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Containers are the big difference.

Kubernetes is one way to deploy containers. Configuration systems like Ansible/Salt/Puppet/Chef/etc are another way to deploy containers.

Kubernetes also makes it possible to dynamically scale your workload. But so does Auto Scaling Groups (AWS terminology) and GCP/Azure equivalents.

The reality is that 99% of users don't actually need Kubernetes. It introduces a huge amount of complexity, overhead, and instability for no benefit in most cases. The tech industry is highly trend driven. There is a lot of cargo culting. People want to build their resumes. They like novelty. Many people incorrectly believe that Kubernetes is the way to deploy containers.

And they (and their employers) suffer for it. Most users would be far better off using boring statically deployed containers from a configuration management system. Auto-scaled when required. This can also be entirely infrastructure-as-code compliant.

Containers are the real magic. But somehow people confused Kubernetes as a replacement for Docker containers, when it was actually a replacement for Docker's orchestration framework: Docker Swarm.

In fact, Kubernetes is a very dangerous chainsaw that most people are using to whittle in their laps.
Turmeric/Curcumin has a protective effect against gingivitis and is even as effective as a prescription mouthwash against it.
Backup storage for thousands of virtual machines using free tools
We needed a backup solution to handle thousands of backups each week and do it as fast and efficiently as possible.
JS... the "winner" of the Accidental Complexity game. (It was made in a couple of weeks, so it's excusable, but... it just hurts so much that this was the language that conquered the web :| )
Padding certainly happens. The 'tech innovation incubator' at my college has a professional administrator. I worked in the same building. He had an office at the end of the hall, door open all the time. He came in (late) every morning with a pile of newspapers. Sat at his desk all day, reading all of them. Went home (early) having done precisely nothing. Got paid many times what faculty got paid.
> Hunter Killer

So Skynet's schedule is coming back on track once again.

https://terminator.fandom.com/wiki/HK-Aerial
It's a risk. It's not a mistake. I appreciate they are trying to thread a very difficult needle. I'd argue democracy's continued survival is predicated on being able to both have a flattened playing field where every voice is accessible and like-minded people can find each other easily (what the Internet has enabled so far), and a way of inoculating people against lies intended for malicious manipulation (which the Internet has also enabled). Getting there, if we can, will be messy and ugly. Failing will be fatal to the idea that people can effectively self-govern.
One example I worked on myself: when you need to train lots of ML models and need lots of video cards. Those would be damn expensive in the cloud!
fucking snakes, hate em
Do you think this is helping your argument, or merely making you look bad? Because to me, it just looks like you're off the mark and digging a deeper hole.
About getting out of one's place, I remember seeing a lot of kids sitting on the floor reading comics in bookstores. I was one of them. It was well tolerated as long as you weren't in the way (if you were, they just politely asked you to sit somewhere else). I don't know if it still happens, it certainly doesn't look as common but maybe that's just me not paying attention.

Of course, by spending way too long in bookstores, I often ended up actually buying books. I used it essentially like a library, except I bought books to bring them back home instead of borrowing them.
The parent was referring the LA riots.
> The 5GBioShield USB Key with the nano-layer is a quantum holographic catalyzer technology for the balance and harmonisation of the harmful effects of imbalanced electric radiation. The nano-layer operating diameter is either 8 or 40 meters.

Perhaps it is time for HN to start permabanning people who promote this sort of garbage.
Zubrin's fine, if excessively Golden Age of Science Fiction for my taste, when he talks about Mars. Earth, not so much. But, again, if you want to keep company with someone who's super excited about anthropogenic climate change, likens mosquitoes to Nazi V-2s, and alludes with crafty dissimulation to the conspiracy theory around environmentalism that forms the backbone of such sober documentaries as "Kingsman: The Secret Service" (2014), go for it.
I'm not so sure money can buy happiness.

There is an amount of life fulfillment that comes from working, and many would likely start having mental health issues (as we are seeing with the Covid lockdowns)
The following C-code heap sorts integers t[1]...t[j] in ascending order:

for (i = j/2; j > 1; t[l] = k) {
if (i) k = t[i--]; else { k = t[j]; t[j--] = t[1]; }
for (l = i + 1; (m = l + l) <= j; t[l] = t[m], l = m) {
if (m < j && t[m] < t[m+1]) m++;
if (t[m] <= k) break;
}
}
Police forces use transport and utility helicopters so what? None of these are attack helicopters other than the Cobra/Apache you won’t find a utility or transport (other than super heavy lifters) helicopters that don’t have a civilian version many of them started as civilian helicopter in the first place.

