skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>while these mosquitoes do cause a lot of human deaths, the environmental "benefit" of those deaths are completely meaningless in the grand scheme of things

Benefit to whom? What is the grand scheme of things?

>pretty much everyone who knows anything about it (including otherwise very environmentally minded people who as a rule would never, ever agree with deliberately eradicating anything) agrees it can be eradicated with no meaningful impact on the ecosystem

The hubris in this statement is absolutely stunning and, ironically, the perfect example of why we, as an extremely limited, ignorant, species of upright apes should not be exterminating other species because we think we have it all figured out.
The opposite happened to me. I wrote an article, which 7 years later was plagiarised on Amazon. My article got taken down on the basis that it plagiarised the Amazon book. Fortunately the publication dates made it pretty clear what had happened and it got fixed [1].

I never bothered to take it further, so the plagurist's book is still available and has been used as a citation in other Wikipedia articles [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jindalee_Operational_Rada...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=Joseph+Babatunde+Fagoyinbo+s...
No systemd
It's certainly comforting to know that when a company does a ecological really bad thing it's actually cleaned up and not just ignored and swept under the rug by both governments and the corporation.
Good points. But what about Bolzman Brains? Are they absurd too?
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain)
You didn’t have to do it, you know it right?

I’m really curious how it is going to play out. I’m a bit concerned that our salaries will be slashed, especially if engs from other countries enter the wfh market
>Humans are in fact, really good at playing god over long periods of time.

Hundreds of millions of murdered and poisoned people would likely disagree with you, if they hadn't been murdered and poisoned by humans who were playing god.
A honest answer would be, there is no clear business model at this stage.

IPster is supported by my other projects so this can go on for years supporting a large number of users.

If Ipster is really useful, business model will also evolve.
This sounds wildly incorrect to me, I've seen many comments here that share personal anecdotes and stories of drama with companies and executives.

I'm not sure what you're referencing in the guidelines that would ban such posts? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>"What is so bad about systemd?

List of notable bugs and security issues:

#437: timeX.google.com provide non standard time

#1143: PID1 getting stuck printing "systemd[1]: Time has been changed" continuously

#1312: restarting systemd service on dependency failure

#1596: journalctl -r -n flags incorrectly processed

#2402: Mount efivarfs read-only

#2460: Showing status of service via systemctl is slow (>10s) if disk journal is used

#4863: systemd-journald drops all bytes after '\0'

#5644: tmpfiles: R! /dir/.* destroys root

#6237: systemd can't handle the process previlege that belongs to user name startswith number, such as 0day

#6369: hostnamed does not like fqdns with trailing dots

#6381: systemd-cryptsetup: Booting with encrypted root partition fails instantly

#6478: `systemctl` should not consider active->failed as a successful operation

#6620: services writing to stdout become silent after journal restart

#7184: resolved: fix loop on packets with pseudo dns types (CVE-2017-15908)
Out-of-Bounds write in systemd-networkd dhcpv6 option handling (CVE-2018-15688)

#6078: Applying systemd-networkd configuration disconnects all other interfaces
System Down: A systemd-journald exploit (CVE-2018-16864, CVE-2018-16865, and CVE-2018-16866)

#11810: Can't suspend again after suspending one time (explanation why this is bad)
Systemd user manager interferes with ecryptfs - private directory not being unmounted (also umount of ecryptfs does not automatically clear the keyring and ecryptfs-utils: Private directory not automatically unmounted anymore on logout)

Other issues arising around systemd:

systemd kill background processes after user logs out (see also: [RFE] add a way to run in a new systemd scope automatically)

Don't panic, but Linux's Systemd can be pwned via an evil DNS query

Systemd Could Fallback to Google DNS?
DNS search domain not removed from resolv.conf on disconnect

systemd does not respect system wide resource limits"
Which video was it?
More people being put to death because the autonomous bureaucracy has gotten better at putting people to death is pretty kafkaesque. It reminds me of the short story with “the machine” that cuts progressively deeper over time.
"A death sentencing system based on racial dynamics and then amplified by self-referential dynamics is inconsistent with equal protection of the law, but this describes the United States system well."

