skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Assumedly) much much younger person here who has spent the majority of her career on prem, has lifted multiple shops to AWS, and right now works full time on an all AWS stack.

Your experience with UNIX isn't worthless, but it's worthless to anyone who's working "further up the stack" than you. If you feel like your skills are degrading then you need to find a job somewhere that's actually building infra that shops will build on top of. Your skills aren't day-to-day anymore and that's a good thing. Your generation made all that junk turnkey in the way that you probably think about dealing with Ethernet frames. Taking my first AWS job literally obsoleted all my system's knowledge -- super humbling experience -- it wasn't completely worthless but none of the problems I've spent years working out solutions even existed anymore.

You're confusing people building products with people building infrastructure -- the devops role makes this messy because you're usually "using" infra tools like a dev rather than building them. If you're working on foundational elements then literally nothing has changed. If you're shipping products then absolutely retool around a cloud provider, the infra isn't your secret sauce and if you have to move back on prem because of cost it will be good problems to have.

I mean this completely sincerely, take a job at a company that's providing hosting/services to people. All the old timers with deep deep systems knowledge are gods.
Women tend to suffer more from long covid, however, per my understanding.
Every interaction has an element of persuasion in it. You can be good at persuasion or bad at persuasion, but it's always there. It becomes manipulation if you are intending harm, manipulation is negative persuasion.
> how technology can regress

Anyone interested in 'rebooting' society after a major collapse can check out:

> The thirteen chapter book starts off explaining how humanity and civilization works and has come to be and how this could possibly be altered in the event of worldwide disaster — such as avian flu. Leaving us with the essential question of what knowledge would we need to rebuild civilization as we know it, which Dartnell answers by looking at the history of science and technology.

> Dartnell explains and realistically details a 'grace period' in which survivors can salvage food, materials and tools from the ruins of today's society. However, after a certain point this grace period would end, and humanity would have to produce their own food, make their own tools, practice hygiene and fight infection to maintain health, and develop energy stores for a new society to survive the aftermath.

> The book covers topics like agriculture, food and clothing, substances, medicine, and transport. Darnell points out that applying the scientific method to basic knowledge will enable an advanced technological society to reappear within several generations. Along with giving the history of scientific invention and how that applies to humans were they to recreate that, the book also offers anecdotal bits of information in the form of endnotes. Giving facts such as how carrots were originally white but grown orange in honour of the Dutch royal family, and how onions are the leaves of the onion plant.[3]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knowledge:_How_to_Rebuild_...

Full bibliography available if anyone wants to dig into a particular topic:

* http://the-knowledge.org/en-gb/the-book/
Yes, on-prem is generally cheaper in the long-run.

For example, my company recently purchased $400k worth of hardware that would cost $80k/month if it was all EC2. There's amortized costs of the supporting infra (cooling, power) and ongoing maintenance/depreciation, but paying for the hardware in 5 months can't be beat.
Depends on what you mean by sunrise/sunset. “The relative position of the sun’s edge drops below/rises above the tangent of the average surface at sea level” is pretty easy to calculate many years out; the complications are deviations in Earth’s orbit. “I can/can’t see the sun anymore” depends on local weather, good luck.
> I expect better of the community here. All it takes is a chance to take a cheap shot at one of the “big boys” and then all of a sudden the weasels come scampering out of the wood work.

Engineers like to build stuff. Historically, running your own infrastructure and configuring servers from the ground up were the building blocks of the internet. These new cloud services took away those building blocks and they had the nerve to charge for it.

In the real world, there are more interesting problems to solve than setting up and maintaining your own servers so it isn't really a complaint. It's actually more fun to get the hosting stuff out of the way and focus on the problem at hand.

HN comments are basically notorious for exaggerating the downsides of hosted services while overplaying the ease and benefits of DIY. A lot of the comments here are similar to the famous Dropbox comment thread where users couldn't understand why anyone would want to use Dropbox when they could simply set up a complicated self-hosted rsync contraption to sync their own files.
>most would be surprised to learn that Ancient Greece had writing for about 600 years before forgetting it. There was no writing in Greece for over 400 years, until they adopted the Phoenician alphabet around 730 BC.

[citation needed]
The article is specifically about reading glasses. Contact lenses have nothing to do with it, unless you think people are popping contact lenses in to read and taking them out after.
BREAKING: Inflation has officially hit 6.8%.
Very nice thats a reference to keep and come back to thanks.
These decisions aren't made by me.

can never convince the FP purists to let you use a non FP library.
but the populace has got "sovereignty" now, whatever that means...
What do you mean by the blackout of the Maxwell case? Do you mean that maxwell trial tracker was banned? That account was from a guy who isn’t at the trial heavily editorializing and frankly bullshitting and speculating about the case. You can see the sort of fabricated nonsense he’s posting on gab if you want. If Twitter is going after true, factual accounts of the trial I would be very interested to know that
I'm confused what your point is. The link between myocarditis and COVID vaccines is well-known and has been for a long time.

