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> The only thing not fine is whether humans survive what they/we ultimately have brought about.

Humans will be fine, as a species. But the human and economic costs will be large.

Compare it to the Hurricane Katrina: most people in New Orleans weathered it fine (i.e. by evacuating the city). The city itself also survived mostly okay (it's still there). But the economic cost of cleanup was huge; and while most people survived without injury, many did not for various reasons.

The choice of "spend a bit of money now, save a Katrina later" versus "save money now, have a Katrina later" is pretty clear. Unfortunately in the case of Katrina we didn't have much of a choice, but for climate change we do. If we invest resources now we can save a lot of problems later on. Or we can spend our resources on other things now, and pay a huge price later.

Alarming "zomg we might all die" stuff isn't really all that helpful or likely to convince politicians or businesses to actually do something. It also invites the "meh, the earth has been warmer" counter-argument, which is missing the point.
I think more level-headed risk analysis which lists potential costs/benefits is more useful.
There is another interesting approach on the horizon: https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka

Nuitka compiles your Python code to C and leaves you with a single file binary. It also improves performance.
Trump very well may be fascist. He seems to want America to be more like North Korea anyway. And what was the context of your comments? Maybe copy/paste? Genuinely curious.
Indeed, but it was very limited in comparison to mLab. Our staging DB was working pretty bad with Atlas (while there were no issues with mLab).
> That's not how things work. Canonical and RedHat collaborate technically by improving parts of the system as necessary. Things are enabled or not based on market requirements.

Umm, but your ability to offer useful confinement literally hinges on this since you don't want to do anything else...

So, you'd have to do something to get Red Hat to consider enabling it. Otherwise you're stuck with nothing for Snappy on the most commonly used Linux distribution platform in the commercial space.

>> What about helping to maintain AppArmor support in Fedora?
> Canonical already does that by working to upstream the patches. That helps Fedora and everybody else too.

It doesn't help Fedora at all today, since there is no AppArmor support in the distribution. The user-space tools aren't in there, and the kernels shipped by Fedora do not have AppArmor enabled. So, no, I can categorically say you are wrong there.

> Well, no need to guess.. there are open discussions about it.

Really? Because I searched, and outside of John Johansen's wishful thinking presentations, I've seen no evidence of anyone talking about it seriously. If anything, I've heard people say John is crazy for thinking that this is a reasonable idea.

Care to offer some proof to the contrary? Who knows, you might be right! It seems that the LSM mailing list has no functioning archive, so there could be something there that says otherwise.

> For legal reasons that are not unique to Canonical we do require a pretty straightforward CLA to be signed.

No other major Linux company requires one. Not Red Hat. Not SUSE.
Correct rendering on Firefox, Chromium and Netsurf on Debian testing, wrong rendering on Firefox Mobile and the Browser app on Android.

Most probably a font issue.
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Disclaimer: not a lawyer.

In some countries there are exceptions to copyright for non-software that allow making copies for use of friends.
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Sicstus Prolog claims that it's used in the transport and logistics industries, in particular, handling a third of all airline tickets worldwide:

“Most people probably have used SICStus Prolog without knowing it,” says Mats Carlsson, its lead developer. “One of our customers runs a flight booking system on SICStus which handles nearly a third of all airline tickets in the world.”

https://www.sics.se/projects/sicstus-prolog-leading-prolog-t...

A custom-made Prolog interpeter written in C, Small Prolog, was famously used in the Windows NT network configuration:

https://web.archive.org/web/20040603192757/research.microsof...

Back in the '80s and early '90s, there was a huge spike of Prolog adoption in industry, coinciding with the Fifth Generation Computer project [1]. I thought there was some data showing this clearly on the TIOBE language index, but I had a look just now and I couldn't find anything.

In any case, that was the time of rule-based expert systems and Prolog was often the language of choice for those. Anecdotal accounts in the Prolog community have long held that there are still many large-scale systems left over from that time, that were written in Prolog and in typical industry fashion have not been changed since. Having worked in the financial industry, that still runs COBOL and JCL on mainframes, I am prepared to believe this is totally the case. Some examples are listed here (sourced from an "AI expert" in 1993):

http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/the-practical-application-of...

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[1] A Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry project that aimed to do to the computer industry what Japanese companies had done to the car and consumer electronics industries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer

Their choice of technology for the next-generation computer was a parallel machine that would run a Prolog-like logic programming language natively. This was inevitably supersedd by general-purpose architectures, so it tanked, taking Prolog with it. Before that, however, Prolog received a lot of attention by industry and government in the US, who were afraid that the Japanese would once more take the lead in a new technology.

