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Almost more interesting than two giants who, for better or worse, have drastically influenced modern computing practices starting a company, is that they started a podcast. The former happens every day, and sure, it's exciting, but how many times have you seen one of these people start a podcast?
>They've tried banning everything in England and criminals will still kill people with just about anything anything. First it's the guns, then knives, then machetes.

If these alternatives are just as effective as guns, why do you feel that you need a gun?

Of course, you know that guns are more effective at killing people - especially large numbers of people. That's why we in the UK have not had a mass killing in a school since private ownership of handguns was banned over two decades ago.

>it's a lot safer to have a gun than to wait for cops to come to draw the chalk lines on you and your family.

You're more likely to use the gun to kill yourself or a family member than you are to use it to kill an intruder.

Killing someone who breaks into your home is most likely an overreaction in any case. The chances are very low that they've broken in with the intention of harming you rather than merely stealing something.
Don't you think these things are directly related?

A friend of mine had some minor mental health issues going into their 20s. Lack of meaningful opportunity paired with obscenely expensive and inaccessible healthcare helped drive those to become major health issues, including drug addiction, due to intoxicating themselves to "help" distract from their grim reality.

Absolutely I think it would have been different had they had access to general preventative healthcare from the start so they could get routine dental, physical, etc. Would they be cured of their mental health problems? Probably not. Would the effects have been less destructive? Yeah, I would bet on it.
There's a definite plus to bringing in people who've never used a VPN service before - a lot of them may subscribe but never actually become serious users of your service, in which case they're likely highly profitable. People who find you by reading reviews on TorrentFreak on the other hand are much more likely to chew bandwidth and possibly have multiple devices connected at once.
Ask HN: How did the open-source monitoring service netdata raise 20M?
Dear readers,

Today I am very thankful to use the netdata tool to monitor few Kubernetes clusters (https://www.netdata.cloud/).
It's a free, open-source on GitHub and useful product. They have wonderful UIs, great quality of code, high performance.

The main issue, as with many open-source projects, is that they have no business model, not event a premium service,
and yet they were able to leverage 20M$ from Bain Capital Ventures and Marathon Venture Capital.
Considering these funds religiously capitalist, I can't imagine them suddenly having an interest in IT innovation
or any altruistic concern to help the rest of the world.
At the end, this is a monitoring tool doing the same as its well-established open-source competitors (like prometheus and grafana),
therefore, the industry didn't need another monitoring tool.

Is there any business model I don't see?
Is it a form of whitewashing, or a simple marketing operation intending to give them more credit and attractiveness?
Or, have these VCs really become angels?

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> You would just factor in that your rent would grow with inflation instead of geometrically when you're planning your building.

Compounded growth at inflation is geometric growth.
The universal health care proposals by Bernie Sanders and Pramila Jayapal include mental health and substance abuse treatment services.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/112...
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1384...
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Mark Zuckerberg takes it for granted that the most important things in the universe are productivity growth and the number of people citing your publication and talks about ways we can make these numbers go up more in this podcast.

Are those really our biggest priorities right now? Should they be? How many more decades are we supposed to pretend the pie getting bigger will cause all problems to ~magically tricklesolve themselves~, because this there is lots of evidence that this is not happening.
Look up how many kids are killed by cars. Then go see how many are killed by guns outside school. Then check how many are killed by guns in school.
It actually does, these are batteries with solid rather than liquid or gel polymer electrode.
Hard trick to pull off if you want low weight and high capacity - as lithium-sulphur experiments showed.

That's not even counting the entirely different manufacturing process causing very high prices.

At least these batteries are much safer and have much better cycling performance.
Somebody should hire graduate developers so they can gain experience... But I am not that altruistic, it's just that I live in an island that doens't have any software company except my own and one other, but the good part is that there is a university so this is my only resource of developers
Long term we shouldn’t but it’s expensive to shut them off and on again.
> PyPy is great, but not drop in.

Nowadays it works correctly with almost all C modules. Mostly you just need to use `pypy3 -m pip install foo` instead of `python3 -m pip install foo`.
Stress and mental heath are strongly linked. So, the current system with it’s high costs and uncertainty is actively making things worse.

On it’s own it might not make a huge change, but in aggregate this is a significant effect.
That is because we have been modeling economies throughly and are aware of the implications along with the mathematics like the Traveling Salesman problem.

