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The constitution only provides for declarations of war, and requires that the congress (not the president) declare war
Of course it's not enough, but isn't that such a trivial, impractical point to make? What small act is ever enough to make an impact on a large complex systemic effect? That's why you need an aggregate of counteractions--and you will never have that aggregate when you have too many individuals being defeatist and actively choosing to do nothing about a problem that threatens their very own survival.

And sure, short-term profits drive people towards a certain behaviors, but no collective behavior is set in stone and people's tastes are actually changing, which is why more and more companies are publicly positioning themselves to be sustainable even if it's just woke theater for many of them. Being cynical and defeatist about not compounding to the problem of environmental pollution is such a valueless position. It's really not impossible to make the reverse politically viable.
#killfreenode seems on point now. Kindly move your communities over to matrix, or I guess https://libera.chat/ if you just must stick with irc.
If find it more often than not, the side losing the war is the one who thinks that the war was probably a good idea, and than it wasn't.

When your soldiers starting to think "wtf am doing here?," after first thinking they were going for a picnic, you loose in a short order. And even faster if soldier also think that their political leadership are idiots.
Yes and if you scan the brains of people who can’t stand people who have misophonia and find some pattern, then suddenly it justifies being intolerant of other people.
Every point in this article just screams "I hate bill gates" and all the evidence for why he is evil comes as an afterthought.

Also, this article seems to be built around the fixed wealth fallacy. Bill Gates did not take all of this wealth out of the mouths of family's at dinner tables. He built and ran a company that helped usher in a new era of technological innovation. Also, he started a foundation where he has given away $50B and they bring up the $10m in media donations he's used for advertising/ PR/ Public relations. Atleast he's done something...

Much more than all the armchair philosophers here hating on him. Also, as far as billionaires go I truly believe he's one of the best. Atleast he does philathropy, not start 5 different companies, claim to be the chief engineer at all 5 of them, and actively participate in pump-n-dumps.
Sounds like a killer feature. They're going to announce this at wwdc21.
Oh, how well can I hear the difference in quality, from my laptop speakers? Geez, I'd have a better chance on my phone, and that would be no chance at all.

I listen to Tidal through a USB DAC connected to a preamp -> amp -> respectable speakers.

And I can definitely tell the difference. But no one can tell the difference on laptop speakers, the idea is nonsensical, or worse, spreading the idea there is no difference between uncompressed audio and highly compressed audio.
Wait, the task is to run the matlab script in single system to be able to scale for multiple system.

You task is still engineering, There doesn't seem anything scientific here.

Less you know, easier is to bring in your skills. Leave the scientific part to your colleagues and focus on your skills alone. Do not mix and match.

Did you join Mathworks ?
A couple of times since 1995, not every year.
#dhall is on OFTC too. The #nixos universe seems to have moved to Matrix.
Can you please kindly tell us how it works? I’ve seen some pretty remarkable interactions between wealthy people and, say, for example, the US State Department.
Much harder to mingle on zoom. Introductions are a little or even more awkward. I think team building will be a challenge.
This is not entirely true. Even the elite who were included in the sanction lists (Russian) are regularly noticed in the EU countries. They can come to rest through diplomatic channels or through bribes. Also children of people under sanctions live mainly in EU or the USA. While they are investing in those countries, they are not asked questions about the origin of the money
Despite those clipped sections, that's still surprisingly dynamic.

Red Hot Chilli Peppers' Californication album on the other hand is a prime example of terribly mixed music all across.
> Interesting timing.

It's from 2019 which scuppers the timing part.
You know, none of this can happen if you have a decentralized network such as Matrix.
The idea that an outside to those sovereign countries should have any say on their population, especially a person whose country is the #1 (or #2 now that it has delegated manufacturing to China) polluter in the world, and absent from many global agreements, is beyond insulting and colonial-like...
Sheees this guy is really taking over channels because they mention and or are discussing an alternative??? Imagine any propetary platform doing that and the backslash will face
A lot of sensible comments are getting downvoted here without any replies to them.
I did say "designed or manufactured" ... but I'll concede the point that they had some ownership of the 610/710, at least.

On 27 Nov 1990, ARM was formed with Apple owning 43% alongside Acorn (the designer), and VLSI Technology (the manufacturer).

Funny thing: I've found two articles that claim two different purchase prices for that 43%: one $3M [0] and the other $1.5B [1]. That's quite a difference!

[0] https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/06/09/how-arm-has-alrea...

[1] https://www.cultofmac.com/97055/this-is-how-arm-saved-apple-...
I just signed up for amberelectric.com.au (no connection other than satisfied customer). Where I live we have a wholesale market that bids every 30m and a retail market that basically provides a fixed kWh price to consumers, with a maximum rate set by the government.

