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> So, without GPL, how would Oracle render RedHat useless with telemetry?

I cannot understand your question.

> And why didn't it prevent the Audacity drama?

It does. See https://github.com/temporary-audacity/audacity
I, actually, used to race bikes. Just mountain bikes and on obstacle courses. I had to stop when my herniated disc became to unbearable to regularly ride. To me, there are many other biking sports that are more interesting. Yeah the riders before look fine, after they look minutes to death.
Intelligence is hard to define and easy to dismiss.

We've made huge strides over the last few decades in image recognition, text and image generation, modelling etc. I think it's unfair to dismiss digital assistants as just menu systems, yes they are limited, but then so are humans. Software is catching up with humans in every domain, including ones previous dismissed as impossible to tackle.

Software playing chess can be dismissed as just a decision tree but it has far surpassed human players and human intelligence in that domain. At some point I expect software to be able to pass the turing test and that we're not there yet does not indicate that these systems are useless or we have made no progress.
How is this not just a crap take on Roko's Basilisk?
There's going to be more criticism of China in the next 10 years than in the past 30 years combined, as their power continues to expand. It's going to be an ocean of criticism.

China will have to go after a couple hundred million people. It's silly, to put it mildly.
Quality of life is lower due to less car ownership? Seems counterintuitive in several ways. One being less car ownership should mean less traffic. A bigger one might be societies not built around cars, i.e. more pedestrian and bike friendly, less area occupied by parking lots, better public transport, etc.
Yes I think you were referring to the first incompleteness theorem while I was referring to the second one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_...

> The second incompleteness theorem, an extension of the first, shows that the system cannot demonstrate its own consistency.
> Programming is barely a white-collar job here vs. Law or Real Estate, etc

Hardly - programming is very much a white-collar job. It's just that white-collar work in the UK doesn't pay all that much compared to the rewards of capital ownership or being able to dip a finger in the money hose that flows through the financial markets. Seriously, check what chartered professionals are actually paid, and for what hours.

My favourite example is that the Prime Minister was paid more as a Telegraph columnist than his official PM salary: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/oct/03/daily-teleg... ; the current PM salary is £161,401 or about $225,000. How does that compare to SV pay grades?

Programmer pay looks a lot more like that of footballers. The prizes are distributed towards the top. The programmers who enable companies to take over the world - monopolize entire markets - get bid up; everyone else is on far more normal pay. Lionel Messi is paid $130,000,000 to dominate the world. https://www.sportsadda.com/football/news/highest-paid-athlet...
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Helmbay (@helmbayhq) is my side-project. I am software developer, DevOps.

I have installed chartmuseum/harbor so many times in the last few years that I grew tired of it. I decided to make Helmbay as a quick to start, easy to share with the team, free for individual devs alternative to on-premises solutions.

I didn't show it to many people yet. Just looking for early adopters to check it out.

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> Perhaps one day we'll see some elegant magic that's usable across the spectrum from pocket to desk devices

Here it is: https://puri.sm/posts/converging-on-convergence-pureos-is-co...
Yes, a terrible example, for the reasons above.
Blender is absolutely brilliant! I have been modeling with 2.93 the last few days and it’s very enjoyable. Once you get the hang of it the interface is predictable, that is to say you start to know where to look.

Affinity beats Gimp for my type of work at the moment, but it’s cheap enough. I hope GIMP takes a page out of blenders book.

Libreoffice is fine as well, no more need for Office365

Godot is another rising star, 3.3 is great and 4.0 is going to be a leap forward. It uses the Blender model and makes money with Patreon and the like. The user community is absolutely fantastic.
I agree. Also, I used to write movie reviews and found myself thinking about what I was going to write during each movie. Stop writing reviews of all the movies you watch. Just watch. Then, if you feel you really want to write a review, watch the movie again and compose your review. You will probably enjoy those first viewings a lot more; I did.
In 20 years, China will start to feel the effects of rapid population aging caused by its one-child policy.

Compare https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2... or https://www.populationpyramid.net/western-europe/2041/ with https://www.populationpyramid.net/china/2041/

China’s challenge is to grow GDP per capita fast enough to handle that.
So if one node fails (or the network fails), some nodes will have the new value, while other nodes won't have it. I'm confused about why you call this "coherence".
I had to stop rock climbing for a year due to personal circumstances and to my surprise I was better when I went back than when I was practicing 2 to 3 times a week.

