skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's definitely one world view, that people are responsible for how people use the things they create. Nothing wrong with it.

I'd hold a different world view, in which individuals who have good intentions shouldn't be blamed for their work getting bastardized or leveraged in unethical ways.

In this case, it seems totally reasonable that an engineer on this project would assume that their work would reward efficiency (which it does), and not be gamed to reward exploitation (which it apparently also does).

Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
Whoops, missed a word. I meant not possible.
Remember the wave of all those "smart" Silicon Valley CEOs who were so convinced they could build a better ventilator at the height of the COVID ventilator shortage? All those folks who thought they could just throw together their engineering knowledge and hacking skills without ever having experience building a medical device?

This sort of tech hubris is all over the tech ecosystem. Folks who believe their startup prowess means they can tackle any medical device with fake-it-till-you-make-it or fail-fast-break-often mentality that often fails in reality.
The more we learn about the brain the more amazing it seems to be.

It’s an extrapolation machine! From very little data the constructs and sensations we feel, the qualia are just incredible.
A few more points because I’m seeing some confusion in the comments.

I’m speaking of Nonviolent communication the framework. It defines “needs”, “feelings”, “actions/strategies” as more concrete than the fuzzier definition each of us has intuitively.

Here’s the inventory of needs for example: https://www.cnvc.org/training/resource/needs-inventory

And a need does not involve a specific person taking a specific action. As in, I can meet my need for play/playfulness by sharing a joke, playing chess online, playing ultimate werewolf with friends etc. one need many strategies.

Also, “empathy” is a process which takes place that the person you hope to give empathy to feels felt by you.

This could be the result of a simple nod, or may need you to reflect their current needs and feelings so they know you have insight in their emotional world and into what’s really important.

It’s a framework focusing attention and exchange on what is universally similar between us and creates harmony and resonance.

Also, it gives up control. You cannot use it to influence behavior.

The “power” of non-violence is connection.
Yeah an update destroyed my install. Luckily I have an msdn license and can just download another copy of win 10. I wasted hours trying to fix it.
I'm not so sure there. RedHat is what you pick to check a box somewhere that says "OS supported with this software/hardware/whatever". There isn't really a technical argument to pay for RedHat over CentOS, beyond box-ticking. Now a RedHat-replacement would first have to get all software and hardware vendors to support their new no-name distro. And given that this has even been hard on Oracle, I'm sceptical in general...
What is Seetee and why is it relevant to this discussion (genuine question, I don't know)?
And, as noted in the SEC's press release (linked from the SFGATE article), there are also criminal charges:

"In a parallel action, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California today announced criminal charges against Richman and Apte."

Press release from U.S. Attorney’s Office: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/ubiome-co-founders-char...

Criminal indictment: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/press-release/file/1377481...
This article says “AWS is... an exploiter of Free software” and I think this is a misleading choice of words because exploit has a connotation that someone is being taken advantage of.

Using free software as it was designed and explicitly allowed isn’t “exploiting.”

I know there’s a discussion and debate and all that, but using this kind of non-settled language casually in a sentence makes me less likely to find an article genuine and accurate.
I found one with a quick Google search (actually even earlier, 2016).

Excerpts from the comment thread [0]:

> Ethereum hopes to do away with mining by early 2017.

> They're switching to proof of stake. Early PoS designs have some issues, like the infamous "nothing at stake" problem, but theirs addresses those.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12128406
> The energy is not wasted, it is ordered, not demanded and thus never produced.
No. That's not right.

Just think about it a bit - if a cop asking you to commit a crime tainted the investigation then bad-guys could prove they weren't police by telling you to commit a crime. "Hey, buy some drugs from me." "Well, he must be legit, there's no way a cop could say that!"

Also, "this sneaky entrapment is a very American thing and won't be accepted by most courts." You're both lacking for world perspective, and an understanding of the purpose of law. If Country X made this illegal, I as a resident of Country X would be upset, not happy, because it would make my legal system worthless. So even if the law were this silly, somewhere, it would change right away by overwhelming citizen demand.

