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Well I've been hearing about those benefits for at least 20 years. None yet actually sighted in the wild. Any attempted explanations from the microkernel religious zealots has been thoroughly unconvincing (because mach is slow, so?). Maybe you're right, I'd love to see it if you are. But while prior performance is no guarantee of the future, as they say in the funds management adverts, a pattern of repeated failure is something maybe not to completely ignore. Is there a reason for it that is being overlooked or glossed over. (In mutual funds it was and is M.E.R.) Stallman talks about hurd being really hard to debug, is that a thing? Or is there some kind of combinational explosion using multiple servers a message passing that isn't there with a monothlithic kernel? Something else entirely?

Anyway I'll go back to the american monolithic kernel conspiracy to destroy OS research and keep the Europeans out and ask the brothers if they can think of anything. (That's a joke, right? Yet I've heard it said in the absence of irony...)
There's a dead comment that posted this link with a sarcastic tone, but I think it's worth seeing:

https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/graphs/contributors

Maybe 2/3 people actively doing most of the contributions with sporadic other contributions.
but I think this was the point of the article.

Losing highly-adapted, very fragile species to a more robust invader is a loss of biodiversity. But that holds biodiversity as a higher virtue than survivability and adaptability. Is that justified?

This is the thing: if species A out-performs species B in a given ecosystem niche, and species B becomes extinct as a result, that's how nature works. That's evolution. There's nothing "wrong" or "bad" about that. Survival of the fittest.

If humans caused species A to be there, that's irrelevant. It doesn't make Species A's survival (or species B's extinction) "unnatural" or "wrong". We were just a transport mechanism, like any other "natural" transport mechanism.

Surely evolution and survival of the fittest overrules biodiversity?
It isn't for those of us that actually bother to learn about them, unfortunately still feels like spreading gospel, given the sore state of some education institutions.
Debian has backports https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/

For PostgreSQL in particular, the Debian / pgdg packages support concurrent installation of multiple versions https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Apt
Rich vs poor is even less meaningful divide than right vs left. For instance i am not rich but my goals are much better aligned with goals of rich people like Elon Musk and Aubrey de Grey, than with any of poor people.

The solution is not to take money from the rich, but to make the government more transparent and more inclusive. Now we only can vote for unknown bundles of policies in the form of people, and rich people can pay to change the bundle after it is voted in. The solution to that is to use e-voting to be able to change your vote for separate issues when you do not agree with the vote of your representative.
Your definition is wrong. Populism is a political strategy based on the oversimplification of issues, inventing scapegoats, and generally appealing to popular "bar talk" as offering solutions to problems that are in reality way more complex. Other symptoms of it are an unwillingness to make compromises, not listening to experts, alluding to conspiration theories, an alleged fighting against the elites and for the "common man on the street" (as long as he's politically aligned), an US versus THEM mentality, anti-intellectualism, and discrediting media and science. All of this makes sense, because the populist needs to be able to sell his oversimplified solutions, and often science, statistics, and, generally speaking, the truth stands in the way. Most problems do not have simple solutions.

Populism is pretty much what used to be called "proto-fascism" by Ecco, but communists can also have a strong populist agenda. Where I live, in Portugal, the communist party used slogans like "Leave Nato, away with the Euro" in general elections - simple recipes that couldn't possibly have beneficial effects and that in reality nobody would implement.

What you define as populism has nothing to do with real-world populism, it's just a construct.
Then check BUILD 2019 talk about React Native for Windows. Electron gets a couple of jabs, including a very nice bar comparison chart.
"Remember when men were men and wrote their own device drivers." --Linus Torvalds

"Come and join the fun!" --Alan Cox

Linux wasn't going to big and professional, like Hurd, but better fun. Perhaps those roles have switched?
See also "Moneyland" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/07/moneyland-oliv...

