It’s not bigotry to discuss facts, and people who hide child abuse with the claim that it is bigotry are child abusers who ought to have their crimes published and prosecuted under the law.
It's a classic refrain in a petty "revenge of the nerds" mindset. All the "haters" are wrong, unconditionally, and acting like an asshole is excused as being very special and brave.
It's a siege mentality designed to shore up one's sense of superiority, and ensure that one doesn't need to do very much soul-searching.
I know this is not what's happening here, but I just love the idea of a MySQL function where it spins up a new instance for every connection and promptly throws away the data after executing.
You can somewhat accomplish this with SQLite stored in S3.
Zappa (python) has a deployment configuration that allows this. It's basically a Lambda that keeps itself alive all the time and for each request, fetches the SQLite DB from S3, does its transaction, and then puts the modified database back on S3.
The upside is it's basically free for low traffic read-only apps, the downside is the obvious problem of write conflicts if you have more than one write-capable user at any given time.
If you were to use the django test framework to generate a new SQLite DB on each request, you'd have what you're talking about.
I've been contemplating pushing SQLite data files to my Lambda function via a custom layer. Individual executions can update within the scope of their execution, but you'd only get an update by pushing a new layer.
One fewer network hop compared to DynamoDB, and for something that might get an update once a week or even once a month I get low latency without having to oversubscribe to another service.
From playing with zappa/django and SQLite on S3, the first page load latency is still a thing even if the one Lambda is always alive, and I don't know why but have my suspicions. I didn't bother to performance test it much other than observation, since I was just using it for development to build an SES email newsletter system.
Comparing a read of a database driven app (going to the URL and getting the admin login in Django via Lambda/SQLite/S3) to an async javascript submission (submitting a form on a cloudfront static site that POSTs to DynamoDB), the javascript/DynamoDB round trip is faster by about a full second.
I suspect it's because of the simple bulk of the Django deployment. Putting the whole bundle on a Lambda with all of its dependencies was about 45-46 megs of crap, whereas a simple Node DynamoDB insert is a couple dozen lines.
So ultimately, while spiffy to play with, I didn't bother to use it much due to performance. Although it has been awhile, I heard that Amazon made some Lambda changes recently to address initial wake-up request performance.
No, it just proves that Marx was right about the nature of the wage/salary. The value of labour power is the cost of reproducing/maintaining that worker at a particular standard of living, not some particular fraction of the value generated at work.
Marx was a crank who speculated about work and value but never tried to hire anyone. Why would they know or care about your standard of living? Supply and demand determine the wage they need to offer to keep you. If you move to a labor market with lower local demand, you now have fewer potential employers making offers that Facebook must outbid.
Above, user mrbuddycasino said exactly the same thing without invoking a certain philosopher's name. That post is getting upvoted.
I think hn users reflexively stop reading and downvote when they see "Marx." Which is a shame, because he was an interesting guy. You don't need to be a full-fledged communist to acknowledge that he had a lot of insight.
I was taught that viruses are weird little machines, similar but unrelated to the things we recognise as alive. Interesting that there's difference of opinion on the matter.
Edit: here's a question for the room; if viruses are unrelated to the rest of "life", but are endogenous to the earth, are they alien?
It's an overstatement to say that viruses are "unrelated to the rest of life". They have RNA or even DNA, which almost certainly makes them related.
If we found a living organism which didn't have RNA or DNA, that would be a good candidate for an alien. It would help if we found it on another planet though.