I think when COVID is over and people really go back to practicing their favourite sport, many will experience this.
Shouldn't the next step not be "I wonder what the scientists consider that my basic understanding doesn't cover", not "scientists are lying"?
I cant believe I'm going to suggest a blockchain but I think what you really want is:
- run `cu-sh example.com/questionable.`
- this uses `$editor` to let you review the contents (skippable with a command line flag)
- generate a hash of your local contents
- check said hash against a blockchain to see if everyone else who got it got the same contents as you.
- decide from 1 and 2 above whether you actually want to proceed with the install.

You could replace blockchain with checking if it's signed, and the key matches an owner on keybase/github/some other federated identity provider too.
X86 16-bit real mode assembly for MS-DOS? Don't see a lot of that these days.
http://ftp.iza.org/dp12687.pdf

Yes, both are small numbers of people. I think it's a very illustrative effect — how few people were directly affected by the disaster, and how second-order effects affecting whole populations are magnified. Similarly how fear of flying after 9/11 caused people to take less-safe-per-mile car instead.
We still use MDX. Did some testing with DAX, but I don't believe its step in the right direction. As for tools, we mostly use in-house tools build either on Mondrian or connecting to MS Analysis Services trough XMLA - depending on the use case.
You could always carry a stick PC of some kind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
> Twitter said at the time that it was “concerned by recent events regarding our employees in India and the potential threat to freedom of expression for the people we serve”

I can smell the irony. These tech companies don't care about the liberties of the citizens of the America. Now they want to lecture the government of India and Nigeria (last month) about "freedom of expression"? What a pathetic joke. They took away the speech of mine and many others I know. I hope they suffer.
That's victim blaming. Yes the driver should have taken better precautions - the driver is responsible for all passengers to wear seatbelts, and to look behind - but it's the Tesla driver that crashed into the truck. Whether they had enough time to react or whether the truck cut them off is probably apparent enough in the footage, that's up to a judge to decide.

Anyway, autopilot is not to blame; if anything comes out of the lawsuit, it's that autopilot should not be called that because it lulls drivers into a false sense of security. In the end, the driver is still responsible and the family should put the blame on the driver. It really sounds like the family is holding Tesla responsible instead of the actual person responsible, the driver of the Tesla. But in a court, they might not win since the driver of the truck may have made an unexpected maneuver, and the death of the child may be blamed on the truck driver because he wasn't wearing a seatbelt.
The advantage of good abstracting is you can unit test one layer and make it super solid, then build the next layer with less mental load.

I am not advocating making “unnecessary” abstractions.

I’m not even advocating abstracting from the get go: sometimes you need to see the messy to appreciate the abstracted.

This is modulo all common sense trade offs!
I would like to know the details of how this was reclaimed. Was it frozen at an exchange? Or are they not going to release the details because a) it was a DoJ sponsored affiliate of DarkSide i.e. an informant, b) it was seized at a mixer run by the FBI or some other law enforcement group, or c) it was retrieved in a retaliatory hack.

All of which would be interesting to know as to how they intend to finght these groups. Of course the group would know which of these, or at least have a good idea of which it was, depending on how they lost access to their funds. On that basis I cant see any reason to keep the knowledge from the public as they cybercriminals are likely to share that info amongst themselves anyway, so the secrecy aspect is lost once the method is used.
DVD sales fell off a clif in 2006-2010.

But streaming did not get any significant market share before ~2014.

DVD was replaced by "non-consumption". My guess is that blue-ray should have been the replacement, but they were priced too high, so consumers dropped buying movies for a while.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/08/the-death-of-the-dvd-why-sal...
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You're right, and they should never have named their driving assistance tech autopilot because it gives a false impression of its capabilities.
This is not the same as having just one device which can do everything.
given that humans took less than 100 years to get powered flight, less than 50 yrs to get rocketry, i expect interplanetary colonization to not be in the too distant future...
it implies monthly/weekly pay.

The whole idea behind 4 days work week is that you are more rested and more motivated and don't slack around. Therefore doing as much in 4 days as in 5 days.

Though I don't see how this could be applied to factory workers. I only can see from sw dev perspective. I would probably spend less time talking about 4 days work week on HN if on that schedule :)
You underestimate the power of AI and social credit like tools. Now add human-free justice systems and block lists to the mix.
I have another peice of anecdata with my parents/grandparents. They grew up in the USSR and went through school there, drilling (according to them) was extremely common.

They can still remember some peoms verbatim over 70 years later (in my grandfathers case). And they still remember/understand pretty much all the math they were taught. When I was doing my Advanced Highers (final exams in Scotland) I was asking my parents for help and they could answer all the questions without looking things up.

I looked up the exam paper[0] I sat, I'm pretty sure there's no way I'd get an A again if I sat it right now without studying for it. But I'm pretty sure my parents still woudl.

