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Another part of ansible that I hate is that it encourages bad development practices.

Anyone can write a working playbook and put it in some git repo. If you are not actively fighting against it, you might end up with several git repos, hundreds of playbooks and no way to easy understand what code applies to what servers.

Configuration management solutions that feature agent on managed machines and don't do everything over SSH encourage people to organize their efforts in one repo. Because you cannot manually apply your config to server without pushing it to git.
There is no cost to adding a transaction to your block if its size is uncapped. Once a miner completes a block why wouldn't they maximize the profit they can make on it?
The daemonization of nuclear during the cold war, prerequisite for the MAD threat, led to hypersecure research centers, centralization of funding and research, preventing tinkerers from studying new solutions, and ultimately nuclear innovation completely halting. As you said, many suggest that if we had left it run its course, we might have seen nuclear stacks the size of a washing machine powering neighborhoods, and other applications entirely unimagined today.
Thank you for the feedback. When we started working on this project, the frame.work was not available, or it's mainboard; we are exploring this approach as a possibility.
If we look at the evolution of legal action in the Western democracies over the last 60 years, especially comparing nations like Germany to USA, we can generalize a bit and say that every society has some conflict, and can choose to deal with that conflict either using the judiciary or the executive branch of government.

In short: it's lawsuits or edicts, and each nation picks its favorite poison.

In the Anglosphere countries, with legal systems that trace back to Common Law, there has long been a tendency to use the judiciary more and the executive less, relative to most European nations. The trend intensified in the mid-20th Century, when a new and expansive definition of "due process" aggressively expanded how many actions or behaviors could be considered violations.

I'm personally wary of our culture of lawsuits, and I'm personally wary of an aggressive interpretation of "due process." I understand that one of the goals was to try to atone for a long history of racial injustice, which is certainly a noble goal. Did lawsuits actually end racial injustice in the USA? I think we can ask whether this expanded understanding of due process is really achieving its goals.

I personally would like to see lawsuits limited, but I'm also aware that turning away from the judiciary would then very likely expand what is controlled directly by regulations by the executive branch. Every human society has internal conflicts, and the more complex our society gets, the more conflicts we have, and so the more that people turn to some branch of the government in hopes of getting some kind of address of grievances.

In other words, I'd like to see lawsuits limited, but I'm aware the need for some kind of conflict resolution will manifest in some other ways.

This is a complex topic, and I plan to write more about it at some point, but I cannot delineate a full theory in a comment on Hacker News. On my weblog, I plan to write on this topic later in the year, but for now I am still doing research.
So you’re becoming “aware of what each other is doing” by half reading the pr title and going straight to approve button? I think “legitimately “ is doing a lot of lifting here too
Is there a reason black holes only rotate in one plane? I would naively have expected a 3D rotation to result from their formation.
And the distance between love and glove is only 1.. who cares ?
That's weird, my cat will come no matter what name I call her as long as I use the same intonations. I'm not convinced she knows her name but rather that she knows pitches. Similarly my cat won't do tricks without the hand gestures despite me always using the same commands. Maybe my cat is just dumb or stubborn, or both. I have seen her run head first into a wall before.
Because of the shape of the distribution.

Those who had >= 4 were sufficiently numerous for the second generation going to 3.3.

P.S. also, further iteration is not discussed. Possibly the average for that particular curve would come down on the second or third generation.
Yandex founder asks Israel to evacuate employees from Russia
Having to maintain your own cleverness
So am I supposed now to do DPI in my home router? Will it ever be enough to block unwanted content in my network?
I fall asleep by thinking of me on the perfect beach at sunset with my best friend. Works like a charm.
lol JENKEM
Ask HN: SaaS that you pay for that still bites you?
What do you wish changed?
Read my post again. I clearly articulated that there is a timestamp where it plans a bad route briefly. That is something to investigate and fix even if it didn't ultimately keep that route. It is a very serious issue and no one should diminish it.

I'm sorry that you only get your information from second hand sources and so can't understand how I can both know what you said, but also know that you are under-informed. I realize that a headline and a single screenshot may seem extremely informative to you, especially if you skim comments rather than reading them in their entirety. However, I didn't look at a screenshot. I watched the video multiple times, including in slow motion, with special emphasis on the time where the incident occurred.

I strongly feel that if you are going to try to correct someone, you should really finish reading their post before you try to correct them.

I share your concern for that timestamp and think this error needs attention from Tesla.
Why don't nations buy more territories from each other?
I'm a big fan of this as a principle, but I feel that the terminals / command lines haven't really evolved much beyond a VT102; the biggest widespread innovation probably being the ability to resize a window.

