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I receive on average about one notification from DigitalOcean each month that there's a problem with the host for one of my VMs and there may be some downtime while they migrate it to a new host. Usually the downtime is about the same as a reboot, sometimes there's no downtime at all.

This works in part because both Xen and KVM hypervisors (and possibly others) support live migrations, so it's altogether false that virtualization does not increase stability. Both DigitalOcean and Linode use KVM behind the scenes.

So, at lower cost than rented hardware, customers get staff whose job it is to constantly monitor systems for hardware failures and deal with them proactively in a way that minimizes downtime.
The iojs debacle was because joyent had too much governance of the project and it was subsequently handed over to the board that currently governs nodejs. While the first Iines of what became nodejs weren't written by joyent, they can be quite reliably be credited to being the company that made it happen originally.
I've spent a bunch of time in light manufacturing. In testing assemblies I've come to the conclusion that for ordinary stuff you just want to reduce the rate of 'bad product' below the rate of installer fuckups. If 9 times out of 10 the reason is failed it because someone fucked it up and 1 out of 10 is because you shipped a defective unit, no one cares.

You might go, well what about safety critical things. Well it's still true. Just at a much lower level of failure.
First reaction to headline was WTF, but given that it includes hardware that seems reasonable.

Not particularly pleased about monthly fee AND a la carte per game though. Imagine if netflix did that...there would be a riot.
And PowerBI is either free[1] or $10/month per user[2].

Having architected and implemented BI infrastructures using all three, their pricing models all tend to converge to the same ballpark once you get to a standard, fully loaded and integrated installation. But they all have different levers for their pricing sheets, so unique usage models can sometimes take advantage of that to get a substantially better deal. Licensing models that are amenable to minimal/opportunistic usage exist for Tableau and PowerBI, but Looker very deliberately prices out that usage model.

[1] https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/desktop/

[2] https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi-pro/
I don't think comparing it to prostate biopsy helps most people. I assume they anesthetize you so you don't actually feel pain just really weird, possibly upsetting tugging right? Afterwards you take some regular pain killers for a few days. This doesn't feel like a big deal to me but I'm likely wrong. Maybe it is only a big deal for some people like how how people who are claustrophobic freak out in the MRI.
I completely agree with everything you said and would like to add, that I, as a man, hold no animosity toward women for the current situation.

I believe women have been screwed over just as badly as men from all this change that occurred. Young women are being told by older women they can have it all, and that is just plain wrong and hurts other women more than it helps them.
Doubling the workforce would surely put downward pressure on wages due to supply and demand.
Right, which makes the data even more surprising! I know I'm reluctant to make a journey by car through central London even if Google maps tells me it's going to be fast.
This is why I've never lived alone. I always either lived with family, lived with roommates, or recently, lived with my girlfriend. I'm not the most proactively social person and if I didn't live with people then I know I'd definitely get too lonely.
I really liked their blog response. I logged a support case about the incident, and a rep personally called me and spent 30m on video chat with me answering my questions. I don't think that would _ever_ happen from GCP.
Feminism is a symptom rather than the cause. The cause is the commoditization of humans into productivity and consumption units in a post-industrial environment where the state and corporations dominate. Corporations want to extract every bit of production and consumption out of individuals. A woman taking time off for pregnancy or deciding to become a stay-at-home mom is a drain on corporate productivity. And every state has to some degree tried to diminish the role of parents and family in order to sap every ounce of allegiance from an individual to the state. In totalitarian states, the head of the state becomes the father of the people and the state becomes its family. It's easier to control and manipulate individuals with weak family ties. And it's easier for entities to inject themselves into a controlling family role with individuals with weak family ties. It's why pimps and madams target runaways and make themselves into paternal or maternal figures.

Society and culture doesn't grow organically. They are created and manufactured by the people with wealth and power. For the time being, those with wealth and power have decided that the breakdown of the family is in their interest. But it could shift quickly if the people in charge want it to. An extreme example is china where they encouraged women to have lots of children in order to strengthen their country. And not too long after that, they had a change of heart and encouraged the complete opposite - one child policy. Now it seems like they are backing off of it after a few decades of one child policy.
They killed Nest!? Nest did make some egregious mistakes, but still. The way Google is killing off stuff reminds me of Microsoft in the 90's touting, then killing APIs.
You’re telling me that 10 million dollar “startup” companies can’t run 1 server without incurring “years” of tech debt? Sorry, that just sounds unbelievable.
Actually one of the things my wife and I often discuss is how with our current society even what we consider our "nuclear family" is at most just a part time family.

