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I think for apt/dpkg, the system definitely does benefit from decades of careful, thoughtful design— for example you're pretty unlikely to come up with a version constraint between your packages which isn't expressible using the existing Debian scheme. And when I look at various modernish packaging systems, I often see a lot of this thrown out as unneeded complexity, only to be cobbled back in later when it's discovered how essential it really is (see for example Homebrew's long transition from being a dirt simple wrapper around "configure; make; make install" to becoming a full binary package manager).

There's also the ecosystem benefit of having loads of helpers and supplementary tooling applicable to the formats— even stuff like having first-class support in proprietary binary stores like Artifactory, vs Nix where it's basically a shrug and "well... it works with any WebDAV server, so take your pick I guess?"

The main complaint I have overall with Apt is the reliance on postinstall scripts, which means that even if you download and extract your packages in parallelized blocks, you still have a long serialized step when every single package needs to spawn a shell and run arbitrary commands, even if in most cases, the commands actually originate from a semi-declarative format (debhelpers, either invoked explicitly from the rules file, or implicitly by the presence of a corresponding debian/xyz file in the metadata). Anyway, if it were possible to somehow flag packages as atomic or configure-less, it might be possible to significantly speed up these operations, especially in environments like CI where you have everything mirrored in-network or possibly even on-machine so the overall install time is dominated by the package configure step.
Racing has a very different labor cost situation than commercial freight.

Commercial freight will likely make use of far less energy efficient but far more labor efficient designs.
If colonizing a star system to be able to send further expeditions would take 500 years, and an interstellar trip took 500 years, there's still a thousand "colony generations" in a million years.
If it's a question with food, why not every product we ingest?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25551877
Not like ..say..the melting pot of the Caucasus, Georgia ..or ancient Rome or like..Moorish Spain/Andalusia or Moghal India.

It’s not An Invasion per se...America was colonized. The impact of invasions are different in history’s timeline.

Regardess, those who reached American shores were the Puritans and their ilk anyways.
Ah, so your version of socialism is just capitalism with some redistribution. The moment you let democracy vote on the direction of private capital, the entire system falls apart, but you seem to agree that leads to mass murder.
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I have one counterexample but it's a much smaller project: a bespoke ecommerce platform with somewhat tenuous integration into decades-old Oracle EBS backoffice systems was successfully replaced with a heavily customized open source ecommerce platform, with much better backoffice integration.
Becoming a software engineer when I was almost 30. Changed my life.
I agree in general, but isn't number 2 just an opinion? Surely the advice would be to just pick one way and stick to it without mixing in others.
I think standard Oracle license prohibite benchmarking.
Post-COVID I see three scenarios:

- Companies go back to the office, but with more of an onsite/remote split and better support for it

- Companies that reject remote and return to the office fully

- A whole host of companies that go fully remote, or start as a fully remote

Given the experience we've all had during COVID, employees will thus be now better able to self-select to work for companies within the above scenarios.

Therefore, this position feels pretty transient to me intuitively, although given Gitlab spearheaded its creation maybe my intuition is completely off?

Regardless, I personally loathe the expansion of HR in the modern org in terms of their jurisdiction, visibility and power and this position seems to be just another tentacle on the beast. As with everything HR related, it also feels like once it exists it won't not exist.
Unfortunately the above narrative is not a popular view for mainstream media or on HN.

>Facebook does try to police hate speech, and it's a hard job."

I actually think they did a pretty decent job before, but now they have harden things up and it is crossing the threshold for some people. The world of political correctness is getting a little insane.
Out of interest, based on your comment from having done last year's as well, how did you feel the experience was as a speaker?

A lot of the videos seem to be recorded by screen capture of live streams of screen captures, but I was wondering (as someone that organises events from time to time, which will now need to be online) if there's any other software being used behind the scenes that would help with putting together "fancy" streams, rather than capturing the output of a video chat tool?
I just wonder if massive sails that double as solar panels, and additional fold-out solar arrays, would be superior overall and lighter.

But any short-term "jury rig" is valuable.

And if we get enough cheap excess green energy, carbon-neutral artificial fuels might be superior too.
I believe that endangered species data in the USA is routinely hidden, due to actual cases of real-estate developers finding and killing the last remaining species in order to clear a development project. Note- college educated American citizens with financial responsibilties have been caught and found guilty of this
Er, what do you mean by a "noble crime"? Seems like a very ignoble crime to me...
> 1. If you fall for 1/N of the scams you are exposed to, multiplying the number of scams by K means you fall for on average K times as many scams.

Only if exposure to each scam is independent! I wouldn't expect that to be the case. I hypothesize people prone to falling for scams get exposed to comparatively more scams, and people resistant to scams get exposed to relatively fewer over time.

