skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and that admins for IBM systems are as available as x86.

If the VM runs Linux, it's just Linux running on s390x. It's no weirder than ARM and has been on the Linux server market for far longer. I think you can install Linux directly on an LPAR. The part admins will need to learn is zVM, which isn't much more complicated than KVM or vSphere (and is much easier than K8s). The hardest part is the jargon and acronyms: IBM invented a lot of things that other manufacturers named differently.

> and the added 'special' sauce makes it incompatible with the broader FOSS ecosystem (including when "it really is the same as Linux on x86" - which it never is)

A mainframe usually can run Linux on zVM and it behaves just like a 5.2GHz VM with a very fast IO subsystem. From the top, it just looks like a very large computer that can run a lot of VMs in a single system. IBM started hitting diminishing returns with the number of cores and that's why core counts aren't increasing as they do on ARM and x86. Under Linux, the cores do SMT2.

> How would this IBM mainframe (or even the ancient vSphere 4.0 on blades) deliver any value over K8s and a cloud?

zVM is very mature technology and Z hardware and software have been coevolving for longer than most of us have been alive. More interestingly, you can partition your mainframe (into LPARs) and have several completely separated and isolated systems. It’s below zVM, so it doesn’t even suspect it doesn’t have the machine for itself. It's very common to run production, staging and development on the same system this way, as if you had three separate machines.

> 10 legacy developers?

Unless you plan to deploy your web app written in COBOL running on CICS and zOS, I'd suggest using different tools. If you already have systems running on zOS, you can easily access them from Linux VMs hosted on the same machine, through an imaginary network that's really fast (because it's not really a network).

> Because cost-wise that would be the same, yet output-wise it wouldn't nearly deliver the value we would have had before.

As the article points out, the mainframe itself is a little more costly, but the operational cost is lower. The convenience of having a single very reliable system instead of a cluster of less reliable ones can't be ignored. As Seymour Cray once said, it's better to plow a field with two strong oxen than with 1024 chickens.

There are downsides - IBM doesn't have these machines in stock the same way you can order a Dell, and ordering one is not a simple process - they'll build one for you, tailored to your needs. They'll probably deliver it with a couple extra CPUs so that when you need to upgrade it, you just pay the license and activate those resources.

One cool thing the z15 does is to activate all processors on boot to speed up the process. After the machine is running, the parts you didn't pay for shut down and the machine continues working.
Update: They have a press release on their website https://cfs.energy/news-and-media/cfs-commercial-fusion-powe...

In case others are wondering, looks like this is for SPARC.

FTA: This "MIT-CFS collaboration...on track to build the world’s first fusion device that can create and confine a plasma that produces more energy than it consumes. That demonstration device, called SPARC, is targeted for completion in 2025."

CFS: https://cfs.energy/technology

(edit: clarification)
I 100% agree. Background processing is the way to go!
Thanks for taking the time to share your experience. I work on GitHub Actions and am familiar with the limitations you're experiencing. Below is more info on where we're at with each of these issues, using the numbers in your Table of Contents. Also, we have a lot of other new things planned for Actions as you can see in our roadmap. https://github.com/github/roadmap/projects/1?card_filter_que...

2.1 We're starting work on this in the next couple of months. We plan to ship it in early 2022.

2.2 We want to speed up the pace of GitHub Enterprise Server releases, but I don't have more info to share.

2.3 We're looking at ways to not require a GHEC account or "unified" license.

2.4 The limits are much higher with the GitHub hosted runners, but this is a current limit of self-hosted runners.

3.1 It's on our backlog. No date to share.

3.2 I haven't heard this before and thanks for sharing the scenario. We'll think about it.

3.3 This will ship in October.

3.4 We're doing some performance optimizations for GHES 3.4 that should fix this.

3.5 This shipped recently - https://github.blog/changelog/2021-08-25-github-actions-redu...

3.6 We have a couple API improvements coming later this year.

3.7 We're looking into this, but no dates to share.

We're dedicated to making Actions a great experience. As you would assume, I'm very excited about the future of Actions and getting feedback like this helps us make it better.
Does Pre-Earned Karma on Social Blogs Have Latent Financial Value?
Hi... cubano here on hackernews and at the risk of totally breaking all kinds of TOS agreements and such, I am declaring that I am totally flat broke at the moment [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28216714 ], and I am asking any kind souls here on HN if you could find it in your hearts and wallets to help me with...

