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> These aren't the kind of roles you can work your way into. You have to be in the right place at the right time and be there for a long time

Sorry for grammar. On mobile but wanted to quickly contribute.

I was incredibly lucky in my last role. Something I don't think I'll ever be able to match again.

When I joined the company as a sysadmin there were 30 staff, and they really liked the work I did and eventually they put me on this innovation incentive scheme that basically said "If you keep delivering innovative solutions and driving the technology direction in the way that you are, we will pay you a bonus of 1.5% of the profit made from e-commerce sales every 4"

At the time sales profit from e-commerce channels was about 250k for each period, so a very nice $3500~ bonus every 4 months.

When I left the company ~15 years later:

- 5000+ staff

- Had moved into a role managing a large team of sysadmins and was responsible for the technical innovation strategy/direction of the business overall.

- Same CEO and and my original "IT manager" was now the CTO who I still reported into.

- They kept me on the same bonus scheme for my whole time at the company.

- By the time I left online sales profit for each 4 month period was $50,000,000.

Right place, right time, right people.

:-)

I gave up a lot for that job and worked damn hard though. I let it consume me and ended up very unhealthy.
I'm not sure of the power curve for an electric vehicle, but if you add gearing, you introduce losses due to gearbox and you increase complexity.

It's likely that it is not worth it in most applications. Only cars that used gearboxes in EV space (two speed) are usually intended to be able to hit 200mph so they need extremely wide rpm range from their electric motors. I know Rimac used one and Taycan (not surprising since Rimac is partly owned by Porsche).

In Rimac case, they used the gearbox to improve 0-60 times but IIRC they are losing the gearbox for their new car.
Because, as far as I can tell, docker doesn't make easy reproducible images.

How do I make a docker file which will create the same image, bit for bit (at least version for version) in 2 years time? I find usually it's required to update packages, which is good for security, bad for not breaking things.
NanoVMs (https://nanovms.com / https://nanos.org), a Linux-compatible unikernel for virtualized environments. You don't need to deploy a whole Linux distro, no binaries but your application, only the libraries that you need. No multi-user, no multi-process, nothing like that - just the unikernel, the required libraries and your application. This improves security (far fewer points of attack), startup time, memory consumption and it may also improve performance a bit.
People should stop assuming that merit and popularity are the same thing.

Anyway, now that I know something with that name exists, maybe someday I can learn how it works. Or will have a project where it is important.
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People don't like fake.
In these specific contexts, it's important to stop using the term "FOSS." It just clouds the issue. FOSS is Free Software and software so permissively licensed that it could be relicensed and extended as Free Software. Open Source is simply giving up your ownership of the code one wrote, and this Spirit of Open Source is when one pretends that people won't actually take advantage of explicit grant of rights for reasons.

Open Source is for getting popular, and all of the arguments that Open Source people make against Free Software are about the ability to get popular (corporate usage and corporate contributors.) The reason companies use Open Source is because when you license something that way, it's theirs now. They're investing in their own property.

Free Software doesn't intend to have this problem, and if it sees a problem, it fixes the bug. You don't own Free Software, you own the devices that you install it on. You still might end up competing with someone, but you'll never fall behind.
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I never said the entire right-wing is terrorists. The militia groups and q-anon recruit right-wing Christians to extremist causes in the same way ISIS recruited right-wing Muslims to extremist causes. In both cases, they use propaganda and recruitment tactics to radicalize a segment of these groups. They even target the same demographic of disillusioned or aimless young to middle-aged men.

The radicalized militias like oathkeepers, 3%ers, vanguard, proud boys, etc are serious threats.
So Windows didn't port every single linux lib in existence and you call it 'strategy' ?
US salaries/rates are nuts.

$200/hr in the UK would put you in the top 1% of earners.
> Devices need to have the same public IP to see each other.

That is kind of unfortunate as vpns break this. Mentions it is using firebase which I assume it needs for discovery. Too bad there is no mdns support on browsers.

The name is kind of annoying me just because I already use a service called dropshare (https://dropshare.app)
No because HN it not including content.
Not sure what the parent meant, but that sentence is most definitely true for the vast vast majority of software development of products - websites, apps (desktop, mobile etc..), IOT etc...

Making products is, as far as I know, also the vast majority of software engineering jobs.

I'm sure there are some software development work that is writing code that isn't integrating third party code- especially in library maintenance, low-level embedded stuff and some core business code of products.
Even if your products are novel and their core require specialized code, only a small number of the developers in the organization will work on that, the vast majority will work on things around the core.
Tesla. Far ahead of the competition in software, electronics and battery technology.
The polarization between the company and power users/moderators and the scandal probably killed SO.

