I'm curious how we can distinguish between someone lobbying hard for the homebuilding industry and someone lobbying hard for people who need homes?
Readit Newsencomiast commented on The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong derekthompson.org/p/the-a... · Posted by u/rbanffy
He’s already added an entry about the whole incident to his resume:
https://lyons-den.com/CV/David_Lyon_CTO_CV_2025.pdf
EDIT: he has added three(!) separate mentions of the same incident to his résumé
The whole site is sketchy. A PhD and a JD. All these high level positions at well-known places. A website with very vague claims about heroically saving things. Almost no google presence other than this site. And 4 LinkedIn connections. Maybe I'm just cynical, but it's pegging my BS meter.
If I'm reading this correctly, then AWS Support dropped the ball here but this isn't a bug in lambda. This is the documented behavior of the lambda runtime.
The document is long, and the examples seem contrived, so anyone is free to correct me but as I understand it the lambda didn't crash, after you returned 201, your lambda instance was put to sleep. You aren't guaranteed that any code will remain running after your lambda "ends". I am not sure why AWS Support was unable to communicate this OP.
If you are using Lambda with a function URL, you aren't guaranteed that anything after you return your http response remains running. I believe Lambda has some callbacks/signals you can listen to, to ensure your function properly cleans up before the Lambda is frozen, but if you want the lambda to return as fast as possible it seems you are better off having your service publish to an SQS queue instead.
> I am not sure why AWS Support was unable to communicate this OP.
Maybe we should be asking why the OP was not able to hear what AWS was telling them. I think there is a fairly troublesome cognitive bias that gets flipped on when people are telling you that you're wrong — especially when all your personal branding and identity seems to be about you being right.
encomiast commented on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon blog.thenewoil.org/the-pr... · Posted by u/DanAtC
Good rule of thumb is that if it goes on or in your body do not buy it from Amazon.
I wonder if this applies to Amazon Pharmacy — seems like maybe this might have a bit more governance.
encomiast commented on Why is this site built with C marcelofern.com/posts/c/w... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I understand all this, no objections at all, I just wonder if the easier thing to do here is to write the blog posts in HTML and drop them in a folder for a web server, the same way I learned to do websites 25 years ago. What's making this complicated is the Markdown and if you want something lightweight, Markdown doesn't pull its weight.
It seems like we've spent the past 25 years trying to solve the big headache this creates: you have 100 blog posts, which means 100 html files. Any structural change you need to make to the site involves touching all 100 files. CSS came along and helped separate the presentation from the information a bit, but it still sucked to maintain 100 html files on the server.
encomiast commented on The last decision by the leading thinker on decisions wsj.com/arts-culture/book... · Posted by u/julienchastang
My deep respect for this decision. There‘s this German saying - you ought to go when things are at their best. The older I grow, the more I‘m believing that quality of life is what we should always optimize for. Not duration, anyway. Or - both, without compromising the other too much?
I do think the point of where quality of life is declining too much is highly individual. And I hope we keep improving prophylaxis and treatments such that most people can turn 100 and still feel like they’re getting something out of life.
I also deeply respect this decision and I wish it was not such a taboo. Having said that, I am also deeply suspicious of easy banalities like "you ought to go when things are at their best". This because we are not great, especially when we're young, of having the perspective to understand that temporary setbacks like lost loves and financial setbacks are not an indication that the best days are past us.
encomiast commented on Mark Cuban offers to fund former 18F employees techcrunch.com/2025/03/01... · Posted by u/softwaredoug
The difference is private companies that accumulate too much waste and useless things can fail and be replaced. The exception is companies propped up by government regulation. The problem with modern big companies is that the exception has become the rule.
Regulation is so pervasive it's become a "what the hell is water" situation. People don't even recognize that the dysfunctional companies are protected from failure by the government. Seemingly beneficial regulations create barriers to entry that prevent dysfunctional companies from being replaced. IP law, even copyright (in its current, out-of-control practically perpetual form) is regulation that protects large incumbents in media and tech and other sectors from competition.
Private companies don't always just fail and get replaced. They find other ways of making profits, like selling user data, externalizing risk, or your run-of-the-mill enshitification.
Everyone should watch the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, speak on government workers:
We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can’t do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so. We want to put them in trauma.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBH9TmeJN_M
18F are the bureaucrats they want to traumatize.
They don't actually know who the bureaucrats are that they want to traumatize. Anyone calling a product manager, UX designer, or software developer at 18F a "bureaucrat" simply has no idea what they actually do. They are just demonizing the scapegoat du jour.
Also among these so call "bureaucrats" are psychologists at the VA helping veterans with PTSD; search and rescue professionals working for forest service, park service, fema, etc; undercover FBI agents trying to stop organized crime; NOAA scientists predicting hurricanes, the list goes on.
The demonization of the civil servants of this country is a story that people who want power are telling the country in order to gain said power. It's a story as old as time.
If you have only just noticed that the stars of the "All In Podcast" are intellectually deficient then you haven't been paying attention.
This is so true. I recently listened to Lex Fridman's Marc Andreessen interview and all I could think was, this guy doesn't actually know how government, laws, and regulations work. Like _totally_ clueless and he's pontificating on the subject like he's a founding father.