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My comment was more than the first two sentences you are referring to.

Here it is again. I wrote:

>Recently, we started building our "MLOps" platform (https://iko.ai) to reduce the overhead of doing machine learning and the proverbial technical debt that makes makes ML projects so likely to fail and so expensive. This will hopefully lower the barrier to entry as people will be able to use this to deliver value without being in large organizations.

>I have been asked time and time again by people I know personally who have small companies how they could hire us to use machine learning, and I was embarrassed time and time again to make them understand they couldn't afford it.

>There are many ways to "democratize" the field. Some publish books and courses, others create libraries and frameworks, and we made a system to lower the operational hurdles.

My point was that the usual hurdles of a machine learning project and the inefficiencies made it almost exclusive to large organizations that could afford it, and we're solving that by building a platform that eliminates these hurdles to make it possible even for small companies and individuals to benefit from and use machine learning without hiring expensive teams or consulting companies such as ours.

This dramatically lowers the barrier to entry and the "activation energy".
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Security Engineer here… after reading through this trainwreck of a comment section it was nice to get a laugh, thanks for that.
Through my couple of decades as a programmer, I've gone through various specializations. Spent a good 10 years going very deep in web frontend.

I moved on years ago because, like the author, it was not fun or interesting anymore. I don't feel as strongly about it as the author seems to, though. It's all part of the journey.

Probably at some point, I will move on to a new technical domain than the one that's consuming my life right now, and that's fine.
I've been told that a lot of game development uses Perforce as it handles large media assets quite well.
A man predicted the attention economy and everything
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1) 1/30 of total electricity consumption is a hell of a lot!

2) Yes, developing-economy per capita energy usage is going to go up while they catch up to developed-economy standards of living; that's happening in all categories. Developed economies still need to reduce their energy usage. e.g. we're not stopping our switch to electric cars just because half of India is getting their first gas-powered scooter.

Everyone can have A/C, but we need to keep our usage as low as is feasible.
That is not difficult to avoid if you are generating short primitives. You can for the most part just convert the LLVM bitcode that the Rust compiler would output to the equivalent C snippet. Since each snippet is short, you can trivially check if it invokes undefined behavior. LLVM bitcode also can exhibit undefined behavior.
> It is incredibly stupid to allow such construction methods.

Why? Seems pretty standard construction, and unusual that something so common is "incredibly stupid"
Heh, btw, it was changed to 473 shortly after ;).
> predates the concepts of macros

Though LISP macros are quite old, from around 1962...
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25685646
Come on... State one of your claims with hard data and not just wishful thinking.

Your bitcoin miner don't have load control to make sure they consume the excess power. They just consume as much as possible.

And yes its still the same as opium farming; I can also give you annother example: when crops are used for biofuel, suddenly its financial better to produce energy instead of food. Happend in germany and other places.

I have NO IDEA why you would think that bitcoin mining is done by magical high intelligent controling systems. Haven't you seen any documentation on bitcoin mining operations at all?

I mined bitcoins myself a few years back at home as well.

https://www.primafelicitas.com/5-biggest-bitcoin-mining-farm... none of them did this for using 'waste' energy, they all did it for th emoney.

Missusing subsidised cheap electricity and now increasing competition for energy. And there have been enough stories on grid failers in china and regulators stopping those mining farms due to this.

"Millions of people have better life thanks to it." <<< this sentence is really weird. Are you talking about real people having a real benefit of bitcoin or are you talking about people getting rich of bitcoin by polluting our planet with unnecessary co2 and increased prices for others?
Markdown does not even gracefully degrade to github because you are not using markdown, you are using markdown with some arbitrary extensions, and you are doing this because markdown is useless without extensions.

Just stop, use asciidoc.
A discussion about it from earlier here that might be of interest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18805877
I don’t think the water treatment plant of Oldsmar, Florida falls under the same threat model as a uranium enrichment facility.
Perforce is an excellent source control system if you can afford it, much better than Git for centralized repos (i.e. most companies).
An employee could have got hacked, or defected

They’re the ones getting screwed over the most here imo
I work in one of the big old industries and we commission web shops to build first versions of web apps that internal IT then takes over for maintenance and future iterations.

We have standardized on Angular on the frontend and require providers to use it. The backend tech is less critical, it can be one of Java, JS, or Python and the important point is a JSON/REST interface with Swagger documentation.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/ethereum-plans-...

Right now i can't get a graphics card because its much more efficient to use those chips for ethereum.

In parallel i'm still quite happy with how my banking account works.

