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> Once you understand how to deploy into AWS, it really is quite simple

I've seen enough 500 line YAML files to disagree with you.
Silicon die teardown: a look inside an early 555 timer chip
I am wrong, the sub-comments are right. GPF hasn't been installed by default for quite some time now: https://wiki.lineageos.org/gapps
This sheds a light on some bad practices around all ski areas:

* J1 / E5 visa abuse to skirt labor and wage laws and get cheap investments

* Overselling / abusive terms of carriage for lifts

* Overpricing basic food and services, assigning abusive police-style regulators on slopes (looking at you vail)

So at the end of the day, we have to take a look and think: should lifting skiers up a mountain on a chairlift really be worth billions of dollars in market cap? Should mountains, who are almost 90% public land (in the USA), even be businesses?
The Remote Era
Yeah, they get their pay check to understand the nuances :)
Thanks for your feedback, and your filter suggestion!

The first iteration of this project was a CLI that took a yaml file (simple map of filter name -> params) and rendered the filter list to stdout. I ran that binary in a netlify pipeline to publish my list for personal use. As the filter data is hosted alongside the sources, it would be pretty simple to add back that offline rendering capability, or run a self-hosted instance.

As you said, I moved away from the CLI and towards a website to make it more accessible for everyone. The UX is still not great (especially the manual refresh via the uBlock interface), but hopefully we can improve on this front with more visibility.
And properitary drivers.
I had the same thought - the e-mail really wasn't that unreasonable, coming from the perspective of somebody who didn't realize there was no support contract in place (and maybe didn't even understand how that could happen). Haxx's response seems similarly reasonable - we don't have a support contract, let's get one in place and then move forward from there. This really seems to be an object lesson that if you're depending on somebody for business-critical infrastructure, make sure they have a reason to support your business.
Nah not official - it ends up at various resellers. Not sure what they do directly with it.

Getting in on THAT would likely be a very good deal!
Absolutely, but there's a frequent misconception that the cloud has less management overhead even though most shops will still end up with one or more DevOps engineers on payroll.
As a person who created infrastructure for many startups and migrated some of the largest companies to the cloud, I disagree.

Cloud is the next logical progression for information technology. It is similar to the progress we made in agriculture or energy production.

The article has some comedy lines like this:

>> Dedicated machines offer unparalleled performance and are rock solid.

A single node? I wonder how the packets are arriving to this single node. How about electricity? Cooling?

Oh yeah, these things are not part of the discussion.

Look at the rock solid dedicated machines:

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ovhcloud-wont-rev...

Anyways, for the cloud hating crowd there, please try to make arguments multi dimensional and try to get away from single nodes. Many companies need more than a single node and there are other things than single node performance when talking about purchasing computation of storage resources.
It can't be a store of value when there it represents no value whatsoever.
It is an instrument of speculation only.

https://henvic.dev/posts/bitcoin
Yeah. They still pollute like crazy. Not as bad as the old days, but they're still extremely bad for the local environment.
Are people evangelizing the benefits of Etsy stock over fiat currency?
Why black out the company name? Confidentiality notices at the bottom of emails aren't legally binding, especially when it's an unsolicited email from a company you have no relationship with.
you're adding the two square roots though.

so for example, which is bigger:
[2.00000000000000011,2.0000000000000003],[2.0000000000000002,2.00000000000000021]
And the ones who bought BTC in 2009, well... man thats a lot of doner.
This price drop indicates too much faith in Fed's tapering efforts.
Markets are underestimating the rate of inflation, and the price will bounce back like it always does.

On another note, what's the update on the proof of stake?

It's insane that we're using 0.55% of global electricity production for a decentralized spreadsheet.

