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YouTube overall generates tremendous value for people who view videos on it.

There are so many YouTube videos being generated for the amount of money being made that it is not economically feasible to hire humans to review all the videos.

Even if there is a human to review videos that have been flagged, there is a time delay to doing so.

YouTube seems to be erring on the side of flagging false positives at least till there is time for human review.

The technology reviewing videos is immature. It may not be an engineering failing. It may be a problem that requires a scientific breakthrough.

So a valid critique is that there is no effective way to reach a human at Google. Critiquing the technology is pointless.
I’ve had a quick look into some of the tools on the list. We even use at least one, but we still pay for the hosted solution. Why?

* We’re a shop full of developers, but none of us have the required skill set to host and debug a python app.

* We’re fairly well booked. Any time I’d assign one of the folks to maintaining tool X, I’d have to take from time assigned to client work. Which means the internal cost is not what’s interesting. What counts is “how much do I loose by not having them work in billable hours?”

All of this means that the calculation is strongly tilted in favor of buy.
Programs like Devonthink promise such a thing, but I've found their use not quite convenient enough to keep up. Unfortunately - the promise is amazing.
> a right to know if a given company wants

> right to know if you are going to block/evade tracking

I don't get how looking at this as rights and intent does any good.

- Getting legalistic about intent immediately makes for more arguing.

- Asking for a right to know about someone's "intent to block" is... odd, and seems to set the stage for all sorts of messy shenanigans. How is that supposed to work, exactly? If you want to go this way, contracts seem so much more straightforward.

- If you're concerned with a "free market", trying to layer on all sorts of external rules about 'rights to know' just doesn't work. Asymmetric information is the nature of the market, and here we are, right now. If you want "freedom" in that sense of the word, be happy, you've arrived.
Clickbait-y and misleading. Exfiltration means getting hold of data which you shouldn't be able to access or download.
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I’ve been in Game dev for the better part of a decade and money has never been the driving factor in what positions I worked. I have ADHD and unable to work normal dev jobs (I’ve tried and I find them too boring). The game industry is a small world the ones that are intolerant quickly find out no one wants to work with them.
Answering in good faith here...

It's a virtual machine for the RISC-V architecture, as is evident from the title.

A virtual machine is software that emulates hardware.

RISC-V is an open-source processor architecture that allows anyone to design, build, emulate and modify the CPU architecture without fear of legal repercussions. RISC-V is currently becoming quite popular due to the release of actual hardware, with more coming in the near future.
It's a matter of perspective and wager. I wager that the public image cost of failed startups leads to a reduced likelihood that fusion will be properly funded in the next 100 years. Fusion already has a public image deficit to overcome.

One could be optimistic and say the few potential successful startups such as SPARC or potentially successful moonshots such as Helion will lead to more private investors and/or public funding, but it's a community betting its public image when it's already down. I don't have a safer alternative to suggest.
It's entirely possible they could both be devastating. It's not zero-sum. However, I have to say, I didn't actually go there. I can't figure out what you're talking about. Seems to be the site of "Chevron Federal Credit Union". I can't see that anything in particular really happened.
> I think you’ve misunderstood the purpose of a side project for engineers. They’re supposed to be hobby projects that demonstrate the developer’s abilities as well as their commitment to following through on projects.

I don't agree. A side-project might demonstrate those things, but most of the time, as an interviewer, I'm interested in a candidate's side-project because it shows curiosity and interest. It says something about their character.
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Definitely! It's completely imaginary to those it doesn't affect.
The most insightful comment is also the most downvoted. What did HN mean by this?
Do you happen to know how he fine tuned it? I too would like a bit more weight on the font when printed.
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I don’t want understate the impact of climate change, but if the author is comparing the dryness of 2021 specifically to 1993… 1993 was the 5th wettest year in California since the 1930s, and 2021 is a drought year.
I think that Apple smartphones and laptops have higher margins than most phones and laptops. Apple has done very well at making a brand, not just generic commodities.
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This belongs on Redit not Hacker News.
This doesn't make much sense. The counterfactual is that they'd be desperate to eat and take out a sky-high APR short-term loan. How is the new ability to take zero-interest loans "creating" the snowballing effect instead of reducing an already-existing one?

This is called "the Copenhagen interpretation of ethics", in which any interaction with a situation in an attempt to improve it somehow gets warped into shouldering responsibility for the preexisting situation in its entirety. In this case, you've somehow transfigured substantially reducing the cost of credit into "creating global poverty".
There's one of those speech bubbles down below which you could probably use to get in touch with the authors, not sure if they will read this comment section.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_triangle: “a fire needs to ignite: heat, fuel, and an oxidizing agent (usually oxygen)”

There also always is plenty of oxygen. In dry summers, there’s also plenty of fuel. What’s lacking is sufficient heat. The ignition temperature of wood is difficult to assess, but wood can start burning at 125°C ≈ 256°F (https://www.warrenforensics.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/P...)

