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> Cortex is used by some of the world’s largest cloud providers and ISVs, who are able to offer Cortex at a lower cost because they do not invest the same amount in developing the project.

> ...

> All CNCF projects must be Apache 2.0-licensed. This restriction also prevents us from contributing our improvements back to Cortex.

I read this as "Amazon has destroyed the CNCF by not playing nice"
I'd be crippled without Bronkaid.

And weed.
Seems like more stuff that Nix solves out of the box
I will give you a fairly specific answer that comes from my history of going to therapy for anxiety and depression.

Whenever I find myself in an anxious or uncomfortable situation, the thing that I need to remind myself is that things are going to turn out okay for me, whatever happens. I do this by working my way up a version of Mazlowe's hierarchy:

1. Am I physically safe? Can I breathe? Can I move my body?

2. Do I have access to shelter? Do I know where my next meal will come from?

3. Are my loved ones safe? Do I have friends and people who care about me?

4. Do I have skills that I care about? Can I do work that I'm proud of?

5. Do I have a job that gives me money? That I like to do?

In pretty much any uncomfortable situation you're in (at least in the context of career improvement), almost all of these things are totally unaffected. The sun will rise tomorrow, even if I bomb this programming interview. My friends will still be my friends, even if I do a bad job networking at this event.

And the fact that so many of the good things in my life will still be good, even if an uncomfortable situation goes as badly as it can, gives me a lot more confidence.

And then, like anything else in the world: practice, practice, practice. The more uncomfortable situations you put yourself in, the more you practice reminding your brain that "everything is okay, actually," the less uncomfortable you'll feel in any given situation.
For a long time, I've had the idea in the back of my mind that all laws should have expiration dates, and the maximum duration shouldn't be very long (12 or 18 years would be two or three senate terms in the US). Ideally, it would be combined with something to keep the scope of each bill narrow.
Why shouldn't I complain? Transactions and snapshots and checkdisk were invented lifetimes ago, and building resilient systems out of fragile parts is so ancient that Joe Armstrong is dead and buried and "cattle not pets" is the mantra of the era for cloud scale computing.

Holier-than-thou victim blaming may be a good excuse in FOSS land but we pay Microsoft money for Windows and Apple money for macOS X, and both companies are capable of building stuff which can recover from interruption. Even JETDB is surprisingly resilient when you force-reboot an Exchange server these days, so is SQL Server, so is Active Directory, so is NTFS.
260 GW electrical power is being generated from fission neutrons right now.

The fact that a fusion test reactor hasn't done this yet is a flimsy point. A burning plasma test machine hasn't even been made. How would you propose blankets and shields be demonstrated if not in a burning plasma machine?
Back when guitar hero was big I went home to visit family and played my brother. He stomped me, but I noticed the sound wasn't synced up to the video. Once I fixed the setting to make it accurate he was horrible. He had trained in a ~100ms delta in what was shown on video. He couldn't play on anyone else's TV, either.
I remember the Barrelfish OS was trying to tackle this problem head on https://barrelfish.org/
My drug of choice for colds is NyQuil. It's always been great for opening up my nasal passages enough to let me breathe easily and then knocking me the fuck out so I could sleep off most of the cold.

I remember several years ago when all of a sudden NyQuil stopped doing anything useful. I had no idea why but I directly observed that it was like it had been replaced with a non-functioning placebo.

Only a couple years later did I make the connection that this was right when they passed the law restricting pseudoephedrine. I got my hands on some NyQuil D and everything was back to normal and I had a functioning cold remedy again.

Phenylephrine is completely useless.
> In addition, each taxi will be replacing at least 10 cars, if it is sufficiently cheap and convenient.

Maybe the demand would be even higher than that - I'm thinking of all people that cannot drive (e.g. because of age in a few years for my parents & other relatives), the ones that don't own a car (too costly, don't want it, whatever), introverted people that don't like driving in a taxi/uber (that's me! hehe), etc... .

