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Agreed. I would just move on to the next article, except that there is a need here for a company I invest in. The company currently manages thousands of hosts and the cloud is eating into their profits. The hardware out there is way to expensive (or a bad job was done searching) to move away from the cloud. If they can provide good hardware that would allow the thousands of host company to save money if they did it on their own, then we would be interested in looking into it.

Off the top of my head of what would be required besides just cheap hardware.
1) Cloud like software to manage it or k8s native support. I don't know exactly how that would be done, but the administrative costs of using this hardware can't be so high as to make the cloud a more viable option.
2) Some options for network access. Cloud does not just provide VM's but the underlying reliable network with multiple redundant pipes. Comcast Internet access might be good enough, but some customers might require large redundant pipes. While they might NOT need to solve this themselves, they should make sure that the market does provide solutions that when taken into account, allows for cheaper than cloud solutions.
3) Physical location... same as item 2 but for physical location of the hardware.

I remember back in the day managing colos. It really sucked. It was not just hardware costs that sucked. They should just consider that.
I think what OP said is pretty clearly correct. If you find a data point contradicting it, please share, but eyeballing what I think it'd be even per capita, I think OP is still right. If you chose a different data point than 10 years, maybe it'd show something else, but OP said 10 years so it seems fair to judge on the basis of what was said.

But certainly school safety is a bigger issue than just shootings.

My own emphasis, personally, would be on mental health issues being on the rise for young people.
>but does it ban parents giving alcohol to their children? I dont think so.

It is quite illegal to furnish alcohol to minors

>All states also make it a crime to supply an underage person with alcohol even when there is no money involved.

https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/criminal-def...

And:

>Depending on the situation, one can be charged with a misdemeanor or a felony for supplying alcohol to minors. Most often, supplying alcohol to a minor is considered a misdemeanor offense, but in some jurisdictions, it may be considered a felony depending on the circumstances. Felonies for supplying minors with alcohol are typically charged when there is some type of accident or injury involved with the use of alcohol or the person supplying the alcohol has been convicted of repeated offenses. Typical penalties are outlined below.

https://www.alcohol.org/laws/supplying-alcohol-to-a-minor/
Most companies tell their employees to not stop shoplifters for because they don't want to risk a lawsuit, not because they legally can't do it. I've seen loss prevention employees at my local Target detain shoplifters until the police arrive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopkeeper%27s_privilege
I recommend googling :)
I don't give a break to people that are too lazy and then issue statements like "I also can't find any details on the CUDA project you mention".

Just clicking on the links would show the info.
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For climate and environment, event that would be better than not building nuclear. But we don't need to do it so.
Observable uses JavaScript to render the page, I presume that's why it's broken for you (I use uMatrix myself as well).

It's supposed to show an interactive notebook with canvas-based images, describing how ordered dithering can be composed with error diffusion dithering to create a form of hybrid dithering that is somewhere in-between.
Whilst in the US I snapped the tendon on my little finger. When you do this the little finger just hangs there and you can´t do anything with it.

US hospital did a terrible job of splinting it, told me to come back following day to see a surgeon. (Cost $1000+, high copay since I didn´t yet have my work insurance which didn´t kick in for another month etc.)

Went back home and googled it. NHS treatment, splint for 6 weeks do not disturb splint under any circumstances, followed by simple physiotherapy. I re-splinted using a plastic spoon handle (which is perfect for this btw.) and today the finger is completely recovered.

A year after all this, I ran into a guy at a rental place in the US who had a little finger sticking out at right angles, and which was functionally immobile. He´d had the operation - several years previously, you could see the stiches. Finger had never recovered properly.

But you can see where the profit incentive would lie for the American hospital.
I was under the impression that potential investors usually don't sign NDAs.
I don't know anybody here in Israel who pays for private insurance.
Drunk driving tends to kill more people. There's only a number of things resources can be allocated to police.
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I submitted this post because I know both Jessie and Bryan, and am really excited about what they're doing here. They didn't ask me to post at all.
"Hey look we have this cool solution" -> "Hey look we have a few small to middle tier customers" -> "Hey look we have a big customer" -> "Hey look our big customer bought our company". It's the silicon valley startup shuffle...
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I follow Jessie and Bryan both on Twitter and at least with what Jessie has been exploring since she left her last job, this seems like a natural progression.

It trips me out to see other people in the comments that don't know who Jessie and Bryan are. They're legends to me, and I consider myself basically a SRE. I highly recommend following them on Twitter as well as virtually any talk they've given. Just go type their names into YouTube. Steve Tuck doesn't ring a bell for me, but considering the company he's in I want to learn more about Steve.

