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Might as well at not choose to do anything then. Just use whatever everyone else does.

We need people trying out better ideas even if they aren't as popular or easy.
This blog post, and your reply, both touch on how difficult it is to measure performance. But then in the same where you point out that there are many different valid ways you could measure performance, you also make the broad claim that "JSC tends to outperform V8". What are you basing that on?
I feel like I've read this article every three years or so for the past 30 years.

According to my calendar this means we're due for another wave of "the singularity is right around the corner, uh, for reals this time! again!" articles.
I guess it boils down to whether or not we're willing to accept infinite regress or not. Of course, if not, one must necessarily accept that reality 'comes from' nothing.

Although I'm a VR developer, I can't believe it's "all turtles all the way down" :@)

Actually I've been working on a theory to define randomness from complete uncertainty, without the "fair coin" metaphor based on constructivism, which is deterministic.
You got it! :)

The difference is that we're dealing here with something that's more abstract than material goods (dollar signs and zeroes). In my view, this makes it possible, though exceedingly difficult, and I'm not sure how sustainable it would be over long periods of time. However, if the Romans could pull it off with grain over several centuries, who's to say we can't do it with money (which, in spite of its complexities, is much less fickle than grain)?

With that, the only addendum I'd propose is "unless you're very clever."

I'm not sure if we're clever enough, yet. But the Federal Reserve and the global financial system have come very far within our lifetimes, so it's not unfeasible to imagine us getting there one day.
Take a step back and look at it on a meta-level. What purpose is that feeling of inadequacy serving? Who are you helping by making yourself miserable?

Life isn't about accomplishments, accomplishments are just one aspect of life. And by getting a degree and starting a career in a high-tier field, you already have things to be proud of. Happiness cannot be reduced to a checklist. Ask yourself: if there were nobody to compare yourself to, if there were no awards or scores or accolades in the world, what would you want to be doing, right now? And then chase that feeling.
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So someone that purchased their units sans debt has no reason to charge rent?
Isn't that just compiling, then?
You can't get blood from a stone. Maybe the landlords should've saved up six months of income for an emergency. Isn't that the usual advice?
So it was random price action? No catalyst? Then to cry insider trading is beyond absurd.
I started using FreeBSD a few months ago for a Tor relay, trying to promote OS diversity. I had read these types of articles about how FreeBSD is so much cleaner and well documented than Linux, and I wanted to try it out.

Honestly, I found it seriously lacking. It always seemed to me like most of those article writers had poor understanding of Linux, and now it seems to me like they have poor understanding of FreeBSD too.

For example, this article, like many, touts the high quality of FreeBSD documentation. I found it to be similar to Linux documentation: a few excellent pages, mostly good pages, some mediocre pages, and lots of undocumented stuff. People (including me) often complain about the quality of Linux networking documentation, which is unquestionably terrible, but I found that FreeBSD isn't really that much better overall. Better in some places, worse in others, often you have to give up and go find the source code.

Another thing often touted is the centralized development of FreeBSD making it more organized. This article betrays itself here by explaining that FreeBSD has three different firewalls, one originating locally, one forked from OpenBSD, and one forked from some dude. Now, to be fair, Linux is far from clean here: between ipchains, iptables, nftables, and bpfilter, Linux has gone through a lot of change. At least with Linux though there are at most two practical options at any given time, and there is a clear forward progression. With FreeBSD, I spent several hours trying to figure out the differences between each, which wasn't helped by the documentation problems: manual pages being fragmented and incomplete and the handbook being woefully out of date on this subject.

It also seems like a lot of the hyped FreeBSD features are actually far behind Linux features. As other commenters have mentioned, Linux has device-mapper, which is similar to GEOM, and is used for LVM and modern RAID setups. Jails came before containers, but Linux namespaces are now far more powerful than jails, which aren't that much more than chroots. bhyve is nice, but lags behind QEMU/KVM. Poudriere is fine but most Linux distros have chroot builders too now.

In conclusion, I don't find FreeBSD particularly attractive for any of the reasons that I hear often touted.
I don't mean to be pithy, but rents are established by supply and demand, not by an analysis of who's at fault or a decision about whether some particular landlord needs more money.
Define viable. You mean a dwelling place that protects you from the elements well enough that they won't even be in the top 50 ways you'll be likely to die statistically? Homeless shelters take care of that and there are other options in between. As for businesses - I know plenty of multi-million dollar businesses that have no need for a brick and mortar, but the business angle isn't even an argument - there's never a need for anyone to create a business, there's only incentive and the incentive is high enough that people freely choose to pay rent for businesses that require a physical location.
I made a short film on a related topic. Check it out https://youtu.be/Bv42PQ-Xxj8
Corporations are really leading the way here. If they can't preserve enough cash to last a month and plan to strike as their opening negotiating tactic then people should too. Why not?
Commercial solutions can hold 60-300 disks or more. Expensive.

