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> How many people build gnupg or gpg-agent from source?

More people than those build signal from source

> Seems like something your local apt/pacman repository mirror host could do too.

Which is why I focus on build from source, and more people fo it for pgp than any im software out there.
Zoom Google Maps into almost any town in continental Europe[0] and search for "grocery store" or "supermarket". [1]

Or look at one supermarket and see how many shops they have [2].

Depending on the size of the household and personal preference, people might use these shops every 2-4 days, perhaps using a bicycle or trolley to take things home.

[0] I'm sure there are exceptions, like Arctic areas, mountains, tourist towns, etc.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/search/grocery+store/@51.8962239...

[2] https://netto.dk/find-butik/?mapData={%22coordinates%22:{%22...}
Hardly performant enough. You are way better working with a Xeon server, even used ones.
Separate benchmark per claim and core use case :) A scale-to-zero + autoscaling graph db could be both broadly relevant and differentiated, so I'd be curious there + table stakes for regular queries.

RE:extremes, we see graph DBs OK for small time series (ex: 2 nodes with a bunch of event multiedges), but not full blown time series... where we'd use a tsdb. Some vendors demo this, but always felt like wrong tool.

The many-hop case is interesting! We don't see 1K-hops typically, and I get nervous even at 10-20 on graph DBs we've used. I can imagine in logistics or sciences that happening more, or maybe even some rdf systems. Partition keys start mattering fast, whether a kvdb or a mpp, but I don't have an intuition here. Probably easier to differentiate on, but too niche?
"Peace broke out" is one of my favorite openings to the Monty Python Funniest Joke in the world sketch. This is well done!
The article does not define quality. That’s actually part of the problem: programmers don’t have a shared definition of quality, or a process to achieve it.

Businesses paying for software generally have other priorities, like making money, reducing costs and risks, attracting and retaining customers, competitive advantage. The nebulous concept of code quality may not have more value than other business requirements. Perfect code that’s a year late has little value if the business loses millions of dollars because of delays.

This kind of blaming and navel-gazing underlines the problem of programmers viewing perfect code as their main value-add, rather than looking at all of the priorities and competing requirements any business faces and working to add value to the business, not just to their CV.
> I also don't understand how k3s, microkube and others claim to be "lightweight". Lightweight compared to what?

For k3s, they explain what they do in their README:

https://github.com/k3s-io/k3s#how-is-this-lightweight-or-sma...
The lower contrast is definitely an issue.

I've also done a turnabout and switched over to compact / Lepton. So go figure ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I still don't get why they decided to get rid of compact.
They're definitely rich enough to afford it!!
One downside if you work for a startup, which can't really pay top dollar, is that stock option possibilities are quite limited so attracting top talent needs to be done using other advantages such as parental leave and child care and judging from your comment that could have been a deciding factor. Another major problem is housing.
I see what you mean but there isn’t really much choice under a high tax system. My payroll taxes means someone saves for me. If they screw it up I have some backup in private savings, but I don’t have any opportunity of not paying payroll taxes taking home a higher net. In the end I have to hope, but not assume, that the state manages my pension savings at least as well as I would personally. Making a high income and hoping to work to 70, it shouldn’t be a big issue to live after that anyway. The situation is worse for those that struggle to make it to even 65 without wearing out, and can’t put away a lot until then either (that is, blue collar)
> I am unable to reply directly.

If you go to the comment's page [0] you can click "vouch" to reincarnate the comment if you believe it should be part of the discussion.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28140345
Obligatory xkcd:

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/survivorship_bias_2x.png

Taleb gives a good stab at that whole concept in his black swan as well.
No one ever had Facebook or iCloud before, though. The damage an individual could do was somewhat limited. If they wanted to produce child porn, they had to go through a complicated printing process. If they wanted to denounce vaccines or immigrants, they could stand on a box and yell about Jesus or something, but at most they might reach a few hundred people. The framework we have created has given them the ability to reach audiences that they frankly shouldn't be able to reach, because their own intelligence doesn't warrant it. To the degree that we can stripmine those platforms and shut down the bad actors, moderate the fuck out of them, send them into a black hole, I'm all for it.

But personal devices? Secure files you maintain for your business? No - this is a move on the part of the 0.1% to enlist the technical priesthood in spying on the 1-5%. It's a means to try to force fear on the functionaries closer to the apex of the system. Like some other reactionary revolutions, it draws support from a lower base, but its targets are exactly the people who carry out the sensitive functions of the state. That's somewhat scary. However, it's also a bit toothless because clearly it will force anyone who needs to keep their communications private to use other channels. Until or unless that becomes prohibited, as in China.