This reads strangely to me. It's like saying:

"Our research found that 2+2=4. In combination with racial dynamics, this is inconsistent with equal protection of the law."

I get that they are saying it amplifies, but they injected it in a weird way that makes their research sound more important to a broader conclusion than it is.
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What about everyone who is suddenly running at lunch because they have a shower at home?
They actually are. As LVT goes up, the price of ownership goes down as land becomes a bit of a "hot potato". That's actually fine: what we are left with in the extreme is all land is rented from the state, and there is no permanent ownership. That's great!

You don't have to go that far, but it's good to know it's "safe" to do so. Land isn't produced so there's no "100 Laffer curve is 0" type problem in the slightest.
Not quite. The counter-notice also includes that language, "I swear under penalty of perjury that the notice-giver is wrong". So there's no penalty for lying in the notice, but the same can't be said for the victim of the notice. What's more, you _can't_ counter-notice that your use of copyrighted material is protected by fair use - that has to be found in court, so hopefully you've got deep pockets.

DMCA is an awful law.
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We created UFOPac.org, dedicated to making UFOs a mainstream political issue and advocating for the release of information related to the UFO phenomenon. We’re the only political action committee dedicated to this topic (I think.)
Is it really economic development if it threatens the global ecosystem? Who's going to pay for the damage caused?
Singapore is already doing it

1. https://www.todayonline.com/voices/number-project-wolbachia-...

2. https://www.nst.com.my/world/region/2020/05/590838/singapore...
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The point is a random outcome in one case may perpetuate in a way that creates the commitment, and a random loss early on may prevent that commitment.
They live where they choose to live, and affordability is a one of the biggest factors in that decision.

If you make $40,000 in a lot cities you need to live in someone else's closet. But in Houston you can buy a house, raise a family and even go out to some of the cities nicest bars and restaurants occasionally.
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Did you see the article today saying they run the Apple Store at a 78% profit margin?

Their raison d'etre is keeping you trapped in that cage.
The thing is, learning Rust is Hard, with a capital H. Even experienced programmers have to work really hard to grasp it. I’ve started the process but the light has not yet switched on.

I want to be great at Rust, but I’m nowhere near there. Getting basic things done like defining functions, passing data remain challenging every single step of the way.

For this reason alone, Rust will remain the domain of dedicated and motivated programmers.

It’s never going to be crowded in this community.

Unless of course I’m a slow witted dunce, in which case, maybe Rust ain’t hard.
I think the root of that problem is also investing in reducing single mothers. The US has the highest rate of single mothers globally iirc and that isn't a good thing. Not only are these women likely raising a child in a single income, but they most often are raising them during times of their lives when they should be in college or forging careers...or frankly getting married.

Now this isn't some sexist rant that women should marry, but it's the antithesis of "takes a village to raise a child." Most of these single moms tend to have smaller social groups, have sporadic family ties, and often have mental health issues due to poverty that comes with being a single mother. It's harder than going to college and working full time but doesnt pay. And paying them off to live that lifestyle doesn't incentivize men to want to want to support a spouse. I really hate to say it in all my life, but I honestly think conservatives were right about the aspect of a family. It's vital and for some reason it's being tossed aside as though it's not needed anymore and that the root problem isn't somewhere else.
> existed in an ecosystem for tens of millions of years without evolving into some sort of important niche

These mosquitos are a man-brought invasive species, so that argument doesn't fly.

+ You're already mentioning we don't know what effect species going extinct can have... But that's the point, countless species are already going extinct anyway, there's literally zero reason why you would worry or care more about keeping this one.
That sounds like a huge liability bomb. I had a mechanic that would regularly tell me tires are the most important safety feature since it's literally the only thing between you and the ground. I would think any insurance claim would be itching to point back to the rental agency.

https://www.kbb.com/car-news/5-tips-on-buying-a-used-rental-...

"rental companies typically keep their units on strict maintenance schedules. They can’t afford the downtime from unscheduled repairs, so you can be fairly sure that the vehicle is in top shape."

