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j4ah4n··on Running ArchiveTeam's Warrior in Kubernetes
I think you'll just need to mount it at the right place, with right permissions.

Demonstrated here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39193419/docker-in-memor...

j4ah4n··on Lambda on hard mode: serverless HTTP in Rust
This looks amazing, nice write up!

Anyone know if there's anything like this, but using Python and self hostable?

j4ah4n··on Chimera Linux
Off topic, but would you have any suggestion or resources to start using alpine on a main pc? I have a System 76 machine I wouldn’t mind trying this out with.
j4ah4n··on Ask HN: How do you deal with never ending noise and distraction WFH?
That’s life moving about outside your threshold, embrace it a bit. When it’s too much, put on white noise, if that doesn’t work move into noise cancelling headphones. My family bought me a set for Father’s Day 10 years ago or so and I haven’t looked back. Good for phone calls as well.

I wish you all the best in your WFH journey. I have been doing it since 2006, it’s a “what works for you” kind of problem.

j4ah4n··on Playing with genetic algorithms in Python
I recall in my younger days this book[0] that was very approachable on the subject.

[0] An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms https://a.co/d/hKyQoqO

j4ah4n··on SpaceX punched a hole in the ionosphere
What powers those thrusters? Never really thought about it.
j4ah4n··on Internet Archive expands Flash support
They certainly were fun days back with Macromedia at the helm. Full suite of tools that worked extremely well together.

I remember when Tim Burton put out various cartoons via Director (the same used for countless DVDs) that opened up more dramatic storytelling than the business “intros” offered at the time (I built these too mind you).

I was even Flash AS3 certified at one point, something I was very proud of in my early career.

Good times.

j4ah4n··on Finding the B-21's hangar location from the stars in its press image
Sky obfuscation to avoid stellar triangulation as a service?
j4ah4n··on Wasmer takes WebAssembly libraries mainstream with WAI
Probably a known thing for those already working with wasm but I had to install the rust nightly compiler and add the `wasm32-unknown-unknown` target to get this demo to work.

It would be worth mentioning on the demo walkthrough.

This link was helpful: https://www.hellorust.com/setup/wasm-target/

j4ah4n··on Workerd: Open-source Cloudflare workers runtime
> When Workers launched five years ago, it was unusual for a non-browser to offer web APIs, but we are pleased to see that the broader JavaScript ecosystem is now converging on them.

Can anyone give some examples of this? I’m not sure I’m following exactly here. Is this referring to isomorphic (JS) API’s?

[edit:typo]

j4ah4n··on Mizu – API traffic viewer for Kubernetes
Neat project and will plan to kick the tires. I like the workflow and especially the cleanup aspect for a tool such as this.
j4ah4n··on AsyncAPI vs. OpenAPI: Answers to Your Burning Questions
This sentence seems out of place, under the "What happened to Swagger? And what is OpenAPI?" section.

> Implementing OpenTelemetry typically means instrumenting code so that it can emit monitoring information.

> This information is then aggregated in a backend system, either on-premises or through monitoring as a service provider.

Was this part of the reasoning for Linux Foundation acquiring Swagger?

[edit] - formatting

j4ah4n··on Behind the scenes, AWS Lambda
Perhaps a different road to the same problem but on K8s it’s really simple to install a FaaS (e.g., Kubeless and others) provider and get the same benefits. Different metrics sure, but the approach to getting deployable runtimes is the same (if using Serverless framework for example).

Of course then you need a cluster which may be back at AWS as EKS (or not) but at least it’s more open from that perspective.

j4ah4n··on I wrote a children's book / illustrated guide to Apache Kafka
Written and illustrated by Mitch Seymour (on the cover)
j4ah4n··on The Risk of Cargo Liquefaction
Came here to make this same comment. My father in-law has been in construction for 60 years, this is one of his favourite words. Neat to see it here on HN.
j4ah4n··on Ask HN: Where can I find list of companies that went fully remote
Agree. I've been working remote for 15+ years now (I'm in Canada).

