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The Nix hype machine comes up on HN every few weeks.

As someone who tried Nix-- never understood what the big selling point is-- what can Nix do my existing tools can't? (without me spending 6 months)

Nix can create isolated environments, but as far as I see, you can only install the tools Nix repo supports. And the official examples only give toy examples --here's a simple python script you can run with Nix-- but I can just run this simple script in a virtual env, or docker if I have 2-3 different scripts.

What problem is Nix solving? What pain does it fix that is so important it would justify me spending 6 months on it?

And then there is NixOS, which again, I have no idea-- I can create my own Linux distribution that is what, reproducible? Again, is this a real problem anyone faces (and that isnt fixed by docker or ansible or any of the other hundreds of tools)?

My point is: Why is Nix getting so much hype when I dont see them solving any real problems? Sure, they promise a lot, but I have yet to see any real solutions.

Hence the Nix Hype Machine
That depends on the exact arrangements of your oncall duties. Typical developer oncall where you can be wherever you want as long as you can reach your laptop with an internet connection within x minutes does not fall under these laws.
I do not think, many people have metal from accidents in their body. So it would be a rare exception.
> This hype of a new internet (which is a false narrative) is driven by over a billion dollars of venture capital of investment by people who can only see dollars (for them).

I am fine with VCs dispensing with some of their exorbitant profits to random people who are making "web3" technologies. Actually 1B is too little, i was hoping at least 200B of wealth would be redistributed randomly in this manner. Capitalism needs exploration , not just exploitation

I 've stopped believing all the hype after people started buying decentraland plots for real. Now this is a model that is very well researched and exploited by second life for 20 years, (sorry kiddos it's happening again[1]). People who really care about metaverse living should go ask Philip Rosedale, not the random assortment of wannabes on twitter.

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXTPp7SXYBIYYrb.jpg
I'm continually disappointed with the quality of fasteners bought from Amazon. What you get from McMaster is much better. The problem, I guess is that Amazon is too low quality and McMaster is too high quality.

I also don't think they mark everything up 100%. I have built a lot of stuff out of T-slot extrusion ("80/20") and their price seems exactly the same as buying from 80/20 directly. I guess there is probably some Aliexpress vendor cheaper than the brand name, though.
Is there any additional information on this?

Assuming I add a rule via

`iptables -I INPUT -s 123.123.123.123 -p tcp --dport 8080 -j DROP`

and on interface:port 0.0.0.0:8080 of the host is a container listening which got run as

`docker run -d -p 0.0.0.0:8080:8080 some/server:latest`

Will that container still be accessible to 123.123.123.132?
Excellent parody about Web 3 hype!
Fair, my thought process was more around "how many people wouldn't know about London if their sports teams disappeared?" And my intuition was, "not many, because London is a global city for lots of reasons," but it's possible I was wrong about that and some people only know about London because of their EPL teams. The thought feels very odd to me.
"If we've never had nuclear war, we're probably spending too many resources to avoid it."

In all seriousness though, it seems that we're starting to follow this philosophy too far and applying it closer and closer to the territory of black-marbles / unsurvivable-black-swans. Or maybe it's just politicians that know they have the risks externalized from themselves so are more inclined to play lethal force games.

But, even beyond this, there's great advantage in fully excluding a certain risk, because then you can totally stop thinking about contingency plans for it, and you gain mind-space that can be used for something else... Eg. if you're missing flights 10% of the time, then you need to dedicate mind space for knowing how to book a flight from the airport, or how to re-arrange your schedule to accomodate not arriving on time somewhere etc. etc. And these "contingency plans" add up and swell. Or you don't make them, but with a 1-10% failure rate of things you're living in constant stress and anxiety because things actually do fail/ break for you... Lower stress and freed mind-space may be worth it a lot, and this is way people do things over-conservatively and pay for non-crucial insurance etc.
i think cryptochains and web3 should not be confused. one of them will survive
Do you already have YouTube premium? My comment was misleading, what I meant to say was Vanced doesn't let you circumvent the premium requirement for downloading videos. You can only download videos on YouTube if you pay up.