And, per scientific literature, it's a rare side-effect with little long-term implications. This is neither recent nor a shift in messaging, and implying such is dishonest.
"Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA's secret war plans against WikiLeaks" [0] 26th September 2021

Yahoo News
Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA's secret war plans against WikiLeaks
Zach Dorfman, Sean D. Naylor and Michael Isikoff
September 26, 2021, 10:00 AM·39 min read
In this article:

In 2017, as Julian Assange began his fifth year holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in London, the CIA plotted to kidnap the WikiLeaks founder, spurring heated debate among Trump administration officials over the legality and practicality of such an operation.

Some senior officials inside the CIA and the Trump administration even discussed killing Assange, going so far as to request“sketches”or“options”for how to assassinate him. Discussions over kidnapping or killing Assange occurred at the highest levels”of the Trump administration, said a former senior counterintelligence official. “There seemed to be no boundaries.”

[0] https://news.yahoo.com/kidnapping-assassination-and-a-london...
> You can now simply point to AWS is down

Heck, if that was even possible... "everything is green" dashboards... :-)
From WSJ article:

> Unlike in past recoveries, strong demand for goods such as autos, furniture and appliances has driven much of the inflation surge. Prices for services—such as for travel and recreation—have generally climbed much less with softer demand. The holiday season is likely exacerbating these dynamics, said Aneta Markowska, chief financial economist at Jefferies LLC.

We're seeing crazy price growth without a rise in demand for services. But that'll likely change and fuel inflation further as covid restrictions are lifted.

I still believe it is due to the large money printing by the Fed, a total of around 10 trillion disbursed for various programs. We saw inflation in nearly every asset class in our economy, blowing past pre-covid numbers, and now its coming to consumer prices. I just hope we have the political will to do something about it. Unemployment is very low and the Fed is still dragging their feet about maybe 1 or 2 potential raises next year and a slow unwinding of the trillions in assets its built up over the last year
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They will most certainly feel the same nostalgia for those games, if that’s what you mean.

I can only find reference articles about music but I’m sure it’s all the same. https://slate.com/technology/2014/08/musical-nostalgia-the-p...
A self-hosted Gitlab instance would make the most sense, IMO.
I talk a bit in my FOSDEM talk from last year how the “local editor” and “hosted service” versions of code navigation have enough real differences that it's not obviously best to reuse local editor solutions in a hosted service like GitHub: https://dcreager.net/talks/2020-fosdem/
> With tagless final, Kleisli and so on.

Tagless final is a good way to enforce the principle of least power, which has many advantages when onboarding inexperienced developers. It can become unwieldy if abused, but that's true for any style.

And if it really bothers you, then you can use your concrete "super monad" everywhere. It's the only way with ZIO, but you can also do that with other effects.

Regarding Kleisli, it's such a broad abstraction that you'll find examples everywhere, whether explicit or not. In practice, even with heavy usage of libraries like fs2 or http4s, it's mostly an internal implementation detail, in most cases you'll only see type aliases.
Rufus doesn't, but that's not the point, I'm sure there are more than one tool out there that does it. But there should not be any tool. Linux distros should be packaged in such a way that you flash it with the default command that everyone has and you get a non-crippled OS.
You know I was thinking of creating a text-only website and setting the mime-type to text in Apache. I'm only interested in the text of a website. CSS is added for flair and a sort of 'Look at what I can do with CSS!' virtue signal (for either potential employers or just to show off to your visitors). The amount of times I have to hit Reader View just to read a webpage is astonishing.

When creating a website I start with text first, and bolt on CSS where it's needed, but having a site which is primarily text would be an interesting experiment to run.

Edit: I know having text-only would mean not having hyperlinks, but you could keep everything on one page, and link out to articles via the usual channels (social media, etc)
Have you heard about VPNs and TOR? What authoritarian regimes are we talking about?
Not the person you're replying to, but...

1: Access to the data center requires either an access card plus biometric verification (fingerprint in one DC in my case, retina scan in the other), or an ID-verified appointment. Then, you still need to know where my server is, plus the access code for the rack (or, you need to be an average lockpicker, but beware, there's cameras...).

2: Each data center has dual-provider AC feeds, plus generators, and provides A/B feeds to my rack. I've not had a dual-feed outage in the last 20 years or so.

3: No cloud provider that I'm aware of guarantees server security or does automated patching (for servers, not services). So, keeping your server up-to-date seems equally important for both cloud and non-cloud scenarios?