Phasing out coal power might be detrimental to lives of millions of people who depend on coal to power their dwellings, but shutting down coal power plants used for crypto mining sounds like a reasonable compromise.
Ceph 14 was EOL on 2021-06-30. There are two major releases past v14 that don’t seem to be available through freshports. I’m not sure I’d qualify this as supported, and definitely not actively supported.

https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/releases/#active-releases
Are you telling me that using a VPS is quicker than AWS RDS which already has everything preconfigured ?
Sure and there are a lot of simple ways to improve the accuracy of the simple approach before you go for the pure math sledgehammer here. It's all a question of how accurate the answer needs to be.

For example, It's pretty easy to come up with an FP64 error bound on the sum. And if the difference between the two sums is greater than that error bound you don't need to do anything more complicated. Where this would get complicated IMO is if you were dealing with 128-bit or higher integers.

Edit: I am learning so much about the mindset here and what triggers acute attacks of the heebie jeebies. This place has really changed in the past decade since I joined and not for the better. Yes good, good, more downvotes. Show your love with downvotes. I'm stuck at 2970 karma, only you can help me on the journey to zero. Can we beat -4? Let's find out.
Why cloud and telecom vendors have invested millions in a GitOps startup
US and UK asked Ukraine to disarm in exchange for protection. The US should do better to secure the credibility of their diplomatic promises.
https://www.youtube.com/c/BenEater

This is a very good channel that will help you. He goes through assembly language in various videos as part of demonstrating different topics and I'm not gonna lie but he make it seem very simple and obvious.
> there's some sort of a queue that wannabe immigrants must join

Yes exactly. 10+ years long for many categories and longer from some specific countries. Or, go the EB-5 route if you can afford it, with "No Wait" (except for Chinese applicants).

https://www.boundless.com/blog/visa-bulletin/
I don't think your link shows perspective, it's just huuurah from the crypto gang.

It's well known that bitcoin, and crypto as a whole, have and will likely continue to demonstrate a boom/bust cycle that will likely continue to excite the get-rich-fast-crew for some time to come. But people are mostly pointing out that bitcoin is not the equity hedge many hoped it would be, it's not an independent thing apart from the vagaries of the market.

To me, perspective on bitcoin would mean seeing that it isn't the revolutionary thing it's sold as. It's not freedom money, it's not the way to stick it to the financial industrial complex, and it's not a safe harbor asset. It's only really good for one (legal) thing: speculation. It seems like the vast majority of bitcoin transactions are either people speculating on it or criminal in nature. And it uses more power than the entire country of Sweden. Maybe another coin in the future will address cryptos problems, but I haven't seen it yet, eth isn't it.

I own some cypto, because it's fun. I watch numbers go up or down, but the money I put into it is already in the written-off-but-will-be-nice-if-pops category. That's perspective. You have people taking out loans to buy bitcoin or even just putting a significant amount of their portfolio in crypto, that is not perspective.
Yet another friendly reminder that only Bitcoin is real decentralized and freedom empowering finance.

Saying that you cannot participate is reaching the same level of saying that you cannot participate in the use of the internet. In ten years or so, you'll likely be having to use Bitcoin whether you stand against it now or not. Just as someone that said the internet was a scam or a fad back in 1999-2003 era of the web.

People who are anti-cryptocurrency often like to conflate Bitcoin with all these other scam coins. It's true that all of them are a scam besides bitcoin and that none of them have security or decentralization. There is only Bitcoin. It does not matter what is agreed upon, only the truth matters. Only the math matters. Only code matters.
You have to do it for correctness. Every use case needs this handled.

Okay so you have a PID file somewhere /var/myservice/myservice.pid. The contents of that file is a number which is supposed to correspond to a process you can find in proc.

But PIDs are recycled or more likely your PID files didn't get cleaned up on reboot. So you look at your file and it says 2567, you look up 2567 and see a running process! Done right? Well it just so happenes that a random other process was assigned that PID and your service isn't actually running.

pidfd's are the real real solution to this but the short and long tail of software uses pidfiles.
Keep reading:

> Whether vitamin D plays a causal role in COVID-19 pathophysiology or just a marker of ill health is not known, and our results should be carefully interpreted, as patients positive for SARS-CoV-2 and with severe COVID-19 had a higher number of comorbidities.