I've read a few related books from the time and they're a bit like a parallel world's history, where Prolog is the most important language for new programmers to learn and logic programming machines are about to take over the world.

Oh what cruel irony of fate, considering what soon followed.
the first link doesn't make any statements just that the changes are alarming.

The second quote is more specific, but it doesn't say that inaction before 2012 will cause the world to end by 2018. If you've seen what IPCC suggests is required to stay at 1.5C, then that quote from 2007 reads as an understatement.
In many Universities, C introductory courses are taught by people that hasn't touched C in at least two decades, or has close to zero experience to how programming modern C is. More often than not, this C is taught by people that have only used Java in years; I've seen horrible stuff, such as C89 still being thought like it's the only standard available, or gets() being used by professors that have no idea whatsoever of what's wrong with them.
While I may personally prefer statically typed language for large code bases, I think people greatly exaggerate the problems of maintaining large code bases in dynamic languages. Python projects such has NumPy, SciPy and Pandas are several hundred thousand lines of Python. Pandas is 250k LOC in Python.

GNU Emacs is 1.5 million lines of LISP code, another dynamic language.

It is ultimately a question of sound software architecture. You don't have to care about how many lines of code is in the libraries you use daily or in the Operating System you use.

In similar fashion any software can be modularized so you only need to concern yourself with your part.
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Not so much past catastrofic predictions were wrong as my past catastrofic fantasies were wrong. I see frequent commenting here on HN in the tone of the world is ending, we're all gonna die. They are no more and no less credible than my boyhood musings on 2001.

My comment wasn't meant to reassure. I take it for granted (my musings again!) that this century will bring terrible upheavals, unprecedented warfare, and probably a sharp decline in world population. It won't be peaceful, it won't be pretty. It will be history, business as usual, no matter if the planet grows hotter or colder. I'm far too old for optimism.
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I know what you mean, but it's not as clear cut as you think it is.

You don't operate in a vacuum when you work on projects. What if you think someone is wrong? Being direct might be a risk, because then the community might not be seen as "welcoming to newcomers" anymore.

I mean, ideas don't come out of nowhere for projects, and people who care about things, will be passionate about them. What if someone comes in the way of you building things? What then?
Yeah, this is a great feeling.

Not anywhere near the same scale as proliferating throughout the linux package managers, but in my early teens I played an online text RPG and ended up writing a fairly large amount of code on top for playing / navigating / fighting etc. When my hobbies shifted away I shared it around and promptly forgot it.

I checked in briefly about 10 years later and was happy to find a lot of my stuff still floating around and being maintained/extended in various forms.
> It'll be like the sugar tax in Norway. Do you really think people are buying less sugar over here because of it? Get real!

I can't speak for Norway, but in the UK the sugar tax has had a huge impact - a _majority_ of soft drink manufacturers have significantly reduced sugar in their products, to avoid them becoming unaffordable, and it's had a very noticeable effect.

The UK tax is still pretty new so it's difficult to get hard numbers on that, but sugar taxes in general are fairly well studied and have been very effective worldwide. https://www.nature.com/articles/sj.bdj.2018.603 has a good summary, some highlights:

* "Overall 21.6% decrease in the monthly purchased volume of the higher taxed, sugary soft drinks"

* "People living in Philadelphia were 40% less likely to report consuming sugary drinks every day after the tax policy"

* "Mexico's 10% tax on sugar-sweetened beverages implemented in January 2014 is said to have led to a 5.5% drop in sugary drinks purchases by the end of that year and a further 9.7% fall in sales in 2015, yielding an average reduction of 7.6% over the study two-year period"
I've worked pretty decently with azure, but VSTS (now azure DevOps, oh boy) is horrible for hosted solutions... It's just so dang slow. Slow to start, slow to run anything that touches disk, etc

Also, the storage with azure is very, VERY slow. Spin up a VM and give it a go. ultra ssds might change things, depending on pricing.
That's actually something I want to know as well. I would like to work as a Developer to do good in the sense of avoiding climate change or saving nature. That's hard to find!
The notch might be, however Android is clearly not.
Active noise cancelling does mean that the headphones create a sound wave which has the same frequency but is out of phase by a single wave length. This causes destructive interference which causes the total energy of the waves to equal zero. You are partially correct but active noise cancelling has the same effect as putting earplugs in due to wave mechanics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_interference
> Earth will be fine. Life on Earth will be fine...

TBH statements like these really grate on me. Yes, Earth will be fine in the same sense that you'd be fine if you surgically removed your arms, legs, eyeballs, ears, and tongue and then were fed intravenously and your waste disposed of for you. You might live a long life and have lots of nice dreams.

