skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe he’s right. Hopefully he’s right. But personally, I feel like this is just more shortsightedness. I’ve lost track of the number of times my employer thought it was time to get back to the office - only for restrictions to be increased a month later as cases rise. This cycle repeats and people seem to not learn. They get overly optimistic and then kicked in the teeth. Yes, things are better than they’ve been but 4 months ago we also thought it was over until Omicron arrived. How long until another more serious variant comes along that escapes vaccines? Predicting the end of Covid when the world is in the middle/late stage of a huge wave seems super shortsighted.
I don't think it really qualifies as a Ponzi scheme, functionally it's not all that different from any other speculative asset. You're not giving your money to the 'blockchain' expecting it to give back X amount of dollars, you're trading your money for bitcoins and that's the end of it. Whether you want to keep your bitcoins forever, or attempt to find someone else to sell them to is up to you.
Ranting about Nix being hard is like going to Russia and complaining that the local language doesn't sound English. Like many other things worth your time, it's something you learn through deliberate practice and focus.
They are listed in that same CPAN link

"Please note that YAML has hardcoded limits on (simple) object key lengths that JSON doesn't have and also has different and incompatible unicode character escape syntax... YAML also does not allow \/ sequences in strings"
I had a similar feeling, throughout reading the post I wanted to know what the specific issues were that made BSD better suited, it's all been too abstracted.

I think many of us (including me) have a tendency to try to quickly generalise our experiences, even when it's not appropriate - and when we go onto explain things to others without the original context it can sound too abstract or come across as evangelical. Either way, it loses meaning without real examples.
Why would a bitcoin miner sell his mined BTC for less than the power costs?
Most countries have already figured out that the problem is privatized medicine and created universal health care systems.
Strangely they very rarely call out all the right-wing leaders who graduated from such places.
> What's nest actually doing?

1) Nesting builds nested results (like GraphQL). This is particularly hard to do in SQL but is allows very large complex data sets to be returned in a single query.

https://looker-open-source.github.io/malloy/documentation/la...

For example the dashboard on the page below is a single SQL query:

https://looker-open-source.github.io/malloy/documentation/ex...

> How does aggregate know what function to use?

You can pre-define calculations with 'measure:' or decalre them explicitly in a query.

> where's the windowing

It's missing with a bunch of other things (like union for example). Its coming of course. The goal is that everything represent able in SQL is represent able in Malloy.

> heck does "order by: 2" mean

Same thing as it does in SQL. We try and have reasonable defaults.

https://looker-open-source.github.io/malloy/documentation/la...

> "How is this actually easier?"

The goal here is to be able to create data models that are re-usable and compose-able and verifiable. Yeah, there is a learning curve as there is with anything powerful. There are many things expressible in Malloy that cannot be easily expressed in SQL.
Email sending, web workers, etc. can all feed off of the same repository, running on different hardware, and have functions subdivided by DNS. "Monolith as services" is a super common pattern.

The closest thing I can tease out of this claim that seems like a significant practical criticism is that you need a resilient communications channel for talking from, say, core logic to an email sender--but you need that on one node too, if you aren't using a the right datastore for the job you're asking to staple your hand to your face no matter how many nodes your application runs on.

And these days it's pretty trivial to use a lot of AWS free tier stuff--or other clouds, but let's be real, AWS gives you A Lot--for much of what you describe. CloudFront is not my favorite CDN but they give you a bonkers amount of free transfer these days. DynamoDB as an object cache, if you don't want to pay for Redis. SQS is free to like a million API request a month and you can stick a lambda on the other end of it to handle offline/async tasks. And SES turns email sending into an API call.

