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> Which can be quite high when deciding to distribute free software instead of proprietary software.

Note that the quote considers the gains on proprietary software to be rent too, so this opportunity cost argument is kind of like saying any rent is not rent once any other rent opportunity exists.

But I would find it hard to categorize all software gains after paying all wages as rent since there could be an aspect of taking undeserved payment or as you say, you could be taking reasonable payments for investment risks. Only in the extreme, I could sell on your GPLv3 software and use some proceeds to imply I am the trusted source for it which is pure rent seeking behavior.

I got a bit distracted by the second half of the article since it seemed to be flowing to the usual point that most people feel more comfortable marking up service costs as multiples of the actual hourly wage¹.

I think the feel good argument for consulting based models is that you are selling a real limited resource to the individual customer, but I think this mark up is actually more clearly rent. You are attempting to hold an expertise monopoly such that no one can sell a similar service and no customer can find adequate expertise on the market and just pay wages similar to whatever you pay the consulting employee. Why would your documentation be good in that model?

If they made a more unique point maybe someone could post a TLDR.

(¹ No? I guess hardware/cloud mark up is what they mean by their products.)
The wonderful part about this is the continuity — the childhood drawings, the original disk initialization date, the packaging & stickers, and the manuals. Amazing to have held onto it all this time.
Why is a therapist or psychiatrist not available to you over video?
The Yolo Index is up almost 1000% since 2020
> they're for the third beer with your buddies, not for writing down.

I would love to hear more about what you think the difference is.
Why yes, internet stranger, I will get right on elaborating for you that which is readily found in the chrome extension developer docs, for I have nothing else to do. Right after I finish watching this Hee Haw marathon. Have you seen that show? It's terrible
I think there's more to it tha n "if only you'd get off your butt and throw away that phone"

Knowing what to work on, what trends to be aware of, where to present your stuff is something that a modern elite collegiate is intimately familiar with.

Other teens and young adults, not so much. I myself having been one such and friends of other such.
US military intelligence already believes that they don't need warrants; they've decided (in a secret, internal opinion) via the (again, secret) FISA court that the FISA Amendments Act, section 702, permits them to retrieve data on anyone they like directly from the service providers, even if those people are suspected of no crime, and are citizens/residents of the US. This has been going on for fourteen years, since Microsoft became the first partner in the program on (lol) 11th September, 2007, and started giving them dumps of people's hotmail email boxes and such.

It's the #1 source for NSA reporting, eclipsing even their bulk cable wiretaps. They can hit a button and get Google Takeout, but for all major US online services, for anyone they choose, no warrant required.

These sorts of headlines pretend that their "normal" way of spying does require warrants. It absolutely does not.

A lot of people seem to still carry the misconception that the FISA orders (again, not warrants, no probable cause, issued by a classified court (also run by US military intelligence) that never denies a request) are only for foreigners ("foreign" is right in the name). That's also not true: they use it to target US citizens too.

This specific circumstance was cited by Ed Snowden as one of the main reasons he came forward and told everyone that this was happening.

https://www.eff.org/702-spying

The participants in this system as of 2013: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, YouTube, Skype, AOL, Apple.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/pr...
Funnily enough, Dwight did have an in character blog during the running of the show, and something like this actually would fit pretty well onto it https://web.archive.org/web/20090225001105/http://www.nbc.co...
There are at least two very different things mixed in this text and no logic reasoning.
Paraphrasing an idea a few times is a very weak proof, to say the least.
And mixing a few random opinions on top is not improving the whole...
Pretty poor article.
I wish you all the luck in that.

Every attempt at an AP derivative for voting has ended in scary ways.
> The SCSI drives and controllers seemed to get much better throughput with lower CPU utilization, which pays dividends to how the overall system performs.

Indeed - my employer at the time acquired 10 AlphaPC 164SX motherboards with 21164PC CPU's and after adding a nice amount of RAM and a nice fast Ultra2 SCSI drive they felt really fast. I remember running the early GNOME 1.0 desktop on it and it was just so responsive.
What's weird about software engineering is you can literally be on all three ladders.

That high-paid 60 year old man working for his state's labor department keeping the COBOL churning out unemployment checks? High-skill labor.

That university researcher who's working night and day to design a new machine learning paradigm? She's an elite creative (Hell, she might even be a Ph.D. and a blue check mark nowadays).

The Stanford / UCLA / MIT dropout who builds the next Uber / Instagram / Twitter / Facebook? Working rich. At least until he/she sells the company to someone and bails out.
> ASML Holding of the Netherlands dominates the market for the equipment. Major semiconductor makers began full use of it in 2019 and ASML is the sole company capable of mass-producing it.

