skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an utterly specious claim that overlooks the fact that the oil and gas industry is highly competitive and sells commodities. As a result, Exxon, for example, has a net profit margin well under 10%: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/XOM/exxon/profit-m.... (Compare Google at 20%+ https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/prof...)
Because of commodification and competition, almost all cost reductions flow to consumers. If fracking causes the cost of natural gas to drop in half, the producers will capture some profits in the downswing, but most of the benefit will go to consumers who enjoy a large drop in prices. At the same time, oil and gas production creates well-paying jobs for skilled, non-college workers. All that makes policies that make oil and gas products cheaper popular with voters not just popular with "business elites." Indeed, energy prices are highly correlated with both employment rates and Presidential approval ratings: https://seekingalpha.com/article/252704-the-price-of-gas-and...

The "maximizing profits" trope simply doesn't explain why oil and gas has such an outsize influence. If profits are what mattered, the tech sector would have tremendous influence, but it doesn't. It doesn't, because unlike oil and gas it doesn't employ tons of non-college workers in swing states, and the cost of their products doesn't hit everyone in the wallet once a week. Profits are secondary or tertiary at best.
Google offers Linux kernel first part of Google's M:N thread code as open source
Secret Tokens: Programmable Privacy for DeFi
Don't most FOSS licenses explicitly allow for redistribution though? So once one person gets itm they can then redistribute it for free or a cost with the original developer not benefiting (directly).
If you're using Docker, yes, you can get a lot more options in testing by poking "from the outside", but that still doesn't test what happens when your docker host just dies.
Engineering already has these barriers, they just aren’t required or enforced.

I’ve never been on a project that requires a software product stamped by a licensed engineer. NCEES dropped the software license because there was so little demand, compared to, say, civil engineers who consider a license a rite of passage to career growth.
DNA Methylation Clocks' Predictive Capacity for Aging Phenotypes and Healthspan
Becoming a member of the FSF https://my.fsf.org/join is a great way to help free software.
Apple News+ in iOS 14 opens articles in Apple News, intercepting website traffic
There may be but unless you scope your guarantees around a common benchmark and anything outside that is on the developer, you may have problems.

You may also have to over-engineer your FaaS platform to ensure spin-up times for new instances are linear over 2 to 3x load, and that you are relatively immune from DOS attacks, both technically and within the scope of your guarantee.

You should always have an “out”... Wether you use it is another thing entirely.

Cheers!
FreeBSD Virtual Data Centre with Potluck – DevOps and Infrastructure as Code
“Methane is 34 times stronger a heat-trapping gas than CO2 over a 100-year time scale.“ That’s intentionally deceptive.

Over 20 years it’s 86 times more powerful than CO2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_potential

34 = (86/5) + 4x/5 so Average from years 20 to 100 = 21.

You can graph it based on in initial GWP and final GWP. CH4 = 16.04246 g/mol and CO2 = 44.0095 g/mol. So after breaking down it’s 2.75x the global warming potential of CO2 which is almost exactly the GWP from years 60 to 100.

PS: Now sure that’s greater than 1, but compared to the scale of CO2 released vs accidental methane releases it might as well be.
If you ever get the chance, do try goiabada! It's not the same kind of taste (goiabada is usually very sweet rather than sharp, though some can be both - the "goiabada cascão" as it is called is usually sharper, but still predominantly sweet).

It is also often paired with cheese, both hard as well as the local "queijo minas", especially the "frescal" variety, which is a very young kind of cheese.

That being said, I haven't had UK marmalade to be able to compare, I'm coming from my experience in marmelada and extrapolating from there.
I never understood why businesses give out free loans to other businesses like this. You used the service or got the product so you pay immediately.
That's not a dumb question at all.