So, why would i wanna look into Ethereum? Besides to wanna know why i can't get a graphics card?
Cool! That inspired me to try to generate such a rendering myself, but googling it is not as easy as it seems. Sure, there is an article on Wikipedia about "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order-6_hexagonal_tiling", about a "regular tiling of the hyperbolic plane" with hexagons, but the hexagons themselves in that tiling aren't regular...

EDIT: that might be because they're not hexagons, they're heptagons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptagonal_tiling). Duh...
This. I’m a happy customer with a pretty complicated setup.

Configuration is made super easy with profiles ready to download for mac/ios.
> Why is the range so large for coal?

Coal plants release sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides and fine particles, which cause air pollution. It's difficult to estimate precisely the number of deaths caused by polluted and lower quality air.
I did work with Angular a bit. It is admittedly better in my opinion in that context - it gives you kind of guard rails. But then an actual Angular developer came into the project and threw everything around to the point I wasn't recognizing the project anymore. I have to admit he was insanely productive with it as he actually had years of experience just in Angular.
I have to admit, I mostly make 'backend uis' recently and for me Blazor(server for now) fills that niche insanely well, I've never been so productive when doing frontend work, it has its pitfalls as well, our code is probably not the cleanest, but the fact that I can include a project with all my models, services and just use that, makes it so satisfying to work with... I only ever had one similar feeling so far, when trying Phoenix.
It would be worth irony and style if they manage to go unnoticed and leave their message in the game (even if in the form of ransomware). Otherwise, I don't buy it.
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What am I missing? Why do people hate the new york times?
There was this website a while back called "vnc roulette". It would randomly connect you to a open VNC host. Many of those where control systems all over the world.
Not the parent poster, but I'll take a stab at this.

I'd wager that the parent poster doesn't have any sort of direct relationship with the local pet shelter: there's no contract, or handshake agreements, nothing like that.

The lack of a relationship is key.

Google provides services to a large number of people, and while they don't charge (most) consumers directly for those services in dollar-units, Google's user base does pay via other means: nominally by being on the receiving end of hyper-targeted ads.

There's a relationship there. Google provides a service, in exchange for psychological capital, which Google then translates into cashflow via advertisers.

Relationships, good ones at least, require trust. And the fact that I know that there is a server inside of Google which will mercilessly nuke my account from orbit without warning... isn't exactly trust-inspiring.

Moreover, I know that if that does happen, I have effectively zero options to resolve the problem. I'm screwed.

Google could choose to fix this problem, and to invest their rather substantial resources in building trust. But they don't, and instead kick out toy apps like the above. This sends a very strong message to people like the parent poster, in that Google doesn't really value them or their well-being.

Now, Google isn't required to be trustworthy. Plenty of organizations aren't. But there's nothing wrong with customers calling that out and demanding more when they feel Google isn't allocating its resources in their best interests. It's also completely within Google's purview to utterly ignore them.

That's the difference: in one case, there's an established relationship, and that comes with certain expectations. In the other, not so much.
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> On the other side, probably this is the reason why it's quite hard to find mediocre food in Italy.

If you only had a chance to fall into the tourist traps around Piazza Navona I stumbled into....
NaOH raised from 0.01% to 1.11%

That seems to be a pH 13.4 result. There probably isn't much in the water to buffer that.
That's how I'm used to it being in Europe. The average is correctly a C in most cases. But taking a year abroad in the US one would lose their spot if one got two B's. Not a big issue as the A's were given away like candy, though.
Ah, what was the last thing you bought with bitcoin?

Or is it a currency you hold, but don't really spend? And if so why do you hold it?
sorry, can you elaborate on that? (I'm affraid I didn't understand the question)
Hacker News often celebrates wins big and small - from large VC-backed companies to teeny SaaS companies.

This is what I learnt writing and publishing an eBook - something that I had heard could earn me money to support my open source contributions and software.

Hope you get something out of this - and note the blog post is not for people who would buy the book, but people who are curious about going independent or building wealth.

I'm now approaching 10k USD, at that point I'll do a second write-up on the technical how-to and long-tail vs initial launch marketing.

https://twitter.com/alexellisuk/status/1359061133093720065?s...
played 80 hours PC version, only crash was on the release version, about 10 minutes in. after that it was solid. not enough meat in the main story, but pretty excellent otherwise.
So I was constantly advocating for this game non-stop since I played about 30 hours without any major bugs and it worked fine. Then I got to a mission that I couldn't finish because it was telling me to get into a car at the end, and the car was always exploded and upside down. I played that mission 4 times every time with the same effect. Then I tried another mission and a very similar thing happened, couldn't finish it because the objective was inaccessible. I gave up at that point, I might come back to it in 6 months once it's in working state.
I mentioned this more in my other commend on this thread but I should mention that I think the bar for when people reach for an SPA framework like Angular is probably a lot lower than is reasonable. Angular in particular is designed for enterprise style applications and that is about it. Everything you need for that doesn’t come for free in terms of complexity obviously.

