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A dictator is not elected. It specifically means people do not choose the leader, whereas in a democracy you do have the power vote for candidates and run for office yourself.

Capitalism is nothing but an economic system where an individual owns the means to production. That's it. Nothing more. You take the risks, create leverage, and either suffer the failure or enjoy the profit. Nobody needs to give you permission or gets to tell you what to do. It's the ultimate freedom to create your own living.

Many complaints about capitalism are just complaints about life not being fair. In that case, there is absolutely no other system that will give you more opportunity.

Instead of telling me my question is wrong or saying I have inherent biases, why not provide the actual argument? Otherwise I can just do the same to you and we end up nowhere.

Again, if those at the bottom are at a sufficient level of comfort, then there is no need to take from those above. And if political power is properly isolated from the influence of wealth, just about every issue with the wealthy now will go away.
Ask HN: Is AWS EC2 down for anyone else?
My instances are not responding and I cannot reboot or stop them or launch new ones.
I found the answer: https://github.com/PaulBatchelor/Sporth/issues/23
Look for consulting work or start you own business. If you are difficult and not a team player, you are going to have a hard time in teams regardless of your ninja rockstar abilities. But there are plenty of opportunities for a sole developers where you might thrive.
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Show HN: Just finished my SciFi novella about a boy battling a computer AI
I love SciFi and have always wanted to see if I could contribute to the genre. After three years working in my off time I am finishing my SciFi novella about a young boy battling a computer. Looking for an agent now if anyone knows about the world of publishing, thanks!

Title: Crash Dump: How Peter Gustafson Defragmented the World

Options Title: The Blackout

Genre: Middle grade / Young adult SciFi Dark Comedy

Author: Girl Phillips

Word Count: ~40,000

Website: http://CrashDumpTheBook.com

Full Book PDF: https://www.pdf-archive.com/2019/11/11/crashdumpfullbookpdf/crashdumpfullbookpdf.pdf

Comp. Titles:

Ready Player One - Ernest Cline

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

The Futurological Congress - Stanisław Lem

Logline: In the distant future our young hero, Peter Gustafson finds himself in a battle of wits against the greatest AI ever created. Peter is conflicted when the machine tries to recruit him to help launch a satellite that can scan, upload and defragment all of Earth's data but must destroy the planet in the process.
This essentially means the web is too difficult for some users and they need something else, like maybe an app store. Maybe some company will win big by providing a safer (or apparently safer) alternative?

Previous examples: Gmail had a better spam filter. Apple and Google did a better (though not perfect) job of protecting users from arbitrary code execution, as did the web itself, way back when.

This doesn't happen all that often, but if it succeeds, power users will scoff at how nerfed the new thing is.

I'm reminded of an old story [1] about an early game for children:

> I found myself unable to reconcile the idea of a virtual world, where kids would run around, play with objects, and chat with each other without someone saying or doing something that might upset another. Even in 1996, we knew that text-filters are no good at solving this kind of problem, so I asked for a clarification: "I’m confused. What standard should we use to decide if a message would be a problem for Disney?"

> The response was one I will never forget: "Disney’s standard is quite clear: No kid will be harassed, even if they don’t know they are being harassed."

But maybe text filters will be better if you throw enough machine learning at the problem?

[1] http://habitatchronicles.com/2007/03/the-untold-history-of-t...
And yet, you know this will not happen, because it wont yield the best and most profitable model for Google.

Google will do what they have always done, ignore privacy, train models on full data, apologize later ans delete data when no longer needed.

You dont know this, but people at Google are Gangsters and bullies
They dont give a hoot about laws in Europe, about privacy or any of that. They think they are right and that everyone else is wrong.

See the guy above who said this is for the collective good, even though everyone who knows even a little bit stats and machine learning knows full well that these sort of sensitive data will lead to unimaginable grief for outlier patients. In particular, because Google cares about money, and not the collective good!

Everyone should be outraged, it is the only rational reponse.
Currently building some IoT stuff and need a maker friendly data plan vendor that has an API of some sorts.
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A self inflicted result to a large extent
Yes, here is the

1. British version https://www.contactleft.co.uk/british-military-section-and-p...

2. American version https://fas.org/irp/doddir/army/tc3-21-60.pdf
It’s information for fingerprinting, sure, but not sharing the page you’re visiting from for every link click is much more important for privacy IMO.
This is great news, very excited to see the fruits of this labor.

Skip to here for a bit more info: https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988#issuecomment-55267449...

An explanation of the problem and the solution's approach: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x_VrNtXCup75qA3glDd2fQOB...
And your view on carbon taxes?