I'm super interested to see what comes out of this. I think Jessie has a passion for security (also many other things, but it's what comes to mind), and Bryan for debugging (similarly, many other things as well). I think those are really good backgrounds to have when approaching hardware these days, considering the recent security vulnerabilities around speculative attacks on hardware (specter etc.).

Some of the conversations Jessie started on twitter in the past few months raised some interesting questions around open hardware and open firmware, and the problems with proprietary and closed source hardware and firmware.

It sounds like this Oxide project might be in a similar space as https://www.opencompute.org/. I'll be interested to see if they partner at all. I'm also very interested to see what the actual products are, how open any hardware or firmware ends up being, and if this venture is successful, if they end up at the same place as any other major hardware company or if they tread new ground.
Forgive me, but I am having a hard time following the logic/connection here. The connection you mention is that they are both misdemeanors. However, they are completely different crimes. As you mention the cops use checkpoints to catch drunk drivers. Checkpoints are efficient for the cops (though constitutionally questionable). Car burglaries can't be stopped by checkpoints and take more resources to investigate.

I'll also mention that drunk drivers caught at checkpoints are arrested for a victimless crime while every car burglary has a victim.
No, people are poisoning themselves.

~40% of the US population is obese and in total, ~72% of the US population is overweight (including those classified as obese).

Every doctor I know would prefer you to eat and move/exercise appropriately rather than prescribing you drugs. That's the preferred treatment and would prevent many of those issues.(especially when you also include other basics of a healthy lifestyle, like sleeping enough and not abusing substances).

However, as is obvious, most people are unwilling to actually do what's required for that. So doctors are left with trying to mitigate symptoms or reduce harm without being able to tackle the cause.

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It will be interesting to see what happens in the coming decades elsewhere in the world, as most of the rest of the world is rapidly catching up to the unfortunate "norms" of US weight problems.

I suspect you will see the prevalence of many of those ailments rising elsewhere in tandem.
I used to work in AD/Composting and the issue I've read about with compost heat recovery was the cost of the recovery system (compost piles are very large) and short equipment life span due to damage by loaders/environmental degradation.

The most consistent use of compost heat has been to ensure proper pathogen reduction in certain waste materials such as wastewater byproducts. A popular example of this is called a 'dutch tunnel' (add 'composting' to that if you google it) where you have a pretty robust, loader accessible composting container which largely self-heats for pathogen reduction. I use the term 'largely self-heats' because there are aeration/mixture characteristics that are required for proper temperature development.

Searching EPA 40 CFR 503 is a good introduction to the process, because there is been a lot written about it and you can easily find guides/introductions.
Gun ownership doesn't help public safety anywhere near as much as you think.

The number one and number two uses of guns inside a home are suicide and murder of a loved one, respectively. Defending against a home invader is statistically uncommon at best. But people get angry every day, and we all have moments of weakness and vulnerability.

To your point about criminals, have you ever been robbed? A robber isn't going to announce his intentions from 20 feet away.

Does having a gun under your shirt help you if somebody pokes a knife into your back? Maybe you could draw and murder them in revenge as they leave I guess.

I know that gun-safety classes are mandatory for any kind of concealed-carry permit. But I can 100% guarantee that they don't prepare you for the psychological reality of killing somebody.

And let's say you actually find yourself in a situation where drawing your gun makes it better instead of worse - do you use it? If so, prepare yourself to pay every dime you have to a defense attorney, and to give up a year of your life to court proceedings. Even in a stand-your-ground state. And that's assuming you don't miss and hit somebody else by mistake.

Human-nature is to stand by and watch when something bad goes down. Carrying a gun doesn't change that. And a three-day course on gun safety doesn't prepare you for the reality of drawing on a human and firing.

On the other side of the argument - when guns are easy to buy, lots of people buy them legally. Then some of those people have them stolen or sell them. And others resell them.

When guns are cheap and cheerful, it's easy for a criminal to get one. When guns are expensive and hard-to-get, some criminals might still get one. But a lot of other criminals won't go through the effort. Why find an illegal gun dealer when you can buy a kitchen knife at Costco? And believe it or not - that's a big win for overall public safety.

Also if we could get guns out of the hands of the general population, we'd be able to make a better case for de-militarizing our police. And that would be a _huge_ win for public safety.