For home use just get a bunch of usb dvd drives and go nuts, or go full tape. Once you go tape you get addicted to capacity. But it gets pricey. Cost/density is interesting.

At home I just use a stripped down version. Literally a bunch of usb dvd drives hooked up to a raspi. I can insert a disk and poke around or have it auto copy the whole thing and auto-eject. I have 10 slim drives connected... ebay is kind. The raspi pipes to a different server full of ssd/hd/ram depending on what I'm doing.
Java isn't a scripting language, python is. Why not compare apples to apples? At the very least compare Python to JS...
> (I'm sticking with ext4 until kvdo, bcachefs, or maybe tux3 is mainlined.)

I haven't heard of kvdo before - thanks for bringing it up!

I'll add stratis-storage to this mix too. (Although I'm contributing to the bcachefs development and really want it to succeed)
tbh microsoft was the best choice in the 90s.

the only reason linux became useful is because it became popular.
If an apartment is unoccupied, chances are it's used for speculation and/or short term rentals. If that's the case, I'd rank squatting better than stealing and failing to pay your rent. I'm sure others share this position, given posts like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22852570.
Congratulations for intentionally missing the point because you are a bad person
Those are both potentially morally acceptable. If you are on the verge of starving and have no money and no other source of food, it's ok to steal something from a grocery store. If you are on the verge of homelessness and have no money and no other source of shelter, it's ok to not pay your rent.

I'm sure there's a moral framework where it's never acceptable to hurt someone else when you could sacrifice yourself instead, but I don't think that's a particularly common school of thought. More often people will weigh two potential harms to make a decision, like "I can't pay my rent, but property taxes and foreclosures have been suspended during the pandemic, so my landlord will likely suffer less harm than I would if I became homeless."

Finally, "can't pay the rent" doesn't necessarily mean silently fail to mail a check. It might mean talking to the landlord about a payment plan, or frankly telling them you have no money and can't even afford food for the week. Landlords are humans, just like grocers who might give food to a starving person
> using security deposits as a stopgap

wait, is that even legal? Aren't security deposits meant to be held in trust?
My point isn't that "all profit that ever occurs in this universe happens only because an equivalent level of risk was assumed". This isn't thermodynamics.

My point is that profit as a concept exists because without it, there would be no reason to assume risk in the first place. Therefore, profit is compensation for risk.
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And more people did die as a consequence. I’m not being smart, maybe that was the better option compared to what we’re doing now, all things considered. We may be at or close to exemplifying the idiom of “cutting our nose to spite our face”.
It's also one of the more corrupt states. From Scott Walker level public theft, to a DA that actually exchanged light charges on drug gangs for charity donations. (Of course, all of the "donations" had to go to "charities" run by his friends in his municipality. That way he could make sure the money went to help "the children".)

What can I say? Wisconsin is crazy bad. But it's home for me.
Nuclear isn't failing because of safety or waste or political negativity. It's failing because it's too expensive. France is giving up on new nuclear plants because the can't build them sufficiently cheaply.

Ultimately, this comes back to the unforgiving complexity of nuclear technology. The plants have to be big to get economies of scale, but then they have so many critical parts that the economies of scale are illusory. A truly scalable technology is made of large numbers of mostly independent pieces that don't have to be so expensively reliable.
Way too lazy to verify this myself. Any links?
Would you please stop using HN for political battle? You've been doing it a lot, and it's not what this site is for.

Also, while I have you, would you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that as well. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
At the end rents were effectively zero

Well, yes. You always need food, but you don't need your own apartment when you can start couchsurfing. Real estate does degenerate fairly quickly when it's uninhabited. You could see a similar phenomenon after German reunification. There was much real estate with unclear title in the East, and students and squatters were actually tolerated - the owners and the city knew that with someone living in the premises the building would not deteriorate further.
Have you talked to many landlords that own a dozen units? It's my understanding that owning so many units is hard, requiring you to either work full time or hire a property management company, and you incur a serious risk of massive costs from misbehaving tenants.
These days we use JetStream 2 (our design) and Speedometer 2 (collaborative design between WK and Chromium folks) as the main big benchmarks but it’s not the only thing we measure and tune.

V8 used to have their own JS benchmark, Octane, but they retired it at about the same time as we beat them on it. So JSC is fast enough to make other people retire their benchmarks.