If your concern is velocity, then cloud stuff is almost unassailable. If your concern is price, better cloud stuff is hard to beat, too. If your concern is portability, I hope you're already profitable and that it's worth your time to worry about it.
Yeah that part was a bit weird; the Tweets preceding those seemed to indicate that after the omicron wave subsides it will be time to do those things. Then, however, it immediately switches to the present tense and implies that right now we should immediately throw all caution to the wind.
*yawn* https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/24/18019464/4chan-anon-anim...
There's a difference between effectiveness against "new cases" vs. heavy illness.

Deaths/severity is not rising even though there are a lot of new cases.

Deaths ( = going down): https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/worldwide-graphs/#...

Severe cases ( small increase):
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/worldwide-graphs/#...

While new cases > x 7 https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/worldwide-graphs/#...

Additionally, it should be noted that the severe cases with Omicron are almost all unvaccinated ( not even boostered). If you want to check stats, please try to find a source that seperates delta ( which is not gone!) from Omicron.

Edit:
And since it's January. An honest comparison would be Januari 2021 with Delta because of family / friend gatherings. It's a pretty busy social time ;)
The Linux machines that I have managed that took anywhere close to that long to boot (older IBM and HP) just have a very lengthy BIOS/POST start-up process. Once you got through that, the OS (RHEL 5 at the time) booted up pretty quickly.
Immunocompromised people are allowed to tut-tut until they can actually go outside without significant risk of death.
The Wireguard debacle scared me off from FreeBSD. It seems they put too much trust in committers and don't have a solid enough review process.
> Java fans say Java has evolved to match Kotlin and they're probably right.

It definitely adopted a lot of the good things in Kotlin, but Kotlin doesn't have the problem of needing to maintain backward compatibility. Kotlin doesn't even natively have null, which (in my opinion) is the best thing about the language.
I was referring to the IQ of the subject, which is technically called "Borderline" which technically rests above the designation of "moron" that resides at IQ 74 and lower.
Good catch on that fluid not air correction.
How useful, and how common, would a PhD in life sciences (biology/biochemistry/genetics/etc.) to become a patent agent? I anecdotally heard and read of a few people who struggled to find industry work with that degree, and were then recommended to try and become patent agents/attorneys as the PhD should allegedly give them an advantage in work applications.
It's not just people thinking it's valuable, it is people wanting it to be valuable.
New variants of viruses can arise at any point in the future, regardless of what we do. Any flu season in any previous year in history could have produced a deadly variant, and yet we went on with our lives.

I think this is simply about reassessing our risk calculus with the fact that the current Covid variant is mild enough that it can be gradually folded into the background noise of seasonal viruses that we deal with every year.
Would you be okay moving to a system based in large part (80%+) on your SAT/ACT score, your high school/community college GPA, and your letters of recommendation?
Speaking as someone who has spent probably 10 years writing assembler:

Assembler was difficult in the old days because you would load your code, and it would crash, giving no information on what went wrong. These days you can run stuff in a simulator that will print out what changed at every tick. Yes, your attempts will crash a lot and it will take you a long time to write a program that hardly does anything, but that will be true of all the people on the course.
The broad logic is more infections = more variants. Which makes sense in a purely statistical way, since variants are happened upon by chance on infection.
When hospitals are not choked with unvaccinated people, that's the time to stop obsessing. I'm still reading too many stories of people dying of non-covid reasons because they can't get medical care due to unvaccinated people taking up those resources.

EDIT: all parts of each country are not equal. In the Bay Area, the hospitals are doing (mostly) fine.
None of the people referred to in the parent want a real free market.
That's what "hide" usually means. It's not like all hell would break loose if someone ever found a way to start an unscheduled group, it's just UX streamlining, don't distract people work options they don't need.
Not really. Evolution just causes viruses to optimise for their own spread.

Often that selection pressure works towards less dangerous variants because that gives them more opportunity to infect others.

Sometimes a virus kills off everyone who is susceptible to it. So it's now less dangerous to those who remain.