The US's founders weren't gods, and they didn't have a crystal ball into the future. We shouldn't treat their words as some kind of immortal and perfect document, to be interpreted on a word-by-word basis like bible scholars. And when the US was founded, the common gun needed a ramrod to load the single shot it carried.
I'm going to assume you don't mean to compare the citizens of Sweden and Germany to captive animals.
They're converting Twitter fame into capital funding. Not having a product means you technically don't have an obligation to deliver anything in return for that capital.
in Germany, the actual doctors office that treats you may be a for-profit, but they get the cash from your (mandatory) insurance, and the law regulates what kind of treatment is essential and therefore included in the mandatory healthcare plan.
You can have a private healthcare plan that gets you extra treatment, or pay yourself for it. But it's really Stuff you can live without.

another example, in Russia, you have _theoretically_ the same system, but the level of treatment covered by the mandatory insurance is totally insufficient by any reasonable modern standards, so you have to pay all the way. And it's not about debt, it's often about not getting live-saving treatment before you cash out.
By that logic everyone and everything is corrupt, monitored, etc. Including the hardware you might install your own VPN node on, all messenger apps, all phone lines, the mail, and so on. Your best friends are all spies. Your bedroom is bugged.

That would mean there is absolutely no way to improve your privacy and you might as well do nothing.
The link is broken, but the link from the propublica.org home page is also broken (and is the same link). Maybe it will start working.
Intel, Samsung and TSMC are the only three companies that are committed to EUV. Intel is out, which leaves Samsung and TSMC. So I guess the >1 = 2.
I don't think that's a fair assertion. Even going in through the front doors with guns in their coats, the perpetrators of Columbine massacre used bags full of bombs.

>if they are looking to commit a public atrocity they'll...

Which gives everyone else a sooner notice to run away. This won't work for e.g. gang violence.

>Mandating clear backpacks is just as much security theater as is banning 4 oz liquid containers at the airport

Yes, they started that after someone actually tried to blow up a plane with bottles of explosive disguised as soft drinks.
> there is no “should be” price, other than the price a seller is willing to sell at and a buyer is willing to buy at.

That's true in most markets, but also totally irrelevant to the point. If a seller has no idea what the market will pay for something, and so just slaps on an absurdly high price because they don't actually care about this secondary (a la carte) market at all, that's almost the same as not offering the service at all. If an a la carte service is prohibitively expensive, it might as well not exist for the purposes of this discussion.
How happy are you? Truly, ask yourself. Think back and think of how things have drastically changed in society.

This is telling of a world that cares more and more about the "economy" then they do people. With little to no focus on living and so much emphasis on "success," "Business," and "economy."

Work with little pay, a buy in club for access to healthcare and no work/life balance in many jobs. It does not surprise me even the smallest amount. Health insurance (at least in the states) is more like a Costco membership. It just gives you access to healthcare.

Healthcare profits have been in decline so I don't think it is about the "for profit" system as much as it is other things in our environment (work/natural.) I think this is more telling of how our culture chooses to live and has structured the work environment.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-hospital-profits-fall-as-la...
Don't forget the side window that costs a few hundred (at least) to replace.
Easy solution, break into the cars of the lawmakers.
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It's interesting to me that arguments about inheritance are one of the connecting factors across classes of wealth. I've known people that act this way over a $100 coin collection.
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This is precisely the sort of policy that drives development and acceptance of mass surveillance software. What exactly do you think a city of technologists is going to do when driven against a wall, stuck between trying to appear progressive and chronic material loss of personal property?

It just takes one wrong middle manager to have a bad day and their car broken into before a certain cloud computing company decides that their smart surveillance doorbells can easily be adapted as car cams.
Micro apartments are a straw man. The zoning codes all over California prohibit duplexes and triplexes, including over 85% of the area of the supposedly dense city of San Francisco. We don’t need weird innovative forms. We need the old forms.
So, a point irrelevant to any part of the actual discussion.
They forgot to add “blockchain” and “machine learning” to complete their BINGO card. “cloud hyperscale innovations” is a good one, though—haven’t heard that one yet.
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I imagine hardware design doesn't have as much established success as writing software in a "remote worker" set up.
There's a pretty solid argument to be made that as property values rise, their usefulness as investments decreases. If you sink $1M into a home, you're likely tying up a huge percentage of your net worth in something that will appreciate pretty slowly compared to equities. Homes are only really valuable investments if you are an otherwise undisciplined investor who can't hold on to liquid assets.
Ctrl+F "Rust" - 3 matches. HN frontpage never disappoints.
No Python looping happening in Vaex :), otherwise, we wouldn't get this performance.

We are also working on GraphQL support, with a Hasura-like API:
https://docs.vaex.io/en/latest/example_graphql.html

I think GraphQL is easier in combinations with front end development, and you can tab-complete your way out. Early days for this sub-project, but I think very promising.
I haven't done any serious Forth programming in 30+ years, but every time I see a limited resources programming environment, I immediately get the urge to implement Forth on it. "This new game is going to include a DCPU-16 virtual computer you have to program? Great, all I need to do is implement Forth on it..."

