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Nixpkgs has been the largest repository for months
Authority too ;)
I know someone who joined Shell with the hope of helping it transition to renewable technologies (and who was actively lured with that promise), and who later quit after they realized that Shell was just trying to get all capable people who could be working on sustainability stuff to work for them instead, then drip-feed them promises of change while tempting them to work on other projects and give up on those sustainability things with big sacks o' money. One might almost say "embrace, extend (the usage of oil), extinguish".

With hindsight, do you think something like that was happening at BP too?
> The industrial revolution opened the floodgates for greed among all types of CEOs/Presidents

It's not that easy. There would be no failed/struggling businesses otherwise. CEOs would just will their enterprises into success.

> The baby boom? Everyone wanted to live in suburbs, which required cars, roads, tires, gasoline, oil?

Now we're talking. Those greedy CEOs are just people. Greedy people like everyone else. A handful of greedy CEOs didn't force billions of people to collectively emit 1.5 trillion tons of CO2.

Solving the problem requires giving these people an alternative. This isn't some attempt at absolving whatever issues people have categorically with CEOs, rather just a realistic take on what needs to happen to unfuck the planet.
Kids actually read Car & Driver or Guitar World cover to cover!
5KHz is pretty low, it would be difficult finding anything in the ham category because no ham bands are that low. You would need to probably build your own receiver. The good news is that 5KHz is super low frequency and could easily be received with a crystal detector. Antenna connects to an LC resonator centered at 5.3KHz, pass the result of this through a diode and then into a microcontroller. Many have analog input pins and analog comparators built-in that can trigger an interrupt. You would need to figure out what voltage level you expect to see from the detector when a heart beat signal is sent and then apply that voltage to the other side of the comparator. Some microcontrollers even have a real analog voltage output that could allow you to adjust the voltage through software. The microcontroller would then trigger an interrupt and do something every time a heart beat signal is received (send it through serial to a PC, compute heart rate, display something on a LED screen, etc).

If you need to broadcast at 5.3KHz, that's pretty easy too. There are numerous designs out there for a basic CW transmitter (https://makerf.com/posts/ten-minute-transmitter). You may have trouble finding a crystal centered at your 5.3KHz frequency.
Here’s what I don’t understand (either about the premise of the article if incorrect or Netflix as a business if correct): why does Netflix need to drive proactive short-term engagement? They don’t make money from ads. If I’m subscribed (I’m not anymore) then their business is accounted for. I’m subscribed because they’re a better platform than TV and when I want to watch a show they have, I will. They’re getting my money regardless and they aren’t getting more if it the more I watch. Maybe they really feel pressure from other streaming platforms?
Regarding 1 & 2, I think there's more than enough information out there at this point for anyone to figure out that large SUVs are worse than smaller vehicles or bicycles for the environment, regardless of whatever lobbying is going on by oil companies.

Regarding #3, I don't know if your first statement is correct or not, but again it would seem to me that the consumer (industries in this case) would have their own share of responsibility, not just the oil & gas companies supplying them.
The relationship must be very strained already if they are publicly blaming each other. Customers always blame their vendors. On the Palantir side, their account/product managers should be asking whether or not their ACL config is sufficiently intuitive. If this mistake was easy for a customer to make, if it's a mistake that couldn't have been avoided without consultancy, then Palantir should treat it like a defect.
They are currently doing this with Intel afaik
Isn't Big oil coining "carbon footprint" similar to Big tech coining "FSD"/"Autonomous Driving"?, doing what they need to do to support their investments?
Having the preference to not run javascript on the web does not mean that you're committing piracy against Foo when you ask Foo for content and they give it to you. That's just Foo paywalling some but not all legit forms of access.

Some paywalls are complete enough such that they don't give you the content with any legit request.

I don't think those sites with incomplete paywalls are because of oversight. There's probably interest in keeping some access open so the content can spread interest and be shared in hubs like HN.
he thinks that conservative white men are holding back society from progress.

I don't know about the race or gender part of that sentence, but the point of being conservative is to want things not to change. To say a conservative opposes progress is more of a definition than an accusation.
The vendor is claiming the FBI didn't use the product correctly.
Maybe you should treat books like TV then: give it a half hour, and if you're not hooked, close it and find another.

I know many people say books take longer to enjoy, but a bad TV series can take ~12 hours per season. Most people can probably finish a novel in 12 hours.
It's not because there is a shortage of healthy alternatives. It's because people are free to choose.
You mean with proper licensing? That might be the tricky part; use of the rf spectrum is probably monitored and regulated, depending on where you're at in the world.
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> Compute is what makes your cloud bill so high.

This is simply flat-out not true for 90% of non-AI workloads, both on the startup and enterprise side, and this makes me question the entire article.