[0] https://www.advancedhighermaths.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/201...
Blender and Godot are also my star OSS players. The thing is, I actually don't mind paying for them.
Love the no nonsense licensing!
Being content is hard, but no joy?

Surely there's been fleeting moments of joy here and there (or perhaps for a period of time during a role then it's gone?). What were they?

If not, was there any joy out of work?
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Voice quality is still an issue but now is driven by greed. Pack as much channels as possible to maximize profit.
I'm an Icelander, and am not so sure that is the case.

Though I was not part of the test in question, my union (which thankfully are still strong in Iceland) did negotiate a reduction in working hours so as to allow every member to take a half a day off once a month without a pay cut. The catch being that this half a day has to be used inside each month and does not get transfered over to the next (use it or loose it).

This option has been on the table for a little more than a year now.

What I have observed (n=1) (in my team in a software department) is that at months end most of us have this half a day off and then scramble to figure out how we can use it.

This is in part since the work place is already very flexible when it comes to the employees live's. Need to leave at 15:00 to pick up the kids? Go for it. Have a dentist appointment at 9:00 and will miss standup? No worries. If you get the tasks done, it wont be an issue. And as such, most of the time, there isn't this longing for the weekend which I'd think causes productivity to drop on fridays.

There sure is to be slacking in our culture, and as a teenager I sure did experience work that dulled the brain. But overall I don't think there is a whole working class that is just playing with their thumbs after lunch on fridays.

It would just seem "off" to an Icelander (n=1).
> I very much despise the trend to write sharepoint or wiki/Confluence pages as a means for software documentation. I want my documentation to reside next to my source code, not at some obscure corporate URL.

It wouldn't be so bad if Confluence/whatever could just render the Asciidoc from the source repository. But they are generally closed systems. There's no way in or out of Confluence without significant headaches.
Important to note that it's only Twitter which seems to have a problem here complying with the regulations. The other social networks have complied.
Gmail was an acquisition, Google Maps was an acquisition, Android was an acquisition, Google Docs were an acquisition, I'm actually having a hard time thinking of a major Google project that's not an acquisition except for Google Search and Google Ads (and even there, I think they acquired DoubleClick early on and that boosted their ads business a lot).
The article misses some more context.

1. The escalation intensified after tweets by prominent ministers and fucntionaries of the ruling government were marked as "manipulated media"
2. The IT Ministers and opposition partys accounts were locked for copyright infringement.
3. The govt wants twitter to comply on removing content and users critical of govt policies.

[1] https://indianexpress.com/article/india/manipulated-media-de...

[2] https://www.news18.com/news/india/copyright-infringement-twi...

[3] https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg8pzp/india-wants-more-cont...
https://restofworld.org/2021/how-india-fell-in-then-out-of-l...
It does tend to make one worry that all the tools will be hideously un-unicode aware and mangle any non-ASCII documents.

I would like to imagine that in this day and age that isn't the case, but the name works against it.
Which companies are examples of this? I know Gitlab is remote but changes based on location and ends up not being that good in somewhere like Dublin
It's true that there were some early notable 20% projects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20%25_Project#Notable_projects
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Indeed, sitting in a taxi on US highways was a very scary experience with cars overtaking on both sides.
Mubi is great!

I don't know if it's in other countries, but in the UK you get a free cinema ticket with your subscription every week (Mubi GO) and I've seen so many great films I would never have even heard of because of that service.
Social media is killing discourse because it’s too much like TV (2016)
Hollywood and some streaming companies lately started creating a lot of politically correct or politically activist movies that have no other value than having the "right theme" with the right actor race, gender or sexual orientation. This decreases the quality of the movies a lot, republicans kind of boycott these movies, the pandemic makes the earnings a lot lower than usual so there are less money on the table for more movies.
As an European I switched to watching more European movies in the past decade. It is harder to access (there is no European movie market), but I saw nice Norwegian movies, Italian or Russian on top of my favorite - French. Unfortunately UK got into the same direction as USA, so it is out of the list. Strange, I saw no German movies for a long time, I have no explanation for that.

And there is also some international selection of Brazilian or (south) Korean, even Chinese. I would like to have access to good Japanese movies, but I don't. Unfortunately Bollywood movies are a dime a dozen, good Aussie movies are rare and the movies from the rest of the world are inaccessible to me.

In regards to the big screen versus TV, I found TV was less affected by the woke movement and SciFi, while rare these days, is still available (The Expanse). There are movies hit really bad (The Witcher), but still there are a few options left.
There really is only one country in the world that believes that the embargo is justified (Israel probably does not really care either way).