It doesn’t get that hot without help, e.g. from a campfire, a magnifying glass, or sparks from electricity.
Or into stocks. Or into existing real estate. Or into existing "NFT" arts. Or into any other bubble. When you print money, rich people can get price to inflate without any trickling down.
(Full disclaimer - I'm an engineer at Talos, but I believe it's pretty relevant here)

If folks are interested in this kind of K8s deployment, they might also be interested at what we're doing at Talos (https://talos.dev). We have full support for all of these same environments (we have a great community of k8s-at-home folks running with Raspberry Pis) and a bunch of tooling to make bare metal easier with Cluster API. You can also do the minikube type of thing by running Talos directly in Docker or QEMU with `talosctl`.

Talos works with an API instead of SSH/Bash, so there's some interesting things about ease of use when operating K8s that are baked in like built-in etcd backup/restore, k8s upgrades, etc.

We're also right in the middle of building out our next release that will have native Wireguard functionality and enable truly hybrid K8s clusters. This should be a big deal for edge deployments and we're super excited about it.
Let's put programming languages aside, but I also question the idea that "there is money to be made with developer tools".

a) it seems to be a bit of winner-takes-it-all game here, maybe fragmented by language or ecosystem, but overall still true. IntelliJ is kind of an outlier, but they used to be Java only for a few years, then PHPStorm/WebStorm were kinda halfway accepted, and some other languages as well.

n) Also it takes so damn long until a new tool is even considered for widespread use. I remember ~11 years ago when I was more involved in conferences and tooling in the PHP world (and I also wrote my diploma thesis on this) - the broad majority of people only used Jenkins and continuous integration, if at all. Every other tooling was already rare, and don't even think for a moment they'd pay. The few cases that did had Bamboo and Sonar. From what I heard from friends this was not unique to the PHP world. And even in the last 5 years it's the same story.

c) I don't see a lot of change in the last 10 years that companies are willing to buy tools for their developers when there's something free to be had and you can save a bit per year. This can be big or small companies, startups or ones.
I'm obviously not defending him, but those were 16-18 year olds who were already party members.

My point is: it's easy to find flaws in the reasoning of extremists, and use that to show how "crazy" and "illogical" and "insane" they are, and thereby distance ourselves (mentally) far from them. What we need to do however is face the much more scary truth that even the people who commit atrocities are for the most part reasonable and (somewhat) intelligent people, with some sort of roots in "normal" society, who for some reason just get one idea in their head very strongly (and act on it), and this can happen to many (I won't say "all", but I would say "most") people.

This sort of cases is not about isolated loners that we cannot possibly understand; freaks of nature who are not like the rest of us "normal" people. They can show up anywhere for reasons and through processes we just don't quite understand. But we have to not delude ourselves and see them as an "out group" - radicalization can happen to many people you would bump into in your street, every day.
> when we humans explicitly assign semantic to up/down vote

What kind of semantic would that be? Using a real-world example, some of the comments I have made in this thread have had the up button pressed multiple times. Others the down button multiple times. There is no difference in the comments. The are all about the same subject, all written by me about that subject. There is no discernible explanation for the difference. All I know is that the buttons were pressed. There is no more information provided to me.

> this contradicts your other point, which is that "having your post read is the real reward," since there is no guarantee the post was read before voting.

How so? My "other point" (it is the same point) explicitly calls out that those guarantees are not made, using an accidental press as an example.
> Now, almost 30 years later, in what might be the most profound shift of all, the power dynamic between humans and Yosemite has changed. To see nature so vulnerable not only feels depressing, but wrong, disorienting and scary.

Beautiful piece, but that's hardly the whole story. Nature doesn't care about climate change and it couldn't care less about us. Sure, it might kill all the birds, trees, landscapes, but our planet will adapt.
We, humans, won't be able to. What we're destroying is our own future, both the beauty in the world and the environment we live in.
Didn't know that, thanks. I guess just shorter.
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Ublock Origin, AdGuard or Brave gets you the best of both worlds.
You are supposed to fine tune the constants yourself for your specific printer when installing TeX and METAFONT on your system.

