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At least in Linux the dumpster fire's contents isn't hidden behind a corporate framework of people trying to hide the flames.

At least the Linux fire doesn't attempt to take over other trashcans and force you to update your trash without consent.

At least the Linux fire doesn't preinstall its fire in my trashcan artifically driving up the price of trashcans in the market.

At least in the Linux fire, if you apply yourself and learn enough about your trash, you can choose how much trash and fire is in your trashcan.

At least in the Linux fire, the fire tells you that its dangerous, instead of hiding everything behind stripped down excuses of flames from yester-year.

At least in the Linux fire I can plan to barbecue something over a section of fire and know that it will consistently burn the same way, instead of spreading everywhere and the trashcan exploding.

The irony of course being, that the people who argue for any other fire, have to first answer, why does Windows now feature Linux embedded inside itself?
Depends what the alternatives are. If the alternative to owning a clunker is not working, they'll probably find a way to manage a car somehow. (Certainly outside of a city core.)
False.

Bryan Cantrill (OS developer who used to work at sun microsystems) talks about how the C macros are great [1].

John Carmack talks about how long functions can be better than short ones [2].

Every piece of advice that I've heard has had a contradiction coming from a preeminent developer.

To be fair, yes, people do agree on bad practices. They are just often wrong. People agreeing that something is true doesn't make it that way.

[1] - I believe that he mentions that here however, I'm not sure. I have heard him mention it in more than one video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjFM8vw3pbU

[2] - http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.htm...
> Since there is no genuine fit-for-purpose alternative

Asking as someone who doesn't live there - in what ways are BART / muni / street cars not fit-for-purpose?
(In fact the latest AbacOS firmware comes with Microsoft Teams -built in- :)
So what? Why should people not in crypto care if Tether crashes the market?
https://clash-lang.org/ http://www.clifford.at/yosys/

I am hoping we can start proving many if the things they brute-force model check today, too.
Do any of the audits ever include a risk assessment of the company's domain names and how they're being used? And how they're set up?
Let's look at some optimistic back of the envelop estimates:

> We also find that 17% to 49% of the world's CO2 emissions from electricity generation

Let's go with a whole 50% reduction. It's important to recognize that electricity generation is only 25% of US energy GHG emissions (and less globally but it's hard to find a source so let's stick with that)[0]

We're then looking at 12.5% reduction in global emissions if these plans where implemented. If you assume that there's a pretty strong correlation between energy production and emissions (there is because renewables don't account for much global energy production), then that is roughly equivalent of rewinding our emissions to ... 2010 [1]

Add in that energy consumption globally continues to rise, and it would take a least a few years to complete these projects, even a massive effort like this doesn't amount to all that much of a difference. Even waving magic wand and completely replacing our grid power to 0 emissions sources would only push us back to 2003.

The only viable pathway to radically reducing GHG emissions is to aggressively descale our economies (we can see emissions drop in 2008 and 2020), but since no one will even remotely consider that at this point we've chosen our path.

[0] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/energy-mix
All of those reserves are technically theirs, they do not belong to token holders.
the point is that for FOSS there was an active movement that forced IBM and old megacorps to forfeit such "nonsense" patents. So if you roll out a brand new c++ compiler you may have some buffs with intel if you try to go to their turf about some propreitary x64 specific optimizations, but, say, IBM wouldnt sue you because you dared to create "a program/method of transforming source code into machine code" that violated 250 patents from their portfolio.
From the article:

> it is the leading edge of the forewings that is nearly perpendicular to the body. … but it’s atypical for the trailing edge of the forewings to be perpendicular to the body

Look closely at the photos and you will see that the leading edge of the forewings is nowhere near perpendicular and the trailing edge is nearly perpendicular (much more so than the leading edge)… in direct contradiction of the above authors statement.
I will interpret this as a little tongue-in-cheek. But see my comment on mathematics :)
Probably. But the crypto market is inherently irrational so I wouldn't be too confident in any predictions.
I would have understood that outrage a few weeks ago, but at the moment it looks like the times of vaccine scarcity are over (in Germany and probably most other EU countries at least), so anyone willing to get vaccinated will be able to get the vaccine of their choice.