Let's agree that by "command line", I mean an actual command line: one program piping data into another. If you're using the terminal to run character grid programs, like lynx, vi, mc, top, mutt, etc, it's strictly inferior to running an equivalent X11 program of similarly minimalist UI design: the X11 protocol is already serialised, but with a terminal, you can barely get as far as rendering a basic picture (sixels exist, but barely anything supports them). The Macintosh did more in 1984, and the terminals never caught up.

The terminal emulator in Emacs is actually an interesting take: it pretends to be dumber than it is, but in return you can e.g. move your cursor freely around the terminal output; copy and paste; select, edit & rerun a command. Swift Playgrounds allow you to rerun a script, but starting from the line you've last edited; you also get a preview of what each variable is holding - it feels like a fusion of the "command-response" style, and writing code in an editor. These things are really cool, this is the kind of innovation that the command line could use.

For most day to day work though, you're likely fooling yourself by running mutt and vi - or you can prove me wrong and use MH[1] and ed, but let's agree it gets counterproductive real fast.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH_Message_Handling_System
That's why interfaces are useful—they save you from that. But they don't actually solve the problem of checking that an abstraction has been implemented correctly, just that you've implemented the entire API surface area, possibly incorrectly. Note, however, that if you have a way of automatically testing the behavioral correctness of an implementation, then those tests presumably cover the entire API, so automatic testing would subsume the benefit that static interface checking provides—just run the automatic tests and it tells you what you haven't implemented as well as what you may have implemented incorrectly.
It’s like the exact story happened in reverse
This should still work on quiet keyboards--it just requires a bit more work in setting up a listening device. For example, you could hide a microphone under the keyboard or attach it to the table it's sitting on (and maybe adjust the model accordingly).

I need to break out my relay board to see if the sound of the relays clicking mitigates attacks like this: https://youtu.be/6hMOGKTudcg (see it in all its clicky glory!)

As long as the click of the relay happens fast enough--and I add some sound dampening to the keyboard (which was the opposite of what I did for that test video haha)--I bet it would render this kind of attack useless.
> or you end up writing one ad hoc using your libraries.

I hear this argument a lot, but I don't think it really ends up working that way. You build an application with some abstractions, not a framework. The difference is that the code you write does what you need, and doesn't need to support a bunch of different use cases. When you need to change it, you can, without worrying that you're breaking someone else's use of it.

And because you only need to support the one application, you can make it as simple as it can be to support that application.
I take my idle time whenever I want, either by simply not working right then, or working on something low priority that I just want to work on. The size of my pool of available projects has no bearing on that positive or negative.
I also had some of those side effects. I also had a trippy period, where I struggled to see anything as real. It was about a 2 week long solipsistic nightmare. I do think this is all “part of the path”, but without the traditional context, you will be quite lost on what to do next. Even with it, it’s very difficult
Yes, beta testers for hardware and software that is in mass production and many years into development. By this stage in the development of cars they were an extremely rational choice over the alternatives.

FSD is not a rational choice over the alternative and its adoption in no way resembles the adoption of cars. The analogy is bunk. But I won't keep beating a dead horse here, I was just trying to explain why it doesn't IMO make sense.
This page is fantastic. I've only clicked through to a few of the sites so far and already feel like there's a real wealth here to explore. Thanks for curating it!
Most countries choose to have two out of three things for a currency (having all three is impossible):

1. Control over the value
2. Control over inflation
3. Free trade

Russia has chosen to just go for one of the trifecta, and have lost all trade and has skyrocketing inflation - but manages to keep the ruble trading high for propaganda purposes as it's seen as the "quick way to measure" an economy.
PMM might cover many of your requirements.

https://www.percona.com/software/database-tools/percona-moni...
Your hosts file?
Could you explain how this is different from Ansible? That webpage says pyinfra is "Integrated with Docker, Vagrant & Ansible out of the box", so I would think the use cases aren't identical, otherwise they wouldn't bother integrating it with tools that do the exact same thing.

Can anyone compare pyinfra to these other projects?
Thank you!

We're focusing on a terraform provider for now but we want to also provide an SDK and a portal in the future.
Sure. Not exactly mainstream so one would need to consider the hiring pipeline, but if it serves as a competitive advantage then sure.
I think there are going to be two periods remembered in 2008-2022. The 2008-2012-15 where interest rates were made low to prevent a depression and it worked. The the 2012-15-2022 period where interest rates were kept abnormally low because politicians didn't want to be blamed for hurting the stock market causing a bubble that pops when interest rates are forced to rise.
Standardized parts sound a lot like libraries implementing common interfaces.
When was the last time anyone lost the money in their checking account due to a bank failing in the US?
You have the look at the system as whole, not just the UST side of it. The system as a whole was not doing anything that generated value, and could only pay yield as long as people were paying money into it.

This was the major innovation of UST. A ponzi that's sufficiently obfuscated that if you look at any part of the system in isolation, it seems fine.

