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In talking with CIOs and others, as well as just personal interactions with financial institutions and the like, there are a lot of traditional practices and processes that were just "the way things were done." And even if some in authority wondered if they should experiment with this or that change, it probably seemed like a low priority and at least a little bit risky if it didn't work out. What's happened is a bunch of change has been forced. And some of those changes have indeed proven sub-optimal. But a lot have worked out, surprisingly to many, well.
I guess we all have different things that make us happy. Is life about amassing cash? You need to decide what happiness means to you.

Its good to have goals. Its good to make plans to achieve your goals. What that means is different to everyone.
It’s a lot of pie in the sky. I think vertical Ag is for hostile environments like Middle East/desert. Japan/no labour ...maybe even where it dumps snow most of the time. Or entirely different like..I don’t know..Shetland islands.

Hydroponics is more efficient. Aquaponics more eco friendly/organic. Even hoop house growing/under shade can be automated.

The issue would be labour in the US. I am in field ag and in my opinion, we need more small swarming ag robotics ..less ai..more to replace weeding/harvest manhours.

Plenty/Nate Storey design is very elegant. Very smart. I am not sure it can scale. But they say that it can..should be interesting
> 180W (AMD EPYC 7571, 32 physical cores / 64 HT cores)

Wrong CPU, that's the old Zen1 14nm Epyc. The one that Graviton2 is going up against is the 64-core Epyc 7742 (or any of the other Zen 2 7nm Epycs).

And you can't call Graviton2 110W when you need 50% more of them vs. everyone else, and you can't ignore the power from the rest of the system. You need 50% more machines. That's going to be equivalent if not more total power usage for Graviton2 than Epyc 7742 for equivalent compute performance. Baseline power usage of a server is fairly high. It's not the rounding error it is on a laptop or even desktop.

EDIT: also as far as comforting thoughts go, manufacturing 50% more machines is vastly more environmental impactful than the power difference.

> I am not sure what your point is, anyway. As a business customer, if it is going to cost me 30% less money to run the same workload regardless of the ISA, I will take it.

I'm saying that 30% less cost is a temporary fantasy since all signs point to the Graviton2 being more expensive to manufacturer & deploy vs. the competition. If you're not coupled to ISA, sure take it while it lasts. Why not be subsidized by Amazon for a bit? But if you're talking long-term trends, which we are, it's not a pretty picture. Pace of improvement isn't compelling, either. The CPU core in the N1 is basically a Cortex A76. ARM claims a 20% increase in IPC going from an A76 to an A77. Not bad. But AMD just delivered a 20% IPC increase going from Zen 2 to Zen 3, too. So... the gap ain't shrinking.

Although 30% less per instance but you need 50% more instances also doesn't work out. That ends up being overall more expensive. Depending on your workload that it might be even less close. In things like PostgreSQL & OpenSSL graviton2 gets absolutely slaughtered.
The new dRAID mechanism in ZFS may help with this:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdXOtEF6Fh0
Haha did you just come up with this?
I also have ECC memory for my Ryzen system, I’m curious what sticks you use as I really struggled to find mine as they have to be ECC UDIMMs?
The part he bolds is:

> It’s the difference between what you have and what you spend

I think I hear a lot of people rewriting that as

> It’s the difference between what you CAN MAKE and what you NEED

Depending on the 'YOU' in question, the 'CAN MAKE' and 'NEED' vary dramatically. So many debates on both a personal and societal level are trying to fit everyone into a single 'YOU', and telling everyone else that their calculations must be wrong.
The point is that if you desire to live a simple existence you are one small catastrophe away from total financial ruin. I have a child who developed an autoimmune disorder. The medicine is $5000/month (insurance won't cover it, I have involved attorneys.). How many people living a simple life would be able to soak up that expense? How quickly would they draw down a savings account?
Ask HN: Have you any 'obsolete tech skills' that you think will 'come back'?
We have all been told ad nauseam that Cobol and Fortran are supposed to have died long ago, but there's an enormous amount of code that still needs to be maintained. But what else is out there that's like this?
I've been WFH for three years and hope to never ever ever go back. I do more in 20 hours than I did in a whole work week. And I don't have to drive. I only need one car. The savings and improved convenience is just ludicrous.

My one and only must-repeat tip: spend money on a proper office space. If you can, have a dedicated room. And prepare to spent a few thousand on a proper desk and chair.

Okay I lied, two pieces of advice: the point of a dedicated space is that you can walk away from it and not go back in until the next day or Monday. That's absolutely critical to success.
Frankly this is an ignorant comment, no offense.

This isn't about giving up your iPhone. It's about giving up your insulin, giving up your car that you need to get to your job, giving up birth control, giving up the daycare that takes care of your children so that you can go to your job, giving up dentistry, giving up repairing the hole in your roof that causes a leak into your bathroom, giving up your college classes, or giving up your children's college classes.