The UH-1 was developed as a medevac helicopter for the US army.
Ask HN: Any current Thiel Fellows here?
I am in the application process this year and just had 2 calls. Would love to hear what was your experience like so far and what advice could you give to an ambitious applicant.

Would love to hear your thoughts or talk. You can also write me at gabriel (at) barbra.io :)
Visual Studio is probably way more than 25GB, and it's 2020 still.
Fair point. Though we do cook our meat so don't need to tear raw flesh.
I agree that this system is more fragile than most people think; somehow almost preferring automatic government than the tediousness that functioning democracy requires. And sometimes people get a rude reminder of this.

I do not agree that the scenario you're talking about is probable (which is indicated by plausible). Perhaps you mean possible? Sure, but in that case it's also possible money instantly has no meaning, there is no Congress, there are no states, there are no judges or generals, there are no prison sentences, there are no laws at all whatsoever. Nothing matters, everything is possible.

That is a sense of unpredictability a society does not trend toward no matter how ill it is.

But try to understand that completely ending all constitutional order is not how revolutions tend to progress. Even in the U.S. civil war, there were two (federal) constitutions in place for two sets of states. There was order, even in that chaos.

I agree Trump has autocratic tendencies. But he is a weak minded fool. He will not make for a strong autocrat, he even contradicts himself and dithers too much for this. He is Side Show Bob. He's a distraction. To succeed he would need a very high percentage of authority, trust, and compliance - and there's just no way he's going to get that.

I question whether he even does something to sabotage the election. On January 20th his term of office expires. At noon he is not the POTUS if there's been no election. Further, there's no House of Representatives, because their term expires on January 3rd. And 1/3 of Senators are not Senators. But at 12:01pm on January 20th, there is a person who will become POTUS without an election. And that's the President pro tempore of the Senate. Following that, the states will surely already be figuring out how to reinstitute the House through either appointments or new elections. It's not up to the federal government. But to pass new laws, including a new election to make up for the delayed one, we'll need a Congress.

That has never happened. I can tell you many examples from history, things that are way more likely than any of this. Including from American history. Some of those things are violent, even in fact violent for just one person, that are way more likely than autocracy.

Trump's best chance is for the election to proceed.

So, while you can't for sure predict what's going to happen next, just try to have some imagination for rare events that have happened rather than events that have never happened. Trump is a chickenshit asshole but that's like, the least remarkable or interesting thing going on here, because he's been a chickenshit asshole his whole life - not news! And that doesn't really highly qualify (or disqualify) him as an autocrat. He's not going to be one because he's just too incompetent and steps on his own dick every chance he gets. Just try to calm down, let him have enough rope to hang himself, and he will.
Right, which is why "improving one's soul" isn't the only meaning of jihad. This is pointed out in the article I linked.

> The word jihad comes from the Arabic jahada, which is perhaps best translated as "struggle," "effort," or "striving."

This can also be verified with a dictionary or encyclopedia.

> Jihad is an Arabic word which literally means striving or struggling, especially with a praiseworthy aim.

> Jihad, also spelled jehad, in Islam, a meritorious struggle or effort. The exact meaning of the term jihād depends on context; it has often been erroneously translated in the West as “holy war.” Jihad, particularly in the religious and ethical realm, primarily refers to the human struggle to promote what is right and to prevent what is wrong

We can twist the word to focus on violence to accommodate some political objective, but that wouldn't be accurate.
Ansible is YAML, but it's definitely imperative YAML - each YAML file is a list of steps to execute. It uses YAML kind of like how Lisp uses S-expressions, as a nice data structure for people to write code in, but it's still code.

Sure, the steps are things like "if X hasn't been done yet, do it." That means it's idempotent imperative code. It doesn't mean it's declarative.

CFEngine is slightly less imperative, but when I was doing heavy CFEngine work I had a printout on my cubicle wall of the "normal ordering" because it was extremely relevant that CFEngine ran each step in a specific order and looped over that order until it converged, and I cared about things like whether a files promise or packages promise executed first so I could depend on one in the other.

Kubernetes - largely because it insists you use containers - doesn't have any concept of "steps". You tell it what you want your deployment to look like and it makes it happen. You simply do not have the ability to say, install this package, then edit this config file, then start this service, then start these five clients. It does make it harder to lift an existing design onto Kubernetes, but it means the result is much more robust. (For some of these things, you can use Dockerfiles, which are in fact imperative steps - but once a build has happened you use the image as an artifact. For other things, you're expected to write your systems so that the order between steps doesn't matter, which is quite a big thing to ask, but it is the only manageable way to automate large-scale deployments. On the flip side, it's overkill for scale-of-one tasks like setting up your development environment on a new laptop.)
The NIH states that 4000 IU is the tolerable upper intake: https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD-HealthProfessiona...