You can have an uncollateralized currency - like baseball cards, but that's not what UST was. It made additional promices (like being a stablecoin, and offering yield).

You maybe even theoretically can create an uncollateralized stablecoin (that remains stable) but you're not going to attract $XY billion into your stablecoin without dangling a carrot to convince the greedy to invest. Investing into a stablecoin is stupid[1], because its price can't go up - so in this case, the carrot was fraudulent yield.

UST only had value because it was backed by Luna, and it only had demand for it because of the promises of yield. Luna was backed by nothing but speculation, driven by demand for UST. Once net money stopped flowing into the Luna ecosystem, the whole thing collapsed.

Any system that only works as long as net value flows into it, but produces no value of its own, but promises yields is a ponzi.

[1] Yes, there are use cases for it that don't involve speculation, but those use cases aren't going to see the market cap explode at the rate Tera/Luna did.
It doesn't seem to be mentioned here, but I'm especially intrigued by the possibility of implementing shaped objects. See https://chrisseaton.com/truffleruby/rubykaigi21/ and the previous HN conversation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28476654

Shaped objects (aka Self's maps or JavaScript hidden classes) are an old idea, but they seem to have been only recently rediscovered, and the basic idea suddenly allows a lot of other potential optimizations (where research would be helpful). We don't know if they'd really improve Ruby performance, but I think it's very likely & I suspect they'd also enable future improvements.
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” Sorry, but they have ruined their trust reputation when it comes to these matters. Anyone that remembers their past shenanigans should take this announcement with an entire pillar of salt.
Both Safari and Firefox are stubborn on that one (and most other hardware APIs), and for good reasons.
And when abiogenesis is finally worked out, your god vanishes in a puff of unreality? If I were going to pick a god to believe in, I would demand sterner stuff than that.

But I here predict that when abiogenesis is solved, you will pivot immediately to a now-diminished god inventing amino acids with innate capacity for evolving life. From there, to carbon; and then hydrogen, and its propensity to make stars that eventually go supernova (for the first few rows of the periodic table) and collapse to neutron stars (that collide to make the rest). It will be a god of Hydrogen. Or maybe of Quarks, Leptons, and Photons, though that seems a little messy. Maybe the devil gets to do Dark Matter?
I'm not sure what you mean by parts and not a whole system. It's defined via hosts inventories which, by defintion are a whole system. You obviously include roles and further tasks for those definitions.

You'd use cloud-init, as the other poster mentions, to initalise, or use ansible in SSH mode with the inventory coming from your cloud provider or just an ini/YAML list curated by yourself, then run it regularly from something Jenkins/Rundeck/Cron whatever, in which case cloud-init configures your ansible run user and ssh keys so you can kick it off from the main box and perhaps register the node, or use tags in cloud provider, loads of ways.
Ask HN: Do You Prefer Flatpak, Snap, or Something Else?
Glad you loved it! But seems like it didnt hit home for the broader community, if you have any thoughts or friends to test/feedback we appreciate!
Do not quite get it to be honest.
I thought the genericists were the majority? It was the top most requested feature in the Go surveys for years.
Because management want's to "get things done" and quickly "evaluate ideas", a dynamic and somewhat loose language is actually an advantage in prototyping. Also it is very easy to find new developers than for example if you'd use rust, because you can just hire any frontend dev.

tooling can be built with money and money is usually not the issue for these companies.
The same Microsoft that just issued 20+% pay cuts to everyone not living in a "high cost of living" area (CA, NY, WA)?

And staff are leaving? Wow. I didn't know that. I just uh... you're telling me now for the first time.
I misread it as "Commodore 64" and got very curious...
I didn't. That's not a property I want in a financial system; it's one I want in a legal system.

The only points being made are that (1) virtually nobody actually wants their entire life's transactions recorded on an immutable public ledger, and (2) the people whose economic activity currently backs the speculate value of these coins play by a different rulebook entirely.
> The value of a Bitcoin does relate to how much effort miners put in.

It looks like you have the causal relationship there backwards. A bitcoin currently has value, so there's a lot of effort miners put in to get the block rewards + fees. But the amount of effort a miner puts in doesn't make the price go up, the price can move independently to hashrate.
You're fighting the good fight.

Smil is one of my favorite authors. His writing writing makes me think of Mr. Spock.

There are options, polymer concrete, carbon fiber as opposed to steel. But yeah, overall there are gonna be some changes one way or another.

One hopeful side-effect of the waste in our systems is that it provides easy wins for reducing energy usage without sacrificing quality of life. For example, I've heard estimates of as high as 50% for waste in the USA's food systems.
How is Elon going to make a quick buck from a failed deal? If anything he'll have to pay out significantly.
Yep. Me neighter
Further, it's damaging to our society and hinders progress and innovation.
The Renaissance Myth
Weak or not it is an indicator and it is indicative of economic muscle - economic muscle we are frequently told Russia is supposed to have lost as a result of this war.

