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Earlier this year I was diagnosed with Epstein Barr Virus which then became Post Viral Fatigue (PVT). PVT is basically Chronic Fatigue Syndrome except the symptoms are new and as a result of a viral infection. If you're still suffering 6+ months later the diagnosis becomes Chronic Fatigue.

It was a nightmare. I went from an athlete training 14+ hours per week to a bed bound individual. There was a period of 3 months where all I did was work and sleep. My children, who normally eat healthy, were getting nuggets and chips for dinner nightly as I was too exhausted to cook and would just buy them take away. I would buy them dinner, out on a movie and tell them to wake daddy when it finishes. I personally gained around 9-10kg over 5 months due to not cooking and not moving.

I'm at the 8 month mark now and I'm very close to being 100% better. I'll be back training 7 hours per week this week, I've started losing the weight I gained, and I'm not spending all my free time sleeping.

The worst part of the experience is the doctors not having much of an understanding of the disease. Being told "you should be better in 12 months but it might last year's" is a horrible thing to hear when the disease is making your life fall apart. The only positive is that I've had every blood test you can think of, most tests twice, and I'm a bill of health.
Interesting choice of garments actually. Wearing a hoodie in America, especially if you're a young black male, gets you instantly profiled as a criminal. Whether or not the law says you're legal until you leave the store, if a clerk called the police on you, you'd be arrested in that scenario / under those conditions.
Every time I read these articles, I'm optimistic this might mean rents are going down, but they always have an asterisk: "Well, except the bay area." Which is understandable -- with 20 cities in the Case Shiller index, one bucking the trend does not negate the trend. But alas, I don't get to live in an index of 20 cities.

And it should be noted, this article is from February 2018.
Ubuntu seems like a good replacement. We use it, and I greatly appreciate that the compiler is not stuck on barely getting C++11 support.
> If you reduce the demand part of the curve, the price goes down. If people feel like they have a chance of a decent life, because housing is more affordable they are less likely to use opioids. There is a reason why the epidemic is in the poor areas of america.

It's not just the poor areas of America that are suffering from opioid abuse. [0]

[0]: https://www.nj.com/data/2018/04/nj_on_record_shattering_pace...
I think mindslight is joking; Debian is not a company, it can't be bought.
It's constraint-based programming. It's closer to an SAT or old-school AI than anything else.
All of these objections are terrible.

"Hey, just use this miserable half-solution!"

Cargo bikes? Rain gear? Heavy jackets? Nobody wants to live like that. Why should the future be constantly uncomfortable?

This is why I started hating urbanism: it's full of people whose entire argument is to deny the reality of other people's experience. Biking in the rain doesn't suck, crowded trains aren't uncomfortable, cargo bikes aren't exhausting, "wear a jacket", etc.

We hate these things. I do not want to live in this world you describe. It sounds miserable.
Did FB really start with library rules? My understanding is it’s the opposite now, stretching the limits of construction technology to build the largest possible open office.
How long have you been in the industry? As far as I understand, that's a pretty standard pitch, though maybe IBM emphasizes it more.

Do you feel like your company shouldn't make money off the work you do for them? I'm confused by your tone...
I'm not sure that really is the case, in fact I seem to remember there was some debate about whether wheelie bins are legal on the pavement.
When you have almost 80% of the population living paycheck to paycheck [1] with practically nobody in that percentage with a significant savings [2], and workplace laws where you can be fired for literally anything, you can easily stifle workplace unionization efforts and discourse. People literally cannot afford to do anything that would benefit them.

This article is about Canada, but it's really becoming a worldwide issue.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/24/most-americans-live-paycheck...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/18/few-americans-have-enough-sa...
Cloud native/kubernetes race is just exploding.

RH strategy was mostly focused around OpenShift lately, which makes complete sense. Kubernetes is the next datacenter OS, just as ESX (and virtualization in general) was in the past 15 years and it's going to drive a radical shift in the enterprise IT world in the coming years. IBM (as an active member of the kubernetes community) see that huge opportunity and are doubling down on their efforts.