4: At least two weeks, I guess? I have sufficient VM host capacity to accommodate 30% unplanned growth, but 100% would require new hardware. So: ordering two servers, installing these in two data centers. But if the new project also requires significant bandwidth, getting new Internet connections in might take longer.

Look, I'm definitely not denying that "the cloud" makes it easier to scale fast, but scaling fast is not an overriding concern for most businesses. Cost is, and self-hosting, even with a pretty redundant infrastructure, is still much cheaper than AWS.
Humanities are declining at colleges, but thriving on Zoom
Those rivets probably aren't modelled, they'll be reconstructed from volume information in the texture. Which is still impressive and a great way of dealing with that type of geometric detail, but it has limitations, and the engine isn't processing actual models at that level of detail.

You can still do stuff like that in UE4. Have a look at what's possible with Quixel Mixer, you can create detail like that surprisingly quickly. I'd tentatively argue that modelling tools are the real MVP when it comes to increased geometric LOD in modern engines. They allow you to add that kind of detail quickly enough that it becomes economical to actually detail rivets.

Either way, it's very cool. The crowd simulation stuff is going to be useful, current tooling there absolutely sucks outside of a few very expensive dedicated products.
Absolutely agreed. Public money, public code. So much software can be shared between various governments it's not even funny how much money was wasted on useless huge vendors like Accenture and IBM.
The whole thing reminds me of the early nineties.

There was a whole mature infrastructure built around UNIX and open standards at the time.

We were told to scrap that and replace it with Windows NT and its descendants.

While UNIX wasn't perfect¹, Windows was an order of magnitude worse.

Compared to our UNIX machines, those systems got the internet protocols wrong, were full of security holes and crashed all the time. Objectively worse performance and security was tolerated for a decade or more, just because we all convinced each other that this was the way things were going.

It took Microsoft maybe ten fifteen years to work their problems out. And now there's a Linux env built into Windows.

This cloud thing isn't the end of computing history, just like Windows on the server wasn't the end of history.

Cloud isn't better than on prem. It's just popular right now.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
You just moved the goal post from "the cloud" to "serveless". Anyway, this discussion is full of overgeneralizations that are not useful. I'm abstaining from further comments.
This mod reminds me of Double Action: Boogalo [0]. Good fun with friends, especially at LAN parties.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/317360/Double_Action_Boog...
SQLx is amazing. Can't do much better without replacing SQL itself.

One remaining problem is writing dynamic queries without giving up static verification completely.

For example, optional WHERE, ORDER BY, GROUP BY clauses are very common. Currently the solutions are:

* Give up and write a fully dynamic query.
* Generate every possible permutation. Combinatorial explosion quickly makes this impractical.
* Write a static query without the optional clauses, then add clauses and execute a dynamic query. The best of both worlds but complicated.

However the optional clauses are almost always independent from each other. It should be possible to statically verify each one with `SELECT NULL FROM <full set of JOINs> WHERE/ORDER BY/GROUP BY <optional clause>`.
The problem is when this culture extends a couple of generations the craft gets lost.
Things like OpenStack are promising if they can become easier to install and run.

https://www.openstack.org
Yeah, I assumed since you were querying their DNS that you were a client, but makes sense it might be repackaged to other ISPs.
It's alright, it was 2am afterall.
I think that vastly underestimates the dependency tree in modern society. Storing hydrogen in useful quantities is tough, requiring fairly sophisticated metallurgy and cryogenics.

Finding out we've got a hard to replace left-pad module somewhere far up the tech tree wouldn't be fun.
WinUAE on wine here, when I need an emulator.

It's a shame that what once was the "UNIX Amiga Emulator" is pretty much abandoned, and the most active fork focuses on Windows.

But I have the hardware and use it. My A1200 is running right now.
It seems like they could at least cordon some of it off into a corral of "legacy products". Or maybe a concept of "next gen" regions that have only a subset of products.
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Brazilian Health Ministry suffers cyberattack: Covid vaccination data vanishes
> Those are the least confusing libraries in the Scala ecosystem

Now that says something about the Scala ecosystem. Doesn't it?

I'm comparing this to how easily I can do the same task in nodejs and Go.
I did not do anything, and now it shows "36 days ago". I have not visited the website before, FWIW.
> the tax payers paid for their transition

Is this a criticism to tax policies or an underhanded insult to trans people?
No verbal fights no Gucci and dior. Seems like a nice place to rest out a few days
What is preventing you to use VB.NET with WinForms? Still out there.
The comment about being in Afghanistan was intended to convey that assuming information was released putting people in harms way, that I and people I cared about would have been directly impacted.
There's two different things - the stuff you get at birth and the stuff you get as you get older.

Short sightedness (myopia), long sightedness (hyperopia) and astigmatism are effectively genetic conditions that you are born with. They are variations of your eye being slightly the wrong shape to focus correctly. The precise impact of this varies as you grow with your prescription changing, but if you need correction then you'll need it from a young age onwards (unless you have it permanently treated - e.g. Lasik, or cataract surgery).