So your main point stands: delivery of scams has been thoroughly optimized to saturate a vulnerable population and not waste time on a resistant population, compared to a few decades ago.
There's the US involvement with SWIFT, including seizing intra-EU payments - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Worldwide_Interban...
I always look for a Twitter account or something to send my gratitude to. It feels like a more natural place to do it than in an issue. The only downside is that a tweet only goes to one person, while if you open an issue, all contributors can see it more easily.
If you don't trust an application, sandboxing is one way to go. But that goes all the way down. If you don't trust docker and the OS, run them in a VM. If you don't trust the VM, run it on a spare computer. If you don't trust that computer's hardware, then use minecraft to make a PC with your own instruction set :) Same with networking. Use HTTPS. No? Also use a VPN. No? Make your own VPN. No? Use smoke signals with one-time pad encryption..

In the end you decide at what point are you willing to delegate responsibility for things working as they say they should.
Posturing for a completely unrelated issue wins points for the woke crowd, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the issue at hand.
> made by a solo indie developer that we're happy to support.

That would be a good reason to pay well for a nice product imo.
Because everyone has written it off as a lost cause.

Heck, "unsubscribe from all the default subs they're a cesspool" has been the going advice for at least a decade now. If that doesn't say lost cause I don't know what does.
This book taught me about Rasmussen's model of safety. It's a good book.
This seems like what xkcd called "citogenesis" - something inaccurate gets published on Wikipedia, a traditional "reliable source" (newspaper, published nonfiction book, etc.) retells that bit of information without a source, Wikipedia cites the source, that information is now firmly established as truth for the rest of humanity.

I worry about this with Google's language translation models, too. It's entirely possible that it's making up phrases or connotations that never existed in organic human speech, but people who aren't fully fluent in the language use Google Translate for assistance, publish something, and then suddenly it's in a published text by an actual human and Google reinforces its own belief.

For at least the past five years, Google Translate has translated "who proceeds from the father" into Latin as "qui ex patre filioque procedit" - inserting the additional word "filioque," which means "and the son." The question of whether to add this word is a 1500-year-old theological argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filioque Since the Western Church added the word, most texts in Latin include it, so Google is almost certainly deciding that the phrasing with "filioque" is more popular - but it doesn't know what the words mean, so it can't realize that the phrase it came up with means something different!
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I think we've only had one 'thank you' GitHub issue for Matrix/Element (Riot) in 6 years, but it was hugely appreciated and continues to make folks smile when they make a coffee in the office (back when we had an office): https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/8752
It's fun to email the people that write libraries or little tools you find useful and say thanks.

Most of the time they appreciate it and it's pretty easy to do.
Really interesting to see progress on the provable correctness and security of software. Pages 11-12 state there is always an inevitable gap between the formal methods and the real world, but this nevertheless sounds a lot better than the hand-wavy, buggy C that gets written today.
I created a floppy disk VCR that plays full length films (like garbage)
The situation with AMD is a bit complicated. Basically, there was an antitrust lawsuit led by AMD years ago, and as part of the settlement, Intel and AMD would share patents to allow collaboration. I can’t recall the actual specifics though.

As for patents, I don’t, but someone else here linked in the one for FMA[0]. It’s a bit more complicated than just an API, but it seems broad enough that anything implementing that API would be covered. But IANAL.

[0]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7499962
You can just install these rotating wings on the deck and get 5-7% increase in fuel efficiency immediately and lasts 20-30 years with minimal maintenance. The investment pays itself back in 3-8 years.

Wing is obviously more efficient. The problem with the wing is the cost and size. You need to design the ship for the wing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanbird
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This article doesn’t really contain much information. A lot of supposition no facts.
Heard this one before.

"Netflix is $10/m, so why would I buy Mailbrew (the product we make) for the same price?"

Apparently hundreds of people are happy to pay for quality indie software that solves their problems. We are among them.
You mean to get cultural meaningful intermingling, you shouldn't wipe them out?
Well yes, but clever unit grouping is the opposite of automatic.
As long as scientific research is underfunded and needs funding from companies, they get to determine which results you hear about.

It's built into our current system that those with the money make the rules. One way to start breaking that is to implement a stronger progressive tax system and to properly fund scientific research with public funds that do not come with corporate strings attached.

Ideally, abolish all corporate interests' influence on public matters.
You're free to ignore Conway's law[1] and the like at your own risk.

I would argue that if software or organizations were straightforward to apply such rigor that you'd see something closer to hardware where formal verification plays a much larger role(to be fair there's also the aspect of hardware/ASIC respin costs here as well). As a byproduct I think you see much less autonomy or even diversity of job roles in that space because a good portions of the problems are considered "solved".