Then again, I'd never underestimate the spinelessness of the western bureaucrat when it comes to conforming to rules and regulations.
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> Extreme heat (including heat waves that exceed this threshold) happen semi-regularly

The threshold is wet bulb 35 for 7 hours. That is when fit young humans can't survive. Older people die well before that of course.

And no, it doesn't happen regularly. I wasn't aware it had happened at all, although others here say it has. But it has come close. From https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people... :

> Jacobabad crossed the 35C wet bulb threshold in July 1987, then again in June 2005, June 2010 and July 2012. Each time the boundary may have been breached for only a few hours, but a three-day average maximum temperature has been recorded hovering around 34C in June 2010, June 2001 and July 2012.

These people don't have the escapes you mentioned. They are in a city with no running water and no cars, let alone car parks. There is no river, but there are a couple of small lakes.
I love how the technocrats on GBS's death panels are OK but the ones deciding energy use aren't.

As always libertarian arguments fall apart on close inspection.
To learn more, watch these guy's videos on Youtube or their own website: https://www.thejuicemedia.com/

They are hilarious and tell the naked truth.
Not only for the US, I live in a car free zone in Europe. Residents are allowed to drive there, but you wouldn't notice that. It is nice and quiet, but it didn't reduce overall cars owned in the slightest. You cannot even see a change in the statistic when the policy was introduced, it is still a steady and slow growth, traffic has just shifted a little bit outside.

I own a car and while I don't use it to go to work (1km distance), I wouldn't want to miss it. The urban center is also car free aside from buses and taxi. Still, cars are extremely practical, there is just no denying it and I doubt we will go back from individual traffic any time soon.
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These words don't really mean anything. Hamburg is the next Silicon Valley, depending on which useless Hamburg startup you ask. Berlin as well. London has the Silicon Roundabout. Louisiana and Texas the Silicon Bayou. Just google "next silicon site:country" and you'll find some hits.
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I use minio a lot for development.

Some of my applications rely on S3 in production, but I don't want that dependency when running running the application on my machine - I use minio as a drop-in replacement for development.

Since I use docker compose to handle my app's services (postgres, rabbitmq, etc), adding minio into it is a perfect fix.
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> even London

Why _even_? Fairly sure London has more startups than the previous 3 mentioned cities combined.
Wow, within 10s, this post went from HN frontpage to the bottom of page 3.

BTW the TSLAQ guys have a nice Fremont factory image gallery: https://tslaq.org/fremont-factory-gallery/
kubeadm dosen't include ANY components such as kube-apiserver, kube-controller-manager, kube-scheduler, kube-proxy or etcd.

These components are all containerized already from upstream. Pulled and cached when you run "kubeadm init" via static pod manifests.

It seems trying to bundle these inside a non-upstream bootstrapper and running them out-of-band from kubernetes is what would add complexity and bloat.
Which board was your school affiliated to, if you don't mind me asking? I went through my schooling in India too, and I had quite the opposite experience: concepts being taught with the only focus being on beating exams, rote learning prioritized instead of logical applications (in case of science), etc.
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While I agree those aren't unimportant I have come to a somewhat different conclusion after spending some time outside of Sweden. Most people in most places are just busy doing other things. I don't think Stockholm's success is so much what was, but what you didn't have to do.

In the early 00s it was relative easy to become "high middle class". Rent controlled public housing was available so you didn't have to spend $10k-$100k to have stable housing. Public transport was in a good state so you didn't have to spend $5k-50k on a car. Education was available but not generally considered necessary. Mostly cost-free universal health care was the norm. Even marriage wasn't the norm. This meant you had pretty good chance of having your life relatively sorted by your mid-twenties and therefor a much lower cost of doing something else. Compared to other countries where most people are busy trying to attain such things for far longer.

That other countries didn't have the same success because they didn't have good enough broadband is a somewhat safe explanation. Most countries didn't even try, and still don't try, to get good broadband because success is mostly seen as something private.

This is of course somewhat controversial not just abroad but in Sweden as well. As the Stockholm of today would do quite badly by these criteria.
I’ve done ~3 years now - and my work is my life. I do 18+ hour days and frequent 24-36-almost-48 hour stretches because I want to.

I hate it - and I love it - and I can’t stop. Part of me is concerned for my health, the other part of me is concerned the other-part is going to end the dream.
Proposals for mass surveillance are almost always related to CSAM or terrorism.
Desktop version of that comic: https://xkcd.com/1827/
Link 2 is a 404 for me.

Hilariously, Australians protest about their rights by trying their best to extend lockdowns further [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jul/24/anti-...
Yep and then they decided religion is more important than science and stagnated to modern day... There's a lesson there.
Makes sense.

