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We need the search engine to display some stats along with each search result link, for example:

# of bytes the page downloads.

# of scripts/stylesheets the page downloads.

# of ads the page downloads.

# of http requests the page does.

If that happens, the minimalists will typically choose the most efficient page because competition has already ensured that content quality will be top notch in almost all of them for most popular searches.
The fallback is just stupid. Make it a hard fail in that case, as you pointed out it is a very uncommon scenario. If you really, really want to have fallback, why not have list of root DNS servers and have the resolver do recursive query. I set up my network that way (don't use google, cloudflare, my ISP or anything else) and used it for years without problem.

But I think hard failure is best approach in this case, because this behavior will also make it harder to troubleshoot issues, let say you are setting up a network and misconfigured your router that doesn't provide DNS now you will be puzzled why Internet works on some machines while it doesn't work on others.
This is just plain wrong. There are many ways to handle such a situation. One would be "visstidsanställning" which is employment for a pre-determined period.
Not only is the sun rotating, it's moving with respect to our local group of stars, and that's all rotating around the galactic center, and our galaxy is traveling also!

They look a bit more like this: https://cdn.iwastesomuchtime.com/2282013232750iAtC2afkODS6U....

Also Venus spins the wrong way compared to the rest of the planets.
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Yes he did, he took the risks, not them. He quit his high paying job and risked his financial future by opting to start Amazon. He sacrificed endless amounts of free time and sanity to build an empire. That's why he owns a large piece of it.

You could argue that maybe the employees should have a greater share in the company, and that could be correct. Many of the early employees no doubt did. But at the end of the day, they choose to work at Amazon over somewhere else. But they didn't take the risk, if it hadn't worked out they would've moved on to the next thing without batting an eye.

A good economic system must reward successful risk taking, otherwise nobody would do it, and nobody would have jobs. Whether it needs to reward it this much is another question entirely.

We do have a mechanism for redistributing wealth to maintain to a fair society, called taxes. It just doesn't work at all if you don't earn income, but instead accumulate wealth via capital growth like Jeff Bezos.

Some countries have a small tax on wealth, e.g. 0.5% of total wealth, per year. I'm not sure how well that works.
I know your comment was tongue in cheek but this has come up in the digital Id space before. All these things get bootstrapped off government sources and spooks have no problems because governments control those databases. You don’t need technical hacks if you control the systems of record.
Does PHP have a future, or are 25 years enough?
That's a pretty absurd rationalization for paying people more to not work than to work.

Also, the article specifically talks about "essential workers" who made more money not working.

Wanting people to stay at home is different from paying people to be unemployed.
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I went cold-turkey in February after 25 years of drinking really strong coffee in well... hacker-heroic amounts.

Oddly, no headaches, and the quality of my middle-aged sleep has gone way up. I do like the routine of drinking a hot beverage but I'm finding decaf chai to be a decent replacement.
"would crater to only consist of his leftover cash and physical assets in his possession - real estate, art, cars, etc."

That is still much more than most people will possess in their entire lifetime.
Because Graal Community is free beer and plenty of developers don't want to pay for their tools, but enjoy being paid.
You literally could buy mercedes for price which could have 2 times difference based on location.
After being insulted with that comment on Google finding?

As I said, he showed restraint.
Very bad to lie about this because the court can easily subpoena Netflix records to see that you did.
These days messaging security pretty much comes down to end point security ... and end point security is terrible.

If you want to be sure you have to do some sort of air gapping, either with something like a Yubikey, or even better, with a dedicated device with a screen and keyboard.
How can we defend Blockchains and peer-to-peer systems, when no central authority provides admission control? Resource-burning (proof-of-work, proof-of-state, CAPTCHAs) is one of the most used tools to defend such systems, but it is currently poorly understood mathematically. In this talk, I survey recent research to better understanding resource burning, in order to reduce its cost, and thereby improve system security.

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One way to find out would be to compile QuickJS [0] to WebAssembly.

[0] https://bellard.org/quickjs/
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People don't understand how to use debt properly. It should be obvious that being able to borrow against your future earnings is an amazing tool, but so many people are just careless about it and go overboard.
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Nor image maps, my favorite antique web technology.
I checked and while I didn't do the maths, Julia only beat C# in 2 benchmarcks,overall C# must be faster even if those Julia benchmarcks beats Java!
> I struggle to see how our behavior changes about which papers we're citing with or without scihub.

Under what conditions do you see that changing? You yourself say how useful it is, but discount the effect it has on the citation graph. Could we say the samething about arxiv?