Or, did you mean using a NewPipe or some other kind of plugin? Because that doesn't download it directly on the YouTube app.
Provide infra for amateur sports teams, youth and adult?

I wish this was demanded more when cities pay for stadiums. I mean the rink where our pro hockey team plays is used all the time by local youth hockey and figure skating teams. The stadium where our pro football team plays is basically always empty outside of those few hours a few times a year when there is an actual game.
I thinking more in the line of an image codec that gets constantly updated with browser. And only release it as a standard when it is good enough. So you can iterate and not be bounded by the spec. The server / CDN will serve image that fit that browser requirement, and fall back to jpeg as baseline.

This idea wouldn't work for video due to how computational intensive video encoding are and storage space concern. But may be it would work for image?

Or if we could somehow magically improve the JPEGXL encoder quality by another 20-30%.
First I skipped using Antivirus altogether, but now I opted for intermediate solution using Microsoft's native Antivirus Defender. At least this is fairly guaranteed to be compatible with Windows itself. Regarding firewall: I don't trust Windows anymore - using an external HW firewall on my router (opnsense).
It’s fine to start looking at the math and there is no doubt that the record companies win out over the bands. But any case that looks only at a successful band is a lie. If record companies could only fund the artists that everyone knew 100% would be successful with absolutely well known sales numbers ahead of time, then there would be no issue in paying that band a hell of a lot more.
But the deal structures are build around then taking a gamble so if you want to be honest about the math you need to look at 100 artists all getting the same deal, 1 making it and 99 failing.

I’m not saying it would change the conclusions that they are getting a raw deal from the RCs, but it would be a fair look at the situation.
I guess maybe drones are the way forward.
it's not just gas costs, but it will also raise the prices of pretty much everything, including basic necessities
That is if you see sanctions as an all or nothing approach. For Europe the approach will have to be to reduce consumption step by step. This is not as glorious as stopping all imports in one day, but it will hurt Russia nevertheless.

Also this process already started before the current crisis. In Germany heat pump sales have been exploding : https://www.waermepumpe.de/fileadmin/_processed_/2/4/csm_Dia... . In Norway the share of electric cars in new cars is at 85% and 16% of the existing fleet is already electric. This starts to become visible in oil consumption for traffic as well: https://www.ssb.no/en/energi-og-industri/olje-og-gass/statis... (although the economic recovery after Covid masks this somewhat).
In all of Europe 10% of all new cars are electric and that share will increase fast.

The article only looks at the supply side of things, but long term the more important part is demand.

These changes won't effect the outcome of the current crisis, but for Russia the coming decade will show what foolish decision this invasion was and future leaders will hopefully think twice about destroying their own country.
Most of the people here would probably argue against those too, so it doesn't really change anything about my argument.
> I don't see a value of having sports teams other than entertainment

At least in Europe, most teams have children organizations, and a lot of kids train. The sports provide motivation for the young kids to exercise and practice, watching high level plays is quite useful to learn tactics as well.

>how many sporting events have you been to in the last three months

It's COVID times, c'mon. Most events have no audience.
Good luck reading an article with lines that span the entire 2560px of the width of my screen.
Society has always been accepting of low quality cheap stuff. It's just that there's a ton more of it available now.
So they basically say Russia can spy on you if using Kaspersky (but the German government, or its "allies", can't). Then, I guess that using Kaspersky is a wise decision unless you happen to live in Russia or Ukraine. Dowloading ;-)
probability of a revolt (of the people) seems so far unlikely, but a coup led by military/government elites with support from oligarchs is a possibility
It sounds like you've had some bad experiences, sorry for the bad ones :( I've had my own experiences and perspective, some good some less so. It's important to remember that making anything concrete requires tradeoffs to be made - ie less clean code to address edge cases, more complicated UX to accommodate important features, less functionality to increase UX, etc. It's always on a spectrum of completely ideal vs really crappy. For code and UX. I've been on different parts of that spectrum, but I think I caused the more harm than good when I went close to the edges.