Think twice. Just because you have it easy doesn't mean everyone does.
I went back to school to finish my BS degree and graduated at 50. I took a few courses in areas that I had never studied, and I did notice that it took me longer to absorb the material. My retention is good.
Can someone give some concrete example uses of why I would want to use workers in production? From what I understand, it works like a middleware/caching layer but without database access. Is the potential cost savings worth the development overhead/platform-lockin?
Sweden had +30% death rate in April compared to an average year, and it was the most deadly month in >decade if I'm not mistaken.

It's definitely not comparable to any flu year, although definitely not crazy bad (unlike other countries).

In case of Poland, with ~5-10% infected population, the last month was the most deadly since the last decade (and possibly - since the WW2):

https://infogram.com/liczba-zgonow-w-dobie-epidemii-1hnp27w9...
I would tweak the definition of rich provided by Sivers

Having more money than you spend for a year is not enough is not enough to be 'rich'. You want assets where you will always be able to generate more money than you need spend for every year that you live.

I think people read Siver's blog because he got to this tweaked definition of rich. This article does not seem to acknowledge that reality.
Ya, I used to hate working form home and HATED when my co-workers would (fortunately that wasn't very often). However, I'm LOVING it now that everyone is working from home. I find it crazy awkward when just one or two people are on a screen. It's hard to describe why but I know it's a common feeling. I've even heard of mixed office/remote teams will do all meeting over video chat, even the ones in the office, as it puts everyone on the same level.
According to some accounts I've seen, Rakuten sales/support not just encourage but instruct sellers to do this until they oblige
No, it's a famous copypasta/quote.
Thanks, but I live in Argentina. Hopefully someone else can use it.

Do you ship to Hawaii? IIRC they have a lot of restrictions.

Do the plants usually regrow the next year?
The RAM doesn't publish anything because it isn't doing any ECC. ECC memory is just wider memory (72 bits instead of 64 bits per row). The ECC itself is performed by the memory controller, which makes sense, because doing ECC in the memory would leave the memory bus itself unprotected.
it sad that the minimum to boot linux is now 11MB. I recall booting a full QNX desktop demo from a 1.44mb floppy :-(

Why is the kernel so fat ?
If your photos are scattered over several drives and you need something to sweep then into one neat pile, try PhotoStructure (I'm the author). The current beta release is available for free in exchange for your feedback.

It's got a bunch of features you won't find with any other photo app: https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/

but know that the product is young, and my to-do list is long: https://photostructure.com/about/whats-next/
Yeah real-time calls definitely make a difference. But I guess, people who are more call shy can do with emails.
You may wish to check out the new dRAID mechanism that recently got committed:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdXOtEF6Fh0

* https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Basic%20Concepts/dRAI...
Postgraphile is a better alternative. Then there's also Hasura, 8Base and XGeneCloud. Did I miss anyone?
I know it's not a novel complaint but a really dislike this about homebrew, and I think it should be reason enough to opt for Macports if you need a macOS package manager.

It's just so fragrantly violating the Unix model.
> Unbiasedness of the decision procedure means that γ is indeed the function it estimates the best, and it is not a better estimator for any other function γ'(θ).

Are you suggesting that unbiased estimators are necessarily better than biased ones? If so, check out Stein’s phenomenon for a counterexample. It’s common for biased estimators to dominate unbiased ones in terms of error rates. That’s where the bias variance trade off in ML comes from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stein's_example
Nope, it is making circles from at least 1990s and possibly earlier.
Why are nuclear plants so expensive? Safety’s only part of the story
We're using it at CYPEX to automatically make customer data consumable for our frontend.

https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/products/cypex/
I've used it for admin tools at real jobs. And once powered a read only "consumer" (writes came from offline webscraping) hobby project with it to make a no-backend-code react app. I see no reason it couldn't work in prod, especially if you had a CDN or HTTP cache in front.

What I found most striking is that it relies on postgres for just about everything. Content obviously (sometimes straight from tables, sometimes via db views), but also users and permissions. I'd first assumed there would be a config file a mile long but it really is all Postgres.
It's fine and healthy to be social at work. But I'm not sure if it's healthy to hang all of your life's needs on work. The bonds you form from work are usually temporary and conditional upon continuing to perform well at work. This can add a lot of pressure: you can lose your coworkers and your "friends" in one fell swoop.

The bonds I form outside of work are simply because we enjoy eachother's company. Or a shared hobby. Something that doesn't require me to be at the top of my performance. As long as I don't do something ridiculously inappropriate, they will still be my friends.
I think this hard separation between work areas and social areas in an office would eliminate a lot of the social advantages of the office.

