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> K8S doesn't eliminate the workflow for "deployments, upgrades, monitoring, etc.." it just black boxes them. It also assumes out of the gate that everything needs to be able to do HA, scale for 1,000,000 instances/s etc...

What I've seen, anecdotally, is that many ops-background people don't "get" why kubernetes is such a big deal. They assert rightfully that they can already do everything, they already know how to do everything, and they can do it without the overhead (both cognitively and in terms of resource utilization) of k8s.

But, if you are writing and deploying code - especially if you're not in a terribly agile organization - k8s eases so many real pain points that "old" models have which ops teams may be only vaguely aware of. If you need a certain dependency, if you need to deploy any new software, an entire new language or approach, if you need a new service, you now have the ability to directly do it immediately.

I can't tell you what a big deal it is going to be for a developer at a random bigco to be able to run their code without waiting for ops to craft a VM with all the right bits for them.

k8s solves real problems. If you have a monolith and need to solve how to scale it, that's not where k8s shines. But with lots of small workloads, or dynamic workloads, or existing dev vs ops organizational hurdles, it can really be a game changer.
I like Perl a lot, it is the language I have used the most in my professional career. That being said, on my last two workplaces it happened to be in the list of forbidden technologies, not even being able to write a simple one liner and instead having to resort to using awk, sed and the like. It sadly suffers from underserved hate from developers who never used it.
They outright covered songs in those early albums, but refused to pay royalties. I don't remember what their argument was.
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I frequently install Gitea on Debian. Therefore I prepared an installer to do it:

https://github.com/emrahcom/emrah-buster-templates#eb-gitea
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At least in New York the state dept of labor unemployment page is broken under the server stress and untold numbers of people haven’t been able to login and file claims.
Thank you so much for posting this - can now work through all of the programmes while stuck indoors! Such wonderful nostalgia.
The conceptually consistent approach would note that a "long running polling job" is not a function. Architecturally this seems to necessitate a traditional non-FaaS foundation of some sort. A "long running job" (aka as a process in the entirely unhip ancient history of IT) can call from this foundation to "functions" that perform a poll on a resource.

I look at your scenario's stated requirements and wonder how did an asset deployment requirement morph into a operational and computational model requirement.
Yeah, the idea that programming languages should be more like human languages seemed promising at the time. Perl showed us that we definitely does not want that.
Hey I agree with you, but I am not a health worker. I think we need to remember what spawned this thread and not move the goalposts for talking points.

Even if you are not showing symptoms stay inside so you are not spreading the disease. Getting tested won’t prevent the spread, staying isolated will.

Look at China.
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This might be the most unethical thread I've ever read on HN, and that takes a lot. Shame on you.
Neither ReasonML nor BuckleScript are really OCaml descendants. ReasonML is a different syntax for OCaml, with even closer match than CoffeeScript 1.x had to JS. Compiled ReasonML code cannot be distinguished from code that was written in OCaml. BuckleScript OTOH is a set of forks of older compiler versions which have a JS backend. It works with both Reason and OCaml syntax.

ReasonML therefore is much closer to the revised OCaml syntax (a failed previous alternate syntax) than it is to its own language.
Just been bitten by the plugin issue after an apt upgrade.

First time it happened for me and I was pretty angry at it
Ahoy!

These folks seem to me to be the least, uh, starry-eyed of the would-be Foundationites, but my knowledge is not comprehensive, eh? I only know about these folks because I'm interested in their underlying graph-based Prolog-implemented database, TerminusDB. ( https://terminusdb.com/ )

- - - -

FWIW, I view the Internet et. al. as a kind of GAI with humans for neurons. From that POV Seshat is one of many ways in which we/it are becoming self-aware.
It's not 1700 anymore. Infrastructure is order of magnitude better. Real estate is way more expensive. It's cheaper to rent exploited worker to clean than it would be to house the slave for that on average.
Are you aware of a quantitative model relating economic losses to loss of life / quality-of-life? I see this claim repeated over and over, but after hours of searching I can't find any quantitative models. If such a class of models did exist, we could weigh it against various SIR models and make an actual assessment. Without that economic model, the decision calculus you're suggesting we make isn't really possible.

Also: even that conversation seems like a huge false choice. Why not just give up on market capitalism for a few quarters and make sure everyone is fed/clothed/sheltered? It's not like houses disappear overnight if rent/mortgages aren't paid. And it's not like we've never suspended capitalism in the past -- the federal government put in price controls, effectively nationalized industries/supply chains, etc. during WWWII. And then we returned to capitalism afterward.

> But nah, the "market" apparently entirely consists of assholes on Wall Street playing Capitalism II and lobbying governments for payouts. No way it has any real impact!