This is not a knock against hardware(it's hard!) but more that the design space of large scale software projects involve a diverse set of teams and people so you see similar patterns arise.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
> stolen by the Brits from the Dutch

Citation ?

From Wiki -

In September 1929, Unilever was formed by a merger of the operations of Dutch Margarine Unie and British soapmaker Lever Brothers, with the name of the resulting company a portmanteau of the name of both companies.
I'm talking about solvent funds like ARK.
You can destroy the original.

This would make a good SF story. Probably has already :-)
laumars, I think what I'm missing to hear from you is why microkernels are such a bad and horrible idea and more importantly why Nintendo itself is mistaken if they had used them on their devices. Otherwise, I still think they are a good fit.
Can you expand on how it changed your life? I'm curious how change of profession effects life.
Yup. There's also a lot of room at the utility scale for improved designs of the old Edison batteries. Nickel-Iron chemistries are heavy and initially expensive, but:

1. They can last effectively forever with periodic electrolyte topoff, proper charge control, decent thermal management, and good contaminant prevention policies.

2. They (and their electrolyte effluvia) aren't terribly toxic.

Most other utility scale chemistries have limited lifespans and degrees of toxicity and disposal/recycling difficulties.

Hell, this could even be a Long Now project: design and operate a 10,000 year utility-scale NiFe battery. There's no theoretical reason why not.
What a bad title on this post... Thanks for the clarifications.
EA refusing to publish games was a killer, too. Albeit 2K sports was a great line at the time, but EA owned all the important licenses.
Wait a second. Are you telling me their paywall works by downloading the content to my browser and then hiding it? That would be ... ridiculous.
Is their an Onion link?
EA not supporting it did a lot of damage, though ironically almost every sega sports franchise was better than their games
Ah I see, well in that case I can tell you that the author of that article disagrees with you. It's true that I don't share those same worries about cancel culture with you, my point is that this article is particularly weak evidence for your position.
Being utilitarian is being beautiful. When I look at the Brooklyn Bridge, I feel the same sense of aesthetics I would get from Roman aqueducts.

The problem of some American architecture is not that they are too utilitarian - it's that they stopped being utilitarian in search of some nebulous artistic merit.
The value of data decreases. There are diminishing returns to dataset sizes (specifically, for GPT, it's a power law). The more public data there is, and the more data in general, the less any additional piece of private data is worth. Why would any tech company with access to lots of private data, like Google, risk the enormous backlash and legal penalties when they can so easily scrape terabytes and terabytes of text from public datasets to train uncannily intelligent models like GPT-3? Even hobbyists can make the necessary datasets from Common Crawl et al (see EleutherAI's terabyte+ of clean text in The Pile dataset).

This is in addition to the ever greater sample-efficiency of bigger models, which learn eerily fast from just a handful of datapoints, rendering the supposed 'moats' of big giant proprietary datasets ever more moot...
Every IDE I use and have used for the last 15 years has included an option to format the code the way someone else believes it to be best viewed. I have never found these to be the way I prefer SQL to be formatted for the best readability.

A difficult but incredibly useful idea would be to learn the developer’s style and then format code (theirs or others’) to fit that model.
> only dependencies are curl and bash

This isn’t really true, from an strace it also execs cat, wc, date, echo, mkdir, mktemp, and rmdir.
Expressing gratitude is one of the surest paths to a better day.

One of my all-time favorite books -- "How to Want What You Have" by Tim Miller, PhD -- has as its central thesis the idea that:

1. Most people are relatively unhappy;

2. The root cause is our tendency always to want More [money/power, love, recognition] -- which stems from evolutionarily adaptive traits;

3. The remedy is to live in the present moment -- which one can learn to do by deliberately practicing three closely-related things:

1. Compassion
2. Attention
3. Gratitude

The book is (sadly, inexplicably) out of print, but it's popular enough there are plenty of used copies for sale. I first encountered HTWWYH in a 5th-edition hardcover, and it was transformative. Highest posaible recommendation.
Asus confirms 3080 Ti graphics card with 20GB memory
Does anyone know of an online community to practice these exercises doing pair programming?
#ModernCropCircles
If you understand why the pilot did this, you understand why “aliens” make crop circles?
Interesting bits for me ... I knew neither!

> seL4 is also a hypervisor. seL4 supports virtual machines that can run a fully fledged guest OS such as
Linux

> seL4 is the world’s fastest microkernel
Slightly related: wind powered car that goes faster than the wind

https://phys.org/news/2010-06-wind-powered-car-faster.html
#Solar can't get indefinitely cheaper.#

They could get a bit more imaginative and standardized. Intelligent panels with integrated micro invertors that you just had to feed a cable into the fuse box and you're done would be nice. Standards so my water heater could talk to the panels and know when to turn on would be nice too.
> doesn’t renunciation of US citizenship actually require an act of Congress annually, under which all recent applicants are included?

