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There is plenty of terrible Dockerfile out there. I would vastly prefer to see images or Dockerfile generated by some well written buildpacks. I like to think about buildpacks as reasonably written Docker templates.

Yours is 5 lines long, but many are others are more complex and could benefit from having a multistage (base stage with common dependencies, build phase with build dependencies, run time with the result of the previous plus some extra runtime dependency), setting up a custom user/group for extra security, optimizing execution order which vastly affect the time to build the image, etc.

I am considering using them to make easier for my colleagues which are not used to Docker to containerize their application as well as using them as template system for Dockerfile handled centrally, which do not need any kind of manual merge/alignment afterwards.
Sure, here's a good example: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge...

Maintainers unresponsive, talking about making changes but not following up. They strung the guy along for quite a while on this new codec selection mechanism problem. They claim to be in a v14.0 freeze for two months. He updated his code to work on new v14.0 to more unresponsiveness from maintainers about merging. And it goes on from there.

If you've had to use pulseaudio-modules-bt or pali's patched version rather than official pulse, this is why. By comparison, pipewire managed to get it working with little effort because its lead developer is a nice guy and responsive.
I think they are taking your use of "would" literally, and not reading it as an implied "should".
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> I counter argue that anthropomorphizing of animals is fundamentally flawed.

and I further retort that humans are animals, and that classifying humans into "something other than animals" is fundamentally flawed.

Why are so many humans wont on forgetting that we're an animals too?

> The only understanding i can see is that having wild animals as pets should be banned as they normally are in most jurisdictions.

I suppose owning humans as pets is already banned in all jurisdictions, so I think we agree on this.
I've been using Cloudflare for a site that has around 400k requests per day on a Free plan (although I did buy a dedicated certificate and a domain from them) and Cloudflare has been very reliable to me except few hiccups in the past. I've had an instance of Cloudflare failing only on a single region, but after talking to support it turns out to be some route caching issue on their side, which subsequently fixed. I would not assume anything until there's some clarification on Cloudflare side. It might just be a bug.
Looking at western countries for population vaccinated as instructed and tested by the manufacturers

Israel: 24%

USA: 2.75%

Denmark: 2.35%

Slovenia: 2.05%

Malta: 1.98%

Italy: 1.87%

and way down the bottom

UK: 0.73%, just below Romainia.
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Definitely fair; I still encounter bugs. But that was true of pulseaudio as well, and it is true of pipewire to a significantly lesser extent, especially around bluetooth profile switching, interoperability with jackd, etc.
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A tech challenges in machine learning these days is teaching the machines to explain why they made their decisions. With Google's commitment to 100% lights-off handling of terms-of-service violations, it seems unlikely that non-Google entities will get any decent explanations unless there are revenue implications for Google.

Big fines for violations? Maybe. But they have more lobbyists than that rest of us to resist legislation. Won't happen without a mass political movement (in the US at any rate).

How about a review department at Google?

We could pay US$200 for a human review of the situation, with a reasonable SLA (maybe two working days), with a promise of a refund if they determine the error was theirs.

Possibly a larger fee for a more aggressive SLA?

Possibly a subscription-style fee for publishers of mission-critical stuff? (Meaning, critical to the publisher's mission, not Google's mission.)
Counterpoints:

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/is-oumuamua-an-interstellar-sp...

(More convincing ones, IMHO)
The company's website states: RheEnergise projects provide 10MW to 50MW power and 2 to 10 hours of storage capacity.

I'll let you do the maths regarding the required storage capacity :)

> I'd be looking at storing the order of 1-2 TWh

Maybe not that much, but in any case that'll probably require looking at a number of different solutions and to combine them all. This one could be part of the mix.
I have nothing but good things to say about Cloudflare's free services. However my usage is limited to small static sites, which are free of surprises.
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I think Cloudflare is fine in most of the cases. Putting title "Never use Cloudflare free plan" with so weak arguments in the blog post is too much.
> if you get something form your country ...

That part is probably not a good bet, as life can go in unexpected directions.

Some country providers (eg .eu) only provide service to their citizens, so if you move country or otherwise become "not a citizen" they'll terminate your domain. As happened recently to the UK holders of .eu domains. :/

Probably better to pick a .net/.com/.org domain, for (hopefully) longer term stability.
See also the story of Alan Turing's buried silver[0], which although a rational thing to do in the circumstances didn't end well.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22347294
Even for a free account, there is a contract in place between you and Twitter, which Twitter can't unilaterally terminate without reason, especially if the "code of conduct" collides with the right of free speech (https://www.ratgeberrecht.eu/internetrecht-aktuell/meinungsf...)
Except when a theme park ride malfunctions, maims and kills most of a family in a gruesome fashion. Of course then you cannot sue because you've agreed/signed an arbitration clause in the terms of service.
> the huge amount of spam and abuse that such systems correctly identify and remove.