I don't really know where I'm going with this, but do know that your expertise and labor carries value! And finding the right place to contribute can take some time.
> But permanently disabling it is very, very hard.

I installed linux in a new machine just last week
Of course. Look, did you really think superconducting magnets would stay superconducting if you hit them with megawatts/m^2 of neutrons? The heating alone would cause them to cease to be superconducting.

If you look at the ARC design, the blanket tank interposes between the coils and the plasma. There's also another neutron shield there (made of titanium dihydride) to further reduce the neutron dose on the magnets. Fun fact: the temperature of the salt in the blanket tank is > the decomposition temperature of TiH2, so in a serious accident large amounts of hydrogen gas could be produced.

There's a reason the ARC reactor is 20 meters tall and weighs as much as several WW2 US destroyers.

In your typical fusion reactor design, the blanket is not just inside the coils, it's inside the vacuum vessel (shielding the vacuum vessel from radiation damage and direct plasma heating too). This means any leak from the blanket is a leak into the fusion chamber itself, a criticality 1 issue for which redundancy is not possible.
Firefox reader view to the rescue
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clu...
>The new thing is that we can now enforce invariants on state transitions in a decentralized manner for a limited set of applications (mostly financial).

Lol, this has to be ironic.
There seem to be two reasons:

- Crypto is destroying the planet (it's not). A lot of people get irrationally mad about anything that causes any damage to the environment these days. Climate change is an incredibly important issue but the activism side of it is filled with a lot of crazy people and they've latched on to 'crypto' as bad when most don't know a thing about it.

- Jealousy. A lot of people got very lucky and very rich through crypto. They have so much ETH that can spend the equivalent of a persons expected lifetime earnings on a picture of a monkey. That's infuriating to a lot of people so much so they'll create websites that lack truth and nuance just to feel better about themselves.

It's understandable, but it's sad. Instead of HN being full of posts with people trying out new tech for the fun of it, we get endless miserable tirades from people trying to suck the joy out of life.
Can poor people also participate in the web 3.0? Or is it only for people with extra cash?
Amazon list hijacking, happens regularly
> The entire world is running on either no coordinated mutations, or batched mutations that are spreading over time.

Every financial transaction that requires settlement between institutions is a “coordinated mutation.”

And while it is true that financial transactions are often synced between institutions via a “batched mutation” approach (especially when coordinating settlement), the delay that batched settlement represents, and the complexity that it introduces to the overall system, is extremely costly.

This is one reason why blockchains have the potential to be extremely valuable—both from a utilitarian point of view as well as from a financial point of view.

Imagine if you could get rid of batched settlement between institutions, because you just didn’t need to do it anymore. What would that be worth?
Through Polish price comparator ceneo.pl. Unfortunately, they don't have an English language version.

In any case, here's the link to the fridges:

https://www.ceneo.pl/Lodowki;szukaj-lod%c3%b3wka+lod%c3%b3wk...

In the search filters on the left, "Poziom hałasu" is the noise level in decibels.
That may be true for you, but I know people who have been there purely because it has the sports team. Otherwise there is almost no reason to visit a Wisconsin town so far off of I94, even on a road trip.
> With no authority that decides whether I can send money to/receive from someone.

That’s actually a good point and Bitcoin/crypto solves this. Why doesn’t it stop there though, what does web3 solve?
But some subsidies are smart, and others are not.

If cities were getting huge economic benefits from their subsidies to pro sports teams, I probably wouldn't be complaining. It's the fact that they get little to no benefit from enormous investments that make the subsidies here dumb.
Though some say that Windows Defender is one of the easiest AV's to bypass.

I wonder though if Microsoft Defender ATP and Virtualization-Based Security makes it more difficult.
Or just use certificate signing.
> to have backups

With the usual additional notes: unless you include an off-site, an off-line (or at least soft-offline) backup, and your backups get tested regularly enough, you don't have a backup system, you have aspirations & hopes!