But yeah, I can sympathize - I'm over 40, but still in the lowest vaccination priority group, and was also left wondering when my turn to get a vaccine would finally come, while the press was hyping "vaccine scarcity" - my turn came faster than I had expected BTW. Now, in only a few weeks, they have gone from that to hand-wringing about "vaccine skepticism" and what can be done to get more people vaccinated.
>There is nothing which proves that Tether actually is backed by anything

Also, there is nothing which proves that Tether actually isn't backed by anything.

I see a lot of people jumping to conclusions about a topic they are self admittedly ignorant about. Perhaps wait for the DOJ to do their jobs if you don't have insider knowledge.

In response to -dsr's sarcasm below (rate limit), I've got a bit of my own.

"I've run a profitable business for years and haven't committed fraud during the time I spent in an unregulated environment. Now that regulators are nearing my doorstep, it's the perfect time to start committing fraud." /s
From https://investopedia.com/terms/r/regressivetax.asp:

"User Fees
...

...if two families travel to the Grand Canyon National Park and pay a $30 admission fee, the family with the higher income pays a lower percentage of its income to access the park, while the family with the lower-income pays a higher percentage. Although the fee is the same amount, it constitutes a more significant burden on the family with the lower income, again making it a regressive tax."

That being said I agree, if you work downtown you shouldn't have to pay.

Downvoters: I'm seeing a pattern in my posts. I don't care about HN points, if you have a problem with what I'm posting you should respond instead of turning this place into Reddit.
> At the capital's iconic 634-meter Tokyo Skytree, over 200 items are being exhibited as examples of Japan-born innovation

Tokyo Skytree is part of the 'All-Japan Tower Association' franchise of 20 observation decks around Japan. One of the observation decks I went to in Fukuoka didn't have commercial or residential units, and appeared to be purely an observation deck and one sad little cafe.

Observation deck tickets in Japan are an order of magnitude cheaper than the observation decks in the states, which makes me curious how the economics work out. With notable exceptions such as the Space Needle which was built for the World Fair, most observation decks in the states are in skyscrapers that are developed with luxury real estate.

Maybe not coincidentally, Fukuoka tower was finished in 1989 in the midst of the Japan asset bubble, which succeeded a period of opulence and hedonism with the anticipation at the time that Japan would be the global superpower, until it didn't.
An interesting classification issue.

Original comment contrasted "commercial software" and "open source" so I interpreted it as "paid closed source software" vs "free open source".

But it is not covering all software and in some way Linux can be described as commercial.

Still there is plenty of other cases: say editing OpenStreetMap. In theory there is some ArcGis Esri plugin but for good reasons it is used by approximately noone, with everyone using open source software.

Though some was also developed by grant-supported developers. Is it making it commercial?
From the article:

There would be a base fee of $6.50 to enter the congestion pricing zone with eligible discounts based on income level. If you make more than $100,000 a year, you’d pay the full amount. Commuters who make less than $46,000 would not pay a fee.

Wish granted.
Isn't gentrification when a poor area is made more expensive due to wealthier people moving in? Is gentrification in SF even possible?
>(no wind at night)

No, wind at night!
Historically there were two kinds of leak. Your program might grow more than intended, but eventually give everything back when it finished - or it might seize some resources permanently by mistake, so that you need to restart the computer to "fix" it.

Modern operating systems mostly rule out the latter type of leak, you could leak files I guess, and of course Cloud users could leak things like S3 objects, even whole instances, but many resources are now automatically cleaned up when you exit.