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/10/carbon-tax-most-powerful-way...
You are misreading the article you are citing. Quoting your article, "Contrary to misrepresentations in the media, this risk need not arise from spontaneous malevolent consciousness. Rather, the risk arises from the unpredictability and potential irreversibility of deploying an optimization process more intelligent than the humans who specified its objectives." See paperclip maximizer. Even that is too narrow for the questions they asked IMO - someone who says that the development of an artificial intelligence will be "on balance bad" could be thinking that this AI would be in the hands of the 1% and so further contribute to inequality, even if it doesn't act unpredictably.
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Yet... it does go like this. Art is similar: You cannot simply change a watercolor that much in the middle of painting, for example, so if I have some surrealist scene in my head, I need to at least have the concept laid out before starting to paint. I can do this with acrylic to a point and to a lesser point, oils.

Same thing with writing. Yes, you are literally making things up and inventing new things, but that doesn't mean that one is writing freely and not needing to edit along the way. Outlines give framework, and editing gives time to reflect and plan things that might not have been planned in the beginning. I'm not saying that no one works this way - just sits and writes, or does freehand paintings (I do this last one, even with watercolor, and accept a certain failure rate) - but how one works doesn't really reflect on their creativity nor how their creativity works.
systemd-networkd handles network configuration.

For WiFi, you still need WPA supplicant or similar, but you'll have those two things playing together.
Every time I see engineering projects like this semi-submersible, where massive teams work multiple years to deliver a highly complex project that has never been built before, I feel that the field of software engineering is immature and mostly a joke.

If every IT project with an equivalent number of man hours as this ship would produce a physical artifact like this, the sea would be full with abandoned Frankenstein ships, and not a many would actually function. I’m glad that software is invisible, mostly.
This also shows one of the things that Perl was great at in the past: Personalities. Despite "Just Another Perl Hacker" being a common meme, there were some people who just stood out. Wall, Schwartz, Christiansen, Conway.

I think this is important for a language and IMHO current Perl can't compete with that. For a while Ruby had a pretty colorful and productive batch, and of course Go has some elder statesmen of the industry.

JavaScript... Well, it certainly has a lot of coaches.
The deeper problem isn't the perfection of fakes. It is the further onslaught of social destruction of perceived/accepted 'truth' as everything always could be fake by the mere acceptance of the potential existence of the technology.

It is the bad actors getting of the hook more than the bad actors framing the innocent.
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It is not, because it's made of modules that do one thing very well which are then woven together, to work in unison, which is opt-in for distribution maintainers to configure.

systemd at it's core is very much adhering to UNIX principles.
Um, yes. From the article:

"The simplest and most common way to implement indexing is by naming files in a directory:"

mydata/
2019-Jan.csv
2019-Feb.csv
2019-Mar.csv
2019-Apr.csv

Um.
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How do you feel about a free tier vs a reasonable try before you buy?
> Hilariously, OpenBSD is closer to systemd in its philosophy than anything else ...

Hilariously, this is premise is entirely wrong.

> ... one umbrella project developing all parts of the OS, often depending on each other.

Systemd is not the OS. Full stop.
Update: this seems to affect Frankfurt on all accounts I've tried.
Could you share better your experience? And why do you think it's a pointless exercise?
> There might be a good reason why code developed under extreme focus also tends to be inscrutable to others.

Wow. I have never thought about it this way. That's quite a profound insight. Thanks.
Same here, we are on eu-central-1
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I hate clickbait as much as the next person but in this case... aren't the people you're talking about the people you want to read the article?
I totally agree that mentors and mentees should be free in their choice with whom they partner. So if you had bad experience with your mentors it should be easy and penalty free for you to change.

On the other hand, I would decline to mentor you:

> I am extremely suspicious of any such one-on-one arrangements when there are no written records and opportunities for challenging unfair assessments formally.

I'm not interested in wasting my time with a mentee on bureaucracy instead of actually mentoring. Luckily, there are many different workplaces we can pick from, so your need for proper documentation can be satisfied while my wish to use the time for mentoring is also satisfied (possibly in different places).

> I can already predict that there will be more people who think they can mentor than people who think they can improve.

I love to be a mentee. It usually feels better to learn than to teach. It also increases your value more. I quite often struggle that I don't have a mentor (and it is a good reason to change workplace). As compensation, I frequently send out mentees to learn new stuff and teach it to me.
Yes, eu-central-1c all instances down. A lot of services responding with 503, console has problems as well (errors loading services, API calls with 503). Started 7:29 UTC.

We saw also connection timeouts to DynamoDB and Kinesis from ec2 instances.

Update from AWS:

12:08 AM PST We are investigating increased network connectivity errors to instances in a single Availability Zone in the EU-CENTRAL-1 Region.

12:28 AM PST We are experiencing elevated API error rates and network connectivity errors in a single Availability Zone. We have identified the root cause and are working to resolve the issue.
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Isn't this the promise made by SAP HANA?
We're on eu-central-1 as well, one AZ of 3 unresponsive
But then systemd is multiple binaries, each doing one thing. The only two that are really intertwined are systemd and journald.
Let me speculate that the bombers are not named Nils or Astrid.
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Aren't people 70 water by mass?
Why pools are better than deadlines in a disciplined delivery of value?
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They also couldn't be further from its philosophy.

