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The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few?

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in?

From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs?

It is a very recent idea that the best society is created by everyone pursuing only their own self-interest.
Very good overview!

>> ..German automative engineers, they will be able to show ..

Note that I personally don't necessarily agree, but the arguments are not weak.

Another point is that a good Diesel engine, and they have apparently fixed the emissions problems, is actually amazingly efficient, and on longer distances beats electric vehicles when you take into account the whole fuel to wheel chain for the current grid mix.

When you look at the greater weight (= production costs = environmental impact) of electric vehicles, that has to be amortised over the life of the vehicle. When the vehicle does mostly long distance, it is not going to be able to do that, because the Diesel is actually more efficient.

However, vehicles that primarily do short distances tend to actually not be driven much at all, they mostly sit around taking up parking space. So those aren't going to amortise the greater environmental investment either.

The exception would be vehicles that get driven a lot, but over short distances, so buses and taxis, but that's not a huge percentage of the total fleet. (And gives you a link between electric and self-driving, a link that otherwise doesn't make a lot of sense: converting to self-driving on-demand/rental cars is one of the ways to get electric to have a positive total impact).
Is Hetzner still sending paper contract over the post even over a single instance of a virtual server?
Emacs is not a text editor. Emacs is a portable programming platform and text editing is just the default application implemented on it.
Agree with everything you said, compile times and perf and tooling in PS is not great. I guess I just value safety and expressiveness more than the other things. For some reason, I really do not care about slow compile time; it just doesn't bug me, but I admit it is slow. I think GHC conditioned me to just roll with obscure error messages, haha - learning some rust and the detail put into error messages honestly surprised me (of course the type system is not as flexible in many ways too, though, so of course the errors will be more concrete).
The language you speak predicts how you remember different parts of lists
> I used to be a sell-side trader, allocation of capital was the last thing on our minds.

Bit risky telling someone what their job is, but nevertheless I'd suggest you missed the forest for the trees. The profitability of a trading firm is directly linked to their ability to allocate capital in a way the market likes, and someone with great information thinks that hiring lots of smart people achieves their goals more effectively than hiring small numbers of smart people.

> Something is seriously twisted in its current state

100%, but it isn't the concentration of smart people in finance. That is a good thing - better more scheming bankers than lawyers.

Free market capitalism gives capitalists perfect freedom to operate in the sliver of the Venn diagram that connects what is possible with what customers will pay for. If they step outside that, they go bust.

If there is a problem is probably that the US government didn't let enough companies go bankrupt in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis, and the same idiots that were in charge then are still in charge, or their protegees.
I am curious too. Please elaborate.
Which is a shame.
Everyone pisses on quants/traders but the market would be much less liquid if they didnt exist. You couldn’t easily take out millions of dollars out, if there were no eager buyers on the other end. Yes, their intentions are purely greed, but you can’t have liquidity without the arbitragers, traders and speculators.
Letter to HN: On Youthful “Success”
The politics of our day is as dysfunctional as it’s ever been. Tons of people in the USA ALONE believe climate change isn’t even happening, let alone man-made. They have bought into the weird myth that moving to sustainable energy will harm the economy, and therefore are motivated to deny climate change (set aside the ridiculous mental gymnastics that entails, even if true).

Our only hope for short term sustainability is a Carbon Tax and Dividend, which has been introduced as a bipartisan bill a few months ago[1]. I wish there would be more media coverage of it. It is much more realistic than the Green New Deal but the only person running for President I know that even mentions it on his campaign website is Andrew Yang.

A carbon tax redistibuted to the people would avoid the yellow vest-like protests about disproportionately falling on the poor and middle class. Instead, it would be “Climate Justice” that even anarcho capitalists could support — corporations having to compensate people for polluting the common atmosphere with greenhouse gases. Such a dividend would incentivize voters to say “more carbon tax, please!” and cause electric vehicles to be produced, which represents CHOICE of energy generation instead of the fuel lock-in we have been subjected to by te fossil fuel industry since Edison designed electric cars 100 years ago (they are in the Edison museum).

Unless you think the fossil fuel industry should enjoy free externalities and lack of competition in fuel generation for cars, you have no leg to stand on to oppose this even from an economic standpoint.

https://citizensclimatelobby.org/carbon-fee-bill/
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. -- Goethe
> That we all could just travel and explore the universe.

We could have been there probably decades ago if not so much money was wasted on waging pointless wars across all the countries of Earth.

But then: would we even have the technology of rocketry, microchips and all the other stuff without the military need for them in the first place?
To explain a bit more, this is "Dragon 2", the second (major) version of SpaceX's capsule.

