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The concerns about Libra mentioned in this article don't seem like big ones to me.

during times of economic crisis, citizens may abandon national currencies in favor of Libra

But Libra's value is defined by a peg to a basket of national currencies. It's half dollars. Realistically, any country having trouble with their citizens abandoning their currency for Libra is going to have more trouble with their citizens abandoning their currency for dollars.

Watchdogs are particularly concerned about Libra’s possible use by criminals to launder money and finance terrorism.

Isn't Bitcoin going to be a lot better for this? Libra is going to be a lot more controllable by the government than Bitcoin.

I am not planning on acquiring any Libra, but it seems like it could be useful to some people. Basically if you want "Venmo but on Facebook", it could be possible that Libra would offer you a lower-fee way to do it.
And the SFW "luckedcompany.com" with the same backend but different theme.
Having a degree or special title doesn't mean you're any smarter than others and not having one doesn't mean you aren't.
And in your mind, this obsession is necessary for achieving your revolutionary ideas?

That seems obviously false on its face, a ridiculous assertion. The timelines may have been longer for some of the things you mentioned, but you think they simply would not have happened without people putting in long hours each week?

> I'm getting "burned out" of these nihilistic work life balance articles.

Can you explain why Nihilistic? It seems like the opposite -- you should be enjoying your life, your family, your friends, your hobbies, your job. I see articles like this as a valuable counterpoint to the oppressively common idea that we all should be working ourselves to death every day.
Won’t the politicians just give even more money to the universities? Paint the chancellor’s office, get a check from the government. Cancel the football team, as it’s no longer politically correct, get even more funding.
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Apologies for being a little off-topic, but what online vendors did you use? Asking because I have the very same issue in New England.
It's something like 84% sodium chloride (aka salt) and 16% minerals and micronutrients found naturally in sea water.
I enjoy them both equally. I also like Die Hard 3 just as much as the first two. The rest aren’t worth two hours.
Nobel Economist Milton Friedman, for one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzYgiOC9cj4 If you watch to the end he fully explains how the net effect of unions is to raise the pay of high paid workers and lower the pay of low paid workers.

You might also like "Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell which talks about this phenomenon also.
> Pardon the interruption. We see you’ve read on Medium before - there’s a personalized experience waiting just a few clicks away. Ready to make Medium yours?

Why in the world do I need an account to read a glorified blog? It’s text data, I should be able to consume it with curl if I’m so inclined.
Sure, but then you could refactor most programs into "one line" (similar to what another commenter pointed out). I was expecting more of a functional piping or chaining style as opposed to distinct statements and defining local variables.
As does CIA

https://fas.org/irp/cia/product/style.pdf
This style is critical for effective remote work. I might steal or link it for our internal documentation.

So much time wasted 'handshaking' before an actual point is made before I can determine if I can spend time on the query or need to pass it on.
You’re using a cloud provider; you’re already locked in. But you’re also locked in like you’re locked in by your OS or your programming language or your ISP, which is to say: the whole point of cloud providers is to abstract away a certain set of things. You can look at it as lock-in, or as using a platform that enables you to solve the problems you care about. You can look at your OS as lock-in, or a tool that enables you to solve the problems you care about. If your goal is to provide cloud infrastructure quickly and easily and without building a data center, then lock-in doesn’t really matter. And if it does, there are more expensive, more appropriate options.
But how would you know if you only ever watched on an airplane?
Nah, you've probably just got a fragile configuration that won't scale and will cost you money in downtime, lost sales, or failure to live up to contract.

An engineer who does it right isn't going to save you much money over your best case scenario - but they're going to keep you from losing millions in the worst case scenarios.
I really agree with this. In an era where overcommitment seems to be synonymous with "work", I think people just tacitly acknowledge that not all commitments can be met. It is up to you, the employee, to correctly interpret the implied priority.
Depends on what you're looking for. I found the wheel size a bit too small.

I think this is a fair comparison and gives the advantage to the Brompton in small folded size, although its weight is not something to be taken lightly (!) http://anatolyivanov.com/prose/en/AI.7.00109/

I love the Pakit, however I like the looks of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mkzRF3trJM
https://youtu.be/xscDjAmD2MM?t=251
A lot of systems will work when the people involved are acting in good faith. And that is what's missing from the US system. US corporations and government have been captured by looters.
>"We've learned how to perceive anomalies between legitimate GNSS signals and spoofed signals by researching the variations in the satellite signals protocol and recognizing the inter-relationships between signal parameters,"

Sounds like a cat and mouse game. It only works because current spoofers are doing it sloppily. It's only a matter of time before the bad guys get their hands on this and use it to eliminate any discrepancies that the spoofers have. It doesn't sound like they found something that can't be spoofed.
Are you ready to use violence to enforce your religion of love? There is no way in hell I'd willingly submit to you drugging me.
Link to actual paper, much more interesting than the article, lots of pictures!
https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/pdf2018/fpl_2018_song001....

