skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook's legal troubles are certainly not imaginary. They are actual, they are ongoing, they are overwhelming and there's more and more coming out all the time. Zuck and Thiel themselves are named as defendents on multiple very serious lawsuits which money alone could not spare them from (and not for lack of trying - untold billions have been spent in the past 5 years to ensure Zuck's name didn't show up on lawsuits. Until it did.)
Oh nice!!!!
"The electronics and the mechanics and the fabrication took me a year. Then it took me an afternoon to program the computer to actually activate it"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29195000
I don't think the root problem is any one person, given that Twitter is even more destructive to society. It's the users, it's the incentives of the platforms, it's bad actors. There's low trust, a breakdown of institutions, a raging culture war. It's complicated.
Because to the general population there clearly is such a thing. The changing of the parent company name is a detail that most people just don’t care about. And I believe Facebook remains a subsidiary of the new parent company that is writing its own separate paychecks.

Finally, comments such as these don’t really add any value to the discussion.
Yup, their UI sucks when it comes to sync errors.
it reminds me of LOGO. Not sure if people are still learning it, but I learned it in school in 2000's and it got me hooked on programming
Good for finding xenomorphs.
Sorry, I was joking: 'in my personal understanding of the descriptive facts', referring back to that second definition of 'opinion' earlier in the comment.
Should, but won’t. History tends to repeat itself.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5...
Tangential : any idea what modeling software can be used to produce this kind of movie ? Is it stock 3DS or whatever is state of the art, or are there easier to use thing to produce poorly looking movies like this ?
If the containerized app you’re deploying follows 12 factor principles it’s very unlikely that you’ll be locked in due to specific functionality

The cost to move your operations expertise to another platform and learn all of its new quirks might be significant though.
Odyssey could work fine on arm, but we've a small ASM function https://github.com/yandex/odyssey/blob/master/third_party/ma... . We need to reimplement it for ARM64 or at least fallback on some generic context swap.
I would go as far to say avoid ECS as much as necessary. Using ECS heavily either means using CloudFormation or Terraform heavily, both of which are shitty tools (TF is probably the best tool in it's class, haven't tried Pulumi yet but doesn't stop it from being shit).

Importantly both of which are almost impossible for "normal" developers to use with any level of competency. This leads to 2 inevitable outcomes, a) snowflakes and all the special per-app ops work that entails and b) app teams pushing everything back to infrastructure teams because they either don't want to work with TF or can't be granted sufficient permissions to use it effectively.

k8s solves these challenges much more effectively assuming your ops team is capable of setting it up, managing the cluster(s), namespaces, RBAC, etc and any base-level services like external-dns, some ingress provider, cert-manager, etc.

Once you do this then app teams are able to deploy directly, they can use helm (eww but it works) to spin up whatever off-the-shelf software they want and are able to easily write manifests in a way that they can't fuck up horribly as easily.

Best for both teams, ops and devs. Downside? Requires competent ops team (hard to find) and also some amount of taste in tooling (use things like tanka to make manifests less shit), not to mention the time to actually spin all this up in peace without being pushed to do tons of ad-hoc garbage continually (i.e competent org).

So in summary, k8s is generally the right solution for larger orgs because it enforces better split of responsibilities and establishes a powerful (relatively) easy to use API that can support practically everything.

Also in the future there is things like ACK (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/aws-controllers-for-...) coming which will further reduce the need for app teams to interact with TF or Cloudformation.
Nope. I've had foobar from outside the US.
But, Why?
I think it depends on the person. I have worked on "fun" tech at startups but ended up coming back to my role as a cog in Google's money printing machine (ad plumbing AND content moderation in fact!) The retention in my group is actually pretty great; it's trivial to have tremendous impact so career progression is fairly easy, and work-life balance is very reasonable. Personally I'm more motivated by this sort of environment and the ability to (slowly) make improvements that affect millions of companies and billions of people, than I am by hacking on greenfield tech that may or may not see users. But I know plenty of people who feel the opposite (as you allude to), and this sort of role wouldn't be a great fit for them.
Been a while since I read up on this, but I think the problem is the energy cost of extracting CO2 from sea water makes it a wash at least in terms of CO2 reduction.
I had this thought too, an aqueous solution feels like it ought to be much easier to do chemistry with. But I haven’t heard of anyone working on it.
Surely if 30% fee wipes out your profit margin, you don’t offer in-app subscriptions. Netflix doesn’t.
> Basically, I want Jupyter-stype notebooks to be my primary dev environment.