And by the way if you are interested in what we think of as good methodology you should read about JetStream 2: https://webkit.org/blog/8685/introducing-the-jetstream-2-ben...
Not saying you're wrong about this, and what I'm really advocating for is relief all the way from the top down. There are plenty of people who would be fine not making their MAXIMUM PROFITS for a little while while the rest of us proles can hopefully not die
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"I would be totally on board with using FreeBSD as my primary server OS .. if it had a container engine."

FreeBSD is the original container engine - although, for the sake of completeness, we should count Solaris "zones" and call it a tie ...

I think there is a cultural and temporal connotation of Docker - and the use-cases that it typically enabled - that makes it seem very different than 'jail' but make no mistake: jail did all of those things and more, many years earlier.

The VPS, as we currently think of it, was built first[1] on top of FreeBSD and jail.

[1] JohnCompanies announced beta availability of "server instances" on 303 and cDc mailing lists in mid 2001. Someone else coined the term "VPS" a bit later ...
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A company I am consulting for is currently solely on AWS. Google Cloud is getting them to switch solely to Google Cloud in exchange for free credits. Huge amount of time because of all the services they depend on.
why not use zfs, since it does the things that kvdo, bcachefs, and tux3?
No, intermittent sources need an affordably dispatchable source to produce when they can't. A steady, fixed cost source like nuclear, that must be producing most of the time to minimize the cost of its output, is unsuitable for acting as a backup to intermittent sources.
You are probably still right but MIT license means that you just won't see what industry uses. Industry has used free BSDs and not contributed in code or money nearly to the extent that it has for some Linux flavors.
Very first thing I see is a rule that the names must be non offensive and the second thing I see is the color orange named after Trump.

Apparently not a very serious attempt.
A few of my favorites so far:

Screaming Grey: #AAAAAA

It's Still Basically Black: #000001

Nice: #696969 (lol)

These would make for some great candidates: https://colors.lol/ ;)
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Let's follow the money.

Tenant fails to pay rent because of economic hardship. Building owner get in a cash squeeze and can't pay vendors like plumber, snow clearing, landscaping, and eventually can't make loan payments.

Mortgage holders see a rise in troubled loans, eventually writing a large number of them off for large losses.

REITs take losses on investments they must write off.

Your own retirement plan or personal investment portfolio takes a hit because some portion of it is REITs.

Everything is interconnected. I see a lot of simplistic "landlords must suck it up" comments in this thread. Really, who is so naive as to think that the typical commercial property is not leveraged?
Nah. I live here.

Wisconsin is just corrupt. You wouldn't believe the geometric gymnastics they jump through to try to get districts that will always vote liberal or conservative. Districting maps look like something from mc escher.
I'm curious—is there a point to giving two separate names to two colors which are indistinguishable from one another to the human eye?

There are zero people in the world who can tell #FF4500 from #FF4501, so aren't they effectively the same color?
I can't see this succeeding at all. Randall Munroe tried something similar and the results weren't encouraging: https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

> People are primed by the colors they saw previously, which adds overall noise and some biases to the data

and

> Moreover, monitors vary; RGB is not an absolute color space
Maybe kind of silly like buying titles to land on the moon but I have to admit to naming a few. It’s fun.
And if you have renewable sources that are much cheaper per kWh of output than nuclear, why charge those batteries with nuclear?
It's very widely understood that a home you rent belongs to you, even if you don't own it in the legal sense.
Stop suppressing uncomfortable opinions.
> They haven't listed what's actually technically better about it than in systemd. (not subjectively)

And even to avoid running headlong into this troll pit: Linux distros without systemd exist. It's dishonest to compare FreeBSD to Linux and then only focus on a subset of Linux distros.
Here's what looks like the original paper; it's a mere 3 pages long:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01653

It's a lot of prose with hand-wavy analogies. My takeaway is that the author seems to have become enamored with intuitionistic logic but seems to lack much concrete experience working with it.

For anyone intrigued by constructive mathematics, there's a nice talk and paper by Andrej Bauer (nice coincidence) called "Five Stages of Accepting Constructive Mathematics." It's a nice mix of prose and rigor of varying levels:

http://math.andrej.com/2016/10/10/five-stages-of-accepting-c...

The metamath[0] proof verifier also has a database of theorems on intuitionistic logic:

http://us.metamath.org/ileuni/mmil.html

It can be neat to compare proofs and theorems there with their counterparts in the classical logic database.

[0]:http://us.metamath.org/
def foo():
a()
b()
c()
if test():
doSomethingIfTest()
doSomethingUnconditionally()

You can still write this, which is equally garbage because a, b, and c mean nothing to me. I know you're just showing a code example, but my point is that unprofessional idiots will always write shit code, the language won't protect them from themselves.

Your issue can be fixed with a linter, mine can't.

Look at this python code: https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/core/mai...