No. At least, none that I've heard of, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relinquishment_of_United_State... makes no mention of it.

There is a quarterly publication of those who have renounced citzenship - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarterly_Publication_of_Indiv... . But that appears to have been put into place mostly to try to shame rich people who expatriated, under an invalid idea that most renunciations were from rich people trying to avoid paying US taxes.
These days I associate “Dunning-Kruger” with “humblebrag”. I have similar feelings about Imposter Syndrome. I wish both terms had never been popularized.
Something to consider; why don't orcas ever bite humans in the wild? The standard answer is we're too bony and taste bad. Maybe that's the reason, but it doesn't sit right with me. Sure we might be bony compared to seals, but how do orcas know we taste bad if they won't even take a nibble? Orcas seem to have zero curiosity for how we taste. Contrast this with sharks, which are known for taking a taste once in a while. Are sharks, glorified fish, really more curious than these hyper intelligent mammals? Maybe, but that seems suspect to me.

Here is what I believe; whales are capable of passing knowledge down through their generations, just like us. The power of their language is not yet fully understood, but I think it reasonable to assume they are able to express at least simple ideas like "Can I eat this?", "Do not eat that!" and "Those are dangerous to us." A language which can convey those ideas may be sufficient for whales to have memory of industrial scale whaling. I believe Orcas likely remember that humans are very good at killing whales, and subsequently know not to fuck with us. (They may also be able to reason this out by observing our capabilities today, even if they have forgotten what we once did.)
So based on a limited pool of my Chinese friends and work there I have never experienced any resentment towards the British.
Nor do the Chinese show anger towards Koreans who made up a significant proportion of the Japan imperial force.
I'm aware of the history of China. It's telling that it was the USA after the war that played up Japan's aggression in China. Now the invasion was bad, but was it unique in its brutality? The 1850s civil war in China was way worse.

Why the lack of focus on Europeans not apologizing for what they did in Asia/China?
Why the bombardment of films about the evil Japanese invading but not the Europeans?

I've seen anti-japanese posters in China never seen anything on Europeans.
I had a slightly different complaint from yours, which is that the author doesn't seem conversant with the kinda-sorta-formal fields of study that already exist.

Take for example the "chicken-egg" problem. Economists study this under "multi-sided markets" (which the author touches on, but late in the example), as part of the study of path dependency. Systems dynamics researchers have framed the economics work in their own terms of stocks and flows, but the essential structure is the same and can be reduced to equations. It's mostly calculus, sometimes there's some linear algebra.

The best book in my view is still Sterman's Business Dynamics, which is much broader in scope than the title suggests (it's a play on earlier book titles). There will hopefully be a second edition in the next year or two.

Edit: I should note however that when I see "system" I pattern match on what I know best. But there's a whole discipline of "System Engineering" which comes mostly from defence, aeronautical and astronautical fields. It has a high focus on formalisms to try to govern immensely complex technological efforts.
Yeah college educated has been meant ethical. Really that would have been my guess for who would do this sort of thing. Easy to justify on a spot basis.
According to capitalism it's okay for banks to lose your money and it's your problem for having your identity stolen, go spend a dozen hours to get things fixed. And they won't use secure passwords on their site, and they'll use fake 2-factor, because those incidents don't bother them enough to want to prevent.

So when capitalism says a type of security isn't necessary, well, other than a nihilist "nothing is necessary" attitude, I don't believe them. And it doesn't prove that what a company does is "just as secure" as best practices.

> When you start with a premise that all sites MUST have HTTPS and MUST NOT support TLSv1.0 in each argument, then your arguments are simply unsound, because they're based on an incorrect premise

Whew, good thing I wasn't doing that.

> If you intentionally disable your blog from working on such older devices, shifting the blame to device manufacturer is simply ludicrous!

Let me try to be clear again, since you definitely misread me.

Disabling HTTP is on the site owner.

HTTPS breaking is the manufacturer's fault. The site can influence how it breaks, but no matter what a very old implementation will be broken. At a certain point you can't even get certificates any more because all the roots are expired.

> All my sites are HTTP-only

So you don't want your users to even be able to opt in to privacy or protection from hostile networks?
As mentioned in the replies, nullable type references.

https://hinchman-amanda.medium.com/null-pointer-references-t...
Mass Mutual’s $100 million investment isn’t “speculation”: https://www.investopedia.com/decoding-insurance-giant-massmu...

Michael Saylor invested $425 million of his company’s treasury into bitcoin and then issued $600 million in debt to buy more bitcoin.

The podcast is worth a listen to understand why MicroStrategy and other companies are using bitcoin to preserve value: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-study-billionaires-...