skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or somebody read their tweet, and then personally imagined how cool it would be if one day they got a package saying "we used your code, here's a Switch as thanks." People aren't always making complex cost/benefit analysis before posting a one sentence tweet.
Doing some quick math in my head, even at 1w draw each, if they're constantly drawing that 24/7, it would end up costing about 80 cents per month (at $0.11/kWh). The cost of purchasing the chargers easily outweighs that. But I probably only have 5 around the house, so I have no problem spending 40 cents per month.
Some argue that the economy is directly tied to energy.

https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2019/04/05/149-...
Hehe, I see what you did here. But it's a bit different in some ways. The developer decided in the first place to opensource the software while absolutely no one could produce a gaming platform that was free. And in this case the developer got acknowledged which is a big deal, generally big companies use FOSS without even bothering to do so. That acknowledgement may help improve the career for FOSS developers and raise the potential of obtaining really well paid commercial gigs. I wish FOSS were paid but then it wouldn't really be FOSS. At least being acknowledged is the first step towards fairness.
I believe 100% that a one-man SaaS needs to leverage their existing knowledge even more than a team. So for me it would be a no-brainer nodejs, dynamo, etc. - the tech I use every day and know in and out. You should have a very good reason to stray from your core if you actually want a business and not just a fun coding challenge.
Almost every large tech company has offices in the US outside the Bay Area; in NYC, Seattle, LA, etc. What's stopping them from winding down their Bay Area offices over the next 10 years and slowly ramping up investments in other places?
>Caveat Emptor only goes so far

This is key. The general public has a very basic understanding of tech generally and even less about what can be done with their data.
I second this. Instead of billing retroactively, consider just not billing for the extra seats during that period. Maybe notify the user that they've entered a grace period for this billing cycle, but starting next cycle they can expect to get charged for the extra seats.
Biofuels and wind would probably be the basis of the energy sector of a civilization reboot.

All the easily extracted oil is long gone on earth. There used to be deposits bubbling up from the ground, oil extraction now depends on several centuries of accumulated knowledge, industry, infrastructure, and resource maps to get to tar sands, deep water deposits, fracking, etc.
I don't see how your first sentence follows when looking at all the graphs.
40 years between 1930s and 1970s were anomalous period when industrialists shared a larger fraction of their profits with workers. Partially due to stronger unions then. The service economy became a larger fraction of the economy. They were more stingy sharing with service workers.
Do you have a source for this claim?
Canada , Sweden, Switzerland, Argentina, Spain , Australia , New Zealand and arguably undeveloped India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico and other parts of Latin America were "intact".
Those wealth management companies charge significant fees and typically do not beat the market once fees and legal expenses are considered.

If you look at any list of the truly rich, it is almost all 'new money', of those that are beneficiaries, the money was inherited relatively recently (such as the Walton family).

https://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/
Likely to be built within Slack, but certainly not a competitor.
Not completely related but I decided on my latest GNU/Linux distro install that I much prefer the macOS model with slow updates for the major stuff with optional use of Homebrew and other updating mechanisms for the add-ons. One of the things that I got tired of was having to run updates on Fedora, Ubuntu, etc. So I decided to install Debian Stable with the Nix package manager as a sort of Homebrew replacement. This way I don't have to worry about my distro breaking, while I can get new stuff that is atomic and easy to remove when I want. I am curious if any Guix users do something similar.
How long before tractor manufacturers buy "environmental regulations" to prohibit the use of older machinery?
I believe we should find ways that are more efficient but ruling out fossil fuels altogether is going to cause a massive global depression.
Yes, it's really a simple realization. Almost common wisdom that some things matter more than others, but when you've learned something alone / incorrectly you must forget those first classifications.
For example my singing teacher said to not do the fomer exercices anymore now that she would give me new ones.
The new ones embeded that decorrelated view, they would train just breathing, or just glottal closure, or just pitch.
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> Let the grammar police (...)

Wouldn't this be a case for the orthography police?
It's not about following arbitrary rules for the sake of following rules.

There are people out there that won't hesitate to kill any number of people for the hard cash or fame, some did it before and that's how the rules were born. I am sure that some of rules could be revisited thanks to the new tech but portraying it as "rules kill people" is intellectually dishonest or naive.

Look what happened with Boeing 737-MAX. Some businessmen, scientists and engineers will cut corners to get their job "done" and every now and then it will be catastrophic.
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> configuration gets messed up and you don't remember how you deployed it in the first place

Configuration getting messed up sounds more like a k8s problem than anything else. In any case, if you aren't using git and don't know how to at least back things up you really should be asking yourself if a tech company is right for you, as a one man/woman operation. There are countless other ways to make money online. Etsy, Craigslist, Shopify, etc.