In my opinion, it's rather difficult to tell where one if/else block ends, and the next begins. At a glance, I couldn't even tell you how many if/else statements there are. In my opinion, braces give me a frame of reference for my eyes to lock into, even in my periphery, and give me a far better understanding of the code structure.
Yes, virtualenv. A few years ago, I said that "version pinning" was not going to end well, because it would reduce the pressure on library developers to maintain backwards compatibility. Now something equivalent to version pinning is everywhere. Moving forward is tough when, three levels down, some package wants an obsolete version of some other package.
This would be poor planning on the renter first. The obligation is on the renter to pay for the service (housing) they are using. The banks expect the mortgage holder to pay for borrowing money. If the renter can't pay they shouldn't get to stay. If the borrower can't pay they will lose the property. If the owner can't pay the taxes, they also lose the property.
Basically yes, but there are more things at play. For instance, if evictions are not being processed right now (or if there are very strong squatting laws in normal times) this distorts the price discovery of the market. Actual demand will have dropped, but the resulting free supply cannot also come online because people will be living rent free. You can't rent out a unit with someone living in it.

Please note that this isn't to say tenant laws are a mistake, but they do raise the price of rent for everyone.
Coal is on the way out also. It won't be "close nuclear and replace with coal". It's "close nuclear and replace with things much cleaner than coal (gas or, increasingly, renewables.)
Git has probably saved me that and more by making branching so easy that I do it for everything.
And if you want nominal sub typing, F-bounded generics, and some inference, things get really fun.
I am not following closely enough to know when that makes it into a stable FreeBSD release, but yes it will be.

Except for one point: the zfs on Linux work is not in the mainline kernel, and won't be. A strict interpretation of your comment would actually be "no" - can it really be said that "Linux is using it" in that case? You need out-of-tree kernel support which is very difficult to maintain.
I saw him give a talk some years ago and took a stab at understanding a couple of his papers. Frankly, I'm pretty sure I didn't get what he was driving at. It looks like he's left academia for the pharmaceutical industry, for whatever that's worth.
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You get it from a bat the same way you get it from another person you touch the bat and touch your face or you clean the cage drop get . You dump out the litter box/tray and huff some particles. You draw a blood sample and a drop of it gets on your visor/goggles. You take it off late and touch your face. It's nothing sexy.

Note that that the Wuhan CDC, the lab ~300m from the market, the lab that was experimenting on bats, is not the BSL4 Wuhan Institute of Virology miles away from the seafood market, that everyone loves taking about. It's probably a level 2 or 3 lab.

Escape from a lab doesn't imply man made any more than tiger escaped from zoo implies that the tiger was born there. SARS escaped from BSL3 labs on China on multiple occasions, that doesn't imply that SARS was man made.
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> Or maybe I have never known the desperation of living in a dying region?

I'll bite.

The first thing I would do in a desperate situation in a position of power in a dying region is be radically open to feedback and transparent with my own ideas.

A desperate situation is no room for ego or selfishness.

You involve the community, and you try to listen to everyone, and if an opportunity presents itself that is above your paygrade you try to hope that the COLLECTIVE wisdom of multiple people with different strengths might somehow help offset your power imbalance.

Now, listen to the podcast that interviews this inexperienced elected official and ask yourself if he did anything of the sort, or if he just saw an opportunity to enrich and embiggen himself: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/wbhjwd
Keep reading.

Here’s my city. https://www.influenzaarchive.org/cities/city-albany.html#

NYC didn’t shut down, but had an active surveillance program to monitor the situation and act. That’s one of the real tragedies of the complete failure of the federal government. Their ineptitude will kill thousands and impoverish millions.
130 tenants? People at that level, I would have considered them to be corporations collecting rent, not individual landlords. Well, he probably collects everything through a corporation too, I imagine. My point is that I've never put a face to a corporate landlord before. It's always been a faceless corporation, even for corporations where the founding face is famous. Reading this was weird for me. He behaves like an individual landlord too, personally answers all the emails, doesn't have a secretary? Maybe 130 tenants is too low a number to justify hiring help. Blows my mind.
This is pretty accurate. Up here in Wisconsin, I'd definitely say we're the "True Believers" in the whole Union side of the civil war thing. Labor unions are also not viewed quite as negatively up here.

Never really thought about all that until you mentioned it. When you grow up in it you don't really see it unless someone points it out to you.
> OpenBSD marketing:

OPENBSD IS SECURE. ARE YOU SECURE? ARE YOU WORTHY? OPENBSD: SO SECURE WE DO NOT NEED YOU!
The great majority of countries are not building nuclear plants. There are only 19 countries in which reactors are currently under construction, and some of those reactors would not have been started had it been understood what the economics would turn out to be.