HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

matteuan

638 karma · joined May 7, 2016

submissionscomments
matteuan··on Technical Debt Is Like a Tetris Game
It's beautiful and also a very important piece of Romanesque architecture. It's probably the greatest example of circular bell tower. I'm sure that if it was not leaning, it would be still very appreciated, maybe not by the postcard turists but surely not considered "like several other towers".
matteuan··on Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake
What if some people prefer to live in nice "hip" cities (that for them means culturally interesting) even at the cost of living without a private garden in a detached house?
matteuan··on Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?
I plan to read:

- "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" by David Graeber

- "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief" by Lawrence Wright

- "The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves" by Matt Ridley

- "Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life" by William Finnegan

matteuan··on AWS Introducing Provisioned Concurrency for Lambda Functions
> if this cold start latency is so important why chose function over elastic beanstalk or other auto-scaling type system? Pricing! It depends on the application, but there are some use-case where Lambda is way cheaper, so if we can also partially solve cold start latency, why not?
matteuan··on AWS Introducing Provisioned Concurrency for Lambda Functions
You can continue to pay only for what you use and handle super bursty workloads. But there is no free solution to cold-start if you don't see the future. People needing consistent latency were already doing something similar to keep the containers alive or they just avoided to use Lambda. So I think it's a step forward.
matteuan··on Ask HN: Best Noise Canceling Headphones
I'm using Sony WH-1000XM3 and I'm extremely satisfied. Before I was using some JBL in ear. Expecially in an open office, the additional passive noise cancellation of good over ear headphones is important for me. I find the Bose QC 35II at the same level (and now cheaper) but the Sony look better :)
matteuan··on Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network
"Elon Musk writes Redis blockchain Golang" -> Bad: 0.0041 - Good: 0.9955 :D
matteuan··on Ask HN: Slack Alternatives?
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, I think Telegram is a valid choice sometimes, expecially if your organization is not that big.
matteuan··on Oracle demands $12K from network biz that doesn't use its software
...also Guest Additions are GPLv2 fortunately
matteuan··on Serverless: slower and more expensive
The title is misleading, serverless is slower and more expensive for this particular use case, assuming that the author used the best practices for lambda performances.
matteuan··on In Germany, couples with more than €5160/month belong to the upper class
An example, near Frankfurt outside the centre the property price is around 5000€ per m^2. 100m^2 for a couple is considered quite confortable, costing around €400k. This means a 25 years mortgage at 1,5% interest rate (atm it could get even better) -> 1600€ monthly repayment, definitely affordable with 5160€. Anyway, I'm not sure property price is a very good metric for this. Renting in Germany is still relatively cheaper than buying.
matteuan··on The video game industry can't go on like this
It would also reduce the ratio players:console. A personal console stays most of the time off, in a data-center you can increase usage by an order of magnitude. So at the end, even if they buy new hardware every year it would cost less physical resources overall.
matteuan··on The video game industry can't go on like this
I think we can consider the devices where the content is accessed as thin clients. There is some literature supporting the thin client architecture (e.g. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/55689271.pdf) and it seems that the power consumption can reduce significantly (3x). These studies do not take in account this particular case but I think they can give you an idea of the scale.
matteuan··on The video game industry can't go on like this
I agree with you. I would add another huge efficiency advantage of a data-center over a console, that is better heat dissipation.
matteuan··on Ballista: Distributed Compute with Rust, Apache Arrow, and Kubernetes
Assuming what you're saying is correct, then the best thing would be to port Apache Spark from Scala to Rust (or Go?).
matteuan··on Ballista: Distributed Compute with Rust, Apache Arrow, and Kubernetes
Really? Can you explain better "half the resources is taken up by the platform itself". Do you have some numbers, experiments?
matteuan··on Global Passport Power Rank 2019
EU benefits have nothing to do with the passport
matteuan··on Reducing Wasted Food at Home
Obesity derives from calorie intake, not from the quality of the food. But I guess there is a strong correlation between people eating junk food and the ones eating too much food. Probably, if you don't care about what you're eating you also don't check the calories count.
matteuan··on NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan
The italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena was founded in 1624, they even use some of the centuries old building as offices...it's not doing very well but it's still there
matteuan··on Less Processed Meat, More Plant-Based Foods May Boost Longevity
The problem are not the antibiotics in meat but bacteria resistant to them because of their use/abuse.
matteuan··on A whirlwind tour of object-oriented code in F# (2012)
Plugin for F# VSCode: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Ionide.I...
matteuan··on Germany is opening its first electric highway for trucks
It looks like the "last mile" problem is not solved if they have this infrastucture only on highways. Probably this project makes sense with large batteries on-board(e.g. Tesla semi).
matteuan··on Germany is opening its first electric highway for trucks
I don't understand how they could justify this investment. Aren't railways cheaper and more efficient anyway?
matteuan··on EU Countries Back Copyright Reforms Aimed at Google, Facebook
This is still not final, but startups and small business should be exempted from the law. But I guess there are still many platforms in the middle: big enough to not fall in the exempted category, but too small to build their own content id system. Paradoxically, Google/Facebook could profit A LOT from this.
matteuan··on Pee, Not Chlorine, Causes Red Eyes from Swimming Pools: CDC (2015)
even if the pool contained only urine, I don't think there would be any particular health hazard. Maybe if you drink too much of it, you could get some kind of salt poisoning, but then the same risks would occur when swimming in the sea.
matteuan··on GitLab Serverless
I can confirm AWS Lambda still has this problem. A dirty solution could be to time-trigger your function every x seconds to keep the container alive. For example, doing that every 10 seconds would produce 259200 request per 30-days month, so 0,05 USD per month for this in AWS.
matteuan··on YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M
Maybe I'm biased because I'm a fan. But there is a large difference between forced positivity and "misogynistic tendencies, playing with racial slurs". I'm not saying he's not partly performing, but he's not the misogynistic/racist character you were suggesting.
matteuan··on YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M
It's funny that you say his audience is too young for reddit, since the Pewdiepie's subreddit r/PewdiepieSubmissions/ has more than 700k subscribers.
matteuan··on YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M
I think Pewdiepie's main reason for success is the opposite of what you just said. Differently from other youtubers, he seems real and honest, not built artificially to target a specific audience.
matteuan··on Food taste 'not protected by copyright' rules EU court
That's why judges should be interpret the law.
← PreviousPage 2 of 4Next →