skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at the MZM, which is a good proxy for 'all the money in the economy'. [1]

There's ~20 Trillion of it.

Hyperinflation is, by definition, 50% monthly, ~600% annual inflation.

The Fed has, so far in this crisis, printed ~2 Trillion that is staying in the economy (The rest goes into very short term liquidity). It's not a hyperinflationary scenario, even if they print another 2, or 4, or 6 trillion.

If they printed 20 trillion, that would be another story.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MZM
Back in time, it was node 5 while the stable version was 8.
Bodhi, Peppermint and LXLE are all based on Ubuntu but use either LXDE, LXDE with elements of XFCE or (in Bodhi's case) the Moksha desktop, which is a fork of Enlightenment 17 - it's smaller and faster than LXDE.

Otherwise, go with a Debian or Devuan based distro like antiX, MX Linux, Q4OS Trinity, Refracta or EXE Linux.
I think OP's code is actually markedly better than your first two suggestions exactly because it doesn't use any of the advanced PHP APIs. It's all there, bare and easy to check, with no gotchas, ini-dependent caveats and what not.

I agree that uniqid(), as used, is not the best choice, but that's only because it may produce dupes if the machine's clock is rolled back (ie by ntpd). Regardless of the prng choice, the code could use a check for whether selected folder already exists.
From the article: "Tissue samples were sent to Atlanta for testing in mid-March, but the results confirming the coronavirus did not come back until Tuesday."

It took the CDC over a month to test the samples?
Sun did some experiments with building a JVM into their kernel so that you could write device drivers in Java.
> huh how well does that work with individual downloaded *.deb packages?

You can `apt` to install `.deb` files on the local file system using:

apt install ./path_to_the.deb
There's truth to this, but there are also reasons for this.

First, it may be fair to say that infrastructure is in an other domain of problem solving than structuring and implementing program logic. (Speed requirements and crunch time tend to lock a person in a single domain.) Second, those developers, who do understand the importance of infrastructure, tend quite naturally to care for those levels which are closer to them and which they actually may understand (like the programming language and how it actually implements things, standard libraries, dedicated libraries, the OS, any middleware). Finally, SQL via networks (and all the flavors this may come in) is hard, there's a reason for why there are specialists.

Speed of development, of course, is orthogonal to concerns about infrastructure. Which may be a major concern. Communication (a constant source of enterprise horror stories) and general awareness (on all levels) may help. These are not problems that can be solved on a single side of the implementation. And then, there's certainly some kind of "developer heroism", which doesn't especially help.

(I guess, I've successfully managed to have messed up with everyone? ;-) )
Thanks, that works. The raw link is perfect for accessibility, as there's no garbage on the page.
No, that $1,200 didn't come out of the Fed printing press. It came out of the general budget, so taxpayers are going to be on the hook for paying it back, in the future.

The trillions the Fed is printing aren't being sent out as stimulus cheques. They are being used to provide short-term liquidity (Which does not cause inflation), and to buy junk bonds, (Which does cause inflation, and also happens to prop up the stock market.) Some of that money is also being lent to the government - if those loans are paid back, they will cause net zero inflation. (Because once the money is paid back to the Fed, it is destroyed.)

This is precisely why we have central banks that are independent of government budgets. It creates checks and balances against a government choosing to print its way out of budget troubles.
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The USD is still one of the most sane currency in terms of ratio between the money supply and GDP.
IIRC Arch did that years ago.
I think that's more a disadvantage. If the US starts to inflate too much, it may be dumped as the world's reserve currency. A global run on the dollar could convert modest, manageable inflation into hyperinflation.

If dollars are worth 1/2-1/10th of what they are now in three years, that's kind of okay, and in-line with the damage of COVID19. If they are worth 1/1000th, we're looking at a serious, structural collapse.
> "I believe this transfer was in response to my insistence that the government invest the billions of dollars allocated by Congress to address the COVID-19 pandemic into safe and scientifically vetted solutions ... and not in drugs, vaccines, and other technologies that lack scientific merit."
- Rick Bright, who had led the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority until this week.
Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean?

My point here is that finance is useful.

The view that institutions make too big of a profit off too little risk isn't really relevant to that. Cars are useful no matter what profit Ford makes by making them.

Maybe we need to examine the market to make sure its working? Maybe they're duping the government? Maybe they have some hidden reason to justify those rates. I don't know. But the underlying product is useful wither way. I don't object to any of that. But none of it changes the need for credit.

