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Why would you have children if you live in a cramped apartment in an equally cramped and dangerous city? The amount of effort you're putting in for that tiny life is barely enough for subsistence, much less for having children.

The answer to that isn't having material wealth, especially when you get no time left over to appreciate it. So the problem is having enough time when you waste most of it toiling for the dreams of another man, and for next to nothing in return. Because that's the real economy. (If you do, though, then congratulations I guess, but then you're not in the position of most people anyway.)

I think, however, that you'd change your mind about things if you had the freedom, the space, and the ability to grow your own food. Then you'd see how foolish most city dwellers actually are. As for the philosophical musings about whether you should have children... Well, it's your life, man. If you don't want a shot at prolonging your true legacy, then that's up to you. But you're certainly doing a service for everyone else who do want their kind to succeed.
Java has the compiler in memory while running. Rust's compiler is a separate program so isn't in memory while it runs. That by itself is a lot of code.
With more servers Java seems to be hanging on better at 99%.
What you want is fundamentally incompatible with city living. The best way to scale up the kind of housing you describe is in the suburbs with high speed rail links to the city center.
The difference in avg memory for first and second is substantial, 115.41 MiB Java vs 4.15 MiB Rust.
Technoserfdom. Neofudalism under the traditional institutions. Slavery is something else quite terrible and not an image that one wishes to conjure. But yeah, bad idea for freedoms.
I think you misunderstood the issue people have here. It is not the pastoral Vs city life that is the issue. It is the OP assertion that this guy has been lobotomized because he is content with his life.
Not me. I've NEVER installed any app owned by Facebook including WhatsApp. Never missed it, but then I'm not a social person. My stubbornness forced a few acquaintances to install Signal.
> Burbs of Moscow. But my family traveled extensively, more than usual for average soviet person, so I've been to every republic but Tadjikistan (all of course now countries) before the age of 14

Here.
Ah yes, the private entitlements. There's also a private entitlement to disable Apple Pay/PassKit so that it doesn't clash with things like barcodes (for example transit). That one is pretty Google-able though.
The specific happiness that we're talking about here is contentment -- with your life, with who you are.

I think it looks so odd to so many of us because we tend to be an ambitious bunch, and I find ambition to be pretty inversely related to contentment. The sort of acceptance that this man displays feels like giving up, in a sense. And in many ways, it is -- but that's something that Buddhists have been teaching for centuries.
Where is the source for the Java Benchmarks? All I see is a docker file in the folder?
We can get "exact" lengths in rational multiples of pi by cutting a rope/string to exactly one circumference of a circle of radius (length/2pi). Similarly you can get square roots by using the hypotenuse of the appropriate right triangle.
How is anyone but Google harmed by a lawsuit brought on fair terms, that exposes Google's leveraging of Content-Id to obtain indemnity for past actions which Google very likely profited from?
I agree, the results of this benchmark only show that this C++/Rust gRPC implementation has room for performance improvements
Indeed, but is relevant? If you have a machine with average memory installed, both are fine. If you have something with very little memory available, both would be too much.
I haven't looked at the benchmark implementations but one particular area I've heard other languages to lag behind java is cost of allocation.

Since openjdk has had to cope with lack of (user defined) value types and the garbage heavy ecosystem it has a very well optimised GC for handling heap allocations.

I wonder if the results will be different if other language benchmarks (C++ or rust) use different allocators (eg: bump allocator, per request collectors) for cheaper allocation.
L minos should be rotated automatically. Very hateful.
I would hardly complain about this title being too sensationalized given that it's a factual statement
India’s vaccine policy mess is due to its reliance on technocrats
Telegram might be worth a try. Also has the ability to join a group via Links (which also means QR Codes would work). There are a lot of options to manage groups, and even though it might not be as good as signal at encryption etc. it’s definitely better than WhatsApp
Could be a gentle way for an elder to let their grandchild know that they are passing soon.

Does the Grouse know? Probably not. The grandmother would though.
The RPi 0W is orders of magnitude faster and bigger than the first Linux machines I used as a desktop and even the first Linux machines we used as login and mail servers for an ISP I used to run. We handled dozens of simultaneously logged in users on that machine.

So the overhead of Linux is not the issue, even with modern Linux kernels taking up substantially more space. But the overhead of any given distro may be.

You can certainly get lots of things done with a more basic device, but at this point if the unit cost of an RPi 0W works for you, it's certainly convenient to use something like that.

That said, you can do a lot smaller device and still run Linux. E.g. the smallest device I've run Linux on (and it was no record breaker by any means) had 4MB RAM and 4MB flash, and a mid 1990's low end x86 clone.