Prior discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16331375
>>> 1. They are immune from offshoring, which has had a huge impact on other blue collar jobs like manufacturing.

No job is immune from measures that eliminate skilled labor. Consider plumbing. Sure, you need someone to plumb a house. But where my house is plumbed with copper sweat fittings, a contemporary house is plumbed with plastic tubing and swaged fittings that take much less skill and effort. On-site carpentry work is replaced by increasing use of prefab components and things that just snap together. Jobs won't disappear overnight, but there's still a downward pressure on skilled labor content. Prefabrication could easily affect the domestic market for welders.

>>> 2. If they are a viable, and secure, path to the middle class, they should be supported.

In my view, support labor through better labor laws, and a stronger safety net that includes health care and retirement. Support education. The trades go through boom-bust cycles. The fact that politicians are talking about training more welders could be a signal of the end of a cycle. A career has to last 40 years. Which trades will be in demand in the next decades?
I think the main issue this author ran into was caused by setting the CPU requests so far below the limits. I get that he was trying to communicate the spiky nature of the workload to the control plane, but I think it would have been better to reserve CPU to cover the spikes by setting the requests higher, especially on a 1 core node.

It's important to grok the underlying systems here, imo. CPU requests map to the cpushares property of the container's cpu,cpuacct cgroup. A key thing about cpushares is that it guarantees a minimum number of 1/1024 shares of a core, but doesn't prevent a process from consuming more if they're available. The CPU limit uses the CPU bandwidth control scheduler, which specifies a number of slices per second (default 100k) and a share of those slices which the process cannot, afaik, exceed. So by setting the request to 20m and the limit to 200m the author left a lot of room for pods that look like they fit fine under normal operating conditions to spike up and consume all the CPU resources on the machine. K8s is supposed to reserve resources for the kubelet and other components on a per node basis but I'm not surprised it's possible to place these components under pressure using settings like these on a 1 core node.
I see what you're saying now, thanks for clarifying. I'm not sure how much nutrition people need in general. Perhaps we're still getting a surplus of nutrients at the current volume of food consumption, despite the loss of minerals. I am fearful of food unsecurity and malnutrition.
It's true that strlcpy is easier to use. One challenge is that strlcpy always reads its inputs to completion, even when it is not needed to make the copy, because it has to compute the total length of the screen ignoring limits. In some circumstances that is a problem.
Industrial VR/AR is above the only place it makes sense, and its failing there already. Imagine what thr future holds then for the far less compelling home use situation.

Like many other I would like to be able to keep an eye on my kids and kiss my wife while I watch tv.

I know, how disgustingly human of me, right?
Where does she get insurance for 1500 annually?
'And that doesn’t include the nearly $1,500 she pays in annual insurance premiums.'
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That is true, but I find the less than or equal to be logically clearer. YMMV.
Last year, I was looking for contracting gigs and was posting on many of the various job boards. it's amazing how many jobs are posted by recruiters.

On a site like Indeed.com, which I know pulls jobs from other sites, at least 60 or 70% of the tech jobs are posted by recruiters.
What, do you think sex-havers waste more time or something?

I don't know what point you're trying to make here. The fact that Newton did a lot of stuff doesn't mean he burned himself out with Travis Bickle hours the way modern ding dongs do to excuse not having a life.

Let's use another example of a great man who accomplished a lot without working real hard: Winston Churchill. A day drinker who was fond of long meals, boozy parties and who took a daily hour and a half long nap. Somehow he managed to take up painting, write a couple dozen encyclopediac books, ran many important government offices and defeated Hitler.

I'll go out of my way to notice that the great ancient Greek and even Roman types were all unconscionably lazy by modern American standards, and Aristotle did his best work relaxing in a bath. Darwin was lazy as was da Vinci. Being lazy is civilized and normal.

The insane "I must eat soylent and snort modafinil to maximize my productivity" calvinist mindset of contemporary American upper middle class strivers is the deviation from the mean of the human race. And don't try to tell me things are particularly amazing in current year because all these strivers are working bugman hours: this lifestyle is wretched and disgusting and our era is marked by stupidity, vice and lack of technical or cultural progress.

Laziness is aristocratic; if people would relax and smell the roses more, well, most of them won't do anything like what Newton did, but they'll have more time to be thoughtful.
I appreciate a detail of this author's writing that is not pointed out. It lacks a concluding paragraph.

I think this is a relic of gradeschool essay writing rules (i.e, Say what you are going to say, say it, say what you said).

