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Why hasn't Presto become industry standard?
if Presto SQL can query every database under the Sun (from RDBMS, Hadoop HDFS, Kafka and ElasticSearch) why it has not become industry standard yet? What's the catch? What are its limitation?
This obituary of him was touching.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-09-30-960930...
The fact that they made these vaccines so quickly and (apparently) so well is a testament to what humans can do when we put a ton of try-hard into something. That said, if we didn't have vaccines and people just kept on dying, it would definitely suck, but we would still have surveillance capitalism monitoring the most intimate aspects of our lives. Once we finally came out of the other side of Covid, even without a vaccine, we would still have google and apple and microsoft and facebook monitoring our every choice and monetizing it. Maybe there'd be a billion fewer people (and maybe that's not so bad) but we'd still have all the ills that these closed systems have brought on us.
Was his ledger manipulated or compromised in some way before using it? Was the seed already pregenerated? Was the paper actually compromised, or some other system got the data?

There are plenty of other ways.

You keep saying it is impossible the paper was accessed, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t- or the information got compromised another way.

Did he print it out from a common machine?
The Mercury functional programming language
I've got 1,300 hours into Factorio... the factory must grow!

It is analogous to programming, the programming I learned in the 1980s, not modern software development.

On the plus side, once you level up a bit and get constructor robots there is a bit of copy/paste and undo capacity. You can load and save your work, and use more than 8.3 file names. 8)

On the down side, there is no source control, no commenting, very limited macro capability (blueprints). The debugging tools are limited.

On the analogy side, pollution as technical debt that causes bugs which will bite you, is spot on.

My favorite game style is to do Rocket Rush on an island... and see if I can get rid of the enemy and get self-sustaining nuclear power with Kovarex going... the it rapidly becomes boring.
Like I’ve said before, there need to be laws that require companies like Qualcomm to open source their stuff once they stop supporting them in any meaningful way.
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50 GWh of hydrogen would fit in one salt cavern of the kind already made for natural gas. Any numbers of companies can solution mine those caverns for you; that technology is many decades old. I'd need more information about the rest of what you want, as that scales by power not by energy capacity.
Had a mate who put him up, but for the non Erdós number reason: Erdós liked to play bridge a lot. So, practical group theory in the base-52 space..
People I know in Manhattan are still paying their cleaners even though there’s no more cleaning. These are fewer and fewer as folks permanently decamp from the city.
I play both. Satisfactory has more game in the sense of doing things besides designing a factory. Factorio is close to pure factory building, whereas it's like 70% in saisfactory.

Satisfactory has more elements of a traditional open-world action game (that just happens to borrow factorio's factory system).
That's a great question. Even with our vast improvements in neuroscience no one can say for sure.

How can science isolate or control for a variable which cannot be isolated from the observer?

The nature of consciousness is elusive, almost like a dog chasing it's tail.
that's makes much more sense :)

I found this: https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/cpu_list.php

ARMv7 looks like is raspberry pi, looking at this I can't see any computational value for such cluster setup.
It impacts the company's bottom line by an amount precisely equal to their pay, payroll tax, and benefits. Because that's how bottom lines work. They're the summation of all the previous lines, +ve and -ve.

Personally, I kept paying my cleaners, because my bottom line isn't that important to me. But it is (and should be) for companies.
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Union contracts are employer specific (and in some cases, facility specific), and if the Tesla factory workers unionized, they could negotiate for stock grants.

The threat was that Tesla would revoke stock option grants if the workforce unionized, or refuse to negotiate over the availability of stock options, which is illegal under current federal labor regulations.

No, most other automakers don't offer stock, because the UAW didn't negotiate that with other automakers. However, for most other automakers, (and indeed, outside of tech generally) stock options are not worth much because the stock doesn't appreciate rapidly and it's not worth the administrative burden of issuing/tracking options for share gains in the fractions of a dollar. Most other automakers do allow employees to purchase (actual) shares of company stock out of pre-tax income, which is generally a huge benefit for companies that actually make money and are valued on fundamentals.
I don't know whether you should have kept paying your cleaner, but I have been paying my barber every month even though I haven't had a haircut in over a year. To me it absolutely seems like the right thing to do, but is a little delicate - you have to make sure it doesn't end up feeling like charity.
> why pay union dues & give up stock options for nothing?

