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I have seen vast amounts of developer effort go into “programming the cloud instead of the application”.

It’s complete fiction that somehow developers are freed for all except application coding if the use the cloud.
AWS would be easy to get on the phone near instantly.
And by using cloud your app and data become hostages.
I have experience with the NetSkope CASB.

Gives you all of those insights and the ability to block them.
One thing I really like doing, is commenting my bash commands. Its not an obvious thing, but it really helps ..

$ some_cmd | another_cmd -d doing -some complex -thing # somecmd to do something complex

Some time later, I don't have to remember the long string of commands - just the comment .. CTRL-R "somecmd" .. and I'm back again!

Another small personal hack that has had a big impact, is that I print-to-PDF any web page I find interesting, instead of bookmarking it. I have done this since 1999 and now have over 70,000 PDF's of everything interesting I've ever read online, safely in a local cache of readable PDF's for offline use.

The next big life hack will be to put myself on a boat in the middle of a vast ocean with 70,000 PDF's to read .. joking aside, its also pretty interesting to harvest this data and see what my interests have been over the years, and see the bread-crumb trails of sites I've visited related to those interests .. kind of like having my own personal Internet ..
> The entire banking system was about to be revealed as a total clown show scam (that it is) if they weren’t going to step in here.

It's fairly simple:

When things are going well, entrepreneurs want the state and its oh-so-tiresome regulation to get out of their way.

Then, when things don't go well, it's those very same entrepreneurs who claim it's necessary for the state to step in and save everyone.

https://twitter.com/BillAckman/ is quite the read at the moment.
Rent a server from ionos for $50/month.
>>But... your overall point is that people need to suffer in discomfort for their entire life so their body looks the way you want it to look? Or so that they stay in good health? If someone is faced with the choice of being fat and happy for 75 years, or being skinny and suffering for 80 years (or whatever the lifespan difference is), why do you feel like your opinion about that choice is something anybody needs to hear?

It's nothing to do with how I think people should look aesthetically, and I don't think the difference is about an extra 5 years of life. There is also "health-span" to consider - i.e. are you bed bound or unable to walk to the shops in the last few years of your life?

>>why do you feel like your opinion about that choice is something anybody needs to hear?

You seem confused as to the purpose of the comment section on a website. Discussing differing views is the whole point of it, I thought. I'm not running up to overweight people in the street and shouting abuse at them.

I'm also not mandating six packs. A certain level of fat is healthy. And I also have zero problem with people like this who own it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG8k8ouN8ro The people I have contempt for are the "Healthy at any size" liars.
There's more than a few people who've decided the security risk of full console capable bmc is not acceptable - and if other fail over systems are engineered appropriately, not necessary at all. BMC/IPMI intentionally disabled/not connected to any network.

Anecdotally I have seen a number of low cost x86-64 pseudo blade setups similar to open compute platform design stuff which have no oob. If a unit fails it's pulled entirely and put in a work queue for someone to repair.
> Or if it's a bunch of bare metal machines, hopefully someone old-school in the organization thought to deploy 48/96-port rs232 console serial concentrators and wire them up to the db9 serial port on each physical server. And you didn't disable all local serial tty in your operating config.

In a hacker folklore story this would 100% be the solution. And for some reason they'd have to use an original VT100 that some greybeard had lovingly restored at home.
This is something to think about.

The research that went into things like this was so intense and demanded very rare individuals to become deeply engaged in the applicable aspects of natural science, that key progress was made in scattered areas after leaving the rest of the world's equally-qualified technologists in the dust.

The companies were built as manufacturers of consumables, based on cheap materials, labor, and mass production.

All this had occurred with wartime stakes and urgency.

With the arrival of transistors, a new generation of researchers was deployed and the vacuum tube people continued their momentum not that much longer.

Different kinds of fabrication facilities were needed for transistors, and mainly for supplying OEMs, these were also not consumable like bulbs in sockets.