Maybe allowing single service providers to capture several billions of users is the problem here.
i am running a site with 30k+ MAU and 1mm+ req/month (according to CF stats) and did not experience any throttling issue
Someone came on HN to report that a free-tier product is failing in a way that’s undetectable and doesn’t make sense as described by the products’ marketing materials, and the resolution is to pay (a small amount) for the upgraded version. One of the Cloudflare engineers* immediately responds to the article saying he’s looking into things because this shouldn’t be happening. Everything seemed to be going so well in this story. I only continued reading the comments to find the first one where someone turns this into a story of blame for the poster being cheap, and your post was it.

ETA: * The CTO of Cloudflare
I don't know, that clarifies a lot to me.

From the perspective of an AI moderation system, all you have to do to be perfectly internally consistent is to ban all accounts that raise any flags.

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> Brexit and Trump clearly prove..

Does "influenced" include not wanting to be ruled from Brussels? In fact, it was EU supporters getting the majority PR budgets and political support.
Nice! Thanks for the last paragraph about "Dietland". I found a Wiki page about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietland

I will try to read it!
This has the same basic problem it always does: from a positivist viewpoint, what changes in what we do if we start assuming artificial origin?

We would do all the same experiments we already did (which included sweeping for transmissions), and have the same lack of data that fails to meaningfully distinguish models.

Worse, disproving a hypothesis is not itself evidence in favour of another one unless they're aggressively mutually exclusive - and even then, this is rarely absolute once measurement error/difficulty becomes a factor.

Particularly when you start adding additional items - i.e. unexplained acceleration, okay sure, but how? Either it's something very similar to outgassing (which is what conventional propellants and ion engines are) or it's a new technology we have never encountered, which puts it on worse footing then the more likely explanation of naturally occurring things being observed in an unusual setting (we've never observed an interstellar object before this, haven't after this, it's reasonable to think that the 99.99%+ of it's life it spent outside of the solar system means it starts with surface conditions unlike what we're used to from comets).

But in both cases, starting from the incredible explanation hasn't contributed a way to distinguish the hypotheses - it proposes no new experiments. In fact, generally presuming alien technology artifact shuts down experimental futures: if we're actually being observed by technology, then likely we need do nothing to observe another one - it would be reasonable to expect that aliens are looking for aliens, and will send more probes now that they've found them. Whereas interstellar rocks will require advances in our rocketry and mission staging so we can hopefully find one we can get on an intercept trajectory with.
The UK has suffered more deaths—controlled for population—than almost any other country. Overall, management of the pandemic was extremely poorly handled – we had multiple ridiculous decisions, taken purely for political reasons, that resulted in thousands of unnecessary deaths and caused further economic damage. In my area, I was personally under four different sets of restrictions in a 12-day period and nobody had a fucking clue what was happening.

Given this, I think there is widespread surprise that the vaccine rollout in the UK has been well-handled – because it has. Many of us were genuinely expecting the other shoe to drop, but fortunately good decisions have been taken and this should be celebrated.
Corruption, powergrabs, totalitarianism, factionalism and tribal warfare is on the horizon for all nations -- always has been, and always will be.

The success of a nation, in my view, is how far way that horizon is -- and how keenly the ship is steered away from it.
I'm ashamed to say I've never read any of Butler's novels, although I've been aware of her since I got into SF in my teens.
> And who hosted the discussion boards, companies? You can host one now if you want but if too many people actually used it the group think thought police would be all over you. That's why companies stopped hosting forums or comment sections, rarely worth the hassle.

About 20 years ago, one of my A-level friends set up his own site and discussion forum with phpBB. I still have friends from non-corporate IRC servers, and can even recognise a few Hacker News usernames from some of the channels I was on, though the relationship there is more of “in the same place at the same time quite often” (/me waves to @duskwuff ;)). It wasn’t all Livejournal and AOL chat.
Could this be explained by something like “there was some bug causing this person’s config to be in a weird state (on the cloudflare side), and changing the payment tier merely gave the system a kick that got it out of the bad state? After all, the person payed $20pm not because they thought it would give a better reliability but because they wanted better support for a weird issue. I’m not really very appalled by the idea that free users don’t get great support.
For what is is worth, I've been using their Free Tier to serve over 10k requests per hour with ~60% html / ~40% media (mainly pictures, very few videos) and I've never had a problem.