I'm not the GP, but I assume it is because the GP would like to run his "production" setup (or even production setup itself) under such circumstances. So far as I remember, the origin of the idea came from the Chaos Monkey which would sabotage certain services in a production environment to ensure than everything was redundant and fail safe.
Ask HN: Has anyone read the “Focusing on the Long-term” paper from Google? [pdf]
Almost every company that's out there runs some form of A/B tests to measure the success/failure of their features.
Typically, A/B tests span a few weeks (2-3). Is that timeframe enough to make critical decisions?
What's your take on short lived A/B tests? I found the paper interesting. Has anyone tried this/something similar outside of Google?
Another Terminal Based Graphical Activity Monitor Gotop Written in Go
Just because it wasn't illegal (or questionably legal) yesterday doesn't mean we can't make it illegal tomorrow.

I would surmise that the most popular laws ever written by
humanity, collectively, started with a bunch of people thinking some version of "That behavior is questionable."

So sure, the last part is bad too. But that statement was being provide to people who write new laws. Not quite understanding why the current legality of Google's copying is that significant in that context.
I think the parent commenter's point is that making laws based on objective rules would make it more future-proof. Laws once passed usually stay for a long time. Huawei wasn't a big deal 15 years ago. 15 years from now someone else their place.
FreeBSD on NanoPi Neolts
The author is an Indian i.e. Myself. Thanks.
Hiroo Onoda, the soldier who refused to surrender, 1974
Our bodies are extremely powerful and versatile. If we actually understood how they work and how to build/modify them, we'd get way more mileage out of them than an electromechanical alternative.

Imagine a body with perfect physique, maximum strength, a bigger/denser brain, programmable immune system, etc. It could even be adapted for deep sea or outer space life.

We haven't even begun to understand biotech at this level, because of moral/ethical concerns and a general aversion to anything organic (understandable, experimentation with sentient life is seen as bad, and our primitive side rejects most foreign biomatter altogether).
A Practical Introduction to Graph Data Applications – Episode 144
"The voting public is only smart when my preferred candidate wins."
Ask HN: Sold any support contracts for open source?
Does anyone have any experience selling support contracts for their open source projects?

I'm interested in understanding the shape (and pricing models) that these take. Specifically interested in solo developers or small teams, but I'd like to understand the market for larger company-backed support contracts too.

Also interested in hearing from customers - people who have bought this kind of support.
McDonald’s Sues Former CEO, Accusing Him of Lying and Fraud
If its good for the masses, Trump will almost certainly do the polar opposite. He has proven to be one of the worst people in our country's history and yet somehow, 100million American's support the guy and his actions. Odd since 99/100 are in direct contrast to their actual needs...

History will not be kind to Trump or to his followers. The coming economic shift with automation are going to eat the last of their jobs and their future. To them, as long as it makes the Left cry, its totally worth destroying everything along the way...

Ignorance is not a virtue as one cannot eat, drink or breath money.
Doesn't medical school in the US cost something like $350,000? That might have something to do with high doctor salary. Doctors and nurses, heck let's include hospital janitors too, are not "extracting wealth" from the healthcare sector. They are being compensated for their labor and skills. Wealth extraction occurs when people profit from the industry who are not performing any labor or providing any value.
OP likes to feel the rush of shooting the messenger.
Isn’t us-east-1 exactly that?

All jokes aside, I actually asked my google cloud rep about stuff like this; they came back with some solutions but often the problem with that is, what kind of failure condition are you hoping for?

Zonal outage (networking)? Hypervisor outage? Storage outage?

Unless it’s something like s3 giving high error rates then most things can actually be done manually. (And this was the advice I got back because faulting the entire set of apis and tools in unique and interesting ways is quite impossible)
No, really, it's the IBM cloud that is the joke. This isn't the first I've heard of it, though I've not used it myself.

I'm a happy AWS user and I'll stay a happy AWS user not for their prices or features, but service. Which was the reason I was a Rackspace fan before it was sold and went down the tube.
Cheap energy is popular with everyone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uVGY3sIBsA
Install WireGuard VPN Client in FreeBSD Jail
Okay, but that’s not disagreeing with the article’s point, which is that it’s a bad UI for communicating digital content to non technical end users. The author supports its use for its primary case, and how you use it, which is printing.
The EPA seemed to do a poor job even under the Obama administration.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/10/431223703...
Sanders actually played fast & dumb about the m4a numbers, then attacked warren when she tried putting actual numbers to the plan and tried to make it feasible. And the plan would actually cost around 40 trillion over a decade to implement, sorry if you were misled.

