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This is a great list, some companies and solutions I had not seen before on other lists. Thanks.
Presumably, you expose the ability to inject events onto the bus, and the ability to listen for events on the bus?
> Why does it need to be profitable?

It doesn't need to be profitable, but if it isn't, then the money to subsidize it needs to come from somewhere. Do you think raising taxes for this would be politically popular, especially if most taxpayers wouldn't use it?

> As a public service, do we ask fire departments to be profitable?

It is politically popular to use tax dollars to fund fire departments.

> Should armed forces be made to be profitable?

This is a textbook example of a public good. You can't give national defense only to people who pay for it. Either the whole country has it or nobody does.

> How do you define profitability in the first place... how do you define the costs and benefits?

This seems fairly obvious: if the income from fares exceeds the costs to pay the drivers, maintain the vehicles, etc.

> Why does this question only ever seem to come up when we're talking about things that raise quality of life for the poor?

Because people don't like paying for things that they don't get value from, even if other people do.
My guess is they’ll ask employees to work 4 10 hour days, and ask them to come in for extra work on Friday and Saturday as a ‘special exception’. Of course, now the 10 hour workday is normalized, so you can extract extra time on the other days too.
I think "I think it would be better to ask "What is causing the inflammation?" reads as if it is referring to the diagnostic process.

At any rate, I believe we need to be researching both anti-inflammatory treatments and treatments for the underlying causes: we have no way of knowing whether a treatment for one of these illnesses is 9 years away or 90, and in the meantime advances in anti-inflammatory treatments are providing real benefits.
Given enough RAM on a Linux machine one may use tmpfs, which maintains a RAM disk and at any moment only uses the amount of RAM needed, with a pre-defined limit.

On PostgreSQL create an adequately-caped tmpfs, create a TABLESPACE on it, then store temporary tables into this TABLESPACE. No SSD (I have access to) beats this. Hint: before shutting PG down you may DROP this TABLESPACE.

It also is useful for a blockchain, amazingly fast (and a relief for HDDs), in most cases alleviating the need for a SSD. Place the blockchain file(s) on the tmpfs mount. Before machine shutdown stop any blockchain-using software, then store a compressed copy of the blockchain file(s) on permanent storage (I use "zstd -T0 --fast"...), and upon reboot restore it on the tmpfs mount. If anything fails the blockchain-writing software will re-download any missing block.
Look up the industrial revolution and labor laws. Y'know, when things like child labor were outlawed. Good things, I hope you will agree.
Oh. Thanks, never thought about it that way.
Sarcasm aside yes: I’m not gonna keep working in the US for that specific reason.
> People altogether need to stop driving so much, spending so much, and living more modestly.

Yeah I believe I said that when I said we need to make large sacrifices, I just didn't specify what those sacrifices were exactly.

I don't think green tech is the end-all be-all. I honestly think we're kind of fucked either way (if anything I was holding back, I've been reading some pretty bleak shit about how impossible this task will be and how bad things can get, but this is Hacker News and most people here don't seem to be receptive to that). Clean tech is just part of reducing the degree of how fucked we are, at least slightly.

And I also think nuclear energy needs to be part of that solution to bring down emissions as well, at least for now. I haven't been against nuclear power for a long time, and was disappointed how people shunned it again after Fukushima.
They'd be dead as dead parrot jokes if they didn't or hypomitochondriacs if they got low.
I was just thinking about this when typing up a top level reply. If you make things free, sometimes people will abuse it or do weird things - for example, homeless people taking sponge baths in public library bathrooms. But I doubt homeless people would clean themselves in public libraries at the same frequency if they had convenient access to "public showers" or some such.

But there are a lot of wrinkles to this kind of thinking. What if there is access to shelter, but it imposes some kind of deal breaking restriction like no drug usage? Or no felons? Let's get even more controversial - what if the shelter bans sex offenders, should homeless sex offenders be forced to shower in libraries? Things get complicated, and a lot of politicians aren't willing to die on these hills when their housed constituents have strong emotional reactions to these things.
> I love Ada, but sadly it probably missed its chance. There’s always the stories about how expensive the compilers were (and I think even now there’s some sort of weird license issues with GNAT and the Adacore tools)

Not just Ada. There was a lot of buzz and excitement in mid- to late 90s about the design by contract paradigm (pre- and post-conditions, class invariants, generics, multiple inheritance done right, plus other nice things such as retriable and «self-healing» exceptions) and OOP that Bertrand Meyer had introduced with Eiffel and wrote a few books about. Sadly, nearly all languages have been relegated into oblivion or obscurity stemming from the proprietary nature of their respective compilers and development tools, which has entailed exorbitant costs of compilers and development toolchains. I was infatuated for a while with Sather, which was a Berkeley university open-source answer to Eiffel, however the language did not see any uptake in the development community and has succumbed to the same fate of other experimental languages.