You know, we the people elect those who write the laws. The laws aren't something done to us, they're our tool for making the world work.
Academic “ghost-writing”: the cheating scandal no one will discuss (2020)
Not GP, but I use my French press and let it sit overnight. Then pour it into a growler and keep it in the fridge. It’s simpler and tastes the same as my friends’ fancier setups to me.
Additionally assuming this power is rejected through shunts (effectively resistor banks) this power is from peaking plants shutting down or over provisioned baseload thermal plants.

The only way Bitcoin would use this energy is if they had a contract with the power company to be an on-demand load, switching on and off to help smooth the peaks.

If they aren’t they’re just driving up power use and forcing more operation of less efficient reserve generation on peak.

I understand that a lot of the servers are close to large hydro plants. Under-utilised hydro plants can simply spill water - they spin up and down rapidly compared to thermal plants.
The article talks quite a lot about comments here: https://www.thelayoff.com/t/17y7dQRz#replies

But I don't see much of anything there. One negative comment from "anonymous".
Except Multics, which predates UNIX, already had a lot of these features but better.

https://www.acsac.org/2002/papers/classic-multics.pdf

I don't understand how you can honestly, truly say it's "technological ludditism" when it's clear that nobody in this thread is opposing the features that Flatpack and Snap claim to have, which in many forms predate UNIX and predate Flatpack/Snap -- they are just opposing the half-baked implementation that Flatpack/Snap have created.
Simple text files at work (typically one file per project + a general misc one)

Apple notes for personal stuff
Sure, it would be nice if everyone would have a pony, but in such scenarios you're often working with data where you have no control over the data sources and limited or no contact with the people maintaining them, if these sources are even maintained at all. In some cases (not all) it is possible to assign resources to improve the system from which you're getting data, but that generally is conditional on you being able to demonstrate that this use of data is valuable, so that would only happen after an extensive data analysis is already done on the data as it is now.

Exploratory data analysis (and much of data science as a whole) requires you to work with data it is, not data as you'd want or data as it should be; and a tool which can't conveniently work with bad, dirty data is simply not a suitable tool for the task.
Yeah. Cryptocurrency and "Web 3.0" is absolutely not all zero-sum, and I'm overall optimistic in the long-term, but much like the existing finance industry, a high percentage is definitely zero-sum or close enough on net.

People compare NFTs to trading cards. But if you already think those things are basically useless zero-sum speculative Greater Fool insert-other-overused-but-apt-buzzwords bullshit, your opinion of NFTs won't be improved much.

NFTs, in their current state and hype wave, are probably a little like the dotcom bubble. It definitely doesn't imply the internet and the world wide web are bubbles, but it implies a major disconnect of some kind. I'm more interested in the future of semi-fungible tokens and novel, creative uses of NFT/SFT smart contracts. Plus just smart contracts in general.
Can people for once stop virtue signalling like plastic bags bans or estimating carbon footprint of bitcoin transactions and finally get to the root of the problem: fixing failed states? Because in the course of you planting a single tree some corrupt government destroys a whole ecosystem.
What's the difference between hardness and effectiveness in this context?
The article may or may not be accurate, but it's my personal opinion that I'm to small to go anywhere near IBM or Oracle.

So RedHat may still be a paradise for employees, I still can't afford it.
Whole beans local here in Chicago, normally Metropolis or Dark Matter.

Grind in burr grinder.

Heat water to 175 in an electric kettle.