If you are rounding down your vitamin D status then it is currently at what the NIH say should be avoided. Have you consulted with a medical professional about your vitamin d status?

10k IU/day can be great when someone's level is 12, but it's not a maintenance dosage once at healthy levels.
Ultra wealthy aside, what about the slightly wealthy?

In CA the bottom 1/4 of households make $35,000 a year. Without price controls, will they ever be able to afford PPE in an emergency when they have to compete with the 15% of people making $150,000 a year?
Yep, same here. Once you learn it, it is a standardized consistent API and becomes a huge force multiplier
Dylan Paterson Already Making Waves at 14
Blue Thunder was 37 years ago. Not seeing why drones will be so much more easily weaponized than manned helicopters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Thunder
On one hand, I understand your sentiment, on the other hand even with these bugs air travel is as safe as it’s ever been. We’ve reached a point where fewer people die in air travel per year than at any other point in the history of air travel, and that’s before you account for the number of miles travelled. It’s almost ridiculous how safe air travel is on average.
Fourth time you've posted this in a week, dude. WTH?
Ah, so the sources that don’t fit your narrative are “politicized”, yet others (from the same entity) are not? What a convenient pattern of thought.

I read the document you linked to, and it outlines the potential risks and side effects of the medication and clearly specified that it should be administered with the supervision of a doctor. This adds evidentiary weight against your original claim that it is “safer than acetaminophen” (which yes, is also dangerous if misused), and you still haven’t provided any evidence whatsoever for that claim. I’ll wait.

All drugs have risks and benefits. Some of those risks can be magnified in nonlinear ways based on many potential interactions, which is why people should rely on medical advice from their doctors, and should fully ignore opinions from ping_pong.

For some uses, the benefits outweigh the risks. Context matters. Is grapefruit juice safe? It depends. In combination with some medications, it can kill you.
This is unsupported by evidence. Drone operators have a high incidence of PTSD.

> Studies have found similar levels of depression and PTSD among drone pilots working behind a bank of computers as among military personnel deployed to the battlefield.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/18/life-as-a-dron...
Shortages happen when demand exceeds production capacity, or if prices are artificially capped to make increased production unprofitable.

Usually the more of a product is bought, the more get produced. If the world will need more ventilators over the coming months, the best thing is for everyone to buy as many as they can right away.

There aren't that many "ultra-wealthy" people who are going to hoard ventilators. Even if they did buy them as an impulse, it would be an unusual scenario for them to sit unused in storage while the local hospital has patients going without them. Even the ultra-wealthy will value their friendly relations with the local ICU doctors more than that box gathering dust in the corner and donations will happen.
A new framework for consumer marketplace strategy – Priya Garg
I'm not a socialist, I more or less support capitalism, but there's a reasonable middle ground between Laissez-faire capitalism and Stalin-esque socialism.

It's not like I found this really obscure edge case. Almost 30% of America has lost their job in some capacity; this isn't just some weird contrived example, and it's dishonest to act like it is.

Service workers, at least in the US (I haven't lived anywhere else) are pretty damn vital to the US economy, but are also less likely to be able to afford price-gauged supplies like masks and hand-sanitizer than a yuppie like me. If we don't have some form of regulation to stop price guaging, we are sending a signal to 30% of America that they are simply less deserving of life than the yuppies that depend on them.

I don't particularly care about people hiking up the price of bread machines and video games and whatnot, but I cannot in good conscience defend people who do things that will lead to poor people dying.

EDIT: A few typos.
2019 was first year since 1880s that US coal lost to renewable energy
> Now I'm thinking of deploying k8s at home, not to learn, but because I know it's easier for me to deploy nextcloud, or an ebook catalog

can't you do that just with containers?
That is why we need to build rockets on the Moon, obviously.
I've been using Nomad for my "toy" network, and I like it. It runs many services, and a few periodic jobs. Lightweight, easy to set up, and has enough depth to handle some of the weirder stuff.
The unsung heroes of Oakland's drastic decline in gun homicides
> Fruits and Vegetables have extremely high densities of all your minerals and vitamins.

I don't think they have B12, you need to get that from animal sources or a pill.
They've been working on it for quite a while, yeah :) I appreciate it and they've made quite a lot of progress... but it's still nowhere near Go, and I mostly doubt it ever will be.

# time ./hellogo
hello world

real 0m0.005s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m0.005s

It's probably "good enough" for many cases nowadays tho, yes, e.g.: https://cl4es.github.io/2019/11/20/OpenJDK-Startup-Update.ht...
It is low. Estimates [0] put the number closer to 500M/day.

