skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if it's possible to have some CO2-eating algae in water that you bubble air through. The idea being you have something biological and microscopic with a quick lifecycle, so you're taking advantage of each point in a 3D volume. Question is, it surely needs nutrients other than air, do you have to keep pumping those in or is the system self-contained? Is the sequestered CO2 in the form of dead algae you scrape / filter from the top / bottom? What's the maximum depth before sunlight's insufficient?

(As opposed to something like planting trees that's inherently 2D and takes many years to reach maturity.)

Hmm, some quick Googling shows lots of results for algae carbon capture, e.g. this company: https://newatlas.com/environment/algae-fueled-bioreactor-car...
If it was rapidly appreciating surely you'd _want_ the immediate income tax hit and move it to a Roth 401(k)?
There's a tough reality check on CO2: it's an oxide, and it's quite expensive to break.

I mean it's fine trying to save the planet and stop emitting co2, but so far, unless you do it by force, it's quite unlikely that anyone will really manage to convince people to do it, or find some miracle solution, or to organize something so that people make the efforts to avoid emissions.

We should just prepare to migrate north, grow food elsewhere, move away from hot regions, and more important: find more and more techs that allow every humans to protect themselves from heat.
I don't think it's an all-or-nothing proposition. You can share telemetry and get patches from a remote team without having the equipment connected to the internet to reduce the risk of destroying expensive equipment.
Aseprite is open source: https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/

It's just under a proprietary license.
> Google rings small businesses up every week asking what their hours of operation are...

So THAT'S what all the humans at Google are up to, while their bots are busy locking legitimate user and developer accounts!
FYI the author of the article runs a PR firm and is known for publishing PR pieces masquerading as journalism, e.g. https://www.brightworkresearch.com/how-accurate-was-forbes-o...

that particular article is a critique of the same author doing a similar spin job for IBM's cloud.

one thing noted in that article (and has been noted elsewhere) is that microsoft lumps things like Office365 in their "cloud revenue" which would greatly mask the size of Azure vs. AWS
They already have it.

https://aws.amazon.com/workdocs

https://aws.amazon.com/workmail

https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26075004
True, but until these regulations exists, I'm not sure why we shouldn't hold Facebook accountable, at least morally -- and in the example you give, why we shouldn't hold browser extension providers accountable.
If you get rid of the API it will just happen through malicious Chrome extensions instead. I guess that's an improvement in practical impact.

Will the next argument be that browsers shouldn't be extensible, because it's a liability with stupid users?
> If the decedent was still able to control himself and realize the nature of the act, then liability is precluded.

How does one prove something like this in court?
If you drive a car at 350kph on the highway, crash and die. Your death isn't due to "open roads", it's due to neglect/abuse
I feel like I'm theory there is some place for "confirmed reviews", since both the positive reviews and negative reviews can be gamed.

But confirmed needs to be something more deeply investigated to ensure the transaction was legitimate and the complaint or positive review was valid.

Don't know how to do it, but reviews are very much a problem and don't have a solution.

Genuinely good businesses get hit with lots of bad reviews in certain industries. Genuinely bad businesses get lots of good reviews if they are willing to play certain games.
Be nice if this philosopher started by defining terms. For instance, are we all crystal clear as to what pseudophilosophy is? A quick search came up with (chiefly pejorative) Any philosophical system that does not meet mainstream academic standards.. I hope there's no possibility of this being an own-goal.
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Ignoring the rest of the noise this seems to be the critical question here.
And 365 includes Office. So this is basically the revenue from Office, which was already a huge business long before cloud was a thing.
Because open Internet principles as understood at the time required that. Facebook used to be heavily criticized (see e.g https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2007/08/open-soci...) for locking data into their platform when it ought to be available on the open web. There was a pervasive sense that you should be able to authorize third parties to do anything you can do through the official webapp; the term “walled garden” was common for platforms that wouldn’t offer this level of control.
Go up to a group of supposedly all straight men and ask who is interested in watching the BBC production of Pride and Prejudice (ideally they will ask “which one?” and you can respond “the one with Colin Firth”). Then do the same thing with a group of women. Maybe you live somewhere unusual, but in my experience you will have no takers from the men but many takers from the women.
I doubt any one want to create an office suite, the last people who tried to do this was Salesforce (with quip buy) and it's now a niche product. No one has an integrated product like Office 365.
https://aws.amazon.com/workdocs
IMHO wealth is not something you 'own'.

It's more like a contract, for the rest of society to repay you for the value you've created for them.