Its about the ways in which the top 0.01% hide their money in networks of shell companies, tax havens etc, and the difficulty of actually taxing them.
Older then that. When Paris was becoming the center of learning, just before the formation of the University (1115) all the students lived on the left bank of the Seine, and the wealthy lived on the right bank. Hence the left vs. the right metaphor.
So the gist of it is that there's no us against them black and white thinking there's just us and against them black and white thinking
My team is in the process of moving our Jenkins CI jobs to GitLab CI. We have moved most of them and our feeling is that GitLab's solution is more flexible and easier to manage than Jenkins'. For the really weird or tricky ones, we have a couple custom Docker images.

Right now build Java, Kotlin, .Net, .Net Core and Node projects with GitLab.

We setup Nexus to manage the code we share between projects and that has really made the process much easier to manage.
And insects.
Ugh. What's this doing on Hacker News? Flagged.
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This is an article very much in the vein of all the ones about the dangers of rising populism, which is generally portrayed as evil oligarchs brainwashing the populace into thinking that by supporting the other side's political views they're fighting back against the oligarchy. What it's advocaing is that the people rise up and fight back against the oligarchs by folliwing his side's political views, likely with some help from billionaires to educate them. Totally different, see.
The execution of .NET core project has been, with all due respect, a huge mess. The naming and versioning schemes are confusing. The breaking changes are disruptive. Making ConfigurationManager a pain in the ass to use is disruptive.

.NET core has been around for years now but it doesn't inspire confidence and still doesn't seem production ready given the lack of adoption and Microsoft's incessant habit of changing and breaking things for no good apparent reason.

It's such a pity because I absolutely love the dotnet cli tooling.
> They are not going to be progressive in the sense of forwarding pro-social, anti-corporate policies.

Certainly not anti-corporate, but I don't see why they wouldn't be pro-social. They don't want to be the ones paying for those policies, but every American well educated and in good health would certainly profit their enterprises. It's just that it appears too expensive to be worth the profit to them.
I’m not saying you’re wrong, but I feel you’re talking about rich individuals and not rich people when you talk about Elon Musk.
Fuschia, for example; there are also various L4-based systems, some of which are open source.
QNX is widespread in embedded systems, it's sadly closed source (it's a magnificent OS).

L4 is a family of operating systems, sharing an API, not code. The ancestor was built to prove that microkernels could be fast. SeL4 is a formally proved variant. They are open source. They are also used in embedded systems, like baseband processors.

Minix 3 is an academic project by Andrew Tanenbaum. A few eyebrows were raised when it turned out that it is present in all new Intel chipsets.
It is easy to find this material. This link adds nothing to the vast amount of tutorials in probability.
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A number of things about this story don't add up. Annual worldwide production of Californium is only about 0.5gm and it has a half life of about 2.5 years. It also costs $27M per gram. So where did smugglers obtain 18 grams of the stuff?
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Hmm I wouldnt consider Aubrey de Grey, rich in same basket as Elon Musk. I wish he was though.
The central question of this article:

> So why do we continue to hear and use the same old “right” and “left” labels?

> I suspect it’s because the emerging oligarchy feels safer if Americans are split along the old political battle lines. That way, Americans won’t notice they’re being shafted.

Wouldn't this imply the oligarchs control the media? Or at least the public discourse? But that's not the impression I get from the media. CNN, MSNBC, and other networks make it perfectly clear they are anti-Trump, in fact most of the media seems to be in agreement with that. Same with the most popular reddit channels, popular outlets like Guardian, Vox, Huffington Post, and Twitter. I mean almost everybody seems to agree that Trump is bad. YouTube and Fox seem to be the exception.

I wrestle with understanding why most media are anti-Trump and anti-oligarchy, and the oligarchs are still able to control those media's use of 'left' and 'right'. How does this work?
It could not. I presume that by "baseline", you refer to a USB2.0 Type A to Type C cable.

USB type C is designed to remain passive until it knows if something is connected, and what it is. For most cable types, orientation must also be detected.