They supply the whole industry, from Samsung to TSMC to Intel.
Yes, it’s called CIGEO.

For the record, the whole of France’s nuclear fuel waste since the 50’s is a 15mx15mx15m cube.

Also, that 40 years numbers is a financial one, not a technical or design one. Some reactors based on the same designs have been validated for 60 years in the US.
I was curious about what kind of performance problems you bumped into, outside of the obvious non-existent CUDA support?

I ask because I had the impression that openbsd was doing ok in this regard. I use it for development and running apps with a lot of concurrent processes and hadn't noticed any problems. These benchmarks [0] have it doing better than almost all linux distributions when it comes to compilation times (but I know benchmarks are not always as objective as they could be). My youtubes and media players run great :-)

It's been a while since I did any heavy networking, but I never had problems/surprises there as long as I spec'd out appropriate hardware, in particular the pf firewall and the hw accelerated ipsec and qos configs which I got pretty far into were outstanding, better than cisco hardware costing a lot more at the time.

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=bsds-pho...
Relevant XKCD: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/constructive.png

Dealing with millions/billions of people online, it's impossible to know who I can/can not expect to have nuanced, respectful conversations beforehand.

So, yes, I think it's not a bad idea if we took deny-by-default approach with new connections and treating them as hostile, unless they can have some backing social proof from one of your peers.

I would also be interested in an approach where every the initiator had to pay actual money to be able to interact, no big amounts, just enough to work as a deterrent to stop spammers, scammers and moderation crusaders:

- Want to send a DM? Pay $1, get it back if the recipient clears you up.

- Want to make a comment for the first time on someone else's thread? Poster decides the minimum amount to leave as scrow. Really good comments could even collect some of the money from spammers/hostile ones.

- Want to report someone because you don't like them or their views? Put $10 in scrow for the moderators. If accepted, you get the money back. If there is no grounds for the report, the reported person gets to choose which charity to donate the money and the next report from you will cost double.
You can get an aftermarket head unit with CarPlay and keep your car! I have no idea why this wasn’t better publicized.
An old one, but I might as well be the first:

There are three hard problems in programming: naming, cache expiration and off-by-one errors.
> It is somewhat ironic to me that, it is the software layer made available by gcc and clang that actually makes these billion dollar cpu vendors viable.

CPU vendor usually contribute to both GCC and Clang these days.
I consider myself to be pretty plugged in the AP ecosystem, yet I have no idea about what you're talking about. What happened?
afaik they bought Cymer specifically for the light sources, so it makes some sense.
This happens to be one outsized point of the earlier "Choose Boring Technology" piece that is linked: https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
My theory is that social structures only fuck me over.
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I agree that his desire to connect on a personal level isn't posturing and is very much a huge piece of who he is- as such, it's wrong of the author to say that everything he says to everyone is posturetalk. At the same time, I'm not sure it's fair to dismiss the author's point entirely. One of Michael's other defining features (which goes hand in hand with his desire to connect personally) is his absolute need to be liked. His desire to connect on a personal level often feeds into this need to be liked, and attempting to satisfy this need is where a lot of his posturetalk comes from. He sees traits in others that he admires and he will do whatever he can to convince other people he has those same traits. Example: during performance review time, Pam mentions that she doesn't know what to expect from hers because her previous review began with Michael asking her where she sees herself in five years and ended with him telling her how much he can bench press. Heck, there was a whole episode about him trying to prove to the office that he was the toughest fighter around. Not to mention the paper conference where he pretended his $100 per diem was just what he would tip normally; or the time he said that anyone who could do more push ups than him could go home early; or like when he takes Jim to Hooters and says to the waitress that he's doing it because he's the boss and he can afford it but then we see when he gets back to the office that he's trying to get it expensed as a business cost because he can't pay for it; or when he tells Oscar to tell Jan that he's a financial guru who cut their debt in half; or when he buys his condo and brags about having two microwaves; or any interaction he has with a woman he finds attractive. These are just a couple easy ones off the top of my head.

My point is that it's not one or the other- Michael is a great salesman because he wants to connect on a personal level, but man alive he sure spouts off a whole lot of posturetalk.
Disingenuous would make more sense in the context of GP’s comment, but I too have a hard time seeing how ingenious works here.
Yes, the 'natural approach' to language learning is definitely popular. But in most classroom settings I would be surprised if students weren't exposed to the translated meanings through homework or the textbook. Class would not get very far once students started learning abstract concepts otherwise. Of course, translation is just the very first step in lexical acquisition - it's still a long journey to acquire a word.