The Transcend WiFi SD-cards that I linked to elsewhere also is a good demonstration of how small you can get a Linux machine (or could, almost a decade ago)
That's such an unkind thing to say about another person's life. He seems like a contented and inoffensive person, and he's quietly living the only life he'll ever have. There's real dignity in that. I do wonder why you wrote this.

As for children: being a parent myself, I think it's best not to instrumentalise them by viewing them as a legacy that you'll leave behind after you. They're their own people. They don't owe you that obligation.
I would look into re-running the rust benchmarks w/ jemalloc or mimalloc instead of the system allocator and see how it performs.
You're missing the point completely. A product needs to be produced. When somebody buys a product, the money pays for the production costs, so the producer is compensated for the expenses as well as the invested capital, so that they can continue to produce more products. This incentivises the production of goods that the public wants. That's distinctively different from what happens when somebody buys a bitcoin. The supply of bitcoins is fixed which means buying a bitcoin can't possibly incentivise the production of more bitcoins. The money doesn't pay for production costs, it doesn't pay for taking the risk to produce something, or for having contributed anything to society. It's purely and simply giving money to somebody for having bought bitcoin earlier than you. If you're fine with that, sure, buy bitcoin. If you don't, or if you want to penalise people who own bitcoins, steer clear of it (this is what I recommend).
It'll start with his neighbours and friends helping out, and maybe eventually he'll have to scale down and be looked after by carers himself. But there's an equal chance he'll die happy on his farm - I've seen farmers with very progressed Alzheimer's that could run their farm without any trouble, as it's something they've done literally their whole life.
This is not a new occurrence: Uber got com.apple.private.allow-explicit-graphics-priority (yes, I really mean com.apple.private!) that let them record the device screen several years back.
That sounds like present-day Lao Tzu, man.
It is worth noting that the 90th, 95th, and 99th percentile latencies for Java are not the best ones.

Also, I believe the heavily editorialized title should be replaced with something that is close to the title of the original post, such as "2021-04-13 gRPC benchmark results".
I feel GDPR drew a good line: Any information that can be used to directly or indirectly identify an individual needs a legal reason, one of which is consent.

Is the information you collect unusable for directly or indirectly identifying an individual? Go wild! :)
Very cool as well, but a completely different product in my eyes. The Reform is something I’d tinker and play with, the Framework is what I’d put in my backpack and take to work every day.
Why is it surprising that Go tanks in 99% latency? That's what I would've expected.
> I’m not trying to be mean, but there is a chance this guy has some deep anxiety and self-esteem issues which means he doesn’t even think to look outside of his comfort zone.

As a person with some anxiety and (what I have diagnosed in myself as underlying) self-esteem issues, this is something that I have been thinking about.

People around me tend to think that "oh, throwawayhermit is just a bit of hermit and likes to be on their own", which is partially true and my introvertedness needs time on its own. But on the other hand, a big part of my closing off from others is anxiety and self-esteem issues, which I presume are not that easy to spot at first when a person "seems confident and well off".

So, that has got me thinking, how many of the people closing themselves off from others are doing it because they are happy that way and how many are hiding from issues/fears (regardless whether they realize it themselves or not)?

> Routine is a way of not stressing yourself out with newness and the possibility you might not cope, and fail.

I feel that there is a place for routines. They can give you space to focus on something that actually matters, teach you mental discipline and give you some kind inner peace from not constantly searching for new and shiny things.
> Say what you want, there are countries that achieved way more than USSR, without mass killings, man made famines, ...

Slavery, colonialism, war mongering, etc. not exclusive to USSR. Well they lost the competition and the winning side likes to warp the reality.

I don’t want to take any side. It’s just that I really don’t believe in absolutes.
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Why was I downvoted? People hate the GDPR or bad lyrics writing skills? :)
All Java Benchmarks share the same program, except the gc options. The benchmark code is in this subdirectory: java_grpc_sgc_bench
Looks like some de-orbit in months! There must be a quite a lot of calibration/testing going on and I can’t imagine how expensive this endeavor must be. I am curious about the failure rate of these satellites at that orbit.
Why freeze it if you keep it in the fridge for just one week? Depending on what it is, but generally most things last just fine for a week or more in the fridge.
It's not that surprising -- Go is designed for speed by simplicity, and a low-pause-latency GC is anything but simple.
Untrue. The DIY-edition can be bought with no operating system, and they explicitly mention they’re testing for compatibility with popular linux distros.
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Yet, our very existence is a consequence of reproduction, even if we may have forgotten our ancestors.

