a 25 year old can manage to get 150k p/a pre-tax income might also be inaccessible for buying property for a few reasons, one of which are the situation involving investors. However, this kind of person I wouldn't really exclude from being able to live the 'good life' available to Australians, but I get that this is moreso an example of a benchmark esp. related to the demographic of this forum.

Seriously though, many young devs in Australia can live a pretty great life beyond "home ownership" haha. And the average Australia can find decently priced property, just maybe not exactly in the neighbourhood they like most. But I don't think that's the point of property ownership.
Have you been looking at the VAERS database and the spike since the emergency authorized vaccines were issued? You want to keep those spikes going every six months?

And what makes you think it will only be every six months. COVID viruses are the family that contains the common cold. Why have we never tried to vaccinate for the common cold? It mutates too fast and too often!

You aren't going to shelter in place or vaccine away this virus. It's here, it's a permanent part of our existence and we better figure out more sane ways to deal with it that don't also destroy the economies of the world.

Sweden never locked down - their curves match pretty much everyone else. New Zealand finally gave up on their extreme quarantine policy and admitted that the virus is there too. So much for being the darling for how to handle the virus and the rest of the world being idiots.

Ugh.
> But if it's true that natural immunity + vaccination) is stronger than vaccination alone, is it worth it to leave her unvaccinated against Covid, at least for now, in order to get some natural immunity

No? If she does not get infected after vaccination the job is done. The goal is not 'theoretical maximum protection' the job is 'not getting sick'.

If she gets infected after vaccination (very possible), she will have less risk during infection and have improved protection after.

Vaccination first and then infection is definitely safer than the other way around.

Ofc the risk for young children is low either way, so going with the low risk of being unvaccinated might be something you are ok with.

But getting infected to get best protection against infection is kinda backwards.
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I think I understand what you are trying to say, however...

> I don’t think anybody is saying “make Facebook illegal” ... consider whether such machines have any place in a healthy society.

That sounds exactly like a moral crusade. You don't want to make it illegal, but would like to consider if it has "any place", and also someone will have to define "healthy society". If you asked people in many places and times (if not most), they'd tell you homosexuality is an abomination that has no place in a "healthy society". Even at present, some people literally treat it as a disease in need of a cure.

And yes, I think prescription drugs should not be a thing (well, prescriptions are fine but if I want to buy metformin because I think I'm smarter than everyone else I should be able to do it and prove myself right (or wrong).

Tobacco is a perfect example for me personally, because I dislike it, so I feel good about forcing everyone to not smoke. On the other hand, it hurts almost entirely the user, so the only justifiable restrictions would be the ones where the user is imposing costs on others, e.g. charging them more for healthcare... I like the advertising bans, but I would have also liked e.g. never having children around, via e.g. banning them from all restaurants and gyms. Doesn't make it justified.
Notepad is one of the most underestimated app for Windows!

Unlike TextEdit on Mac, no rich text format support, so it can be used as an "input sanitizer": reverse copy-paste (paste then copy) in Notepad your HTML copy from Edge to get a clean ASCII text out.

Of course, there are more clever ways to do that, like configuring Edge to do that directly. But Notepad never fails, and it works with everything else too (Word...)

I only wish Notepad would automatically save to some scratch file database, as I have lost some Notepad quick notes on a crash!

(A standalone theme would also help, as I use Notepad a bit like the Stickers app)
These curves are in a time of "free marketplace, anything goes" fever. The climate reckoning is here. These curves go out the window as we are forced to embrace technologies that improve lives and the environment. Climate change will pick the winners and losers, or we will all be losers.
I've seen 30s on AWS, so it's not that surprising. They have now improved it greatly though.

And yet I still believe it's a great technology, as always it's a matter of putting it on the right use case. Message consumption from a queue or topic, low traffic and low criticality API are two great use cases.
This is a good question. Facts still fall under the context. Think about 1989 as a date - you know a lot of facts around that date. Think now of 1986(Chernobyl) - you also know a some facts about this date. 1504 - not so much(i assume). 2006?

The point is that you can also retain facts if you can connect them to something else. The more link you have the easier it is to retain.

For terminology - this is tricky. Whenever i run into some new terms that i cannot explain into something else, but need to learn the term, i try to use it in written text as much as i can. But whenever i try to refer to it, i refer to it from the explanation - hoping it(brain) will bring me the term. If i use it a lot, it will get cemented.
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I think it ‘twas the interest rates that big vern was paying on coins that reminded me that it is a precarious house of cards and nobody should leave coins on exchanges. For those that were not around, they would pay interest to incentivize leaving the coins in the exchange. Same thing is happening today.

They will be stolen.
Over a long enough timeline, the likelihood of an unvaccinated person catching COVID is essentially 100%.
Ben Franklin did something similar, he copied books by hand I think
That's simply not true. At all.
> In my head, I always put them in a bucket with Theranos and uBeam, Startups who made product claims which experts in their fields said were not possible.

What was it that experts said wasn't possible about Magic Leap? My understanding was that their product was a more advanced version of the tech in Microsoft's HaloLens and the primary challenges for both were bringing down the cost, expanding the FOV and DOF, and finding realistic use cases.