If you don't think that Elon means employees will lose their stock options if they unionize, then what does he mean?
Long term support for client side machine isn't a requirement for enterprises. Most companies typically refresh laptops after 3-5 years.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22761274

There are virologists that have put in more work than idle speculation to ground their assessment that it was naturally occurring virus.
We are still paying our cleaner even though she does not come. We also paid our nanny when she could not come for twelve or fourteen weeks at the beginning of the pandemic, and again when NYC seemed like it was going to have a large second wave. But we are fairly wealthy and it is not painful for us to do this. This behavior seems pretty typical of my friends in similar income levels.
That wording specifically disallows both commercial sites and SaaS, so it should be read as both "don't build a SaaS on top of GitHub Pages" and "don't have business websites on GitHub Pages"
"Demand shaping" is a nice euphemism for energy shortages. And if we demand shaping we're just externalizing the cost to consumers that need to buy their own energy storage or change their energy usage patterns to accommodate the unreliable supply.

Overproduction helps but doesn't eliminate intermittency. And pumped hydroelectricity is geographically dependent. The irony is that most places with extensive hydroelectric storage potential don't need wind and solar in the first place because they get their energy from hydroelectric generation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God

> In a Tibetan lamasery, the monks seek to list all of the names of God. They believe the Universe was created for this purpose, and that once this naming is completed, God will bring the Universe to an end.

...

> Under a clear night sky they estimate that it must be just about the time that the monks are pasting the final printed names into their holy books. Then they notice that "overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out."
Some companies are still keeping them on.

From the article:

> [...]some of them—including Nvidia, as well as giants like Facebook and Google—continued to pay their service workers.
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In my experience, those either get detected(?) and let through (rss can be agressively cached after all) or you're out of luck and the website owner set up e.g. wordpress (which automatically included rss URLs) but did not configure cloudflare to let rss through.
It's literally no one close to him. Please take that as a fact. The paper with the seed words was written a few years ago. It has been hidden since.

I'm willing to bet we'll be hearing about more people getting their wallets wiped clean.
in my ideal world the software ITA wrote for airlines and is now owned by Google would be in the hands of consumers and the airlines could have adapted to shifts in demand probably without the need for abrupt cessation of services and human fatigue on industry employees caused when route optimisation analysis tempts executives with what I suspect are ultimately fictitious net present savings.
The ritualistic language in the "proposal" and the fact that Facebook and RedHat developers agreed without discussion is disturbing.

If they want him out for technical reasons, then say so and don't do it now of all times.

But like this they are just good foot soldiers for their corporate masters. How about examining everything Zuckerberg has said and done on this mailing list?
As a Brit in the US, one of the first things I got 'straight off the boat' was an electric kettle. Surprisingly they work exactly like you'd expect. :)
Note that the naming doesn't mean anything about organizational structure; it's literally a branding exercise.

But more to the point, the closer analogy is an Amazon Post that claims to be editorially independent that publishes an editorial that's supportive of, say, Bashar al Assad, and people taking this to mean Amazon supports Bashar al Assad.

There are basically two logical leaps going on there: (1) if the editorial writer supports X then the paper must support X (historically not how editorials work) and (2) if the paper supports X then the organization that owns the paper supports X (not how editorial independence of a paper works).
Because most IT departments now get the best of both worlds. They won't pay for phones for employees but still insist employees install their spyware to "byod".
One party allowed to run up unchecked marketing costs, fully recoupable against the other party's royalty.
He wrote the words on paper, away from any other devices, years ago.

The Ledger came from Ledger (the company) sealed in its packaging.
He was staying for a few days at a colleagues house and even thought he seems to have some weird preferences I didn't really hear anything negative about him. Seems to be a nice guy to be honest and I trust in my colleagues ability to be a good judge of character. (Didn't meet RMS myself so can't attest for him myself)
IMO the problem here is exactly that the project was outsourced. Outsourcing is likely to lead to crap products and with clueless public funding the costs end up astronomical relative to the quality of the result. In-house software expertise could result in better quality (this budget could definitely afford a lot of great engineers) and more controllable costs.
After trying several options, I currently run a ghost.org instance locally in Docker where I edit my site. Then I run a tiny shell script to scrape a static version with wget and push it to Github pages.
Well, the whole legal system is based on the principle that a fair fight between two sides will yield the truth. So if one side is doing unethical and even unlawful things, then it's less likely the other side will win (or the truth be revealed).
Plus, if someone has a copy of his recovery words, they would be able to actually recover / clone his hardware wallet I think, because that’s what they are for.

If your nephew didn’t access that paper for years, it doesn’t mean someone hasn’t. Was it stored in a box with glitter nail polish on the lid ? Just something that can prove the location wasn’t opened without his knowledge. Believing it, is not enough.

Could he has noted those words on a block notes and the piece of paper below it recorded an imprint of those words that were recovered be someone else?

Have fun being a Sherlock! But I guess not much can be done.