Of course that ideal is far from the current reality, but bitcoin doesn't really move us toward that ideal, in fact I think exactly the opposite is true.
This website is crap btw guy came from Oracle so it's understandable.
"no limit" seemed amazingly generous until I realized the total annual contribution limit is $19,500 (exceptions apply), so this benefit would be valued at about $9,750. Still very generous, but should be factored with other benefits when evaluating total compensation.
this whole thing is kind of a fun accounting game. If Google used google cloud for its own internal services (adsense, gmail, etc), and billed the different teams, everyone would be talking about the newest cloud leader.
I see what you mean now. I don't think in that way at all. How do you set the bounds of meeting your goal?
A 50% match seems typical, up to a certain % of salary. No cap on the match is phenomenal.
I think the ideal would be something like an autograder, rather than a solution. There used to be a Coursera class from Princeton that relied on Sedgewick and Wayne algorithms book, and the class was very, very good.

Then we must hope people don't publish solutions on github!
You don't actually have to be root at all to manage systemd services. If you give the user `org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units` in Polkit then they can just run systemctl as their user and it will work.

If you only want to allow specific units the authorizer is passed the unit under `action.lookup("unit")`.
This definition of cloud is meaningless though - anything that sends a packet via the internet can now be classified as "cloud". This is cearly a marketing ploy to appeal to less-than-savvy enterprise customers.
Also Dynamics which is their CRM/ERP platform. Not sure how big a factor that is, but it's at least a decent chunk of revenue.
That makes sense.

Then the next logical question is: what if I never get my money back? What if I lend it to a "dog" who then buys highly leveraged calls on GME, only to be unable to pay me back. Do I, the lender, just write it off as a loss?

As you suggest, if you can get a loan for millions of dollars just immediately without filling any form asking why you need it or without even creating any account anywhere, then what's stopping me from just taking a bunch of loans in excess of the collateral and just never paying them back? After all, as a borrower, I don't have to worry about any sort of credit rating or rate limiting.

As a lender, how do I know that the borrower on the other end isn't running such a scam?
I suspect they are saying more analytic philosophy education a la departments in Britain and America would have lead to more critical thinking.
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Again, I think you're misunderstanding "citizen surveillance". It refers to peers policing each other for ideological transgressions, not the surveillance of citizens.

> And to my other point, what about Donald Sterling? He had a one-on-one private phone call leaked by his mistress that resulted in him being banned for life from the NBA for expressing his personal opinions. Consider that the apotheosis of "Cancel Culture".

Broken clocks are right twice a day, but that's hardly a reason to prefer them.
> Why does her view on something completely unrelated matter to the facts?

Because she's not the one that discovered it or originally pushed the message, but certain people are likely choosing to promote her tweets to voice support for women in STEM (even though her field is completely unrelated).

> Why are you even comping through her Twitter history?

Her statements on Hong Kong and Xinjiang were so shocking that I saw them numerous times on the subreddits I follow.. took about 10 seconds to find the original ones by searching for "white people save you" and "uyghur" on her twitter.

> This is clearly a personal attack "just because". Disgusting.

Yeah, fuck me for supporting democracy in Hong Kong and opposing concentration camps in Xinjiang.
The choice is not between copper or lead, is between copper or pvc, steel... or even ceramics. Lead is unsuitable for drinking water.
For some reason, I do.
"No member or person associated with a member shall recommend to any customer any transaction for the purchase or sale (writing) of an option contract unless such member or person associated therewith has *reasonable grounds* to believe upon the basis of information furnished by such customer after *reasonable inquiry* by the member or person associated therewith concerning the customer's investment objectives, financial situation and needs, and any other information known by such member or associated person, that the recommended transaction is not unsuitable for such customer."

The burden's on the firm to demonstrate why it believed the customer was qualified to trade the product, and to demonstrate that it made an effort to evaluate the customer's goals, finances, and needs.
That’s a pre tax limit. You can go post tax almost up to $50k.
My completely biased answer is I haven't written Java since I was a freshman in college (2009) and that was like a few months. I basically know nothing about the ecosystem.

I've written Rails professionally for almost 10 years and have been following / playing with Elixir since 2016. While Ruby / Rails are amazing and the ecosystem is well suited getting a project off the ground extremely quickly, I'm just a big Elixir fan and hope to work with it professionally one day. I'll parrot reasoning from some of the sister comments.

"having an entire environment of consistent actors, fault tolerance, hot reloading, etc is a tempting proposition." - Very tempting indeed!