[0] https://www.internetlivestats.com/twitter-statistics/#source...
What do you mean by native browser app? Like JS + WebGL?
As long as it doesn't follow Unity's approach (asset bundles). Unity's favourite thing to do is break asset bundle compatibility between versions.
Show HN: Take Notes from the Command Line
> What is relevant is the opinion of actual experts on the topic of autocracy.

What happens to the “experts” when they are wrong?
Very interesting, thanks for the feedback! I found a couple of similar projects, but not this one, I will definitely check them out. Thanks!
thats editorializing
Tell me honestly: do really think that I thought the OP's argument was that people will literally think of you as imaginary.

Of course I don't.

What you've done is to take the least charitable interpretation of my argument by believing that I was using the OP's language of "real human" literally.

The OP's argument is that "if you're not physically present near them, they will forget that you really exist as a human and a social peer."

My interpretation of that is that they won't see you as a real person with whom they can have a real relationship with, and that you can't you can't maintain a social peer relationship without physical contact.

To best way to describe what I, (and I'm 99% sure the OP) mean when they say real person: You read in the newspaper that a man was shot. You know he exists and you may know something about him, but he doesn't feel like a real person to you. His death doesn't cause you grief the same way the death of a friend or neighbor would.
I hope they learn something from it, because they seem to be blowing things up at a prodigious rate.

I wonder how many more explosions we'll have to witness before Starship flies.
It starts around 1:24:15
> Modify or adjust seats, furniture, and workstations to maintain social distancing of 6 feet between employees.

> Install transparent shields or other physical barriers where possible to separate employees and visitors where social distancing is not an option.

> Replace high-touch communal items, such as coffee pots, water coolers, and bulk snacks, with alternatives such as pre-packaged, single-serving items.

Hopefully this will help inject some sanity into open offices designs, or better yet, kill the idea entirely.
Stanford president expects layoffs even with $27B endowment
Oh, well that's ok then.
I don't. I use a cloud cluster. But that still has to be provisioned? You need to choose size, node pool, VPC, region, etc.
I'd also argue the recent pandemic and subsequent crash of the economy has an underplayed role in the riots. When many haven't left their homes (much) in months and have been laid off, it's no surprise they'd be looking for an excuse to get out and focus their energy. People are desperate and stressed and it makes for some abnormal dynamics.
Honestly I've been watching the protests and it's not black people rioting. It's a diverse group of black, Caucasian, and other minorities.

In fact, I saw the arsonist that set the police department on fire and it was a Caucasian male. This is not a group of African Americans rioting in protest. It's a diverse bunch of a bad actors ruining a community.

The protesters themselves seem rather peaceful.
I still find this to be such a silly comparison, really.

CNN is a publisher.. they pay people to be on TV, they pay people to write articles. Of course CNN (the company) is liable for what it puts out, because they are literally creating 100% of the content and paying people to do it. So if they are slandering someone with no basis, it's logical to say "Uh CNN is literally paying people to write lies to mislead people".

Now let's take a site like HN. People post articles here, people comment on articles. HN isn't "creating" any of the content like CNN. So obviously some random person posting a story or commenting complete bullshit is not HN's goal.

Now what's the argument... that as soon as HN starts to flag something as misleading, remove "spam" (who determines what is a spam article?), then suddenly they are put into a publisher realm and can get sued for what is or is not on there?

I mean.. to me that is LAUGHABLE that someone wants to argue as soon as a site like reddit/twitter/hn starts to do anything to the content they treated like a publisher and are liable for the content. This already happens a billion times a day across all those platforms anyway.
> I still don't understand why price gouging is not accepted.

You participated in a thread here on the same topic earlier this year. Shouldn't you have a more nuanced understanding by now, with some acknowledgement of and maybe counter-argument for the numerous flaws in this reasoning that have already been pointed out?
>In fact, Kubernetes is a very dangerous chainsaw that most people are using to whittle in their laps.

So many people miss this. k8s is a very complex system and the talent it takes to manage it well, rare.

Extremely rare.
Does the president even have the ability to unilaterally eliminate WHO funding? Considering this and the conflict with Twitter, I wonder how other countries perceive the US during the midst of all of this turmoil.
With "Swarm", do you mean Docker Swarm? Why has it "fizzled"?

The way I learned it in Bret Fisher's Udemy course, Swarm is very much relevant, and will be supported indefinitely. It seems to be a much simpler version of Kubernetes. It has both composition in YAML files (i.e. all your containers together) and the distribution over nodes. What else do you need before you hit corporation-scale requirements?
It's because lots of people don't want to admit the issues with the current state of affairs with big-tech social media, such as lopsided and selective enforcement of the rules...