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For your valuable information anyway. For most individuals the core “it would really inconvenience my life if I lost it” data is surprisingly small¹, and the next layer (“losing it would really annoy me”) is only a few tens of Gb². For personal use everything else in the grand scheme of things can be reacquired or won't be massively missed, things are a bit different for businesses of course.

[1] password store, financial details & other officialdom, code & docs for personal projects that might come to something else
[2] meaningful digital photos & such
> Podman-compose is just a shell wrapper that translates compose yaml into podman shell commands. Which is why it will never really work imo because it's a hack.

Isn't Docker Compose the exact same thing though?
I don't know how you managed to try it without realising its selling points. It's written in huge text at the top of the home page:

> Reproducible builds and deployments

> Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.
Chipmaker Arm to cut up to 1k jobs after $40bn sale collapses
Your argument appears to be that you, personally, don't care much for the sports being played in those cities (and neither do your friends), and therefore those cities are making a mistake supporting said sports financially. Can you really not see the flaw in that?

I think you're undermining the rest of your argument (which I personally think is pretty decent) by defending the "sports in London/Paris/etc doesn't matter" angle so hard across multiple subthreads.
It's basically vaguely defined, and it can be anything from making a map of your area, basic geography, "the feeling you get in a place" to an impenetrable academic critical kind of study to a kind of radical situationist thing. So a lot of it is intentionally elitist and obscure.

This example is more along the lines of whats called "Walking Art" so it's more about practice outside by artists, and tends to be less art-speaky and is more approachable but with a fair bit of radical influence.

Back to definitions, Denis Wood says it's basically two types (geography vs politics)
https://krygier.owu.edu/krygier_html/geog_222/geog_222_lo/Ly...
IPFS is basically torrenting, and doesn't even use a Blockchain. And of top of that people are not even using it properly, because centralized nodes seem to be the main wait to get access to the files.
I can run Postgres with no cryptobro crap required. Huge advantage. If people don't want to trust my instance, then we can start signing blobs so my instance only shovels dumb data around that anybody can verify being authentic. If relationships are required to be verifiable, we can build a PKI.
At least it's Graphite, written in Rust, and not RGraphite or GraphiteR. I feel like it hasn't been long enough since every Java app started (or ended, for libraries) with J.
you missed the joke
Hmm, that's a good point. Interesting that the profitability and team value is so different.
He succeeded in writing books that are well-known and in some circles well-liked and having a certain amount of prescience. Given those things, why would they be mental "issues"? Clearly they worked well for him.
no, you're just coping
Ask HN: Understanding spirituality for an introverted skeptic scientist
Throwaway because I'm not brave enough to ask this on my main account. Also this may be more appropriate for /r/relationshipadvice but you're my people, so here we are!

I (M/40) have fallen for someone (F/32) who's very into spirituality, Law of Attraction, and related stuff. I'm a technical person, I'm very much aligned with evidence-based beliefs, atheist, and this is all very new to me. We are best friends, we will likely be no more than that (i.e. no relationship on the horizon), and I am 100% happy with that to be the case.

I would like to better understand some of her interests without being drawn into what I currently view as pseudoscience. I realise this might make me a bad person, but she makes me feel like nobody else I've ever met, and she's so well-read on it all that I can't quite make the jump to have her explain some of it to me as a skeptic…I have a feeling I'll be going in unprepared if I don't have at least a cursory understanding first.

Is there reading material you'd recommend for this? Is there any advice you'd give to someone who's somewhat open-minded but doesn't want to screw up a friendship by blundering in with the wrong thing?

Thanks for reading, and thanks for any advice.
My previous employer had a "delete on restore" id list, if we ever needed to restore from a backup. My manager said that this should be sufficient for offline backups. They had a lawyer who had said it's OK but I of course don't have the full picture.

It is however a risk, too. The drives are encrypted, without power and not even networked but they can still be stolen together with the encryption key from the same building. But then probably you have bigger problems.