> until a node dies and you need to recreate it

The way to solve both of these problems on a single node operation is to create a snapshot/clone of your machine. At that point you would really just need to worry about the IP address changing and/or updating DNS when restoring the image. The best part is you can take this "master" copy and deploy it as a staging server. Or even horizontally scale by throwing a load balancer on top. You can even get your VM exactly how you want it locally and then deploy it to DO, Linode, Vultr or whatever.
I was struck by this sentence: "I have no message for suffering humanity and, though I was bullied at school and lost my virginity like so many of us used to do in the old days, I have never been tempted to foist these and other harrowing personal experiences on the public."

Is Ian Fleming saying that he was sexually abused as a child?
Presumably worked a lot better when EV certs got the fancy UI
You literally just ask and they give you a better price. There’s no up-sell, they want the transaction completed as quickly as you do.
Here's an MSNBC journalist saying she was explicitly told which candidates in the Democratic primary could and could not come on her show last year: https://twitter.com/arianapekary/status/1330571415549046787

The thing is, journalists can and do discuss the ways their coverage is shaped from above all the time -- whether through explicit directives like this one or more soft forms of influence like using promotions and firings to select for certain perspectives -- but this never makes any dent in the insistence on such bromides as "if there was a big conspiracy to control the media some journalists would talk about it." They do talk about it, people just aren't interested in hearing it.
interesting!!!
Probably a little of the other countries, followed predominantly by China, and that the common denominator was unrestricted free trade with poorer countries. As the other countries liberalized and conditions for workers improved they became less valuable places to offshore production to. Mexico and especially China remain countries of cheap labor due to political conditions and thus the high deficits.
Here's a (crop from a) photo of a small child who has just picked a front door lock with a bent paper clip and a small screwdriver for the tension. This was not an exercise; we were really locked out!

https://imgur.com/a/1leW6Ij
All it does is further tribalise people. I would be okay with a social media system that did not serve people only the content they would like to see. Also there has to be some sort of gatekeeper to weed out false information. I don’t know how the latter can be implemented in a fair manner besides some sort of arbitration AI that we don’t currently have.
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The BSL strikes a good balance there: https://perens.com/2017/02/14/bsl-1-1/

As it always resolves to an open source license after a set amount of time + is always free in many other ways.
richgel999 has posted before about Valve's toxic culture - so bikeshedding about "well why don't you just... " is beside the point in the larger context of perverse incentives.
https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1330765701037101057?s=...
This is harnessing about 2 million lines of code in three different systems, to achieve what amounts to copy & paste text from their Twitter bio.
> Not if all the businesses are monopolies. The concentration of wealth allow for an ever greater capture of markets as well as the government that would reign in their monopolistic behavior. This should be obvious with what just happened with Uber, who successfully bought legislation to defend their unprofitability but movement towards monopoly, and has large executive overlap with the former Obama/soon-to-be Biden administrations.

Are you joking?

You seem to be making some kind of corruption argument around large companies, which I think is fair. That's not what I'm saying though.

I am saying that if company A earns $90 and spends $100, then the extra $10 must come from somewhere (normally further investment).

As a thought experiment, I noted that this would not work if every company spent 10% more than they earned, because where would the money come from? You seem to say that this doesn't happen because the businesses are monopolies.

Can you clarify your argument on this specific point further, as I really don't understand it?
Boycott implies some form of coordination that’s more than just rejecting the premise and/or use of Facebook.
How do tech-savvy users contribute more valuable content than non-tech savvy users? Maybe when it comes to content about tech but that's not the majority of content on Facebook and Twitter
The developer was free to choose a different license.
Yup, keeps me coming back. Also open-box specials are a great way to save money.
Much like Troy I'm trying to avoid getting sucked into one of the walled gardens. Apple, Google...or Philips.

Yeelights you can control directly via self-hosted Home Assistant & the Home assistant app...on your LAN, no internet required, no proprietary hub, no Philips premium.

>There are a ton of wifi-enabled lights, so I wouldn't recommend one in particular.

You do realize Yeelight is Xiaomi, right? It's their competitor lineup to Hue

>which has too many permissions for what it does

I used the iphone app for initial linking - permissions look fine to me, but I did disable bluetooth & homekit later. That said the initial pairing process is indeed quite sketchy & fiddly.

>it's also got another wireless protocol that isn't affected by your wifi network

Yeah - Zigbee. Considered it but abandoned it due to cost - both on the individual device side and you're back to needing some sort of bridge/receiver device.