The pre-defined modes can be found here: ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/modes.mf
That also makes sense. Got any further reading?
The paradox disappears when you treat tolerance as a peace treaty rather than a universal moral obligation.
This tells us that their AI and algorithm should be improve as a lot of people are interacting with one another in the comment section.
Uh, that's a thing?! How do people install Linux then? How does that work with PCI cards that contain executable code in their ROMs, does that code have to be signed by overlords now?
It's just a jokey title. A Bitbucket bug (presumably) didn't let him clone his repo the standard way so he found a workaround. I thought it was a great read.
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Anyone know what Norway will do when Breivik's 21 year prison sentence [0] is up in 10-12 years? Difficult to imagine him being released back into society.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Anders_Behring_Breivi...
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Yep. It's prohibition-lite, but still a holdover from that era.
I disagree. Even if I was hiring a VP of Engineering, I think it’s be cool to know that he had a silly little side project.

The more senior you get, the more the biggest hiring risk becomes sociopathy rather than incompetence. Most VPs of Engineering are basically decent at the skills required for their job. But a lot are duplicitous or machiavellian and aren’t going deploy those skills in a way that’s aligned with the broader organization.

Having a stupid little side project, one that has no tangible business or career upside, is a marker of sincerity. It shows that the person has genuine interests outside raw ambition.
A recent study concluded that Breivik’s influence on right wing terrorism is close to none. But yes, the 22 july attacks is certainly a critical chapter in the overall rise of nationalist movements in the last decade.

Link to study: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/binaries/content/assets/cu...
It’s also funny that the author of the OpEd flew (presumably) her son from NYC to see the place, needing the services of Chevron or companies like it.

Moving mass requires energy. Using energy results in an increase in entropy (heat). We went from 2 billion to 8 billion people in 100 years, each life moving exponentially more mass than the generation before it.

Absent the discovery of a miraculously efficient energy source, there were only ever 2 options. Either force reduction in consumption per capita and/or capitas, or live in the future we are living in now. The former was never going to be politically popular, and I suspect the author of the OpEd also would not like to be told she cannot take her child to see Yosemite from NYC via current methods of transport.
Yes we do! The way it works is we run isolated containers for each sync job, and then monitor the process for errors. There's a few stages it goes through (syncing the data, running any transformations, and then exporting the final output). At each of these stages sanitized logs can be viewed in real time from the hotglue panel, so developers can debug what went wrong (whether it's an expired OAuth/API key, or a breaking API change). If there is a case where an integration is failing, it can be reported to our team directly in the hotglue panel for triage.

Thanks!
Unless the zoning prohibits hotels.
It might be too complicated, but maybe a 4 directions vote ?

Up/Down : Agree/Disagree
Left/Right : Makes the discussion go backward/forward

This way you could express disagreement while acknowledging that the point is interesting, or like a joke without having it drown a conversation
If you would try to unearth the "10x developer" study you will be in for a similar surprise.
You’re making this unnecessarily complicated and I can’t tell if it is in bad faith or not.

- users should know of they are going to be tracked (part of the value exchange)

- companies should know if ads/tracking are going to be blocked (part of the value exchange)

Both parties should then be able to decide how to proceed accordingly.
We deploy with k8s but few of us develop with it. Nearly our whole department uses docker compose to get out dependencies running and to manage our acceptance tests locally. Some people will leverage our staging k8s cluster via kubectl and others just leverage our build pipeline (buildkite + argo cd) that also takes you to stage as it will also take you into production.
> and why are you taking it up with me

Don't be sad. For grown ups its normal to live with objections. You'll learn.

> How is natural behavior relevant to the discussion

Original post: " Perhaps a particular chimp or gorilla was having a really bad day and just went out looking for a fight." that implies natural behavior.
And while 100x might not be true, you KNOW it's a lot more damaging, costly, and disruptive to have to fix a bug that makes it way to production - arguments in favor of testing, canary releases, code reviews, robust programming languages and architectures, etc. They won't stop all issues, but the less that make it to production the better.

That one doesn't take language games or political games, I think. It shouldn't anyway.
Another, special one: https://github.com/gamozolabs/fuzz_with_emus

It's a RISC-V emulator specially made for fuzzing software.

There's no documentation about it in the repo but the guy that wrote it streamed much of the development of it on Twitch and has put those videos on YouTube. He is also on HN.
Several of the alternative video distribution systems can be self-hosted since they are based around P2P video distribution (PeerTube uses webtorrent, odysee uses LBRY) so it will be possible to get around censorship as long as the network providers keep from colluding with the censors to keep out content which does not fit the desired narrative. Even if they do there are ways to get around this censorship but this makes it harder for normal users to access the content.

That bit about serious information being for people who cross-check information etc. would work if they were allowed to access all sources, something which is made difficult by certain viewpoints being blocked by several of the largest distribution platforms.