The number of answered questions is now almost as low as it was in late 2011 [0]. I don't know how to plot the quality of questions and answers but I can confirm the observation of a general decline in quality.

The problem with reward based sites is that people (or at least I am) are less stimulated to put in effort into a sinking ship.

0: https://data.stackexchange.com/serverfault/query/303570/answ...
It's like the the terminals found on Linux. I would give it a recommendation but I still encounter issues with tmux session and mouse (yes I have the latest from github installed). I recommend the terminal in VSCode which works as expected with ssh + tmux.
I quite admire anyone who's willing to take on the challenge of creating a website with user generated content these days. That is a box even Pandora would hesitate to open.

Also, it seems a bit odd that a site that claims to be for 'GitHub fans' doesn't use Github's OAuth provider for account creation...
I believe that's the case all over Europe. That the US apparently or supposedly allows taking a car driver's license exam in your private car is.. extremely surprising.
I wonder why they couldn't be bothered with providing an actual photo of the Fornax A galaxy and used a photo of the Milky Way instead.
Or issue one-week tickets. I've been to a couple of places that do that - amazing if you have kids and they go off on one (ie have a bad day/meltdown), you can leave and not lose out.

Depends a lot on the venue, but some places that won't increase visitor stays, it might even reduce them. I'll bet it makes them nicer places to be too.

I imagine it wouldn't work for them Louvre!
Here's a more detailed (German) discussion of what the rewrite entails: https://www.heise.de//news/ownCloud-Infinite-Scale-Go-statt-...

I wonder what this will mean for the competition with Nextcloud? So far, NC seemed to be more active and slightly better than OC, but this move may change the playing board quite drastically.
well it's a checklist to change ownership to a list of deeds, would work exactly the same way, with the except being that's it's a third party whom distributes property ownership among the partners and not a unilateral transfer from both to one.
To be even more pedantic: There's also a qemu block layer device that is compatible with LUKS and works in userspace (https://www.linux-kvm.org/images/8/8c/01x03-Daniel_Berrange-... - page 13).

And the cryptsetup tools / kernel has recently added support for Windows Bitlocker encryption as an alternative to LUKS, obviously only really appropriate if you deal with Windows images or need interop with Windows.
When the likes of Facebook start to worry about competition or they just buy them. Look at WhatsApp.

AWS didn’t see Parler as competition, just a liability.
Another reason is that any type of gearbox or clutch increases losses. EV cars are all about minimizing losses of energy as their power source is not energy dense as petrol.
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Well, I think people have various opinions on this one, but if you restrict supposedly free software with the trademark, fork happens to get rid of trademark. This isn't the first time and certainly not the last.
> Why: Because these organisations seem to take a moral responsibility on (some of the) things I value

> https://brave.com

Do you trust Brave after they did this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027?

> Signal (https://signal.org)

Signal is essentially s closed source walled garden now, because they do not publish their server code anymore.
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1. https://futureland.tv - A social network around daily journaling.

2. https://umami.is - A web analytics alternative to Google Analytics, allows self-hosting and much more.
> Parler had 10 million users, equivalent to more than 4000 subs, not one.

That's about 1/3 the size of /r/askreddit, and comparable to /r/politics. Your approach to the math here is silly for a variety of reasons (users can be members of multiple subs, membership isn't split evenly among all subreddits, there's a long tail of subs with 1 or 2 members, etc.) Parler was equivalent to a mid to large subreddit. It would have been around the 50th largest.

/r/politics, for comparison, has a moderation team of ~60, most of whom have years of experience moderating the subreddit, and is assisted by a number of bots (automoderator, as well as some /r/politics specific bots) developed and tuned over the years to help. They also have direct lines to the admins (most major subreddits do) for when they need more official assistance. The sub also has a fairly well understood set of rules, and users who are willing to report offending content.

Parler had none of those things. I've had the pleasure of moderating a (much, much!) smaller community. I once encountered a situation where it got viral for a very controversial reason. I and the rest of my moderation team was unable to keep up with the quantity of content being posted, so we did something very simple: we locked the subreddit temporarily, preventing anyone without a history in the community from participating.

I stand by that decision having been the responsible thing to do. I can understand why, for profit reasons, Parler didn't want to do the same thing, but it would have been the responsible thing to do.

> "Nuke from orbit" against something that had the capacity to be saved through measures dramatically less drastic than that.

I've yet to see any evidence that this was the case. "Saving it" in the way Amazon wanted seems to be entirely anthitetical to the approaches Parler was willing to take. Even now, the best approach Parler has been able to come up with is to use some AWS ML scanner to detect bad content.
> 99% of ISIS members would be tried and convicted of terrorism because of hard evidence showing intent to kill. 99% of right-wing people are not going to be convicted of terrorism

ISIS being a foreign terrorist group, the U.S. can criminalise membership. Extremists being a domestic group, mere association can’t be criminalised [EDIT: is difficult to criminalise]. Only individual actions can be criminally pursued.