It has multiple configurations, one for crew, one for cargo, and possibly others.

This launch was significant as it was the first time they sent the crew configuration up as a demo and had it do automated docking procedures to dock (the old dragon had a more complex and manual docking procedure).

For simplicity sake, they tend to refer to this one as "Crew Dragon" to signify that it's in the crew configuration.
When designers try to justify themselves, they commit many sins, but performance problems are usually due to programmers trying to justify themselves.
Do you genuinely not understand, or do you just disagree with such laws? People in favor of such laws generally does not consider such actions victimless. For example a historically rational reason to regulate or outlaw prostitution was to curb the spread of venereal diseases.
Sounds like overkill to me.
australia made the news about billion trees project, I wonder how many similar ideas are being rolled out
Right now we need to terminate manned missions at some destination (like Mars or the ISS) so we can follow up with supplies. Everything we learn figuring out how to keep humans alive on the eventual Mars trips will help us send humans on more exploratory, less mapped out, trips to asteroids, etc, in the future. Hopefully within some of our lifetimes.
In non-Orwellian English this actually means anybody who opposes the establishment.
What would the actual purpose of it be? Maybe I'm missing something but I don't see the use.
I'm not sure if you can totally replace the lightweight BEAM processes with k8s equivalents. Sure if throwing more resources to scale more horizontally is not a top concern for you, then it probably doesn't matter much. But BEAM does make things much more efficient and less costly in general.

Also, message-passing and the actor model is not a particular design focus of k8s compared to BEAM.
pardon the moonshot.. solar powered drone aggregating CO2 in the atmosphere ?
If it were easy, everyone would be doing it and space would look like Walmart.
color me stupid but I didn't understand

"You should not be using Bcrypt. You should be using passphrases."

These seem orthogonal to each other. How would you store the 'passphrases'? in plaintext? or hashed? if hashed, what hashing algorithm? Why not bcrypted passphrases?
It's true, but I'd suggest there's a scale difference between fighting a human enemy and planet scale thermodynamics
Honestly, I tend to avoid compile to js langs, so not much other than typescript. I would like to try bucklescript and F#'s Fable. Not interested in scala.js or clojurescript just because I'm not invested. Elm is too locked down and inexpressive. Reasonml just seems superfluous.
Currently yes, although it's not long before things are really going to change. I am not sure where you stand on this but here are a few things to think about :

I assume you heard of the 1.5C target from the COP21. Depending on the estimations we already reached +1, and there is a lot of inertia in the whole system, so it's just not gonna happen. It's all a political "aim high, think later" thing.

Without doing anything about the climate itself, thepeak oil and the people aversion to coal pollution will probably slow down our carbon addiction by the end of the century. Estimates for this scenario are within 7-12C. More optimistic scientific reviews, that assume we would give a fuck about it, are in the 3-7C range. Note that there are more centuries to come.

Assume we reach a rather optimistic 4C global warming. This is a worldwide average, and you may know that oceans trap most of the heat, so the air above the oceans will not warm up as much. To compensate, it means that the air above land will be a couple degrees hotter, say 6C, and depending on how the winds will change, some place will get hotter than others (for instance currently the Arctic region is already 2C warmer than ours industrial levels). So even in an optimistic scenario today the average year round temperature in some place could get to +10C. If nothing is done, I'm not quite sure, but it's probably safe to say that it will be +20-30C in some areas. Maybe this kind of temperature delta can make you think of the kind of challenge the next generations would face. Vegetation (food) would die during heat waves, mass migrations, etc.

When ice caps melt, the earth's albedo changes, and it reflects less sunlight. That's one of the mechanisms behind the transitions from an ice age to a warm age. The Arctic is currently melting at unprecedented rates, which means that the warming is unlikely to stop unless drastic changes are done.

Global warming causes sea level rises, through dilatation due to heat, and melting of on-land ice (greenland, Antarctica). Current warming is enough to make sea levels rise by 1m. This is locked in (unstoppable).
Estimates vary but including future warming, it may rise by 2.4m. Bangladesh is the poster child for rising sea level dangers. It's not just about loss of coastal areas (40%), but also increased salinity in drinking water, less fertile lands. People will lose their houses and starve.