> Further large randomized controlled trials are warranted to determine if vitamin D supplementation can decrease COVID-19 incidence and its severity.

Contrast that with vaccination, which has had large trials and been shown to be highly effective. Continuing to study Vitamin D is clearly a good idea — even if it does turn out just to be a symptom of other problems, that seems potentially useful for early intervention just like BMI — but it's nowhere near as settled a question and as a matter of practicality you have to consider the challenges of something which requires changing daily eating habits relative to periodic vaccination.
Because it wasn't there.

It was only when Bitcoin could no longer function well for payments (due to the high fees), that bagholders changed the narrative from "medium of exchange" to "store of value".
This is a really bizarre comment to make, considering BSD has no equivalent to flatpak. Flatpak might only have a handful of developers, on BSD you get nobody trying to fix application-level sandboxing at all. Unless I missed something and there's a new BSD project being worked on here, but I haven't heard anything.
That was what we refer to as a joke.
Dont Leave Your K8s Cluster Unguarded Use Gatekeeper Instead
With the innovation of satellite life extenders like MEV-2, fuel is less of an issue. Webb has reaction wheels and cryocoolers which may have their own lifetimes and become the limiter.

https://www.seradata.com/mev-2-satellite-life-extender-space...
Finally, someone talking clear in one point, you don't need amazon with all the flavors for your startup... Most of the time, for the start of the project, you only need one instance with one or max two cores of CPU and a basic installation of some services (Nginx, MySQL, Postgres, node, etc.)... you only need to start your idea and make it profitable, then begin to scale and add some extra service try first on your own and then with some dedicated service (s3, rds, etc.)...
>> having to put up with the overhead of virtualization and networked block storage.

Could you point out how much the overhead of virtualization nowadays?

What is the downside of networked block storage? In what use cases does it matter?
Yes, I recently read that the average American home has 300,000 items in it. Having so much stuff isn't helping you experience the world, it is a hindrance to it.
It's much simpler than that. If the price of BTC goes up, it's worth spending more on electricity to mine it.

If 1 coin costs $50,000, and you already own the rig, it's worth spending $49,999 on electricity to mine the next coin and you will make a profit. If you're rig can't do that, you're better off just turning it off.
What you're doing with your dog is amazing (I was wrong above, I am a bit surprised!)

> I hope I live to see talking pet "classes" and animal education become mainstream. I think there will be a cultural shift toward more empathy and better treatment of pets.

I think you might be putting the cart before the horse. It seems to me that if we develop more empathy and kindness towards animals we would naturally find out how to communicate with them; and contrariwise, if we learn to make them talk before we learn empathy and compassion we'll almost certainly just enslave them (more than we do already.)

You know the folks who live near orangutans say that they know how to talk, they just don't do it in front of humans because they don't want to be made to work.

- - - -

I think what you really discovered or developed with your dog is your own perception and intelligence. I don't mean that the dog isn't intelligent and understanding you. What I mean is that, if your dog can do this, then I would assume that most dogs can do this (no offense or disrespect intended, you might have Doggie Einstein, eh?) and therefore the limiting factor (for communicating with dogs) ins't the dog, it's the intelligence and perspicacity of the humans involved, eh?
> Plenty of its advocates very clearly WANT to force people to partake though

Advocates evangelize heavily, sure, but will you provide some examples of this? I keep track of the headlines in this space, but I'm not familiar with / haven't experienced what you're describing.
f(x) = sqrt(x) does not increase linearly with x so you can't do that.

Compare the plotted graphs of x (input) vs. sqrt(x) (output)
I think one of the oddest feelings in the world is learning that a movie you like is not well rated. For example I watched the second Fantastic Beasts movie on a plane and enjoyed it, definitely excited to see the third. Then I went home and learned that people HATED IT.
Dealing with YAML with arbitrary tags in Python
>Why black out the company name? Confidentiality notices at the bottom of emails aren't legally binding, especially when it's an unsolicited email from a company you have no relationship with.