Ada has had pre- and post-conditions since day 1 (if my memory serves well), but the expensive compilers have relegated the language to fringe use cases as well.

Even if at least a few of the design by contract ideas had gone mainstream (pre-, post-conditions, invariants at the very least), we would not have got carried away with the TDD now, writing unit tests verifying that 1 == 1 whilst allowing smart contracts to have farcical bugs. The rise of worse is better, ftw.
What an innovative idea! Here in the states, economic indicators are a great proxy for many other aspects. Maybe we could do a trial in Montgomery, Alabama, surely nothing would go wrong.
You want to break existing code? If you made that change, you wouldn’t even be able to pass string constants into functions, because string constants are arrays (and not pointers, as some think).

The C standard committee has a general policy of not breaking code. If you want something like C with a better type system and less of the broken stuff (hello, arithmetic conversions) you can try Zig or one of the others. Once you’re okay with breaking code, you call it a different language, and go in trying to fix lots of things.

Unix V4 predates C standardization anyway.
Russia has flown prototypes of its six-seat hybrid VTOL Cyclocar
Not only is means tested a barrier, but it also tends to lead to funding cliffs.

My niece wound up being a case in point. She got a job offer for $0.20/hour more than would allow her to stay on food stamps. As a single mother of 3, she could not afford to go off of food stamps. The job she would have joined was a union job and so could not pay her anything other than the union rate. The result? She remained in a job that she was overqualified for and turned down the better job because she literally could not afford to take it.

If you think that this is an argument for basic income, it is. And exactly because having it be not means tested avoids this kind of perverse incentive that helps trap people in poverty.
If you split it randomly, the distributions over mood and style should balance out in the large.
Bacteria converts degraded plastic bottles into vanilla flavoring
Does the wavetable daughter-card improve the Jedi lightsaber sound fx?

Also, I can't remember the pinout of the midichlorians cable.
That's just a bunch of marketing hype. I'm trying to stay focused closer to the matters at hand.

Perhaps my rambling on Development vs Distribution is relevant to the discussion? https://nixpulvis.com/ramblings/2021-02-02-signing-and-notar...
The free tram zone is great, but only covers the CBD which is pretty tiny.
> I immediately felt insincerity bordering on scamming the audience

MFW I read this. Jeez man. Model size is 173MB. It didn't just memorize every possible combo.

How the hell you went from our excitement about a fun project we shared on YT to accusing us of "scamming" the audience I really don't know. What a terribly rude and hateful attitude you have =/
Another dynamic I've seen is the effect of every community doing it differently. I live in a community that leans a little more liberal and wealthy than many of the counties around it. For a period some 15 years ago, there was a real public outreach to do better. Facilities were added, taxes were raised a little, but it was mostly good at first. And then word got out that we were where the free stuff was at. This caused a spike in homeless immigration to the area, and then the system wasn't enough. This has led to a real reversal in public attitudes about this. The resources aren't infinite, and being nicer than your neighbors just creates a feedback loop that doesn't stabilize.
This is tangential, but the author is an incredible technical writer: https://scattered-thoughts.net/
If the prices are too high, that could lead to issues where someone who b can't afford to regularly be taking it might not end up riding if the free compartment is regularly full even if the paid one never is. OTOH, I suppose it's also possible some people might not ride now due to prices but would be able to if there were a way to ride completely for free.
I'm sure they'll advance science a lot more when they find those mushrooms!
Buying a $10M painting is a lot more work than holding $10M in cash, but it does make sense as a store of value given fiat inflation.

Buying gold is also easier than buying paintings, and buying gold ETFs is even easier. As is buying stock, bonds, etc. It's easier to hedge societal collapse by buying high value necessities (though who can truly predict how a collapse will unfold).

I think there's a certain kind of person who can be a great art investor by having a good idea of what art is going to retain interest (and thus value), but I would not call it easy compared to index funds or most other popular stores of value.
You are the one that painted all homeless with one brush when you said:

> That's an incidental effect of not providing proper housing.

There are many causes, it is not only an effect of not providing proper housing, which I think was GC's point.
I wonder how an example from the article like the API to post new listings to Amazon works in practice with the requirement to be designed to be open to outside developers. It seems like that’d force some sort of review process (and I’m not really sure who can review all new listings) between API call and public availability that might not be there if you eg. had a private API for approved employees.
Break times also tend to be regulated in most countries I believe. I.e. here in Japan 60 minutes break time is required if you work for more than I think about 6ish hours.
This is a very thoughtful rejoinder, thanks.

> If X occurred, and is more likely under hypothesis B than A, then X is evidence for hypothesis B, otherwise you don't have a consistent system of probability.