The reality is that we are in early stages of kicking off a cascade of effects that could wipe out the majority of the food web on Earth--let's say, everything larger than your finger. Yeah sure, insects and microbes will reboot it all--in a hundred millions years, if ever. Wonderful!

To make such flippant remarks about so profoundly annihilating the bioversity of this very special planet is not helpful in the dialogue.

Let's please work on this problem seriously.
Good for him. I am truly glad for him. But I don't really get the point of this type of articles e.g. `Brace yourself to become a billionaire`, `Watch out for hypregrowth`, etc.

OK. I'll watch out. Thanks for the heads up. :D
> ...then I just won't use it.

So far, that seems like a very reasonable compromise for both of us.

> Yep, I sure am. I have to be picky to keep my information secure. Most people don't seem to care about that, which is why they're not as picky as I am. Sooner or later it will bite them.

I don't see your point. If it's about Microsoft's data collection, that's orthogonal to how software distribution works. Otherwise, there's no reason to trust the competence of Canonical or RedHat employees (or even volunteers for other distros) over those of Apple or Microsoft. Either one can mess up, either one can expose your system.

> Also, even supposing downloading from your website is the only alternative you give me, to do that securely, you'll have to use HTTPS, you'll have to sign your binaries with a public key I trust, you'll have to provide signed hashes so I can verify the download, etc.--in other words, all the stuff you'd have to do if you maintained a third-party PPA.

It doesn't stop at PPA, to really support all the other picky Linux guys with their distributions I need to provide dozens of packages built against the dependencies of whichever versions of those distributions are currently in use. That's the actual problem Flatpak is solving. If there was one package format that worked everywhere, it would be a different story. You can trivially download and install (compatible) deb or rpm files as well, why aren't you lamenting that being a security issue?

> And also again, if you don't supply a third-party PPA that my distro's package manager can pull updates from automatically, how are you going to ship me updates?

Your distribution could integrate Flatpak updates into its update mechanism, or you can run them manually or as a cron job.

> Or are you going to reinvent, poorly, the packaging and updating infrastructure that has already been field tested for years by distros?

Personally, the amount of times that this "packaging and updating infrastructure" has broken working applications or whole Linux installations leads me to believe that no amount of testing will ever make it work reliably. On the other hand, the software that has all its dependencies in one place, where an update consists of overwriting or replacing the installation directory, has rarely failed. On Windows, this is called "portable", on Mac OS, this is simply a regular application.
This article sites Stanford:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/travisbradberry/2014/10/08/mult...
That's interesting, although from scanning the abstract, I don't immediately see the connection between ES and PBE.
Dropbox has had several headaches from its reliance on python, first among all from the fact that Python is still bound on running once thread at once on a single core after all these years (thanks GIL), so it does not parallelize at all without abusing subprocess + IPC.

That's the reason why they attempted writing a new runtime first (Pyston), and then settled down on rewriting their performance critical infrastructure in Go (https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2014/07/open-sourcing-our-go-...)

Google iself wrote grumpy for the same reason, which is that CPython scales pretty bad.
We're going through the process of auditing and budgeting for the costs of all our (previously free) Java licenses now.

Not interested in the slightest.
If it's up to us, it's up to us:

- Invest in (or even set up, if you've got the skills) crowd funded solar projects like http://www.burnhamandwestonenergy.co.uk/ - as a charity or "community interest company"

- Donate/contribute to charities supporting reforestation - for example https://onetreeplanted.org/ or buy land, something like this: http://www.buybrazilland.com/rainforest-property-for-sale/

So there are existing organisations which offer these kinds of services; but there's no reason why a "charity startup" couldn't form to provide these kinds of services in a different way; more focussed on the climate change issue and with more of a social/viral element; to try and build the scale that would be necessary. If every twitter user contributed $10...
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I'm also interested in this, it comes up in a lot of EE courses (DSP, Control theory), but I've yet to see it used in a CS course.
If you're concerned about this, help fix it directly:

* Go Climate Neutral: http://goclimateneutral.com. It's much cheaper than you'd expect (~$10/month, depending on your lifestyle) to improve the world's energy efficiency enough to cancel out all your own impact.

* Donate to other efficient climate change charities: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/post/2013/11/less-burn-for-y...
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less conflation of

That's interesting. But I'm not sure what you mean. Would you be able to explain this more, or point me to something I can read on this?
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It is, yes.

Most transactions that occur daily across the whole world involve trivial amounts of money.