Of course alternatives exist already now but often they lack something (e.g. bus to remote location X drives only once every few hours and/or only up to a certain time, taxi is very expensive and/or availability is unreliable) => a cheap robotaxi would be a game changer, there would be many indirect consequences (and in my opinion many would be positive, like less parking spaces needed, more mobility for old people, more flexibility about where-to-go-for-what, room in the trunk, etc...).

> Main cost now are the driver, and then fuel, and then vehicle wear/tear/depreciation

Especially thinking about an idle taxi vs. robotaxi (waiting for somebody wanting a ride): unbeatable, as the driver's cost not generating any revernue would not exist anymore (only vehicle deprecation based on time and cost of capital used to buy the vehicle, which are both very low) => the difference related to fixed costs would be incredible (but I assume that some additional/new cost will show up, e.g. some data-exchange-service to keep maps/routes extremely up-to-date, coverage for remote-assisted driver in the case that the car would get stuck, etc..., but that would probably still not increase costs a lot).
> It's time to just give up and put "taxation is theft" to bed because people only care about this one month a year,

I agree and I wish this was true. Unfortunately, the "taxation is theft" mantra is effective year-round as wages continue to lag behind inflation. It's so much easier to make the government the boogeyman instead of businesses that don't pay a living wage.
> Facebook continues to be the single greatest threat to Western society outside of Russia.

this statement is both hyperbolic and naive at the same time.
> With explanation in abstract that its easier to buy meth than pseudoephedrine.

People may laugh at this, as they should since it is an absurd situation, but this isn't entirely wrong.

Neither my wife or I drive and during the pandemic she gave up her license after getting an appointment at the DOL was difficult. Both of us carry US passport cards as our ID.

This has resulted in several situations where we've been turned down for purchasing restricted items like alcohol or drugs containing pseudoephedrine, particularly the latter, because a passport card can't be scanned by the usual point of sale systems. There are a couple of places in Seattle that are happy to accept a passport card but even at them it's sometimes been dependent on who is working the counter that day.
Depends on the service. For example, if proton bans me I can move my email to a different provider because I own my domain. In case of Obsidian, it's an offline app that uses Markdown, so I can easily migrate to a different note-taking software for any reason.

Your backup note is on point; I highly recommend everyone to do a Google Takeout every few months (or at least years!!). If you've never done one, like most Google users, you're playing with fire.
Thank you for making my day.
It wouldn't surprise me if some of them are, but we're talking about a couple dozen at most.
Phenylephrine is utterly useless on me. Maybe it works for some people but it may as well be Pez for all the good it does me.

I make it a point buy a pack of actual pseudoephedrine from my pharmacist every 6 months or so, to ensure I have a stock when I need it. Fortunately, I don't need it too often, but there's no good substitute when I do.
How do you actually get a Waymo ride in SF?
I switched to Fastmail (with my own domain) about a year ago, and haven't had any issues with spam so far.
Spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. Any time I want to do a "what-if" scenario that involves math, I create a new spreadsheet, and I set up a series of cells as the input parameters, and then I start creating formulas. You can try out anything math-based very quickly (algorithms, tax calculations, etc)
It must feel very gratifying to be able to say, "hey, you shouldn't have done that" after a driver crushes your child into a paste. Never rely on what drivers "should" or "shouldn't" do.
Co-founder/CTO of Doppler here. I'd agree that Doppler currently focuses very heavily on UX. We aim to fit into developer workflows, regardless of where devs run their code. This includes local development (macOS/Windows/Linux), CI/CD, Kubernetes, Vercel, and just about anywhere else. We've found that security tools that are difficult to use end up being worked around by developers, which ultimately decreases an org's security posture (see HashiCorp Vault). This does come with some tradeoffs- specifically that you must trust Doppler with your secrets, given our tokenization model[0].