Other than that legal distinction, the two groups (right-wing extremists, not all right wing Americans, and bona fide ISIS members, not everyone in ISIS-occupied territory) are comparable. They spread their misinformation similarly. And could be expected to be similarly curtailed by deplatforming.
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> The best way to permanently take away CO2 from the atmosphere is to cut off the trees and somehow store them where the CO2 cannot escape

I really don't understand this logic. The oil industry spends billions every year to extract oil (= fossilized biomass) buried deep underground, because burning biomass gives you cheap energy.

If you cut down and store enough trees to compensate for the current CO2 emissions, you will have access to an immense volume of biomass, much easier to "extract" than oil is.
What do you think is going to happen with this biomass? People are going to burn it to make cheap energy again..

Actually, why would you even go through the trouble of cutting down the trees in the first place? You could just, not extract the oil and end up with the exact same amount of energy you will have at the end of this complex process.
Social media companies that compete for engagement (eye ball time) to sell to advertisers.
> I think the free market prices things right. You cannot demand people to pay for watching your advertisements.

I think you are getting confused between 'the free market' and 'free as in beer'. You can get people to pay for listening to music, that is a very well established business model.
Have a look at companies seeking the "Respects Your Freedom" certification by Free Software Foundation: https://ryf.fsf.org/products.
Is it just me, or there is no way to log in without a Google account?
That's what museums do, lend/borrow collections, rotate collections.
If you read the letter amazon sent they were very clear this wasn't about politics. There were posts advocating killing in the form of execution, beheadings, and burnings. Hard to imagine any company wants to be associated with that kind of thing.
> Is it possible to use a more extreme generalization than ISIS?

Sitting in New York, nutters who came within yards of hanging the Vice President, Speaker of the House and potentially several Senators are a far more clear and present danger than mullahs in the Middle East.
List of companies selling DRM-free media: https://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide.
I still kinda excited about OpenAI. Even though they did a massive bait and switch with the name, their offerings still none the less never fail to amaze me.

When GPT-3 first came out the results were jaw dropping for me. Now with Dall-e. Draw an illustration of a baby daikon radish in a tutu walking a dog.. who wouldn't find that amazing? So I'm just waiting what their next demo will be.
> every time Windows asks me

... how much of my privacy I would like to have violated

And every time Windows has changed settings without asking permission and without giving me a clear explanation about the settings and changes.

I do not want my $OS to flout privacy.
Thanks for sharing this. Looks promising!
"- When art galleries charge admission, patrons feel the need to "get their money's worth" so they rush to see as much of the exhibits as possible, without taking time to thoroughly enjoy anything."

Where I live there's an annual subscription that's valid for the majority of museums countrywide. The museums get the money in some proportion to how they were visited but the annual cost is fixed for one citizen. So, if you want, you can visit the same (or a different!) museum every day and look at just one painting or piece at a time.

This has both increased the income for museums but also number of visits. Sounds like a good model for financing the upkeep of museums.
Yeah, I'd have thought a DC motor plus a two-speed transmission would be a no-brainer for the budget end of the market (at least until high power AC drives come down a bit) but maybe not.

What batteries are you using for the RX-8?
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Here’s a quick summary: “very little”.
> ISIS being a foreign terrorist group, the U.S. can criminalise membership. Extremists being a domestic group, mere association can’t be criminalised. Only individual actions can be criminally pursued.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse suggested RICO’ing the militia groups today. The members could be criminally liable even if individual actions can’t be proven (similar to how the mob was taken down.)

https://mobile.twitter.com/SenWhitehouse/status/135238211274...
In Europe, manual transmissions are generally preferred because they're cheaper, not because they're more fun to drive.
Agreed. I used to love getting my Windows 3.1 freeware from there.
Pine64 and especially the PinePhone with Convergence Kit.

I realise that this is pretty niche and still somewhat rough and unpolished - but the idea of being able to plug a dongle to your phone, connect monitor+mouse+keyboard to that dongle and have full, regular desktop operating system seems very intriguing to me.
It is a right leaning tabloid owned by News Corp. This is the paper that printed the Hunter Biden laptop story that was sourced from Rudy Giuliani. After the US Capitol riot, the editor told staff to stop writing articles whose source material is from CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post, and The New York Times because Trump considered those outlets to be fake news.
So ducksuckgo will be fine with this law?
even for personal safety you need layers of backups. my phone recently lost all data after it botched it's own update, and restoring some key has been a true pain. I've a binder with almost all of the important authenticator tokens or relative recovery codes, but some bank application do the otp setup on their own app side channel and required a lot of paperwork and calls to get it fixed.
> The whole point of open-source is to curate a useful software commons.