The point is, this idea breaks down when neither hypothesis would exist if X had not occurred. This differs from other questions of probability because the conditional probability of an event is predicated on the ability of an observer to ask about it. We should indeed be indifferent between the two hypotheses, if our own existence is all we have to go on. (This might seem strange, if you think of hypothesis B as having 100x the prior probability, but the point here is that we really don't have a basis for a prior at all.)

> Now you can further imagine that God comes down from heaven and tells you that in fact both of these two universes actually exist, and they are the only two universes that exist, so you are definitely in one of the two, but doesn't tell you which one. Is your posterior probability now 50% between the two?

No, of course I would assume I was in universe B. This is a very different question. Instead of "what is the nature of our universe" the question is "of the two existing universes God has described, which do I occupy?"
But you tacked on that your threat model is less than Android because Apple babysits your device. An alternative app store existing does not have the ability to compromise your device unless you use it. Android has many app stores and 95% of users use the platform's default one. Therefore it is the same level of security as your Apple product with more freedom should the user take advantage of it. Walled gardens are not secure.
Perfect summary. Nicely written.
No kidding, was just thinking: Nice, probably Hank's homepage.
Of course I would be willing to reduce my yearly salary for 2 or 3 weeks of extra time. Should not be that hard.

It’s worth more than the proportional time I would take off. It’s very valuable to me. Like 5k / week would be a good price tag. I have no debt and more stuff than I need. Now let’s me enjoy life while I still can ( and keep working on that job that I actually enjoy )

I’m not sure to understand about the net positive. The response I got was that taking time off without pay would 1) set a bad « example » or something of that sort and 2) make it hard to plan for resource availability.

Does that answer your question?
This turns into an adverse selection death spiral. The people who abuse the service will be subsidized by those who were driven off by them.
This is quite common in traditional DBs too. Eg PostgreSQL has its write-ahead log. Both LMDB and PostgreSQL then occasionally need to do do some kind of compaction, checkpoint or garbage collection, whatever it's called in various systems, the write-only log is reset and any live data in it improted into the main db data.
> Why does this question only ever seem to come up when we're talking about things that raise quality of life for the poor?

Because in general people like paying for things that are useful to them and don't like paying for things that aren't. The poor don't pay much in the way of taxes, so things that are only used by the poor are of course less likely to get funded.
Okay, the first one I got does actually write like me. It's funny because I didn't agree with what he says in his posts, but I totally recognize why it ranked highly similar to my writing.

Oh gawd, now I'm sounding exactly like that guy... (I just need to add some parens.)
Generally speaking macOS is extremely write heavy for all sort of reason even before the switch to ARM. But in majority of case if should last 4-5 years without problem.

The heavy write bug Apple said was due to misreporting and was fixed ( so they say ).

I do think you should pay attention to it from time to time. iCloud Sync, Spotlight, Safari heavy tabs are all known to cause heavy paging in some corner case. You might end up having a TB of data written for no apparent reason. Apple used to ship their Macbook with MLC, on a 512GB MLC you could do 500TBW without problem, that is ~13 years of usage if you do 100GB write per day. Not sure about the M1 machines.

If you are doing Dev staging, Video and photos editing a lot these drive will fail quite quickly. In the space of 2 - 3 years. Although some would argue MacBook Air are not made for those task. And especially true if you have 8GB and 256GB NAND.
What if, and hear me out here, we give _our_ moon its _own_ moon? Like letting my dog have a lizard for a pet!
Earth's moon is freakishly large by moon standards, as it turns out!

> At about one-quarter the diameter of Earth (comparable to the width of Australia), it [the Moon] is the largest natural satellite in the Solar System relative to the size of its planet, the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System overall, and is larger than any dwarf planet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon
The explanations for interactive proofs are compelling, but the non-interactive variants are confusing. I don't understand how an infinite series of queries can be replaced by a static construction.

If you've got some resources that you'd be willing to share, I'd appreciate it.
By ‘net positive’ I mean willing to take a cut larger than is directly proportional to the reduction in hours worked. The reality is that reducing each person’s annual work will increase costs for the company overall, as it needs to pay additional overhead and benefits, which are related to employee count, rather than hours worked.

I think that everyone is a bit wary of setting difficult precedents in employment situations, as well as the possibility of creating rifts between people with different ‘deals’. That said, I think we should all place a higher priority on coming up with mutually beneficial arrangements.
it easily does- 20-30 min to walk/bike/drive back and forth to cafe / restaurant- 5-10 min to order/get food, 15-20 min to eat.
Not that simple : back in the days the « carte scolaire » was design to avoid that.
It’s been jerrymandered in the meantime.