The original comment I replied to is very clear: finance is not useful, it's a wealth extraction process Etc.

Am I missing your point?
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Well easy fix instead of giving money to the top, give it to the bottom. That will surely drive demand as more money is available to spend. It will boost confidence in local economies further growing demand and supply caps.

What we see now it large parts of the stimulus package are devoured by the top level bureaucracy never doing anything but being transferred to Cayman islands as performance bonuses.

How about we try the trickle up economy for once?
Who are people selling their children to, and how?
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yes. the author of that deck is playing it pretty loose when it come to the definition of a microkernel.

normally the microkernel means the minimum needed primitives to implement the OS and after that everything is build on top of that, not pluggable modules.

For all intents and purposes the Linux kernel is a monolithic one and the eBPF capability make it more extensible / less of a pain to do certain things but definitely do not turn it into a microkernel.
What's screwed up about philantrophy? And it's still here, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a most prominent example.
That's more on WSL thank on Ubuntu though. It's up to WSL to support the syscalls correctly, not on Ubuntu to aim for whatever translation layer WSL1 supports.
No modern GPUs use VLIW. Ati/AMD switched from VILW to RISC-SIMD 8-9 years ago, NVIDIA a few years before that. Mobile phone GPUs gave up VILW for RISC too in the last 5 years or so.
It doesn't really need much of a counterpoint, given how silly it is.

Regarding the USD, the same doom cults say the same things during every major global problem / event / disaster going back generations. The dollar was supposed to go away with the great recession; the dollar was supposed to go away with the intense inflatation of the 1970s; the dollar was supposed to go away with Nixon's abandonment of what was left of the gold standard; the dollar was supposed to be doomed with FDR's various moves.

There is zero evidence the dollar is under meaningful risk here.

It's fine to utilize gold as a store of value, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. And that's an entirely different matter than whether governments will abandon their fiat currencies. The US, Eurozone, China, Japan, Russia, India and so on have absolutely no interest or willingness to give up control of their present fiat + central bank systems. They dictate whether fiat money is doomed or not, via their enforcenment capabilities.

Take one blatant example. Russia has de-dollarized itself heavily, has accumulated a lot of gold lately (relatively speaking), and still has zero interest in giving up the power, flexibility and convenience that controlling the national fiat currency provides. For Russia, gold is just a diversification opportunity that backstops some of their national financial condition. The same is true for China, another accumulator of gold reserves.
That is what the $1200 check and expanded unemployment insurance was meant to be.
Counter point: access to cheap finance pushes up people's purchasing power, driving up the prices of things which can be financed (homes and education being the big ones). I think even before the crash we hit limits on house prices because the bank simply can't increase the loan term beyond 40 years.
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Hi,

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In the very short term, that's true. In the medium-to-long term, they're kind of the same thing. Fiscal and monetary policy are handled by independent bodies, but they're not entirely uncoordinated. They're both different hands of the same overarching body too: the US government.
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I think this has always been the way we've paid for infrastructure. I remember reading an article about Japan. They've stopped taking on massive infrastructure projects, because the population isn't growing -- they don't want immigrants and people aren't having kids anymore. Without a future tax base to pay for infrastructure, they can't build it anymore. So things like the Tokyo subway system are "done"; no money will ever be available again to build anything.

I think we're beginning to see this in the US. In a few years, you won't be able to live in New Jersey and commute to New York City, or take the train from Boston to Washington D.C. The North River Tunnels will have collapsed, because we can't find any money to repair them.

Ultimately, it's a little disingenuous to say this is "selling your children". Yes, if we keep buying stuff, someone will have to pay for it. If society takes on projects that need to be paid for over 100 years, people that aren't born today will be spending some of their taxes on it. But with the right investments, it's almost certainly worth it. We can look back at some of the achievements over the last century and find that they probably grew the economy more than they cost, which makes them good investments when paid for collectively. In 1920, we didn't have an Interstate Highway System, we didn't live in the suburbs and commute to the city, we couldn't fly to the far corners of the world in 16 hours, we didn't have all of humanity's knowledge available in our pockets. There is no reason to believe that 2120 won't be just as good as long as we keep investing.
If I really need to sandbox anything I'll use the VM for that. As for the rest as a user I am staying away from bloat, slow startup and lots of other inconveniences of snap.