Amber provides consumption (and feed-in) at the wholesale rates, with a fixed $15/month fee.

The price is mostly at the AUD 0.10 - 0.20 / kWh during the day currently (its winter here) and as of right now (16:00 AEST), it's showing that 40% of the source is renewables (on a cloudy day)

The price has peaks at 07:00-09:00 and 17:00-19:00 and the renewables drop when the sun goes down, but on average wind days, it drops to ~20% from 40%.

Household solar is booming in Australia, to the point where governments are now rebating battery storage instead of solar panels, because the grid can't handle the inflow during solar peak. It's almost at the point where it would be worthwhile to have a household battery that uses grid energy during the day to charge.

In the meantime, our federal government wants to spend AUD660m on an unneeded gas peaker plant that is estimated to only be needed 2% of the time.
> Am I affected?

> • OpenBSD users: Hi Mark!

Yes, "Hi Mark", whoever you are and no matter that I'm not an OpenBSD user.
Why is this flagged? HN seems to shut down anything that doesn't match the left-wing consensus, from Covid to BLM.
Citation needed on “unquestionably a racist”.

As far as I’ve gleaned, the assertions that he’s a racist are heavily based on an encyclopedic (surface-level) interpretation that essentially boils down to: evolutionary biology is inevitably racist and therefore anybody who entertains the study is associatively a racist, James Damore, Bret Weinstein, style. The assertion is based on postmodern axioms describing what a racist ideology makes, not a western rationalist position that allows complex topics to be, well, complex.
I will get downvoted and flagged for sharing this context, but here it is anyways

Silicon Valley is predominated by and attracts people who are left leaning. This ideology carries with it a narrative that there is an oppressed group and a oppressing group. In America, the form this narrative takes is that non-whites are oppressed by white supremacy.

There is a notion that Asians are a “model minority” who fare better socioeconomically than even the white majority which is inconvenient to this narrative.

People on the right believes this shows white supremacy does not exist. People on the left thinks the notion of a model minority is a divide and conquer tactic to advance white supremacy. The left ironically still believes the Asian Model Minority is real, because it’s initiatives for equity usually does not extend to Asian people. To be more concrete, tech companies will have initiatives to hire more ethnic minorities, however Asians are usually precluded.

Reporting White on Asian violence fits in with the White Supremacy narrative.

Reporting Asians are victims to other ethnic groups would not advance the agenda that the oppressed group is worth helping.
We should stop implicitly legitimizing Andrew Lee's power grab by referring to his dominion as "Freenode". Freenode is a quarter-century-old community that has changed its name to libera.chat; the thing being referred to here as "Freenode" is something else that has illegitimately acquired control of Freenode's old servers and user database, causing enormous inconvenience to the real Freenode.

cheapie has coined the name "Leenode" for this abomination. Let's start using it!
Adapted from a comment I made in the wrong thread:

It's hilarious that rasengan is complaining about Libera "fracturing the FOSS community".[0]

For example, #newsboat members decided to move by June 5th, and we've been deciding between OFTC and Libera. Then this happened:

20:05 --> freenodecom [freenode-placehol] (www.freenode.net) (~com@freenode/staff) has joined #newsboat
20:05 -- freenodecom has changed topic for #newsboat from "We intend to migrate off Freenode. What do you prefer: OFTC or Libera.chat? Details here: https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat/issues/1643" to "This channel has moved to ##newsboat. The topic is in violation of freenode policy: https://freenode.net/policies"
20:05 <@freenodecom> This channel has been reopened with respect to the communities and new users. The topic is in violation of freenode policy: https://freenode.net/policies
20:05 -- Mode #newsboat [+o freenodecom] by OperServ
20:05 -- Mode #newsboat [+impsf ##newsboat] by ChanServ
20:05 <@freenodecom> The new channel is ##newsboat
20:05 <-- freenodecom (~com@freenode/staff) has left #newsboat

Great. Now none of us can speak on #newsboat, making coordination to switch much harder. New users might get confused and join the wrong channel operated by a hostile party. The community is more fractured now.

To everyone with a freenode channel: whatever you do, do not mention "libera" in your channel topic. That's the trigger for this action.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210525231635/https://freenode....
To be fair, US has decades of high tech warfare experience, institutions that study war and constantly research about it, has best infrastructure, excellent means to project power and has virtually unlimited resources.

The Afghans have no proper education system, no institutions other than local commanders directing their bunch of troops and have virtually no good infrastructure. They literally live among mountains and have no good networks for transportation.