TBF, those are the folks getting most of the economic relief so far. And not just from recent Congressional action. Somehow when it comes to ensuring liquidity in certain financial markets, the federal government can move mountains in minutes. But when it comes to people having a safe place to sleep and food to eat we're the mercy of the invisible hand.

Why can't e.g. HUD, unilaterally and without congressional action, create "liquidity in the housing market" by making enormous zero-interest loans to everyday folk whenever they feel like that's necessary?

People who trade in equities and bonds have enormously powerful economic backstops, which people who merely pay rents and mortgages and buy food do not have.
Dyson is building 15,000 ventilators to fight Covid-19
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Dependency management can be a pain. Want to install numpy? You have to use alpine's version because compiling it from pip requires glibc.
> I made a little Ruby script (https://github.com/bhaak/github-feeds) that outputs static RSS files but you would expect that GitHub would have exported those by themselves.

Hmm, that looks likes exactly the target use case for GitHub Actions... running the static export script on every issue/PR would work well. My next weekend project seems to be this... :-)
They should stop quoting the 'death rate' as being so different.

Countries that do more widespread testing have a lower rate of death / those tested, but that's not the 'death rate'.

What we need to start doing now is random samples of 1K completely random people. We need to get a grip on how prevalent the disease is in the population at large, not just those who went for tests.
No, this is faster than e.g. the Roche tests mentioned here last week, it will give you the first test result after two and a half hours, while the Roche one will take three and a half hours to give you the first result. So it is faster.

But it will give you the second test result after five hours, while the Roche machine will give you the second result after three and a half hours, too. As well as the third, the fourth, and the fifth. Oh, and the onehundredandninetysecond one, too. In the 24 hours the Bosch machine produces ten results, the Roche one will produce more than fourthousand results.
Even if the lineage dies with PHP, that pulls in Facebook and WordPress.

Smarty could possibly take credit for inspiring some of the template engines out there also.
Put the web form (plain static assets JS/CSS/HTML) on a globally accessible CDN. Then use SQS intake for each unemployment application form. Then firehouse it out, wherever it needs to go, at a rate which you can realistically deal with it.

Queuing access to the form itself and telling someone to wake up at 4:52 AM so they can then merely access the static assets is a less-than-desirable user experience.
Clickbait title during hard times and then account-wall.

Can it scream "do not read, there's nothing useful here" any louder?
Ping me in case you are interested to jump in on the coding side (e.g. charts, maps & mobile support are on the roadmap).

The app is created using the neo.mjs framework => it runs inside a webworker.
But if you catch co19 t-0 after leaving the testing site then you can spread it, right?

So what is testing the world going to solve if no one is preventing the spread of contamination? Because the answer is that you will only overwhelm hospital resources

Look at China.
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...an RFC that was written in 1995, before NAT was really necessary.

My view: If it forwards IP between different networks, it's a router.
the welfare state expanded dramatically after the new deal, but that reversed with the turn toward austerity in the late 70s. "the government" is an overly broad way of speaking about this, as it places budgeting for defense contracts & bailing out finance capital, or monetary policy geared toward preventing the labor market from getting tight (as opposed to full employment) under the same umbrella as tanf & snap.
Perhaps Electron/PWA should be seen as a last resort, not the norm, reserved for exactly such a situation: when you don’t have the resources to build native for all platforms.
I'm overseas now, and using one of these crappy ISP-provided routers. I miss my nice Linksys router back home with high-density mesh, tri-band WiFi, and four gigabit ethernet ports.
I mean, you can tell the numbers are extremely inaccurate via just a simple, cursory glance at the report.

Pennsylvania reported 378k claims.

California reported... 186k claims.

Yesterday, California's governor said they've received more than 1 million claims since March 13th (so, over a 12 day period from the 13th to the 25th). This DOL report covers March 14th through the 21st.

Are we to believe that the remaining 800k+ people all filed on March 13th, or March 22nd through the 25th?

But there's more. Utah reported an increase of only 9 claims compared to the week before. They went from 1,305 to 1,314.

Then, New York, where more than half of Covid-19 cases in the US are, reported only 80k?
Behavioral ‘nudges’ are ineffective at encouraging people to carpool
You can get a brand new Mellanox card for $210 from their website, shell out $215 and you can get 25G ethernet. It's not really that much to pay once you consider it an expensive component (like a NVMe drive) rather than something that's virtually free (like a 8GB flash drive). The sad truth is that a 10G NIC is something that requires a reasonable amount of modern silicon to produce, so it's not going to be cheap (yes they were producing them back in the 130nm era but that was an act of insanity).
And/or they have shitty monitoring equipment made by legacy players in an industry that needs disrupting. I mean yes there are staffing issues as well, but both can be true.
It feels like we're on the edge of a sea change... but it has seemed that way for decades.
> It's the exact opposite. I don't think that's stuff should be abstracted away.