The strong urgency could not be re-established and I think a lot of the manufacturers had difficulty navigating technology migrations like this. A number of pivots did not include continued component manufacturing.

Interestingly, a big vacuum chamber is where they make the semiconductors, carefully vaporizing solid-state materials in the process. And when the silicon comes out, you can make a radio without needing the little bulbs containing your own personal vacuums.

Take a look at the comments here for some 21st century readings of an EF50:

https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_ef50.html

Another decade of advances gave us things like the EF96 (6AG5/6186) for much higher frequency use:

https://tube-data.com/sheets/093/6/6AG5.pdf

Well I'm not a radio man but these are great for audio, even though they're a preamp their internal structure is a bit like a beam power tube:

https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_6186.html

So pentode, triode, tetrode they are tasty and the sockets are not too unobtainable.
Ahh the old “let’s apply rules designed for cars to bicycles” fallacy

Some of what you have said is correct but let’s make this clear: cycling across a pedestrian crossing at walking pace posses vastly less threat to human life than a car doing that would.

Fundamental physics, momentum=mv

Bicycle plus rider: 100kg

Car: 1500kg

That’s a 15x

For a comparison,

Human: 80kg

Bicycle + rider: 100kg

That’s 1.25x

If we assume that risk is proportional to momentum, then that’s an 125% increase of threat from a bicycle vs a human (running at the same speed) and 1500% increase of threat from a car vs a bicycle.

So to compare cars to bicycles doesn’t work, they pose a vastly reduced threat to human life va cars and in fact, cars pose more of a threat to cyclists than they do to pedestrians (I.e more cyclist die in car accidents that pedestrians).
Why don't companies just use hosting services such as Hetzner? way cheaper expecially for bandwidth, you don't have to pay the hardware costs, and you can scale
Modern civilized societies enable specialization.

You don't have to study plumbing, electricity, medicine, etc - you can buy all this stuff as a service. If something breaks, a person comes and fixes it.

This allows you to specialize on whatever you want to do - say, build a startup. Software. Painting.

This is absolutely, definitely more efficient than forcing everyone to learn plumbing.

Financial system is basically plumbing for money. It should be easier than plumbing, as in plumbing requires us to deal with unpredictable forces of nature. Money is completely in our minds, so controlling it should be trivial in comparison.

But it's not as reliable as plumbing. Which means it's poorly designed. People intentionally made it convoluted to make it possibly to fish in troubled waters.

If you claim that only people with "the wit" deserve their savings to be safe, you're disgusting.

The government is responsible for fiat money, by definition. They should make it safe. SVB problems were caused by insane interest rate jerk by the Fed. They caused the problem, they should fix it.

How it should work: government money is safe, but inflationary. If you have "the wit" you can escape from inflation. Last time I checked, the government does not prevent anyone from offering inflation-hedged products. Financial institutions can use the entirety of math to offer whatever they want.
Note that we have just seen an even bigger example of regulators and «sophisticated» investors failing to do their job with the FTX collapse...
> I have never seen such cognitive dissonance here at HN

> ...

> maybe stop tweeting images of guillotines

You're seeing randos on Twitter tweeting shit and somehow twisting it to suggest that HN commenters are doing this? Lumping together these edgy tweets in with the HN comments, which are by and large pretty inoffensive and civil, is a bit of a reach.

I am sure it is a bit of a stressful time to be an SVB customer and maybe it's a bit jarring to see people discussing its demise in such an open and matter-of-fact way. But I'm sorry, if you don't want to see people discussing the pros and cons of bailing out your bank, do not read the comments of a submission where your bank is being bailed out.
"You only need to hire “software” DevOps, rather than people who neatly lay your cables, journey to DC to replace disks, etc, etc, etc."