Today I see much clearer job postings (e.g., "Anywhere in US, No Canada, must be in CT/ET"). You still have to figure out the billing thing (Contract, FT or Canadian Proxy Entity), but it's better overall I find, likely due to Covid.

These kinds of sites are good for leads, but you still have to wade through the details.

j4ah4n··on A whale who tried to mimic human speech (2014)
I stumbled across this related project a few months ago, really interesting initiative.

https://github.com/earthspecies/project

j4ah4n··on Signal Is Back
I would hope it’s due to infrastructure changes required to keep the lights on, not code changes. Concerning at first glance, but less so if I think about the problems they’re likely facing with regards to scaling.
j4ah4n··on Rust is a hard way to make a web API
This. Time flies by and before long it happened.
j4ah4n··on Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
Here are a couple:

- Papers We Love: https://paperswelove.org/

- The Morning Paper: https://blog.acolyer.org/

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j4ah4n··on Case 001 – The Stolen Szechuan Sauce
Agreed. I find it more or less solvable by two things (for me anyway).

1. For longer commitments, I move it to a Tab Group extension (e.g., Tab Group for Chrome) and review every so often

2. If I feel I'm procrastinating I basically try to notice this and force myself to commit to reading the article/paper/what-have-you.

I find it usually takes less time than I had originally thought and _that_ helps me procrastinate less the next time. It works for me most of the time, but always find some tabs get pushed so far to the left they're never seen again.

j4ah4n··on How does a gas pump know to shut itself off? (1981)
Yah. Canuck here and find it an odd thing to require for gas of all things. I get it though for cc validation.
j4ah4n··on Case 001 – The Stolen Szechuan Sauce
I have had this on an open tab for a few weeks now. Looking forward to finding some time to dig in.
j4ah4n··on The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled
I totally agree with this. My only real complaint is managing these one off items. Team member 1 puts one on a VPC the other doesn’t, another team member ties one to RDS and doesn’t automate auth...etc.

It’s great but you have to put management of usage in place first.

j4ah4n··on How does a gas pump know to shut itself off? (1981)
Why the need for a zip code? Loyalty or something else..? Seems the latter considering the phrasing.
j4ah4n··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2020)
Location: Vancouver Island, BC Canada

Remote: Yes (Have been for 10+ years)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: AWS architectures, Serverless architectures, REST, SOA, K8s, Helm, Helmfile, Terraform, Docker, Typescript, NodeJS, Javascript, JVM (Java/Scala), Python, SQL (PG, MySQL), NoSQL, Bash, familiar with data processing pipelines. (typically Sr. Architect-y, SRE-y type things and everything in between)

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshes/

Email: j4ah4n+hackernews-oct-2020@gmail.com

Senior Software Engineer / Architect looking for a new challenge. All things cloud, services, data, from design to implementation. Would like to find a position in a company doing interesting things. I'm a family man, if you're startup requires 80h work-weeks, I'm probably not your guy.

Thanks!

j4ah4n··on Python 3.9 is around the corner
Oh geez. Immediately upon asking I see in the parent post sorry
j4ah4n··on Python 3.9 is around the corner
Maybe for myself and others.. what is LWN explicitly? (Link)
j4ah4n··on The Era of Visual Studio Code
Quite simply I use VS Code as a notepad/quick editor. If I’m fully coding in an environment I’ll spend the extra setup on getting it into a Jetbrains IDE
j4ah4n··on Moving your SSH port isn’t security by obscurity
I agree, however with any team with size > 1 you then have to manage access. I've seen small teams share a common credential and getting SSO to work OOTB with that VPN infrastructure in SCM is a pain. Additionally, if you end up having more behind that VPN (e.g., db's, monitoring, etc) its arguably net worse to do than the port-shift IMO.
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