skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If everything compiled to a statically linked binary, sure. But most things don't compile to static binaries, and platforms are built to run things in all kinds of languages.

Meanwhile: Docker can be pretty insane as a runtime (we don't use it for that!) but it's not an insane packaging format.
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It’s a good question. I went looking for an answer. I found this article [1] which claims the long service life owes to an engine and chassis that, while not exceptionally durable, is cheap and easy to maintain.

The article also says you can learn more at llv.com.

Bonus, I learned that Grumman LLV stands for Grumman Long Life Vehicle. Maybe everyone else already knew that, but I thought it was cool.

1 - https://www.speedsportlife.com/2010/02/22/avoidable-contact-...
Here’s a talk by Dr. Terry Wahls, who reversed her MS through diet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjgBLwH3Wc
When was the WHO ever relevant wrt Covid 19 though? Their advice has been contradictory. They gave guidance before knowing whether masks would help, and later had to change it. They gave guidance about the transmissibility of the virus, and then changed it. Not knowing whether something is true does not stop them from speaking with authority. To put icing on the cake, they perform a puppet show for the CCP and then declare their confidence in understanding the origin of the virus. They say a lot of definitive things without knowing anything definitive.
I saw someone on r/linux recently with a Fedora Silverblue install with all apps installed through Flatpak.

We're getting there.

Edit: CoreOS -> Silverblue. Thanks to LeoPanthera.
I think it was a mistake for Intel to try to provide user-level hardware random number generation.

They probably did this for speed. Faster than library calls or system calls.

It's apparently not an easily solved problem

Apparently too hard for the clowns at AMD. AFAIK it's a "solved problem" on Intel hardware. (Has there ever been a problem with the hardware in any Intel CPU?)

We wouldn't be having this discussion if AMD hadn't royally fucked this up.
Doesn't that sort of kill one of the main selling points of using docker in the first place?

Consistent environment on local, test and prod servers?
Hmm this may have been because of the version of docker I used.

Updated the content
This was somewhat true 10 years ago (maybe even 5) but if you pay attention to things recently the moneyed interests have been 1. left-wing (because of Actblue and Bernie fans donating $25) 2. losing (Steyer, Bloomberg, every non-Trumpist Republican) or 3. both (Bernie, Amy McGrath). The guy who just won the presidency had the worst fundraising and spent the least.

What actually happens in the US is that rural and elderly middle-class voters control everything, and they mostly want entertaining culture war and no policy changes.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/david-shor-cancel-cu...

Democratic donors are more left-wing than voters:

https://twitter.com/dbroockman/status/1254924463952388097
> A side effect of that is that emacs does everything I need

I'm certain you're telling the truth. And I'm sure that's the case for a lot of old-timers emacs users. But I have the feeling it's less and less true.

People that have used emacs for a long time don't need anything else, so they don't want any change.

People for whom emacs doesn't cover everything want change, but clash against the first group of people (who have been there/contributed for longer), and in the end migrate somewhere else.
We use Nginx to cache requests for logged-out users (introduced by the greatly-missed kogir), and I only ever look at the numbers for the app server, i.e. the Arc program that sits behind Nginx and serves logged-in users and regenerates the pages for Nginx. For that program I'd say the average peak rps is maybe 60. What I mean by that is that if I see 50 rps I think "wow, we're smoking right now" and if I see 70 I think "WTF?".
Awesome work! I’m actually working on something similar and would love to contact you. What would be the best way to do that?
> only have one implementation, which works on one libc and one kernel

I agree overall, but apparently systemd supports musl. No clue why or who uses it, but it's a thing.
The comefrom wiki article led me to an april fool's for adding goto/comefrom to Python[0], and. Wow. It's really gross

[0] http://entrian.com/goto/
Edit: Commented something without reading, deleted.

The advantage of POWER9 is fully open firmware and hardware while being really powerful. They won't beat the latest AMD in performance. But AMD can never be open. The RaptorCS products are FSF RYF (respects your freedom) certified.

https://ryf.fsf.org/vendors/raptor

Some benchmarks from 2019:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=rome-pow...
Isn't that Fedora Silverblue, not CoreOS?
The ingredients list / packaging should say something like dried fruiting body... or if you're getting the rubbish = myceliated grain or mycelial biomass. The reddit link provided by NalNezumi is very good.

Here's just another link of some lighter details. https://learn.freshcap.com/tips/myceliated-grain/
My bad. I should have put some type of warning
The main thing to do - and what I told my team yesterday too:

* This is not college, you don't have to remember everything, use the internet.

* Learn on demand. Never read books from cover to cover.

* Do something real with what you're learning. Example, as you're learning a new programming language, be building something real with it.