1. paying my hosting fees on cloudcone.com as my CV and my LAMP-Stack showcase current project [ lasvegasluxerealty.com ] are hosted there and I really need them to be available.

and

2. paying craigslist listing fees for my "software tutoring offered" listing [ https://drive.google.com/file/d/14XVErGa_UgY8DBsOB1n0mNKYwu1psH3-/view?usp=sharing ] for my local area and as many other craigslist sites as I can afford, sorted by population (see below).

My monthly hosting fee is $18.42, and the craigslist "services offered" fee is $5 per, so the minimum I'm asking for is $23.42...for every $5 more, I will post on another craigslist local area, sorted descending by population size, so Los Angeles would come after my initial post, follow my New York City, then Chicago etc etc.

If anyone has better ideas about posting my tutoring ad in different places for free, please comment below and I'll be more than happy to give it a try.

I feel that with my over 4000 points here on HN, that my request for small sum donations is at least somewhat justified as I have provided entertainment and insights (well, maybe I should stick to entertainment side of things) to the unwashed and unruly masses here. Also, I see this as a type of experiment in exchanging social "karma" in relation to asking for monetary donations and plan on doing a full write-up with the results of the "experiment" (so again, I'm not really asking for a hand-out as I am promising a service in exchange for any donations).

I've recently explained here on HN , I am currently going thru some rough times financially [see above hackernews link] and all im asking is enough donations to pay my web-hosting and job-searching fees (although anything more will be used for various items moving up "the pyramid", roughly, in relation to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs [ https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html ].

I quickly scanned the FAQ here and didn't see anything that explicitly prevents me from asking for donations for this "project", but I'll admit, I didn't look very hard...please forgive me (and if it makes you feel better, call me an asshole as well) if this post insults you in anyway, shape, or form, and ignore it ASAP. For those who are kind enough to help me, God bless you or, if atheist, well God bless you, too.

My donation link is https://www.paypal.me/MarkEnriquez. I will post the results of this "experiment" in the next few days.
But with regards to this subthread specifically - the risks that the OP points out are account security best practices, and common to both Coinbase and traditional banks. If you're going to point them out as reasons that your capital is at risk, you also have to point out that your capital is at risk with traditional financial institutions.
Ah yes, and how much money? The answer always seems to be “More”.
Why does there have to be an implicit threat of violence? If you didn't stop, the cops could take your license plate, find where you live, and send you a ticket for a much bigger crime. Cops don't have to use violence to solve all their problems.
So much discussion about this already barely a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28143722

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28157661

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28144833
University press releases need not be peer reviewed so they can get close to saying things that would offend other scientists and get away with it. The key phrase in "the most powerful magnetic field of its kind ever created on Earth" is "of its kind." Creating a many telsa magnetic field has been done in other experiments like with lasers[0], only they are physically smaller in size and last for nanoseconds, it's just of this size, stability and with the high temperature superconductors that makes it special. If the claim is just the magnitude of the field they've already been beat.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02641-7

Just as a note, the max B field here is 600T
It's not entirely clear from the article. I can feel the pain of the maintainers if this was suddenly dropped on them. But the article slightly hints at that it was repeatedly communicated that werror will be enabled over a long period time. If this is the case they don't really have any grounds to complain.
At the moment it is very far for clear that fusion will be cost effective. The article says this about the fuel of fusion: "The fuel used to create fusion energy comes from water, and “the Earth is full of water — it’s a nearly unlimited resource. [...]"

They forgot to say that it is not the H2O that comes out of your tap. The earth is especially not full of tritium.
I don't think this is correct. They are currently working on a go based replacement (3.0).
I’m with you on this. I think kids getting it is the key to us getting out of the cycle.

Despite media hysteria, the risk to children is extremely low. So low that the UK isn’t going to vaccinate most kids at all.

https://www.newsweek.com/uk-wont-vaccinate-most-children-tee...
The Prius had a NiMH battery. Current production Priuses (Prii?) almost all* use lithium-ion batteries, from the 2016 model year (fourth-generation/XW50) on.

* A subset of fourth-gen Priuses, those equipped with all-wheel drive, went back to NiMH for better cold-weather performance.
Yes.

(I mean, like coke, they could say it, but it wouldn’t make sense.)

Possibly one could claim something is democratizing access to some specific aspect?

I do think it probably best to tend away from using the term unless it is a particularly good fit though. (“Best” as in “what I would prefer”, not as in “most profitable”)
The CCP found an effective way to manipulate an entire generation.
> The presence of Covid, which is invisible and potentially everywhere, can only be ascertained via special tests. While you can give yourself an antigen test at home, the results are far less authoritative than antigen tests administered by authorised agents of the bureaucracy, and these in turn are still less significant than PCR tests, administered by medical professions and processed in a lab.

This is poetry
Location: Baltimore, Maryland.