This also forces the systems that test the backups to be also offline, which is a huge hassle.
Missing a flight seems a good way to find yourself spending too much time in airports.
Maybe I don’t travel enough, but I absolutely love airports. I’ll happily stay in an airport hotel the night before and spend hours reading and watching the world go by before my flight. Obviously if you’ve got other things that bring you joy that you want to be getting on with that’s fine, but it seems very stressful to be rushing about trying to strategise and optimise everything.
Obviously nobody 'only' knows London because of their sports team. But that is different from saying that London doesn't have many globally well known teams or that there aren't a fair number people that travel to London from all over Europe primarily to watch those teams play.
Can someone translate the units from Usian to English?
Congratulations, me too.

But that didn't help me with the linux driver issues for my laptop. Nor does linux run adobe animate, or a bunch of other software.
Another US VPN Loses in Court – Now Forced to Block Torrenting
Even better, docker-compose doesn't do IPV6 (well). But if you have an IPV6 address, it will NAT all the incoming IPV6 traffic on the open ports to IPV4 using the internal network gateway address.

So, if you're doing any filtering for internal network addresses == internal traffic, congratulations, now your inbound external IPV6 traffic is recognized as internal.
This is happening in Northern Virginia right now. The state is going to create a control structure for a private city, provide unlimited debt funding, and lose significant tax revenues for decades to come. And for what? Bad football and more temporary food service/retail jobs?
or you're just upset that your beliefs are challenged
It’s been interesting to note how Kaspersky has been responding to the scrutiny. It’s almost always the same - ”we have been audited a huge amount of times and no-one has ever found anything!”

It’s suspicious because as someone who is a vendor of risk management, they’re leaving out the gaping hole fact which is that software is updateable and oftentimes AV will do so automatically. Potent risk is pretty huge.

Same applies also to the Huawei discourse.
I remember when ""crypto"" was just shitty ICOs that tried to prove something happened in the real world with a computer program. Blatantly ridiculous, but it pumped. It's funny how its devolved into Nazi ape pictures, or more insidious nested abstract financial blub products that idiots pump money into so someone can skim off the top. I really hope the whole thing collapses.
No, it does. Because whenever you have to be "ready" for work, it counts as work.

>Bereitschaftsdienst
Beschäftigte im Bereitschaftsdienst halten sich in der Regel im Unternehmen oder in unmittelbarer Nähe auf, damit sie die Arbeit bei Bedarf sofort bzw. zumindest zeitnah aufnehmen können. Ein typisches Beispiel sind Feuerwehrangestellte, die auf der Wache die Nacht verbringen, aber dort schlafen können. Bereitschaftsdienst gilt in vollem Umfang als Arbeitszeit und muss daher bei der täglichen und wöchentlichen Arbeitszeit voll berücksichtigt werden.
Die Vergütung des Bereitschaftsdienstes richtet sich nach dem jeweiligen Arbeitsvertrag, beziehungsweise gültigem Tarifvertrag oder Betriebs/Dienstvereinbarung.

>Arbeitsbereitschaft
Bei der Arbeitsbereitschaft sind die betreffenden Beschäftigten im Zustand „wacher Achtsamkeit im Zustande der Entspannung“ am Arbeitsplatz anwesend. Sie sind jederzeit einsatzbereit. Ein Beispiel könnte eine Beschäftigte in einem Elektrizitätswerk sein, die beim Piepsen eines Überwachungsmonitors sofort aktiv werden muss, über längere Phasen aber keine Aufgaben zu erledigen hat. Arbeitsbereitschaft ist Arbeitszeit und muss im vollen Umfang auf die tägliche und wöchentliche Arbeitszeit angerechnet werden.

>Die Vergütung richtet sich auch hier nach dem jeweiligen Arbeitsvertrag, beziehungsweise gültigem Tarifvertrag oder Betriebs/Dienstvereinbarung.

To add to this: If your boss calls you when you are on vacation, you get that full vacation day back. If your boss asks you to be ready in case he might call during your vacation, you also get those vacation days back.
What does the MANGAM acronyms stands for?
> his accomplishments

(actually her accomplishments)