Any bets on the next player in this space to be acquired by an IT behemoth? Docker and Rancher both come to mind.
The “ME” is part of the name now for a reason. They have more information than symptoms alone. ME is the newer name for it, but CFS has been the more commonly used term.

Title for post should be “Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Initiative”
I think KMart bought Sears and then renamed itself as Sears.
Piggybacking on this, I instead recommend an introductory ML book like Bishop or Murphy, a statistical ML book like Mohri or Shai Shalev-Schwartz, and a textbook on nonlinear optimization, convex or otherwise.

The jump from classical machine learning to deep learning is not far if you have a good understanding of first principles.
True story, I actually worked on a proof of concept for something like this for a mapping application (think Waze-like). It would detect if you were stopped at a light and switch to an ad.
> Microsoft's first CEO is still chairman

Bill Gates is no longer the chairman of Microsoft. He stepped down in 2014 to concentrate on the Gates Foundation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft (see "Key people" in the sidebar)
It's so weird because as a long time fedora user I absolutely detest Ubuntu. Can't stand how bloated it's become.
> most people's experience with IBM isn't positive.

That does not reflect my or my friends experience. Once one gets beyond the local representatives, service for me always was exceptional.
Or if Bing was more susceptible to spam and abuse than Google
I admire Red Hat as a company for their principled and uncompromising stance on open source. I contribute to many Red Hat open source projects and even promote their products, because they share my values. Their success directly contributes to the open source ecosystem in many ways, and they have a history of doing the right thing (tm).

I'm not sure how I feel about doing the same thing for IBM.

This is either very good news, or very bad. If Red Hat can truly remain independent and preserve their culture and values, they can achieve a lot more with IBM's money, and hopefully change IBM for the better.

If the culture changes for the worse, it's the end. Many, many people work at Red Hat because of the culture, not the pay (which is average), not to mention community contributors. This is particularly true for their top-tier engineers.

Red Hat's leadership is acutely aware of this, so I'm optimistic.

I can only imagine the discussions going on on their internal mailing lists. Friends of mine who are RH employees have fun stories to tell about epic discussions about much more inconsequential decisions :-)
The ISA is similar to but still smaller than Wirth's RISC5 (unrelated to RISC-V). The choice of including DIV (and MUL) in such a small ISA suggests that's it's not guided by physical implementation.

A RISC-V RV32IM[S] implementation (be that emulator or RTL) would have similar complexity and size, and would have a far more mature software stack.
I can see independent software vendors like Heptio and Canonical being the main beneficiary of this deal.

IBM can sweat the old large companies but they have no credible cloud offering and this doesn't change that. Converting on-prem to kubernetes and using a proper cloud like Google, AWS or Microsoft without also paying steep margin to IBM would seem to be more attractive.
only time will tell i guess.

Thinkpads are still nice machines to run not only linux on, but also openBSD. (most, if not all openBSD dev's run thinkpads as their development machines).
House prices have fallen in the Bay Area, I've been keeping an eye on it. If it falls well enough I will move there. The reason no one wants to reduce rent in the Bay is because of rent control. I saw some multi units for sale, folks were stuck renting out 2 bedrooms for less than $1,000/month.
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Not a huge fan of Redhat, but I am a big user. I'm willing to wait and see.

Maybe we'll see more community offerings?
Does the economist have a standard definition of AI they run with, and/or do you? I find a lot of technologies get bundled together/labeled AI and it makes it hard to discuss or analyze such a broad swathe of things that could be AI depending on how the org has labeled them.
You disagree with the claim that most people don't change homes very often? The average time someone owns the same home is over 5 years. I mean I get the argument that, if you loose your job and sell your house it would be bad. But for me, I would only buy a house if I was sure I was going to stay in the area.
Have you been able to apply the learnings to any problems at work, or to switch jobs?
The thing that annoys me more than anything is that people on scooters don't slow down when passing pedestrians and I've had a number of close calls.
The Thinkpad brand has been owned by Lenovo since around 2006.
What's annoying is when you try to order from an existing restaurant and notice they marked up their menu across the board for Uber Eats, then there's delivery on top of that.
nobody got fired for buying IBM/Oracle/SAP.

usually, IBM is used for very large enterprise projects and it is usually done at a "high level". (aka, architecture et al, not direct implementation).