With compute, you generally have a lot of wiggle room and levers you can pull to optimize your pricing. Even with storage, you can do things like bulk loading, caching, etc to reduce transaction counts.

But, with traffic (not just including egress, but also inter-VPC/region traffic)? You're just kinda stuck! or at least until better dramatically compression comes along which doesn't spike things on the compute/memory side of things.

In general, compared to other hosting providers, these three (AWS, Azure, GCP) have insanely expensive traffic costs -- an order of magnitude higher than their smaller competition! To make matters worse, egress negotiations are taken off the table before you even get started when discussing enterprise discounts.

Be careful when getting started using Activate etc startup funds... that money disappears insanely fast.
I considered my experience with doctors and with programmers and middle managers (plus there was the Apple abuse story mulling through my head) and came up with that.

I'm a programmer and I'm an average #2.

#3s in programming are kind of different. Incompetents get weeded out quickly from true programming jobs and punted up to management likely where they become part of the Middle Management Machiavelli perpetual war.

#3s express themselves as moderate technical competence, a typical one would be someone that gets to declare greenfield to the specific stuff they have enough ability to do, gain sheen of competence, and then aggressively assume the role of "expert" based, since to management they "produced".

Next thing you know, some guy that could rapidly stand up a PHP site is in technical leadership and pushing for PHP to serve as a big data platform because it is (rolls another dice to determine buzzword) "agile".

Then they have as much or more organizational pull as a legit #4 and your organization is in TROUBLE.
Could as well be. Properly managing access controls for a complicated data platform might actually be harder than securing the software to begin with. Setting up protocols for who is able to access what and why and who is in charge of changing the config is non-trivial.
I'm pretty sure we were dual booting linux in 1993, why were we certainly not?
Definitely has. I remember when podcasts first showed up. Spotify isn't my podcast player so that is pretty much useless to me. I looked through the options for how to hide podcasts and couldn't find anything. I wish I could at least move the podcasts section to the bottom of the page.
> For many people who regularly print in colour, the cost of the printer could be justified by the time it takes to stop off at the shop to pick up the prints

Agreed. Though for me, assuming an inkjet in full quality mode isn't at least an order of magnitude faster than they were last time I had a supposedly high-spec one, printing a few A4 prints (or more of a smaller size), even assuming no “need several head cleans as I've not used the device for a week or two” or “had to reprint as something went odd half-way through a page” issues or similar, would take longer than marching to the nearest shop with printing facility, printing there, and getting home! Time of day makes a difference of course, my nearest 24-hour place is a noticeably further walk.

> Convenience is why I maintain a relatively inexpensive laser printer.

Same, mostly. I like to be able to print things to annotate. Wasteful environment wise but I'll take the deserved selfishness accusation on the chin there! The main use for it ATM is printing custom maps and other notes for trail runs, on fancy “thin but indestructible” paper that I doubt a print shop would offer, and sometimes being able to make a late correction before heading out to travel to the start is useful.
I'm sorry you don't find it useful. I do find it useful, in fact millions more like me do. Usefulness is a subjective measurement.

If you think we are crazy, that's OK. Bitcoin is opt-in. You can choose to ignore it, you can think its fucking useless, but in my opinion, you are wrong.
Yes. This is how the reMarkable has changed my life. The way I am now able to access my own writings, reflections, etc is a completely different paradigm.
I guarantee you fewer than 50% of people who use a desktop computer at least once a week know how to multi-select and range-select using shift and ctrl on them, though. That's why you need the text—which many will, for reasons that are actually pretty good, ignore.

Or you could just use a better control.
Ultimately, that's why the customer is paying the vendor.
I'm a big fan of preemptible instances on GCP. They're much easier to set up than AWS spot instances, all you need to do is set `preemptible = true` and bam you've saved 80% on compute costs. The consistent pricing is also very convenient.

At my old job we ran out CI infra on preemptible instances. It cost basically nothing to run, and because the instances were cycled frequently due to scaling, we hardly ever had jobs fail because of an instance being terminated mid-run (not that it was a problem when they did, they'd just automatically get re-run).
It will swing. It always swings. This isn't the first time this has happened.

People see these nice, tasty prices, and bring more capacity online. That takes time measured in quarters to years, but when it comes online, there are suddenly a lot more chips. Prices fall, but nobody will reduce output, because they have to pay for all this new capacity they just built.

It will come. It's going to be a rough year or two, though.
> With rent control, basically those who were there first get the housing, those who come later are out of luck.

And then they vote against any new construction "to keep the neighborhood's character intact" (remember in the 50's when certain groups of undesirables were excluded from certain neighborhoods?)

> Without rent control, those who are more wealthy can afford the housing, those who are poorer are out of luck.