>Less philosophically, each language you master gets its own language center in your brain, just as each finger you can control individually maps to an identifiable region of your motor cortex (and if you can't control your pinky, it's because they've blended together).

That's not really true, though, and it also depends on what aspect of language we're talking about (phonology vs. syntax vs. lexical acquisition, for example). In the case of the lexicon, there's good experimental evidence that bilinguals, when hearing one language, activate lexical competitors from both languages (i.e., they are not fully able to inhibit activation of one language in listening). The mind is far more complex than having different "centers" for different things. It's a complex network of signal activation and inhibition.

Of course, that doesn't relate to my original point, which was simply that language learners should not purposefully limit themselves. The incredible amount of time it's going to take to learn abstract concepts without translation far, far outweighs the possible co-activation of translation equivalents.
Is that annual % population growth?
I detest this attempt to deny historical people of their creative capacity. You are acting as if the cultures of modern times are simple antecedents of cultures from the fall of the Roman Empire.

To back up your claim of jazz being "European", please source a European that composed with blues scale, jazz chords, and swing before African Americans.
Oh it’s very clearly observer’s bias, I don’t mean to suggest otherwise. That’s exactly my point. I just wanted to push back on the idea that there are two kinds of people - those who don’t live in cities, and those who live in cities reluctantly.

Working from home seems to have a similar narrative on hacker news I’ve found, probably for similar reasons - either you work from home happily or you reluctantly go into the office.
I think the word he needs is "serdes" or "sedes".
Just like codec is short for COder/DECoder an modem is short for MOdulator/DEModulator.

The other word he is looking for is marshaling.
I don't think that's the goal of HN to let anyone know about all interesting stuff that exists. Newsletters are better for that I think.

This one may interest you https://hnblogs.substack.com/ daily blog posts of HN (disclaimer I'm the owner) and this specific article was included in the 6 august 2020 post
At this point, we should be throwing our money at geoengineering and technology in order to try and deus ex machina our way out of the pending climate crisis. We've wasted so much time that now there really is almost no other option. No one is going to lead on this issue, so it's our only hope left.

That said, I am optimistic that once the economic incentives align scientists/engineers will be able to save us from the worst effects of climate change, and down the road even reverse the effects.
It depends on many different factors, e.g., what’s the SaaS business? do you value your own time? Do you count the opportunity cost? Do you have some existing foundations to build on, e.g., reuse old code base / customer relationship...
My instance moderation policy fits my use case exactly.
Not even one report in the years I've hosted my own instance.
I think the first question is scheme, or Common Lisp? The answer depends on what your style is. After trying both I like scheme better but I agonized over this decision for awhile, though I enjoy sbcl and CLISP is dear to my heart.

In terms of schemes you have a wide variety to pick from. Gerbil, Racket, Gambit, Chez, Chicken and many more. Racket is a great all around choice. There are schemes that do various things better than it, but it can do most things well. It has two great edX courses to learn from (How to design simple data, and how to design complex data) and is how I initially learned.

Chicken is one of my favorite schemes and is probably the one I would use if I wasn't using Racket. It's so portable since it compiles to C. I love the egg system, and I like the logo. Gerbil is a performant systems level scheme. I remember there being an article about someone in the Common Lisp community considering jumping to Racket, but ending up on Gerbil Scheme for what it's worth. I haven't used it

Chez is another super performant scheme, and is actually the backend for the Racket programming language as seen in the article above. It was only open sourced a few years ago so it might be difficult to find solutions or get answers. I've used Guile, I appreciate the mission, but I found it wanting. I've heard people ship Gambit scheme apps onto IOS so if you are looking at mobile apps that might be the way to go, I'm sure Chicken could do that to. I have also heard that Gambits Cffi is one of the best in the business, so if you need to interface with a lot of C code that might be the way to go.
The company behind "Geo" (which doesn't seem to show up in Companies House searches) is called 'Tactus Ltd. / Tactus Group'.
Honestly I have limits with those too. Any more than fit across the screen and I start to lose track. I find it mind boggling when people say they have dozens and dozens of tabs open at a time.
Because it highlights the failure of the solar/wind (intermittent renewables) argument.

Can you point me to a grid that runs mainly on solar and wind that’s les than 150gCO2eq/kWh?

France is around 50-60.
I feel like the first step is consistent encryption, then figuring out hiding meta data. Proxys that strip meta + delay emails to fuzz that might be a solution.
I'm not from the North. Grew up in Devon and lived in the South Midlands on the M4. Left the UK 15 years ago for somewhere better :)

The UK has - quite literally - decayed in that time. It's really sad visiting, seeing high streets gutted. Infrastructure dilapidated. So few young people. So many people in terrible shape. All signs of the economic disparity that the statistics showed.