In the caae of Covid, it is infectious long before it kills, and so there is no great selection pressure for it to become less dangerous.
> macOS (which is based on FreeBSD)

That's somewhat overstated, so I wouldn't draw such conclusions. (https://wiki.freebsd.org/Myths )
What is special about 2024, what is supposed to happen then?
Cloudflare Bandwidth Alliance.
What? The losses of 2008 were recovered from a few years later.
Scroll to the bottom of the page. It shows the returned JSON

https://looker-open-source.github.io/malloy/documentation/pa...

Here is the SQL we generate.

https://gist.github.com/lloydtabb/8c144d2dac978dda9bf3ec4d6b...
Reminds me of growing up near the water. Almost like having your own private beach to swim and fish. Sounds like you've found an awesome place.
If question asked for just returning the sum, then yea, that would be acceptable. However, the question requires the comparison of sums. To decide which one is actually larger, 5-6 digits is not enough, even "practically".
Thousands of people die everyday during bad flu epidemics like 2018 when 80,000 Americans died over a ~6 month flu season.

We didn’t keep kids from school, we didn’t panic when hospitals were overwhelmed, we didn’t shut down businesses.
You would be amazed at the discounts you get once you say you're paying cash.

Anecdotally I found this to be true with prescriptions. I didn't even ask for one but as soon as I told the pharmacist I was paying cash he said, "Oh, let me apply the coupon for you." and gave me a 20% discount. It was already a cheap generic but I wasn't going to complain.
I wish nix would implement the stdlib next to the language, even if it's written in nix and not C++. I hate that so many of the basic building blocks are hidden behind lib in nixpkgs. I feel like that accounts for a good bit of the barrier to learning the language. It's difficult to know the difference between a core language feature for the language's sake and a core language feature for the sake of nixpkgs.
Pure inefficiency. The medical industrial complex is second only to the government in its byzantine bureaucracy. This is why we will never be rid of it. All those hundreds of billions of dollars wasted are mainly going to pay millions of middle class administrative salaries. I know 2 people whose companies would not even exist in a socialized health system. Woe to whatever politician tries to pass a bill that will put millions of middle class Americans out of work.
Interesting to see exponential growth in NixOS github stars https://star-history.com/#NixOS/nixpkgs&Date . Perhaps the user base is reaching a tipping point where there will be the resources to address some of these problems.
That is exactly the point, why else would they say "buy experiences, not things"? I need things to survive, so I buy things. Then I use the rest of my time to get experiences for basically free. There is no point in buying stuff that is basically free anyway. It is worth it to make a few trips around the world, but that is really cheap if you consider your whole life. What you don't need is a trip every year etc, experiences you pay for stops being an experience and starts being mundane very quickly.

Instead of making a trip, why not just build something, like a program or learn to cook or make some sports goal or read up about some studies etc. All of those are free or saves you money and way more memorable and interesting than things people pay a lot of money for.
I thought that's Heroku?
Then async comes along and you can't use `out` in async methods :)

Thus (anonymous) tuples were introduce so we can do it Go/Rust-style:

async Task<(bool, T)> Foo<T>(T value) {
/* do something async like a web request or file read etc. */
var aThing = await GetAThing<T>(value);
return (aThing != null, aThing);
}
Omicron’s Spread Could End ‘Emergency Phase’ of Pandemic, WHO Says
I would separate the crypto craze from Web3 to be honest. On its face it doesn't really have to do with crypto currency at all. A centralization is otherwise no really desirable for many users.
I do wonder if companies like snyk could somehow incorporate some sort of assurance model into their service. Hashing and lock files are a pretty common practice and perhaps for the bigger packages they could maintain a list of trusted hashes.
Likewise, you never see left-wing news call out the hypocrisy of not taxing billionaire colleges. It would seem logical to me to redistribute some of their hedge funds to schools and folks with lesser means.
AFAIK (but I don't work with the network protocol, only the repository layout; that said, I do have a passing understanding of the network protocol) you fundamentally have to pull the whole file, and git doesn't "obviously ha[ve] a way of doing this".