However, for a CDN for video content YMMV. Perhaps you should try contacting them directly to have a written estimate.
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So I looked on their site and they charge $20 a month for 4 hour support response for urgent issues. [0]

Isn't that quite reasonable? Especially if you're scared if your site goes down.

[0] https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/plans/
There's been a spate of "never" or "always" posts getting on the front page in recent days.
"New"

A lot has happened in the SBC market since - with (for example) Odroid C4 you'll get significantly more bang for not much more buck.

Just an idea if anyoine feels inspired: Organize with Pine64 to make an upgraded version based on their new architecture slated for release this year. With their strong focus on openness it seems like a perfect match to me.
Here is a recent example case of a lack of forgiveness: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ny-times-star-reporter-fired-a...

And when it comes to Trump, you are absolutely right, there has been no apology. Unfortunately, the most powerful in society often evade consequences. This post was mostly about those many who are not so powerful.

And I completely agree on the lack of character in public figures, as elaborated here: https://realclearconservatism.com/2021/01/26/moral-character...
> improvements that could be made [...] Make a template interpreter like in the JVM. This will allow your specialized opcodes to directly make use of the call stack.

What is a “template interpreter”? How does it differ from a normal bytecode interpreter?
They do NOT allow video or large files (+50MB) on the Free plan or even on the paid plans!

You'll have to get an Enterprise account for that (it's no longer starting at $5K/mo, you can get custom accounts setup to match your needs).
> we can’t say there is a statistically significant effectiveness

Agreed, although to clarify and be more precise, it also doesn't prove it's not effective. It effectively says that the sample was too small to tell anything.

> (it is not significantly different from 0% effectiveness).

This statement isn't true - it means that they are 95% sure the range of possible values is between -50 and +60, but it does not mean that the average of those two values is correct. 0% effectiveness is possible, but was not shown in this study.
So you're getting a million visitors a month and you've been scared off a free CDN plan?
> no way

you can (and should) put monitors on the outside of your infrastructure as well as inside. I've multiples hitting the login page and robots file where I work, and never got an unaccounted 503
What sort of traffic patterns do you have? Are they dispersed between a large number of Cloudflare datacenters? Or few?
It's not you, it's Google that locks you out of the account for vague "term of service violation" and nothing you do will help.
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Polarization ticks something off in our brains, especially if it's negative and conform with your pre-existing views on a particular subject.

I guess HN users might have caught up to the rest of the internet on how to get clicks.
It's a neat idea and an interesting puzzle, and sure this is one conceivable interpretation, but then the question is so what? It's only one plausible interpretation. Unless we come across one of these again and the speculation gets confirmed we will never know. It's in the curiosity category, but in a complex universe we've got to expect to see things we don't understand from time to time. It's not actionable.

So it's not so much the speculation that's crazy, it's the "and therefore peace, love and uniting humanity in a common, blah, blah" that's straying into the fruitcake zone. He'll find his audience, for sure, but with the uniting humanity stuff it's clear what audience he's aiming for.
It would be nice if that was the top of the search results or had a near limitless budget to be at the top when searching "turbo tax".
And what's your defence against torture for literally any other class of asset?
Combined with regular backups (maybe to an offline client, using IMAP?), sounds like a good idea to me.

Actually, I've been thinking about doing the same thing.

But i don't know much about emails.
blocks can be broadcast over any communications medium. the shared state of the ledger would be smuggled in via any means necessary, from radio to messenger pigeon.

this remains true if retail payments migrate to second layer solutions. the important thing is sharing the same base layer anchor.

block confirmations would have to increase to mitigate the likely orphaning of chains coming out of different zones.

it's a good example of why achieving its civilisational infrastructure goals requires lightweight blocks.
If this topic interests you, I recommend this paper and book by linguist and psychologist Michael Tomasello. He explores how human babies differ from other young primates and the role that collective human knowledge plays in the development process.

http://www.biolinguagem.com/ling_cog_cult/tomasello_1999_hum...

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674005822
Twitter seems to be the worst platform ever created to get customer support.

If any entity requires a huge amount of Twitter followers to get support, count me out.
Honestly, Office 365 sounds good, but we are a Linux & Mac only business. Can't imagine using MS products... Or will that not matter at all? :)
Another advantage of buildpacks is the ability to easily “rebase” an image layer to update dependencies (eg JDK) without rebuilding the whole image. https://buildpacks.io/docs/concepts/operations/rebase/

The Java buildpack also calculates optimal JDK memory flags based on available resources
The United Kingdom itself is a good test when trying to answer "what is a country?"
Is the issue with free services in general? Does any other vendor (AWS, Fastly or Akamai) offer a decent free service?

