skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah the local imbalance is what worries me. I have a mental image of a big long 'soaker hose' style brine dumping pipe rather than a single outlet, that way the brine is further diluted. Wonder how much that helps.
First we deny (which costs energy/money), then we wall the problem off (which costs energy/money) - the moment it overwhelms us, we have neither energy nor money left.
> In the US, at least, air conditioning is somewhat common from what I know.

Afaik that depends on the specific region in the US. Some states have hot regions where AC is common, but plenty of others don't because heat didn't used to be as common as it's now, thus the sudden need for cooling to such a degree that even public cooling shelters are a thing [0]

Another factor, even for places with AC, is that their infrastructure and AC is built to certain heat expectations, if the weather goes outside these expected then the infrastructure can't cope. A version of that was the Texas electricity grid failing during the sudden high demand of a "real" winter.

[0] https://www.axios.com/northwest-heat-dome-global-warming-591...
I'm talking about him. I didn't say it was a scientific study about the world. He, one of the richest men in the world, is experiencing living in a small space with houses from this company. This company has also demo videos about houses on mars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvtJPDpAY7c
Recipients' other options are hire a CPA (obviously untenable), find the correct forms, calculate the credit themselves, do the rest of their returns by hand, and submit those (difficult for the target groups) or... pay to use TurboTax. That's the exact dilemma this new site would've helped solve if it hadn't been sabotaged.
In a model where developers adhere to a devops philosophy and are product owners, there's no need for a split. Developers should not be measured only quantity of releases, but also on metrics related to availability, customer impact, latency, operational costs, etc.

I'm not opposed to a model where non-technical roles are empowered to define test cases and contribute to approval workflows of a release pipeline, but that doesn't absolve developers of the primary responsibility of being end-to-end owners.

I know "devops" is an overloaded term that means different things to different people. To me, it's when developers are involved in product research, requirements gathering, user studies, design, architecture, implementation, testing, release management, and ongoing operations. They're supported by a dedicated product manager who leads the research/requirements gathering/user studies initiatives.
Population size doesn't matter for taxes, yet having many different types of rules (perhaps at state level?) could indeed be a complicating factor. If that's the case, I'll take your word for it.

But do hear me out once more. The dutch tax system is anything but simple. It has an extremely complex rule set.

And because it is so complex, leaving the understanding of it to citizens has led to an enormous burden of processing and correcting faulty entries, staffing massive support desks, and so on.

So they solved complexity, centrally. The rules are just as complex as before, but the process and UI make it a breeze for a good 75%.

With this I mean to say that complexity is in fact another reason to solve things centrally. Why would you want to spread complexity around?
There are actually scientific methods for attributing specific events to global warming or not, probabilistically. I.e. although you can never say with perfect certainty "this heatwave was caused by global warming", you can say: with global warming this heatwave has a probability 0.1 (once in ten years), but without global warming it would have a probability of 0.001 (once in a thousand years).

We seem to be having several "once in a thousand years" heatwaves per decade these days.
My first job, tech support, had fantasy server names. That was fun :)
I hate to rain on your parade, but any solution that doesnt lean heavily on nuclear is not a solution.

50% of the population may be climate deniers (need a reference though), but there is a large group of progressives that loved the green new deal also, which did not include nuclear energy, so there is blame on both sides.
China is also the world's leading producer of solar cells (over 70%) and the world's leading user of solar power (about 33% of global solar power).

China is also, by far, the leading producer and user of electric cars with almost half of the production and sales (more electric cars are sold in china than western europe + US combined). Half of all EV's in the world are driving around in China.

Further, chinese people use a fraction of the electricity that north americans do. Canada: 14,600 kWh/yr, USA: 12,150 kWh/yr, China: 5,300 kWh/yr.

In terms of CO2 emissions, it's the same story: USA: 17.6T/yr, Canada: 15.7T/yr, China: 6.4T/yr, on a per capita basis.

