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Again, goes back to zoning laws.

Housing is the biggest expenditure for people in America and many parts of the world. Housing is cheap is Japan so people can get by on much less.

you don't have mathematicians doing game theoretic simulations for you?

So you're saying we're here because America has mathematicians doing game theoretic simulations and this is the best move?

Have you ever taken a Uber in Japan?

You're being snarky but it's obvious you're speaking from the prospective of a foreign tourist who has only been to Tokyo and major cities while not being able to speak Japanese.

You're making a strong but false generalisations as a tourist. The tourist aspect is important because of the anthropic principle. If you were a local who was in the inaka where Uber doesn't operate and you had to reserve a taxi by phone in Japanese, you'd have an entirely different experience.

Japanese people are notoriously introverted and shy. That's why people don't make small talk especially on a taxi. Plus, if they presume you're a tourist who doesn't speak Japanese, why bother? It's also not true that it's "your space". Just because the driver and other service people aren't confronting you on your behavior doesn't mean it's socially approved behavior. Japanese people silently judged and tourists can't even notice. There is an unspoken rule you keep your conversation with your fellow passenger private and quiet. Even wearing a perfume/cologne in a communal space, which a taxi is, can be considered rude.

If the reason people prefer Waymo is because they're introverted and not just avoid socializing but avoid being the presence of other people alltogether, then it's entirely possible for Waymo to do okay in Japan.

The space in the car is, factually, your space.

This such an arrogant Westerner thing to think and say. Until you can step out of that, you will never understand Japan like you think you do.

Doesn't Google achieve the same result with Protobuf?

Keynes didn't anticipate social media

Would a van cost more to rent then a sedan?

We definitely need to improve on the UI/UX patterns. Appreciate the feedback! We're two programmers and striving for that design zen you speak of.

Sorry, I intended to send this:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Using_Fi...

The point is that pockets of AWS are recognizing a need for global resource search.

But we are totally taking note of your request for cross-region search :) It's valuable feedback to us and why we're posting here.

It does seem like there are a few data fields that aren't indexed that I would like to be but it handles the cases I see in the demo.

For Compute VMs, yes.

Indexing is quite sparse outside of Compute. For example, App Engine is supposed to be an important product but substring searching doesn't work.

What this is really needed for is AWS because they don't really have a cross-region search.

We're working on it :)

For the AWS case, this might be of interest to you: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/06/support-c...

They've just begun to do global search for VMs, but obviously that addresses just one need.

Cloud providers have been sitting on this problem for years without taking action, so we're just impatient.

We also do something they don't / won't: cross-cloud search.

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We just posted our first Show HN ever with your exact same setup, but s/python/go. If you're running it in Docker, then this might work for you too:

1) CloudRun ( run a Docker container exposing a port to the web )

It can autoscale.

2) CloudSQL ( managed Postgres and some other SQL choices )

We faced some friction getting the two connected. CloudSQL is available on an IP address, then in our code we have PSQL library which we specify the IP address to. The complication was that CloudRun instances can't actually "see" the CloudSQL. After navigating the GCP documentation, website, and some trial and error, it magically worked.

It was painful to get setup but it's running smooth now.