Why not? The Kubernetes/serverless/DevOps people have a compelling argument--organizations can move faster when dev teams don't have to coordinate with an ops/sysadmin function to get anything done. If the ops/sysadmin/whatever team instead manages a Kubernetes cluster and devs can simply be self-service users of that cluster, then they can move faster. That's the sales pitch, and it seems reasonable (and I've seen it work in practice when our team transitioned from a traditional sysadmin/ops workflow to Fargate/DevOps). If you want to persuade me otherwise, tell me about the advantages of having an ops team assemble and gatekeep a bespoke platform and why those advantages are better than the k8s/serverless/DevOps position.
Is there another level of assembly than bare-metal?
I heard that this is about testing in the periphery? MDs could put it in their offices and test their employees daily, for example. That’s one possible use case.
History happens gradually, and then suddenly.
Ah - thanks. I wish I'd known that before I installed the full X distribution.
" The field of AI itself is super interesting, and it will keep growing, but deep learning – which is what people often mean when they say AI – is already dead.

What I mean is, it’s kind of an old idea. It was invented in the 60s, although the first models weren’t doing any learning. The first attempts at learning came later, even before backpropagation existed. We recently made neural learning work extremely well with convolutions and other tricks, as we also have huge amounts of computation we didn’t have before. It’s pretty cool, and we’ve made this combination with backprop in those architectures, and now we’re applying this research to many application areas. But the research in deep learning is actually dead."
I don’t believe that when we have a shortage. The guidelines even state don’t come to a testing site if you are not showing symptoms as you may catch the covid. I mean why are you not even considering my viewpoint?

Look at China, is it testing that’s working there or the lockdown?
Things that Coronavirus is teaching us:

-the people who are actually vital to make the economy are grocery clerks, doctors, nurses, teachers and other carers, but not corporate CEOs, who are ultimately just dead weight.

-money is imaginary and they can print as much as they want.

-the people in power right now would rather have the stock market crash and watch you and a million other Americans die than give healthcare to everyone, even in the middle of a pandemic. How much would it help to have a centralized, organized response where everyone gets tested early right now? But it’s impossible, because it would mean giving health care to poor people.

-capitalism is a beast that dies if it cannot grow. People work mostly to pay rent and debts. They pay rent so the landlord can pay the mortgage. The bank has already lent out the money they expect to get from people paying the mortgage- so if property owners don’t pay their monthly bill, the whole financial system has a heart attack. Same thing with corporate debt. The corporation is assuming that you’re going to buy crap you don’t need. If you don’t, then they can’t pay their massive debts and again the whole system seizes up. So the primary reason we spend all our useful hours at work is so that we can make numbers bigger at the bank. And all of these debts, ultimately, are paid off on the backs of the working class. But the whole system can’t be reduced, or paused, or even slowed down- it must grow exponentially more and more, consuming more and more resources forever, or else it craters in a devastating crash and cannibalizes itself on the way down.
I wonder which of these languages are completely inaccessible today? As in you can’t run them on any modern machine or even find an emulator for them.
On the one hand, I can't believe the guy dressed his daughter and drove her to daycare. On the other hand, it shows how this affects peoples thinking.
Sorry, but I missed your reply.

Usually POS Advertising is indeed for products within the store, you just give an incentive to have your product being supported with visual display. Sometimes on those displays you have product lines ups, or products soon to be released - so those don't necessarily have to be available in store. I'm sure you've seen "Coming Soon"/"Pre-Order" signs.

Advertising being displayed only needs the consentment of the owners of the media, and to follow all the legal terms of the country where it's being displayed. Because it's a message, and you only read/acknowledge a message if you want to, that's why consent on the on the part of the consumer for display doesn't seem right.

>his seems more like "contextual advertising" rather than "targeted advertising"

This is a matter of semantics, because for me contextual placement is a form of targeting. You target by context, and that was the premise of my first reply - they're quite broad terms to be generalized.
“Or maybe $80M can wipe that pain away.”

It definitely helps :)
Eyes on this.
I switch quite often. Sometimes 3 languages a day: Delphi/Lazarus/FreePascal, C++ and Javascript so it now takes few minutes to adjust.
>In various laboratory tests with SARS-CoV-2, the Bosch test delivered results with an accuracy of over 95 percent.

Curious what the false negative rate is.

>[The device] can perform up to ten tests in the space of 24 hours

>[Testing] can be performed directly at the point of care. This eliminates the need to transport samples, which takes up valuable time. ... With the tests currently in use, patients must usually wait one to two days for a result

>... even medical personnel who have not been specially trained on it can reliably perform the test.