It's explained in the article.
The early Nissan Leafs had abysmal range at around 80 miles of range total

Which is still better than any EV produced at the time. And we could easily get more than that by staying off the freeway. Even 100 mile range isn't going to get you to Portland from Seattle, though.

I always wanted to see how an EV's value would hold up when there was next-generation battery technology that could potentially be retrofit into an older car like the early-model Leaf.

It's still an eleven-year-old car based on Nissan's low-end Versa, with no driving assistance whatsoever. It's a nice little car for what it is, but we're not talking used BMW here, new battery pack or not. So I kind of wonder what the l'il Nissan's ultimate fate will be when we get our next EV. Scrap yard, or renewed battery pack?
I felt this comment was incongruous, like it was a response to a question no one asked. I wanted to understand this better. I didn't interpret it as provocation. You seem to be reading a criticism of the C ecosystem into my question, as if everyone should drop C and learn Rust, but that is not what I meant nor what I believe.
There was a hearing this morning. Might still be happening but I don't see this article as offering any information from this morning.

I was reading this: https://www.boardmanclark.com/publications/hr-heads-up/emplo...

Wisconsin seems to be restrictive even if there was a non-compete. In fact, there doesn't seem to be a non-compete. Therefore "poaching" is legal and offensive term here.
There is a relationship between mining difficulty and energy consumption. What I don't see is the correlation between price and mining difficulty. By this logic, mining activity should be way down right now.
web3 is explicitly, 100% blockchain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web3
Reminds me of the video where the guy is like you should sell your Bitcoin because it crashed to 50c, then he repeats that every crash, oh it crashed to $2, then $50, then $300, etc etc.
buy from the ________s!
> Is forcing to segfault a real annoyance ? Can you show me an example of where it is an annoyance ?

Well, if you're an Amiga programmer you may depend on being able to walk through system memory or memory belonging to other processes. System calls into Amiga EXEC are made by offsets from a base pointer in absolute memory space (it was 4 in old-school AmigaOS). I swear, there are people in the Amiga community who actually believe virtual memory is a short-lived fad, and we will all realize the error of our ways once the Amiga comes again in glory. Or there were ten years ago... I think that hope for Amiga as a viable platform in the current year has dried up by now even among the diehards.

> On the other hand, suspending a process on idle is an annoyance:

No one was talking about blindly suspending processes on idle. XSuspender's job is to suspend X clients, i.e., interactive programs, that aren't being interacted with. And you have fine-grained control over which clients it actually suspends so it doesn't stop your xclock.

I used to do a lot of 16-bit Windows programming, and there was an awful lot of "tax paying". You had to free window, device context, brush, etc. handles as soon as you were finished using them, otherwise you'd blow your GDI heap and other applications would crash -- or worse. When I switched to Win32 and later Unix it was nice to not have to worry about the resources, including memory and window handles, from a crashed app being cleaned up by the system. It's not a license to code sloppily, but it's one less thing to have to think about should something go wrong.

I don't see why power management can't be the same. I don't see why Android can't for instance snapshot the heap of a backgrounded app without a running service attached, and then restore the heap from the snapshot when the app is resumed instead of making the developer save and restore application state by hand onPause() and onResume().

Oh, and "paying your taxes" is doubtless a reference to USA income taxes, where you have to submit a detailed record of your earnings and deductions to the IRS each year, despite the IRS already having this information. In countries with sensible tax codes, the tax service automatically deducts taxes from your paycheck and in most cases only a simple confirmation that the amount deducted is correct is necessary. So there's not actually much need for "paying your taxes" even when it comes to actually paying your taxes.
Since the end of the Gold Standard, the value of ANY currency is only based how much other people accept to give you in exchange. That's why you see half of the thirld world countries currencies dropping, in particular, faster than bitcoin drops. And this is why it is so popular in these countries.
> Hang your shingle out by publishing negative (vote-against) attestations of vulnerable versions of open source software and positive attestations (e.g. code-review) of the versions that mitigated the issues they disclosed.