Lol, what year you think we are? 1998? There are colo facilities around the world, you have 'remote hands' to take care everything related to hardware.
You just need ansible/xyz to deploy you software, thats all it takes
The absolute worst assessment for FDIC insurance for the riskiest banks is ~.042% of [assets - equity]. For every $100 of deposits, the riskiest banks pay 42 cents in FDIC assessments. The safest banks pay about ~.005%. Pick a safe bank. Or don't. The cost doesn't really matter.
In the event of a fire:

- In the Cloud, you restore a backup on another AZ and you're up and running.

- On prem, your company is essentially dead.

If you want to deploy to another region:

- In the Cloud, one more line in a CDK template.

- On prem, millions of dollars of investment and months of work.
I think it would be awesome to have.

I don't know much about the state of IRC bouncer software today, but I'm sure there are some good ones out there.
Trickle down economy at it's finest.
And Chomsky is both a linguist and a cognitive scientist, and a philosopher as well. The people mentioned in Marcus's article, aren't they more single-field experts?
Graal is tested and produces no different result than base java. That surprised me.
I use emacs (sometimes) for two main reasons:

* it's much, much more lightweight than IDEs like IntelliJ and VSCode.

* it supports every obscure language I like to try, not just the popular ones the IDE vendor has interest in supporting (third-party plugins for other IDEs tend to be pretty poor, IMO), and adding your own "macros" for new languages is very easy.

If you have a very powerful laptop with a lot of RAM and don't mind only using that for programming, and you only use languages that are well supported for your IDEs, then I don't think you would like emacs. Otherwise, it's great to have it!
1. When I was in high school I didn't have a computer, so I used my Symbian Nokia device (Nokia N70, it had a python interpreter) to write a Python script, that would keep a location database (using cell tower data) and it would show using on the screen my current location (if it's in the database). The UI was a static image, with the location/coordinates drawn on top of that image.
2. Automated a web browser game, to farm stuff for me when I wasn't on the PC, saved me a ton of time. The script was extremely customisable, with protections against bot detection.
3. I was planning on visiting London, and tried booking a Harry Potter tour on the WB website, but the tickets were sold out for months. I noticed that sometimes when you would enter the ticketing site some random slots on the calendar would be briefly open. I wrote a script kept trying to catch a slot for the day I would be in London and after about 12h it caught one and I was able to buy the tickets.
Bunki in Icelandic means batch or stack.
Huh, this is really interesting! I knew the normative properties of log wealth, but the connection between well-being and log income surprises me.

What's the connection between wealth and income? Linear or something else?
Silicon Valley Bank collapse hits startups as far away as China
> First, then, a not-too-serious dictionary definition:

> Recursion (rĭ-kûr’-zhən) noun. See recursion.

I like this version:

To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.

I also like self-referential music, such as Carly Simon's "You're so vain"

> You probably think this song is about you
Ultra graphics
> If they believe they are helping, why does the response always emerge suddenly on the day of the crisis with no debate or well explained contingency plan being activated?

I'm not sure what you mean. The FDIC is the contingency plan to bank failure. The response involves the FDIC taking banks in receivership and then paying back depositors.

The debate was hashed out in 1933 when the FDIC was created and has continued since. See here,

https://www.fdic.gov/about/history/

It's like other emergency government responses: there is autonomy built into the agencies because it's understood that being able to act swiftly is required, and that democracy can happen after the fact. FEMA doesn't hold votes on whether relief somewhere is required, the president can command military force without acts of congress in some cases etc.

I personally think it's debatable whether the gigantic nation states with representative democracies that we have now are the best possible system. But in this particular case the FDIC is pretty much acting as it was chartered to.
Its not as clear as treasuries are safe or not. The price function is clearly dependent on term.

long term treasuries are extremely risky assets, by definition and move a lot on interest rates. whereas short term treasuries like less than three momths barely move on fed rates, hence much safer.