This is exactly why research needs to be open and freely available. The esoteric, rarely cited papers are locked behind paywalls and away from search engines. And in doing so, their impact fades over time as the flock centers around a single vein of focus. The future should look like a net not a river.

I am not an academic and I read papers for their metalessons in areas that interest me. But without Sci-Hub, lots of research would not be accessible outside of its niche, esp if it was unlucky enough to not be in the right journal at the right time.

On hilarious pattern I see, is when a bigshot in a field publishes a new paper, there is a race to cite it by some nobody. Basically the academic publishing version of "first post".
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Your comment made me remember netcraft.com which was the tool we always used to see which web server and OS was running a site. There was a running joke back in the day on slashdot about "BSD is dying" as Linux started to take over, based around Netcraft which used to publish a report showing which servers were most popular. I'm glad to see they haven't changed their logo in 20 years!

Their site report used to show an entire history so you could see every time they changed servers but it doesn't look like it does anymore. Now it's running in AWS so certainly not the same Solaris server. Although those E4500s were built like tanks so it could be plugged in somewhere...

https://sitereport.netcraft.com/?url=https://www.spacejam.co...
They're both handouts, yes. But a $100 cash handout is $100, while a $100 loan at 2% below prevailing rates is $2.

It becomes an invalid comparison when you compare nominal values without making the appropriate cost adjustment (multiplying the loan by 2% in this hypothetical).
Also in some case where there is high chance of actual conspiracy like JFK or Epstein case it gets hijacked by crazies making the theories wild.
Universal practice is editing the resolv.conf file and then write-protecting it with.

chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

This always works, but certain applications NetworkManager have their own preferred way of doing things that I quite frankly do not care to learn.
In an ideal world, it would be.

He doesn’t seem to like unions, which in principle would ensure his big powerful corporation was being fair to the labour force.
Is there a number for the "real resources" you note? What is the limit and who's keeping track?

Also maybe the issue is the sad state of low-income jobs, and the lack of hazard pay continuing to encourage people to risk their lives. Again, risk their lives, because the pandemic is NOT over. "Come back for low pay, no medical benefits and be at serious risk of dying or being maimed yourself, or infecting a loved one." It's kinda gross that is not considered the real moral hazard here.
One alternative is to more evenly share the ownership of things that were created by a large group of people.

Jeff deserves a lot of credit for building Amazon; it is now a $1.44T company. But $171B is 12% of that, which for a single person is a lot. Maybe the other million+ people who helped Jeff build Amazon received a smaller share than they deserved?
> that Redhat is a private company who does not disclose their funding sources

Red Hat's IPO was in 1999, and they were bought by IBM in 2019.
These discussions are pretty difficult to have as it's clear that many people have dysfunctional ideas around corporate/brand worship (e.g. "he created such a great company") as well as success worship.

To what degree Jeff Bezos is benevolent doesn't factor into this for me. Whether or not Amazon is a great company doesn't factor into this for me. It's a larger discussion about whether or not it's grotesque for a nation with such a large number of billionaires to have some of the most serious socioeconomic issues of any modern, developed nation.

I'd feel more happy and congratulatory toward Bezos' increasing fortune if, say, homelessness weren't a serious problem in America, and if every child were guaranteed a decent meal, which seems like it could be accomplished with a tiny sliver of the overall wealth of America's billionaire class.
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>Uber as a software company. Their product is not software: it's taxi cabs.

That's not accurate. They have software to match riders to drivers while optimally setting the price of the trip based on the current demand/supply. It has to work in many different cities while preventing fraud and/or gaming of the system. It's a legitimately hard engineering problem that requires sophisticated software solutions.
Hit the nail right on the head. That and size.
> They inherently incentivize not working and punish those who do work.

That's only true if its more financially lucrative to not work than to work. This of course is a real phenomenon at the bottom (Welfare Trap) and needs to be fixed, but the solution isn't to eliminate the safety net.
What is “normal”? Can you define normal?

Productivity in many fields certainly seems deeply exponential, so why shouldn’t compensation be?
A person or group with immense power can trivially achieve great good.

However, if you consider systems A and B, where system A is a bit better at using immense power for good than system B, you will notice that system A will result in a lot more good than system B. Therefore, if you care even a little bit about good things happening, you will be very keen to have system A instead of system B.