Remote: Yes.

Willing to relocate: Yes.

Technologies: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, SQL

Resume:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QQxd7upuAgMFbUwKvFb9a-Rk...
> However, without generics, Go’s type system can only offer so much

I was reading the whole article waiting to see this line, and the article did not disappoint. This is still the main reason I will stick with Rust or Crystal (depending on the use-case) and avoid Go if I can for the foreseeable future. Generics are just a must these days for non-trivial software projects. It's a shame too because Go has so much promise in other respects.
You don't need an astroturf.

Nuclear ruined it's own reputation for generations though hopeful not as long as they'll have to care for the waste we already have.
There has been a lot of research in to replacing the anode in lithium ion batteries with materials other than graphite. Some have been successful, but only to limited levels.

A pure silicon anode would be a huge step up in energy storage, but there are a ton of issues that need solving down this path.

Tesla has slowly been working towards integrating more and more silicon in to their anodes. They announced plans to try and do effectively what SilaNano is doing here at their "battery day" last year, so it is a pretty big deal that they are pulling it off in a production battery.
Agreed, but humans barely get free speech and you expect AI to get it? You can ask AI to tell you the holocaust never happened, that earth is flat or that vaccines transform people into green lizards. Worst part is that the model literally does not care for being persecuted, what are you gonna do? arrest it?
Problem is that there is so much data collected that if the government ever gets better at connecting the dots, then just using most digital devices will put you in a similar spot.

Example: I have an app for a well known convenience store. I decided one day to disassemble it to see what libraries are being used. In addition to all the tracking one finds in most apps, there was a Bluetooth library that apparently allows the store to track where you walked around the store because of strategically placed Bluetooth beacons.

You basically have to be a hermit to avoid a lot of this and even then its not great.
> You’re never risking jail time with the SEC.

That's not true.

> They’re civil enforcement so they can only pursue fines and injunctions

A lot of SEC things are both civil and criminal, and while the SEC doesn't file criminal charges, it does send referrals to DOJ. So, yes, though there are more steps before it gets to jail time, disputes with the SEC do carry that risk.
This will fail for the same reason other attempts at stimulating micropayments has.

People are used to accessing text and video on the web for free. You and I may have a paid subscription to a Patreon or newspaper, but in both cases we are not paying piecemeal.
And it should be one that we tolerate. There are lots of infringements on speech, especially professional speech.

The idea that somehow a group empowered by the state to commit violence in defense of the states policies have a more sacrosanct right to speech than doctors or teachers is absurd. These aren’t individuals speaking as individuals…this is effectively government speech and we ought not wrong our hands about restricting it. The government has no right to speech.
> The ability to know you can come back in a week to the same amount of battery

That's pretty much the modern MacBook experience. And I don't care if it suspends, hibernates or serruptitiously crawls over to a power outlet in the middle of the night to recharge, I as an end user should never need to think about such things.

Close lid. Wait hours or days. Open Lid. Work.

I like to keep things simple too.
Holy shit wat? Gitlab CI is a clusterfuck that is impossible to use for all but the most simple use-cases. We have a monorepo at work, and GitLab CI never fucking works. Here are some examples:

- Fallback cache keys don't work (because it doesn't compose with cache changing cache ids). So each time someone clears the runner caches, the fallback cache stops working.

- `if`/`rules` and `needs` don't work together, and cause the build to fail with a *yaml build failure*. Wat? This is even a documented failure mode now. This is a huge issue for monorepos.

- gitlab-runner is full of weird behaviors, like `gitlab-runner unregister <runner-name>` fails if that runner was already deleted (through the gitlab UI), but won't remove it from the local config. But `gitlab-runner` has a separate command, gitlab-runner verify --delete, which does just that...

It feels like every time I use it, I run into a bug. I've heavily used github actions in many projects of similar sizes, and have yet to come across a single bug.
I don’t even have 144 items in my kitchen, I don’t think, so that’s probably a lot of dishwashing. It could happen if you lane the water running the entire time. I’m horrified to think that some people do that.
What works well is Linear TV with a history, so you can go through a calendar, say, going back 30 days.

All the Japanese IPTV streamers work that way and it's a very natural integration.

You can watch the current streaming, or just go back in the calendar to whatever you want in your selected channel. And the past items flow from one to the next as if they were live. You watch through last Monday's 8:00 p.m. one hour show and it falls through to the 9:00 p.m. show of that day as if it were last Monday.

There is no annoying "recording" workflow; the full content is just there going back about a month.

The organization concept that certain shows occur regularly at certain times is very useful; it won't go away that easily; it remains useful when you're able to navigate through the calendar.

