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I think it's kind of good that these absurd scenarios involving Bitcoin are driving people (in the larger sense of companies and governments) towards more environmental awareness.

If you think about it, the entire system is just as absurd as Bitcoin. Business pollute the environment we live in, and then get to brag to shareholders about "delivering value", "increased revenue margins", and "efficiency" that they later get rewarded by the stock market for.

The green company that makes a slightly lower profit, but takes care of the environment falls out of the index to be replaced by the polluter that either does the bare minimum, or actively breaks laws and treats fines as the cost of doing business. The market rewards rapacity over environmentalism.

Well, Bitcoin is even more efficient, it's directly burning coal and converting it into money that the market will also pay for!

The (hopefully) good outcome of this is that it will drive corporations and governments to take a breath, and formulate policies that prioritize the long-term health of the environment over short term priorities like jobs and the economy.

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27749932
This sounds super interesting. Could you share some resources to read up on this?
Ya, that was a throwaway comment that I probably should have left out.

> and use as FFI for the equivalent C enum.

Only if you're willing to accept undefined behavior if the foreign code passes you an unknown variant. For actual ffi work I've ended up using a macro that makes a "#[repr(C)] struct EnumName(u32)" with a bunch of constants for the values.
I agree, which is why I don't feel terribly autonomous with respect to my decision to get vaccinated. The best I could do was wait several months to see if anything major shook out as they scaled up.

But the autonomy applies to the decision process, and not the specific choice. Choosing the contrary conclusion is just as non-autonomous.
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Yes, that's why I suggested it to a question asking what Blender can do. ;)
> That cultural/social/political/economic context is the enemy

quite right! what to do?

i usually dead-end with some question like "how to reverse incentives" or "forcibly generated counter-incentives" or "inherently diversified incentive portfolios". i wonder if we need some kind of knights-errant (justicars from mass effect), agents small in number but large in power to correct wrongs.

in daniel suarez's freedom, there is a meter/gauge that measures the concentration of power. the desired state is not diffuse OR centralized, but in the middle. you need both. the public needs power to be involved and feel involved, but there is not always time for a decision by committee and there is a time for prompt, decisive action.
That, and additionally, if there's an opportunity to monetize data from (or derived from) telemetry further, companies won't hesitate selling it (or access to it) to third parties.

That, and additionally, if the data is stored, it's a question of when, not if, it'll become a part of some data breach.

To developers and entrepreneurs feeling surprised by the pushback here, please take a honest look at the state of the software industry. Any trust software companies enjoyed by default is gone now.
Carbon taxes have come up in Congress from time to time, but the fossil fuel industries are much too politically connected. The excuse is usually that if you tax carbon all you do is move the polluters offshore, and since CO2 is a global problem it doesn't solve anything. Global problems need global solutions, but our international treaty systems are insufficient to make progress on this pressing issue.

People still try, Kyoto was a heroic effort, but at the end of the day the incentives to cheat are powerful and thus the level of trust is very low.
Apple has always been somewhat of a walled garden. Google/Microsoft have not. So when they make moves to put up walls, people get upset. Meanwhile, apple gets a pass because "well, they already have security requirements that prevent me from doing stuff".
> So you naturally start to believe that it's all true and justified

Or you continue to believe what makes sense, but you keep your beliefs private out of fear.
Obligatory "The S in IoT stands for Security"
The second password can fail quite quickly assuming an attacker is going to target Finnish words to perform a dictionary attack, perhaps a Finnish website makes sense for something like this to be done.

Psuedo-random is always better because anything else usually follows a pattern that can be exploited(sequence, structure, words, statistical bias)

If we can't make assumptions about the secret, the only solution is plain brute-force when it comes to the number of characters squared the length of the password.
Mongooses have a fair society because moms care for all pups as their own
ok so it's a latency issue? Your original statement indicated physical longevity issues with the controller.
Ah, interesting, thanks! I was wondering.
I suppose so. But in multibyte numbers (pretty much all of them nowadays) the nice mapping disappears: u32{a,b,c,d} becomes {d,c,b,a} so that bit 8 is actually the 8th bit of byte d. So 0b 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 != 2^24.

What I don't understand: why not just go all out little endian at that point? It seems like it would complicate circuit design as well given that an arithmetic shift needs weird wiring to properly work across little endian bytes big bits.
For me its just recognizing how the news is formed and syndicated.

For example, everything on the news is supposed to match your worst nightmare. The more closely it matches, the less likely it is accurate. Knowing that helps filter what you actually need to be cognizant of and react to. Actually consuming it is just to apply critical thinking to know why it isn't the complete story, and solely for conversation purposes.
> Every day, I curl up in front of my PC, look through some Reddit threads about movies and find a handful of incredible movies that I'm thankful for that people pointed out. What should the title of my article be?