"Code elegance and development joy, maybe?" - Coming from Ruby / Rails, I agree 100%

"Not being statically typed" - Again, I've worked mainly in dynamically typed languages. I've experienced typing in Javascript and wasn't the biggest fan. But don't get me wrong, Rails can be awful when trying to dig multiple objects deep to understand what the data structure of the return value is so its not completely off the hook.
I get annoyed when I read people claim a business is a “scam” when their real problem is something clearer like the products are too expensive. Can we reserve the word “scam” for actual scams, or am I really expected to divine the true meaning of these troglodytes’ reviews? I just ignore them.
But you can also find "~X sucks". They can't both be right.
i thought the same thing! how ironic that there's a "support" email for "no support" linux hosting???
You gave some examples of what this kind of truth doesn’t cover. Fire is hot. Australia exists. This table is wooden. The sun is hot.

Could you give some examples of what it does cover?
IMHO yes because then you treat the access with the gravity that is required.
The TestFlight app details say the developer is “Table plus inc” - are you affiliated with them or is that a weird coincidence of company names?
Its about messaging and existing channels.
Microsoft has a rich ecosystem of VARs and System Integrators and they are effectively leveraging these channels to reach the CIO and IT executives.

AWS relies on word of mouth - in organizations where developers and architechts have a say in infrastrucurue -- its always AWS. Sadly , for AWS, only executives have this power in large companies and they will always choose Microsoft.
> It's not clear to me that they shouldn't be faulted. How many people read terms and conditions? How many people lack the technological literacy to understand what it means to share their facebook data with third-parties?

I'm not trying to argue here, but I see this argument pop up often when discussing big tech and user data. I'm curious why the tone is so different when it comes to mortgages or auto loans, for example. It seems society is content with the notion that I must do my ow due diligence when buying a home, but for whatever reason that responsibility seems to slide away when I'm dealing with social media. Why is that?

To clarify, I'm being sincere, not argumentative. I'm not a normal internet user and never have been. I haven't been on social media for a decade, use all the ad blockers, and so on.
Nowadays it's usually also a threat to publish company secrets if they don't pay. You can restore your system from backup, but you can't unsteal data with a backup.
I gave the full link, and additionally gave a tip for those who were interested.

hn.algolia.com is a great resource and I'm certain not everybody here knows about it.
When does the actual news start? Clicking around this podcast is annoying.
In political discussions on HN you usually see both sides represented and respected. That rarely happens on Reddit.
Just like Mono was?
You’re reading about an extremely small subset of companies with pensions. However, they serve as a very cautionary tale: pensions do not have zero risk. They are very far from it. I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen a risk comparison between defined benefit (pension) and defined contribution (401k) plans. I’d suspect that the defined benefit risk is lower, but not by much.

There are two main problems with pensions that I see:

1. The longer you work someplace, the more locked in you are. Pensions are structured such that working at the same place for 40 years is better than working at four different places for 10 years each, even if you get paid the exact same salary.

2. When you die, your children get nothing. With the 401k, whatever your balance is goes to your heirs. You can argue that it is better for society for your children to get nothing: that is a valid point of view. But we have a system in place where some people pass on assets to their children and others do not, and the differentiator between the two is the employer. That’s crazy, and the only logical way to play this game is to be on the winning side.
No, they are not functions in the mathematical sense. It's not that they don't cover the output space, they don't cover the input space.
How ridiculous.

I've never heard of cloudwars.co before this post. I will henceforth assume that they are unreliable clickbait and possibly in the tank for Microsoft.
Why do you say that? AWS includes their work productivity offerings in their bottom line. Why can't Microsoft?
I think of it as a safety net.

If Microsoft ever damages the reputation of Windows too much, ReactOS can act as a drop-in replacement for many things with relatively little investment compared to migrating to an OS on another kernel. Even if they're not currently a threat Windows, they have done enough of the groundwork that some extra funding and support could make them a serious competitor should the need ever arise.

Plus, it's just cool.
Very neat! Always upvote cable porn :-) You get the shorties from monoprice? I need to get another batch..

I'm trying to migrate all my stuff over to SBC's (mostly ODroid H2's). Hopefully, along the way I can clean up my switches :-)
Affinity doesn't run on Linux, so it's not a replacement for GIMP as a Unix hacker's art tool.

I like Krita (https://krita.org) as a painting tool. Darktable (https://www.darktable.org) does photo editing, although I haven't used it myself.
That's kinda the point. AWS can't count their Office 365 subscriptions, because it doesn't have any. It's a question of where on draws lines. Neither is an apples-to-apples comparison.

Microsoft's moat play is to integrate with Office, Teams, github, and similar. If Azure integrates into my business processes, that's huge. And if github has a pipeline straight into cloud deployment with one click, that's huge too.