There's a lot more to global warming than this, and the literature is plenty. I invite you to discover it.
at the same time he is extremely convinced that something he doesn't understand (Bitcoin) is going to fail but he doesn't short it either. He is just old.
Just use a regular sentence. Something easy to remember with common words. It is only painful if you follow stupid rules and self-impose the pain.
Modern feminism is not about equality.
The Enterprise theme started playing in my head.
Advancement follows the money. And money does not yet follow neocortex/new brain. Otherwise it is possible to explore and live permanently in space. Treat yourself to some Isaac Arthur to taste some of the space future as you wait evolution to catch up: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g
The real jerk move if you’re a billionaire driving a Nissan is to be silent when it comes to taxing wealth. Since you don’t appear to need the money (driving a Nissan), then dump it into laying fiber, building bridges, repairing roads and paying teachers, etc... Put your algorithms to work finding the greatest good, because one way or another you ought to be putting over half back into your community (taxes or charity). That would look more like real modesty to me
> Almost by definition, any company that runs a cluster is probably dealing with TBs of data (otherwise they could probably run it on one machine).

This doesn't follow:

1) One reason to run a cluster is to use flaky commodity hardware instead of high-reliability specialized hardware. Note the transition from specialized hardware and computer rooms of the '80s and '90s to cloud computing on preemptible instances.

2) They might just be straight-up wrong / misguided. http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/01/... As a professional developer I've seen tons of distributed systems that could be replaced by a well-designed non-distributed system, but ELK and Mongo and etcd and Kafka and more generally cloud servers are easy off-the-shelf tools.
you could probably still make that money working remotely with a sfba company tho
I've felt that about SpaceX ever since seeing the Grasshopper testing videos. Up until that point, if a rocket slowed down during takeoff something had gone horribly wrong. Then it just... hovered... and landed, and I realised this was the start of a new era of space travel.

The Falcon Heavy launch is still the highlight for me but this one is probably more important, simply because it's so normal and routine now and paves the way for drastically cheaper crewed orbital flights.
Diving into Pandas Is Faster Than Reinventing It
Maybe dog years, or some unusual form of £ that has appreciated a lot relative to popular currencies (conventional and crypto) in the meantime? Or 60£ in an active investment between cryptos, occasionally taking on a little loss+fees?

I was originally planning to end this post with "or just making up some numbers", but since GP was writing of a joke investment, active gambling seems to be a reasonable assumption. And putting in 50£ in a toy account (and never extending it with fresh money), leaving with 18 after years, that also doesn't seem like an unreasonable thing to do. That's lower stakes than meeting for an amicable 2£ per player poker night once a month. If the stated goal of a joke investment is a dividend in entertainment, then passive is a terrible investment strategy.
I agree that non-STEM fields are less credible, but the "X% of field X are conservatives" argument seems totally pointless to me. Your political leanings shouldn't matter, otherwise it's not truth-seeking. And most of these fields don't seem truth-seeking to me, but that's a consequence of them being harder to do test-and-iteration that's the core of finding out truth about stuff, and also they're not valued in society so they don't get the cream of the crop.

So political distribution is 1. Not that cause of the problem, 2. Probably not even a symptom, it's more to do with the fact that most science is state-funded and right wing ideology broadly seeks to diminish the state. The right are also anti-science in broader ways (religious, climate change etc etc). It's a trend across science, not just in bs subjects: http://www.people-press.org/2009/07/09/section-4-scientists-...

I just think whenever you're having this discussion, which is important, throwing political distributions in muddies the water and polarizes it for no upside.
> Kubernetes isn't the endgame; its just a better place to start.

> Kubernetes isn't an application platform though, in the same vein of Heroku.

This, exactly

> That's what Application developers want, and they're simply not going to get it.

... that's exactly what we want, and I think the more perceptive among us doing the deciding want to choose one that is built on Kubernetes, or at least have Kubernetes ready for when one comes along, basically for the reasons you highlighted. It seems to be the winning standard, put up against AWS. It's a major improvement over the old model of how Ops has handled provisioning resources.

> Kubernetes is for people building platforms. If you are a developer building your own platform (AppEngine, Cloud Foundry, or Heroku clone), then Kubernetes is for you.

https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/10997101785454346...

I think there are enough different choices for that "top layer of the dev stack" now, which DOES provide developers with the kind of experience they/we want, while usually protecting us from the underlying infrastructure like deployment YAML and service/ingress, that it really is a realistic concern that we'll choose the wrong one.

We want to make a choice and be stuck with it. We don't want to choose wrong and have to choose again. (Especially if we're planning to buy a support contract, which we almost definitely are. But how can we even predict which stack layer vendor we'll ultimately need support from?)

Our IT moves at an institutional pace, and guidance councils seemingly prefer we have a comprehensive plan in place before we take the first single solitary step.

My perception is that they want to wait for the market to narrow before committing to any new shiny, but it's clearly still expanding, and my sense is that I really don't want to see the market narrowing (as that might be a signal that the grand experiment just isn't going so well anymore.)