The fact that someone with immense power does something good becomes a lot less reassuring when you consider the opportunity cost of not having someone or some people who are a lot better at achieving good have that immense power.
You've just discovered the problem with income taxes. A tax on labor favors capital. Good luck convincing any of your political allies that the income tax should be replaced with something more progressive.
I found it useful as well as entertaining. Convinced me to drop the "Home" link in the header of one of my sites.
Shell really isn’t that hard to learn, and it’s a skill that transfers to many other problems.

I’ve looked at Unit files in a futile attempt to debug a startup failure. They seem worse (much less debuggable or transparent) than the old init system Linux had in the 90’s and worlds away from modern implementations, like OpenBSD’s.
Right up there with "We'll come back and fix it", "We'll refactor it later" and "We can add the tests later"

It won't happen, and it has never happened unless those sections end up failing catastrophically.

We don't have enough money to do it right once, but we have enough money to it wrong twice - Me, 3 years ago.
To me this issue should be more about the gross nature of US wage policy, that allows systematic abuse of “essential” low skill hourly workers with low wages, unpaid on call, health insurance tied to hours worked, etc.

The resentment these workers feel illustrates why we have a problem — people as a whole are more focused on what the other guy gets than the nature how how they are exploited.
"And two, if you need anything taken care of, and I mean anything, whether it's a problem you're working on or your arms go numb on the toilet, he needs someone to wipe your ass, call me, and I will make it happen"

So from Jeff's POV you're offering to do lackey work for free. Or did you mention a price to wipe his ass?

Either way it seems highly probably someone like a Bezos or Branson got to where they are by having an inner circle of friends and advisors helping them out. Not counting the thousands of people already in position to fuel their jets and wipe their asses. And you're not in either circle.
What about them? They signed a contract when choosing to work for Amazon. They can negotiate their compensation before signing. They can renegotiate after signing. If they don’t like what Amazon offers, they can go somewhere else.

It boggles my mind how much credit is given to the workers when it was Bezos who: knew how to hire the right people, started the company, provided the compensation and benefits, and has taken on the most risk.
You need to be very controlling with outsourcing. You cannot just hire resumes, you need to carefully interview to ensure that they can do what is claimed and be hands on to watch the work.

There are great people in India, but you have work to find them.
Mostly because it is not that simple. Rendering effective aid is a hard problem. You can give too money and cause massive inflation, you can give too many goods and services and destroy local economies, you can give too much to one branch of research and cause a brain-drain on the others.
Booking got a trademark for their domain, what does that mean to your business?
Justifing this pile of money by saying that there are other billionaires (Jobs, Gates, etc.) is kinda weird. I'd rather compare his with the median wealth of Amazon's employees. Makes for a way more interesting discussion.
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Wouldn't storing 98% of requests still be "a sampling"?
They received a salary in compensation. I salary they chose to accept. Bezos took all the risk. If Amazon failed he would have failed while employees would have gotten a salary. Risk taking is rewarded.
I'm in France and I only ever heard it pronounced "jisslaine". Although we had a friend called that and we used to nickname her "jilou".
There's no way that this feature would've made it into Chromium.
I don't really agree with that decision, but maybe that phrasing is not 100% accurate. Maybe they just meant that they should run the scan on a local test environment and not in the production deployment. Obviously, there's value in running it against live, but at least for this particular issue, they could probably had caught it in a testing environment.
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Ho man, I remember when J2EE came on the scene and it was a breath of fresh air compared to the 10,000lb CORBA and DCOM gorilla that was common then.

People like to bash Java without understanding how things turned out as they did.
I read the title as “... is pointless”.
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Vladimir Putin's personal net worth was estimated to be between $70B and $200B in 2018, so it's quite possible that Bezos is not the richest man in the world.
No-one ever told me but myself. That's why I would tell my younger self that if I could with the hope it would stick long-term. I mean, in any other field (which we shouldn't compare to, but what else can we do that makes it sound as insane is it really is?) do you get something like; 'let's make an emergency bridge out of two planks over this bit of highway because the real bridge has been flooded' and then 25 years later people are still driving over those planks causing traffic jams and accidents (we have to ducktape those planks all the time)?

If I write something that is just to keep something running 'for a couple of days' and then ends up being part of a backbone for a company (because it ain't broken, so why replace it?) is something I could not expect but there are at least 50+ 'blobs of software' out there by me where exactly that happened over the decades.
> and government request, even if it's just meta data "supposedly".

If you have evidence that unencrypted data might be leaked from Signal (except by a rootkit on the phone, tampered update or by someone having physical access to the phone) you might have a real scoop on your hands and you should contact project zero or someone for a bounty and then a journalist so you can bask in the glory.