AWS' moat play might be to integrate with business logistics. Amazon has business services like fulfillment which could be part of AWS. It's a deeper moat, but not as wide. No one can compete with Amazon here without dropping billions, but many businesses don't need those services (mine doesn't).

Google Workspace has a better UX than Office 365, but is not at all enterprise-ready, and is barely b2b-ready. That doesn't look likely to change soon. Google might be able to build up some kind of moat around advertising integration, in both directions, but it seems harder.

For branding, right now:

* AWS > Microsoft > Google among developers.

* Microsoft > AWS > Google among non-tech businesses.
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The question that most puzzles me is who gives grants to these obviously nonsense humanities academics to do their work and why? I guess this is a pretty cheap area of research to fund, but why bother at all?

I imagine there's a delusional rich person, or academic running a foundation who wants his confirmation biases satisfied. I figure there's got to be more to it than that though.
And they do aggressive bundling to tie it together.. Basically the same monopolistic practices which got them in trouble back in the 90s.
While he does nothing to bolster his credibility, his argument nevertheless stands on its own merritt. If you'd like to respond to that argument, please do so.
Growing healthy Haskell team? Checks notes oh I already applied :)
> That these people think it is more viable to co-opt an existing product using organizing pressure for their ends than to build one someone actually wants and share it is indicative of their strategy and attitude

Ironic, considering that Signal itself co-opted the existing network of SMS to build their product on top of. Even having the signal app on android manage regular SMS messages.

Point being that products aren’t created in a vacuum and they need network effects to be successful. In fact, that was a design philosophy of Signal from the start. Paraphrasing: “Don’t let people choose, but rather give them the best defaults”
This is ludicrous. So somebody friends me on Facebook, someone who I know and trust. Then that person comes along some quiz, and then in teeny text at the bottom of what looks like a standard "blah blah blah" popup is the information, carefully worded as to not be too alarmist, that that person's friends' data (i.e. me) will also be sucked up.

At that point, why just stop at friends? Why not go to any transitive relationship with the argument "well, you trusted that person, so it's just like them sharing the data you already gave to them". Of course, the absurdity of that is that one person can share the whole world. I do not think this is a slippery slope argument at all, given that FB already went halfway down the slope before there was outrage.
Which is what they're likely to do, after which they will open a new one 5 minutes later. At least it'll cost them time and money to do that, although probably not 25K.
Hey thanks! I wouldn't say it's a hard dependency, in fact it can work with other things that are API-compatible with DynamoDB, like Scylla for example if you wanted to self-host everything:

http://scylla.docs.scylladb.com/master/alternator/alternator

And in terms of using something like Firestore, the storage needs of this are very simple so it wouldn't be very hard to add that in. I tried to keep all the persistence-related functionality separated off, so it is swappable:

https://github.com/pickledish/cardi/tree/master/src/dynamodb
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Please, share more information about the supposed project. I would like to check teh code base if that's possible and see what actually I'm assigning to.
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Yeah "common in tech" my arse.
Important to remember some of the other players like TrustPilot when considering the posts about Google's moderation of Robinhood reviews. Moderation is hard, every actor (reviewer, reviewee, and review service) can be malicious.
This might be off-topic but, when can i get cloud-init for physical installs? Without jumping through ten hacks? Isn't that the future for installers given the amount of effort being put into the project and it's cross distro focus?

I'm genuinely curious on each of these questions, thanks for any insights!
Why kill it? Embrace it. The power consumption is solved by renewables.
Yeah that and if Google should include Android ("App distribution as a Service") and YouTube ("Video as a Service") then they'd probably cover a lot of the gap on both Amazon and Microsoft.

I also wonder if AWS accounts for revenue from Amazon, the retailer and the digital services provider? If so, Alphabet's "use" of GCP to power search and ads must make them the largest GCP customer and help their revenue numbers significantly. I guess, Alphabet's waiting for the most opportune time to merge those numbers in their reports to blow AWS out of the water, just for PR purposes.

Besides, I think AWS missed a trick by passing on GitHub (and instead relying on CodeDeploy/CodeCommit and half-baked other horrendous, me-too offerings). I mean, they have acquired developer tools companies before (like Cloud9 IDE). May be they'd do well to all-in for new-age dev-tools companies like repl.it and retool.com now that they don't have a run away success in a GitHub-like product which really is at the center of the software development world right now.
Agreed with this. Also, to give the author of the Psyche article credit, he defined what he meant by obscurantist philosophy earlier in the article. In my fairly limited reading of them, Foucault, Derrida, et al., don't always do this, even when the terms they use are much less self-explanatory than this one.
What would competitors do with it? Touching it is a massive legal risk, and most of the work in a game is in things they can't use.