We can and do model the economy regularly. Financial corporations don't hire all of those highly paid analysts for laughs.
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Not sure who any of these people are, or what exactly their “computer company” sells. Do they custom build computers like Falcon Northwest or System76 or something? People need to improve their skills at conveying information; fast and efficiently.
Yeah, the book on performance concerns for assembly on Intel CPUs is pretty brief, only a few hundred pages: https://software.intel.com/en-us/download/intel-64-and-ia-32...
You can always get to "decreased density" simply by moving away from the urban core. The jobs might not be as good, but that just goes to show that increased density does not necessarily involve a human cost.
This was in the 80s, but I do recall when soda machines were first installed at my high school. One side effect was it became OK to roam the halls with cans, which meant you could pour vodka into them in your locker.
Honestly I was just being rhetorical.

Buildroot really isn’t bad but it’s not totally solid and it’s not hard to mess it up either by not thinking or not reading the documentation.

Changing the config and rebuilding without cleaning is the most obvious thing although the docs explicitly tell you not to do that so that doesn’t really count.

Certain compiler build settings can result in a failed build.

It’s really only meant to be used for making cross compilers anyway and the root image generation is a sometimes useful thing. Personally if I want a rootfs it’s easy enough to make one from scratch.
On the other hand, a child swallowing a tiny nuclear plant in the shape of a smiley would be an entirely new experience in the A&E department but that would never happens? would it?. I could see from here the lawyers salivating with a case like that.

Not to mention that those toys would end in a few days in the garbage, ready to be shipped by volume to be burnt ("recycled") in some other country.
Thanks for this! I was curious to see how much power different reactors produced vs. our (Saskatchewan) current generation capacity.

https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/nrg/ntgrtd/mrkt/nrgsstmprfls/sk-en...

That says we're at around 4500MW right now, the majority of it coming from coal and natural gas (16% renewable). With a 300MW capacity per SMR, it wouldn't take too many of these to cover our base load. That page also suggests that we have 890MW worth of hydroelectric capacity, but I suspect that it only works when things are frozen? (I'm not sure why that capacity, which would be 19.6% on its own, isn't counted in the 16% renewable...)
Cantrill is one of the people responsible for dtrace, and more or less the only Sun-alumni who's not retired or disappeared (a lot of them stopped blogging when Oracle killed the Sun blogging culture and site/killed Sun). He also was the CTO of Joyent.

Frazelle was one of the people responsible for Docker.

I think Tuck is a finance guy who used to be a sysadmin? And he was COO of Joyent for a while, apparently.
You have people teaching nihilism. This is the result of nihilism. If you want to eliminate this problem, then eliminate nihilism.

The solution to keep people from killing should focus on teaching others that life is not meaningless or worthless. Also, teaching kids humility wouldn't hurt either.

Edit: Perhaps this should be obvious, but teaching about nihilism is not teaching nihilism. People teach nihilism more, if anything, through their actions.
you mean like this: https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/26/baby-yoda-merchandise/
"The merger between Kape and PIA affords PIA the resources needed"

I'm one of those people who understand the importance of reputation and integrity. One bad deal might ruin mine forever. You needed resources to expand your privacy business. Did you try and fail to partner with reputable businesses such as Mozilla, get funding from governments/foundations, etc? Did you try to get with amoral companies whose background or business wasn't harmful to privacy? And, after that, settle for the one company that was interested which could damage your brand?

I have a feeling you didn't since I'm sure there's plenty of companies, non-profits, or cooperatives that might have worked with you who don't have that background. Although I can't prove that, I see investments and partnerships all the time with organizations that raise less eyebrows. That you went with that company will undermine trust.

I'm no longer recommending PIA. I do appreciate that, before this change, your company went as far as defending its users' rights when FBI was after them. I'll still give you credit for that.

Edit re hiring security people: You also keep justifying hiring con men for second chances or doing business with intelligence assets like there were no other alternatives. I've met all kinds of security professionals and cryptographic researchers who haven't taken malicious contracts or damaged others [that I'm aware of]. Quite a few have turned down work because they're ideologically opposed to it or just don't harm others. I'm one of those. So, my next bit of skepticism is that you really couldn't find anyone better than folks like Karpeles. You could've asked here or at Black Hat and probably got a ton of candidates who might be more trustworthy with your customers' privacy.
"While we don’t specify experience levels with particular languages or tools, you’ve almost certainly done work in C and assembly – and you have probably started to play with Rust if you haven’t already outright fallen in love with it."