Svb bank made the wrong choice of holding super long duration treasuries. They knew what they were getting into, and did it anyway for higher yield at that time. they could have put the money in 3 month expirations and wouldnt have been in this situation.
The biggest mask off moment was when Russia targeted civilian electricity and heating infrastructure in the middle of the winter in regions with Russian-speaking majority like Kharkiv and Odessa.
"How do I overcome hatred for product managers and solutions architects?"

Stop giving a shit.

Care about the job and not the project or the actual work. You're just there to trade your time for money. If they want to waste they time they paid you for, that's on them.
True, but the cloud is more modern. You want your startup to be cool and modern, not doing things like they did in 2000s, even if it saves you money.
Russian shills are pathetic people.
I dont think this is true for the nullability type... Which are in essence compile time optionals... Without the overhead.
I'm amazed at how inexperienced the average hacker news commenter is with money.
Bandwidth on Hetzner is really cheap
Idea guy? ;)
"I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further."
Lol even better it since it is a stackful co-routine library. =)
Shouldn't the goal be to create a bank ecosystem that is more robust? So that the failure of one does not lead to a domino reaction of failures?
Do we? His style is more school-boy debate club than anything else. It doesn't matter what the reality is, so long as you get some zingers in.
A million application devs who used to write Java and SQL, but now do mostly Terraform, laugh and give a nostalgic sigh...
Is there a contradiction somewhere? Everyone, not least every Ukrainian, knows the prize of the defeat of Russia will be a large part of a generation of Ukrainian men and women.

That doesn't make it "not a defeat" for Russia unless the initial ambitions of Russia are achieved (And let's face it, they won't be). It's a very expensive victory for Ukraine and an even more expensive defeat for Russia.
If cloud was cheaper than on-prem, all the cloud providers would simply rent from other cloud providers in an infinite regress asymptoting to 0 cost.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/908/
> Firstly, employees need to be aware that they are not allowed to use this software and you need to therefore provide a solution.

As far as I understand, the usage of such tools is caused by the need to accomplish some goal that they don't know how to otherwise do. Therefore, wouldn't it be a good idea to self-host such a tool, even if it's not a part of any pre-existing platform that's in use for other business processes?

For example, for various data format related concerns, I've seen CyberChef be pretty good: https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef

As for some binary file format conversations, HRConvert2 seems viable: https://github.com/zelon88/HRConvert2

If self-hosting things is too much of a bother/risk, then I guess all that's left is local tools, such as Handbrake on Windows for video: https://handbrake.fr/ and maybe something like XnView for images: https://www.xnview.com/en/ and so on...

But then there's the risks of self-hosted or local software containing something malicious and needing to be audited etc. I recall that in my previous org, I helped develop a Wiki page listing many of the tools available within the company internally, so that anyone who needs to store files could immediately look at self-hosted Nextcloud (for example), as opposed to going for Dropbox or whatever. Of course, instructions alone probably aren't enough, restrictions are also necessary, but discoverability is always good!
> The "heads you win tails we lose" deal we give to bankers, which we don't give to anyone else, is fundamentally evil, and we have to stop bowing to their terroristic threats that if you don't give us this deal you're all doomed.

That’s not what’s happening here. The bankers — investors in SVB — are getting wiped out. The FDIC is protecting people and companies with accounts at the bank, not the bank itself.
Argh - I don’t think mine is ready for another sorting discussion but I’ll consider this for my future solo loading exercises!
Never thought about that. According to Mr Google; believed to come from the Latin phrase “quid pro quo,” which translates into "something for something," or an equal exchange for goods or services.
There's a lot of analysis on this that is really easy to Google, so this is just the gist. Essentially, intelligence is an abstract and subjective quality. IQ correlates with what the big names in academia agreed were "smart people", back when such institutions were largely racially segregated. In particular a numeric/"empirical" standard was pushed for to give more credibility to eugenics.
> You should be happy in the way an apartment's occupants are happy when the fire department puts out a fire in a different apartment in the building, even though it "didn't affect my apartment."