IBM is a slow, corporate monster, but it is very good at doing high, exec level consulting.
The morgage payments don't change with the house price though, right? People couldn't afford to pay their morgage because they got more house than they could afford initially.

But yeah being stuck in the same house because it lost value wouldn't be good.
And Roe v. Wade. [1]

1: http://freakonomics.com/2005/05/15/abortion-and-crime-who-sh...
I'm 27 years old, I do not develop software on a professional level, but my Master degree in C.S. and my knowledge are enough to be able to download and compile Rust, Go, Python or Julia on my machine in less than an hour for each (Julia taking a bit more time because it even compiles LLVM as a default, but it was as easy as git clone; get_dep.sh; configure; make, and some scientific libraries deps). Even the Linux kernel is rather well self-contained.

I would like to be able to hack on Java like I can on any of those above languages, but "JVM" is actually a too big of a project containing way more than the necessary, which is, I guess, a legacy from the business model and organization of Oracle. Today, there are ant, maven, Gradle, mercurial, JVM, 2 GCs, JRE, JDK, headless versions, tons of codenamed other projects, a giant README and a lot of documents to read.

If "Java" was just a single _lean_ compiler and standard libraries, easy clone; configure; make, like Go or Rust are, it would be more approachable for new people, it would give a better first impression.

That being said, I'm impressed by the academic work of people working on the GCs and the JIT technologies of Java and JVM.
As a result of this news, though, wouldn't you be inclined to suspect that the hostile faction just took a massive blow?
I suspect the parent was referring to mopeds like this $1k 50cc RTX. I see plenty of Vespas, but I don't think I've ever seen this style of moped in the US:

https://www.redfoxpowersports.com/50cc-upgrade-rtx-scooter-m...
Just because profiling someone based on their skin color or gender is less bad for some groups than for others doesn’t in any way make it less wrong to do. I understand the argument for focusing more on profiling minorities, but profiling white people for being poor isn’t exactly something to aspire to.
"Microsoft's first CEO is still chairman and helping lead the company even from the sidelines." this is not true? maybe you meant he's a technical adviser
Karma? Red Hat shareholders will be getting a 60% premium over the current value.. if it's karma, then pushing systemd was a good action.
Thanks! I was half joking, but that was really interesting and to the point.
it would be interesting to have a database of small assumptions (Do(S)A) and watch how they evolve over time. Seems like a common theme in innovation is to spot the assumption inversion and make the obvious move.
You can actually skip HN and browse Wikipedia directly if that's your thing.
>>IBM has been historically a Linux contributor.

Maybe, but IBM has been historically a for profit enterprise, required to appease investors every quarter (or the CEO goes, stock crashes etc.)

They may have contributed to projects to then sell services, but make no mistake, IBM has their own interests at heart, not yours.
True, but it is also analogous to throwing out your hammer to avoid hitting yourself on the nail.
Is that really true? The big three cloud providers all have commits to the Linux kernel:

~/linux   master ●
$ git log --author=amazon --format='%h %s%n %ad, %an <%ae>' --date=short | grep @amazon | wc -l
206

~/linux   master ●
$ git log --author=microsoft --format='%h %s%n %ad, %an <%ae>' --date=short | grep @microsoft | wc -l
1825

~/linux   master ●
$ git log --author=google --format='%h %s%n %ad, %an <%ae>' --date=short | grep @google | wc -l
11283
Biggest disappoinment with the US is how small the average American is.
I dunno. IBM was pretty generous with the operating system when they invented the PC in the first place.
Until the data gets sent to US servers.
There are strong rumors that IBM will be selling/spinning off its services group so perhaps that’s the funding justification?
There is no evidence of this being an actual problem despite repeated investigations. Stop spreading misinformation and slandering people.
Male friend at 35 also had lots of strange symptoms and figured out on his own that it was also hyperparathyroidism. He also went to Norman and sings their praises. He was eating dinner in Tampa the night after his morning surgery! They removed two para tumors. What's odd and probably why it took so long for his diagnosis is that it's usually a disease in older overweight women. He was the only young skinny man they saw all day.