I almost alway stop reading an article once I sense I've reached the conclusion. That means I've learned what the author wants me to learn, and all I'm going to get next is a pithy sign off.
This may not be a super credible source. Methylation and pyrroluria both raise flags for pseudoscience, and the journal is not a mental health journal but a nutrition journal. The methodology is loosely defined, as the patients were "interviewed for up to 1 hour" to determine the presence of these biochemical markers (?!) and that interview based determination played an outsize role in the intervention performed: "Considerable emphasis was given to the clinical diagnosis, as the biochemical markers are sometimes imprecise and the therapeutic decision may be made on the clinical diagnosis."

Edit: Also, I may have just skimmed too quickly, but did they not comment on any review board or ethics committee signing off on them performing clinical interventions on people with mental health disorders, which in some patients could have caused them to change or stop their prior medication? Big red flag here.
> In case of this particular deployment, these pods will change between idle/ active state multiple times every minute and spend 70%+ in idle state.

I would guess he more or less halved the price if you suppose at any minute 70% of the pods are idle, but they still consume > 0 resources, and the price per vcpu didn't change, like he said. Then you also have the overhead of running the Kubernetes processes which is cut to about 1/100th lowering the price further.

Not real numbers, but gives you an idea.
Writing this from basically a 3rd world country, Serbia, which you might have heard of in context of a series of armed conflicts, civil wars and highly corrupt governments (current one being orders of magnitude worse)...Even after all that, and civil infrastructure and industry having been bombed back 50 years into the past (by NATO), we still have free high quality education and free healthcare...Those are simply the basic functions of a society - a lot can not function and be in a bad shape, but if you don't have these - what do you have from a government? How the US managed to get it perverted to this extent, is beyond me...
I have no idea how old you are but the truth is farming techniques have changed significantly, even in the last 20 years. Nowdays if you don't consider yourself a steward of the land then you aren't doing the right thing by it.

My family are farmers in Australia. We are currently going through the worst drought we have ever had. We've had 7 inches of rain this year vs our annual rainfall of 26 inches. We are still growing a (very small) crop. This is possible because of soil conservation, no-till agriculture, and having healthy soil that conserves moisture.

Farmers who haven't adopted these techniques are bankrupt.

in the US and Europe, it is possible to not engage in best practice farming techniques, because government subsidies (20 Bn USD in America, 59 Bn Euro in the EU) remove the competitive pressures that that force best practice (it really isn't as simple as 'just forcing more production out of the soil by adding more fertilizer_.

Yes, of course there are still farmers not following best practice. It's a normal distribution
What system do you want?
Say, that's an interesting idea.

Develop a good-quality fake identity purely for skipping on medical bills.

Just to add an alternative that I've considered (now being a kind of programmer emeritus) is to go into a full-tilt asset hiding mode. There's just too many ways to lose your hoard of cash.
I couldn't believe when I first heard about this -- Trump doing something potentially beneficial. Sounds like it will have no actual impact, but I hope it does.
K8s nodes are going to work much better with more CPUs (to a certain extent). As the post said when you have idle and busting pods, you need headroom. If you have single CPU nodes, your bursting pods are going to more often oversubscribe the node as the pool size is smaller. If you had 3 pods per CPU and on average one bursts out of 3 out during any time period, There's a chance you can have 2, or 3 go and cause pods to be evicted and moved. But if they were on 16 CPU nodes it averages out more. Also single CPU clusters will still need to run their network layer, kublet etc.

As far as the 96 CPU instance that really isn't good either unless your pods were all taking 1+ CPUs each. Even then, I'd rather run 6 x 16 CPU. There's a pod limit cap of ~110 per node, and also not to mention the loss of redundancy. I find 16-32 CPU nodes the best balance.
You get what you incentivize. Produce is typically sold by weight.
>acid producing bacteria thrive on refined sugars

The way my dentist put it, and it's stuck with me, is: Tooth decay is caused by the bacteria in your mouth eating sugar and peeing acid.
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They really do -- they are the editors of the science humor magazine "Annals of Improbable Research". But I think part of the issue is the the name "Ig Nobel" which implies that they are claiming the science is bad, which they really aren't (in general). From time to time there are occasional awards that are given as a criticism, but most of them are in good fun and the awardees aren't insulted by the award at all.
" they set their prices by taking the Medicare reimbursement rate, and multiplying by 8."

lol. Seriously? Well it's a simple system.

I wonder what happens when it's Medicare-for-all. Do they make 1/8 as much all of a sudden?
You mixed that up! Apple's competitor to Dropbox isn't cross-platform but Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive definitely are.

In contrast MoviePass was truly 'cross-platfrom' while the new alternatives (A-List etc Al) mostly work within one theater chain.
Which metrics do you measure, optimize for your web services? P90 & P99?