Brew in Aeropress. Pour enough water to cover grounds, stir for 30 seconds. Trickle water in for 30 seconds to fill. Plunge and serve.
Yeah I was following along with the article up until that point. Pretty dumb thing to say by someone that probably has never run production workloads on a public cloud
All My Career Rejections
Hi HN,

The tweet links to a couple of tutorials showing how to test an extremely simple CRUD service using Coyote to find concurrency bugs. Developers write simple unit tests whose concurrency is explored by Coyote to find bugs. You might be surprised to learn how we can write a number of interesting concurrency tests for even the simplest of CRUD services.

https://microsoft.github.io/coyote/#tutorials/first-concurre...
https://microsoft.github.io/coyote/#tutorials/test-concurren...
This was confusing to me. I’ve never met anyone who uses the GUI for anyone substantial. And know quite a few folks who never use the GUI and either solely use the API or use some framework that uses the API.

If anything AWS skills are more portable because of all the reverse engineered APIs and whatnot.
The article is talking about "escape neutralization".

Neutralizing antibodies are not the only mechanism of the immune system, and the article even discusses another such mechanism: T cell immunity.

T cell immunity appears robust for all variants from the data I've seen.
> Driving requires so much of my attention I feel like it’s invasive.

Weirdly, this is why I like driving. The more attention needed (e.g. snow driving, offroad driving), the more I seem to enjoy it. It's kind of meditative, in a way; on the one hand, it forces me to backburner a lot of lingering thoughts, and on the other hand, that backburnering gives 'em time to "cook" (so to speak) and accumulate new insights to be stumbled upon as soon as they become front and center again.
Seattle went about this a different way, and essentially built on top of the old cruft ala New New York in Futurama.

If you’re ever in Seattle, I highly recommend doing the underground tour!
> The only way Bitcoin would use this energy is if they had a contract with the power company to be an on-demand load, switching on and off to help smooth the peaks.

But that is exactly how power plants are using Bitcoin. That's the idea behind Seetee.
Works in mysql, postgres, oracle, MS, DB2
I've had 3 in a row in Europe. I doubt they would have been enforceable, but from conversations with colleagues they certainly had a chilling effect.
That makes sense. Thanks for sharing your perspective.
Just FYI. There's 'The History of Rome' podcast by Mike Duncan [1]. 'AntennaPod' is a great FLOSS podcast app. Available on Fdroid too [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Rome_(podcast)

[2] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.danoeh.antennapod/
I'm really glad this project exists. Thanks, dev!
This whole situation is just so sad.

My uncle is in the hospital in pretty bad shape, on oxygen so far.
He was spewing conspiracy shit non-stop on facebook.
My father urged him to take the vaccine, then to come to the hospital sooner, he did a CT scan on my uncle, told him, showed him how messed up his lungs were, my uncle refused to be administered in the hospital, made a big fuss that the doctors wanted to kill him in the ICU; two days later he was brought in in an ambulancr.

If he was a stranger, maybe I would have laughed "serves you right", I just cannot understand how an above average intelligence person got himself brainwashed with anti-covid conspiracy theories.
> Now commence downvoting to show you disagree! Surely it will change my mind this time!

I downvoted you because you obviously do not care at all about downvotes.
> Island nations still have internal traffic

Internal traffic among 4 million people is a much easier problem than traffic among a continent of 800 million people.

> But does that truck driver need to have direct contact with other people to do their job?

I’m sure there are better ways to do things, but truck drivers often unload shipments, confirm receipts, etc and they still need to visit truck stops and restaurants for supplies, food, etc.

> Why can't they unload their cargo, sleep at a quarantine facility, and then drive a new truckload in the opposite direction, without an opportunity to infect anyone else?

Quarantining between shipments would mean drivers are mostly idle, driving the cost of shipping through the roof. Changing supply contracts so drivers exchange cargo at the border requires completely reworking highly optimized logistics networks and isn’t going to happen in a few years, certainly not by fiat from some bureaucrat or politician that has no experience in logistics.
Works in mysql, postgres, oracle, MS, DB2. Can you name an engine where it fails?
A new Bitcoin mining company founded by a Norwegian energy company, focused on Bitcoin and renewables.
>>A lot of developers do expect SOLID to apply to every case, and I've seen fine code get rejected in reviews because it wasn't SOLID enough.

