AWS does that already for the defense industry: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/announcing-aws-mod...

This is the correct view. Docker is a company selling some useful products, but the OCI (Open Container Initiative) format is what is interesting, and it can be used with many different tools not just Docker's.

In fact, I would guess that there majority of OCI images aren't used with docker at all, but by kubernetes [directly] on containerd

I really don't get the semantic arguments against serverless. The name perfectly describes what it is: an abstraction where the developer doesn't have to worry about a server. It's really that simple.

If you have another model that you think is better, why don't you come up with a name for it, instead of trying to co-op a perfectly cromulent term that is already in wide usage?

> The name perfectly describes what it is: an abstraction where the developer doesn't have to worry about a server.

There is a difference between an abstraction that allows the user to ignore X, and the actual absence of X. Modern car engines, for example, are reliable enough that most drivers don't have to worry about them. But it's still a mistake to call a car with a reliable engine "engine-less".

I work for a non-profit scientific research organization and we pay for a DockerHub Team subscription. It's where we host almost all of our images. But we also had a small Free Team that was used for one project just to put it in a different namespace, which we now have to scramble to move somewhere. It doesn't make any sense to double our costs just for that one project.

This move by Docker does not inspire any confidence in their long-term management, and will very likely drive us away from DockerHub entirely. It's really sad to watch this company fall from grace. I was an early adopter and always rooted for them from the very beginning.

> How do you prepare for something that you don't know is going to happen?

The pandemic was predicted many years in advance, by many people: https://www.businessinsider.com/people-who-seemingly-predict...

The fact it was a coronavirus coming over from animals was also highly predictable, given SARS and MERS. There is a fantastic book called Spillover by David Quammen which lays all this out and explains why it was virtually guaranteed to happen.

I work with large-scale neuroscience imaging, and this is exactly how we compress 3D image stacks (i.e. 3d volumes) captured with confocal microscopes. Since adjacent frames are usually quite similar, there's a ton of redundancy that H.265 can exploit, and the compression ratios are amazing. For multi-channel volumetric imaging, we use ffmpeg to encode each channel as a movie and then combine all the channels into a single HDF5 file.

Oh wow, this is a great idea. How do you deal with the lossy compression? There must be a lossless codec which uses the redundancy better than deflate?

This format is meant for visualization in 3d, and even though it's lossy, it's "visually lossless" for humans. We to start with the archived lossless stacks (compressed with bz2) for any reprocessing.

What you're suggesting with a lossless movie codec would be a great addition, we just haven't had the need for it yet.

Have you tried any of the open source AVIF image encoding tools, derived from AV1 video encoders?

Do you get 3D compression artifacts?

I love the idea that you rotate a spacial dimension into a time dimension, and after decompression you get artifacts from the time dimension visualised in a space dimension again.

We don't get visible artifacts because we dialed-in the CRF value to our data. But that sounds like a neat experiment to try.

FIJI plugin?

Yes: https://github.com/fiji/H5J_Loader_Plugin

Ah, I should have guessed, I've done my time on the farm

Can anyone actually load the website (https://vams.cdc.gov)? I get a "too many redirects" error, which is quite a bit worse than "the buttons are poorly placed".

It seems to redirect to https://vams.cdc.gov/vaccineportal/ which redirects to https://vams.cdc.gov/vaccineportal/s/ which redirects back to https://vams.cdc.gov/vaccineportal/ for an infinite redirect loop.

Wonder if anyone will pay me $44M to set up a redirect loop?

Docker Swarm fills that gap pretty well in my experience. The best part is that it's an almost trivial migration to move from Compose to Swarm. Swarm to K8s is not so easy, even with tools like kompose.

I've often found myself wanting something like this, a bootstrap to spin something relatively complex up quickly and then start customizing it. I think it would be nice if there was a way to export to the format native to whatever cloud you're targeting, e.g. CloudFoundry. This is something I've found missing in tools like Serverless Framework.

Thanks!

For the export feature, It's something I've been thinking about for a while.

Given that I use Terraform under the hood, I've been thinking about a feature to merge the base architecture plan with your custom plan.

So you could have a catalog of "base" architectures and another catalog of "custom" architectures that you could spin up in seconds.

What do you think about it?

Don't forget:

- Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

- Simons Foundation

- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

- Sloan Foundation

You can even put companies like Numenta on this list, which is pretty much blue sky research, even if nominally for profit

Yes!

I was actually just looking at a job posting at the Simons Foundation, which makes its omission that much more embarrassing. The Schwartz Foundation also paid for some stuff (and a lot of pizza) in grad school,so I should give them a nod! CZI and Simons/Flatiron have their own buildings. I think GBM and Sloan are more grant-making organizations.

There's also DE Shaw Research, which is particularly interesting since the billionaire in question works there himself.