It's hard to remember what with the shiny new tier 1 coastal cities, but try not to forget that, on average, china is still quite poor with only 1/4th to 1/5th the per capita income of the richer advanced economy nations like the US, Sweden, UK, Germany, Japan, etc. China is on par with Mexico, Malaysia, Panama, Russia, or Bulgaria.

In short, the story is not so simple.
Wind, Water, Sunlight.
IMHO, yep - it's a balance, but the great thing is they can be quick to run, and run locally-easily; which is great for developers to get fast-feedback. Unit testing is unlikely to catch all end-user level issues though; traditional automation too, which is why human-testing is still valuable today.
12.6 million goes to customers, according to the article.

> Robinhood's resolution with FINRA includes $12.6 million in restitution to thousands of customers and a $57 million penalty, the largest in the regulator's history, and covers a range of issues dating back to September 2016, FINRA said in a statement.
I see where you're coming from but it's not quite the same thing; Facebook doesn't encourage people to choose a license for the content that they post there, so there's no expectation that there are any terms aside from those in Facebook's ToS. OTOH GitHub has historically very strongly encouraged users to add a LICENSE to their repositories, and also encouraged users to fork other people's code and and push it to GitHub. That GitHub would be exempt from the licensing terms of the code pushed to it, except for the obvious minimal extent they might need to be in order to provide their services, seems like an extremely surprising interpretation.
Think of it like, if your read-only regions don't have anything else stateful they're able to do before the postgres write fails, then their existence is indistinguishable from network latency. An app that doesn't break because of latency won't break because of this.

If the readonlies might do something else stateful and not unwind it on postgres write error, then this approach won't work. (But wouldn't they be buggy anyway? Postgres writes aren't guaranteed not to raise errors.)
That's not my point.

My point is that there's no need for population control. The problem will eventually solve itself.

I think humanity is doomed as long as there are egotistical and greedy people and there's nothing you or I can do as individuals.

The problem is lack of resources, so I don't think the problem is solvable with with technology.

And just for reference, I actually am very successful in a field where you do have to empathize with people to be successful. That's actually what makes me bitter, I empathize and all I see is greed and selfishness. It's human nature, and that can't be solved with technology or science.
> my replay time to their region in Sydney Australia is between 25 and 45ms. That's pretty quick!

What on earth.. Are people really OK with adding 25-45ms latency because they can't be bothered to route their query to a database that can actually service it?
> just to protect themselves

To protect themselves from the public. Whether it's because consumers might take their business (and their data) elsewhere in disgust at what a particular platform is turning into, or because democratically elected lawmakers could start imposing sanctions or new regulations.

Companies are always looking out for themselves, that's a given. But that doesn't mean their actions are completely divorced from public opinion.
> There are people working for NASA who actually believe we will be able to launch to LEO for $55/kg.

I mean, that works fine if you have something like a space elevator:

$ units # assuming 10cent/kWh[0]
You have: 300 km gravity * (.1$/kWh)
Definition: 0.081722083 US$ / kg
You have: sqrt(G earthmass/earthradius)
Definition: 7911.1468 m / s
You have: (9km/s)^2 * (.1$/kWh)
Definition: 2.25 US$ / kg
You have: ((9km/s)^2+300 km gravity) * (.1$/kWh)
Definition: 2.3317221 US$ / kg

So lifting stuff to LEO should cost ~2.50$/kg in energy at current retail prices. Adding (merely) a factor of twenty in overhead to actually deliver that energy is significantly more iffy, though.

0: https://www.statista.com/statistics/183700/us-average-retail...
> However, when you ask your Product team to own QA, you get the real good stuff - "Why does this feature not actually work well with this other feature when you combine the configuration" etc. It's great!