Probably "hundreds of good movies are made every year, but if you don't move your ass and try to find them they won't magically land on your lap".

The author has identified these problems himself (point 5) but looks like he just doesn't want to put in the effort.
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Saying too many people are "brainier" than they are is probably the real issue.

Turchin's prediction:

> “The next decade is likely to be a period of growing instability in the United States and western Europe,” he asserted, pointing in part to the “overproduction of young graduates with advanced degrees”.

...overlooks something key: they didn't produce an a new elite, only "elitists," who never quite arrive. The resentment from people who became middle class after graduating from debt funded college is the result of how all that work didn't deliver on the promise of upper-middle security. The Gen-X cliche of baristas with masters degrees has simmered for a couple of decades, and it has metastisized into a deep loathing for the working people Gen-X grads haven't been able to differentiate themselves from, and hence the "burn it all down," attitude you see in a lot of them. The coders and general contractors who didn't go to university who out earn and out-succeed grads is a real cultural factor, and a big part of the U.S. red/blue divide.

If you look up Girard and "mimetic violence," you can get a useful framework with predictive power on the dynamic they're describing. The promise of college and debt was they would be elevated into an elite, but of course, they weren't, and now these smart-enough and educated people bitterly hate what they call the "trash" and neighbors they still too-closely resemble, and who the remaining elite confuses them with.

The political instability aspect of it in the article is that if you want to see who is setting fires in cities and throwing rocks at police, it's people with just enough security and social capital to get away with it, but not enough to meet their self image as legit members of the elites their educations allowed them to percieve.

Brainy? No. Promised something and told it was because they were brainy? Probably.
The article shows that many emperors from ~0-200AD had a lead rich diet, and I'm guessing the paper stopped when it did because sources suffered during the Crisis of the Third Century.

If the early emperors ate a lot of lead, it's reasonable to expect many of the later ones continued doing so, which could have played a role in the downfall.
That was one of my favorite exhibits at the London Science Museum - a place full of great stuff.
The argument for closing roads and sidewalks is not "jobs, jobs, jobs" It is "You must perform on going maintenance of our infrastructure, or it is going to crumble and become unusable"
Do you think people just close roads so someone has a job?
> Bitcoin is driving people towards more environmental awareness.

WHAT? What makes you think Bitcoin is driving anything other than speculation and greed?
No need to re-explain, I understood you well enough. Not trying to make fun of you either, it's just funny you end up calling restrictive something which is widely known as "permissive". Of course, it's called permissive because it contains maximal rights with little requirements for someone you would probably call the "first" user.

> So the tree of descendants of an originally "permissively" licensed code contains potentially more restrictions, that the tree of descendants of originally GPL licensed code.

I think the number of users should count as well. A proprietary application distributed to millions results, in a way, in more "freedom" of use (albeit of a thinner scope) compared to a GPL'd application rarely used or distributed.

> This is, as you rightly noted, not how modern business models function.

Some do, some don't. See e.g. Carlo Daffara on open source business models.
It's possible to authenticate TXT records, you just have to do it yourself.
From looking at previous discussion on this here, in no way shape or form do they get a pass. Quite right too.
It's clear we need a full security audit of the companies that provide software tools to the companies that provide software tools to IT outsourcing shops. Of course that just leaves things open to the next security breach of companies that provide software tools to the companies that provide software tools to the companies that provide software tools to IT outsourcing shops.
> security theater

aka sales & marketing.

I wonder if the background of senior leadership is predictive in these sorts of situations. E.g., Equifax had a CISO with a non-technical background at the time of their breach, and Kaseya's leadership is dominated by MBAs and accountants.
The whole process of discovery reeks of conflict of interest.

The audit was done by a firm at the behest of defense lawyer.

Is the security firm going to get paid if they claim their is no evidence of a plant ?

Also, its not proven its a state sponsored plant.
The study [0] finds that because mongooses don't know which offspring belong to which moms, all the pups are given equal access to food and care - brilliant example of ignorance promoting fairness in a mammal society.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23910-6
There is an example of 2 projects that started around the same time, one of which used the GPL and one of which used the BSD license. Almost 30 years after the projects started, the one one using the GPL is vibrate and healthy, while the other project using the BSD license has trouble getting companies to contribute their changes back and barely has enough developers participating in the community to survive.

This is the tale of Linux vs FreeBSD. Companies like Juniper that made heavy use of FreeBSD as the basis for JunOS have an atrocious history of failing to contribute their changes back to the community, and Juniper isn't the only one engaging in this behaviour. Sure there are other reasons that Linux took off and FreeBSD didn't, but license is a major factor in how their respective communities behave.