Japanese TV, as such, is pretty great though. It is not replaceable in any way by other forms of content.

E.g. families with small kids depend on the NHK E channel; there is no equivalent content. Everyone knows what that is; it's not ignored, like BBC or PBS.
Are you talking about legally compelled or pragmatically compelled?

Legally I agree with you, but the police don’t appear to operate legally as a general rule.
How is there not a silhouette of a person standing next to this thing?

Paleontology reporters, you have one job.
Look at this guy, not using his real name on his social media. Book him, Zuck!
I use one or two drops out of a 3mg/1ml dropper. That's all it takes. I don't know why the OTC doses are so high. Maybe it's helpful for other purposes e.g. jet lag. But for sleep it's much too high a dosage.

It's not a total cure for delayed circadian rhythm (your hormone levels, body temp etc. are still out of sync) but as far as fitting into more typical "business hours" sleep schedule usually expected of us, it does the job.
One could say the same thing about Rust, and at least that language has hit 1.0.
I doubt there's any way to ever prove what happened here, but this is what I was thinking too. It was a lie to cool things down. Someone who's angry to the point that they're yelling is dangerous, not just to the cops but to other drivers on the road.
LAPD's social media monitoring documents
I don't think this is a valid argument against this being a real breakthrough. The first major production lithium ion batteries were for Sony camcorders.

Not all that different from wearables, and obviously lithium ion batteries were a pretty major breakthrough.
Prices didn't move all that much, but you literally couldn't get gas in Austin for a week or so, and gas stations would frequently run out for another few weeks after that.

This is an area where small, distributed solar panel arrays and batteries (like on your house) can be much more robust. It's a lot harder to destroy thousands of small solar power systems than it is to take out a pipeline feeding an entire city.
Many of the arguments against reusable bags focus on water and energy costs of natural fibres (surprisingly high), but not on the million-year biohazard waste legacy of plastics.

The principle problem with cost-benefit analysis is in determing what costs and benefits to consider, and what values to ascribe to them.

Mind that numerous reusable bags are themselves synthetic (nylon or other plastics), which starts splitting differences --- lower energy and water costs, but still presenting the waste-stream hazard.
Coffee Meets Bagel requests government IDs to date now
As if surveillance capitalism and track and trace wasn't bad enough, now even so-called "free" dating sites are joining in on the madness by forcing users to provide government-issued identification just to find a date down the street. Where does this end? Or has it just begun? And why are so many willing to give up their freedoms in exchange for a little temporary convenience?
I have often thought the BBC ought to create individual youtube channels for their tv series and put teasers for new episodes as they release on iplayer, along with the most popular clips from those shows.

An audience of young people who almost certainly visit youtube regularly would then have a chance of being able to be notified when a show they actually like on the BBC releases.
Why is it written in katakana?
Well...that's what I meant. But which one is it, then?
Unfortunately for Docker, I don't trust or want to use Swarm because of their attempts to monetize and because of the frequency that they push breaking bugs or breaking changes into production releases. To the extent that they made downgrading a paid option, not upgrading. And I'm in the process of switching everything I've got over to Podman now.

Swarm might be great, but the ecosystem around k8s is massive. So my two choices are: ignore Docker entirely and do it like I've always done (Heroku, chef, puppet, etc. just managing my servers myself), or buy into containers and go with K8S.

To that extent, I only ever deal with K8S at work, and for my personal stuff I don't go near Docker at all. Why would I when I can get an 8GB/4CPU VPS for $9/mo and serve everything I care about from that? I've got fail2ban, systemd, caddy, and plenty of resources.

I can host mysql on the same machine because there isn't a god-given law about hosting your DB on a separate box. Same with anything else.

No need for Docker or Swarm or K8s.
Will do that. They haven't yet, presumably. At least from our perspective, anyway.
The original post mentioned physical violence towards him including being spit upon and having feces thrown.
I think your snipes at Star Citizen are unwarranted. I’m not a backer, but I do follow its development, and they’ve been delivering work-in-progress builds to backers for years now, and doing so quarterly for nearly four years.

People complain about bugs and development speed, but I don’t think it’s fair to say they aren’t making progress. Each quarter’s release adds substantial new things, and people are having fun playing the game. E.g. https://m.youtube.com/c/GameDevByrneGaming/videos.
> What happens when the streaming giants start focusing on pumping out low risk crap as they mature into what they're replacing?

You can stop subscribing and stop giving them money.
Is there a non-DIY version of this, preferably <$100? I often have breathing difficulties and would be curious to see if humidity, CO2, and pm2.5 are affecting me, but I don't have a soldering kit.