We're being spoon-fed the not-a-bailout rhetoric by a bunch of pyromaniacs. Your analogy would be great were it not the case that this is the nth case of arson. We put arsonists in jail for doing things that put us at risk, why are banks different?

The banks mismanaged their risk and here we are looking to blame lack of regulation and the government because it let an arsonist run amuck.

I see no reason why we shouldn't all open a bank, be imprudent, and ask for a bailout, citing system-risk to the financial system should we not get it.
Traefik – Makes Networking Boring
Not sure if it's still the case but last time I had co-located servers you could access the systems via OOB without needing to reboot them in single user mode.

If it's not the case then Twitter is definitely in far more trouble because according to past engineers at least a few of their services needed manual intervention on a full scale reboot. And losing quorum in a distributed system is never pretty.
... and that trade will certainly be investigated. If the trade was not part of an existing trading plan, it's highly likely the CEO will have some very uncomfortable conversations.

How is selling stock tantamount to a government bailout?
Emacs definitely doesn't have any of the advanced refactoring and code analysis features of a Jetbrains IDE. Now, these are all mostly niche features that you'd use maybe once a month, but when you do need them, they save huge amounts of time for large code bases.

Here are some examples:

- Extract class / method / function (takes a piece of code and converts it to a class/method/free-floating function, while detecting all context dependencies and turning them to parameters or fields; also generates the proper constructors to populate those fields; and calls the right constructors/methods passing those parameters from context)

- Extract parameter / field (takes a local variable and makes it a parameter/field, and identifies all callers to propagate a value)

- Versions of the previous extractions that can go through a deeper call stack, automatically propagating along all functions along the way; essentially identical to using the same thing repeatedly, but in a single step

- Data flow to/from here (takes a variable and tells you something like 'the value here is coming from this parameter, which was populated from that field, which is assigned to in these two places; in the first place, it is assigned from this IO function; in the second place it is set to the value of this parameter which is populated from this constant; for "from", it is doing the same, but for all downstream uses of this value)
>Widow

>A paragraph-ending line that falls at the beginning of the following page or column, thus separated from the rest of the text. Mnemonically, a widow is "alone at the top" (of the family tree but, in this case, of the page).

>Orphan

>A paragraph-opening line that appears by itself at the bottom of a page or column, thus separated from the rest of the text. Mnemonically, an orphan is "alone at the bottom" (of the family tree but, in this case, of the page).

>Alternately, a word, part of a word, or very short line that appears by itself at the end of a paragraph. Mnemonically still "alone at the bottom", just this time at the bottom of a paragraph. Orphans of this type give the impression of too much white space between paragraphs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widows_and_orphans

In this case the author is referring to the last definition, short lines at the end of a paragraph.
The cost differential in my experience is generally higher on the low end. Once you get into the hundreds of k per month in cloud fees you can get steep discounts, and some of the gap starts to close.

You also need devops resources to manage a cloud setup - most of my jobs in recent years have involved exactly that, and it's not appreciably cheaper than managing "raw" hardware resources these days (ever since IPMI etc. became the norm); for some time I did consulting and provided devops services on retainer. The amount of time spent managing actual hardware was a rounding error of the overall devops cost for those of my clients relying on colo's or managed servers.

Since many colo providers also provide managed servers and cloud services, the flexibility is also not really an issue - you can start with cloud services, rent managed servers as you know what your base load is like, and can tie them into the same setup, and do the same with colo services if/when it's cheaper (the tradeoff between managed and colo is trickier than with cloud - the cost differential there is often dominated by realestate costs where the relevant data centres are; if you're somewhere expensive, managed servers elsewhere will often be cheaper than colo near you)
lol .. then don't claim you have:

"His claims are simply false, easily refuted by empirical data."

he underlines his claims with examples showing what he means. I recommend you to read the original article by Chomsky, as you seem to have a problem understanding his arguments.