This indicator shot up in the exact opposite direction all western commentators said it would.

Id be interested in economic commentary by anybody who predicted this or even said it was a possibility but Im profoundly disinterested in economic commentary from people who were completely blindsided by it and are now scrambling to offer posthoc rationalizations. These are not thinkers they are sheep.

Im also really skeptical of the position that its an irrelevant economic indicator only when it goes in the opposite direction you expect it to. Everybody was saying the exact opposite when the ruble was plunging.
So my understanding is that the FSD is linked to the car + user account. If either change, the FSD goes. I guess you could hand over the user account, but i believe both need to go together? Is there a clear answer from Tesla somewhere on this?
I would say it’s an increasing trend because people who are more invested in the traditions have “had enough” of so called “mcmindfulness” or dangerous approaches
So, what say you, HN? Of the multitude of UAP's that have been reported, some percentage (I don't know the number off-hand) have not been identified as having benign / prosaic origins. Of that chunk that have yet to be explained away, what do you think they are?

Some obvious options would include:

1. totally benign / prosaic things like planets, weather balloons, satellites, stars, airplanes, helicopters, etc. that simply weren't able to be identified because of lack of information, etc.

2. Optical illusions

3. Advanced technology deployed by another Earth based entity (private entity or State-level actor, possibly even including elements of our own government / military)

4. Advanced technology deployed / controlled by extraterrestrial intelligence(s) aka "little green men from mars" or what-have-you

5. Some kind of previously unknown natural phenomena

My own guess is that if we had perfect knowledge, we'd find that the vast majority are category 1, with a small handful represented by categories 2 and 3. I consider it extremely unlikely - but not impossible - that some could fall into category 4.
Who is going to put their money in a stable coin paying 0.2% interest when the guy next door is offering 20%? Answer:anyone sane, but they wouldn’t be there in the first place
Could be good, but hard to recommend anything without knowing OPs motivation and goal.
The Ukraine harvest suffering isn't as random as you might think. It produced the majority of the food for the Warsaw block, and avoiding a famine leading to revolution is a good reason to start a major war.

NATO being dissolved is pretty deterministic as well. The average American in 1984 couldn't conceive of the Russians actually making it all the way over to the US. Nuking the US, but not a successful land invasion. So there had to be some reason the US got weaker. NATO dissolving doesn't put any blame for that on the US, which is important for a flag-waving film.
After snapping a photo of the Milky Way's black hole, scientists dream of videos
We track all of these and publish them on a continual basis (dashboards), with the exception that we capture deployment frequency not commit frequency. They're directly if weakly correlated. but deployments is closer to what you care about.

I don't think anyone is saying you should only look at the metrics and not the qualitative factors (what's in all those frequent commits?) but they definitely help drive conversations and decisions. The alternative (pure qualitative & gut feeling) is much harder to get consistent across an entire engineering department.
Terraform does the job but it's pretty dirty and unreliable. I've had so many cases where a plan looks all great, PR gets approved and merged, and then something happens during the apply causing it to fail because all validation is done in the cloud API, not in the provider code.

It's another tool pretending to be declarative.
Depends on your goal. If your goal is to extract wealth from US taxpayers to give to defense contractors, then these are names you do want to see. As it stands now, with Biden's Ukrainian Lend-Lease arrangement, American taxpayers will be on the hook for years to come in a conflict that we are not directly involved in.
Because our practise is very long
(er, just to clarify, since I'm looking back at this comment a few days later: I'm not a cryptocurrency fanatic and i'm certainly not looking to trade any Luna, I'm just saying that there are ways to trade Luna if someone really wishes to, they're just not the kinds of ways that cryptocurrency fanatics are likely to support/think about)
The 1968 "Carterfone" case permitted third-party equipment on to
AT&T's network. To that point, restrictions on hooking up unapproved
equipment was based in safety. With copper wires you literally could
kill someone or burn down an exchange with misconfigured gear. Still,
the bill passed on the grounds of fair commerce. With fibre, none of
that can be claimed. At worse a misconfigured fibre transceiver might
affect other communications and would be traceable quickly, as with
coax.
The thing they some people forget is everybody bad problems and for many Covid is not the highest. All these mitigations are asking everybody to prioritize Covid over basically everything else. Many (most?) people don’t care about Covid as much as they care about other things. And you know what? That is okay.

The myopic obsession on one singular disease to the exclusion of literally everything else was not healthy. Covid myopia is far more scary than Covid.
it was used to write viaweb back in the 90's. The original saas that made Ycombinator possible.