hylaride (u/hylaride)

hylaride commented on AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong lastweekinaws.com/blog/aw... · Posted by u/keithly

darkwater · 6 days ago

I think they know it. They are complaining it's not enabled by default (and so do I).

hylaride · 5 days ago

As others have pointed out, this is by design. If VPCs have access to AWS resources (such as S3, DynamoDB, etc), an otherwise locked down VPC can still have data leaks to those services, including to other AWS accounts.

It's a convenience VS security argument, though the documentation could be better (including via AWS recommended settings if it sees you using S3).

hylaride commented on Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda goose.icu/lambda/... · Posted by u/styfle

breve · 9 days ago

It'd be good if AWS Lambda provided a wasm runtime option. Cold start times for WebAssembly can be sub-millisecond.

It'd also be interesting to see comparisons to the Java and .NET runtimes on AWS Lambda.

hylaride · 9 days ago

Java startup times would almost certainly be worse, depending on what's going on.

A previous job I worked at ran Java on AWS Lambda. We ran our busiest Java lambda in a docker layer as our whole build system was designed around docker and from a compute performance point of view it was just as fast.

The main issues were:

* Longer init times for the JRE (including before the JIT kicks in). Our metrics had a noticeable performance hit that lined up to the startup of freshly initialized lambdas. It was still well within a tolerable range for us, though.

* Garbage collection almost never ran cleanly due the code suspension between invocations, which means we had to allocate more memory than we really needed.

The native AWS Lambda Java's 'snap start' would have helped, but the startup times were just not a big deal for our use case - we didn't bother with provisioning lambdas either. Despite the added memory costs, it was also still cheap enough that it was not really worth us investigating Java's parallel GC.

So as always, what language one should use depends on your use case. If you have an app that's sensitive to "random" delays, then you probably want something with less startup overhead.

hylaride commented on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation theverge.com/news/757461/... · Posted by u/Handy-Man

Gud · 14 days ago

I’ve never come across Google docs in the wild in a corporate setting.

Seems to me Microsoft office is still the dominant player.

hylaride · 14 days ago

Gsuite (including docs) is the norm at most companies I’ve worked at that have been founded since 2010, though the finance depts usually also had their own excel licenses.

That being said, excel itself is still more powerful than google sheets, but the collaborative nature of Gsuite beats the pants off of MS Office, online or native.

hylaride commented on Car has more than 1.2M km on it – and it's still going strong cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-s... · Posted by u/Sgt_Apone

cholantesh · 17 days ago

I didn't know Nissans were known for being unreliable; my first car was a hand-me-down Sentra that ran smoothly till I sold it at ~220k. I've owned three cars since, I think the worst was a used Elantra that I just put out to pasture at 198k. Persistent electronic issues and terribly uncomfortable on the passenger side. The straw that broke the camel's back for me was an asking price of 10k to repair a faulty airbag sensor. Hoping the RAV4 that replaced it will live up to its reputation.

hylaride · 17 days ago

Car reliability can vary so much. Some vendors have a deserved reputation for overall quality (Toyota) where issues are usually the exception (accepting the fact that issues can always happen). Others used to have terrible reputations, but are much better now (most of the Korean brands). Some have varying QA issues, depending on model, shifting suppliers, factory, etc (GM, Stellantis). Some can mostly be reliable, but when they do break it’s expensive (VW). Sometimes the car vendor is good, but the dealer you’re at can make all the difference.

That being said, you’ll always meet somebody burned by a particular vendor (or their dealer), then swear off them forever. We’re also going through a huge shift in the market with the rise of electrification and China. In some ways electric cars can me even more reliable with fewer moving parts. In other ways the software matters more and batteries replacements can be even more expensive than a new engine in a traditional car.

hylaride commented on A SPARC makes a little fire leadedsolder.com/2025/08/... · Posted by u/zdw

sys_64738 · 17 days ago

Those SPARCstations were noisy, slow, and power hungry. I wouldn't be running them either which is why I got rid of mine which were in the attic for a decade.

hylaride · 17 days ago

Yeah, nostalgia or historical learning is one thing, but these things can’t even browse the modern web (processors can’t handle modern TLS ciphers and our phones have higher resolutions that these can drive). You will be hard pressed to even run modern-ish server-side code that doesn’t use encryption. Even OpenBSD, which tries to cross-compile on as many architectures as possible to expose potential bugs, had to give up on sparc32.

They will eventually just take up space.

hylaride commented on The first widespread cure for HIV could be in children wired.com/story/the-first... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

asveikau · 20 days ago

I read that some other apes have the simian version of HIV (SIV) endemic in them and it doesn't kill them. Other apes don't typically have exposure and it gives them AIDS. This suggests that in the long term, a species can develop natural immunity.