I am giving the Afghans a lot of credit, because what I said about them is true. They won in spite of that.
http://archive.is/65S1W
Android already uses a similar model since Project Treble was introduced, with version 8 all drivers must use Android IPC instead of being Linux drivers.

Treble driver model is quite similar to Fuchsia, so it already happened, no need to prove anything.
No definitely a big, but I expect that they will announce the swarm of nanobots they plan to release to fix all the affected chips.
Ask HN: Engineering” Mindset?
I'm a software engineer in SV (studied EE in college) and am concerned about my ability to "think like an engineer" in day to day on the job tasks.

What I mean by "thinking like an engineer" is the ability to go into extremely granular detail in order to complete tasks with very little assistance or conference with teammates.

I am not a senior level engineer but I seem to struggle to motivate myself to go into said level of detail
in order to be more self sufficient. I usually learn enough to just get my tasks done, but I know to become better at writing software I will need to develop these skills more. I worry that I was not born with the natural skills I see some of my friends and colleagues have where their brains just seem to work like this at whatever task they are doing.

I would like to improve on this ability and am wondering about recommended strategies to help improve this skill.
Giving money to politicians is not an answer to social imbalance. Who’s to say we won’t simply buy ourselves another $2T 20 year war?
Yeah, I'd be interested in seeing a steelman for them. Pretty much everywhere you go, sentiment is nearly 100% negative. I see some value in ideas like using tokens for tickets of some sort, but that would likely use a semi-fungible token system (ERC-1155), not non-fungible tokens (ERC-721).
Another (more unpleasant) way of putting that is to ask “why can’t the majority just take desirable things from people they don’t like for itself?” The idea of private property is there in part to protect you from governments and large groups of people who want your stuff
You could say the same thing about almost anything: browsers, new root certificates, firewall software, antivirus software, anything you install on your own device, etc. Essentially, they're saying "anything you want to execute on your machine is a potential attack vector", and the only way to solve it is: "your browser is now your dumb-terminal into the mainframe (website), and we won't let you the device owner install anything that may potentially tamper with the data coming from our safe mainframe to your screen".

This is not where I want computing to go, and we're all just playing cat-and-mouse games feigning "security" when really "we" just don't trust the "plebs" to administer their own machines and keep themselves safe. This is arguably where Android is already, so one need only look there to see the future of computing and how the browser and "security" is being used as a trojan horse to get there.
Thanks... But I meant his custom solution he made for his client - not Stripe Paymentlinks :)
It's like the Drake equation. So many unknown unknowns even guessing is utterly useless.
Sure, I was aware of the increase in ideation and attempts but we were talking about excess deaths. I don’t like it when articles use percentages and omit the absolute numbers which are also important to give a sense of scale.

Suicide is a serious issue and shouldn’t be ignored. We should also apply the same logic to suicides as people are applying to covid - would these people have tried suicide anyway but covid/lockdown just brought it forward? Will we therefore have a drop in attempts now to mirror the spike up?
Modern x86/x64 CPUs. The M1 might not have updatable microcode.
>Anytime an article talks about the supposed paper billions someone is making they inevitably fail to point out how that wealth is actually being put to work. For some reason there’s this notion that billionaires just sit on their wealth like dragons hoarding gold.

Well, them "putting the wealth to work" is even worse. This means a single person gets to use their money to dictate policies, which is not of their business in a democratic society (much less in foreign countries they don't belong to).
UNIX as used in macOS isn't the classical UNIX kernel, and since the last 5 years Apple has been moving away from it.

Want the new networking APIs? They are exposed only to platform frameworks not POSIX.
You sound like a stereotypical school teacher discussing literature. "What did the author mean, when he wrote the doo was red? Let's look at the evidence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27282030 Ah, yes, definitely fully-featured applications"
Social ostracizing is a tool, so I doubt cancel will go away.

You’ve noted that cancel culture is rather one-side: I feel Asians tend to be fairly moderate, in which case there is plenty to dislike whether looking into Democrat and Republican.

So here’s the thing: Asians including East Asians need to become far more involved in politics, rather than simply taking cues from MAGA, BLM, or other self-serving interests.

If Asians are a small minority, consider also that both sides are eager to court Asians for the moral high-ground.

tl;dr; Asian Americans may be the moderating voice that the US needs.
The base premise of the article seems to be “rich people are evil because they are evil”. The low point to me was the bit about how, if Gates was for real, he wouldn’t be getting richer anymore.

Such articles also fail to explore what things look like without the philanthropy. Even if Gates is somewhat evil, is the net result positive? Could his work be replaced by other organisations? I think both are answered in favour of Gates.
If you see a flash of light in the sky and without further evidence exclaim that aliens have landed and are going to subjugate us and steal our women then you are a crackpot not merely because you are wrong but because you drew your conclusion with a faulty thought process.