The other thing I mentioned elsewhere at the total other end of the spectrum was Hotwire. That is genuinely as close to 2006 web development as I can think of in terms of simplicity and is probably enough for the majority of applications up to and including an email client in the browser which is what they originally built it for.
If a judge or an expert is sure that you intended this outcome, and that someone is brave (or dead) enough to admit their own crime.
It literally forked from crosvm.
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Part of the issue with dams is that you don't have great safe-disconnect-and-fix options.

Nuclear, you can spin down a plant and balance generating capacity elsewhere.

Bridges, you can provide access via detours or ferries.

Almost every other mega-engineering project we have is network related: in that there exists alternate connectivity.

Dams are intrinsically linked to their topography and hydrology. Where can you source replacement water at that volume? Where can you put excess water? They essentially have to be hotfixed in-place, while in operation.
I was just reading this article about how a long-time NYT worker was fired, because, when he was acting as a guide/chaperone for a student field trip, one of the students asked him a question about someone else hypothetically saying a racial slur, the NYT employee pronounced the slur in question - and for this, he was fired.

That seems outrageous to me. Even more outrageous that some/most of the other employees seem to support and advocate for the firing. I'm glad people are blocking the NYT. I hope it fails or changes.

https://freebeacon.com/issues/inside-the-grey-ladys-meltdown...
They said they are doubling their staff. Maybe you should be the change you want to see in the world and apply. It's an opportunity to have a highly leveraged impact, because even though reddit is one of the world's big social media sites, the staff is small.
That one seems to be called IC4210, it was discovered on 13th March 1785 by William Herschel, and so it has a german wikipedia page but not an English one: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_4210

It is a "starburst galaxy" which means it is undergoing a lot of intense star formation, I think that's why it has pretty colours from all the gas clouds and activity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starburst_galaxy
You missed the entire page, I believe.
> And yet somehow developers are more productive and build better web apps than ever.

Only if you ask the developers themselves. They sure feel that way. Ask their bosses, or hell, ask users what they feel about the modern web, and the answer may start to differ.
I've done your example in the real world, without smart contracts. The 3rd party is a notary. If I understood you right the notary here is replaced by a notary plus smart contracts.

A notary in my juristication (Germany) is a quasi-employee of the government, so has little risk to go broke etc. The particular bonds for these cases are usually non-transferrable.

OTOH smart contracts introduce new risks like bugs and costs like high gas prices - for what gain?

Edit: To clarify, the modes of failure are vastly worse for the smart contract scenario. If the notary goes broke, my money will not be part of the insolvency estate. If OTOH the smart contract has a bug, everone's money is gone.
Wouldn't the reddit model perfectly run as a federated setup? Each community (subreddit) being a federated instance?

Edit: There seems to a project that does this exactly: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
Someone else could explain this particular case, but maybe because it's a biased propaganda machine?
That is the premise of the game
> I suppose the IT team got overwhelmed with requests to open up the firewall for people working from home during the pandemic and just opened it for the whole internet.

I would expect access to source code to be strictly from a VPN with controlled IPs, people shouldn't be accessing such sensitive information directly from their IPs, exactly because it makes it very hard to control access.
Yes, genocide is happening.

From the Genocide Convention of 1948: [0]

> Article II

> In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

> (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

> (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Both (d) [1][2] and (e) [3][4] happen to Uighurs in Xinjiang.

[0] https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-...

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/01/china-documents-uighur-...

[2] https://apnews.com/article/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c

[3] https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/09/ch...

[4] https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/09/15/china-xinjiang-children-...
Perhaps, but I’d say it’s quite hard to do this effectively when you’re using sass products. Even if you’re self hosting, and have dozens or hundreds of WFH employees, what’s the alternative?

No access for anyone while you scale your VPN? Just wait while everyone pulls and pushes gigs of data over the VPN to perforce, you didn’t need that video meeting after all?

You’ll get a big fat nope to that when you try to do it; this is a pretty tough challenge you’re trivialising here.

Google “zero trust” as an alternative; clearly they didn’t do that properly either, but I can at least understand why they didn’t just demand everyone use a VPN.

Trivial VPN use cases like people who d/l source code and have then occasional 5 person video meeting and this use case are not the same thing.
This won't work for them... We've seen many times before when a free product (paid via advertising) goes commercial.