As a result of that though, for long-lived processes, such as Chrome but also most background tasks and server software, just "I definitely clean up the mess eventually" doesn't get the job done, the OS was going to do that too. The user doesn't care whether the resources would have been returned half a second after they closed your program when "clean_up_everything()" is called by the main thread, or, a second after that when the OS cleans everything left behind.

So this is a real problem, about the actual meaning of our programs, and (though they are still a good idea) can't be helped by good programming techniques, garbage collection, Rust's Drop trait, the C++ RAII way of thinking, deferred clean-up in languages like Zig or Python, or anything else I'm aware of.

We need to actually express in our programs the intent to hang on to only what's actually needed and clean everything else up as we go. And it can be sorely tempting to consider that "It gets cleaned up eventually" is good enough, that's where leaks get in.
> there really isn’t a good excuse to stay with Microsoft

Except, if you run nvidia optimus laptop and have mixed display DPI.

Every few months I try to run Arch on my recent laptop and it’s always a nightmare.

I was hyped that 470 driver would fix wayland in nvidia (the only half decent way to fix mixed DPIs on Linux). Lo and behold, It’s still a buggy mess that made me crawl back to windows.

Maybe on 570 I will be able to use Linux on this laptop, likely never.
How does $6.50 make someone making over $100k bat an eyelash at parking? If anything this will just make traffic more congested because lower income people now will be more likely to drive thus making more traffic.
There are a few alternate channels that NBC also basically controls. They show reruns of Bonanza and stuff. Is there some reason they can't have alternate olympics coverage on that??
I don't know what society 5.0 means[1] in practice, but after faltering a few decades, it's good to see them publicly redouble their efforts into science and technology. I'm excited to see what their sea exploration/exploitation technology delivers.

[1]"a human-centered society [helped] by a system that highly integrates cyberspace and physical space,"
>* overwriting a folder deletes existing contents, rather than merging them

Wait. If there truly is not a setting for this then it makes finder unusable as a file explorer and arguably the entire OS. Recursive merge is one of the most fundamental things a personal computer does.
In the ending days of Mt Gox's meltdown, prices went up up up for quite a few digital assets, until they didn't.

Basically the shady exchanges are insolvent and they stop cashing out real money, so peoples' only chance to cash out is to buy crypto and transfer it out, driving up crypto pricing on the insolvent exchanges, that greedy people try to arbitrage.
Disinformation will continue to evolve. Overreaction (deleting things the moderators don't agree with but are otherwise legitimate opinions of non-hostile actors) will increase as well.

Sadly this is a potential path to tyranny (if not the government-enforced kind, then the kind that comes from those who control the flow of information).
The data shows natural gas usage has been pretty much static for a decade: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...

Germany is also a net exporter of electricity and exported 13.7Twh more than it imported from France.
It's not as simple as searching for an app. It's knowing which app to search for, and how to get access to it. When I looked this up over the weekend I came across multiple answers pointing me in the direction NBC, Peacock, Hulu, and YouTube TV. Google "where to watch the olympics", and I see three options just from NBC (NBC, Peacock, and NBC Olympics) followed by list of content farm articles. Even if you manage to get access, the app is organized poorly and makes it difficult to find the content you want.
The market has a financial tool for this, called "Solar for coal" swaps, where the existing debt is refinanced into new debt (at competitive financing rates) issued for building utility scale solar generators. Agree that the US gov or the central bank should step in otherwise to subsidize the closure of these plants. It's going to happen one way or another.
Call me skeptical too. The essay concludes by highlighting a meta-analysis the author considers comprehensive, and the best that can be said is that insect population decline isn't as bad as was previously reported, only a "3 to 6 fold decline". Pyrrhic rhetorical victory it seems.

Also the author makes a big point of variability in declines across species, as if it's ok to wipe out some classes of insects if others increase. The message I got is that insects like butterflies are vanishing, but crop pests like locusts are increasing. Am I supposed to be reassured by these types of arguments?