Pumped about Rust.
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I think one additional factor here is that storage isn't the only option. Once a larger amount of waste needs to be managed the attractiveness of fast breeder reactors starts to increase. These reactors can then extract more energy from this high level "waste" (really fuel for fast breeder reactors). These reactors would then reduce the volume of this waste by a factor of about 100. So in the end, those 400 car-sized containers of waste per 50 years becomes 4. One hundred years worth of energy for an entire country producing about a house's volume of waste, total.
This is actually a popular opinion in almost every developed nation except the US.
Not with the Directors of those system administrators though. Nobody got fired for buying Intel is a thing. I had to fight to get our recent server purchases to be AMD.
No. But clear backpacks do nothing at all to make them safer. And everyone with half a brain knows this. It conditions the entire population to accept security theater and government surveillance as part of everyday life.

This sets the entire society up to be unable to resist government overreach in the future.

Clear backpacks increase the risk of death from tyranny.
Private healthcare optimizes for profits and value extraction. Public healthcare optimizes (one would assume with the proper governance, oversight, and controls) for quality of life, but also for reducing costs (it's cheaper to treat your type 2 diabetes with diet and exercise before we have to start amputating appendages and you have chronic issues, for example).

Disclaimer: Medicare For All (single payer) supporter
> What difference does it make if the units are stacked horizontally as they are today or vertically?

One difference is how far things end up to be after. If they are spaced vertically, everything ends up far from everything.

Not enough people living in the geographic area means that stores wont be there, playgrounds will be empty, school will be far away. Visiting friends means longer drives, commute to work means longer drive.
At least four major discount brokerages have zero commissions on stock trades.

Many major mutual fund companies have had commission free trading of mutual funds for over a decade (probably more like 3+ decades.)

I’m not sure which fees are “very high” in this context.
It's always been a problem with communal equality focused systems that the highly qualified find they can make more going elsewhere.
You really shouldn't cite China as an example of anything being justifiably "normalized".

Furthermore, children can't actually accept T&C's as a matter of binding law. The fact they just push the button notwithstanding.

What has been normalized is legal predation (something parents should be paying attention to and warning children about as they get older), and apathy toward actively slapping down abusive corporate business models. This is showing indications of turning around, but there is still a lot of work to be done.

In terms of monitoring Internet usage at schools; it may be done to a point, but I'm far more concerned with the trend toward omnipresent physical surveillance through facial recognition or device fingerprinting. It's one thing to try to police content to appropriate subject matter for a school; it's completely different to start holding a child accountable to having a digital footprint to manage all the time. Adults can't even manage that responsibly, and I don't think forcing them to do it while they are young will play well with ensuring they understand how to navigate the physical world well.

Given the adversarial objectives of most technology companies, I can't see the sense in putting in the effort to basically manufacture "trained consumers" for big tech. I'd rather see them taught computing in general and gradually introduce them to software creation and program awareness so they can make their own decisions. Of course, that seems to end up the kind of thing you get at vocational schools instead of primary Ed nowadays.
> Fertility is strongly negatively correlated with development, of which housing is a component. America's birth rate is already well below replacement

Wouldn't this imply america already has affordable housing ? Why are there endless articles in news that this isn't the case.
Yeah, I bit my thumb as I wrote that haha, better-than-linear in constant-dollars instead of geometric in constant-dollars :P
Ask HN: Gmail marking small domain as spam recently?
For people running their own mail servers, have you observed in the past 2 or 3 weeks that gmail now mark your emails as spam?

I've been running the same domain for over a decade, on the same current ip address for over 2 years, not running on ipv6 (I know that was an issue for some people), have all the spf/dkim/dmarc setup and gmail mark the 3 of them as "pass", I check spamhaus for both domain and ip address, etc... Yet this has suddenly become an issue 2 or 3 weeks ago (not sure the exact moment).

I have a gmail account that I use as a backup. In over a decade, it never marked any email from one of my domain as spam. I run tests both ways whenever I make a change on my domain, the last one was in July. I tried it yesterday and it marked all emails from my domain as spam!

Anybody else noticing a change?
This is not correct as far as Proton is concerned and easily verifiable. ProtonVPN is 100% owned by Proton Technologies AG (Switzerland) which also develops ProtonMail and is not affiliated or owned by any other company. Information about Proton is all public and visible on the Swiss commercial register: http://ge.ch/hrcintapp/externalCompanyReport.action?companyO...

The investors of Proton Technologies AG are also public information, and they include FONGIT (a Swiss non-profit foundation supported by the Swiss government), CRV (private investment firm best known for their investments in Twitter, Zendesk, etc) and the European Union, who collectively have a minority interest. Actually, the European Commission doesn't have a financial stake as their funding is non-dilutive. Whether or not these entities are shady is a matter of opinion of course, but these are all well-known public entities.