That creates an incentive to build more.
Even in a democratic country if the only jobs people can find are sketchy illegal ones without social protection you can tell the government has failed at its job.
How many people do you know that send or receive remittances?
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I pay about $25 a month for unlimited everything with T Mobile.
I think you're overstating it. People do recognize and hate when they're given a bum deal and it has nothing to do with getting into esoteric details.
I don't understand how this is legal. Seems like blatantly anticompetitive behaviour. Isn't it still dumping if the price of your product is so low that it is negative?
Everyone always talks about making penalties more severe for data leaks. I have to wonder what the consequences of that would be. Bankrupting your competitor might become as easy as paying a few bitcoins to a foreign mercenary.

I think better security and encryption protocols need to be developed that mitigate the severity of a single leak. Without more compartmentalization of data and more control put into the hands of users, leaks of these massive, un-encrypted databases appear inevitable.
> not using JavaScript to reimplement features that are already accessible

Seriously, I've seen pages that create links by using a styled <span> tag with an onclick even that merely called a function that set document.location using a hard-coded value.

Did developers forget that `<a href=....>` exists?
> Pragmatically, when you have enough complexity that explaining the fraud is difficult, it's still fraud but they're likely to get away with it.

This is why you have subpoenas and discovery. It seems likely that an internal email chain exists discussing intent to deceive. Even for unsophisticated jurors, that's enough of a smoking gun to make it an open & shut case.
People buy from people!
Probably memorized a checklist and passed a multiple choice tests or two to become certified.
Let's say a competitor shows up who manufactures cigarettes at $1.

At a lower tax rate of $1 his cigarette is $3 vs $5.

But at a higher tax rate of $3, it is a $5 vs $7 customer price.

In absolute terms the price difference is the same. However, consumers think in terms of percentages for cheaper items.
That one is slightly different because proving it is much harder.

In the squatting case, it is just government (and all taxpayers) dumping the problem of homeless people onto a set of unfortunate property owners. It is simply much cheaper for the government (and hence taxpayers) to not address the root causes.
> 50+ years of manufacturers spending on R&D for internal combustion engines could have been spent on improving electric powertrain technology.

You're missing the point. This didn't happen because it wasn't economical. You're just wishing for fanciful things. You might as well just wish that CO2 weren't a GHG.

Consumer demand forced R&D into ICE instead of electric.
France has probably the most fucked up law when it comes to squatting.

Someone gets by effraction in an apartment/house, stay there for 48 hours and they are good to stay forever.

If this is your primary apartment, the local government (préfet) is supposed to issue an order to get the people out. They do not (because plenty of important reasons - important for them of course). Police usually try to negotiate with the squatters.

If there is a small child with the squatters getting them out is not possible at all. Except if you find them a replacement apartment. And they accept it.

If this is not your primary housing, then you are completely screwed. Thee is almost no way to get the people out. We have from time to time in the news information about people who are trying to get their house back for years.

If you try to move them by force, they will sue you and you pay 40,000 € plus prison. They can be sued for up to 12,000€ (and prison - this has never happened)

I love my country, but the brain-dead idiots who passed these laws should be publicly pointed to, with their home address, so that they can kindly invite the squatters to come when hey are on vacation.
Baudrillard would say you're in a "duel" condition.
I think you make a good point (sorry to see it looks like you are getting downvoted).

Apple has CONSISTENTLY chosen to go outside norm. For example, carriers wouldn't let you have more than 10 songs on their devices? Carriers putting crapware on devices? Carriers making you do contracts to get a specific device?

Apple took all that on - and I was happy for it. You can buy an unlocked iphone for most iphones outside of carrier channels, and you don't need to worry too much about who you buy from because apple doesn't let carriers screw with device.

One interesting pattern is the criticize and then copy pattern. Folks are 1) outraged at a change apple is making and then 2) rush to copy it.

I hate the lack of a headphone jack personally (was amazing for low latency audio work). But I can't deny that literally almost every company that criticized them then COPIED them on this.

I expect the same thing with their move away from more chargers in the box. Lots of outrage and criticism, then folks will probably copy them.

I do wish lighting cables had become a standard. The USB-C port is just less solid when plugged in - I have lots more problems with it for some reason (stuff getting inside cable, loose fitting etc etc.
It ain't even about the moderators, though, half the content and comments seem to be pushed by astroturfers and bots.
Same here with the monitor, I have an old Dell 24" from 2006 that I somehow keep around. I've learned not to expect much if my ham radio is within 3 feet of it. Probably fixable with some clip-on parts but for now it's easier to scoot the chair over...
Might scare Taiwan and embolden China? A huge reason we hold Taiwan as an ally is their chip production capabilities. If we become self reliant on those then we don't really need Taiwan and China might try to invade them, which would be bad for our own national security interests.
70% of housing units in SF are still rent controlled. The negative influence of price controls are still felt. Not to mention, repeated attempts to repeal Costa-Hawkins means the threat of rent control is still hanging over developers heads.
Ironically, advocates of dynamic typing often claim that it improves developer convenience and productivity.
What do you like better about a lottery vs the current "waiting list" system? (If we ignore the grey-area-legal sublets and market-rate-rentals that exist now and could exist or not in either system).