I appreciate good skepticism for the sake of rigorous thinking but this essay maybe had the opposite of its intended effect on me.
> France is sending around 2 to 4 GW of electricity (so mostly nuclear) to Germany all the time

False. In reality Germany often has a trade surplus with France. See, every country has multiple interconnects, and various areas send and receive power. On the whole, Germany sends more power to France than France sends to Germany. Which makes sense -- France's total power production is far below its peak power demand, and as is the nature of nuclear power, plants are very often offline. But sure, one area of Germany imports from France while another area exports to France...that isn't notable.

You're regurgitating ridiculous pro-nuclear propaganda. Telling that your argument has completely shifted between posts.

"Germany didn't "removed fossil fuel""

Who are you quoting? Further, Germany started their nuclear decommissioning in 2011. Natural gas + coal + lignite is *WAY* below that level now.

>And in the end the result is https://www.electricitymap.org/map 5 to 10x more CO² impact than France per kwh, even with 2x the nuclear plants setup in France (60GW of nuclear in France against 60GW of wind turbines and 60GW of solar panels in Germany).

Germany had a much dirtier power profile before they started decommissioning nuclear reactors. They have a much, much cleaner profile now, even if it still isn't as clean as France's. The "went back to coal" nonsense is ridiculous noise.

EDIT: I would love to know what's going on in the minds of people who downvote comments like this. Just upset with fact and reality?
Please Gods, no! Black Mirror is almost here.

'Just pay 100 merits to skip..Oh you've used all your skips this hour.'

Beeeeeeeeep 'Resume viewing, resume viewing.
I think there are plenty of engineers in Europe and Germany to find. Europe has a healthy semiconductor industry, just not so many fabs. And why wouldn't a lot of people want to move to Germany? Considering how many of my colleagues have moved to Germany for the job, I don't see a special obstacle there.

Also: wherever they build their new fab, if it is outside of Taiwan, they probably have attract the engineers to move there, which place would be better suited at the moment?
I guess you raise a good point ...

... were it not that this outlet was very "dependent" on their "handlers" or des-informers ...
Unless the company has fundamentally changed I'm not concerned and I'm calling this clickbait. The best case scenario for Microsoft is that they manage to achieve a temporary monopoly via Teams until the inevitable happens. A new lead comes along after the metrics start to take a slight hit from a competitor and they end up incompetently self-sabotaging the product to death. Microsoft's graveyard of missed opportunities is incredible.
What if you pay for Netflix — because you want to support creators, — but you actually download stuff — because you also want to be able to watch it without hustle?

Like Netflix 4K is not working on Linux. It’s just not. And it wasn’t working on Macs either until very recently, but it needs some special hardware.
Americans have a government-provided pension (Social Security) that pays about the same as the German one, paid for by employment taxes.
What Tether is doing is replaying the banking scams from the 1800s. A bank would open up, issue an unlimited amount of its paper currency, collect deposits in other, valuable currency, and operate for a while. Eventually it would collapse and the owners would walk away rich, having fleeced the public of a great deal of their money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_banking

US banking regulation is nearly weak enough to permit this for regular banking, but not quite. However, US banking regulation is weak enough to permit it as long as you call it "cryptocurrency" instead of "private currency".

> "Commissioner Alpheus Felch recalled that one bank's "cash reserves" consisted of boxes of nails and glass topped with silver coins."

Pithy! A box that's heavy, makes good clinking noises when you shake it, and has only the tiniest bit of money in it. And so apropos for Tether. I wonder if we'll get some similarly pithy remarks about the modern wildcat banks.
Buffon's Noodle
Anecdotal evidence: I did my BSc, MSc, and PhD in Germany.

None of my PhD colleagues (from my and other top3 tech universities) is still in Germany, they are all in the US, except one which is now a Prof in the UK.

Most of my BSc and MSc colleagues are still in Germany, some spreaded out through europe, and few to the US.