ProtonVPN was also extensively checked by Mozilla before they partnered with us last year, and they also checked into this, details here: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/10/22/testing-n...
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It is though, manual arms are arguably easier to buy than in the US. Semi-automatics require more work, but it's still easier than buying an NFA item.
Typing a FQDN into the URL bar results in a duckduckgo search. Must I type http(s):// ?

There's no reload control.

I would like a cloud browser used for whatever purpose to at least have some of the same basic functions as my typical browser.
Agreed. Levy's "Hackers" is still the best book I know about the mindset that begets hacking and hackers. I can't recommend it highly enough. It opened the door to my first job in programming.

The author seems to be bemoaning the lack of opportunities today to return to the halcyon days of yore. Mostly I agree. I was coding back in the early 80's, and the energy surrounding computers then was much more dynamic, open-ended, and seemingly limited only by one's imagination. Alas the rise of open source inevitably grew hobbyist computing into the panoply of richly ornamented computing tools we know so well today, from the Linux kernel to the GNU toolchain and far beyond. It was probably inevitable when millions of youngsters with copious free time can dive deep into the bowels of PC hardware using a wealth of S/W tools that the formation of a big complex (daunting) computing ecosphere was inevitable. And all that technical mass makes it much harder to perturb the universe and do something new and cool and share your hack with like-minded friends.

As to the roots of hacking... solving a puzzle is where the adventure begins, but solving it elegantly, even optimally, is where it goes from there. The best hacks open doors to other hackerfolk, enabling them to go where nobody you know has gone before, and they make ever deeper dives into computing that much more compelling. AFAIK, this is true of all hackerfolk, be they white or black hatted, in S/W or H/W.
> That's been standard in every single school and workplace for decades.

Monitoring work or school internet use without specific prior suspicion is illegal in the entire EU; so this level of surveillance may be "standard" in some countries, but hardly globally.

> In China,

Not exactly the reference I was looking for, though from this perspective any level of surveillance is normal.
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Don't write this on a school-owned laptop though! You shouldn't know about this. Why are you interested in this? What if it gives another kid ideas?

(That was sarcasm.)
The site homepage (rather than the launch announcement) is a bit clearer about their plan: https://oxide.computer/

> Hyperscaler infrastructure for the rest of us

> Oxide is building a new kind of server.

> True rack-scale design, bringing cloud hyperscale innovations around density, efficiency, cost, reliability, manageability, and security to everyone running on-premises compute infrastructure.

They're building servers, for people who run their own compute infrastructure.
Not all projects need a why, some people just like coding and it probably looked like a fun project.
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It's not that hard either (over 18, don't have any violent crime history or mental issues (self harm) and Swiss citizen (exceptions exist)) however not every type of gun or knife is legal. Magazines for guns over 20 rounds are not legal and neither are rifle magazines with more than 10 rounds. Fully automatic guns are not permitted unless it was received during military service. Butterfly knifes and throwing knifes are also illegal.

[1] https://www.fedpol.admin.ch/dam/data/fedpol/sicherheit/waffe...
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My first job was working for a software company that had killed people in the past. This was part of the London Ambulance scandal in the early 90s. The official inquiry had mostly exonerated the company.

It has a crazy impact on corporate culture, it was rarely talked about except in hushed tones over beer, the management was extremely averse to any publicity, no press contact for any reason (compare to my next employer putting out empty press releases at least weekly if not more often), sales staff had an extensive playbook for not answering questions about it

I can understand an individual developer wanting to disappear in this scenario. If they had internalized blame for this, I can certainly imagine them choosing never to work in the industry again (or making more extreme choices)
The answer is evident: replication has to become (once again) relevant.
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> Enterprise customers don't care about brands.

Sure they do. That's where the saying "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" comes from. If anything enterprise is more brand sensitive and less price sensitive than retail customers.

Not to mention there is the entire surrounding ecosystem from the CPU parts themselves. The chipsets, boards, laptop availabiilty. Not to mention things like vendor lock in to the particular out of band management technology. Getting better benchmark scores and saving a few hundred per CPU is only part of a much larger matrix for making a purchasing decision.
4 - 5 floor is the sweet spot for balancing cost and price, if you go up from there the cost per sq meter increases. The places where economically is worth to go higher than that, is where the land is very expensive and you have to recover that cost having more units.