That's been in line with my experience. I'm not brand loyal. In general, the discount brands do have older cars. The name-brands usually had current or last year models. The larger vehicles were almost always brand new unless they were specific to hauling. The only time that hasn't been true was when renting in Iceland. The vehicle was at least 10 years old (maybe 15 or 20?) and we were driving it to remote places. So I was a bit concerned about breaking down and access to help. Thankfully, it never had an issue.
How on earth did your teacher think .org was trustworthy?

A trouble with trusting news that's true instead of fake is it misses the point that even true news gives a false feeling even if all the facts are true. They use scary language, omitting inconvenient facts, subjective exaggerated sounding words, quoting real people stating false facts, etc. Those feelings have actual consequences on how people vote and what decisions they make. For example, the great Pacific garbage patch was shown dramatically on TV a so dense you could just about walk on it and led to people not wanting to put plastic bags in the landfill. They were so overwhelmed by the demonization of plastic, they didn't pay attention to the facts. That whole Trump thing was filled with it too. They didn't really lie but they made all his actions sound bad so people hated him.
So the FP is taking a break from partisan hackery to do a puff-piece to drum up some investment?
The incredible biodiversity of the Amazon would be lost forever though.
You also do not realize that my Oracle strobe script runs on Windows, with the cygwin mksh binary.

I wrote it that way.
Ok, I know it's crazy, but I like to indulge myself sometimes:

Does this have something to do with Will Hurd's past in the CIA? Feels like an interesting choice to have on the board of the premiere AI research lab.
Wow, I didn't realise it was this old:

> The URL had been registered back in 1999, before 2001 regulations restricted the “.edu” designation to accredited higher educational institutions. “[D]espite its misleading top level domain,” noted Kathleen Fitzpatrick (2015), head of scholarly communication at the Modern Language Association, “Academia.edu is not an educationally-affiliated organization, but a dot-com.” Like other prior domain filings, Academia.edu was grandfathered in, granting the startup a time-sealed patina of nonprofit credibility

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2056305117696523
How useful is that though, for liberating and expropriating binaries? That things got to be at least several megabytes. If I used that as an interpreter or shell script prefix hack then I'd feel like an ant riding on the JVM's coattails.

That's one of the reasons I wrote APE. The bootloader shell script prefix is only 12kb so you can write a small program and it'll feel like it's actually your program. When you distribute it to your friends (respecting their time not asking them to become build system experts, just to try the cool thing you've written) you'll find that APE lets it run on seven operating systems too and most importantly, it'll just feel like something you've written, and that is yours, rather than, "hey grandma install oracle java first, here's how to remove the toolbar" kind of things where you're just evangelizing someone else's platform.
The engineering manager was right. SQL is the most pervasive programming language in existence. It doesn't get that way because nobody uses it. Maybe you don't use it much, but unless your consultancy specializes in some tiny niche where SQL isn't actually needed, you might want to rethink that. I've seen far too many projects where developers looked down on SQL as some sort of not-so-necessary evil, and they've all ended up reinventing it. Extremely poorly.
Fascinating! Did not know that Elbrus continued on the same technology path as Transmeta!

Here, let's put a link for posterity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbrus_2000

PDS: Opinion: Transmeta/Elbrus/VLIW designs in general -- worthy of future study...
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Yes this comes up a lot. If something like 2% of people ever buy a GPU, but 5% of GPU buyers will buy another one soon, then you spend a lot less overall and also get a better conversion rate advertising only to GPU buyers even if most of them think you're silly for showing them the ad.

It also preys on FOMO (show a better deal, they might cancel and re-order from you), brings you top of mind if they need a refund/replacement in short order, and does work for general brand awareness for next time, or conversations with a friend (since the ad knows you are now a GPU buying type of person). "Yeah I got XYZ GPU but I saw ABC GPU is cheaper and probably what you need." I probably missed a few things, but briefly it wouldn't be done if there wasn't a reason with the number of metrics they have these days.
I suspect this is the bikeshed effect at work.

There's an episode of The Magic School Bus (the original one, from the 90s) where a cacao farmer eradicates mosquitos and the cacao trees stop producing cacao beans. The episode ends with the reintroduction of the mosquitoes, and you get to eat chocolate again.