IIRC there have always been these stories about HIV about these unusual cases where a rare set of humans actually beats the virus. (Googling, I found the term "elite controllers") The first time I remember reading of something like that was around 1996. It's always been discussed with cautious optimism as something needing more study. You could see TFA along these lines.

hylaride · 19 days ago

Yeah, I remember about some people being immune or at least have something that keeps them alive. This is true for a lot of viruses. Some people were resistant to the black death and most of us are their descendants, for example.

We can inject and train our body to produce antibodies, but the nature of HIV infection means (significantly) changing how our white blood cells are produced if they are going to be resistant, which is not trivial (and would likely mean actual DNA alterations with who knows what side effects). This is why an HIV vaccine is so difficult - it attacks and uses the body's immune system to spread.

The details are fuzzy, but I recall the avenue of those people's resistance/survivability being mostly a non-starter; the majority of them had a lot slower progression of the virus, not outright immunity.

hylaride commented on The first widespread cure for HIV could be in children wired.com/story/the-first... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

cyberax · 20 days ago

> In theory, you could give these pills to sex workers to take every day and its significantly reduce the risk of the virus establishing itself.

It's not a theory. This mode of HIV antiviral drugs use is called PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis), and it's used by millions of people. Including sex workers, LGBT people, etc.

hylaride · 19 days ago

Good to know! My spouse used to work in HIV treatment, but at the time they were only considering it's use as such.

hylaride commented on The first widespread cure for HIV could be in children wired.com/story/the-first... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

scheme271 · 20 days ago

I believe it is. We've had vaccines for the common flu for a while and routinely create new vaccine formulations that are effective against the current strains. Nothing like that exists for HIV.

hylaride · 20 days ago

The ways the flu and HIV work are radically different. Most of the time your body can fight off the flu/colds, etc and once we do we're mostly immune. HIV specifically infects and then spreads by invading the body's white blood cells. You die because eventually it gets at all of them and you have no natural defences (full blown AIDS). Our body can't fight it off with our natural defences, no matter how well trained.

We've actually been able to "kill" the virus in our bodies with drugs for awhile. The "AIDS cocktails" first developed in the 1990s did work (but originally required constant pill taking, even all night and had bad side effects) eventually were iterated (via new drugs and new timed-release pills) into essentially a single, daily pill that will now keep your viral load to zero - meaning you can have unprotected sex and not spread the virus. In theory, you could give these pills to sex workers to take every day and its significantly reduce the risk of the virus establishing itself.

The issue with HIV is that it can settle and lay dormant in various places the drugs won't get to (herpes and chickenpox/shingles do a similar thing). So we can't technically cure it, outside of very extreme procedures - IIRC a bone marrow transplant has cured somebody, but that is a dangerous procedure that has a high enough mortality rate that we only do it for otherwise deadly cancers.

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kergonath · 21 days ago

Spotlight was a revelation in Tiger. I don’t know exactly when it degraded but it’s a damn shame how annoying it’s become.

hylaride · 21 days ago

MacOS to me started to regress ~2012. I can’t remember what specific release it was, but one major MacOS release around then no longer remembered my MacBook’s external monitor layouts between work and home anymore and it was always “random”.

Spotlight, AirTunes/Airplay, iTunes, etc all also just slowly degraded. It’s like Steve Jobs was personally doing all QA and it just stopped when he died. I remember iTunes genius being SO GOOD that it cost me a fortune in song purchases, but now that apple just gets my monthly music payment, discovering new music is hard again.

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Analemma_ · a month ago

This isn't accidental, it's malicious enemy action. Overpaid fund managers are sick of seeing their business walk out the door in favor of funds with low/no fees, so there's a very active submarine campaign in progress to make BlackRock, Vanguard etc. seem like mustache-twirling villains, instead of "just a bunch of people owning shares".

For example, note how all the stories about institutional investors buying up housing stock mention BlackRock, even though REITs and private equity firms are doing much, much more of this business.

hylaride · a month ago

Also, Vanguard is run as a sort of cooperative where it is indirectly owned by the fundholders, which is why they were always incentivized to LOWER fees. The founder of Vanguard (Jack Bogle) probably left tens of billions of wealth on the table by creating that model (and he had no regrets, FWIW).

There are concerns because by default they usually cast votes by board recommendations and since they have such a huge stewardship of the stock market it means others can have more direct influence, but Vanguard itself is otherwise as neutral a stock ownership intermediary as can pretty much exist.