Prescriptive principles without informed discretion. That is the problem, and it's not just software.

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."

It's terrifying how easily a reasoned and seeming sensible polemic may be interpreted into a foolish oppression, even by otherwise rational folk...
The Rise of the Platform Brands
There is no rejected energy. If there is an overproduction of energy, the price goes down (it may even go negative), and industries will consume the energy.
I read the other day that DuckDuckGo indexes tor sites.
Prop 13 is the root of the issue. It's had an awful effect on minorities and is probably illegal as "disparate impact" under the Fair Housing Act. This paper makes it clear:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3012949

I don't know if it's wise to pursue this under Trump's supreme court though
It's part of the reason I went into philosophy via linguistics...

Have you read any George Lakoff? I took a course from him at Berkeley. That’s the closest I’ve personally gotten to philosophy. Just curious if you have any thoughts about his approach.
RAWR.

Reading

Arithmetic

Writing

R
AFAIK, much of what they call Rejected Energy in that LLNL illustration is lost as heat in the ways you'd probably expect - for example, an internal combustion engine gets hot, or a gas-fueled power station gets hot
Silicon Valley's value is in innovation. Oracle doesn't innovate, and Amazon's in Seattle anyway. There's really nothing that matters as far as any of the cloud companies; they're valueless.
Philadelphia region, which seems to me like the worst US market for IT pay vs cost of living.

There are some bonuses and profit sharing that might bump it $5k-15k. The housing market here has been hot for years now. Even with a long commute a builder grade house in the 1500-1800 sf range on less than an acre is over $250k with about $4-5k in taxes. It's about double that price if the commute is half as long. As an idea of cost of living, labor charge for stuff like a mechanic or plumber is about $100/hr.
Ah, but that comment isn't software, is it?

[0]: https://esolangs.org/wiki/English
Isn't mask wearing still required after vaccination because of the enforcement costs? I.e. it's too difficult to prove whose been vaccinated in every situation, so by requiring masks until the community reaches the target threshold
If that is the intended meaning, I agree. Philosophy isn't science. At least in 2021, it is rarely about "solving the X problem." It's definitely worth using your best language for philosophy, rather than a standard language you can't use as well.

That said, if someone does come along with a definitive solution to the other minds problem or whatnot, I'm confident that the concepts will traverse language just fine.

Any thoughts on translatable vs untranslatable concepts? Does being translatable or untranslatable tell us anything about the concept itself?
I think that is too simplistic. For example, in a CLOB market putting something in the order book is visible and depending on price and volume will not just execute in one go and therefore cause change. But it is a market reaction to a published intend to trade.
Issues around market microstructure, liquidity etc are very well researched.
They may be able to respond positively to a threat, but it can still be a threat. It may pay off to try to compose godot's code into theirs, but it may very well be cheaper to just rewrite things within their own framework.

Anyway, I'm just saying that free software can be a competitor and that you can lose to it even if you can, technically, embed their source code. Even if software was perfectly composable that would be true, but it's even more possible given that you can't always just plug in any new features godot releases. They may even be implemented in different languages, for all we know.
What kind of UI are you building? What platform are you targeting?
In some cases it does request permissions when you try to do things. E.g. sandboxed apps without full filesystem access can open & save files through a 'portal' - the system presents the user with an open/save dialog, and the app gets access to the file or folder they select. Things like screen sharing can work similarly - the system asks the user to approve access for the app.

But, as other people have said, this involves new APIs. In the open/save case, the app has to request that the system display a file chooser instead of drawing its own. GTK & Qt can hide this change so apps built on those toolkits benefit automatically. But beyond really self-contained things (like games) most apps that haven't been developed with a sandbox need some adjustment to play nicely within a sandbox. And making changes depends on building a consensus that it's worth doing.
I enjoyed the "Fedora is being outsourced to Microsoft and AWS" line, turns out they mean Fedora uses github and aws.