This means that there must be something in the cable/plug. This could of course have been a short, but to do that, those pins would have to be dedicated to detecting dumb cables.

Having no pins to waste, a resistor is used instead, which allows not only allows for multiple values for detection, but leaves the pins usable for transmission while detect resistors are in place (Power Delivery, Alternate Modes).

And there is absolutely no issue in that resistor. Everyone found the table, but either failed to read the 3 values, or decided "Hey, more amps is better!", ignoring whether or not the type A end would actually be able to supply it.
When I see a politician or organization labeled as populist, it usually refers to the (quite common) practice of getting votes from dissatisfied masses by promising them impossible results, which they don't intend on even attempting to achieve.

Populism is not about ideology of regular people against the elites, that'd be apply more to e.g. various socialdemocratic parties who attempt such goals and ideologies but most of them aren't considered populistic especially if they're in power for years and have to actually implement policies instead of talking about vague results that'll magically arrive.

It refers to a tactic of identifying people who are dissatisfied with current reality and also with the realistic short-term prospects of how future is going to unfold for them even if the promises of the other parties arrive and reasonable economic growth and modest systemic improvement happens, and promising them unrealistic, unachievable improvement (often by suggesting major, radical changes that are a change but can't possibly give the effects they promise) - thus giving these voters hope that others don't, filling that (very valid) need and thus getting their votes.
Elon Musk's goal is to persuade you to give as much money as possible to him while paying as little as possible in taxes. If your goals are aligned then I expect you to be writing a cheque to him now.

Thought not.

On your second paragraph, the fundamental problem with democracy is that voters cannot have informed opinions about everything: there are simply not enough hours in the day. Without informed voters any vote is little better than a coin toss. Read https://medium.com/civic-tech-thoughts-from-joshdata/so-you-... and then think again.
If it is a DLT without blockchain is it DAG based or something else like maidsafe? Please a quick tldr on what the tech is on the homepage would be great
MD here: perhaps as an alternative to outpatient wounds but we've been using glue for 10+ years now. It works when you have a clean wound but often you need to reconstruct messy wounds and then glue doesn't get the job done. You need to be able to pull the skin and with glue you will just end up gluing your glove onto the wound (yup, personal experience).

In the operating theater I don't really see it happening. We've been discussing using glue there but then you need an additional layer of sutures which usually take longer to do (intracutaneous). Anything that takes time in the threatre is usually a deal breaker.

There are probably use cases outside my field but even for burns I'm uncertain if it is a good fit. Most wounds are not sterile and encapsulating bacteria under a layer of fiber seems like a recipe for pushing the bacteria deeper and generating a more severe infection.
Maybe you should take your eyes out of the UNIX clone desktop and look into OSes powering life critical embedded deployments.
I wonder how much of that is more enforcement and how much just the language barrier insulating you from millions of low paid english speaking developing world workers trying to scam you? Possibly slightly higher call charges to Germany as well.
I use Firefox ESR on desktop with Debian stable as well. I've never felt the need to update it, while several times, when reading about things that break in non-ESR releases, I was glad I didn't use non-ESR versions.
> Rich vs poor is even less meaningful divide than right vs left.

Which is why the author is careful to not use those words to describe the situation. Someone like Aubrey de Grey (who isn't even "rich" in this context) is as far from the oligarchy as can be.
In principal e-voting to increase transparency is a nice ideology, but how would you engage the people over time? I'm afraid this would rather cause an increase in fake news and the likes. The obvious case is the Brexit vote, that gave the people two options: a remain (no change) and leave (open ended in terms of how).
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Part of populism is also claiming to be neither left or right on the political spectrum because it can be both or neither, a good example of this is Five Star Movement from Italy. But what is mostly common with populist movements is the appeal to the common man and blaming elites. So how the author of this article isn't advocating for populism is something someone needs to explain to me.
Because we already have enough UNIX clones and there are people that care about bringing forward the computing stack with modern concepts.
And without security backports...
Because pressing "hide" and moving on isn't enough?
> Soros and the Kochs are some of the biggest political donors and influencers and while they donate massive amounts to progressive causes and libertarian values, they have very little interest in helping working class Americans.