By the way, it does look like this is coming, too:

> Kubernetes should replace the AWS/GCloud/AZ API. If you want to access object storage, Kubernetes should have a resource for that which Ops can bind to an S3 bucket, then applications go through the Kube resource. If you want a queue, there should be a resource.

https://www.operatorhub.io/operator/aws-service-operator.v0....

I'm excited about work like OperatorHub, which promises to raise the visibility of this kind of stuff!
”Except for one time in the 1890s, when drawings and records documented the fish appearing in the Netherlands.“

Reading https://science.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/news/collection/new..., those ‘records’ seem to include plenty of remains of the actual specimen.

Also, the species was first described as a separate species in 2017. So, it seems not having seen it in the northern hemisphere may be more a matter of not having looked for it than of it being rare there.
> Imagine that, not being a national citizen, but from an allied country, and being told point blank that you are a-okay for spying without any kind of shame.

This was the case from the beginning of modern countries - even back in old Greece or in 400 BC with the introduction of doves (per https://www.focus.de/wissen/mensch/tid-5865/geschichte-der-s...). It was and is always a case of tacit acceptance - you as a country knew you were spied upon just as you were spying on other countries, and you relied on this to get your own spies traded back alive.
That would be amazing, wouldn't it? It's not true though, the problem with dealing with billion of operations a day is the spikes, most of the time you don't get a nice homogene rate for 24 hours straight.
“pauses the EPA authority to regulate the CO2 and equivalent emissions covered by the fee, for the first 10 years after the policy is enacted. “ seems like a giveaway if the carbon fee is too low for the bill you referenced.

Also I found this to be a better explanation of the carbon fee bill in the US: https://energyinnovationact.org/how-it-works/
>trashification of printed material

Surprisingly for them, the opposite happened, computers were trashified.
The advertising and PR industry is driving this.

Whether it's Facebook or another company, it doesn't matter. You can kill Facebook, or Twitter or whatever, it won't matter because the ad market is paying to get into your head and they will always figure out how to get there.

Regulate the ad industry, not tech companies.
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The suggestion that Joy Rankin has a rose colored view of academics is amusing, since I bought her book after reading her article on how Michigan State sucked so bad she quit, or as she put it, fired the university:
https://medium.com/@drjoy/why-im-firing-michigan-state-sexua...

Of course you may remember Michigan State from the US gymnast doctor Larry Nassar who molested a bunch of girls there even after concerns were raised about him, leading to the resignation of the University's President (https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/24/us/michigan-state-president-r...)

Anyway, I'm enjoying the book (still reading) but my take so far is that it's less a rose tinted view of academia as a whole, and more talking about how much good the people in academia who just wanted to make good computers/code/tools without trying to explicitly profit did for the internet and computing.

Honestly I think that's part of the hacker ethic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic) that it's easy to forget or undermine in the pursuit of profit. That we don't just want information to be free, we believe in sharing and making things better, even if it won't make us a dime or give us a nice bug bounty.

Anyway a worthwhile thought provoking article, to say the least.
> Is continuing to use fossil fuels a bad thing, if it's in conjunction with sufficient cleanup systems?

You missed the point. The problem in the grandparent post isn't with the first clause, it's not even with the feasibility of the second clause.

It's with the "if". The "if" won't happen in practice. So that makes the answer to your question "no".
So, you want him to do lots of work for no reward! How progressive!
The weather is warm: "Proof of global warming"

The weather is cold: "More proof of global warming"

Climatologists are repeatedly telling us that local weather phenomenon are not indicative of overall climate, yet the same climatologists come out and try to sell their story when the weather warms up. Is it any surprise that people are not listening to them?

Im skeptical of AGW claims, but I won't outright deny climate science. As a layperson, I just see a blatant double standard of reporting and it only adds to my skepticism. Is local weather indicative of climate or not? If yes, what about the unreasonably freezing weather just a few weeks ago across the atlantic? If no, then what is this article trying to sell?
Nice summary of all the experiences at different studios. Added points for being in multiple studios in Vancouver. ;)
I tried uploading a 60MB file to those four services and apart from needing to upgrade my curl they all went fine, returned the url from curl and file was directly downloadable with wget/curl from the url provided.
Couldn't we just ban tax evasion? What makes it so hard? (honest question)

A recent European study has shown that the more company win money, the less they pay in taxes (in percentage).

Is it because of bad laws? Corrupt politicians? Something else?
You probably said it better than me. There is no upside, only downside, and applying our own "reasonable human" intuitive standards to such organisations is totally inappropriate.