The embargo started because the US did not want communist regimes in their backyard. As a reaction the Cubans nationalized all US companies and property. There is a powerful lobby in the US against lifting the embargo.
He isn’t saying he’s grateful to his country, he’s saying he’s grateful to Google…
FreeBSD has recently switched from DocBook to AsciiDoc for its documentation: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/fdp-primer/asciidoctor-pri...

Markdown was also an option but it was missing too many features for a documentation set of this size.
South Korea seems like a bad example, because they had twice as many Covid cases as China with less than a twentieth the population. Actually, it looks like even New Zealand has reported substantially more Covid cases per capita than China, and they're literally an island a thousand miles away from anywhere else. China's low case numbers really are remarkable.
> Lebanon is a buffer state between Israel and the Arab worlds

Well Lebanon IS Arab, so no to that.
The number of English speakers (in correct English).

Amount is for uncountable nouns, like butter, sugar etc.
Right, this looks like horsecrap.

* No randomization. The treatment groups were selected on the basis of existing "high levels of stress". The control groups weren't. So, just regression to the mean could explain any results.

* Everyone wanted in. "The trial grew almost thirty times in size over the next five years, to around 2,500 participating staff in response to early positive results." Sure, who wouldn't demand a shorter week for the same pay? But now you've lost control of your experiment.

* Hello, Hawthorne effect. "Hey, we're testing low hours and if you hit all these KPIs we'll make them permanent!" Solve for the equilibrium.

This isn't science. It's marketing bullshit. Honestly, you can tell that just from the elegantly selected fonts.

Suckers everywhere are going to lap it up. Of course! They want to believe.

As people get richer they want more leisure. That's fine. Any nation can choose to be lotus-eaters. Just don't pretend to have scientifically proved you won't get poorer.
In Iceland, these kinds of things are negotiated between employeers and unions. Unions in Iceland still stand strong and are not tied to certain workplaces like in the US (which gives them greater negotiating power).
They can be fiddled with at will, the boot loader stack has been cracked for those a long time ago.

Microsoft didn't bother to fix it. (look at the WPInternals project, through which this is possible)

For the Surface RT, they didn't push firmware updates to fix the bugs allowing to unlock it either.
The rest of the world has no clue what's going on with you guys. Seems like you have no clue either. Canadians (an many other nations) have guns, but no gun problems like the US.
The "mian" thing is not an error. It's there to make a point about how the brain interprets code, depending on your familiarity with the language and problem. She explains it not much later on.
All but gmail. That was created in house by Paul Buchheit.
$ErrorAction = 'STOP' and you are done with it.
Carmack works for Facebook. The fact that he is unhappy with GPL is a feature, not a problem.
> especially if we believe SARS 2 was created by humans instead of being just another natural disease

Here's the thing: if we knew the answer definitively to the lab-leak question, how would it change the pandemic response? The things we need to do to combat the virus remain the same.
I personally find the algebra and infinitesimal calculus quite useful for general problem solving skills. Sure it doesn’t provide you with concrete skills in the latest JS framework but it does help in terms of ability to reason about abstract problems and generalisations. Each to their own but I find it quite useful
(I used to be a dev but now work in strategy consulting and here I cherish my math skills every day).
I think this is your question, if not, my apologies
https://youtu.be/oFrTqQw0_3c?t=1594
Why Do Depressed People Often Have Inaccurate Beliefs?
It wasn’t just a change in leadership, Microsoft also had an existential crisis. Apple, Google and Amazon threatened to make Microsoft irrelevant and the leadership at the time didn’t seem to know how to respond. I don’t think Google has reached that level of desperation yet, and it might need to before it can turn things around.
It does, but I will say that I had to learn how to block read math. So I couldn’t read until the 6th grade because of how bad my dyslexia is. I taught myself speed reading before I knew what it was (I called it block reading). I knew that my brain could recognize symbols and words without reading it so I took it to the extreme. I started glance reading; looking at the text and looking away and see what I comprehend. Eventually I was able to read whole sentences without reading each word or using a finger. I kept doing it so I could pass the reading comprehension tests in school. I got to the point where I could look at the page and flip it over and answer the questions. I wasn’t comprehending anything, I was just able to keep the entire image in my head and my brain gives me the answers. Kind of how it works for me know. I more absorb text than read it.
Free monads are hard to get your head around IMO.

But there is any easier way. In Haskell just use a typeclass! The typeclass defines the “syntax” and your implementation of the class defines the “semantics”

You can also do this in C# or Typescript simply using an interface, or in JS I guess using duck typing.

Basically you can make DSLs using OO concepts!