And didn’t sanders lose this primary worse than his first? Don’t blame us for whatever conservative you want to slot into the president slot next, blame sanders for campaigning for the past four years only to bank on Biden and Kamala splitting the black southern vote as his path to victory, then getting destroyed when that didn’t happen. There was no reason for him to antagonize those voters and tell them they don’t share his politics - at some point you’re just going to have to admit that sanders is a poor politician, as the rest of Washington has long realized.
74% isn't low, that's right in the sweet spot. I generally shoot for 65-85%. Lower and you miss important stuff, higher and you start testing implementation instead of APIs and the tests become to brittle.
GhostBSD 20.08.04 Available
I have the next step up from this, the 1500 VA. I assumed the UPS under my desk was the Smart-UPS series but I can see it is the Back-UPS Pro. I haven't been in the office in months!
It's great to find out about how it works in Eastern Europe.

My father would have and has always done what you mentioned. Just pay it up and continue. And I agree totally with it.

But anyway due to Covid-19, the construction activity isn't going to start anytime soon. So I ave decided to play it out completely and see how far and deep this mess is.
"trainning" ad-hoc:
throw them inside a team, assign a couple tasks to them, and hope they will ask for help and someone will listen, when googling proves unfruitful...
Possibly, but how can we be 100% sure without the ability to compare behavior? If I were following this line of research I'd still want to know if there's any difference in the nature of a failure when it comes from within the OS (possibly simulated by half -f) and the situation the parent OP pointed out where the instance just goes poof without sending any kind of signal to the OS itself.
Actors' Audition
When I was a teenager, I was so afraid of taking part in different auditions. Bt everytime I had to overcome my fear and make a try, as in that time, mybiggest dream was to become a famous actor lol
Just want to add that I had bought an eBike right when the pandemic hit in late March. It was so nice that I went ahead and bought a second eBike for mountain biking. I live in Phoenix and normally we have to stop biking in the summer. With the eBikes I find that I can ride in much hotter temperatures than I'm used to. It has allowed me to continue biking this summer.
Depends on what you are trying to do. Someone I know who is losing weight they are on 900-1000 a day set by a nutritionist. Lots of vitamins to pick up the slack on other things. It also depends on what you eat.

That number also varies between people. 1500 I would maintain my weight or gain slightly.
Nice problem to have is just the wrong phrase because it really means something orthoganal to "problems that I should solve now".

> nice problems to have relative to the status quo, so problems that are really only potential problems right now, but could become actual problems if good things happened

But that's not what this very common phrase means.

What they want to say is "nice to haves".
Or the other side trying to force funding marijuana legalization and abortion clinics by holding stimulus relief and supplemental unemployment benefits hostage.
I think he was being charitable. Not wanting to offend anyone. He ended like this

So for British teachers wondering how to teach the subject, it is important to cite various perspectives, including, crucially, the perspectives of the colonised; not in a wholly arbitrary manner seeking to buttress this or that grand narrative, but in a way revealing the complexities and contradictions of Britain’s colonial encounter with Africa.

which suggests he doesn't agree with their views. I think he is pretty neutral.
The existence of things that don't work well in high density isn't a good argument against density.
Yes let’s compare looking after your a new life in the world with source code like they are they in anyway equivalent.

This is exactly my problem with characters like Stallman and why people should actually read the more robust arguments against GNU/Free software movements sad the more robust arguments gives you a reality check against a lot of Stallman’s nonsense.
To be fair, "Python" is the answer to at least three other questions in the form of "In what language is ___ ever significant?"

That said, I love Python and it's the language that I taught to my daughters first.
I used to use their Citrix Netscaler VPX1000s at a previous job.

They were very reliable, imo. Aside from general Netscaler bullshit, We only ever had issues with them when we'd try to get them to do too much so that the CPU or Memory was overloaded.