That would require a skilled product management that is on equal footing with sales and has a veto right before stuff gets sold to customers. All too often however, the only thing that matters is customer wishes for new features, with no one taking care that the tugs the customers are pulling on don't rip the product apart.
Funny you said that. Two of my friends just resigned. They aren’t moving to low cost areas, they are staying in NYC. They just got jobs with hybrid approach that they like.
I'm doing a lot of code reviews and I never run the code myself. PR owner does that, PR validation suite (essentially reduced CI) does that.

"This code works when you run it" is the last thing I care about when I'm reading the code - it's a given, we won't allow change to merge if it wasn't the case. Code reviews are there to catch mistakes in design, copypasta, how the change fits into the product overall.
I always assumed there's another reason why Task Manager offers up "End Task" and not "kill Task". Simply because "kill" implies the instant, violent termination of a unresponsive program. "end" implies a passive, "we'll get to that when we're ready" line of thought. My experience with task manager has been that almost nothing happens for a while and i'm left staring at a blank screen, wondering why my computer isn't interested in my input.
Eighty-Year-Old Japanese Firm May Be Key to Next-Gen Chips
> a closed source model

It seems like some of the chatter around this is implying that the resultant code might still have some GPL still on it. But it seems to me that it's the trained model that Microsoft should have to make available on request.
That's not just quick, that's suspiciously quick. Here's a round-trip chart for Azure: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/networking/media/azur...

Us West - Australia round-trip for them is ~140ms. And ~50ms seems to be the physical limit unless I messed up the numbers somewhere?

Edit:

Syd-syd response time 138ms

Syd-lax response time 427ms, replay time 16ms

Ok, not sure what the replay time means in this case (extra latency from the cancellation?), but it's not the total cost and you really don't want to send those packets around the world :-)
Maybe get him to implement a bubble sort algorithm in Rust. That’s bound to do it.
Haha. They do something like this every time it snows.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fox-news-buries-al-gore-s...
Clayton Christensen wrote about this extensively in The Innovator's Dilemma. I read it and enjoyed it
Any citation on the portion of American voters who vote for federal politicians who deny climate change? I suspect it’s nowhere near 50%, even if 50% of elected officials deny climate change. Representation is ludicrously disproportionate in the United States federal government.
It's actually worse I think: Amazon demands the people and systems to be better-on-metrics over time -- dealing with Seller Support is just a huge nightmare these days as a seller.
I'll second TaxSlayer (2nd year) after being a online TurboTax user for 12+ years, desktop app user years before that, and afraid and skeptical of jumping ship and losing "history", tired of the fake delays and dialogs.

Relatively stripped down UI/UX and few "waiting" dialogs and I have to assume a good savings of clicks vs. TT. I have a relatively easy joint return with little audit risk and basically in the "generally the same year after year" boat as well.
Google Developers blog post: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/06/the-future...

This change may disrupt Windows 11's Android integration:

> The timing of Google’s announcement also comes just days after Microsoft announced Windows 11, which has the ability to let you sideload Android apps as APKs. Google’s switch to App Bundles may mean that there will be fewer apps available to run on Microsoft’s new operating system, though you’ll also be able to get Android apps on Windows 11 from the Amazon Appstore.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/30/22557390/google-apk-app-b...
K8s on K8s! K64s!
Just these last 5 years so many trees were cut in cities everywhere
Doenitz had plenty of evidence that Enigma was broken (too many coincidences) but just refused to believe it.
Yes but telling people who already know how to wash their hands that they should wash them for “more than 1 second and less than 1 hour” isn’t novel, which is effectively what they’re trying to sell here.

There’s nothing in this “breakthrough” that isn’t already being done anyway, and the comparison stats are completely made up. 13.8cm resolution in current scanners? Have they even used a 3D scanner made after the millennium turned?
This feels a lot like a reincarnation of cucumber/gherkin, except they've replaced business-facing text DSL with a no-code visual UI. The intention is the same - to have the customer own the tests.