The only true delusion of grandeur is thinking that dwindling others' experiences against the vastness of the universe is enlightenment: If we don't experience our existence in geological/cosmic time scales, why waste time believing we are mere blips?
The basics of good teaching is a mindset. “You’ve got to love your students. It’s as simple as that”, a colleague of mine once said.
You could look into some of Kieran Egan’s writings:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieran_Egan_(philosopher)

Personally I found the book To Know as We are Known very inspirational:

https://www.amazon.com/Know-Are-Known-Education-Spiritual/dp...
I was an user of Linux in the early 1990s and remember that there was a brief period of time before X had been ported that MGR was popular on it as it had been ported first.
$50,000 in 1970 is worth $350,000 in 2021 dollars.

So in reality the house has doubled in price.
It matters for things like AWS Lambda
Are not cloud resources often billed memory x seconds?
I feel like the truely happy aren't writing articles about how happy they are. Happiness in this way is a hidden thing amongst us.
His land is probably somewhat valuable compared to the local area, but West Wales is rural and the land is steep and hilly - it is really only good for raising sheep. And he's had it his whole life, so that value is meaningless to him.

However yes, you are right that many local people will have had to move away for work. Aside from Aberystwyth there's not a huge amount of work out that way. Lots of them will come down south to Cardiff and Swansea.
Microsoft naming is incomprehensible sometimes. Doing a .net framework -> dotnet core transition at the moment has really exposed me to a lot of this.
But this is my money then, isn't it? My property - my rules.

If I have enough money without this check due to personal savings and economy, it would be pretty much unequal and unfair situation if I won't get anything from this helicopter money (making it expire) and some guy who got himself several debts for parties and travelling will get help.

Let's say that people actually spend money given to them, but invest their remaining saving into investments, if that make someone feel better. If I have my own 1200USD and get "expiable" 1200USD for free - it doesn't matter which one I spend, technically.
Also both bytecode and the native code generated from bytecode are in memory at the same time, aren't they?
Central banks already have that kind of power and they're not even democratically legitimized
They highlight an oversized thermal solution to reduce thermal throttling, and say that they’re working on support of popular distros on their product page.
> I hear London is a place best avoided. I think living in a city would be terrible – people living on top of one another in great tower blocks

His voice of London seems to be relatively naive, since there are relatively few what I would call 'great tower blocks' here.
There was follow up discussion with improvement for Go.
https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/mwr4iw/go_grpc_benc...
The title specifically mentions throughput. It does not say anything about latency.
Yeah, haven't followed him in a while, but listened to his podcasts quite a lot few years ago. Really cool guy.

https://calebporzio.com/i-just-hit-dollar-100000yr-on-github...
> I don't think so, as you can embed allmost any math concept in a real world context.

Not without adding a lot of complexity. What I meant is that the concepts taught in maths very rarely map directly to any real world problems. GPU programming is a good example, it uses a lot of vector related maths but the leap from not knowing about vectors to GPU programming is huge and not a good way to learn the subject, since you would have to think both about the complexity of GPU's and graphics and about the vector abstraction at the same time. The reason you had fun doing GPU programming is because you already knew about the interface of vectors so you had no problems working with them.
Is this base64 but with Arabic chars included?
It is not. hundred+ MB electron app, instead Rufus being few hundreds of KB and around 10x more flexible in corner cases.

I really despise BE from engineering perspective.
If you're out after performance you wouldn't use AWS Lambda or even AWS at all. Go for dedicated hosting, better performance and cheaper.
Typeface choice is strange, system font stack could make it look much more like macOS.
If you're optimizing for pricing/billing you wouldn't use cloud in the first place.
Not everything needs to be in the Linux Kernel (and honestly i don't care if it is), looking at the past "linux-sound-system-tragedy" i would say, to make something outside linux is often much better (not 1000's different peoples who thinks it's better the other way around, and you are full of sh* anyway).

>His only actual comment against ZFS was that benchmarks didn't look great

What benchmark? Mines are looking pretty good, with a preheated Arc and with L2 especially...actually much better than any HW-Raid. Compared to Linus, there are Institutes with a bit more than a single 3GB git repository, and the crazy stuff...they need verified backups.

https://computing.llnl.gov/projects/zfs-lustre

If he ever has to improve a Lustre Filesystem of 55 petabyte with ZFS, he can come back, otherwise Linus...shut-up* and be happy with your ext4 (nothing against that one).

* A homage to the old linus-style of having a discussion.
Where is the source code for the winning Java implementation?

Not really anything here:

https://github.com/LesnyRumcajs/grpc_bench/tree/master/java_...
Ironically some Asian Americans were interned in concentration camps in living memory. George Takei, for example.
You will live in ze pod

You will eat ze bugs

You will own nothing

and will be happy
This is a big win for the environment. Government currency dramatically reduces the amount of energy wasted in running a cryptocurrency, so this should replace them.