>Hue switches should continue to work even if your internet is down

Same for the HA solution since it's hosted on the local network. Unless your local wifi connection to your router is unstable from interference...in which case I'd be concerned about zigbee too since they're both on 2.4ghz
Reddit is a prime example of what you're explaining. Reddit has been aggressively expanding their advertising, yet they've done little to nothing to stop ad blockers, or third party Reddit clients, such as Apollo, that automatically strip the website of ads.

I'd posit that Reddit understands that the demographic actually generating content (comments, posts, etc...) are very tech savvy, heavily utilize ad blockers and ad-stripping third party clients. Reddit understands that these users would leave the site en masse if their third party clients or ad blockers were interfered with. This would result in a drop in quality content for "average", non-ad blocking users to interact with, ultimately killing their web traffic and ad revenues.

I'd also bet this is why Reddit has yet to force everyone to the new advertising-optimized redesign, which their power users hate.
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I had the same exact question. What does this product do? The landing page does a poor job of explaining, imo.
I thought it used to be one of the most popular languages:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqxeLodyyqA&ab_channel=elmus...

Not sure about the source though.
Well, for one thing, we've all benefitted enormously from open source projects in our careers, so it's nice to be able to contribute something back.
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>in countries where media was always controlled by corrupt businessmen or politicians

I think much of the West has always fallen under that umbrella in many ways. Look up "yellow journalism". Hell, look at how the media is currently controlled by corrupt businessmen.
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=36754 claims about 5% of GDP is energy costs. It is on a mild downward trend since increasing since the 1970s.

Considering that percentage is higher than margins in quite a few businesses I'd say it has a limiting effect on the economy.
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The computer? Specifically the first microprocessor was around then, wasn't it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004

Oh and, uh, I was born around that time. Sorry everyone!
Why do you think the term "royalty" isn't applicable to a sales-based bonus when the copyright has transferred?

I've processed many contracts which use the term in exactly that sense, and evidently SFWA use it that way too.
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> Who cares. That's where capitalism is now because letting it run rampant created and caused this.

So you're not engaging with my argument, and just spouting off anti-capitalistic talking points (which I would agree with, if they were any way germane to the points we're making here).

I'm not sure there's much point in engaging further with you. Have a great day :)
Trying to shoehorn in Theranos does not preclude covering WeWork, so I'm not sure how you read my comment to imply that it did.
Taxes on the wealthy have decreased substantially in the US since the 50's. Even if social welfare spending is increasing, the wealthy are paying for less of it then they did before the 70's.
Does anyone know any board that is similar to RPi 4, with 8GB of RAM or more and a SATA port or an nvme slot? ARM would be great.
> Plus players will 100% notice even the tiniest changes, and will complain about it forever. A game like CS:GO will never die, just look at the player numbers for its predecessor which has 6000-7000 daily active players.

this. to any readers unfamiliar with the community, it's hard to overstate how much cs players abhor change.
That's EV though, and it looks like DigiCert is the only one that does it for .onion: https://crt.sh/?Identity=%25.onion

They do offer ACME though: https://docs.digicert.com/certificate-tools/Certificate-life...
When people bring up "cattle, not pets" I tell the story of my uncle, who runs a small dairy farm in Wisconsin. He has about fifty head of cattle, gave each of them names, and takes care of them when they're sick.

Point being that it takes very large scale for the principles people refer to when they say "cattle, not pets" to kick in -- even when you're actually raising cattle. But by the same token, automated reproducible configuration is a huge win whether you have 1 server or 10,000.
What is the point of this thing? Aren't we rapidly going towards a future where a job is rare to come by? Why not just pay a dude to bike around and sell chicken. No software updates, no crazy backend to support it, is able to make quick decisions about where it should be to sell the most chicken, very little carbon footprint due to a guy literally using his own energy to ride a bicycle.
Theranos is mentioned three times in the article, and always in the company of more cogent examples of VC-funded companies- Juicero, Uber, and WeWork. The quibbling over Theranos really does look like a distraction away from the main points of the article.
From what I could gather, there was the PPP program [0] that had a restriction of "no more than 500 employees per location". Hence, it applied to small businesses, but bigger businesses segmented into several physical locations also made use of it.

It did not result in redistribution of the market, since it did not explicitly lead to closing of businesses. If the program did not exist, small business would be forced to close, while the big segmented businesses would be more likely to stay afloat. So if you transactionally compare the "PPP" vs "no PPP" scenarios, the "PPP" scenario is better for small businesses.