Yes, there are times when copying BSD licensed code is easier if you don't want to publish your source, but it isn't too difficult to adapt business processes to this constraint for the vast majority of applications. Look at what happened in the wireless router market. Early in the 2000s many products made use of the various vendors' Linux based SDKs and weren't compliant at publishing their source. Today OpenWRT is vibrant and most vendors offer GPL archive downloads on their websites. Personally, I don't think this would have happened if Linux wasn't GPLed and there wasn't the pressure the GPL afforded on vendors to open up their code.

I understand and respect John Carmack's position, and the GPL isn't for everyone, but people need to understand that license can result in significant differences in the viability of a community built around a software project on the longer term scales of 10-20 years.
> It seems our completely untethered tumble into the world of 1984 led by Big Brother and every all-seeing eye on the planet, with Microsoft pushing us through a new window and into a new era with Windows 11.

Ah yes, that's absolutely what it is, not an attempt to match what is already standard on every Apple laptop.
Worth mentioning that as of today, YC is also publicly launching a (free) co-founder matching marketplace. (I'm on the team that built it, so would love any feedback on the platform as well!) :)

https://www.startupschool.org/cofounder-matching
Hey there,

We're rating data sets by their markets' performance. We're building the S&P 500 for data. Our website is https://rugpullindex.com.
We're looking for someone that's interested in what we're doing. Ideally you're technical and you have no problem taking on responsibility.

We're grants-sponsored and we're not looking for VC money. I'd prefer if we bootstrapped. The job is remote and on a freelance basis.

I don't think we'd be offering any role or "co-founder" titles. Also, there won't be a classical salary. But since our project is quite young, I guess you can call yourself a co-founder.
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Ask HN: How do you build and test your Jenkins pipelines / libraries?
There seems to be a problem with scripted pipelines and Jenkins: due to the fact that Groovy is mostly used and the fact that Jenkins injects a lot of runtime variables (including plugins), it is really difficult to set-up an IDE and a testing environment for Jenkins pipelines / Shared Libraries... without spinning up a Jenkins instance.

What are your thoughts on the topic? What are some of your suggestions?
Seems like we need a disallow robots.txt equivalent!
Unfortunately biophysics has turned out to be a field that largely does not interest either physicists or biologists. They’ve found some interesting results but this sub fields hey day is probably behind it.
I think this is a beautiful article. There's code, there's math. There are many plotted examples using a variety of different plotting techniques (in total, representing a 2d array as data, or in black/white, or with a terrible 'jet' colormap, or as a 3d terrain.

I very much appreciate this sort of post.
Employers are generally paying for your output not the hours spent.
as a developer, i find crash reports helpful when troubleshooting issues, and use device metrics like screen size to determine where to focus limited developer efforts. telemetry is useful because i use it. that's not a magical assertion.
It makes you wonder what hidden public health problems are impacting us and will only be understood centuries later. Will endocrine disruptor chemicals like phthalates cause the downfall of the American empire? The jury is still out.
Sounds like the deliverables KPI is fantastic.
How do both parties determine the keys used during a conversation?

Are they making heavy use of public key cryptography? If so how? When I send a message to you, do I encrypt it using your public key? What about group messages? Does each conversation get its own key pair?

Also it’s interesting they decided to directly hit up google cloud… you’d think they would wrap it so at minimum they could tweak the underlying infrastructure without requiring every client to update.
Burning the same fuel is always going to produce the same amount of CO2. Here are the amounts, for various fuels:

https://www.eia.gov/environment/emissions/co2_vol_mass.php

You might get more or less usable energy out of it depending on your efficiency, but if you're less efficient you'll have to burn more fuel (hence paying more tax, directly or as part of the price of fuel if it's taxed at the source).
They quite often are, but not as much as is necessary. Oil tends to be taxed at refinement, but there's no such stage for coal.
Likely a long time

One look at RDP markets show that reality

Computers that you can remote desktop into are listed by location and bandwidth and price. UAS had over a million to choose from, blanketing the globe.
And the great think about this, compared to static code, is you can compile runtime data into this code if you want. So instead of storing something like a configuration value in a global variable which you then have to read, you can store it in the code!
The Finger Lakes are famously deep as well. Seneca averages 291' with a max depth of 618'
Same end result.
Sure, but I mean the plot, not the title. A ghost of changed-just-enough-to-avoid-copyright-infringement-but-still-obvious Khan seeking revenge feels very much the sort of thing they’d do.
On your physical device presumably
That was not well phrased, I apologize. The sentence should have been "These absurd scenarios involving Bitcoin are driving people towards more environmental awareness". Pretty much all the mentions of Bitcoin I have heard within my social circle have been about the environmental impact. People think it's absurd that we are literally converting energy into money!