The right is usually the law-and-order side while the left is the live-and-let-live hippies. :-)
> I have been wearing the same model running shoes from Decathlon that cost 20$ for the past 6 years

what? Do you run in them?
The way I read it, is that drag increases ^2 for length, but because volume increases lift for airships (as opposed to other aircraft) you get this ^3 increase in lift by increasing length. So airship economy increases with size, as opposed to an airplane.

For the square-cube law, a cursory wiki search yields:

> The square–cube law can be stated as follows:

> When an object undergoes a proportional increase in size, its new surface area is proportional to the square of the multiplier and its new volume is proportional to the cube of the multiplier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%E2%80%93cube_law
Would certainly be interesting to see the comparison in terms of computing power and power usage between a small pi cluster and a single XEON server.

I imagine such a thing would draw at least 200W? And pi's maybe 5 watts? So in theory, 30 - 40 pis vs a single server?

The pis also have an advantage in terms of redundancy. A single pi going down shouldn't be a problem and very easily replaceable.

Would be a really interesting article.
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/cat/electric-blinds-44531/
Also it's a country where staying inside is comfy, so being in front of a computer as your job is pretty appealing.
Bret Devereaux is of the opinion that chemical weapons are not in use anymore simply because they're ineffective next to simple explosives.

https://acoup.blog/2020/03/20/collections-why-dont-we-use-ch...

Maybe the simplest way to save the environment is to invent more deadly, cost effective weapons that don't harm the land as a side effect?
I think Berlin is a better place to be as the salaries are still alright when you look at the prices. Renting becomes more expensive each year. However, groceries, restaurants, and alcohol are dirt cheap compared to other capitals like Stockholm, Paris, or London.
Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance
In Silicon Valley terms a Unicorn is a company that can burn through 0.5-2.5 billion dollars a year for an unlimited number of years.

Silicon Valley has very few "unicorns" beyond those.
Mercedes-Benz confirms the electric EQS will cost over $100k
Why high profile smart cities fail
It's just bog standard Australian cultural cringe.

I've spent a good chunk of my adulthood living in various countries in Europe, and Australia.

Europhilic nonsense such as in the GP betray their almost total lack of understanding as to the actual state of affairs in European countries.

Corruption is everywhere. Corporate interests influence policy.. everywhere. Moronic government decisions abound.. literally everywhere. Nasty media companies... everywhere. Imperfect educational systems ... everywhere. The racism in Western Europe is _significantly_ worse, I can tell you that from personal experience. in Europe, you can be the wrong kind of white in your OWN country - just talk to some Catalans or Basques about what that's like...

...but of course your country kid from Tamworth will have no idea of any of that while they go off clubbing in Berlin or living their French food fantasy in Lyon because 1 - They don't speak the language, which means 2 - They can't understand the news and also means 3 - They can't talk to actual locals about what real life is like there.

Yet EuRopE is So mUCh bEttEr.

(Just wait until they start interacting with the German, French or Spanish bureaucracies and see what kind of tune they're singing after 2 years.. )

And even worse, they think the English speaking populace of any country is a reflection of what the rest of that country is like. The naivete is astounding. Literally the worst kind of Australian that exists.
True, but they move peripheral services there (e.g support) but not the more lucrative positions.
Just different perspectives I suppose. American elections seem farcical to me but lots of Americans don't seem to agree with me.
The three Scandinavian ones plus Finland, Iceland and possibly the Netherlands. Maybe some others too.

English documentation is customarily recognized throughout the EU.
What’s interesting to me is plenty of immigrants prove it’s still true. And they often start out with even less than the poorest Americans.

Sure, there is no guaranteed path to riches. But a comfortable existence free of major wants is more within reach than its ever been.
Don't forget they disarmed the people. If some people ever start to care they wont have the boomstick power. They maybe be upside down but authoritarian regimes work the same, secure the monopoly on force by removing arms is a key step for any authoritarian gov.
> After I read the book, I've come to understand that general-purpose static type system can never prove unequivocally that a generic program works.

This sentence seems confused. What is the meaning of "works"? The most general interpretation seems to be "works" = "satisfies some proposition P".

But, "general-purpose static type system can never prove unequivocally that a generic program satisfies some proposition P" is false. In fact, static type systems unequivocally prove many propositions about general programs. The generality of the propositions depend on the expressive power of the type system.

If you dial static typing up to 11 (dependent types), then P can be literally any proposition about the program. This sometimes requires programmers to provide the right type annotations, but this is no different in principle from needing to program behaviour, ie. a computer needs you to write out the program describing what you want it to do, and a type checker needs you to write out what you want it to check.