If you don't have anything I suggest abstaining from writing in a way that suggests that until you find something.
You said "people not owning what they create" as though it was an unthinkable option. It's literally what most people do for a living, you said it yourself. What makes Bezos special? Why does he deserve to own ALL the creation of all of these people? I guess it can't be because he came up with the idea of Amazon, right? It is usually pointed out in SV that "ideas are worthless" after all
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Moving heat around is pretty well understood science. Heat pipes are probably the most recent innovation, in that we started using them about 20 years ago in PCs, although they've existed in other applications for 50-60 years.

Regardless of how well you move heat around, all heat is waste. If the goal of better cooling is better mobility, then your bigger limiting factor is that you don't have sufficient battery technology to afford wasting that energy as heat, not that you don't have the technology to sufficiently cool the device. The best innovations in cooling are the improvements in silicon. In the past decade, we now have commonplace consumer PCs that don't need active cooling at all.

30 years from now we're going to look back at the people who tried really hard to cool their silicon better like the people who tried really hard to make their vacuum tubes last longer.
What a terrible look for Datacamp.
I've run into this situation at home when setting up some new networking equipment with much more configurability than I'm used to. My system had no DNS, alerting me to the issue, and I fixed it. I don't need nor want my systems to decide for me to use Google's DNS, or any other DNS.

As you mention, this _is_ a rare circumstance, and likely self-induced by some sort of "power user". I assume there are few of those power users who want the choice made for them.
The deal is: you either get a salary or you carry a risk.

The problem: there is no risk.

Even if you go completely bankrupt, you still can get a simple job like everybody else.

The only way this would be fair if the risk was losing $171.6B in case of failure.
I hope that he does something great with this - like building an open source medical record system and diagnostic tool that can be used for the global poor for free.
I'm trying to have a serious conversation here and you're talking about "many people also watch the Kardashians" as some kind of counter argument.

Can we do this without the snark? It's not worth engaging otherwise.

Do you even consider inequality to be a problem in society and if so do you have any thoughts on what we should do about it?
Good points, I wasn't aware of how supportive of third-party players they were. Was it possible to create .swf with open tooling as well? (I vaguely remember OpenLaszlo being a thing)
Not everyone considers altruism objectively positive in all cases. It's possible that they consider it robbing the "un-privileged" of their agency, depriving them of their opportunities to grow their character by overcoming adversity, etc...

Isn't this question somewhat tackled in The Watchmen, regarding Dr. Manhattan's godlike powers and apathy?
Point of order to mods on this, is "check your privilege," within the realm of civil discourse? It seems unnecessarily provocative. However, if it is fair game, my response would be "check your reading comprehension," as the further implication of my comment is that societies are locking up their most entrepreneurial and productive members for creating too much value. Using the privilege dog whistle is just cheap intimidation. I'm upvoting this because sweeping it away with downvotes doesn't do it justice.
What's the issue?
amazon pays taxes in multiple ways, what's left it goes into amazon stock value.

I think it's perfectly fine to only pay the tax once you sell, why should you keep paying a tax just for owning?
With his portfolio, his salary wouldn't be able to cover a a simple 1% annual tax.

Now the issue is USA capital gain tax being lower than dividend tax, that's completely bonkers and encourages ridiculous uses of buybacks (which amazon has never done).

The capital gain tax should be the same as dividend tax
"The jTOP SLE78-powered ID cards were
issued until the end of 2018. ID cards manufactured currently are powered by the chip platform supplied by IDEMIA (not covered in this work)."

If my memory serves me right, there was an easy way to check if your ID card was affected and it got replaced for free. The flaws described in paper are not known to exist in cards issued since the end of 2018, beginning of 2019.
The crazy thing is that sum types (Rust enums) and pattern matching have been around for at least 30 years. I'm simply not interested in learning any new language that doesn't have sum types, they allow you to write incredibly expressive and terse code.
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>It's a very outdated notion that there is a linear correlation between "productivity" and pay.

This graph clearly shows how productivity and wages were decoupled in the US in the 1970s, even as productivity skyrocketed:

https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
It's obvious. I can't speak for America, but in the UK, one of the biggest problems is the financial cliff people face when trying to get off benefits, as being unemployed will pay you more than any entry level job (you can get social housing too). It's kept people trapped within the system for decades and nobody likes to talk about it.

There isn't enough money left to house the current homeless population too, so really, we need to get those people back into working life so that we can deal with the homeless crisis.