Microsoft went the enterprise route, like Google did with Lens, while Magic Leap tried to release something that felt boutique.
How is GitHub actions actually broken here?

From the article, it seems the issue is that you have to sit and wait for CI to complete? Does anyone actually do that?
Every single home in the US has 220 already. They're taken from 220 to 110 at the breaker for common outlets, but many large appliances (and EV chargers) already are 220.

Worse kettle performance is unfortunate. But better safety is a nice side effect (in particular as the NEMA connector the US uses is dangerous/poorly designed/bad, even with the ground pin).
Dirty, noisy, unpleasant rider experience. The terminals are sketchy. Try public transportation in other places (europe) for example. Hands down a better experience all around.
So what do you mean by this? How does it work?
Very much this for me. It's the reason I wrote notes instead of typed them in college. The intention was never to use the note for reference, but the act of writing them enforces your memory.
So I am a solo-preneur and have launched lots of web-apps in my career. And the DevOps hasn't really changed for me is incredibly simple: commit source control and copy the files to the server.

I've done this since writing my first CGI app in 2003. And it hasn't changed other than the commands I call. Back then it was manual through GUIs (visual source safe and FTP) and now it is git and scp, but 80% of the process hasn't changed in almost 2 decades.

If it breaks (which it shouldn't, but inevitably does), I just git checkout the previous commit and scp again, and try and fix the issue.

If I have a "high availability" product (which I hate doing), I will release onto a clone of the production server, then test it, swap to that clone, deploy to the others, swap back and kill the clone. It is a much more involved process that I really don't like doing, so I've stopped making high availability applications.

But that is web, so it's super simple. Also to avoid issues regarding data schemas, I always try to make sure my changes are additive. And on startup, my web server checks the database version then runs any upgrade scripts if needed. If the deploy fails, the db changes stay, and the code just gets updated. This is sloppy, but it's simple.

When a real schema change needs to happen, I abandon the project (just kidding). I usually do it in multiple updates. New table with the schema changes, upgrade script transfers the data, and code to point to new table. Manually verify that all of the data copied. Backup the old table and drop it. Then another update to rename the new table to the old name (if needed) and it's done with minimal disruption in service.
What you and others are doing is attempting to predict your peak traffic when you take this approach. It may work for some companies, but more commonly in my experience, it hides P99+ tail latency from companies that may not instrument deeply (and they think the problem is solved).

The rate at which you execute `runWarm` is the peak traffic you're expecting. A request comes in over that threshold and you'll still experience cold start latency.

Provisioned concurrency doesn't change this, but it does move the complexity of `runWarm` to the Lambda team and gives you more control (give me a pool of 50 warmed Lambdas vs. me trying too run `runWarm` enough to keep 50 warmed myself). That's valuable in a lot of use cases. At the end of the day you're still in the game of predicting peak traffic and paying (a lot) for it.

We're almost always trying to predict peak traffic though! The difference is using a course grain computing platform, like EC2 for example, where a single box can handle hundreds++ requests per second, gives you more room for error, and is cheaper.

There are a lot of other trade-offs to consider. My biggest issue is this isn't enumerated clearly by AWS, and I run into way too many people who have footgun themselves unnecessarily with Lambda.
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> This is another example of AWS over marketing Lambda. Lambda is horrendously expensive when requests pass a certain level per second.

I feel this is a gross misrepresentation of AWS Lambdas.

AWS lambdas are primarily tailored for background processes, event handlers, and infrequent invocations. This is how they are sold, including in AWS' serverless tutorials.

Even though they can scale like crazy, and even though you can put together an API with API Gateway or even Application Load Balancer, it's widely known that if your API handles more more traffic than a few requests per second then you're better off putting together your own service.

The rationale is that if you don't need to do much with a handler, or you don't expect to handle a lot of traffic on a small number of endpoints, AWS lambdas offer a cheaper solution to develop and operate. In some cases (most happy path cases?), they are actually free to use. Beyond a certain threshold, you're better off getting your own service to run on EC2/Fargate/ECS/whatever, specially given that once you have a service up and running then adding a controller is trivial.
I think you are right. There's a big difference between the technology I would use in a larger organization compared to solo projects.

Unless you build a side project to learn a new technology, you should use something "boring" that you know well.

Here's my personal choices in preferred order:

1. Static web sites - Just upload to S3 behind a CDN and forget about it

2. Server rendered website - PHP. It may not be something you brag about, but in my experience it just "works" and has excellent uptime.

Note: If I had to recommend something to a larger organization, I would probably suggest Next.js to attract developers. PHP is often associated with "old school" tech

3. REST service - Spring Boot. I have so much experience with it and there are so many Spring projects that supports a huge range of technologies from monitoring to data

4. Scripts - Python
The explanations in quanta magazine are so good. They are more in depth than a usual pop-sci article, but very followable.
My rule of thumb when working on side projects is to keep it simple:

- use tech-stacks that I know

- even simpler – use node.js / express (i.e. use only one programming language)

- Standard AWS EC2, S3, Postgres instances

- scale vertically before scaling horizontally

- use GitHub Actions as much as possible

- deploys and rollbacks are done manually

- I keep a list of useful CLI commands in Notion

If you're a small team you shouldn't need to think about kubernetes tbh.
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