The right have their modus operandi, they're the same everywhere. The two-party system in the UK (and US) enables the very worst of their behaviour because they're able to concentrate power more easily and have paths to minority rule.

I almost suspect that the Farage class of politicians are designed (and funded) to fill the gap which which would otherwise be filled by socially progressive populists. Someone to the left of Corbyn (who is center-left despite the media lies) but with charisma.
Any theory that can't be invalidated is not worth seriously debating. It may be true or it may not - what difference does it make if it's impossible to know?

Person A: "Social signalling explains all of human behavior!"

Person B: "But how do we know that's true?"

Person A: "Who cares? It explains everything."

Person B: "So what can we do with this knowledge?"

Person A: "Explain things we already observed to be true."

Person B: "So what have we gained from this information?"

Person A: "A theory that explains everything."

Person B: "But that theory doesn't actually teach us anything new?"

Person A: "Yep! We already know everything! Wooo!"
Tsunamis, Pranks and Uprisings
I worked as a software developer, in a non software company, I sat in an odd spot off to the side half way up the org chart.

The non software people climbed the hierarchy not because they are competent at their jobs, in fact a highly competent person will often be passed over for promotion because they are useful where they are - but because of how they negotiated very complex social networks.

A senior manager, my manager at the time felt that with very little skill to separate the people working at the company, ascendancy was about positioning yourself in bullying networks, and he described this this kind of 'baby talk' as a subservience signal in which you were surrendering to and accepting a manager as your patron and any further advancement you made was by their grace.

If you chose to do the 'honest talk' with someone senior to you, it came with a risk and a potential reward, you had to do it well enough to convince them you were a worthy formidable peer and an ally. If you did it unconvincingly you would be struck down.

This seemed to be a widely held worldview and therefore more or less the social reality in the non software parts of the business. I was free to do 'honest talk' because as a software person, I was clearly to the side of the game, it wasn't really possible for me to fall or climb too far.
$20...cost of a domain name and hosting.
The cost of building initial version of Calendly: a little over $20k
https://lnns.co/2trUaeuOwNB
Is it time to leave WhatsApp – and is Signal the answer?
I’ve no idea who was first, but someone needs to change a name here. I assumed this was about clubhouse.io; the project management tool competing with the likes of Jira.
Great - thanks for sharing!
Not quite: Twitter and Facebook have _armies_ of community moderation employees at their disposal; the fediverse has volunteers.
In that case it could be interesting to plan for future reinforcements, and continue to run the simulations as time passes and the situation evolves.

I don't know if it's due to models and computing environments not being stable enough, but I haven't heard of such a thing, while it is the obvious thing to do: even without reinforcing a dam, you could tell when it becomes dangerous to operate it.
Just because an unforeseen issue arises, doesn't mean you need to introduce a breaking change right away.
Why should they need a warrant for information that's being sold or public?
In reading this I have but a single question: How does one become a barbarian?
It isn't - just hand it off.

If you don't like the laws, are you a hypocrite for not starting your own country?

Arguments in this thread seem to miss a discrepancy:

"We don't want to support py2, and so why should we? Our time isn't free and we do what we want!"

"We know you don't want to migrate your py2 code, but you have to."

Forks aren't easy, especially when you get no support from the "official" python-2 maintainers. At the very least, a fork would not own the name.

Here's a question - why isn't python-3 a fork of python? Answer: because forks are hard, and the devs wanted to keep all the momentum/resources of python-2.
Berne Convention
> No, you missed the point entirely. The point is that you pictured this "blue collar local" as a man, as evidenced by your use of the pronoun "he".

No I didn't. The pronoun “he” in English is also very often used to refer to an indeterminate, hypothetical person of irrelevant and unspecified sex.

I didn't picture him as anything in particular, given that I am partially aphantastic and never draw mental pictures about such scenarios.

> The irony. Next time say "they" instead of "he".

There is no irony here; you infer that he is male because of the pronoun and I find such usage to not be universal at all.

The pronoun “he” has a very long history in English for use with a hypothetical person, from which the listener is not meant to infer any particular gender. It is also true that some use the pronoun “they” in that case, but that is not a universal behavior and either may be encountered.

Use of “she” for such hypothetical persons has also seen recent use, and was probably innovated deliberately; some auctors deliberately alternate both in even distribution.

All of this is how the English language is used by different speakers. I am not telling you which is better and how you should use it; I am telling you that if you are denying that all have currency, you are but certainly being willfully ignorant because you do not like the descriptive truth about how English is used by it's speakers.