Systemd: let's break and change how everything works. You need to relearn everything.

OpenBSD: things work largely the way they've worked for decades. Even as parts of the system are rewritten, the user experience remains very much like it was before, and often the old way of configuring and using things works exactly as before even if the underlying tools have seen a complete rewrite.
You don't know if your extrapolation will be true. Maybe this tech is different. There's no doubt that it will change society. It is a revolution. It's impossible to predict the outcome of revolutions.
There’s no sensible use case for one that isn’t more effectively satisfied with a plug-in hybrid?
Everything in eu-central-1c was affected. All ec2 servers where not available. We are still experiencing issues because autoscaling to other AZs is not working.
> picking and choosing pieces of it is far more work than a typical package maintainer takes on.

Not necessarily. RHEL does not ship gummiboot, timesyncd or networkd for example; it uses grub, chrony, NetworkManager. On my raspberry pis running Debian I have systemd as pid 1, one runs ConnMan (it connects to wireless) and the other runs networkd (it connects to Ethernet).
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I think that can happen even without the mentoring context. Office politicians know how to throw bombs even when they just say hi.

However, I agree that in order for mentoring to be formal it has to be written down, or at least the progress tracked.

Also, where is your manager if you can't report to him such bad things? I think that the bad mentors you had are a consequence of a bigger issue you had at your company.
Do you do that by memory? Or do you have some text indexing tool that helps?
NK still has nukes so no. On the other hand he cannot possibly deserve it less than Obama or the EU, so ...

Obama got the peace prize before even entering office and EU is a study in dysfunction ...
Yes, I can confirm that, 1c is down; we can't even stop machine on that zone.
For this reason I created https://www.apilope.com - you can trigger hosted API tests from your CI workflow as well.
Trial period? Hmm, I think they're both equivalent to me. I just want to give the platform a shot before I commit.

Geocod.io has a free tier and we used it at work until we bought the full thing. Google Cloud has a trial and I activated it and then didn't use it so I didn't actually get to try it.

So not quite equivalent, I suppose, since the lock-in is tighter with free tier. You never put anything critical on trial but you do on free tier.
How come organized criminals use bombs in Sweden but rarely anywhere else? IMO bombs are more like the M.O of terrorists. If a gang wanted to scare or take out a rival, there must be more efficient ways. A bomb not only draws unwanted attention from the public and authorities, you also run the risk of hurting the wrong people.

(Edit: Am a Swede, and live nearby the Linköping bomb site that hurt 25 this June..)
That's pretty unfair to the non-humans that put out quality content, though.
> your nearby is 110 meters, so slightly out of the range for most European countries.

« Every » rather than « most », 100m seems to be the Eastern European limit and going down the list in western or northern Europe the limits seem far lower, usually 20 to 50. Furthermore pedestrians not following this often does not absolve drivers from any (let alone all) responsibility.
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My initial response to your comment was "but then the page requires JS", which of course is not true, since a simple inline form could POST and then a redirect could get you back.

I'm no webdev, I think JS has been hyped so much around me I forgot plain html can actually do things...
Some of my instances are responding now, but not all services seem to be up yet
On iOS?

AFAIK that's not allowed for iOS software, all programs must work even if the permissions are denied or redacted.
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Whats going on? Are you serious??? African and Muslim immigration is going on. Everybody knows it, but the machine must go on so dont tell anybody. But you can sleep well knowing that people got what they voted for.
To be fair for #11, it appears to be a blog, so that kinda makes sense. But with only 9 entries, it's a bit odd. No excuse for #10 though!
The myth of UNIX philosophy, that is why Solaris, HP-UX, Aix, DG-UX, SGI ... had so many tools with endless list of options and their own service managers much like in what systemd has followed up on.
Norway is different from Iceland, which is a key reason why Iceland suffered. Settlers brought along practices that had worked for centuries in Norway, but Iceland's soil and geology are very different from Norway, and its native flora and fauna differ too.

There are no trees there because that's above the timber line. The photo on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_line is realistic, the trees do cease suddenly, the horizontal line is clearly visible in the landscape. That photo was taken 100-200m above above the timber line, if my memory of the landscape isn't too bad.

The larger point is that no, that landscape wouldn't be usable for wheat or for hardier crops like rye or potatoes. Some of the world is usable for wheat, some is too barren. One way to get human food from barren landscape is to let animals graze.

We mostly live in cities (built on and) surrounded by flat, fertile farmland, so it's easy to forget that barren areas such as mountains and deserts even exist. But they do exist, quite a lot by area, and can provide animal food without displacing wheat etc.

