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Just curious, how do you like Changsha? Most people on hacker-news are from the tech industry, Changsha was more famous for its TV/media entertainment industry.

It's surprsing that in 2020 that a bookstore would like to walk away from where most customers would go and buy their product. I hope they find it would be able to serve their cust…

It's extraordinary to see an once open and welcoming governement to become xenophobic and ruleless. In the last 10 years, when things like this happen in other country, you would h…

"The F-150 carries a base price of $28,495, which is below average for a full-size pickup truck." This is just a quick search from Google. I think ppl might have different opinion …

Same here.

And the choice of black arrow on top of an almost black background... I am not a designer but that's just killing my eyes here.

The write-up is not very clear in my opinion. The graph seems to show that there're 3 API calls (maybe there're more API calls in reality?). And if I understand this correctly, the…

> The SRE teams which used Rightscale at my last job used to have "buttons to press for things", which roughly translated to "If the primary node fails, first promote the secondary…

AWS and other cloud provider provides far more reliable and simpler features/toolkings than k8s. For teams that's serious about building services on the cloud, having k8s to take o…

Console is suppose to just be a web UI to quickly make a change or explore the feature. Any high quality engineering team should avoid make changes through console because it's not…

Migration on resources taking live traffic is not an easy thing. Before migrating the traffic over to a different end-point, the time and the engineering work to make sure the new …

Make sense. This is a classic example of bad operation management leads to unexpected outcome. Could have be solved much easier with proper configuration management.

+1 ECS is very very simple to use. And it has good integration with other AWS services like load balancing and logging

DNS doesn't resolve somehow. works now.

Oh come on man. Any president is far better than Trump, who just lie and act like there's nothing wrong with it. Trump's twitter feed is full of compeltely false claims and racist …

Same here. I am so disappointed by all the crazy things this so called president did in the last few years.The word "President" use to carry a lot of respect.

Thanks for the data point! That make sense.

Interesting. I didn't know the US aid depends on the saving. How does govvernment know how much saving each person has? There's no formal process to report savings. On the other ha…

I really hope that's not the sitution the US is heading to. But I get your point. Opening up the public gathering business will be gradual process, and the governers of each state …

Living pay check to pay check is considered risky in a lot of country, but due to the high available credits from credit card or personal loads, ppl in US don't feel like the need …

Very true, it's the only reason I am paying for the subscription. Lots of good coverage of ecnomic and financial areas from the news branch. Opinion branch gets really crazy someti…

I don't think stay-at-home equals shutting down. Many business are still running, ppl are buying and selling things, just not in a crowded market any more. It's time for ppl to sta…

The exit cretiera is pretty clear to me, which is no new infections for 14 days.