Who wants to be seen as the one always in the social area not working while on the clock? Plus, who would consciously choose to get their socialization from work instead of their personal friends? I think office socialization has to be coincidental or it just won't happen at all.

I think that model works better in university settings because the students have such disjoint schedules, they need those amenities to keep students occupied between classes.
Ask HN: How do you stimulate your creativity on a day like today?
A few times a week, I like to pick up a copy of the FT, WSJ, etc. and read through them to come up with interesting ideas and projects.

I'm aspiring to do the same with sci-fi short stories... Reading them but also asking the question of, "How can this be built?"

What tools and tactics do you use to stimulate ideas and brainstorm?
The point of GP is that Zoom is american software, regardless of any particular issue related to the app itself. Which IMO, is a very crucial point.

A EU security conference should use EU software, and as little foreign stuff as possible. Otherwise, it's just theater (and it currently really is just that!).
Homelessness can be a lifestyle too, but most don't choose it. He could have saved more money in the same amount of time by sleeping on a park bench. We all have our limits.
This brings me back to a job I had 10-12 years ago, where I would make custom PXE or flash-booted linux "distros" based on the debian-live/casper project, for companies that needed kiosks with custom branding, that would wipe on each boot, etc. It was pretty fun and taught me loads about a linux and how it works.
For the two weeks before I had to WFH at my current job (I joined in February), I had my own office in an extremely beautiful tech HQ building.

That office was hella nice, but I'm still far happier at home. I don't think my home office is all that nice, but I simply value the freedom given to me from WFH far more than the "benefits" of the office.
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It is not that simple. The minute China does it - they stand alone. The whole premise of outsourcing manufacturing to China will die. No one will trust them to do it. In my opinion they won’t do it
Yes it's really stupid. All the poor people who barely get by are on the brink of becoming rich if only they shared an apartment with others and started to eat peanut butter sandwiches every meal ? What if you barely have enough to live already, starve yourself ? A guy who got rich at 22 by selling some unspecified company telling others that they could get rich too if only they spent less is frankly very offensive to read.
I feel like people take the idea that an obsessive pursuit of more money won’t make you happier and then extrapolate that money has zero effect on your happiness. This simply isn’t true.

The amount of money you have plays a role in your happiness. Of course, the marginal value of a dollar will change immensely depending on how many dollars you already have and your stage of life, but it is a factor. It also really matters how much you have to sacrifice to make that extra dollar.
I specified my country to head off anyone replying that the healthcare problems I mention aren't an issue where they live.

I was not implying that a complex life in a jet ski or comfortable suburban existence would make you happy, I was implying that giving up your education or watching your children die for lack of medicine would make you unhappy.

Read between the lines old grasshoppah
Land trusts would make more sense. And they should be modern farms with automation. Train the next generation of farmers(black/white/whatever colour) with latest tech.

Farming is not for everyone. For wealth redistribution, farmland isn’t the ideal one to give away. It’s a protected asset category. Good soil in farmland shouldn’t be considered for speculative purposes or for building. Farming as we know it would change within 1-2 decades.

I don’t know any rich farmer unless they have generational wealth and thousands of acres and a second job. So what is this about when renting land is less risk and cheaper for new farmers?
Maybe the competiton is unavoidable, but working from a couch? Doesn't your employer have legal workplace safety obligations?
PSA: Folks, if you have not seen them at Madison Square Garden, you should :)

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv4wf7bzfFE
Most (or all?) of those are GraphQL rather than REST.
Me too! After nearly 40 years of programming, though not all of it professional. It was worth it just for the improvements to my posture.
> I'll be honest this is a stupid story.

Stupid in that it's incredibly reductive.

It is blissfully unaware of the explosive costs of items needed for life and its continuation (AKA children) like healthcare, housing, and education (the last last two especially explode in cost together in unison).

Yeah I get it. Frugality is useful. When coupled with creativity it even sometimes results in amazing workarounds that sometimes turn into novel solutions that more people benefit from.

But people who aren't rich don't need to be lectured on frugality by someone who is rich. For every disparaging anecdote you hear about a non-rich person with a 65" TV, there are multiple families working 3 jobs to feed, house and educate their members. They also lend their spare time/effort to their neighbors, and there are entire communities that keep going on such efforts, sharing childcare and other essential needs. It takes a village after all.

Those people are engaged in a kind of community frugality the author can likely not comprehend with his peanut-butter sandwich anecdote. They don't write guru-style blog posts about these things, though, because it's so blindingly obvious to them that they need to watch their spending very carefully.
Oh, yeah! I've made it a point to learn new stuff once in a while.

For my 40th birthday, I ran my first marathon.
In my mid 40s I picked up woodworking.
At 50, I learned to juggle.
In the early 50s I started learning to play bluegrass banjo.