What's more likely would be them revamping their business features. They already have a firm grip on their APIs which they can use to leverage this.
"excluding the biggest failure" - that's beyond cherry picking into just outright lying isn't it?

(Not aimed at you: you've obviously been very fair in capturing the issues with the data as presented).

Nuclear advocates will often complain that the deaths from Chernobyl get disproportionate press compared to the perpetual toll that is daily operations for coal. But just ignoring the deaths - I can't see how that's justified in good faith.
If you read the whole interview, it's even illegal to sell vitamin-enriched pasta in most countries of the world.

That's why they had to destroy the US stock: There weren't many other places where they could sell it.
Often molding the quote to the 'grammatical context' simply means you've added too much anyway. For example, saying 'he says he's going to <quote>' which requires modification of the quote, vs. dropping it entirely: 'he says <quote>'.
Remember when some sites would send you a shock image instead of the one you were expecting if it detected hot linking? I don't miss that.
Bari Weiss writes about a general set of issues she saw: https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter

I’m not certain this website isn’t itself interesting for plenty of other reasons, though.
I got a subscription to the NYT for a special price, but I don’t think I’ll renew it at the end of the year. Compared to the Washington Post it seems oddly bereft of any real editorial identity anymore. They are trying to be all things to all people and so it winds up being a contradictory mess that just makes everybody angry.

A generation ago a newspaper could still claim to be impartial and to be a neutral forum for people from both sides of the political spectrum. But the partisan divide is so strong now but to except the ideas of one side necessarily means you have to believe the other side is crazy, evil or both; the ideologies are to diametrically opposed for it to be logically possible to see “good points“ on both sides now.

So they are just sheets in the wind. They publish an op Ed written by Tom cotton about using the army on protesters, get backlash, fire whoever green lit that idea. Then some freelance editor dares to say Joe Biden‘s inauguration was emotional for her and they immediately fire her for not being “neutral“ or some bullshit.

These decisions pissed off conservatives, pissed off liberals and made nobody in the middle any happier. They need to just pick a side and run with it.
The direction of travel has been opposite of that for 10+ years. Small forums that used to exist on niche subjects are being absorbed into reddit.
Who are behind this? I sense a political slant.
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Someone showing ignorance and being smug about it at the same time? In 2021?
> causing a large number of people to click through and download the page using large amounts of bandwidth (for no monetary gain to the site)

The difference here is that while a lot of users use adblock, there are some that don't. These users can still see the ads. Additionally even though it's a small website, it may lead to new readers that stick around or the content itself may even be sponsored.

The equivilent to hot linking a picture would be like taking the content of a blog post without really linking to the source, because there's no chance of conversions there. If you're linking to the site itself then there's a reasonable chance that users can convert.

So I suggest that it's theft just because the chances of readers being converted is nil while you're using their bandwidth.
I am not saying it is easy to make money. But the jump from free to next tier is too high for what it brings, basically nothing in the case of duolingo (no adds and for kids unlimited "lives"), and I use the same resources, only difference is that I am shown adds.

I don't know what kind of analysis they did, but you can have 90% of your uses using your resources paying 0 euros per month, or you can try to have 50% of your users paying 1 euro per month.

About the cost, I would gladly pay 60 euros a year for a family pack (4 people). You can even offer the Lite Family Pack for 60 euros and adds, and full family pack for 120 euros and no adds. Or something like that.

But a family of four is 288 euros per year. That is a lot of money because it is not the only thing you pay, you pay duolingo, netflix, amazon prime, office 365, etc., and in some countries it is absolutely prohibitive.

I mean, I would understand the pricing if they didn't have the free tier, but if you have it why that big jump in cost?

And I am not saying it is not the same scale or anything, but in the beginning Whatsapp charged you 1 euro per YEAR! I know as I paid at least two years.

It is a known fact that "consumers build internal reference prices in time through exposure to different prices. When they see a new price tag, they compare it to the reference price and form an opinion".

If Office 365 or Google Suite can give so much value for 5 to 10 euros a month, it is hard to (at least mentally) justify paying that much for products that do less. And yes, I understand it is a perception thing.

Another option is "free for non-commercial use" (teamviewr or irfanview for example) or "free if you make less than this much a year" (unity I think?). You can then have to different steps of payment, like free, basic, basic plus, premium, etc).
I wrote the Clack getting started guide. I fixed the broken link you pointed out.
I couldn't agree more ! "Neoliberal" doesn't mean anything precise anymore, even in France where I live
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