This whole security thing is getting really annoying.
One more book on the subject, possibly even closer related to the field of databases (should cover many of the items mentioned in the post): https://www.databass.dev
I have a question. With the sheer number of Windows components each having objects whose security and inheritability can be manipulated individually, and with tokens and privileges controlling access on top of that, and with so many users and groups to account for, and with so many special cases for consoles etc. to consider, I'm surprised at how few of these bugs there seem to be. It seems like a herculean feat to track everything for even just a single version of the kernel, let alone in an ever-evolving entire OS. Do you know how Microsoft keeps track of all the security barriers, interactions, etc. in the entire OS? Do they have entire teams dedicated to just tracking the security privileges/permissions/etc. for all the components?
If anyone is interested in what these transistor models are like, there's an excellent online course by Yannis Tsividis:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/mosfet
I found the jooq blog (not affiliated) excellent for understanding the concepts of SQL properly.

This article is a great starting point:

https://blog.jooq.org/2016/03/17/10-easy-steps-to-a-complete...

there are many other articles worth reading on there
I've gone through 3 laptops now with a migrated home. That included ubuntu -> arch -> fedora migration too. It works pretty well. (with more issues between distros than between version upgrades)

> This means I should strive to keep all my user created data within the home directory at all times?

Why would the user have privileges to save it outside of the home directory? :) Special cases like databases with storage in /var need to be handled separately.
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There are a couple of audio interfaces that have the potential. UA interfaces have DSP chips that can run (sort of) general purpose stuff that could be leveraged by Max/MSP if the SDK were open (it may be, I haven't looked). Also, RME interfaces often have an FPGA in them which I've often thought would be a useful co-processor for audio, but I'm pretty sure that they aren't user programmable either.

Basically, the hardware has been around for ages, but the software is non existent/limited due to the vendors not fully realising the potential of the hardware, and reverse engineering this stuff is really hard!
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A disadvantage of that placement should be the pollution you're exposed to. Even small displacements of the bikepath next to the road have a large impact already.

I cannot wait for internal combustion engines in cities to die out.
aka the only reason the stock market has not collapsed. The economic data, and worse, the economic data forecasts, are horrendous, worse than 2008.
>The snap daemon on one of my laptops always blocks the shutdown by 30 seconds.

I used Spotify, VS Code and some PS2 emulator from Snap and haven't seen this behaviour. Which snap package does that for you ?
>>"[..] everyone's money is a bit less worth. "

Only if the economy is at full utilization. The reason for the stimulus is that the economy it's not at full utilization, ergo, there will be not accelerated inflation.
TBH, I doubt it, writing "high level" Rust requires a too big "runtime portion" (in the same sense of "runtime" as the stdlib in C++, which also tends to bloat up executables), while "embedded style" minimal Rust without such a "runtime part" is so low-level you could just as well write C code (which is also "memory safe" in that environment because of WASM).

And even in the best case, a WASM blob still has a hard time beating a bit of Javascript if it is just used to glue a couple of browser APIs together (and in such a situation, the good or bad qualities of that "glue language" don't matter much).

Hybrid JS/WASM applications make a lot more sense, where some small performance-critical parts are implemented in WASM in a "runtime-free language", glued together by Javascript (similar to how python is often used as glue between functionality implemented in native DLLs).
good point with the mkdir, mv and touch, I just pushed an update to use php functions for that instead of shell.
No reason to be concerned though, the user controlled input is sanitized and no shell command is/was executed based on unsanitized user input.

the user agent check was a relic from when it behaved differently, browser vs curl, it is not needed anymore and has been removed.
Pull Request are always welcome

edit: I also just pushed an update to use bin2hex(random_bytes(16)) instead of uniquid to make sure we never have collisions, for arguments sake (even though I thought that risk was rather low to begin with)
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This may not be the most popular opinion, but Satoshi Nakamoto invented Bitcoin precisely because he wanted to separate money and state. The main purpose of crypto has always been to be hard money in the age of the internet and institutionalised money printing.
eBPF is turning Linux into a microkernel like drinking Gatorade is turning me into a Super Bowl quarterback.