Presbyopia is an effect that happens over time. The lens hardens and so the muscles that manipulate it to refocus can't quite do the job any more. This impacts on your ability to close distances, and so you can off the shelf reading glasses to aid in that.
Just use what works best for you --- all things considered.

Not everyone has the same set of priorities. For example, it seems you decided to place more value on your time.
It seems that putting the test near the nest was done deliberately: Cognition is challenging to assess in wild animals because testing paradigms often require individuals living under similar conditions to be tested repeatedly. Administering cognitive tests where wild animals rear their offspring can overcome this challenge because breeders often return reliably to a known location. [1]

[1] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.211343#d...
Yep I remember the same issues with Reddit. They’re fairly stable now, but up until about 2015 they had outages maybe once a month or so.
It wasn't an attitude of naive hope that there wouldn't be nefarious actors leveraging the protocol; there was a different kind of people using the Internet.

There's no need to design security in the system when you literally know everyone who is using it. And everyone who was using it had the same goals in mind.

So, I don't disagree with the sentiment -- people today would probably do it a little bit differently; however, I do disagree with the expression -- people designing these protocols weren't naive. They were trustful because they had to be.

In the early days of building something new, nothing works without trust; not the Internet... not Bitcoin... not a nascent venture... nothing.
... and anybody who's been exposed to it is excluded from the jury.

Yes, that means juries are usually composed of uninformed idiots. Lawyers mostly like it that way.
Code is alive and there’s typically always something to do: adding tests, removing bugs, or simply paying back technical debt. If you go a full year without any releasable changes, chances are the project has been abandoned.
I kind of get that sentiment. Fundamentally I think it's beautiful and I'm delighted by such variety in human languages. But I spent 10 years learning French and it drove me nuts how many different ways you conjugate verbs.
Ah, the debate between managing your own infrastructure or renting it from someone else. Always a fun debate, often centering around uptime far more so than cost.

I'll go ahead and make what will seem like a weird comparison. I sometimes think about this as I do about Microsoft Office.

What?

Over the years the MS Office suite has reached an asymptotic limit with regards to functionality users would actually be willing to pay for. I'll say that somewhere between 2013 and 2016 the suite had everything most users would need to do the usual stuff one does with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. In other words, it became good enough and maybe even better than good enough.

This is the parallel I see with Linux servers and the Internet infrastructure needed to run a reliable site or service. Not just the OS, but the system as a whole has, over time, approached an asymptotic limit on functionality, reliability, uptime, ease of use, capacity, bandwidth, management, etc. Not sure we are at that limit yet. It sure feels like we must be close. As many have echoed, today one can deploy a range of servers in multiple configurations and achieve extremely good uptimes with as much functionality as needed without necessarily having to go to cloud service providers.

Is it the same? Not sure. I haven't operated at the highest scales in building web services, so I don't know. My gut feeling is that short of things like seriously large DDoS attacks, a self-owned infrastructure could do just as well as something hosted by a cloud provider. With knowledgeable engineers running the show there should not be any issues in setting-up, managing, maintaining and supporting such a structure.

Note that I am not hating on cloud services. No. What I am saying is that because technology tends to get better over time, it is only natural that the alternative approach has gotten better and better to the point that it would be perfectly sensible for a business to consider rolling their own rather than automatically resorting to cloud providers.
And yet here you are, posting on an internet tech forum :)
> It works much in the same way as AGPL

Interesting. Is this because of how distribution is defined to include "any act of providing access to [the Work's] essential functionalities at the disposal of any other natural or legal person"?
I relate.

I used to live in a communal religious house. Ananda Marga Yoga Society.

Vegetarian kitchen. Meditation room. Some rules. Chill people.

It was nice.

USA culture seems committed to keeping you busy, anxious and offbalance.
What's stopping you from attaining that?
Colourise black and white pictures (open source how-to)
If you love America then why would you allow brazen warmongers to put us trillions in debt, profiting immensely while doing so? Do you have any idea how far America's international reputation has fallen? Do you have any conception of the debt that has been incurred in the name of the American taxpayer? Do the lives of millions of dead and tens of millions of displaced people around the world mean nothing to you?

Assange showed America necessary truth, and even as you admit this you argue Americans would be better left ignorant, digesting whatever shit the billionaire class decide to feed them. That's not just short sighted, my friend, it's fucking evil. That's not hyperbole - that's evil by about every definition ever invented.
Medieval times are still here
Cell phones and mobile devices in general have always been disposable items with limited expected lifespans. Instead of worrying about keeping obsolete devices working we should focus on clean disposal and recycling that minimizes waste and pollution.