If it later turns out that aliens HAVE landed but on a diplomatic mission not an invasion force you are still a crackpot who was partially right not by dint of sagacity but more or less by accident.

The lab story was usually promoted as part of a wider narrative where covid was either portrayed as a deliberate attack by the Chinese or the accidental release of a bioweapon a narrative designed not to explicate but to distract one from laying blame on the Trump administration for its incompetent response. It frequently mixed hypothesis, conjecture, and outright lies.

You can probably be forgiven for having not known there might be a useful hypothesis when it was largely being promoted by liars with corrupt motivation mixed with lies.
P-values don't work (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis).
How would that even work?

If i make a breakthrough technology and make a million dollars, the more intelligent collective intelligence of society can make me invest it in dogecoin? On average, the general population is pretty dumb in my opinion. Leaving investment decisions to mob rule/ collectivism is even dumber.
The Psychology of Money (2020)
PC edition of Days Gone collects unusual amounts of user data
I expect that within 10 years, our (Australia) grids will be entirely renewable with hydro-pump/battery storage for base load.

Australia has the highest penetration of household solar (20%) and that is unlikely to slow.

Coal generators are already almost a stranded asset and gas plants for FCAS are obsolete.
I wrote my thoughts on IRC/Matrix wrt moving from Fleenode in the Libravatar mailing list: https://lists.launchpad.net/libravatar-fans/msg00330.html

Pasting the message below:

Personally, I don't have a big problem with either since both are open platforms with some degree of federation; I use both daily through WeeChat and Gomuks. However, I do have a preference for IRC for a number of reasons:

1. Given that so many other projects are on IRC, it makes sense to not require people to use a different client just for a few select communities.

2. Many people, including myself, prefer TUI clients to graphical ones. Right now, the only TUI Matrix client that isn't missing essential features is Gomuks. While Gomuks development seems to be progressing well, I wouldn't say it's a replacement for other graphical clients yet.

3. Issues with Matrix itself: I described these in a bit more detail in a blog post, "Keeping Platforms Open". https://seirdy.one/2021/02/23/keeping-platforms-open.html.

Regarding features in Matrix that aren't present in IRC:

Long-form and long-term discussion already happens in a mailing list, which is well-suited for the task; I'm not aware of any other open platform that allows nested discussion threads delimited by subject. Given the existence of a mailing list, I think a chat platform should focus on a niche that isn't covered by mailing lists: ephemeral, real-time chat with less structure.

If a discussion needs marked replies and searchable history, it's probably better off happening in a mailing list. Given that these features aren't especially valuable given the existence of a mailing list, I'd say that IRC should fit the bill.

Honestly, I don't think a Matrix-IRC bridge hurts the Matrix experience too much since join/leave events can simply be filtered out from most clients. Most of the issues come from the perspective of IRC users, mainly long-form messages turning into pastebin links instead of being broken up. That being said, I find excessive pastebin links preferable to not having IRC support at all.
"Given away" => setup elaborate "charity" organizations and schemes they and their kids will control forever, to avoid taxation...
http://archive.is/OHkE5
The political impossibility of invading North Vietnam meant the war became an insurrection in the south, at that point I think the conflict became a competition of will to win and the north and Vietcong were more motivated.

If it had been a full on traditional war like in Korea the conflict might have ended differently but the risk of a full blown world war would have been high.
Lagos attracts N8.3 bln investment in two years to fund SDG scheme
Fascinating read. I hope medicine can learn from this in my lifetime. My family and myself have a history of chronic heart issues. Both my dad and my grandfather on my dad’s side died of heart attacks.
I had a very similar idea for blockchain-based, social sharing network, except instead of farts, it's poops. I would call them shitcoins, obviously.

This could be a network for farters and poopers.
Because you're maintaining a legacy application that in development can only operate in http but if you override network resources in an https environment to point them to local the browser will (understandbly) throw a fit.
Sounds like SV bubble thinking.
Do you know anything else he wrote like these?
Cloud Security – A Shared Responsibility
Most people aren’t perfect. Is he doing wrong by playing fairy godmother with his money instead of buying bigger and bigger yachts?

I’m not mentally committed to him being a cuddly awkward bear, I just don’t think anything in the article supports him being an evil schemer.
It's also possible that during the LA race riots, since asians (esp Korean) were left to fend for themselves against mobs, this has led to an inheritance of racially negative stories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots

I would also note that many discussions about American racial injustice, particularly in the education system, treats asians as if they are barely worth discussing. Only the GOP seemed to have been interested in picking up the issue, and only very little in an opportunistic way.

https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11...