What you say about "no place on the 'net being for serious information on its own" is not necessarily true, as long as the above conditions are met - i.e. no network-level censorship - it is possible to present an overview of the current level of understanding on a subject. This used to be the case in scientific journals, nearly all of which are available online. The SARS2-pandemic made short shrift with this reliability when many of the journals started to align with the desired narrative, sometimes by simply refusing to publish studies which went against the narrative [X], sometimes by actively publishing false studies [1,2].

[X| here there would be links to papers on the seemingly proven efficacy of Ivermectin, the potentially useful nature of Hydroxychloroquine, the "statistical certainty" of the virus having escaped from the Wuhan institute of virology, etc. Alas, there are no such links since the journals refused the articles even though they were written by people with a proven scientific background and came with a bevy of evidence. Had the articles been published they could have been discussed in the open and their contents thereby proven or disproven without fear of retribution or cancellation since the works appeared in well-known and -respected journals. Now this is impossible, those who try to bring up articles published in less well-known journals or aggregators like arXiv often find themselves accused of quackery - which was the purpose of forcing those articles to be published there. For the respected journals this is a case of 'mission complete but reputation tarnished'.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

[2] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007621
oh give me a break...
The headline of the English translation is "The Terror Attacks That Changed Norway". Did anything actually change?

In the US, we're accustomed to mass killings not changing anything, and I'm curious if Utoya was different.
Why would he be a hypocrite? He is against passively forcing people to vaccinate. That doesn't mean he doesn't think vaccination might be helpful.
Do you think that the people who panic would bear some responsibility? If someone yelled fire in a movie theater that I was attending, I would at least look around and smell for it before I started flipping out trampling people.

Let's use another hypothetical just for fun. Let's say I called someone a bad name and they punched me, would I bear the legal responsibility for their lack of self control? I would think not. I would think the person who threw the punch would be charged for assault and I would be charged with nothing. If that's the case, how would that be different from the fire example? Someone spoke and someone reacted with no self control. I would think the person who reacted with no self control would bear at least some responsibility.
In the ethics of evil, one can see that even evil acts are done for some false sense of ‘good’ by the doer.
Feel so sorry for that lil guy!

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QMsolve seeks to provide an easy solid and easy-to-use solver, capable of solving the Schrödinger equation for one and two particles, and creating descriptive and stunning visualizations of its solutions both in 1D, 2D, and 3D.

The video presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCk8aIIEZSg

Reddit presentation post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/ogag4h/quantum_phys...
Except not because Gmail (and the rest of Google Apps) has an explicit policy against this.
> “Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller — their accounts of nature are that it’s perfect,” Dr. Strong said. “You would go and learn from this limitless teacher. Nature was pure truth. It offered access to the infinite, a stand-in for God.”

I enjoy being the literal one here - this is not aligned to what we observe. Nature can inspire, but most of the legwork is done by humans in labs and houses nestled in the largest of cities. Most of the pinnacles of human achievement (the law, heavier than air flight, undersea transport, the highway and rail networks, spaceflight, mastering radiowaves and digital communication) we have surpassed what nature could teach us by superior control of energy, theory and materials.

It isn't nature that propelled us into the modern era. It was cities. Pretty much everyone with the means chooses to stay in the heart of a city with rare visits to nature because cities are just more supportive of humans, more interesting and more prosperous.

There are people who get a lot out of going to visit nature. They are relatively rare.
Brilliant, thanks for the reply.
In the interviewing I've done, it's never about side project vs line of work. What I'm looking for is proof of competence. It could be a side project, it could be your work, it doesn't matter. However if you're side project is what you're looking to get hired on, it had better look and feel professional.

I think the bigger issue is to put your best foot forward and not dilute your message. If hopupon and audiobook mate are your strongest work, emphasize those. If your employement history is stronger, emphasize that.
And it largely worked. His party went on to win elections.
I list my side projects, i am pretty sure it helped me get my (senior) job. I am a fairly non-trad pathway in a niche language, so, keep that in mind. Also, listing side projects is probably more of a value-add if the code is open-sourced and interviewing engineers are likely to be curious (a good quality in a company you might want to work for) and likely to check up on the code quality you have in your repos. Otherwise, I would probably pass on listing them.

I wouldn't want a gig that obsessed about my owning my time so much they don't want me to have a side project, so that's a pretty good ultrafilter.

If you do have open-source side projects that you want to show off, don't forget to "pin them" to the top of your github/gitlab/sourcehut (if that's an option on the other services).
Love learning stuff like this!

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