Its pretty hard to some of us actually have work-related conversations with old friends still in Germany. They always ask about the salaries in the US, and guess something "absurd" like "you are probably making more than 200k$, 250k$?", to which the only thing you can actually say is "yes" kind of in shame, because making >500k$/year is "absurd"/"beyond imagination" by German standards.

We have all worked in Germany in industry before moving to the US (both internships, but also between MSc. and PhD, or briefly after the PhD), and there is just no comparison about the quality-level of the work and intellectual-growth in the US and Germany.

In my German employer, our 15 ppl team was 2 PhDs, and many MSc, all from different skill levels, doing a good job, etc.

In my US employer, our 50 ppl team has > 40 PhDs, couple of Stanford / MIT / Berkley / .. ex-Professors, pretty much all of them infinitely smarter than me, all giving me feedback, punching holes through my work, discovering my flaws, and teaching them to me, etc.

The difference in the amount of stuff you learn per day of work, the quality standards, etc. between both employers is abysmal.
> I don't understand this attitude. Where did we go wrong as a discipline where making products that actually work is such an outlandish proposition? No other consumer product industry would talk like this.

Part of it is cost/benefit ratio for the extra effort, part of it is market demands, part of it is lack of technology, part of it is unavoidable stuff like the halting problem.

It's also worth remembering that Signal is developed by a non-profit with a total of 36 staff members (if Wikipedia is correct). That means they have fewer developers, and even fewer Android developers.
The Olympics happen too damned fast. On the very first day after opening we get gold medal results of competitions. NBC assumes that the US crowd wants to see more events than others, so a lot of them never get shown. We just get surprised with announcements of placements, which takes all the suspense out of the games. At the same time, US media is under no obligation to keep results under wraps, which means that they get reported in realtime before we get to see them on TV.

So they have that to deal with. But that doesn't excuse the ridiculous amount of zoom calls from D-league commentators and celebrities who waste valuable time that could have been used to show events to instead gush incoherently about "what the Olympics mean to me."

Really, nobody cares. And if they did care, we have social media for them to express their opinions.
Ok so basically the accusation is that they said to the bank they were consultants/service company and did not disclose crypto

Back in the days banks would have meant they were in the cryptography sector or something.

Also why is this US business?

The US should be careful not to weaponize the USD, SWIFT DTCC or the correspondent banks network.

The world entrusted the US with said institutions (as well as the UN, World Bank, IMF) because the US never weaponized them, and never went after thought crimes.

The US can't stand Tether, more specifically it can't stand Crypto....so it is trying the same thing which pulled off with Microsoft in 2000 and with Standard Oil back in the days...only this time the population won't be onboard with it because there is no richer than god man in the high castle to point at .
Can someone explain to me what's attractive about living in SF at all? This seems like one of the last places in the US I'd choose to live but something must be bringing people in since it's so crowded.

Is it just the though that you'll get to be part of Silicon Valley?
I dead lift about 200 lbs daily (ie., getting out of bed)
Gmail will block you from sending a a password-protected ZIP with anything potentially bad in it, like an EXE, because they can see the individual file headers and central directory, like you say. Unfortunately, if you have a ZIP inside a passworded ZIP it also gets considered dangerous and blocked.
Both are true. In the sense that advertising guts out any communications medium it touches, and animates the carcass. It's like a zombie virus.
I think the problem is that people interpret the "do anything" part as "become #1 at anything" (i.e., "prodigy" as per the parent post).

I would say something like "get to the 80th percentile at anything" (or even 95th) would be much more accurate, though, that doesn't sound as catchy. Heck, in many areas you don't even need to work _that_ much or hard to get to the top 20% or so, it's just a matter of a reasonably informed and structured approach, exercised over time.
Could someone explain how these versions in hash algorithms work please? As I understand it version 0.3.7 from last year would produce the same hashes as version 1.0, so is the algorithm itself finished long ago and it's just the tooling that got updated over time?