Luckily for my already very limited spare time, so far I've managed to resist this urge.
I work IT at a school. I try to strike a balance. I try to avoid doing creepy things in the name of security theater. I don't do TLS MITM, even though it might make web filtering easier. We do have some classroom monitoring software, but it can only be used while students are on our network.

I agree that there is a bit too much reliance on technical measures (ex: monitoring software) to police computer usage. This can be in absence of teaching kids personal responsibility. However, in a classroom environment it helps teachers immensely. While 80% of your students might handle themselves mostly, trying to police those remaining manually can eat up a lot of instructional time.

One point on the article:

> Teenagers are warned that the school is tracking what they do, and that they can get in trouble for visiting inappropriate websites.

If the school gets gov funds for IT, they have to be CIPA compliant[0]. This includes filtering adult websites and logging access to them. Fail to do so and you lose access to a lot of government funding through E-Rate[1]. The law is vague and somewhat up to school admin interpretation. I've seen some pretty intense surveillance regimes implemented in the name of CIPA.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Internet_Protecti...
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Rate
They have a cult of personality going that they're trying to monetize. Nobody following this cares about a product.
I would like to rephrase a greyed out comment in a less inflamatory language:

Is the current and recent government of Israel known for highly funded hacking operations (stuxnet), misinformation (palastine), or general shadyness (Bibi)?

(Previous comment generalized to all isralis, presumably due to their military service requirement, but that does not honestly reflect on the individual citizen or resident. )
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My local corner shop has about 16 CCTV cameras in it, covering as many angles in the shop as they can. This is common. Very common.

I'm totally OK with that kind of apparently 'pervasive' CCTV coverage - we're not talking government-owned networked cameras linked up to face/gait/whatever recognition systems or deep cold storage banks, we're talking small store-owners keeping an eye on junkies and thieves.

The oft-regurgitated "x cameras per thousand people" narrative tends to overlook obviousness like this.
How is that related to what I was asking about by the OP comment? Which was:

> Without tackling the obesity/sedentary/nutrition problems the healthcare issue will persist.
> Similarly the opioid/meth epidemics of the last 2 decades are not (just) healthcare problems
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I worked for an entity that eventually got rolled into the subject of the NPR article.

We looked into compression/cleaning for biogas, but both the capital requirement and ongoing operational cost was too high for the gas volume produced by the farm.
Anti-nuclear messaging has traditionally said that nuclear waste problem is unsolvable and then stonewalled potential solutions. In this case, the Finns are operating test drills as we speak [1].

The number of people who have been injured or killed by stored commercial nuclear waste is very near zero, and we know how to store it safely in the long term. Again, meanwhile 84% of our energy generation kills 4.3 million people per year. The nuclear waste issue is no longer a good reason to oppose nuclear energy. Nuclear is unique in its ability to fully contain and store all of its waste in the long term. This is thanks to E=MC2 where the mass of the hazardous waste is extraordinarily small compared to other energy system waste.

There are counter-theories to death counts in Chernobyl and Fukushima. But there is a UN/WHO group of true experts who are the authorities on these items. Think of them like the IPCC for climate change, but for radiation. It's called UNSCEAR, and they are clear in their analysis. Up to 4000 dead at Chernobyl, up to 1 dead at Fukushima. There's always wild counter-theories in these big science questions: just like some people claim millions died at Chernobyl (looking at Greenpeace), some claim that climate change doesn't exist.

[1] http://www.posiva.fi/en/media/image_gallery?gfid_2061=94#gal...

I think you're replying to multiple people above as I only said half of that stuff.
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More people die of hypothermia every year than get killed from mass shootings.
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There are an unlimited number of things that risk dead children. Chewing gum, shoelaces, bicycles, model rocketry, shop class, video game marathons, crosswalks...

How sure do we have to be to ban them all?

There is in my opinion a very clear danger associated with setting up draconian surveillance states borne out by history. How sure do we have to be before we ban those?
That's a good question, and I'm sure socialist theorists have some better thought-out answers than I have.

Thinking about this logically though, the only kind of contract that it might help to ban would be selling your labor for money, similarly to how we don't allow you to sell your person (indenturement/slavery) or sexual favors (prostitution) today. This would probably include such contracts between companies as well, encouraging actual exchange of goods and services instead of direct outsourcing.

Still, even these types of contracts wouldn't have to be necessarily banned, it may be enough in principle to encourage Worker-owned enterprises, and protect them from hostile actions against them by other corporations. Of course, how we would get from where we are today to the state where most corporations are owned by their workers is the most difficult question, and capitalists will not go down without at least a political fight.