I'm looking forward to a lot more neat stuff. My aunt is in her mid-80s, she's a big participant in Olli classes. There's no end to learning.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osher_Lifelong_Learning_Instit...
War is a Racket is a must read, but there is another Smedley Butler story a lot of people don't know about that is extremely interesting: the business plot. [1]

1. https://www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com/synarchist-conspiracy-i...
Paywalled. Can’t read it.
Apparently, only people in relationships are allowed to enjoy working from home because you must be rotten if you're single but don't miss meeting office people.

Some people need social interactions. It's their life blood. Others require very little of it and enjoy being alone.

Neither category really understands the other.
Docker for Mac however is no Apple Product. Thus nothing Apple can be blamed or praised for (at the most as enabler)

And it doesn't fit the requirements they stated: The docker container can't see the host's processes nor can the host see the container's processes. So the suggested "cheat" isn't there either.
Having children is an essential part of the human experience. Not everyone does, but it’s a strong biological imperative for most. Good luck sending your kids to a decent school, where they won’t learn to be criminals, on a shitty income. Public school is “free”, but housing in a good neighborhood isn’t.
> I'll ask you this, why would any one give a damn about "anthropogenic climate change" if they did not have some theory in their heads about "the final destiny of humankind"?

Because they have some concern about the quality of life people experience in the future, independent of any concept of the final destiny of humankind.

> Cause I hope they do have a theory that connects to their personal values, otherwise they are just following blindly

I'm not sure what your point is, unless you are unable to separate the idea of having values from eschatological theory. While certainly these can (and often are) ties together in religion, values can exist without any eschatology.

> did you just make up "factual belief"?

No.

> I mean it is a tautology on many levels.

It can't be a tautology because it's not a proposition, much less one that is true by definition. You might mean to say it's redundant, but it's not that. A factual belief is a belief on a question of fact, as opposed, e.g., to a question of values.
You should be able to reduce the size by compiling the kernel yourself and disable features you don't need. Not sure how far you can shrink it down though, probably not enough to fit in a floppy anymore.
I mainly miss being able to work from multiple places. I find that if I get too comfortable in a space I will be completely unproductive. It has happened at work when I had a desk and it is now happening at my home office. I miss being able to go to a coffee shop. I miss going to the library. I miss being able to go to the chair on the third floor of the office. I miss choice.

Staying home is obviously the right thing, but I miss choice.
The solution would be create a dns record for something linke newinstall.openwrt.net and use that to to generate a certificate from letsencrypt and include that into the openwrt builds. Such builds would be rebuilt every 2.5 months and would have a lifespan of 2 months.

The only problem I see with that is that now you have to setup ci and automated build for a vast number of targets (which i'm not sure if exists already).

The public dns record would then have 192.168.1.1 as A record (or whatever the default is in openwrt)
No! This looks great. Thanks for the suggestion.
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thats not zoom, its Pexip

https://www.pexip.com/
We've used this in production for geospatial data delivery via GKE cloud run. Worked quite well.
> There's a kind of arrogance that we fall into making decisions for others when we design APIs, library interfaces, etc where we know what we're exposing and users don't know what's good for them. Maybe that's right sometimes, i don't know?

Usually it's right, and at least you're putting thought into it. API design is not easy, hence why it gets fucked up so often.

I just went through explaining to someone why they shouldn't go pawing through /proc to find details on a running process. How there were commands like 'strace' and 'lsof', or even running a debugger that could better achieve their goals. Often people just aren't aware.

The option to bypass layers of abstraction should be there, but the option should be off by default, and come with plenty of warnings akin to "if you're removing the cylinder head, we assume you know what you're doing, and you assume all responsibility."

Other databases already bypass the kernel routinely; I'm reminded of Oracle which could use a partition or even whole disk directly. And yes, I know SQLite is not like other databases; that's why it gets tricky.

Honestly, the stuff they lay out is the kind of customer requests I dream of getting. I would gladly implement these, where they don't break backwards compatibility, and where they are off by default but can be turned on, in a fashion where it doesn't upset/surprise/break currently majority usage.
It’s not just that, though it plays a large part.

As I get older, my brain is more aggressive about not wanting to learn cruft even though my conscious brain tells me it would be to my advantage.

And it does this by being less interested in so many things.

When I see yet another framework, or language, or tweak it’s just a shrug.

It has to be truly novel for me to get excited; but the upside is that some tweak that becomes important I’m usually able to understand instantly the implications.

When something is novel and easy to get started with, though, the old fire gets roaring again.
So great to see folks utilizing Pyodide, the WASM scientific python stack my Mozilla colleagues put together. The creator, Mike Droettboom, wrote a Mozilla Hacks post about it a while back:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/pyodide-bringing-the-scien...
Especially since most people end up with a significant medical expense. Being poor doesn't cover even mediocre care in large parts of the US.

Or want a family or just have kids then the lower end of independent finances is much higher.