That's it!
Just don't get the peppermint one and you'll be fine.
Right. A very, very ordinary apartment in NYC is $6000/mo. Figure 30-40% of your salary for taxes. If you made only $240K in NYC, your apartment would use up fully half of your take-home.
With respect to wyrand, it seems that all prime numbers are not created equal. I implemented wyrand() using the two primes just below 2^64. The upper 53 bits of each 64-bit random deviate was used to generate a uniform [0,1) floating point deviate. The expected value of the sum of the uniform floating point deviates is 0.5 * #deviates. When using the two primes numbers above, the resulting value was 0.6430236 * #deviates - indicating significant bias in the random deviates generated by wyhash for those particular prime numbers.
"Setting up a systemd unit file (it's not even a script) doesn't even come close to the complexity of wrapping, maintaining, and potentially orchestrating software within containers."

I find that the complexity of managing containers is overstated. It does have costs, but the benefits of docker and containerization in general outweigh those costs. Kubernetes is significantly more complicated and is not always a good choice depending on the use case.

"like systemd?"

I find that systemd tries to do far too much for our needs, namely for just managing services in a container. Our images have their services manged by s6-overlay [0], but there are multiple init systems one can use. I do not see the benefit of systemd over i.e. s6 or runit, but that is tangential to this discussion.

[0]: https://github.com/just-containers/s6-overlay
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This is an unpopular opinion to be sure, but I believe in wealth inequality and income inequality, so long as the standard of living at the bottom is reasonable - and there exists meaningful social mobility. I'd rather tax it on the backend than impede the front end. This is just a matter of opinion of course.
I don’t think any of these need docker though?

You can copy binaries to/from staging just fine.

They have a CI job that builds and pushes code. So it does not matter what the new guy did on his laptop.

I am not sure if you are going for “monitoring” or “redundancy” in your dead VM example, but docker by itself cannot provide either of those. You need some solution either way.

I use docker daily because our app is big and has tons of system dependencies, but I have no other choice. We need fast version rollback/update and regular approach of installing deb packages will not work well. I dream of nixOS and sylabs, but my org is not going to switch to radical new technology. But if someone can set up the system so they don’t need docker - more power to them, I can only be envious.
More like, opened up more time for them to play! :)
Well, I'm not a fan of docker, but I do like Mongo.

MongoDB marries well with Node, and things like json-patch.

Especially great when dealing with graph-like structures, though jsonb data types in recent rdbms' have gone a long way towards evening the playing field there.

I've also come to appreciate Mongo's pipeline approach to aggregation. I hated it with a passion at first, but when coupled with Compass, I've found it makes aggregation stages much easier to reason about than the equivalent SQL.
Yet, instead they took years and failed to fix it.
> Question: what is the other things that need doing?

I'm currently working on fixing a bug where collapsing comments in Firefox jumps you back to the top of the page. I'm taking it as an opportunity to refine my (deliberately) dead-simple implementation from 2016.

> But this forum has seen little change over the years and it's pretty awesome as is.

That's an illusion that we work hard to preserve, because users like it. People may not have seen much change over the years but that's not because change isn't happening, it's because we work mostly behind the scenes. Though I have to say, I really need more time to work on the code. I shouldn't have to wait for 3 hours of network outage to do that (but before anyone gets indignant, it's my own fault).
"Running a binary" is still super easy. All you need to do is take account of log management, process isolation, networking configs (port forwarding), service discovery, health checking, data storage folders, fault-tolerant rollbacks, binary placement (putting the x86 binary on the x86 machine & arm on the arm machine), config files, environment variables, the working directory the process needs, etc.

Anything that "runs a binary somewhere" will essentially become docker given enough time. Docker is just "run this binary somewhere" everything above packaged into it.
Try linking against glibc and then run this Go binary in musl env ;-)
https://github.com/Roblox/terraform-provider-maas

There's even a terraform provider in development.
Completely, 100%, removing, killing, disabling, and canceling Google Family Link
Yep, thanks for the fix. I don't do much in Fedora-land these days.
Love your app.
It's certainly possible to do both, but I do not believe that rent control is necessary when organic market-based solutions should sort the problem out. I'm an interventionist when the market fails, but not when the market isn't even allowed to try due to different failed intervention.
The quote from the article -

>> Higher ScreenQ scores were associated with lower brain white matter integrity, which affects organization and myelination — the process of forming a myelin sheath around a nerve to allow nerve impulses to move more quickly – in tracts involving language executive function and other literacy skills.

But doesn't this have to do with what you're doing? The article only mentions screen, but that could be a TV or endless YouTube where there's only 'consumption' happening, in contrast with playing either strategy based games or even taking part in online classes where interaction is important, where a large amount of 'cognitive skills' are also being utilized.
> However, there has not been any new generation capacity since 1994.