He now found out he also has pretty severe apnea (been a pretty loud snorer for years) and isn't sure if it's related or not. The surgery did help but didn't solve everything so found the apnea next and is now on CPAP. Always something!

Good luck and feel free to message if you have any questions about the procedure.
I'm sorry to hear what happened to you and happy to know you're better.

May I ask how do you manage to train 14+ hours per day with a job and kids?

I'm an engineer and would love to train more to recover form the sedentary lifestyle that's taking a toll on my health but can barely manage 8 hours of training per week alongside the job, cooking, chores and meeting friends.
Or maybe many here (such as me) have done and loved the fast.ai course
Ubuntu (Canonical) just stared looking more attractive as they were trying to be an independent commercially-supported Linux offering.

Or, if you don’t like Canonical (and to be fair they do a lot less than Red Hat do), encouraging corporate users to sponsor Debian directly would be amazing.
I got the impression that nobody at all on HN was happy about the GitHub thing, FWIW.
Conversely, I wonder what this does to the Linux ecosystem. It looks like at this point, Debian and Arch are the only major self-sufficient distros (i.e. not built on top of another distro) that are still community-owned and community-driven; and of the two, Debian is clearly more broadly popular. So, will this result in Debian becoming the de facto standard of "open Linux"? This could make things interesting when it comes to packaging etc.
I have some hopes that Red Hat has a strong-enough future value for IBM that we end up redefining IBM rather than the other way round. There are precedents, notably the Apple/NeXT merger. Today's Apple is 95% NeXT and 5% old Apple. Can this happen here? Time will tell.
I teach unix internals to engineers as part of my job and I've found most engineers aren't intimately familiar with the distinction between the RC system and the init system at all. I agree there isn't widespread understanding of this distinction but I think it is because most engineers simply don't know how any of this works.

The reason to keep these things modular is flexibility and ease of analysis and improvement. The major criticism I see with systemd is that has undefined operational scope and unbounded feature creep. It has no stable interface between components and changes behavior in incompatible and difficult to predict ways fairly regularly. From a systems perspective it's a big ball of mud and the lack of a formal interface makes it prohibitively difficult to change or replace its subsystems.

I don't like that systemd performs ANSI animations on my machine's serial console, for example. Have you seen the "marquee" animations it does when certain services start? I sure would like to force it to print sequential lines of text instead, but I can't.

I don't like that when systemd updated basic utilities like "reboot" I lost the ability to use them in a chroot. Even "reboot -f" which does not need to talk to init. I had to write my own one-liner to call reboot(2) myself not too long ago.

System components need to be well scoped and replaceable. There's a major design problem brewing in this area.
What has OpenPOWER actually open sourced? Seems to be more a quid-pro-quo between IBM and its select partners.
> bait and switch freebies.
How true.
Personally I liked Andrew Ng’s course much more. While fast.ai seems to have some practical gems hidden, it's just so much noise surrounding it.

So much time wasted just by stating over and over again why their top down approach is so great. And even more with how to install this and that, dealing with the command line, setting up stuff, using AWS etc.
Things the "coders" the course is targeted at should be able to do anyway.

I always found myself jumping around the videos to find the useful parts (with the help of the time markers in the wiki) but then dropped it every time and did Andrew Ng’s course in combination with "the" deep learning book instead.
They just have much less noise.
Come on, it gets voted to the top because it allows "hackers" to gloat about it under the name of "intellectual curiosity". I bet it brought a smile to your face, didn't it :)
$50 says someone like Microsoft or Google responds to this by buying Canonical.
I had to look her up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Dookhan

She was a chemist at a crime lab who falsified large amounts of evidence.