Why would health care be any different?
I think that we are fascinated with Rome because it resembles our own modern cities. The aqueduct provided water to peoples' private homes, to businesses, to bath houses that had steam rooms and heated pools, to public fountains.
> As far as the 96 CPU instance that really isn't good either unless your pods were all taking 1+ CPUs each. Even then, I'd rather run 6 x 16 CPU. There's a pod limit cap of ~110 per node, and also not to mention the loss of redundancy. I find 16-32 CPU nodes the best balance.

Agreed, this is the other side of the node sizing question. At the low end you have to consider what your most resource hungry workloads need (and we use nodepools to partition our particularly edge-casey things), and then at the upper end you don't want the failure of one node to take out half your stuff.
it absolutely can scale and does scale. It is being done at scale right now.

My experience was the opposite of yours. We found through experimentation that the flavor of the crop was directly related to the mineral concentration in the solution. We too had bland crop, but a little research suggested we starve our plants of water. In other words, if you want more flavor, increase the concentration of nutrients. It was easy to check the PPM and pH of the water with two devices you can get on Amazon for under $20. We also used timers.

Our organic farming required a dump truck load of compost, while the hydroponics was about a 5 lb bag of minerals and used about 10% of the water as the soil based. It's much more efficient. In the back yard, it's not that big a deal, but at scale, farming is largely about material movement.

The amount of labor to run an organic farm was incredible. It's also expensive and requires heavy equipment to scale a large farm. Hydroponics not as much, because there is no soil to move, which is heavy! Tilling, raking, tons of fertilizer and pesticides distributed across acres by machines and planes. Whereas hydroponics does that all just by pumping water, which is already being done in those same industrial farms.

Hydroponics requires a lot less labor. Just more thinking. You have to research. You have to engineer things. But you lift less. You move less. Physically its easier. Yes, it's harder because you have to think smarter, but it's not more labor intensive, precisely the opposite.
That was tried during the Clinton administration. Result: many doctors dropped all their Medicare patients, making it impractical for Medicare patients to find a doctor to treat certain conditions.
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Only if they sell the debt to a creditor (hospitals and doctors can’t garnish wages) sue you, win, and pursue the judgement. And then they can only take from your disposable income (after rent, food, other bills, etc.)

And you can wipe out all of it by filing bankruptcy.
Well if you want my honest opinion that statement sounds accurate to me...

There’s a difference between being respectful and walking on egg shells. I can respect you and still say, bluntly and to your face, that you’re wrong. In fact, I think not doing that would be disrespectful.

The title was tongue-in-cheek. It communicates a concept compactly. It’s direct and draws attention. It’s hyperbolic, but hyperbole is a legitimate literary tool. I am sorry if people are taking it too literally and somehow making it about them and their insecurities and being offended. But I think that’s as much on them as it is on the title.

This word police thing is sort of annoying and pedantic. If you actually read the article it’s unboxed and explained carefully and fully. That’s what matters.
That's what I was thinking. Free to use Ruby any way you want, but this is not code I would be happy to see in my codebase.
I would argue that patents simply shouldn’t apply to this arena. It’s barely understood enough today, and locking things up with patents will only hold it back for society and concentrate power in the hands of a few.
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Both those links refer to specific infection outbreaks, that health authorities feared (rightly or wrongly) may escalate into global pandemics. Both were contained due mostly to medical systems implementing standard procedures for controlling outbreaks. Checking some people at some border crossings may have helped somewhat, but it was only one part of a much broader response.

The point stands; no recent, serious infectious outbreak can be blamed on immigration - authorised or not - any more than any can be blamed on tourism.

It's just not a serious part of the discussion, and it is likely invoked as an attempt to cast certain classes of foreigners as unclean and trigger susceptible people's disgust response.
It's a very small niche, and it peaked around the 2017 holiday season. The VR game thing didn't sell. Except for Beat Saber.

John Carmack, in a recent talk, doesn't seem to consider VR as a way to visit a virtual environment any more. It's just a way to get a wider field of view of screen space in a mobile-sized package. Watching Netflix with VR goggles emulating a wide screen, for people who don't have enough space for a wide screen, is seen as a primary use.
Another thing to keep in mind is that CPU rate is a compressible resource, unlike memory or disk space. It’s fine to briefly oversubscribe CPU. No terrible thing will happen.
I agreed above that for trivial things an explanation is unnecessary.

> It isn't that there is no advantage in explaining things, but often times the enlisted really don't want to listen to some officer drone on about why something is being done.

From my experience this mostly happens when the explanation is either blatant lying, or if its true and reveals that incompetence at a higher level than the officer delivering the message has generated a bunch of unnecessary work for the unit.

More commonly I hear Soldiers saying "This is stupid, why are we doing this?" to their comrades and NCOs. Usually followed by the Soldiers doing whatever it is to the minimal accepted standard.
Specialized care is not synonymous with boutique care. We have a robust research and development economy in the US that will continue to exist without the perverse incentives of private insurance.