Not sure the police would consider such a case as a valid theft (at least not yet)
I’m using AWS Amplify Console and am very happy with it. All pay as you go so it’s super cheap. You can also hook into other AWS services if you want to start expanding capabilities.
That logic doesn't hold if you share a belief in Tesla's stated mission "to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport", and also want to be in a union -- which is a reasonable set of beliefs and desires to hold.

And I don't see how unions would be intrinsically incompatible with Tesla's mission or operations. There's no reason I know of to hold that it is an immutable fact that Tesla's workers are non-union -- so why shouldn't someone join Tesla and attempt to unionize.
Having a trusted cleaning staff available without going through a painful sourcing period can be worth the cost. Long term planning + goodwill and the expensive writeoff make it attractive.
Agree. A rough one.
To be clear: Violet Gibson was in no way Italian or connected in any meaningful way to Italy.

One might also observe that the violent attack in a foreign country might almost be ‘Imperialist’.

And if the attack was politically motivated (I personally think she was a few sandwiches short of a picnic), then she’s down for some political violence.

In that case she’s a bit more facist than anti-facist.
What if the wallet was accessed from a compromised machine?
Sounds like the perfect plan. How many of the companies mentioned in this thread will be around in 10 years? I'd bet on neocities.
I use a single vps from OVH. Something like 5 dollars a month.
Another point on this - even if current inventory levels were known precisely (generally they aren’t), whether an item is currently available is not what is of interest. Rather what is of interest is whether an item will be available when an order is filled.
Don't lime based mortar still require the O2 to be driven off through heating to very high temperatures? Isn't that the same reason portland cement production creates high levels of CO2? Or is the CO2 produced during the curing stage of cement?
And are we currently using any of these caverns for electrolysis and grid storage? All you said is that we have a big cavern that we could fill with hydrogen. I'm asking if anybody is actually building hydrogen grid storage at any significant scale. Are there any facilities that take in excess energy from renewables, turn it into hydrogen, and then turn that hydrogen back into electricity?

We both know the answer: there aren't any.

Back in the 1950s people thought nuclear power would be cheaper than fossil fuels. They thought it'd be effectively free. The energy density of uranium is so much better, so clearly generating electricity with it would be much cheaper. But actually deploying a technology at scale reveals more and more challenges.

Your proposal for hydrogen storage is in the same phase that nuclear power was in during the 1950s. A solution that exists on paper, but one that hasn't actually encountered and overcome the challenges of implementing it at scale. Same with thermal batteries, synthetic methane, and so on. These are proposals that haven't passed the test of actual implementation at scale.
That's almost exactly Alton Brown's recipe - he made it on YouTube a few months back. https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/stovetop-mac...

I'd argue you don't need salt if you salt the pasta water enough.
This is a particular research paper on taking notes on laptops rather than in longhand, and how notes are transcribed. They conclude that longhand is better than the taking notes on laptops. Pretty popular paper.

(The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard)
[https://linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/Teaching/papers/Mu...]
> we adapted

Yes, by hogging toilet paper. I hate to be a pessimist, but just look at the track record: when covid started, there were shortages of many things (e.g. for a few weeks in march, canned food and chicken ran out of stock at places). We've also seen the impact manifest in the form of price increases (basmati rice[0], for example)

If we ever see large scale crop failures due to a weather event, it's quite reasonable to expect lockdown of exports of foodstuff, and it's quite reasonable to expect large spikes in consumer spending quickly depleting with the supply chain pipeline like what happened with toilet paper/canned food.

The problem is you can't armchair-engineer sunlight at the scale that humanity's agricultural industry requires, so a large scale volcanic or meteoric event would likely be catastrophic and a lot of people would die.

[0] https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/sourcing/basmati-rice-shortages-...
"appear compromised" should be reserved to when multiple unrelated instances occur with no direct relation.

While you describe plenty of recent facts, from the "he has spent years earning it" I take the wallets were setup years ago and honestly, I would not trust even myself on operational security of a single device/passphrase that I may regularly use.

Are you really sure that a given iphone has never "left his possession"? Was it locked in a safe the entire time?
Yes but the institutions are defined in the constitutions.

In the Republic of Ireland we have a relatively good constitution, fairly active, that has a vast hole in the first paragraph of Article 45:

ARTICLE 45

The principles of social policy set forth in this Article are intended for the general guidance of the Oireachtas. The application of those principles in the making of laws shall be the care of the Oireachtas exclusively, and shall not be cognisable by any Court under any of the provisions of this Constitution.