If I want to sell you a 300€ dishwasher, for example, I can either require cash, ask for a check/bank transfer and pray it doesnt bounce, or involve a 3rd party whom i trust in which case I will have to forego a % fee for their escrow service, maybe 30€.
With a smart contract, I can now be sure the buyer's funds exist and are locked before we meet. Then we shake hands, we load the dishwasher in their car and we both release the funds before parting way. I just saved myself a 10% fee and the buyer wasn't forced to get cash from an atm.
Even if their sole purpose isn't any 1 side or argument, but just to create as much chaos, anger, and confusion among the masses as roboticly possible?
Politicians say that business must self-regulate or that consumers must choose different.

Businesses say that they are following the laws made by the politicians and are meeting consumer demands.

Consumers say the government should regulate things better and that businesses should be more environmental friendly.

In others words, everyone is looking to everyone else to do something; thus no one really does something.

Sure, there are some token efforts here and there. But the actual sweeping changes that we need aren't happening.

Not a new phenomenon, and also not isolated to just climate change. It just happens to be the most pressing problem.

The solution? I don't see one, save for a fundamental refactor of our democratic institutions. I don't see that happen in the next 12 years.

So what can be done? Many things can be done technically. What can realistically be done given the current state of affairs? Quite little, I think. Stuff like going to work on the bike is cute – and something I do – but not really making a massive impact.

Vote for your local green party? In some places that's fairly useful; in others it's about as useful as wiping your arse with the ballot (US and UK being prominent examples) :-(

Honestly I think nothing serious will happen until it's too late. Maybe not even then. C'est la vie I suppose?
We only use Azure for AD and still we get the leaky cloud everything is on fire screen once a week at least.
Well having a quality social life is imperative to mental health
Another memory leak debugger by LD_PRELOAD
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This is daily life at work, though... you just divide your job in smaller tasks and keep going one by one up to the nearest milestone.
> But the 85-page briefing, titled “The Good Censor,” admits that Google and other tech platforms now “control the majority of online conversations” and have undertaken a “shift towards censorship” in response to unwelcome political events around the world.

> Responding to the leak, an official Google source said the document should be considered internal research, and not an official company position.

> The briefing labels the ideal of unfettered free speech on the internet a “utopian narrative” that has been “undermined” by recent global events as well as “bad behavior” on the part of users.
I thought some of the feature presentations were very strange. They focused way too much on "how not to do it" instead of the "here's how Pixel solves this". For example the wide angle lens got a video which was 90% "Here's a bad example and another one,..." and then a 3s example of how it works/looks with the wide angle and that was pretty much it.
but the issue at hand is the case where the multisig contract has a bug and one party (or even a third party) can trigger a transfer of funds or render the funds inaccessible.
> lingua franca of coding

In my very bubble, it kind of already is though, not because Python is so good in and of itself, but because you can express general coding/programming ideas in a readable and concise manner. The syntax provides a general way to get your ideas across to programmers with all kinds of backgrounds and to proove they also actually work, anyone can open a shell and see for themselves and tweak and play with your idea.
They're not saying that these people will survive, just that the human kind will survive
The reason I am happy with the 6s is that there's a big difference in speed from the 6 and earlier hardware. It's probably not quite as snappy as newer models, yes, but lag in moving around is something that I can't stand - and I find the 6s doesn't annoy me.
I think basically the whole point of open source (free software or otherwise) is the ability to edit a program's source code to fit your needs. If your needs are very special, there is no point in trying to merge the changes with upstream or distribute them more widely. If it is too difficult to upstream your code (e.g. because of irritating governance and hoops to jump through), then you don't upstream the code. If you don't agree (philosophically or otherwise) with those running the project, then maybe you also don't want to upstream your work. The majority of code written solves a problem specific to the author. There is no need, responsibility, or moral obligation to make all your code public. Honestly I don't even think that's a good thing.

All of this is how it's supposed to work. You are in control.
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Bots won't often have a viewpoint. Russia isn't pushing 1 side or the other with these things, but creating mass hatred by taking as extreme a view (left or right) as possible. They're built to pit people against each other, and they're doing a fantastic job. I'll leave it to you to decide if that's valuable or not.
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1. A blockchain-based smart contract algorithm can very much check the price of a particular commodity on a particular exchange (fully automated enforcement).

2. Parties can meet up and resolve the contract themselves (semi-automated enforcement that saves escrow fees).
You're waiving encrypted channels around as if it were de facto mandatory. Without knowing the ConOps of the system, how could you possibly conclude that confidentiality was an imperative? Effective acquisition of weapon systems is about balancing budget, schedule, performance, and risk--a lot easier said that done.
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While pythons popularity is undeniable, Im sceptical to the article as it’s based on the TIOBE index.