They're both kind of "everyone is equal, you don't get a leg up becuase of how much money you have or other status, everyone gets a chance for this limited in-demand resource" approaches, at least on their faces... the same portion of everyone interested actually gets a house either way... I'm confusing myself trying to think through the practical experienced implications of a lottery (which you can keep entering every year) vs multi-year-long waiting list. I mean, I guess obviously the lottery stops privilging those who expressed their desire longest ago/first! I'm not sure if this is good or what. I guess it would give younger people, or people who don't plan out their whole life in advance, a better chance?
Tomatoes have been grown in Italy since at least 1550, plenty of time to be firmly accepted in the food culture.

Edit: Come to think about it, tomatoes in Italy have existed longer than Italy itself.
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All these screenshots look so beautiful. No telemetry, no gamification, just function.
Reading this while happening to be on vacation in Calabria... I accept this quest!
A ha! I've found a way to change the world without needing to engage in political or cultural struggle! Surely this will benefit the people and not be co-opted by the powerful!
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>Then the virus variant itself would cause autoimmune disease

You clearly have no idea what you are talking about or why the GP comment mentioned an autoimmune disease specifically. mRNA vaccines express specific proteins whereas the virus expresses entire viral molecules. A novel protein expression could cause an autoimmune disease because the novel proteins couls cause the immune system to attack the cells producing the isolated proteins, a problem you wouldnt have with cells producing entire viral bodies.
Maturation to adulthood of Millennials and GenZ. Generations who were helicoptered and snowplowed out of knowledge of "how the real world works" especially in terms of how messy and uncontrolled it is. If you are used to authority figures micromanaging your life, you will come to expect that as an adult. You will also be deemed insufferable to everyone else who understands reality.
Why don't these smaller schools just invest in getting better researchers and more grant funding?
What does your revenue look like? It sounds like such a simple service that can basically maintain itself.
This isn't true. There are Bitcoin collateralized loans already, and there are Bitcoin backed ETFs. Companies have issued bonds underwritten with valuations that include BTC in the company treasure.

Bitcoin is small compared to the rest of the economy, and it's less integrated than many other asset classes, but it is very much coupled to other financial markets.
That would be very cuil.
Do you have any links or additional information about the "crime-ridden suburbs"? As an American, I was really surprised to hear that another country has the opposite issue we seem to have: crime-ridden cities (particularly since Covid-19 started wiping out businesses and foot traffic in many city centers). I'm really curious why Sweden has more crime in the suburbs, and would love to learn more!
That's straight up censorship.
I think about that anytime someone says something like "American food is so unoriginal, everything good there is stolen from immigrants" ... well sure, we're all ancestrally from somewhere else, and we brought lots of food traditions with us ... why do people say that like it's an insult? But really the same goes for the whole world on a long enough time scale. Heck, Italy wasn't even a thing when the Medicis were enjoying their imported tomatoes.
That's the premise of the article, right?

They used to have all their content come from other studios, and they got to see how well it had done in the outside world at the time they were making their deals.

Now they're producing their own content, many of their previous background-noise or binge staples have moved elsewhere, and their productions are overwhelmingly lowest-common-denominator clickbait. There's still some quality stuff, but it's much harder to find than it used to be. If you're looking for an already-well-known quality show you can search (e.g. if you want to watch The Office a few years ago on Netflix). If you're looking for something new that's going to appeal to you, it's a lot harder to find in their sea of junk. Reviews can get you so far, but Netflix no longer then has any edge on alternative platforms which the reviewers are also talking about.

So the premise of "sooner or later pumping out junk food is going to turn off viewers" seems to click with your cohort (mine as well).
The government believes it can create a surveillance state and at the same time retain control over the data created by its civil rights violations. Also, if the company wouldn't exist without government funding either directly or indirectly then the third party doctrine should not apply.
Or the episode of the original Dangermouse where herds of bagpipe were stolen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln4JOPb20l0
Language doesn't appear to be the driver here. The concept of a carbon footprint is what changes how I think, the name is just a compelling way of conveying that concept. If it were called 'per capita carbon consumption', it would still change how we think in the same way, though fewer people might be aware of it.
I'm guessing, though, that semiconductors do not make up a large percentage of the cost of a satellite...