(I tried to localise this for a predominantly US audience.)
Good thing this is being tried first in a nation that is pretty much guaranteed to sit and take it.
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> If dollars are worth 1/2-1/10th of what they are now in three years, that's kind of okay

That is massive inflation.
The federal reserve owns half of all US debt. We are paying interest on interest to our own Fed that serves as the banking systems perpetual bailout fund with the ability to create unlimited amounts of money.
SIMD support is being worked on as far as I know, and this is a problem where there is room for a lot of improvement in the future. Generally interfacing between programming languages and systems efficiently, without too much data conversion/memory management is a harder problem than adding more low level programming support.
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It doesn't seem that complex to me – Apple has sacks of cash and is quite good at integration, especially given their existing reach. Taking on hugely powerful incumbents is almost guaranteed to fail. We only remember the handful who beat the odds. I mean to me this is a rubbish way to organise a society, but hugely powerful incumbents think it's fine, so that's what we have for now.
Switched to Debian Testing a few months ago, glad I jumped ship. Ubuntu is getting too close to Microsoft, and we all know what that means.
Scaling is improving single-transistor performance, specifically the switching time / transition frequency.
Are you saying that these sort of changes were never part of a patch or service-pack before Win10?
* everyone likes a disaster
* you're doing a service by making everyone worried about what might happen - so you're helping that not happen
* when it doesn't happen no one will call you on it anyway
* better safe then sorry
> I really hope the performant web slays the app store. That's the dumbest trap we ever fell for. I'd love to visit a website and be playing native Minecraft in seconds. Sans Google Play or the App Store, with no bullshit monopoly tax.

I don't, unless certain criteria are met.

There is a consumer-friendly side of apps that is often overlooked in these types of conversations: generally, I get to decide when to update my apps, and the developer can't uninstall their app off my phone without my permission. Moving from apps to the web shifts the balance of power even further from user to developer.

There are some apps (that require internet access) for which this is not true. For those, I share your sentiment; spotify has no reason to be an app. It's also possible to implement this amount of user control with the web, by caching the full version of a page, when you add it to your home screen (for example), and only replacing it after an explicit prompt (as a setting, ie auto-update).

Until that happens, though, I don't wish for the death of app stores. Especially, f-droid is a great ecosystem.
Any news on CUDA Drivers/Toolkit for 20.04?
I really like the idea of a developer exchange - does anyone know of other places that have done this?
> using a transitional Apt package that just installs the Snap

You need a migration path from an existing package. It's also nice not to invalidate every post on the web which describes the installation.

Chrome is special... it already doesn't really belong in the repository and was handled in a special way. It bundles tens of libraries in its binary without relying on the system/repo deps. It's actually more natural for it to live with all the other "include all deps" applications.
My first Ubuntu install was 7.04 Fiesty Fawn, a full alphabet circle ago, crazy how time flies.
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I agree, but I think that is more of a long term concern. The USD will be dumped as the worlds reserve currency but I presume this will be a long and volatile process. There are 2 reasons why I think the USD will slowly be dethroned as the reserve currency: 1) the US has made the USD their weapon in punishing opponents and many countries have already started to think about alternatives. 2) the USG has very big long term unfunded liabilities which will need to be inflated away. China and other big holders of US debt know this, hence, they are trying to slowly come up with alternatives. The good part for the USD is that the alternatives, at the moment, are shit.
I’m with you. Every generation seems to have a time when the “it’s all been invented” meme takes off. There’s plenty of innovation in our future. It just takes imagination to envision it. When I hear people saying otherwise, I see it as an indictment on their powers of imagination.
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These "statically linked" packages can solve certain problems very well. Packaging or installing Steam for non-Ubuntu platforms can be very tricky. I'm using the Steam flatpack version on Arch and it saved me a ton of hassle.
> No, that $1,200 didn't come out of the Fed printing press. It came out of the general budget, so taxpayers are going to be on the hook for paying it back, in the future.

Government debt does not really get payed. Old debts are payed off with new ones.
Disagree. There's value in consistency, even for the shallow matter of formatting. There's a reason so many large-scale software-development companies care about coding standards.

You're right that it's not a matter of there being one true style. I agree with Kevlin Henney though that there are certainly wrong ways to format code - https://youtu.be/ZsHMHukIlJY?t=1027
I have been using Openbox exclusively since about 2005. on both laptops and desktops. It is highly customizable, super light and floating window manager. Using wmctrl wrappers around launcher keystrokes or window management keystokes I can achieve the tiling functionality that I want without committing to tiling only workflow:

* space splitting for launcher
* some sticky displays in multi-display desktops