We do recognize that the current security tradeoffs of Doppler aren't going to satisfy everyone. For Enterprises, we offer Enterprise Key Management (EKM), which allows orgs to encrypt their secrets using a cloud KMS. Of course, this still doesn't satisfy every concern. And so, for customers requiring additional security guarantees, stay tuned!

[0] https://docs.doppler.com/docs/security-fact-sheet
No, I don't think anyone with the possible means is preparing meaningfully.

Yang did a good job of grokking the implications, but he wasn't taken very seriously and his messaging wasn't great I think. But the crux of it was solid - "XX thousand mid 30's truckers w/ iffy education all out of work, and that work was one of the last solid, fairly high paying long term jobs that demographic could land so how happy will that demographic be?"

Buttigieg is a smart guy and he might be thinking about it per his DoT seat, but I haven't followed his takes on it if they exist. Watching some of the cybersec-focused hearings and comments from Ben Sasse also seem to indicate technical awareness.

Overall, I do think some of the more tuned-in politicians have read some Jaron Lanier though based on the policy ideas that nod in this direction I've heard about and how they mirror his writing. He doesn't paint a great mid-term picture (tldr a lot of unemployment) but long term he offers some interesting ideas on how there might be a positive landing - data-aggregators collapse under the weight of their own data management costs vs. ability to really parse it well for profit ("siren servers"), automation/internet taxes which open up a UBI based on the robot labor, that sort of thing.

This sounds really cynical and ageist but I do think we're in a standstill until Buttigieg and his generation are the senior leaders. Even breaching the surface of the pretty good certainty of what you describe (to include the sci fi -> real life mapping trend you mention, which I agree with) when watching these tech hearings makes me think we have some time to wait.
What? How is int32 not an abstraction? There's no such thing as a "real" int32; it's just a bunch of metal in a box with electricity in it.
The article wasn't explicit over the time frame in which the 70k left. Since the start of the invasion?
I found out about SerenityOS and Andreas since Andy Kelley retweets him all the time. Is Zig somehow a part of SerenityOS (or its future plans), or is it simply Andy respecting / signal boosting another systems hacker?
> Just don't complain the next time you start it up that disk files you were writing to when the power failed are corrupted.

That should never, ever, ever happen if your OS and filesystem are even remotely quality software.
Yes, I believe that is a fair comparison. Earhly is more focused on builds, whereas Dagger has a wider scope: build, test, deployment, any part of a CI/CD pipeline really. But the overall philosophy is the same: run everything in containers. The choice of buildkit as a runtime is also a key similarity. One big difference is that we use CUE as a configuration language, and Earthly uses YAML.

We have a lot of respect (and common friends!) with the Earthly developers, I am confident we can help each other build even better tools, and grow the buildkit ecosystem in the process.
From 2020-10-30: https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/hunter-dkim

and the HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24953454
Thanks for your feedback! I'm sorry that the intro in the docs rubbed you the wrong way. I wanted to make sure people realize that it's not a complicated tool that requires a lot of setup or research to start using, and I guess to have a little fun too, but perhaps the tone is not quite right. I'll try to improve this.

Edit: what do you think now that I've removed the (probably misguided) playful language in the headings? https://docs-v2.envkey.com/docs Better?
> how difficult it would be to get the restrictions on pseudoephedrine rolled back

Likely a non-starter until the FDA revokes phenylephrine's designation as a decongestant.
You didn’t trade any stocks, right? Because most of the complications are coming from complex tax situations not from simple salary earnings.
It really is amazing how someone manages to be on the wrong side of seemingly everything, and yet is locked into office past the point of senility.
There are more games than ever before, including DRM-free, host-your-own-server games. Don't like in-app purchases? Play something else.
Distributed computation with message passing (and RDMA) is the essence of HPC systems. SGI systems supported multi-node Linux single system images up to ~1024 cores a fair few years ago, but they depend on a coherent interconnect (NUMAlink, originally from the MPIS-based systems under Irix).