So you've got at least one generation that grew up on the message that mosquitoes are a species that you don't eradicate, or else, no more chocolate. And that's a simple enough message that people would feel comfortable making public comment to that effect.
Canada used to count Avro and Bombardier in their aerospace industry. We used to have Nortel and blackberry as leaders in telecommunications. We can have our own industry for X and we can be competitive world leaders in it.
No, I say that facing such a serious life-threatening situation puts things in perspective and you stop worrying about things that don't really matter.
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So much of Canadian tax payer money has been poured into Bombardier. What could Trudeau do when Boeing had won the case in a US court against Bombardier, which allowed Airbus to swoop in?
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I have.

There are a few simple rules that, once you learn them, eliminate those kinds of problems. The main one is always use double-quotes around variable dereferences. The second is learning a few patterns, like find ... -print0 | xargs -0 ...

But even after you've learned those simple rules, shellcheck is still useful. It will find fewer problems, but that's a good thing, that means you learned something :-).
You think Houston has artificially inflated housing prices due to limited supply?
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It seems like such a thing could come about as a natural mutation. How would evolution normally get rid of such destructive genes?
> Why is this bad? They are now being very efficient with the use of their land. They have taken less of a rivalrous resource from the rest of society but have managed to shape it to their satisfaction.

Their point of contention was in it not also being a progressive tax. So I guess they want the rich to pay more tax even if they use less of the taxed resource.
Do you consider a farmer’s decision to sell food to the public political since he could be feeding terrorists?

Pencils can be used to write manifestos that result in countless deaths. Is the pencil manufacturer responsible for that?

I worked for a company that had train control systems as a product. How do you suppose that was political? Do you think we should have spent more time considering that maybe we shouldn’t have been making trains safer because we could accidentally save the next Hitler?
I don't even know what to say. I cannot imagine enduring that for even a week. And has the company and manager not opened themselves up to significant legal liability?
If you are addicted to something, almost by definition, you aren't capable of using it in moderation. If you 'lock down' your phone, you will be un 'locking it down' in a day or two. The first step to recovery is almost always to admit this to yourself, that you are helpless to stop engaging in whatever behavior it is the expression of your addiction.

If you are really addicted, the parts of your brain which have become trained to seek reinforcement by phone usage will fight back if you try to get rid of the phone. You'll come up with a thousand reasons why it just doesn't make sense to get rid of it. My advice after you try and fail a few times to cut your phone usage or get rid of your phone: find something heavy and hard, a baggy, and keep them somewhere nearby. Just grab something hard, chuck it in the baggy, and put it in the corner of your desk or whatever. Now, when you have a moment of clarity and realize you can't control your phone usage and are helpless to stop using it, put the phone in the baggy and smash it with the hard/heavy object before you have a chance to talk yourself out of it.

You can always buy another phone in a few months or years or whenever you find you absolutely need one or think you are in a different place and won't get sucked in again. Get rid of the phone.
> the job of a professional translator (for text) at this point is mostly starting with a machine translation and slightly tweaking it in order to produce something more natural.

Not really, no. That might be true for instruction booklet translation (they sure read like it), but no, for a decent translation, you'll need to let a human have a full go at it.

Writing is as much about filtering & tweaking GPT-3 output as sculpting is about "removing everything that doesn't look like the final sculpture", as the old adage goes.

It is useful for one purpose: To do an absolutely minimal job and to externalize some more work onto end users. It'll also be popular for spam^W SEO, and for writing filler content for content graveyards. It will not, however, be useful for writing.

I have no doubt that we'll see a lot more tooling supporting writing, and machine-assisted writing. I have equally no doubt that GPT-3 and friends aren't going to be it.
You can convert to quadrature by either sampling a signal at >= 2 * Nyquist and using the Hilbert transform, or using two ADCs 90 degrees out of phase.

When you run two ADCs 90 degrees out of phase that introduces another source of error, due to timing jitter. There's no reason to bother doing this for audio signals because modern ADCs are more than capable of accurately sampling at audio rates.