>... it allows a single sample to be tested not just for COVID-19 but also for nine other respiratory diseases, including influenza A and B, simultaneously
Seven days, that's horrible. Let's hope these people quickly find work again.
MapFilterFold is a side project I’ve been kicking the can on for a while, it started out as a monstrous spreadsheet I maintained for a few months in 2018.

The site uses Amazon affiliate links.

There have been a few similar projects [1] [2] which create lists from links to Amazon and other stores. MFF differs by only using data from Ask HN threads about books and using book titles (or acronyms like GEB or SCIP) since most comments on those threads don’t include links. More about the data can be found on the About page.

This is also my first Elixir + Phoenix project, which was a joy to use once I got moving.

[1] https://hackernewsbooks.com/

[2] https://ramiro.org/vis/hn-most-linked-books/
If it is, it's a turd people ask for.
As of 3/21. Lockdown in California began in the evening of 3/19. Still not enough time for the numbers to react.
> One is the use of the full stop as an expression terminator, as in English, instead of the semicolon.

That’s something people complain about when looking at Erlang code. Thanks to its Prolog heritage, it uses commas, semi-colons, and full stops to terminate statements.

It’s actually very easy to remember which is which, despite the general angst, because they are directly analogous to those punctuation marks’ usage in English.

Commas indicate a continuation of statements, semi-colons separate clauses within a function, and full stops complete a function definition.
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Corporations only "reinvest and create jobs" if they have now choice i.e. the only add more waiters if they have too many customers.

TED Talk: Nick Hanauer "Rich people don't create jobs"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKCvf8E7V1g

As you noted, the spend and windfall on buybacks or maybe automation.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/att-promised-700...
I have a box that runs various routing protocols including OSPF and BGP, but also does nat where it needs to. It's known as a "router"
Yes, and no. In runs nine tests in parallel (like Covid-19, influenza-A, influenza-B etc), but all on the same sample.
If you like this type of stuff:
http://leapsecond.com/time-nuts.htm
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The fact that "others" might not have OP's problem (or perhaps they're just in denial), does not mean that OP doesn't have the problem, nor that the problem is unimportant.
>4. This does not account for the countless gig workers that are part of the modern economy that likely did not file for unemployment since they were not covered prior to the passing of the senate bill last night.

You (and others) are probably aware, but worth pointing out that these people still can not currently file for unemployment benefits until the house passes the bill, the senate approves any house amendments to the bill, and the president signs the bill.

The house isn't voting on this until tomorrow at the earliest, so there's still a ways to go.

There's probably others as well that have had their pay reduced, that are waiting to see what's going to be passed before filing for benefits. Anecdotally I know of some software engineers in this boat.
CDC via Kafka Connect is one very powerful option.
> 26.79 mbps

Milli-bit per second? Really?
Got it. I didn't know we renamed it from morals to CoC. TIL.
This one?
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/CHANGEL...
> autoscaling/v2beta2 HorizontalPodAutoscaler added a spec.behavior field that allows scale behavior to be configured. Behaviors are specified separately for scaling up and down. In each direction a stabilization window can be specified as well as a list of policies and how to select amongst them. Policies can limit the absolute number of pods added or removed, or the percentage of pods added or removed. (#74525, @gliush) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Autoscaling and CLI]
I would love some online tutorials/sandboxes for exploring these historical languages.
I expect you are being facetious. The reason the market is up is a short squeeze.
Interesting read...
Low cost 1USD bottle as alternative to expensive ventilators
Thank you so much for explaining exponential growth to me.

> Nobody has thousandfold more hospital beds and doctors ready, even less a million times more, which is the two month's growth.

And in a few additional months, we will need more ICU beds than the number of atoms in the universe.

Infection rates are already significant, there just aren't enough people to sustain two months' growth.
Everything suggests this is taking a dark turn in the coming days. I'm doing my best to stay safe.
"It's hard to believe how fast things changed and desktop apps were replaced by web apps.."

Mostly business type front ends and it actually mostly makes sense for that purpose. But there are huge areas where browsers play no role.
w3schools? really?
I agree with the last part of your statement, but not the first. By the time an effective vaccine is developed and run through human trials, most of the population will already have gotten Covid, so it's not likely to be a savior moment. Additionally, given how many vaccine candidates are already in the pipeline, it's pretty likely there will be multiple options approved within a few months of each other.

On a related note, if China wants to improve its STEM research prestige level, it needs to do something about the rampant fraud in research results that cause a lot of people to be highly skeptical of anything they publish.
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Are these regular people citizens of a democracy? Then the chain of responsibility stops there. No greater entity will swoop in to help if the citizens of a democracy can’t be trusted to make the kinds of decisions confronting them.

It’s only a democracy if you can keep it.