Anyone advocating for Bitcoin et al at this point clearly cares more about financial gain than they do about the environment.

I hope this brings an end to the madness. These govcoins are better for everyone.
I was about to say because of GC, but doesn’t java also GC ?
That is correct. However, from the HN guidelines [1]:

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thanks! So they test the same code against mutiple GC options? Nice.
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Per capita matters as a matter of fairness. Telling large poor countries they have too suck it up so smaller rich countries don’t have to solve the problem isn’t going to work.
Follow the code!

COPY java_grpc_sgc_bench /app

Directory here: https://github.com/LesnyRumcajs/grpc_bench/tree/master/java_...
> I think people quote that number too much when in reality there's likely to be under 5000 (from SpaceX at least).

Why? I think it's much more likely that they either fail, or (eventually) launch every single satellite that their licenses allow. More satellites increases the proportion of the market they can address, and if they can profitably launch a satellite, they can profitably launch a second.
How does this compare to another book on present day Decadence from Ross Douthat

I think at least some people in here are familiar with it, it's called:

"The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success"
Someone shoulder-surfing you can see the phone number of the person you are messaging and might mess with them?
People enjoying the Lockdowns I reckon.
React is so cool, wish I had the time to mess around with it. Cool stuff!
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I'm not paid and I just downvoted you because I really dislike this kind of comment.

It's unverifiable mud-slinging and your tone was brusque and dismissive.
Most of the compared languages (except C#) are likely to lag behind Java on many things, performance included, since Java has been around since 1996, Golang only been around since 2009 and Rust 2010. More time = more engineering time to optimize.
Because Golang was touted as a systems programming language (a better C).
Server management is a significant part of cost.

Why would cloud provider be a business in the first place, do you think?
The full distro live CD was really great. As a young teen, it also appealled to my wannabe "hacker" attitude ;) I loved this idea of carrying my own almost self-sufficient OS in a pocket that I could just boot on anyone's computer. I spent a ridiculous amount of time configuring and building custom Live CD distros that I rarely used in any other situation :)
I made a conscious choice to not have children for personal reasons (deeply fucked up family and while I know I'm not callous and cruel like my father I simply couldn't rule it out enough to be willing to risk it).

I'm completely at peace with the thought that a century from now no-one will think about me one way or the other.

I mean statistically the chain of events that led to me ever existing as me was so small that after winning that hand, it's time to leave the table and enjoy it.
Why hasn't the atomic typo term caught on?
It appears to point to here:

https://github.com/LesnyRumcajs/grpc_bench/tree/master/java_...
It's been out there since 1995, and 2005, yet not one newspaper or magazine has written about it. Why?
Ask HN: Any way to get verified geolocation?
I’m building an app that relies on users being at a location. Location data is easily spoofed.

Do you know of any way to realistically make it too difficult to spoof geolocation for most people?
So pay more and manufacture at home instead of buying from China. Why blame China for your own behavior?
I think you might not quite understand how this works. 21 million bitcoin are slowly released until the year 2140. They are released more slowly every 4 years as the reward per block halves. The bitcoin is produced, mined, sold, paying for its creation. As more people want it (demand), and thus more people want to make it (supply) the network adjusts so they cost more energy to produce, ensuring they keep mining until 2140. There is indeed an incentive model at work here. It appears to work very well (on a scale of 10years out of 130+).

What you might be thinking of is stuff that was invented out of thin air, “instamined” like a ethereum, ripple, or other Proof of Stake coins (bad, for some of the reasons you have outlined). Fair launch, no premine Proof of work coins are as close as you can get to a digital commodity.
You would? I wouldn't. It definitely looks like somewhat pathological case to me, at least in 2021. Maybe five years earlier the number would be appropriate, but there seems to be something wrong with Go slowing down this much at that small a heap. I'm wondering if it was tuned at all.
High-speed rail services cancelled after cracks found in trains
I'm 35 and pretty much have the same cereal for breakfast every week day. It's not even a wholesome cereal. Sometimes I'll mix it up and have toast.

People have very different ideas of what meals should be.

While we have similar ideas about breakfast, my girlfriend makes large ish but quick cooked meals for lunch, whereas for me lunch is always a light meal like a sandwich and a cup of tea. Dinner is the main event for me, a reward for a day's work and a way to unwind, whereas to her it's just to tide you over until bedtime. Living together reveals these things.
One tiny problem: I don't have a wall socket in my bathroom, and I suppose many people don't. And even if they do it's likely occupied by the electric toothbrush.

The future is probably to have the CPU integrated in the speaker.