We tried on a few occasions to get more cores allocated to them, but no. This made terminating large numbers of SSL connections on them problematic.
"Shane’s peculiar genius is to feed her algorithms cultural oddments such as paint colours, recipes and ice-cream flavours, rather than (say) crystallographic data. The results – a warm shade of pink the neural network dubs “Stanky Bean”; a recipe for “clam frosting”; and (my personal favourite) an ice-cream flavour called “Necrostar with Chocolate Person” – are eccentric and often endearing. The book’s title is another example: apparently, “you look like a thing and I love you” is an algorithm’s idea of a great pick-up line. Frankly, I’ve heard worse."

[1] https://aiweirdness.com/rss
In Chrome, I like to remove the names of all the bookmarks in the bookmark bar to save space. It is just a row of icons for me.
Amazing like creating apps without coding and drag and drop by https://swaptoapp.com
Your own government also has more tools to use against you. You'll pass through your own border more frequently, you're more available to be arrested, harassed by LE, etc.

How about as a lover of liberty, _nobody_ snoops on our data?
Nextdoor founder high-tails it out of SF, puts Pac Heights mansion up for $25M
I would assume a "second wave" means that it has crested in the same place twice. as opposed to calling Wuhan the first wave, Iran the second, Italy the third, Spain the fourth, NYC the fifth, and so on.

If NYC is bad again I'd call that a second wave. Florida is 1500 miles away and is experiencing their first wave, some time after NYC had theirs.

The optimist in me has noticed that no locality experiencing a bad first wave has had a second wave yet. Perhaps that is a sign of herd immunity (helped by T-cells, if so). Time will tell...
At least you'd be well-armed.
Wow! Thanks for mentioning the work of Hernando de Soto. I had never heard of the work before but will surely read the book now.
I just put Android 10 on my OnePlus One (via LineageOS). Best phone I've ever owned.
This is the same old Uber, desperately twisting and turning to get out of the responsibilities of an employer. Like a minimum wage.
Uber is operating illegally in California, refusing to treat employees as employees after the legislature passed a law clearly making them employees.
You keep bringing up racism and devolving the conversation. The entire gist of your argument seems to be that universal principles don't matter so long as progress is made. That's a shortsighted and fairly moronic point of view. Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong were able to develop and raise millions out of poverty in concert with universal principles and democracy. China and the China model does not have a stranglehold on development. They don't own some sort of secret sauce that cannot be replicated. You don't have to trade in freedom of speech and expression and the rule of law for an HDTV and a high-rise apartment.

I would argue that a democratic China would be further along in its development than it currently is. A democratic China would have not have had its development retarded by a megalomaniacal madman whose decisions led to the deaths of dozens of millions of souls. Were those deaths justified in the pursuit of growth and development?
<do this action> for <every iteration of the loop>
Intelligent Mail Barcode
Even assuming Google would not ignore that for a popular enough site (they would know!), there is no robot.txt setting that says "index my site, but please don't steal my content, thanks."
Anecdotally, the last time I looked at any of my 30+ year old 3.5" floppies, they all worked fine.

Of course, back then I knew enough to spend a bit more on the good quality ones, so that could have something to do with it.
Just watched that in its entirety and highly recommend. I think you can count on our species NOT solving this crisis. I'm kind of glad I don't have and don't want kids, but that's nothing compared to the inevitable, massive loss of life in our biosphere.
To give an example of the difference: does it fsync() before stopping?
A bug is a problem that affects your users. If you're a library author then your users are developers of applications (and higher-level libraries), so an unintentional breaking change to your API is definitely a bug.
Managing Proxmox Using Terraform, Cloud-Init, SaltStack and Prometheus
Does the physical build actually matter? "We" are just virtual constructs that happen to run on a brain inside a skull at the top of a four-limbed creature.

For an organism that evolved on this planet, it stands to reason they'd have some experience similar to ours. The fact that their consciousness would run on multiple nodes is of little relevance imo
Whether the problem is nice to have or not is entirely orthoganal to how important it is to solve.