(Writing this makes me wonder about a farm where I've stayed a few times. Flat, lush landscape, near a river, but the farmer told me that the soil was completely unusable for growing food crops. Only grazing suited the land. I wonder what invisible factors may make land unsuited for food crops.)
Nope, combustion engines generate MUCH more heat than electric engines. Also they don't use exhaust to cool the engine, with all due respect, your argument is entirely backwards. It will be easier to cool electric engines and they will need smaller radiators (if any, have you seen radiators on engines in drones?). More probable is that you will need to heat batteries so that they don't freeze at higher altitudes.
This is great for things with clear value, such as a photograph you are already licensing for a specific fee. However, I can't imagine this is very effective for anything less clear-cut, as it seems hard to guess what the settlement will be.
> If systemd (the project) were truly a collection of modular components you could pick and choose, you wouldn't need journald and you'd be able to run syslog like it's the 90s.

Journald and udevd are exactly the only piece of systemd that systemd's pid 1 requires, and udevd can be used independent of systemd's pid 1.

I just think of journald as a piece of the init system that is split to a separate process, and provides log data to other programs.
Thanks for your input. I have no exp at all on db internals, but could you expand your thoughts on the possibility of moving critical (storage layer?) parts to Rust and leave all the networking stuff/rest in Go? Similar to what TiDb have done?
But are the billionaires the ones actually responsible for creating all that value? Is Bezos actually responsible for 10 000x the value of what Amazon produces than a worker? If Bezos didn't exist, there would be another "Bezos". He just happened to be there at the right time and do the right things. We discount all the effects that luck and society play in making a "Bezos". The company is what is providing that huge amount of value, not the person.
Seconded. Just to be clear asdf manages interpreters, not project dependencies. It actually uses pyenv under the hood to manage Python versions. I use it to manage Elixir and Python versions and it works rather well. I also find its CLI interface well designed and consistent.
Can anyone else see the waterslide up on the tower next to the bridge?
You can use systemd without almost all of the sideparts.

No need to use networkd for example, networkmanager works great along systemd.

Actually most my systems use only systemd and journalctl to my knowledge. I prefer my established tools for all other jobs.
i am looking for a mentor. I have 3 years of expirience of programming profesionaly. Currently working as a backend java spring programmer.
I am on this weird spot where I am not junior anymore but I feel like my skills lacking big time to advance to mid / senior
I think you can find interesting problems in the most mundane of subjects, not much meaning though.
It's something a little bit bigger, but it gives you a good idea of what's used to propel ships.
Reminiscent of "The War for the Alon" in Ursula Le Guin's Changing Planes.
Doesn't necessarily imply that in general, sure, but for the specific cases of systemd and timesyncd/gummiboot/nspawn, they are in fact trivially separable. I'm pretty sure that's even the out-of-the-box config of Debian.
This is slightly missing the point. Lots of successful large scale databases have been written in garbage collected languages, including for example Cassandra and ElasticSearch. They're completely fine.

What's important to notice though is that what really matters about latency and predictability is _relative_ performance.

Now there is a category of databases that are built for speed of response first, some of which have some pretty spaced out architecture under the hood. Aerospike comes to my mind, together with ScyllaDB or Redis maybe. They trade off this speed with massive compromises in complexity, consistency and scalability.

GC would be disastrous for these, so they're all written in C(++).

The main premise of CockroachDB is geographic replication, durability and scalability while maintaining full consistence and serialization.

In order just to keep these promises, a large part of the design of Cockroach is that the DB needs to keep _waiting_ most of the time of any request until all geo replicated shards are consistent. We're talking dozens to hundreds of milliseconds here. And even if that wasn't the case, a full GC of 100 microseconds probably isn't even noticeable compared with the weight of complex SQL query planning and execution.

You may stink a lot of valid points about Go, but this isn't one of them.
Sorry I don’t get it?
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As the article states, many have grown up in Sweden, so the recent immigration waves that the alt right claims have ruined Sweden are probably not the sole cause. The question is why there has been such a sharp rise in bombings. Personally I'd look at what has changed on the drug markets recently instead of immigration policies.
It's only modular when it's used like that in practice. I write a lot of "modular" stuff, but it tangles violently first time you actually try to use it in a modular fashion.
They grew up in Sweden but they are second or third generation immigrants (per the article). They are a direct cause of admitting their parents or grandparents. That’s why I said they are not named Nils or Astrid...
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The article draws comparisons to Mexico, where bombs are a part of gang warfare.

Guns are efficient killing machines but I'd argue they represent a greater chance of being caught when attempting to kill or injure a lot of people at once.

And this is terrorism, per the article, it's just seen as intra gang, not general public. That's also a +1 for a bomb, which can be hidden in plain sight and doesn't have to "work" to be good as a deterrent for rival gangs.