If that were the point of the licensing, it'd be encoded in the license. This is the branding of the license, which is just innuendo. Amazon doesn't belong to any church that recognizes the spirit of Open Source, instead they just read the license and follow it.
After making Dockerfile you can additionally push your built docker image to docker hub or other public facing repo, People can then directly pull your docker image in case any issue with Dockerfile.
I'm somewhat tired of the Tiobe index. From time to time it is even cited in serious media although the method to gather this statistic is very questionable.

Since the humanity seems to too nee "Top n" lists, it would be good to have one for programming languages based on a more solid foundation.
> A paradox is when two contradictory things are true at the same time.

No. A paradox is when two contradictory things appears to be true at the same time. It simply signifies that our model is flawed or incomplete.

The grandfather problem is a paradox if our model of time travel is one which is impossible. That is the point. It is simply a way of demonstrating why there needs to be constraints that makes our more naive notions of time travel impossible. As such it constrains the set of possible valid models to those in which the grandfather paradox can't be expressed within the constraints of the model.

> I wasn’t merely making up impossible scenarios; I was demonstrating how their theory gives rise to paradoxical scenarios.

You've done no such thing. The paradoxical scenario you imagine can't be expressed in the model I proposed, and so it solves the paradox.
What a joke. Unfortunately capitalist firms privatizing tech, exploiting working class labor, and locking up/monopolizing humanity's shared inheritance, is nothing new. The original developers will shortly be completely replaced by Amazon developers, and Amazon's Elasticsearch fork will be repurposed for Amazon-specific use cases only. Goodbye any use cases beyond what Amazon approves.

Amazon say: "Thanks original developers, farewell! We will take over from here."

I think this can act as an important reminder to license your (group) project as GPLv3 or AGLPv3, it's a trojan horse and helps the open source/free software revolution.
I really like the idea.

just that I don't have that plethora of interpreter available from my shells and am super lazy :/
well, i use this ones.

https://loremipsum.io/ultimate-list-of-lorem-ipsum-generator...
That... makes no sense? Of course there are a lot of valid operations on text strings?
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IANAL, but AFAIK while Amazon could ‘unpublish’ the code by removing it from their Github or something like that, there is no way to ‘unlicense’ it.

On a project without a CLA, you’ll have to ask permission to every contributor for a use that goes beyond the initially agreed to license. On a project with a CLA, the organisation to which the code has been licensed no longer needs to do that. The situation becomes similar to a project that only has one author and no outside contributors. So they can release a commercial version in parallel, or they can decide to change the license for new versions. But none of this magically changes the licence for old code: code once released stays under the license it was released under. Otherwise the whole system of Free and Open Source licences would be extremely brittle, if authors could just revoke their licences as they saw fit.
Agreed and also Starlink from SpaceX. We moved about 2 hours outside of a major city center in anticipation of smart cars. Mainly for quality of life. Covid and starlink are making that more accessible to others. Solar development too maybe I haven't kept up with it like I should. Real estate is going through a huge shake up right now. Rural land prices are higher than I have seen in my lifetime.
I suspect it depends upon context. Uncle and Aunty are an inherently respectful term, it’s just that kids do also use it ironically, reversing the meaning.

There are other words used like that, eg “mate”, which can be used in a friendly/neutral or menacing way.

(As a side note - I notice that Kamala Harris’s Twitter Bio currently includes “Auntie”.)
Great joke. Told it on a zoom meeting today. Got a big laugh from half the people... the programmers.
The i3 is Intel's most hated product as the margins are the lowest. So it sounds like giving the i3 to an outside foundry is just a way for them to get rid of their least profitable work and is not a sincere effort to move the company forward! When I worked for Google I learned that the i3 was not allowed to be designed into corporate-grade laptops and by that I mean Chromebooks. Because of this Google would never approve an i3 Chromebook for internal corporate use!
> not that 0 people can do it

Everyone in my (much) younger sister’s age group can do this. They grew up on touch devices. You and I didn’t.

Just a note that one group’s personal experiences shouldn’t be generalised to the point of describing others’ as “impossible.”
Surviving on the way to Mars isn't a huge leap in difficulty over a space station, and we have those on lock.
Whilst it emphasises that loss is still a factor, I don't feel your anecdote counters the position of the parent comment at all.
How do you plan to do heating? Even if it doesn't get cold where you live, but you'll still need heat (and maybe A/C) to avoid fogging the windshield when it's humid. An electric heater, powered by the same batteries?
I thought you'd stitch a small tag onto the jelly-hat