I think this reinforces the author's point more than opposes it. Who in their right mind thinks the Koch brothers are anything but pro-oligarchy?
The Chomsky quote is something you hear from the Left from time to time: a political theory which implies some kind of deliberate coordination between capitalists as a class. Is there a Protocols of the Elders of Capitalism which includes this as a principle, or some Omniscient Council of Capitalist Vagueness who are defining the spectrum of currently acceptable opinion?

(Not that the Left has a monopoly on conspiracy theories of course, but it should be called out whenever it appears).
Well Intel chose minix to run their often despised management engine, so their engineers saw some benefit there to the microkernel architecture. Google is putting at least nomimal developer resources into Fuschia. And the L4 microkernel and derivatives displayed that microkernels aren't doomed to be slow.

I think that Linux is probably going to be the dominant free software kernel for quite some time especially since it has finally gotten to the point of at least receiving nominal driver support by hardware manufacturers. So Hurd will be a curiosity for now but considering its history it is still very cool that development continues. Whether it will become useful in ways that Linux is not remains to be seen.
Even if not tier 1 or whatever, I still sort of expected it to be there, as the port certainly exists and is still alive.
In theory I agree with your stance.

OTOH, in the real world, almost all websites that I've got to migrate are somewhat hardcoded for one domain (I've got this side project were I do websites hosting, good recurring money, little work).

Going for /etc/hosts is the only pragmatic choice here.
Over a voice call?
Windows NT 3.51 is probably still running on a fair few embedded devices.
Puerto Rico and Hawaii apparently farm Durian.

https://www.yearofthedurian.com/2013/09/durian-in-puerto-ric...

https://www.yearofthedurian.com/2016/09/mailing-fresh-durian...
Symbian (you can still buy handsets), QNX, L4, INTEGRITY OS, GenodeOS, muen, Fuchsia.

Then you have the hybrid ones from Apple, Android with Treble (classical Linux drivers are referring to as legacy driver on the documentation) and Windows is kind of hybrid as well.

As of Catalina, Apple was very clear that the long term roadmap for their OSes is to move all drivers and kernel extensions into userspace, which will be a gradual process.
When we first discovered uranium we made drinks and lipsticks out of it. Now we use it to get insane amount of energy and bombs.

Sometimes there are decades between the "breakthrough" and the use of it. Most of the time the finale usage has not much to do with the initial breakthrough.

https://www.philips.com/c-w/malegrooming/philips-space/space...
Is the fifth error that there are only four errors?
I’ve only taken the normal train between the two cities. For the regular train when you plan 2 weeks out the prices were comparable. The slow train is only 1/2 hour slower than the accela. I found it much more comfortable than the bus and easier than driving.

The main thing to me is the comfort level and that I can do other things than concentrate on driving.
In the UK indigenous cold callers are once a month, low rent Indian based callers are three times a day. It's hard to see how local enforcement would help. I wouldn't like a penny on all incoming calls but it might be worth it.
I didn't see anything in the article about whether the surface is breathable. Assuming it is not, then how wells does skin regrow under a sealed layer?
There are other rich people that are pretty cool and whose goals align with mine: Gates finances target malaria, Bezos works on Blue Origin, Thiel founded seasteading institute, etc. My point is not that all rich people are good, but that there is no poor people team vs rich people team. We can't team up with class of people, only with individuals.
Because I trust a private company 100x more than I trust the British government which forces all ISPs to keep my browsing history for a year and then gives dozens of agencies warrantless access to this data, including agencies like the Food Standards Agency. At least a private company has a financial incentive to keep my data safe.
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What exactly didn't you like in the article? Granted, it doesn't link to science papers -- something HN seems to be very obsessed with -- but every single commentary on human nature in it is something I've seen plenty of times in my life, both in the political scene and in my neighbours.