That's not true. Majuba Power Station was commissioned between 1006 and 2001, although planning started in the Apartheid era. Gourikwa Power Station and Newcastle Cogeneration Plant were commissioned in 2007.

There are a few wind farms built after 2001: Hopefield, Coega, Darling, Klipheuwel, Dassiesklip Wind Energy Facility and Jeffreys Bay.

And solar: Kalkbult, Mulilo Renewable Energy Solar PV Prieska, De Aar Solar PV, Mulilo Renewable Energy Solar PV De Aar, SA Mainstream Renewable Power Droogfontein, Letsatsi Solar Park, Lesedi PV Project, Kathu Solar Energy Facility 1, Sishen Solar Facility and the Jasper Solar Energy Project.

But these were not enough to keep up with the demand.
The linked page is not a documentation ToC. Why would you claim that?

For day to day usage there are two man pages which should be enough for reference: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.exe... and https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.ser...

Or you could start with one of the blog posts linked in the page you referenced.
The author is comparing a programming language to a container runtime. I don't think he/she understands the big picture of what problems Docker actually solves.
You don't need to smoke weed to commit a federal crime - you commit three federal crimes just walking down the street. It's impossible to not be constantly committing them. So, really, I wouldn't worry about it.

They're going to legalize it anyway: https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1356340421652312066
I filed my taxes last night through TurboTax. I love the idea of “regulations are bad”, but left unchecked intuit is great example of dark patterns and why there needs to be governing body over private business. Those crooked bastards tried to upsell me or trick me into needing a more expensive product at the start of every section.

Likewise lately I’ve found myself wanting a better general news source and I think NYT is fairly reputable, until some quick research shows you can not unsubribe without calling someone, but sign up yeah absolutely, a few clicks and you’re done

If there was bill addressing the first one, that’s not “failing for the basic necessities of life”. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to demand business not try to F you cause they can. There’s been so much consolidation in the market that “voting with your money” has become nothing more than an untenable aphorism.
They are still using GF 14nm on their IOD due to Wafer Supply Agreement. We will have to wait and see how they fit their iOD with PCI-Express 5 and DDR5 with Zen 4.

And I cant wait to see Netflix plays around with these in their FreeBSD box.

It is interesting the biggest upgrade from Zen 4 won't actually the Core part but the iOD. As I am expecting Zen 4 to be some tweaks and a Die Shrink to 5nm. TSMC also somehow unexpectedly announce doubling their 5nm capacity with new Fab capacity being built. My guess would be an aggregate demand from Apple and AMD exceed certain threshold to be worth doing.
Pandemic profits threaten global Covid-19 vaccination efforts
Thing is we already have this. The birth rate in the US is 1.73 children per woman, and the equilibrium rate is 2.1. As development increases, the birth rate drops further. Generally speaking if you want to reduce population, push for development. Schools, healthcare, economic empowerment, the works. It's the best contraceptive. That's fine in the macro, but the micro problem remains people will still want to live more in nice places than crap places. The Bay Area happens to be really, really nice - from a climate perspective that is.
If you have a well functioning immune system the vaccine should likely impart an advantage over no immunity and you have a good chance of fighting off the SARS quicker than without vaccination or immunity.

The problem however is those with weak immune systems. In these cases, the vaccine is unlikely to help these people much, and they become breeding grounds for escape variants.

It's like taking a quarter dose of an antibiotic, against an infection of an organism that tends to mutate at a high rate. This places a large pressure on the organism for an escape variant.

This is exactly what Bossche warns of. Listen to minute 37 onward: https://www.brighteon.com/257797f0-06fa-4596-be69-af71bb3adc...
I don’t think the OP is being downvoted for saying a bad trip can be a really awful experience. OP got downvoted because bad trips aren’t bad enough to put people in prison for possession over.
Likely inspired by the Apple Watch feature. I’m surprised Apple didn’t build this into their phones as well. Good job!
I have a bunch of platforms that’re just jarfile monoliths (with external db/redis) that we deploy by provisioning the latest Amazon Linux onto EC2, then running a
Ansible to configure and add our local dependencies and the jarfile, then run the start script. While our Ansible step runs quickly enough, this is a nice way to not worry too much about managing our own AMIs.