But for instance growing up, the big stink was that those poor projects kids we’re in the same middle school that middle class folks. The trick was to pick German to avoid that and be affected to another school.
I have the iPad 8th gen and this one is also super smooth, I wish I could make it my default personal laptop as it is pretty damn good but I can’t. The apps are still very limited compared to their desktop counter parts.
Weekly Shounen Jump or Wall Street Journal?
Famished: Why Indians are still starving 75 years after independence
Nope. Never. I guess I've been lucky, but now that I know how pleasant work can be, I don't think I'd ever stay with a job that was that way.
I guess it's best to always leave the door open, curtains/blinds open, and not be secluded with any employee you don't trust implicitly since a disgruntled worker of any gender can cook-up a "they touched me in my special place" story.
Python has importlib.reload(), though I haven't found much need to use it
Recently, President Biden put out an executive order that mandates that NIST et al work out, over the next year, an SBOM/supply chain mandate for software used by Federal departments.

That's going to require the equivalent of "chain of custody" attestations along the entire build chain.

Along with SOC and PCI/DSS and other standards, this is going to require companies and developers to adopt NixOS type immutable environments.
Gold to inevitably revalue to ~USD 55,000 per ounce
This is the way I tend to work. I even write about it[0] (“Keeping Things Vague”).

APIs (and opaque modules, in general) are key to the way I develop software. It works well.

(0) https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/evolutionary-design-...
A year ago, I would have agreed with this in its entirety. Today, I still agree with most of it, but I disagree with the last paragraph. If basic income isn't enough to survive on, then you'll still need some other services and so you'll still have the funding cliff. But if it is enough to survive on, then too many people who are capable of working will choose to instead just survive on it indefinitely.
I ride. I still think they are cool. I think every human has their own risk management profile - mine allows me to ride. I am not going ice skating ever again though! But I don't expect everyone to feel as I do, clearly. :-)

However regarding your points in turn:

1 & 2. I don't think nannying is what the government should be doing. I agree that seems to be the modern character of government though, at least where I live.

3. Obviously would affect me. :-P

4. I can't stand the noise either. I haven't modified my bike exhaust.

Most affected I think though would be the "uberEats-alike" delivery services as they seem largely run on the back of scooters, although ebikes are becoming popular too, though no less risky really.

Aside: if you still think motorcycles are cool, review what aspect of your risk profile precludes them. Maybe ride offroad, where traffic is much less a thing. If tarmac speed is the cool factor, you could go to a track. Modern MotoGP riders do both so you'd be in good company!

Just don't try to emulate their speed capability! (By the time you are good enough to ignore this advice, you will know it...)
This seems accurate. We barely drove our car in 2020, didn't go for an oil change for basically an entire year. After some basic maintenance after we got vaccinated, it's running as well as ever.

I think another thing impacting this may be high car prices making people wait until things "cool down." A lot of folks I know are talking about how high car prices, home prices, really all prices are becoming. Some people may want to wait it out to see if this is permanent or just an aberration due to the pandemic.
You can be the best driver in the world, but if the driver in the other lane is drunk, you're still going to get in an accident.
Heh, yeah, tough crowd I guess. The full code, models, and videos are all released and people are still skeptical.

I feel like 95%+ of papers don't do anything besides tell you what happened and you're just supposed to believe them. Drives me nuts. Not sure why all the hate when you could just see for yourself. I'd welcome someone who can actually prove the model just "memorized" every combo possible and didn't do any generalization. I imagine the original GameGAN researchers from NVIDIA would be interested too.

Interesting @ guided diffusion, not aware of its existence til now. We've had our heads down for a while. Will look into it, thanks!
Alternatively, the benefit can be on a decreasing curve / phased out to prevent these cliff situations?
Lucky for me, I’ve had the same experience at multiple jobs. I’ve kept these kinds of “lax” habits at places where other people spend 9+ hours at their desks every day. I always thought it was a waste for other people to work long hours when it wasn’t even a company policy and I never got flak for my hours. Maybe more people at bigcorps can do this if they explain it and show they can still be productive.
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> Do software engineers really have leverage?

Yes.

> How could we increase our leverage?

In many ways I suppose.

> Why don't we choose to use our rare skills for our own profit (as everyone else does), and instead many of us give away immense value (and power/leverage) by open sourcing our work?

Collectively, IMHO we actually DO use our rare skills for our own profit well enough.

Regarding open source projects. I think you are underestimating peer-recognition. This happens in most knowledge-heavy/scientific sectors. Passed a financial security threshold, money don't matter, peer-recognition does. Ancient Greeks believed that ppl die when they're forgotten. Bezos might be forgotten 200 years down the road (who was the richest man in 500 AD?), I doubt Alan Turing ever will.
If you would treat devs like warehouse workers right now,all devs would run away. I mean force them to be 100% effective all the 8 hours and track every move they make. On the other hand allow warehouse workers flexible schedule and decent pay so they could live decent life by puting in 20 hours a week (even while measuring every move they make) and i bet there would be devs who would convert to warehouse workers.