So what exactly did you dislike?
Consider yourself lucky. It shows 114,99 EUR price to me.
> For instance i am not rich but my goals are much better aligned with goals of rich people like Elon Musk and Aubrey de Grey, than with any of poor people.

I wonder what those goals are, or whether you just have a morphed idea of what goals poor people have.
Followed all your links and found precisely nothing.

So many microkernel zealots, down vote storm ahoy. Must be annoying for those involved who are serious engineers and researchers.
“On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.”

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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Anyone, or in meaningful numbers? I'm not sure you can specify both. I "earn" around $400k USD per year and give away nearly all of it other than my housing and food.
Slightly tangential: I keep seeing Linuxbrew references on various tool installation instructions. Is Linuxbrew really gaining popularity? Why would you use it instead of your distro package management?
The L4 microkernel is currently being used by Apple in the secure enclave.

See https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209632
> I wrestle with understanding why most media are anti-Trump and anti-oligarchy, and the oligarchs are still able to control those media's use of 'left' and 'right'.

Wrestling is a good point here as in it's a show put on for the audience, and Donald Trump was playing a role in it. The idea is that the public left-vs-right in the media etc is a show put on so the people are distracted and don't realize what's going on behind the scenes. The louder the conflict, the better. If I want to relieve you of your wallet, you won't notice the slight touch while I bump into you and create a much stronger sensation by stepping on your toes.
If you look at the author's other writings, Aubrey de Grey is precisely the kind of wealthy person he thinks is looting the country at the expense of everyone else by not paying much higher taxes, though. Framing the discussion in terms of "the oligarchy" and "puppet masters" just makes for better rhetoric than telling us that he wants to turn the rest of the populace against the top few percent whilst leaving the handful of ultra-wealthy people relatively untouched (which is what his actual policies seem to do).
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Deliberate implies documented in your comment. Of course it's implicit in this scenario. I suppose not much of the conversation in 100k/plate dinner fundraisers is about the weather.
I'd be interested in a source. I wonder how a giant mirror could persist in space without being shattered by debris and other elements hitting it from time to time.
It's actually really nice to be able to specify a hostname without having to rely on a zillion other services to b available and work. Heck.. maybe there's something wrong with the loadbalancing dns.

Keep - things - separated - isolated - small
The Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative has a nice fact sheet on back yard bird feeders and trichomonosis[1].

[1] http://www.cwhc-rcsf.ca/docs/fact_sheets/Trich_Factsheet_EN....
I've worked on l4 fwiw.

Show me those benefits on the wild. Intel's use of Minix, Qualcomm's use of l4 aren't showing me those benefits yet. If that's changed and they have I really do want to see it. Pointing out i haven't yet shouldn't be a sin, it should be quick to prove me wrong with some reasonable links with production ready more secure, more robust OSes. I'd pay performance for security and reliability in many instances. But AFAIK I can't.
That's not the GDP you are looking for. Its a miss allocation of resources. You might as well build a ten ton screw for all the benefit achieved.
QNX for one.
> That means creating a multi-racial, multi-ethnic coalition of working-class, poor and middle-class Americans who will fight for democracy and oppose oligarchy.

Arise, ye workers from your slumber,

Arise, ye prisoners of want.

For reason in revolt now thunders,

and at last ends the age of cant!

There might not be right vs left, but the article definitely hits some familiar notes
Surprised to see the same number for Monotone than for Mercurial.
I use this and it works great. Especially in combination with https://github.com/jedisct1/bitbar-dnscrypt-proxy-switcher (and its dependency Bitbar), which gives you a little icon in the taskbar to monitor and manage the dnscrypt settings. (mac os x)
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