This looks like it has a shallower learning curve to get started, but I would imagine that after a certain point it winds up being less productive to use the UI than to write code and this is ultimately why visual coding hasn't taken off. At some point someone will need to become a power user and be their organization's resident expert on Rainforest, but at that point they're spending all of their time in Rainforest and they're no longer a product owner embedded in the business.

At the end of the day the business owner should be writing specifications, the engineers should be using them to create tests and they each should be collaborating closely on both.
F9 launch costs haven't decreased for customers. That in no way implies they haven't decreased for SpaceX. Why would Space X reduce the cost for customers below what they are willing to pay?
If it’s extremely hot, using solar energy should IMO be the first choice.

I don’t find https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_desalination an easy read, but I think it says using PV to get electricity and that electricity to drive reverse osmosis is one of the best solutions.

Certainly, given that solar power is cheaper than nuclear (in the current political climate), nuclear can’t be the better choice for peak loads, which happen when there’s a lot of sunlight.
I find this especially annoying because HR insists on having these "Hard Requirements" like years of experience, GPA, or other things. I just want someone who is smart, gets things done, and somewhat likes the thing they are going to be doing.
In the best case, one ton of oil/coal requires a few tons of olivine to neutralise it right?

So we need to go olivine mining at a greater rate than we have done oil extraction... Will there be millions of olivine rigs, olivine pipelines, olivine wars?

Somehow I don't think it's gonna happen...
I agree with everything you say.

It's actually not a science/technology problem. The problem is human nature, and that's not solvable with technology. If it was, then everything would be rather simple...
> I'm not celebrating people dying of thirst, but I also think that's the only thing that will get the world properly focused on the issue

Millions of people die from AIDS, malaria, and the lack of potable water and food each year. But most of those deaths happen other continents, so nothing is done about it.

The transmission of HIV could be virtually ended in the US with drugs like PrEP that have been on the market for a decade, halting a 30+ year AIDS pandemic. That didn't happen, and PrEP's price in the US rose from $1200 to $2400 for a 30-day supply in 2019, despite costing ~$40 retail in other first world countries. Now that one formulation recently became generic, it costs $1400 retail, or $600 with coupons, for a 30-day supply. As of 2020 there is a program for those without insurance, but if you're a working adult with insurance, you aren't eligible.

As long as there is money to be made, people dying will be acceptable to those in power.
In theory sure, but that would consume huge areas of valuable coastal real estate. And we don't really need more salt.
By voting for politicians who contribute and participate in international regulation, like the Paris Agreement, instead of just quitting them.
Remember when people actually wanted updates, so much that they'd pay for them?
Trade war perhaps? Against non-nuclear powers (like Brazil), conventional war is not off the table.
My high school in 2003 used IBM PCs with Windows NT. I discovered the Messenger service, enabled by default, remained enabled and was not turned off by group policy.

Start > Run, type "cmd", then:

net send B131 "Hi there"

This would pop up "Hi there" on the B131 computer. The hostname of each computer (B131, for example) was taped to the top of each monitor, so I had a great time annoying my classmates in computer lab. One day students around me noticed me doing this and I naively showed them how to do it. I helpfully suggested to never type * as the hostname or the message would send to all computers.

After a school wide DDoS from several students around me sending messages over and over like:

net send * "this school is the worst"

...and a lot more unmentionable messages, I was soon escorted out for a three day suspension for "hacking the school network." Good times. :)
Can you provide some evidence of that?
I did a school project where I dos’d a local ISP for 10 seconds using broadcast amplifiers on misconfigured routers that allowed the source address to be spoofed. I was probably 15? The isp I think only had a T3 but most people were still on dial up so overwhelming a T3 seemed like a big deal.

I miss having shell accounts at all the .edu’s for my egg drop bots. That is how I learned about all the us schools hah
Which means it is not the government legally restricting people’s freedom to speak.
The Decadence of Venture Capital: How Modern Unicorns Are Bred
NCAA Votes to Let Athletes Earn Money Based on Their Names and Images
The problem with this is that if you hive off the 80 percent that is easy and profitable you may also end up binning the competitors and then there is nothing for the 20 percent if the new competitor decides to do absolutely nothing.