I don't know. I have sat here rewriting this comment now about 4-5 times. I guess we'll see how it plays out but I don't share your optimism for the economic incentives being there for people to undertake this kind of work.

I do applaud you for this work though, and the efforts. The work you and Paragon have performed as part of the PHP ecosystem has been exemplary.
We are on the brink of WW3, so this narrative kind of makes sense?
I agree with this statement but the solution is not solely crypto nor does that provide any inherent value to residents outside of those nations.
Human habitation on mars will, quite likely, occur in caves where the daylight cycle can be anything they want.
"Don't expect people to do work for you if you're not paying them" is obvious to anyone with a brain. I fail to see how nuance comes into this.
> Do you really want to live on Ferenginar?

Hollywood caricatures should never underpin your understanding of economics.
Odd, I see a 38% gain for the Lira this year. Do you see something different? Also poor people tend to try to avoid inflation on a time scale of months, they can't hodl because they need to get their kids their dinner.
Ask HN: Has anyone gone from software to physical engineering?
Im feeling burned out and getting interested in machining, materials science and engineering outside of code.

Anyone else done this? Thinking of going to school full time to see it through.

FYI:

I do not have any schooling past highschool. I got really lucky and ended up an SRE after working my way off the helpdesk.
When I worked at a large, but not F500, company I had to once every 6-12 month or so fill in a spreadsheet with all third-party dependencies, with their licenses and some other info, the project I was working on used. I then emailed this to a mystery person and never heard anything back ever. I can easily see someone pulling out these spreadsheets and just emailing away without any developer, rookie or otherwise, being aware of what was happening.
All dairy products are made from cows birthing calves.
Bitcoin will probably never move to Proof of Stake, they couldn't even increase the block size and that caused the whole BCH fork situation.

But Ethereum is still on schedule for Q2 this year. It already uses far less electricity than Bitcoin does, but will do so much better as PoS.
Totally agree.

Just use virtual machines or colocated servers.
Which distro do you enjoy using the most?
>overall the dollar is looking to be a horrible choice as a long term store of value.

The Dollar is not and never has been a long-term store of value. That is a fundamental misunderstanding of what a currency is.
Being comfortable with C is just fine, but doesn't satisfy me as an explanation. Eg, if I try to put myself in their shoes, being comfortable with C doesn't lead me to post this comment.

I saw something I didn't understand and wanted to understand better. Not much more to it.
I agree with the others who say that being a patent agent is kind of a dead end job unless you want to go be an attorney.

Even patent attorneys who do prosecution, however, are in for kind of a grind. Again as others mentioned, it's often either fixed-fee or low-billable-rate work, and the client often won't know the difference between a really great patent and a mediocre one.

To me the real fun is in patent litigation, where you sue or defend lawsuits in federal court. That is where the rubber hits the road and patents are really tested. To get a job there, you mainly need a law degree from a good or great school and excellent grades, although a tech background (or a background as a patent agent) can help.
I don't know. That seems wasteful. I'd rather they use the skin, instead of just throwing it away after processing the veal.
yeah that's how I see it. Feels like to get rich now you'd have to start throwing real money into it and I'm just not that big of a gambler.
>From what I’ve heard, most immigrants break-even or lose a bit on their investment after brokers fees and such.

if the minimum investment is $500k as other commenters have noted, then that seems like a pretty good deal? even with a 10% loss it's only $50k for a visa.
I suppose I’m the wrong audience for this, but everything in the article seems fairly obvious.
I feel the same about hacker news, to be honest.
> How is a state going to stop crypto?

Laws, Guns, Prisons.