The "layoffs" link implies layoffs at Red Hat but the linked story talks about layoffs at microsoft(!) and IBM (ok at least thats closer but "IBM is gutting Red Hat by maybe possibly could-be laying off IBM staff" is a weird logical leap)

So just another attempt to drive clicks via a shock headline and a nothing story.

(Edit: my spelling is terrible)
I did read the article. I'm still 100% confident that it's just a way to get people to leave.
Well you probably do still want the type checker to at least look at the public interfaces of any libraries you depend on, since you want it to enforce that you're calling into them correctly.
And also because macOS has only one desktop environment :)
So, with murder-for-hire, the contract stipulates that somebody gets murdered. In paying somebody $6/hour to deliver packages, the contract requires that people's package get delivered.

I think we can agree that the negative side-effects of the sub-minimum-wage-package-delivery arrangement are subtler.
An USB-C device that behaves differently based on the orientation of the plug
But trades aren't atomic, even though the i-bank traders in Flash Boys wanted to get paid to pretend they were. If you're trying to unload N shares, that's going to happen in some number of k<=n-sized chunks.
Apparently there's Fuck You money, and then there's having "I buy NFTs" money.

(But you have to say it in Forrest Gump's voice.)
the query in question is definitely case b - it's a group by query with an explicit granularity, there's just no actual aggregates being asked for but the very presence or absence of a row in the results carries some meaning. the explicit grain is something like employee markouts plus customers from stores with at least one employee without markouts.
How does so much energy from petroleum go into "transportation" and then into "rejected energy"? Is the small text at the bottom saying effectively that transportation is an inefficient use of petroleum energy? If so that makes it a weird argument to suggest that Bitcoin is in some way making use of that 22% wasted transportation contribution.

Won't Bitcoin mining show up as part of use used residential and commercial electricity?

And, wouldn't "less coal and natural gas burned" be more desirable than "using that to mine Bitcoin" and sneering about "handwringing"?
My first hint that things were starting to go sideways was the extended delay in bringing out CentOS 7, followed by a kernel bug that affected my CPU, where a fix was quickly available to RHEL users, and slow in coming to CentOS users. The final straw was trying to keep ZFS built; after one last time where the next kernel's ZFS module failed to build, it was out with CentOS on my home file server, and in with Ubuntu Server. I haven't looked back. I have one last CentOS box, running Asterisk, that I'm about to switch to Debian.

Then, it seemed like, all too often, I'd look up a question about CentOS, and get a link to a paywalled page on access.redhat.com for my trouble. Thanks, guys...

CentOS 8 came after even worse delays than 7, and, when I spun it up in a VM for a test drive, none of my preferred desktops were available. I said NOPE and moved on.

And now, we have this mess. What a shame it had to end this way.
to me the whole saga of “clean code” and “solid” it’s just pseudo-science predicated by people who have made a fortune selling books and consulting on the subject. unfortunately software engineering it’s not an exact science and that’s for that specific reason that I rather consume these concepts with a pinch of salt and not take them as axioms
> If you're not sure that your employer will screw you over then get something in writing.

This might be a good indicator that you should leave your employer. If you don't trust that they won't screw you over...

Granted, I know that's easier said than done. But we should all aim to put up with less of this kind of shit from employers.
Could probably have been built in Firefox back in the good old days.

Remember Firebug (which lives on today as developer tools in every browser) used to be just an extension(!) back in the day.
Burr grinder to make grounds for either the moka pot or the French press. Sometimes cold brew from the French press.
If you boot directly into DOS then you're running DOS, yes. But once Windows 95 has started, there is no DOS “underneath”.
M.C. Escher already knew about a curl-up beetle as documented in 1951.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curl-up
[1]: https://www.instructables.com/Articulated-MC-Escher-Curl-up-...
Right, but if all states had a handful of ports of entry manned by TSA who could enforce those restrictions and supply chains that were already inadvertently optimized to prevent disease transmission, then the US would probably look a lot more like New Zealand!