That said, at the end of your question you stop talking about git and start talking about GitHub and APIs offered by them, which is of course entirely unrelated to working with git itself and they could provide absolutely any random complex functionality.
I can agree with most of the article but consider that not every startup has a sys-admin or can afford one. We are also a startup and we use AWS + heroku because we don't want to focus on setting up a ruby server and handle deployment pipelines and all that. This is the BIG advantage of cloud.
Yes we don't use a lot of AWS tools but S3 is "pay as you go" exactly for that reason.
The only reason we might need to switch to a Hetzner-like architecture is because our customers want the data to be in Germany. No other reason could move us there tbh.
I've seen a few posts like this recently and I have to confess: I don't get it. What does "it is time to stop obsessing about Covid" mean? I have small children so I'm still living in some kind of COVID purgatory but for the majority of the population COVID hasn't really been an obsession for quite a while. People are dining indoors, they're traveling, socializing... life more or less is back to normal. Schools are shutting down from time to time but that's because teachers are getting sick with COVID, hardly because of some irrational "obsession". If anything it shows we maybe stopped caring too early.

Of course, a lot more people are still working remotely, something I consider to be a plus but that I suspect venture capitalists like the author do not. So when I see someone like that advocating “unlearning many of the behaviors we’ve learned in the last two years” I'm immediately suspicious.

> We’ve got other pressing matters to deal with. [...] We have other health care challenges to tackle.

One of the most pressing issues with healthcare today is the sheer number of COVID patients overwhelming the ability for a hospital to do anything other than treat COVID. Yes, even with the milder Omicron variant. Again: if anything this suggests that this lack of obsession has come too early, not too late.

And has any call to "stop politicizing" something ever worked? That's simply not the world we're living in (these days, at least). The vaccine is politicized. Masks are politicized. You can’t just wish that away.
Exactly -- remember this past summer when the pandemic was over? Or how about after fall, when the pandemic was also over?

If there's one thing predicable about the the pandemic, it's that it is unpredictable. I, too, hope that omicron is the much-hyped final wave, just like delta was supposed to have been. But to declare that it definitely, totally, is the final wave right now seems a bit premature.
That's certainly not what you claimed it said! You said, and I quote:

>"they're enabling non-Ethereum chains which will address the environmental concerns"

That's quite a leap from "You can choose a chain from multiple chains to write to" to "they're enabling non-Ethereum chains which will address the environmental concerns".

Name which chains they are they enabling, and tell us exactly how each of those chains "address the environmental concerns", and how long we have to wait until they do that, and also explain how you know that even though it doesn't say it on the web site.

I asked for specifics, not handwaving and optimistic guesses and links to totally unrelated web sites.

Are you affiliated with that https://papyrusnft.io/ web site you're shilling, or the Japanese company "Moblo", and is that how you get your insider information that they don't publicly reveal on their web site, or did you just make up the convenient details about "environmental concerns", and also fabricate the connection between papyrus.so and papyrusnft.io?

Either way, you're shilling if you're making up stories or refusing to reveal your affiliation.

So please explain the relationship between https://papyrusnft.io/ , which you were the first person in this discussion to shill, and https://papyrus.so/ , which is what this discussion is actually about.

There are no links or references from papyrus.so to papyrusnft.io, or the other way, so how do you know that they even have anything to do with each other? Why are you saying they're related and doing business together?

Did you really expect people not to check your claims?

And honestly, after reading the web page you linked to, and their tweets, how can you actually believe they're not scammers? Are you really that gullible?