This is pretty shocking.

> On December 17, Dookhan was formally arraigned on 27 charges—17 counts of obstruction of justice, eight counts of tampering with evidence and one count each of perjury and falsification of records.

> [The judge presiding over Dookhan's case] wrote, "Innocent persons were incarcerated, guilty persons have been released to further endanger the public, millions and millions of public dollars are being expended to deal with the chaos Ms. Dookhan created, and the integrity of the criminal justice system has been shaken to the core."

All of that resulted in a sentence of only three years (Nov 2013 to April 2016).
Are RedHat not a for profit enterprise required to appease investors? They're also a publicly traded company - and part of the S&P 500 even!
Expect business as usual for a year. Any changes will occur after then.
Not in this universe.
I'm sticking with Fedora - too early to tell.
The deal is subject to shareholder approval. I think based on that approval, you'll be able to estimate how right or wrong you are about lawsuits had the board rejected the offer.

RHT is $20 billion in market cap as of Friday, and the offer is $34 billion.
Pedantic note: wave functions do not collapse; decoherence occurs.
Yep, this. Although to be fair, Zing is pretty good but not a panacea. It causes latencies to increase across the board -- probably due to increased allocation times, or maybe messing with the cache
I'm sorry you are getting downvoted.
17 years of practice is no joke.

Would you be so kind and explain what you mean?
Will this warrant an Our Incredible Journey [1] entry?

Not technically an exit, I guess, at least not for most of the staff that start to work for Big Blue in a month.

[1] https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
>We hate these things. I do not want to live in this world you describe. It sounds miserable.

The consequences of global warming sound miserable as well.
I work in Cambridge, MA and I see families with children and babies on bikes all the time. I see them bike in the rain, snow, and heat. Of course when there's a bad storm you won't see many (if any bike) but neither would you see vehicles driving about either).

I don't really see this as an ageist argument. More of people don't want to give up their comforts because they aren't paying the true external costs.
I suggest the latest Debian stable or Ubuntu LTS.

Debian stable keep the history of roughly 2 years release cycles. Ubuntu LTS is set to follow strict 2 years release cycle.
How about SAP? Aren't they a European company where software patents have no legal force? Do they fill patents for the US too?
Why is this game hard?
> Maybe, but IBM has been historically a for profit enterprise...

So has RedHat.
I'm 54 and I bike everywhere.
If they can still sell despite having that (very much deserved) reputation, then their sales teams must be pretty impressive.
Sure we do: https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/shifgrethor-iii/ ;)
This is beautifully written.
> IBM is a pathological company, and definitely not good news for open source.

I guess, if you ignore the part where they're one of the biggest corporate contributors to the Linux kernel.
From the README: "here is a hosted instance on http://triq.net/bitbench "
I don't know about Google but Amazon should definitely not come near Canonical. Amazon is the worst among FAANG & Microsoft towards Open Source. Look at what they have given back to the community.
I don't know of any other OSS company that does _exclusively_ OSS.

Canonical, for example, has a number of proprietary solutions built around their core OSS stuff, so they function as an open core business. And they're not doing anywhere close to as well as Red Hat does.
Hacker News already has a similar feature..

You can just up vote a submission (or click favorite), then go to your user profile and view it later.

This could just integrate into that BTW.
The warnings for #1 were clear. Nobody wanted to hear or heed them. I have little sympathy for those that adopted it despite many people begging them (distro maintainers) not to.
Like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=037CAW4Yeug
I live in Denver where we have a more recent law that says scooters are toys, which means they are only legally permitted on the sidewalk.

This means you have scooters, which are silent like a Prius, speeding along at 20mph next to pedestrians.

I support these scooters because they can reduce car usage, but they could have worked with the cities to make sure they were rolled out in a responsible way. But these companies must “disrupt,” right?

Also, we have four or so scooter different companies operating here. Which means we now have scooters everywhere. Some in the walkway, some toppled over, etc.