Does it sound more plausible / correct with that phrasing?
Because Uber and Lyft extract much of the value from each ride. If Uber or Lyft were a blockchain-based peer-to-peer protocol with its own utility token, the users and the drivers could easily benefit from the value capture. For what it's worth I think the decentralized Uber example is a bit contrived and that these applications are more complex than people realize. However, ultimately that's what I see in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) apps: I see loans being made via a smart contract that automates away much of the middle man infrastructure of the banking system. And therefore I as a depositor can get a higher yield than I can at a regular bank because the only thing between me and the borrower is code.

I'm not convinced that centralized is better in every way for the more complex examples, however. I just think the tooling and distribution aren't quite there yet. And sometimes it will take a rethink of the existing application. For example, Uniswap is a great decentralized exchange, but the constant product architecture it used to achieve its result is much different than the standard order book architecture that centralized exchanges use.
The most important models, like the S class, the G class, and the AMG GT, still are the top notch in quality, quirks, and performance, but the other aren't like that

C and CLA class models are more like any other regular car with a nicer interior and maybe a better suspension, but at the end they even Renault engines (that aren't so well made), so they aren't so great than older versions.

All of this is AFAIK, so please correct me if there is any mistake.
Is there a significant share of the laptop market that ships _without_ webcams?

I haven't seen a single laptop manufactured in the past 15 years that doesn't have a webcam built-in.

The actual good news is requiring it to be HD, so the days of potato quality video calls are soon over.

Besides, a lot of manufacturers are now shipping cameras with physical covers, I expect that trend to continue
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This is bad but it's going to force all these companies to overall their IT system, period. They can't keep on losing data or paying ransoms eternally, because at that point it cannot just be "the cost of doing business".
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All of the fuel that is burned should release roughly the same amount of carbon.

The stuff that is turned into lubricating oils, plastics, etc... will keep most of the carbon contained.
> "Some random person ran across a novel virus in the wild, and got sick".

More like, "some random person ran across a novel virus in the wild, a thousand miles from the nearest bat population, while they were hibernating; and this all just happened to be within a few miles of a laboratory with sketchy safety history that literally studies coronaviruses, and didn't let independent examiners in for a year, even then limiting their time and access severely."
I really like working with Windows10 and would also be very happy to use Windows11, but all this telemtry stuff(which I understand partially why they are doing some of it) and strange decisions like this are making it really hard not to switch to Linux.
He put Radio on the Internet, man! Rad.
Windows 11 allows you to install IE11, just have to add it as an Apps & Feature -> Optional Feature.

Plus the Win32 WebBrowser control and similar still heavily rely on IE11's engine for the foreseeable future.
But the company said, "We don't believe that they were in our network,"

They wouldn’t say that if they weren’t 100% certain right? /s
Here's the citation from some of his earliest work with mRNA from 1989: https://www.pnas.org/content/86/16/6077.long
Many corporate laptop models build a physical camera cover into the laptop lid now. Microsoft clearly wants to ensure everyone with a laptop has the option to join video calls, which makes sense, but it's getting easier on new models to block this when intended.

Most Windows laptops sold today already have a front facing camera, and I expect camera covers to become as standard as cameras are.
Hmmm. So who gets the blame for sugary drinks, snacks and other unhealthy junk food? The peddler or the consumer?
Then it just becomes another thing that's gamed. Useless certs are used to cover for a lackluster technical background.
> It seems our completely untethered tumble into the world of 1984 led by Big Brother and every all-seeing eye on the planet, with Microsoft pushing us through a new window and into a new era with Windows 11.

What a load of hyperbolic junk this is. Microsoft is trying to ensure consistency for people that buy Windows laptops. We can debate whether that is a smart move or not, but descending into 1984 fear-baiting is just nonsense.
> How do users know if that's all the data that's submitted?

That's the thing, isn't it? They'll never know. They can't; it takes deep technical knowledge to even be able of conceptualize what data could be sent, and how it could be potentially misused.

Which is to say, it's all a matter of trust. Shipping software with opt-out telemetry (or one you can't disable) isn't a good way to earn that trust.
There are many such stories of AI "optimizations" gone wrong, because of loopholes the program found that humans didn't consider.

Here's a collection of such stories:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.03453.pdf
Looks like this[1] might be one example. They have a link to the code. Might be a good starting point for making your own custom game.

Maybe there's a repository somewhere with similar examples?

[1](https://towardsdatascience.com/today-im-going-to-talk-about-...)
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