I think you need to replace your bullshit detector if you can't see something as obvious as that, and if you think it's a good idea to shill https://papyrusnft.io/ by making up stories about how they're addressing the environmental issues that they don't even claim themselves.
Hotel concierge is probably a texting robot
I know that anecdote is not data, but I had an Arch Linux laptop when the distribution moved from Init scripts (SysV init ?) to systemd, and the boot time was easily cut in three, going from 30s to 10s, on exactly the same laptop. Of course switching from HDD to SSD was a huge improvement, but don't discount what systemd's efficient boot parallelism was able to achieve.
"I really don't understand the cloud craze"

The opposite, I don't understand why anyone would ever put up a server if they didn't have to.

It's not 'processing power' that's going to be the 'big cost' for most projects.

It's headcount and salary.

If you can materially improve the operating ability of your company, then a few $K in cloud fees is dirt cheap.

I used to work at a 'tech company' that made a physical product and our IT was abysmal. We had to wait weeks for our sysadmins to order blades, get things set up, there were outages etc..

If a project is definitely going to be 'a few linux servers and never more' - even then it would be cheaper and more reasonable to use virtual instances.

The time to 'roll your own' is when the infra. operating costs are a material part of your business.

For example, 'Dropbox' invariably had to roll their own infra, that was inevitable.

Similarly others.

That said - as this article indicates, it's easy to 'over do it' and end up in ridiculous amounts of complexity.

The Amazon IAM security model has always been bizarre and confusing, and the number of AWS services is mind-boggling.

But the core case of EC2+S3 +Networking, and then maybe a couple of other enhanced services for special case works fine.

I also object to what I think is a vast overuse of Cloudflare, I just don't believe that in most scenarios needing to have content at the edge really changes the experience that much.
AFAIK, Canonical are just hoping nobody sues them.

I use Zfs as my boot file system on FreeBSD and Arch Linux and both work great. Linux was a bit of a faff to set up though, FreeBSD was easy.
1913 Great Meteor Procession
https://archive.fo/wNGfe
There is a logical difference between making a decision that some time is a right time to make a decision and making a decision that you don't have enough confidence in either decision.
I wonder if people will start to make shell companies to just go brankrupt when this happens and start afresh with another company. The cloud vendor doesn't look too closely ehat you are running right? So this could work.
What does that have to do with #2? If everyone in the target group is vaccinated, you don't need to worry about it.

The alternative -- "covid parties" where people infect each other intentionally -- is vastly more likely to kill someone who could otherwise get a vaccine.

Anyway, vaccines reduce transmission[1][2][3][4].

1. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2116597

2. https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/how-vaccines-...

3. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y

4. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/12/vaccinated-wh...
Revolving door and prosecutorial discretion is one kind of legally authorized corruption. That's why when one files a complaint with FBI/DOJ/etc, it will be leaked immediately to the higher echelons of FAANG companies. Why do they leak, even if they don't want to prosecute using discretion? Because these guys (or their relatives) want to get cushy jobs at FAANG or have FAANG refer legal work to the firms they will recommend.

A small guy has no chance of succeeding this, unless one wants to ruin one's career.
You could go simpler than Render, and some folks do--but you go simpler at the cost of drastically reducing the value of a thing for whole categories of non-toy projects. For example, if you want to host a static thing there are a lot of pretty easy options, but the second you need something as foreign to the "JAMstack ideal" as "a datastore" like "for a blog with comments" now you're in multiple control panels and you're shuttling secrets around and you're confronted with paying multiple companies just to launch a blog and the whole thing physically hurts.

Some mild complexity in deploy (and it is mild, a render.yaml file in your repo's super easy) comes from having the options to actually do things, I think.
exactly. not everyone can afford a sys-admin or has the background OP has
That Ars article is so distorted that it should best be seen as creative fiction.
It’s the same thing…while the people here might be willing to split hairs on the exact meaning of those terms the people you are taking about are not going to.

Strategic ambiguity around “freedom” “free market” etc is a useful tool to prevent change. It creates a self reinforcing mythology in peoples heads and enough confusion about reality that blaming the victims for being “unprepared” can exist in the broad/abstract while also still feeling empathy and dying “that’s bad” in individual cases.