You wouldn't expect to just wave your hand and your computer create the program you have in your mind for you? Or write out the kind of program you want in ambiguous, natural English and have the computer figure out exactly what you meant?
Here's a nice video on sea level rise if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0tqpTH3m40
I don't think it's objectionable, I just think it's relevant to the discussion. I think most people use the word "representation" to mean a topic or idea being seen/floated within a larger audience, e.g. "representation" is having <x> actor in a Hollywood blockbuster (for the purpose of, say, exposing more people to a positive image of <x>). This doesn't seem like representation to me.

That said, if the goal of representation is just to provide more media/content for people who like <x>, then yes, this is representation. That's not how I think of the word, but words don't have concrete meanings in the real world.
I think you’re spot on, but a counterexample seems to be Twitter, where both low- and high-profile accounts engage in shit-flinging because it evokes reactions, and the algorithm doesn’t discriminate between positive and negative engagement.
I too love Australia. I lived there for 4 years.
Full of companies who want the average person under wage slavery, maybe
>I don't expect you to understand, but in Europe, people actually care about their rights [1]

That's a bit condescending. In recent weeks there were tens of thousands of people marching on the streets of Sydney and Melbourne to protest covid lockdowns and defend their right to free assembly.
This advice is meaningless coming from people who lack friends. And it is clear why you do not.
Strawman attack. I didn't mention mining; anyone can purchase crypto.

If you prefer to support the fiat thugs by holding into their tokens, be ready to pay the price.
You must have had poor luck with your Google Search -- heres a few from someone work works in the Irish Dev Scene:

Intercom, Workhuman and CarTrawler and others are in the pipeline like Pointy and Manna. Plenty of Irish software developers -- they also leave Ireland and found companies in other countries like Stripe.
... this is such nonsense ... do you pay any attention at all to the politics of the US, Canada, NZ or the UK? Do you really think they're in a dark room coordinating their laws with Australian government, deciding who will go first?
As a non-EU foreigner, it only makes sense to move there if there's a clear naturalisation path.
I do not see any impressive innovation in its design and the OS doesn't introduce any new concepts or paradigms, which makes it, in essence, no different from regular monolithic operating systems, implementing POSIX API with regular system calls. Just a monolithic kernel crudely implementing some well known device drivers as well as already existing filesystems with a block cache, and a POSIX-based userspace with GCC and binutils.

That is said, it doesn't mean this isn't an incredible piece of work, especially if written by a single author!! That is definitely a huge amount of engineering that needs some good skills and persistence. I believe it is a very rewarding experience. The product also seems to be really working fine with very impressive stuff.
So they start giving out meaningless gewgaws to get people to apply ("free iPhone 12 Pro Max on hiring!") instead of actually paying living wages and benefits
https://www.reemo.io promises this. I have yet to try it.
Yes.

I assume TSLAQ are doing that. Not the opposite.
> You got used to the idea that the US has the ability to be better at anything

I don't think this has ever been true, but perhaps it's just my social circles.
No way this is going to fly.
Why is it hilarious? The whole point of human rights is they they don't just disappear whenever there's an emergency, otherwise the next dictator who comes along will just declare an emergency and violate everyone's rights, as has happened countless times in history. It's sad not funny that people protesting their rights being violated just leads to their rights being violated even more.
An important 2012 study found that higher patient satisfaction is correlated with higher costs and death. This is not counter intuitive if one has practiced medicine. Point being that healthcare isn’t a classic consumer product and social experiments like patient/provider concordance have complex effects.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
"Many apartments don't have a bathtub, only a shower. And if everyone keeps tap water running, the pressure will drop down to trickle."

People don't have trashcans, storage bins, etc?

"And seems you probably never bathed in 35°C water, it's definitely not refreshing."

Where is this 35C water coming from?

Also, if it's a humid heat, there are likely to be natural or artificial bodies of water around. Hopefully the people have been taking care of them and they aren't a cesspool.

Sure, some people may die, but it should be very low.

Edit: why downvote? All the excuses the previous person gave seem petty to me, so I'm wondering how that person came to their conclusion. Especially for where that hot water is coming from.
Have to quote this bit for those too lazy to follow the link:

Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise.
> The run ended in europe after 1970, it ended in the US after 1990 and it will end in Autralia.

I wouldn't be so sure that they'll ever need to abandon their crutch of geological resources. There's nothing particularly industrious or forward-looking about Australia, precisely because they can dig up dirt and sell it at a premium.
Especially as it was supported by the government.

Fringe and Mindhunter :)
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Google Fi has actually been reasonably useful despite the fact that I can't get it to work because I'm not in the US. They have a web messaging interface that I can collect 2FA from.

I avoid phone based 2FA where possible, but the few that I have are sent there.

But it's not really for non-US, and they've really started cracking down on people that use it exclusively internationally.

Which is a real shame. It's absolutely the service I want/need as digital nomad.
I get a “could not fetch note” on iOS