(Two things really help here, we have Windows/macOS/Linux devs all developing and running the code locally so they’re pretty good at not accidentally becoming dependant on stuff outside the JVM, and the healthcheck endpoint the load balancers use is very comprehensive and over the years has been updated to include every non-detected failure or performance degradation.)
Because I don't need the launcher. I start most of the programs I need on boot and they go on for weeks until the next reboot (emacs, terminals, browsers, Thunderbird, keepassx, Telegram and 32 GB of RAM.) I use a virtual desktop (a Gnome activity?) per project so I have very few windows open per desktop and I alt tab between them. One browser window per desktop, one terminal per desktop, one emacs frame per desktop, Slack, etc. BTW, I wish that desktop Slack had an option to display multiple windows. Doing it in a browser is obvious but the desktop app is better than the browser one, so I drag it into another desktop when I change project.
I run the other programs by pressing the windows key and typing their name, not every day or week. What I use my bottom bar for is to access the icons in the notification bar. Glance at the time, open or close a VPN, take a screenshot with Flameshot. I also placed the favorites menu there (some extension?) to start the file manager. I'm using Nemo instead of Nautilus because I like to predictably access files and folders with type ahead. I occasionally use the bottom bar to click on the name of a dining program and it's nice to have see them side by side as in old Windows versions.
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That's awesome! I didn't think Rockstar would act on it.
We need more articles like this on other aspects of C++
I never knew my phone could be this loud.
You were fired from a "bottom tier" company. No offense, but what makes you think that you will survive the much higher expectations at a FAANG long enough to retire? I personally found that to be much harder than getting into one. For the record, I believe most people can get into FAANG with some (or lots) prep work, but if you think that regurgitating Leetcode is the only thing you need, I would highly recommend revisiting this assumption. Perhaps start with those social skills you mentioned elsewhere...
You can also try Cloud 66
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Fun fact it didn't "break off" from Malaysia, it was kicked out. Singapore is the only country in history, to the best of my knowledge, to gain independence against its own will.
This certainly looks better than the one in the article!
Nope, I know 100% it sends the record off to the government server and then when a location has a reported case, they call you using the info they have. Know the guy who built the system and he says while the data is encrypted in the db, the government also has the key to access everything.

Its also partly about the precedent it sets. Its now becoming required to carry a phone around with you and hand over more of your data without any opt out.
I rode my motorcycle to the burger shack, unvaccinated, without a helmet, where I doublfisted cheeseburgers and had a large chocolate shake. Life is for living indeed.
You are correct, furthermore having a Turing complete system does not forbid one from choosing an expressive subset of the system that isn't Turing complete.
Renunciation also of course has high fees and a massive tax burden. One is required to pay taxes on all of their assets as though they disposed of them on their last day of citizenship or leave (I believe) 30% in a trust to the IRS should it be illiquid.
A number of popular video conferencing tools have a hotkey shortcut to muting/unmuting your mic.
> A terminating type checker is much more valuable than a possibly non-terminating one.

My point is that your type checker is already possibly-non-terminating. That ship has sailed. So you might as well make it the best possibly-non-terminating typechecker that you can.
It is an election in which members of the government and Armed Forces can expressly choose a different guy to follow and lose, whilst still having their top leader not only replaced, but empowered to replace every member in the chain of command replaced by the person they didn’t choose.

Which is totally legitimate, the President is elected through a constitutional process which is our law. That’s also why I think it makes a great counterpoint to your original assertion: you can choose who you want to follow, but who you actually follow isn’t always who you would choose.

If you join a company either because you like the CEO or you like the guy you’ll be immediately reporting to, everyone else in that chain was chosen by someone else. Your lack of choice in the matter does not absolve them of their responsibility to be leaders, the question becomes whether they have the qualities necessary to be good leaders. And if you are the CEO or directly report to him? Great! You win! Now you’re the guy others are looking up to and hopefully you have good leadership qualities yourself because people will look to you for leadership whether you want them to or not.
I think probability of contracting the virus eventually is highest of all the factors involved and ultimately is not that far from 1.
The application is multi-threaded. But it runs over a green-thread language runtime, which maps everything to one OS thread.

That's a significant distinction because if you swap the underlying implementation then the same application should magically become multithreaded, which is exactly the plan.
Fluoroquinolone antibiotics like cipro, levaquin, (and generally anything ending in -ofloxacin), can cause permanent nerve damage and one of the presentations is demyelination of the nerves. [1][2][3]

Permanent nerve damage (neuropathy, pins and needles, tingling, muscle weakness, spasms, muscle twitches, heart palpitations) is a known side effect. There's been no attempt made to study if there's any long term delayed brain effects from fluoroquinolones. "Brain fog" is a commonly reported symptom of those who experience fluoroquinolone side effects. I hope there will be more studies on long term brain health from these drugs, as they're given out liberally.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6006604/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7667412/

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10832955/
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It would mean a lot if you could support my project by visiting my video on YouTube, giving it a like, and commenting to let me know what you think. Thanks so much for your support!!