This obviously both deliberate and insane. We should remove it. It is the biggest institutional flaw in our constitution. But Bunreacht na hEireann is worth so much more than the paper its printed on, or the jurisdiction of the courts it defines. It is the code of the country, the will of the people, enacted, modified and attained. It is the source of our of our law, our shared hope, and our sense of gathered self. We are our constitution, we are free.
If you want the creaminess with similarly low effort, then instead of just dumping the pasta water and stirring the "roux" ingredients directly into the pasta, use a slotted spoon to take the pasta out of the water instead of the other way around. Pour out some of the pasta water, but not all of it. Now add your butter and shredded cheese, along with some sodium citrate ("sour salt"; it's an emulsifier), in a ratio of about 2-3% (by weight) of the total mass of butter and cheese. Stir it up until creamy, and then add the pasta back. It adds about 2 minutes' time to making it, but I personally like the result a whole lot better, even when I'm super super short on time. Sodium citrate is really just magical stuff.
The most common historical solution has been backyard and community gardens. They were common after the soviet collapse, and during WWII in North America.

I know you said “and not wait a growing season” but some backyard crops can grow in 21-30 days. And masks took longer than that. There’s a lot of yardspace that could become gardens and chicken farms in a pinch.

A big risk would be if that happened during the winter, or in a place where there is less surplus fertile land.

If there’s some event where you can’t grow, the only current thing we can do is already having non perishables stockpiled. We didn’t event a whole new supply chain for masks: existing companies ramped up production and citizens/new companies made cloth masks. But we’re talking established techniques.
I've been buying gift certificates where I can. For my barber, specifically, I had them just give something on a piece of paper since they're a small shop and don't do gift certificates. Not sure it's the best idea in the world, but it's a balance between charity and them giving me something of value.
Josh Day is the author of OnlineStats.jl, which provides streaming, parallelizable and composable aggregation algorithms. Not just count/mean/min/max, but also things like principal components analysis and regression coefficients.
I'm sure people will be lining up to take these board positions when the punishment for project failure is prison.

Maybe that's a little far, no?
The downside musk presented was a lie though: a union could absolutely bargain for stock options.
Samsung has enterprise versions of some phones/tablets with 5 year security updates
Can you imagine a scenario where you secretly write some words down on paper, three years ago, near no devices, and you store it somewhere where you absolutely know for sure no one will ever access? I can imagine such a scenario for myself.

That's what he did.

Then we have the whole Trust Wallet compromise on his iPhone.
That depends on what kind of static site it is. Is it for a business or making a business impression? Then I don't know.

But if it's for personal use then the easiest is to simply install nginx from your repos on your home computer and put html and media files in directories. Then forward port 80 on your router to the IP of the computer. nginx serving static is not going to be a risk. It's extremely simple. And having everything on your local computer makes it easy to share and very fast to iterate.
I firmly agree with that. Unfortunately it's hard to question a cult of personality.

If you look in the linked threads, RMS himself acknowledged in 2015 that not accepting LLVM was a mistake - https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00... (and he says he didn't even know about the offer, but he doesn't address why he didn't know about the offer). In a functioning organization that cared about its mission, that ought to have triggered, at the least, a "blameless postmortem" about what failed, because allowing a non-free-software-friendly tech company to develop a serious free software competitor to GCC is just about the biggest strategic mistake the FSF (let alone GCC) could have made. (The HURD does work now, but it lost to Linux long ago. So that leaves GNU's flagship projects as just glibc - which is under the LGPL - and emacs, which is hardly core and which many hackers don't even use. The GNU System is at existential risk.)

Why didn't it happen? Why did RMS just say, literally, "Oh well," and that was the end of it?

Who - if anyone - is responsible for making sure that GNU is not extinguished because the world has changed since 1988 and a then-excellent plan did not survive contact with reality? Is it RMS, and why does it seem like asking that question is equivalent to questioning RMS as a person?

There's a really good thread by Luis Villa on the general subject of the FSF's organizational failures here, and typing it to the "founder effect": https://twitter.com/luis_in_brief/status/1374038577059827714

Anyway, you ask about arguments from ten years ago. Ten years ago, as someone new to the free software community who attended in-person events and got drinks with people, I absolutely heard people deeply involved with the movement question particular facets of RMS's leadership (and not just his personal habits) in private. But they didn't say anything publicly, because they knew that criticizing RMS in public would make people see them as no better than a Microsoft shill or an "open source" sellout. If you dared to question whether RMS's leadership of the free software movement or even of any individual GNU project was effective, you'd be the person trying to compromise RMS's uncompromising views.

So that leaves the current argument - that RMS's attitude is harming the project, as opposed to his specific technical or political decisions. Were it not for his attitude, those decisions could have been corrected by people better-equipped to analyze the specific situation than RMS. And were those decisions corrected, there would be no need to remove him. The need to remove him is the inability to safely criticize his decisions, i.e., his attitude and leadership style, which is what's at issue now.