For most of humanity a family group stayed together for the majority of each day. Children played with siblings, cousins and were usually within earshot of one of their parents or relatives. Certainly they would have found their way back when hungry. As they got older, they worked right beside their parents on the various chores and tasks.

In modern western society, the spouses are separated for the majority of their waking hours. (Even if one spouse chose to stay at home, the issue would still remain as the other spouse would have to go to work). The children spend either a significant or a major portion of their time in day care or school, also separated from their siblings. Then throw in the after school activities, projects and homework needed to create a modern "well rounded" child. (Don't even get me started on how un-affordable it is to have kids)

They do get to have a rushed breakfast together and hopefully a good dinner as well, but that is about it. A significant portion of the weekend is spent doing chores. Add in the American working culture of taking very few vacation days.

The decline of the family is because our culture has created an environment where we are working .. working constantly.. (either chasing a higher standard of living or running as fast as we can just to maintain our current standard of living (housing, education, healthcare), working so you can afford to have kids) and we work in an environment where we are disconnected from our family and friends. Often, if you are lucky, you make friends at work.. but almost always these aren't like the friends you made at high school, they aren't as meaningful and strong. Then People change jobs and you "stay in touch"... If you are lucky, you find the person you love at work, but work places romances are tricky as well.. sometimes (usually?) frowned upon.

We just have much less TIME to build those sorts of deep bonds. Visit a village or a small town in the developing world and observe how much more TIME people seem to have. How much more time they spend with each other.
My bet is the league will make an example out of him and force sale of his share of ownership of the Warriors https://www.instagram.com/p/ByX_076gKD3/
Bringing a child into the world to increase my own personal happiness, when nothing else I could do has such a direct and massive climate impact, is not something I can justify personally. Not to mention, my child would have to live to see the impacts of climate change.

There is coming a point (it has already passed, in my opinion), where we can no longer justify our purpose for existence as "creating more humans."
Sure. However, to get feedback for a new project you probably need all you can get. Getting any at all can be surprisingly difficult.

Therefore one rarely can throw out the negative comments. Perhaps copy them to a file of notes and edit them to their core essence to minimize the sting.
I recommend social hobbies. Mine are BJJ and Magic the Gathering. BJJ is great because it can be highly technical but you will meet people way outside of nerd circles. My kids do it and love it as well. It is a hard thing, too, so it keeps the ego in check. You have no choice but to be extremely, intimately close with other humans. The friends I am making are great. There are plenty of other hobbies, but start there.

Edit: (start by investigating social hobbies)
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> Basically all the comments here are just critiques.

That's not how the thread looks now at all. The contrarian dynamic strikes again? https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
> a real car can go for atleast 200kms a charge/refill

Pedantic, but Electric cars _are_ "real cars" as much as gas/diesel cars are.
I was (and still am) against the monitoring, restriction and limiting of student devices at school. I find it deeply disturbing that children are going to be monitored when they aren't even on school grounds, it's nightmarish. Every day homeschooling my future children looks exponentially better.
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I consider all those part of the "some advantages". Debate club is one of many competitive academic pursuits which can, for the right people, set up those principles. I imagine chess club would as well, as it also requires much study and discipline.

That's why I did the follow up "wouldn't it be better to spend that same effort on a broader range of academic study?"

Spend an extra three hours per day on history, or literature, or math, or learning new languages, and it would not only help instill those principles, but the actual knowledge, after graduation, is more likely to be useful than knowing how to spell a lot of words, yes?
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Ah, but what about "unreliable, selfish and inconsiderate" women? Are we "allowed" to attack them or is that 'sexist'? Everyone agrees that being unreliable, selfish and inconsiderate is not great, but using this as a character smear directed towards one single gender is just wrong, whether it's "men" or "women".
> It's quite specifically an attack on "unreliable, selfish, and inconsiderate men."

That's one very generous way to read it. The other is that men are unreliable, selfish and inconsiderate, which is pretty much what I've heard over the past 5 years from most people that identify as feminist.
where do you live ? why are you satan because you work in tech ?
I wasn't criticizing feminism in my comment; I also wasn't saying there was anything expressly wrong with the status quo (men trading off on work so women could have more family time)--I'm sure it works well for many families. I was only pointing out that there's nothing inherently female about "not having it all" with the exception of the notion that women should be able to have it all--there has never been a broad movement that lamented that men can't have it all, after all.
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that's a fake passport, hence the alias 'Solotshi'
There’s a gap in perspectives here, I think, which is roughly similar to that between Minix and Linux. Software doesn’t always have to compromise to pragmatism, because there’s nothing requiring that software be developed to be used.