However, you don't ignore the distributed nature of even single HPC nodes unless you want to risk perhaps an order of magnitude performance loss. SMP these days doesn't stand for Symmetric Multi-Processing.
Is this an issue with all cloud providers? Or just large ones like Google, Amazon, Microsoft?

I'm currently thinking of migrating from Google for productivity to Office 365. Wondering if I'm just re-branding the risk of my counterparty.
South Carolina NAACP vs. Kohn, Beatty (re: court records scraping prohibition)
The game is broken when honest players have to cheat to be competitive.
I've also found this works fine. The new ones seem to have wireless built in now as well (good for phones). And you can have more than one key on the physical key (I don't like the the microsoft / duo / etrade VIP secure / etc) endless app list!
What you're intuiting might be projective space, which is secretly fundamental to the study of plane curves!

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/85394/why-the-empha...

It's sometimes inconvenient to have all lines to intersect at a single infinite point, eg. for Bezout's theorem, so mathematicians instead add a point for every +- direction.
You are not cut off from others when you’re behind a laptop. Cultivate relationships with your co-workers. Hang out with them after-hours, on channels that your company does not control. Ask them about their lives! Meditate together. So much can flow from this if you busy yourself with life, rather than seeking yet another system to fight yet another system.
Disney+ Parental Controls Lead to Erroneous Falcon and the Winter Soldier Edits
> The bin argument is basically saying that if the entire population gets fatter, you would expect the average weight within a bin to go up, even if some people move into the next. This depends somewhat on the shape of the curve, and the bins. But on a whole it's simply saying that the average weight of people between X lbs and Y lbs is higher than it was before.

It does depend on shape of the distribution, but it is generally not the case that the average within a bin will go up. It is certainly not true for a bell curve, where if you push the curve out to the right (and flatten it), some bins will have higher averages (because they are weighted more to the right than before), but some bins will have lower averages (because they are weighted more to the left than before). If we wanted to go way deep on this, it really depends on the second derivative of the curve within a bin, not even the first derivative (a flat or even straight line through the bin will always give an average right in the middle).
No, SerenityOS is strictly C++
Context: https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1509218297665015815

> BREAKING: We filed a lawsuit challenging the South Carolina court system’s ban on automated data collection known as scraping. This ban violates the First Amendment.

> The ban has restricted the South Carolina NAACP from accessing public, online housing court records that enable it to assist tenants at risk of eviction. In the digital era, core First Amendment principles like the right to access public court filings must be protected.
Maybe in 20 years we'll be hacking on this on our desktops while every other user OS is still an heroing for the "grandma's tablet" market.
Indian journalist prevented from flying to Europe to speak about intimidation
What do you mean? Of course it is, all code is leaky abstractions.
Correct. Thought QNet itself is only one possible implementation, in a sense (but obviously the one shipped with QNX.) And the more important part of the whole thing is the message-passing API design built into the system, which enables said networking transparency, because it means your programs are abstracted over the underlying transport mechanism.

"LAN use" I think would qualify roughly 95% of the need for a "distributed OS," including a lot of usage of K8s, frankly. Systems with WAN latency impose a different set of challenges for efficient comms at the OS layer. But even then you also have to design your apps themselves to handle WAN-scale latencies, failover, etc too. So it isn't like QNX is going to make your single-executable app magic or whatever bullshit. But it exposes a set of primitives that are much more tightly woven into the core system design and much more flexible for IPC. Which is what a distributed system is; a large chattery IPC system.

The RECON PDF is a very good illustration of where such a design needs to go, though. It doesn't surprise me QNX is simply behind modern OS's exploit mitigations. But on top of that, a modern take on this would have to blend in a better security model. You'd really just need to throw out the whole UNIX permission model frankly, it's simply terrible as far as modern security design is concerned. QNet would obviously have to change as well. You'd at minimum want something like a capability-based RPC layer I'd think. Every "application server" is like an addressable object you can refer to, invoke methods on, etc. (Cap'n Proto is a good way to get a "feel" for this kind of object-based server design without abandoning Linux, if you use its RPC layer.)