2008-style bailouts, and the lockdown exemptions that California is doing, specifically benefit big businesses. If the big businesses were not bailed out in 2008, they would go bankrupt, opening market share to smaller players. If the COVID lockdowns affected big and small businesses the same way (say all restricted to selling essential items only), the market share of small shops would not be transferred to Walmart. Instead, the market itself would temporarily shrink.

[0] https://www.sba.gov/funding-programs/loans/coronavirus-relie...
Isn't the following simple experiment enough to show that wearing a mask should help?

1. Without a mask, I coughed while probing the space around my face with one of my hands, at a distance of maybe 9-12 inches away.

I could easily feel significant airflow from the cough in a cone in front of mouth. Nothing to the sides (for purposes of this discussion, "side" means significantly off-axis from from the line down the middle of the cone, so includes above and below the face, not just left and right).

2. Same test, with mask. I either did not detect any airflow or just detected a bare hint of some at the same test distance as unmasked. (I'd need an assistant to tell which, since I can't think of a good way to do a blind test alone).

There was definitely some airflow out the sides with the mask, as I could see by the coughs fogging my glasses, but it only seemed to be very close to my head.

3. I Repeated the above, but replacing "cough" with "blow as hard as I can". Same results.

How does one escape concluding from this that if I'm infectious wearing a mask will reduce the volume over which my releases of air containing virus laden droplets spread? Or that this means my chances of passing it on to someone I'm only spending a little time with (clerks helping with a purchase, people standing in the same line for something, etc) will be reduced?
Yes, but that's besides the point.
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> I cringe every time I see dongle attached storage

I'm quite curious as to how this is "cringe"worthy. I can certainly see how mechanically stable attached storage is preferable in a lot of situations, but people use Pi's for a vast array of uses, and I cannot imagine that every use case, or even a significant majority of them should be barred from USB attached storage.
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Having already broken Linux audio (PulseAudio) and booting (SystemD), he wants to break home directories. The fact that Red Hat still employs him tells us a lot about Red Hat's business objectives and complete lack of concern for things like community decision-making, simplicity, UNIX/BSD/POSIX compatibility, recoverability, and reliability.
You are correct, several large corporations bordering on monopolies (and possibly national security apparatus too) are in the process of putting the internet under total control.

Disappointingly there are those who would downvote you for the heresy you speak. These people are delusional for thinking corporations are bothered by the social/racial/whatever justice that drives them to call for more censorship. Corporations are opportunistically using these moral panics to impose control.
But that's still not very cool, as the USB is externally accessible. + it will take away some bandwidth
Creation isn't zero sum. I make things all the time which create shared benefit.

I spent this Saturday morning working in my front yard. It looks nice for my benefit, but it also benefits my neighbors. It would be really strange for me to approach my neighbors and ask for financial remuneration because they've been enriched by my yardwork. Yardwork is enjoyable and I like making the world better in this fashion.

I wouldn't join a yardwork company and work for free.

Software is similar. We can use OSS to share the benefit when we do something we want or need to do anyway.
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The Gates Foundation has been capital-sharing with Indian manufacturers to get more vaccine into 3rd world.
Does it not?

>Over the six-year period that had followed the passage of the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act of 1970, physicians sterilized perhaps 25% of Native American women of childbearing age, and there is evidence suggesting that the numbers were actually even higher.

https://time.com/5737080/native-american-sterilization-histo...
https://web.archive.org/web/20201123181545/https://hfet.org/...
Some more clues where this comes from are in this issue: https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON/issues/255
I mean, that's how the industrial revolution started and continues to this day, so yes, fossil fuels as well.
You've got a good point. It's almost like what happened with the Twitter hack. But what I'm wondering is that isn't there any way to make the car completely offline that it never communicates with the servers?
MMT promises money for nothing and the debt for free. The idea isn't modern - its just debasement with a new name. As old as humanity.
I wish the author would also do this for PeerTube.
Unlike LetsEncrypt, it supports certificates for IP addresses, which is nice for hobbyists who don’t want to buy a domain.
And you believe that?
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Is the 'backdoor' the admin portal with default credentials and a poorly thought out default network policy?

The article seems to imply this is a malicious tool, but it seems more likely to me that this is just another poorly designed router instead.
> 'news' rhymes with 'pews'

This must be a regional thing. I've never heard someone pronounce "news" as "nyooze". "Pews" is pronounced that way, however.
yes, the policy all along should have been to only wear masks at social gatherings where distancing isn't guaranteeable (along with previously-noted public-facing workers). the fatigue of wearing a mask all the time (for complicity or social pressure) encourages us to take them off in private, exactly where they might have actual marginal benefit.
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Here's their source, which actually contains details: https://cybernews.com/security/walmart-exclusive-routers-oth...