Sometimes a reference implementation is intended to be just that, and nothing more—a reference, for other implementors of other systems to crib ideas from, especially as pertains to how the smaller ideas cohere architecturally in practice (which is hard to communicate by just writing papers about the individual ideas, or building them as standalone libraries, or building them into other systems where they must interoperate with components that don’t cohere into the desired architecture.)

Or, to put that another way: sometimes the best textbook is the codebase of a good implementation. And some people are more interested in writing those textbooks, than in personally getting their ideas into production systems. Especially because it’s far easier to refine the ideas in the context of such a coherent presentation of them.

Someone else, who reads such a “textbook” codebase, can put the ideas to work. But the ideas themselves will be better-developed for having had time to stew in the same pot as other novel ideas. This serves the people who put the ideas into practice as well.
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Reasonable in theory, but in practice subscribers have gone up and that's evident in the payout to authors. Also, in the vacuum of HN & FCC leaving Medium, I had no problem launching a programming pub focused on the subscriber program, finding authors (212 in the first 40 days), and readers (now hitting 25k views/day).

What's sort of lost in all of this discussion is the point of the subscriber program. The point is to higher quality articles to people who care about quality. A programmer's hourly rate is well above three figures, why would you waste your time reading low quality articles? Because sometimes they're the best available. But it doesn't have to be that way.
I mean it's great to have a backup map if you go outside of cellular coverage. It works well overseas too, so you can save data and preload the map, or just use it offline entirely while you're travelling.
Aside from eradicating the human race, any changes to climate will have to be driven by humans. Someone’s child will help solve the problem. It could be your’s.
Like House of Cards, it was intended as fiction but rapidly became difficult to differentiate from reality.

See also: Pine Gap
What an absurd and aggressive response to the comment you're responding to.
Luckily the tech is still going strong, joyent and other are still there to push forward. There are also EOL partners (https://docs.joyent.com/joyent-public-cloud-eol) that you can migrate to quite easily. (Hint; were one of them)
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"People in wealthy countries became more antiauthoritarian, more critical of traditional rules and roles, and more dedicated to individual expression and choice."

It seems like she considers it and speaks directly to it. Is it that she doesn't ultimately blame capitalism? She says that the decline of the family is closely tied with the neoliberal focus on the individual.
The way I see it is that you don't bring child into the world to "increase" your own personal happiness. They are (at least in my personal case) the result of my own happiness. And yes they require a lot of work, but all the hard work is totally worth it every time your children look at smile at you.
How can 'meaningful relationships' be tacked on to that statement. Do they not exist anymore? Get a better argument. Further more, 'traditional family values' is not a well defined term and overly political. It claims that I NEED and should fit neatly into some kind of mold. Humans are individuals, a truth that traditionalist fail to internalize.

One can have a traditional loving partner, a traditional family, a traditional social circle and still be lonely.

One could feel isolated from their peer group because of happenstance and life choices leading to different economic outcomes.

One could feel isolated from their gender; no only because it is a social construct, but because the ones that represent you act like morons all the time.

One could feel isolated from a sibling because they are ill and can't afford healthcare.

One could feel isolated from themselves because they are have chronic pain or mental illness.

Blaming societal ills on one or two issues only divides further and obscures the macrocosm. If you want your 2.5 kids and a picket fence, godspeed, but don't step on others trying to find what makes them happy.
There are other ways of solving the loneliness problem than economically castrating more than half the population in an attempt to return to an idealized past that never actually was. The world is different now than it was in the 1950s, and we're going to have to find different ways to get our necessary face-time, and luckily we have more tools to better take responsibility for our social health than we did even 10 years ago.

Are there anyone here outside the straight, white (or white-adjacent), male demographic who would like to return to having less economic opportunity?
I hope you can see the light in the world again, some day.
Yep, an image was the only way to "guarantee" the cell displayed at a specific width/height. These are the kinds of things that taught me most hacks aren't worth doing.
I heard someone describe this as the "capstone" vs "conerstone" model. Previous generations got married and had kids much earlier, and built their lives off of that cornerstone. When it comes to me personally and my peers, we see marriage and children more as a capstone -- something to be done once our student loan is paid, or when we're ready to put a down payment on a house, when we get that promotion, etc.
The article is long and I skimmed a bit.

It appears to be one of these pieces that just covers so many topics and issues, I'm not sure which ones correlate to loneliness and which ones don't.