This is what happened when Craiglist and later Facebook cannibalized classified ads in the US; many local and hyperlocal newspapers disappeared because they were not big enough to attract major advertisers, but all the local ones left. Yet Craiglist provides no news at all and Facebook aggregates news but certainly doesn't produce any, and especially not at the local or hyperlocal level.
Ask HN: Do Smartphone Apps get audited?
I remember I read that article in the past about the guy who reverse engineered TikTok, and thats how we found out it was collecting too much information about you.. Another article about some apps that monitor the clipboard which would allow your passwords to be revealed ..
I believe Not just for security reasons , but for efficiency reasons as well, I have
used several apps that for some reason consume too much power(cpu) or memory .. So my question is , what does Google and Apple do to protect its users?
I would imagine an honest organization should exist whose mission is to take the source code from every proprietary app developer,analyze and audit it..
And publish its findings..
Genuine question: what could go wrong?

I'm a big fan of "pinning" mechanisms where any time a user performs a write to your database you set a cookie that lasts for a few seconds and causes any subsequent requests from that user to go to the lesser, not a replica.

This solves the stale-read-after-write problem and ensures users will see any changes that they have personally made.

This does assume a mostly-reads, occasional-write application (which defines most of the applications I've worked on in my career).

So given that kind of application, what are the problems I'm not considering that I should look out for with a read-replica on a different continent?
I’m not doing that under any circumstances. I’d rather get audited
You can buy individual stocks without yoloing your entire life savings into meme stocks.

The movement to limit the most profitable investments only to “experienced” i.e. already wealthy investors is one thing that prevents average people from accumulating wealth.

If an average person is allowed to walk into Vegas and put their whole life savings on black, or spend it on lottery tickets why shouldn’t they be able to buy a stock? Less nanny state, please not more.
Wouldn't solar be much better for powering desalination than nuclear power? It is way cheaper per energy produced than nuclear, especially in those countries, which need desalination most. Also, it doesn't take a decade to set up. Not even mentioning proliferation issues.
> If you're storing future datetimes that semantically represent wall clock time, you need to store the locale time plus the full time zone (such as America/New_York) so that your program does the right thing in response to any common regulatory changes that happen after you store the value.

At this point in the process first normal form flies out the window. Trying to generalize too much can lead you down some weird garden paths. If it looks like you need a function to validate an prospective column value then you probably need to model the value as a relation corresponding to the function parameters. Then you can make it into a foreign key constraint and get on with your project.

I truly appreciate the efforts of those who attempt to expand the utility of datetime value representation to perfect a wider variety of denotational semantics. But with a relational model it may be better to delegate to simpler abstraction sufficient to the specific case.
Chamber is a wrapper around AWS Session Manager Parameter store.

To make Chamber work, you need a set of AWS Credentials. Leapp, by now, manages those AWS credentials and ensure that only short-lived credentials will be stored in the ~/.aws files.

Chamber can be a sort of Action of Leapp, like what happens with AWS SSM in Leapp, so for each Leapp Session you can, in the app, access to an EC2 instance directlly from Leapp, without any pem key, via AWS Session Manager System Manager.

So the goals of the 2 tools are a bit different, we work to secure and provide access to the Cloud, Leapp is an enabler to work in cloud for developers.

If you want to better know what are the goals of the app, refer to the Specification

https://github.com/Noovolari/leapp/wiki/specs
It's kind of sad how we are fantasizing about terraforming Mars, while we've been seemingly very effective at venusforming Terra.
I wish we had documentations in the form of man-pages even with diagrams as ascii art, and then everything is readable, searchable, highlighted, ...etc from the terminal. I don't want to pick my hands off my keyboard and pull the mouse (or touchpad, or using a thinkpad nip) just to view, read, and browse the docs.