"Is this feature important, or a nice to have" is the question they want, not "is this problem nice to have?".
Today you can use spot block instances for this. They are guaranteed to die off after your chosen time block of 1-6 hours.
“My mind is living on cloud nine and this .9 is never on vacation.” -Kendrick Lamar.

Nah, my mind is just pretty wild. Sorry if it was kinda hard to read, bro. GPT-3 is for suckers.
A True Story About Finding a Needle in a Haystack
Ruby on Rails. Ugh. (Though yes, that’s a framework rather than a language.)
Well...

(1) If you believe prices trend towards marginal cost, and,

(2) the cost of acquiring a new user trends lower for more useful products, then it follows that...

(3) capping the price of software would generally improve its overall quality.

(Don't worry, I'm mostly joking. Still...)
The Right is dominated in media silos. AM radio is almost exclusively right wing talk these days. FoxNews is 100% propaganda and almost all fiction. Avg people who support the GOP are encrusted inside this silo. They do not listen, watch, read or see any objective news. Its 100% partisan political propaganda. So getting the message through isnt possible. Its about as biased as anything in history. But they'll tell you that they're oppressed by the Liberal Media... Facts be damned.
As far as I know it still sends a graceful shutdown at the end of the time block. It sends exactly the same signal as if you use the shutdown API, which is the same as pressing the power button on the front of the machine.
TBF, that doesn't actually work - you have to write:

int fd; /* fd must be declared in order to be assigned */
if ((fd = open(...)) != -1) {
/* do something with fd */
} else {
perror("open");
}

which would be better written as:

int fd = open(...);
if (fd != -1) /* etc */

It would be nice for scoping reasons to be able to write something like:

if ((int fd = open(...)) != -1) /* etc */

but

if ((int fd == open(...)) != -1) /* etc */

isn't valid code.
Great. Hadn't heard of this concept before. But seems perfect to describe the situation.

Thanks.
Lots of users have desktops, monitors, chargers, and even heaters plugged into our UPSes. To them it's just a chunky power strip. They're lucky if they can squeak out more than 5 minutes on battery.
> kind of intellectually-lazy

I think that was rather uncalled for. My own use of avatars was a result of a lot of specific design decisions, around dissatisfaction with webcam video, i.e. the incongruity between the theoretical reason for why it's there ("to provide eye-contact!") and the reality that it fails at that task.
It's disappointing to me to see such a knee-jerk misinterpretation of an apparently sincere article. The author merely pointed out an almost obvious aspect of human nature, and you attack him as though he holds this belief.

My father was actually colonized. He actually went to Nigeria, expecting to find a unified black Africa just waiting to throw off the shackles of colonialism. As the civil war erupted he actually watched tribalism consume the country and saw Igbos having their heads caved in with crankshafts wielded by other black Africans.

He would understand the nuance and ultimately truth of the author's argument.

It's weird and sad to see people in North America who have never been colonized, who have never picked up a weapon just completely lose their minds about stuff that doesn't bother the actual people who were actually colonized. Stop being outraged on others' behalf and talk to those with experience, or listen to people like this author. There's a lot you're missing.
This appears to be a rare example of a government providing a secure perimeter for its citizens to create and innovate without being subject to a foreign totalitarian machine's global spying operation. It's not a top down imposition.

Reality is, if the U.S. govt doesn't protect its networks, people and companies will have to protect themselves with encryption and hardware key management that keeps China out, which by extension means keeping US law enforcement out as well. It's a sovereignty issue.
Belgium? It has an abundance of excellent ales, but it isn't noted for its lagers. They're mass (Maes?) produced. The same goes for the UK. I suspect it's mostly down to marketing by big brewers.
Just try not to get eaten alive for YouTube views, I guess...
Twitch Prime is now called Prime Gaming
Sorry, that was very much a rhetorical question.

I can't imagine a justification that would put the term "workers" ahead of "people" in the context of affording human rights to fellow citizens.