I'll tell you one thing, and this is a personal belief: the modern way of making a living and the modern relationship to my family is far preferable to me than "the old way."

For most of human history we've had to stick with our families and build a large set of children in order to perform labor and work around high mortality rates. Usually we were all subsistence farmers or perhaps running a family business.

In no way to I prefer that lifestyle to that of modern life. Old style families tie everyone into the extended family. For better or worse you're stuck with your blood relatives and you must continue the family farm, family business, or whatever it is. Your fate is determined from the day you are born, and you must stick with these people no matter how toxic they are.

Yes, it's possible to be lonely thanks to overwork, distance (physical or emotional) from family, or a number of other factors that have some kind of connection to modern life.

But also, I most definitely don't want to live with my parents, or with my children forever. I want them to have the luxury of living around whoever they choose, not who they're born into having a relationship with.

In the past, a lot of these choices were made for us because that's what our community and family expected from us. I would not trade that aspect of familial social pressure, lack of freedom, and predetermined expectations for some (rectifiable) modern day loneliness.
...Yet!

Looks like their current strategy is to collect a few heads (e.g., Xio) and post them on pikes outside the village gates pour décourager les autres. They may not be able to nail everybody, but you run substantial risk of being targeted.
Becoming dependent is part of the deal. It keeps people together through the difficult times.
"The newfound Satoshi candidate is Paul Solotshi Calder Le Roux, a 46-year old former cartel boss, drug smuggler, arms dealer, informant to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and genius programmer."

How do you run a drug cartel, be responsible for gun running, play undercover informant for the DEA and still have time to program in C++ AFTER thinking deeply about the best architecture for crypto-currency through trial and error prototypes and then also have the presence of mind to author a near perfect academic quality paper on the seminal algos?

Keyser Söze! The legend continues with new apocryphal evidence.
I think we would be certainly better off banning free dating websites and apps. Get people back into the real world where they can see and smell eachother. Heck, even speed dating is better.
To chime in, I like standard notes a lot and I found their pricing was reasonable enough
Don't try to win over people by appeasing them, it won't work and you'll hate yourself in the end. Helping those in need is great, but you need to do it in a way that doesn't burn you out. It sounds like that's the route you're on.
It’s super interesting how many accounts there are like yours that are newly created and appear to only exist to espouse conservative viewpoints.

Out of curiosity, how did you personally come to be here on Hacker News?
As one who has four cameras pointing toward the street, I for one have better things to do than sit in my cave watching my multi-view camera setup for untoward things. Never give me a reason to rewind the recording, and you'll never be watched. I assume my neighbors are doing the same thing. Shit, I don't have time to edit my vacation videos, you think I got time to watch video of you walking your dog?

If it makes you feel any better, the video never leaves my local network. :-)
I want to love DO so much. I think they really do mean well and their products are great, but yeah, this kind of stuff scares me shitless for mission critical workloads.
There is no shortage of humans who want to have children. Not all 7 billion of us can have a family.
A cunning lawyer could argue anything. But, when did Square ever agree to the copyright license? Who did the actual copyright infringement?

And AGPL isn't the only "must publish all your server's source code" license available, so to prohibition is too specific if that's the actual reason.
> the Hindu majority areas will look and feel noticeably different from the Muslim majority areas

Even within the Hindu majority areas, the look, feel, and even language is noticeably different between the different Hindu subgroups.
I feel as though having children will make a lot of people very happy. But there is also a significant part(>1%) of the population that would be miserable.

I believe a lot of the unhappiness is often from someone who was pressured into a choice they didn't critically think about or didn't want but caved in. Even if the pool of people is small the experience could be quite negative. Where as all the people who always wanted them will be happy.

I took care of my brother and sisters a lot as a child and it made it very clear that I never wanted children.
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Better to be lonely sometimes than to be divorced ever IMO.
What would this sandboxing achieve? If you mean kernel internally using multiple protection rings, tricky to do in Linux, because the API in that either has to be tight or it's still not too secure. E.g. if you just take RCU or softirqd into near userspace, as done in RT patchset, but then introduce context switching overhead, life is going to be relatively ok, but you've covered only relatively small parts of the drivers. And RT breaks drivers without even introducing more overhead. It would take a major overhaul.
Amazon does this. There are many shows and movies that are included with Amazon Prime but there are others that you need to purchase.
There's no way to objectively measure happiness, so no that hasn't been proven.

Personally, I've found having a kid to be less stressful, less expensive, and more rewarding than my college/career experience. I'm happier now than I ever was before. Yeah it's hard sometimes, but what isn't?