It does seem to be more Marketing if you want to lock in customers before they get too big to switch.
They have also censored and removed sites in the past without notice.
But, I thought in your case you did know something was wrong: client complained and you saw 503 errors?
> it's no longer starting at $5K/mo, you can get custom accounts setup to match your needs

Meaning that it might be possible to get what we need at a suitable price? $5K/mo is way over our budget until we have actual users and revenue.

If so then that is great. Thanks for the tip :)
If it makes you feel any better, stories of failure are much more informative than stories of success.

Thanks for sharing these valuable lessons.
Don't forget that cryptcurrencies are valuable only because people think they are valuable. People might reconsider whats valuable during a war. Like food or something.
But today we have GPS.

By the way, are these silver bars still in the park?
The problem in the UK (and other places probably) is lack of representation. IDK what happened to the political establishment, but there are too few politicians supporting what the people believe.

people in support of the current establishment like to smugly pronounce it proof that what the people believe is therefore "wrong" if no educated politicians support it (to the tune of "Reality has a well known liberal bias"); but even if this was the case (I'm sceptical) - it kind of undermines the ability of the political system to support a representative democracy that is actually representative.

that said, maybe there is better representation, and it is just suppressed. As Brexit gained quite a few politicians flipped. That said, why did it have to take so much effort for something supported by about half the population, and even now the best we have if Boris - not a true Brexit supporter, but a flagrant populist who support whatever will get him ahead.
I would take him more seriously if he didn't want to sell a book.
Yes, I did consider this option. The only issue is the Mail Server. It has to be secure & maintained. + SSO for all services would be ideal.
Maybe Armajet? I think we've done a pretty good job with the alternatives here (I work off and on at AlternativeTo): https://alternativeto.net/software/soldat/
What makes you draw the conclusion that formal education is required? And what niche do you work in?
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> You’d think that there’d be a “this person is high profile and any automated bans will cause a stink” flag on accounts

What does high profile mean? I've heard of Leon Spinks, the boxer, but I've never heard of Andrew Spinks in my life until today. People with 5 digit Twitter follower counts are actually a dime a dozen.

Even people who were obscure can become "high profile" for a day. That's how going viral works.
I think it might also be worth considering whether returning 503 is the right response when rate limited. 5xx indicates server failure, a "429 Rate Limited" is a more appropriate response.
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>Highly experienced trainers who understand very well their animals end up dead.

Humans who understand other humans also get killed by humans - at rates other animals will never match.

In the ballpark of ~20,000 murders are committed every year in the US, yet even though there are 90 million dogs in that same country, only about 30 to 50 people are killed by dogs.

It would be pointless comparing the number of fatal bear attacks, because the numbers per year are usually 0-2, and usually by wild animals, not ones in captivity.

At the end of the day the most dangerous thing to a human is another human. No other animal comes remotely close.
That's precisely the point. China is about twice the area of the EU and three times the population, so talking about "chinese cuisine" makes about as much sense as talking about "european cuisine", which, to western eyes, is obviously nonsense.
> Symbian, as a different underlying operating system, has no native ARM equivalents of the various x86 Linux system calls and common libraries

Are you sure?[0]

As I know, Symbian has ARM & x86.[1]

Maybe not all x86 calls are accepted, but take a look on Symbian 9.x X-plore & ProfiMail apps sources, which are ARM & x86 compatible.[2,3]

P.S. Here is EKA2L1 — Symbian emulator.[4]

[0] https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39211

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian

[2] https://github.com/Symbian9/X-plore_free

[3] https://github.com/Symbian9/ProfiMail_free

[4] https://github.com/EKA2L1
> If anyone has objective answers/links to discourse

There is a whole section on WP on this issue:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_South_Africa#Racism_...

By the way, neither ad hominem attacks nor straw man arguments (farm murders) are useful - not only they bring nothing constructive, but encourage degragation of the discourse into emotional name-calling.

I'm very well aware of the history of SA and the suffering of black people. However, I don't think it justifies the attacks some white people experience in SA from some black people.
Many years ago, I read some article about some guy who was seeing two women and the two women found out about each other. Neither woman dumped him. Neither woman gave him an ultimatum of "It's me or her!"

No, both of them began dressing completely differently and the brunet dyed her hair blonde and the blonde dyed her hair red.

They both had this internal script that said "The way you win a man is with looks, by god!" and neither of them ever bothered to ask the man in question "So, what would it take to get you to myself? Is that even possible? Why are even seeing two women in the first place?"

He didn't care how either of them dressed. He continued to see both of them and was quietly amused by their completely ineffectual attempts to "win" him and get him to themselves.
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