I desperately wish someone would reinvent QNX but with all the nice trappings and avoiding the missteps we've accumulated over the past 10 to 15 years. Alas, it's much more profitable to simply re-invent its features poorly every couple of years and sell that instead.

This overview of the QNX architecture (from 1992!) is one of my favorite papers for its simplicity and straightforward prose. Worth a read for anyone who like OS design.

https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~voelker/cse221/papers/qnx-paper92.p...
Stocks aren't complex. Your broker has all the information the government needs. In the US, you have to manually enter that data into government forms.
If you yearn for Plan 9 -- I'm not sure I do -- Minnich's current incarnation of the inspiration seems to be https://github.com/u-root/cpu
I think 401K and HSA are pretty much automatically correctly handled on your W-2 statement. (The general point stands, but those two examples I think are seamless.)
The Sahara swung between lush and desert conditions every 20k years (2019)
Indeed. It's beyond impressive, especially the web browser from scratch and the whole idea of operating systems that are not typical, yet another Linux distro stuff and having an integrated consistent user interface and open source like RedoxOS, Haiku, Fuchsia, etc has.

But let's be a bit realistic, how long can we expect this to be a reliable daily driver on real machines and not stuck on a VM? It has taken more than a decade for one of them to even run reliably on several PCs and everyone is still waiting for another to not be ridden on a VM and actually run directly on real hardware. That is me not even talking about the apps there.

But if I have to choose one that will achieve all of that in the shortest time, then it would be Fuchsia wouldn't it?
One of the best engineers I know is a guy basically in nearly 300,000$ of art history school debt lol.
I didn't say that you specifically advocated censorship.

However, the US Govt has asked Facebook, Twitter, et al to close accounts, remove posts, etc.
> I dont think FAANG stock is that risky.

Look at Facebook's stock (FB symbol) the past year. Between February 2nd and 3rd of this year it fell from $323 to $237.76.

> And the fact that it's just a limited number of people making these wages emphasizes that it's a wealth inequality problem. I'm not sure how that would be a counteargument.

I think it _is_ a counterargument because a comparison between average software engineer pay and average frontline worker pay probably looks like you'd expect as far as market forces are concerned.

It's only when you move on from averages and start to focus on outliers where it looks like "problem." I would definitely consider FAANG engineers who make $300,000+ per year outliers.
Thanks for the info, that is wonderful to hear! Best of luck to both you and Earthly, much needed work you're doing!
Where does one obtain that? From the waste stream of the methamphetamine producers?
Well there we go... Last one turn out the lights, this guy has solved it.
It's the great maker that breathe water and makes spice.
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Those who get their interest represented say they're represented well.

Those who don't get their interests represented well disagree.
Your breath (what you exhale) always contains substantial amounts of moisture (and yes, potentially virions). It does not matter if you speak or not. It does not matter if the environment is cold or not. There is no "simple warm air" out of your lungs.

I agree with mtn_nerd, you must be trolling. Considering your choice of words, you're probably well aware of that.
It’s pretty fun! The field goes from ML image analysis on artifacts, such as trying to identify artists in pottery, through to satellite image analysis, LIDAR scanning, ancient DNA analysis. My friend does underwater archaeology in Japan and spends his time scuba diving and writing code to analyze the images he gets. I was keen on the field because it lets you get out the office for a few months a year for fieldwork. However I’m new to this so there’s a lot more for me to learn still! Starting an archaeology undergrad (distance learning) while working with a few research groups helping them with code in exchange for archaeology experience atm.

The best bit is some of the groups use languages like Haskell so the work itself, from a purely programming perspective, is interesting too!