You're in luck!

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dotne...

Works best with Plotly support as well: https://plotly.net
DietPi OS v7.8 has been released
DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs, server systems but also with optional support for easily install desktop environments. It ships as minimal image but allows to easily install complete and ready-to-use server stacks with a set of console/whiptail based shell dialogs and scripts.
Read all info at: https://dietpi.com/
The source code is hosted at GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi
> At a first read, this is great, because it's apolitical.

This is a strange statement to make about DAC. Once you think about what that means there's a lot of thorny political issues.

Removing carbon from the air to store it permanently does not give you anything economically. Someone's going to have to have to pay for it. Is that people who made their wealth based on fossil fuels? People who emit most or who did so in the past? Or everyone?

Don't get me wrong: I'm all in favor of supporting development of this tech. But there are complicated political questions to be answered. Framing this as "apolitical" is probably not going to help.
If it was that easy they wouldn't be trying to push backdoors in companies, going as far as leveraging Five Eyes nations to legislate backdoors and carry out surveillance on their behalf, and eventually blaming "Russia" for every attack based on trivial IP geolocation.

Somehow every single one of the US' enemies manages to get around it -- from OBL through to the entire ISIS network.

The reality is that the FBI can't beat maths and has no leverage over services from foreign companies. i.e, a Russian VPN on a clean VM is probably enough to skirt the whole of the FBI.

US digital intelligence is, for all intents and purposes, a paper tiger in 2021. The whole thing is a farce to give the appearance of sophistication to act as a deterrent.
These arguments take a form which implies that each right operates in a vacuum.

But, of course, if we were to allow any right without exception, then we would soon find that we have no rights. Not only would the limitless interpretation of one right eventually decimate other rights but, apart from that, it would also undermine society's solvency; hence its ability to enforce even the expanded right.

Rights, as ideas, have no utility. They must be layered onto the substrate of a functioning society. Hence, there has always been work towards achieving balance, as every right must be circumscribed to some degree.

This is why we have courts, reasonableness standards, etc.

So, sure, we could interpret these as "contradictions", but that becomes a meaningless characterization in any practical sense.
A forest will only grow as a carbon sink on the century timescale, which is the window in which we irreversibly enter headlong into the anthropocene or mitigate our global anthopogenic effects. We don't have to plan for burying them.
Well observed. My experiences include a lot of farms that operated with big yards of scrap iron; were always repairing / rebuilding something, and did contract construction work to keep the machines running when they weren't using them for their own concerns.

There's very few operations running that way anymore, the "odd construction contract" market for them dried up before and faster than the farming side of those operations. USDA Soil Conservation flood control projects used to be a large source of work there.
There is no way to fix this problem without carbon removal, even if emissions go to zero today.
Logically extrapolated, mass genocide is usually the alternative to technological innovation. Most of us agree one is better than the other — The rest look the other way. (Ex. The Chinese on Uighurs)
>at least if you believe the IPCC projection

Maybe you shouldn't. The IPCC does good work, but their predictions are conservative and imperfect, and they mostly ignore tail risks. Up until 2012 they predicted that arctic summer sea ice would last until the 2050s, and now it's estimated to be gone by the 2030s.
There's also this for the BBC MicroBit: https://makecode.microbit.org/
> scam

Or just paying for entertainment. Craps pass line is under 1.5% per bet placed with even money odds if you’re backing up your bet. For a $15 pass line bet you’re paying the house $0.25 per bet. Even at 10 bets/hour it’s $2.50/hour for entertainment, which is super cheap. And toss in a couple free drinks and it comes out to be very cheap entertainment.
Good stuff, thanks Roberto. I'll give it a look!
Threads Cannot Be Implemented as a Library [pdf]
Thanks! I was already wondering if this would be possible. Signing data has its uses, but I more often have to transfer sensitive data to other GitHub users and this tool seems really useful for that!
Yeah I bet there are good GUI tools out there, but I always want to go for the stuff I can script myself, so I can hook desktop notifications into it and such.

It makes it hard for me to recommend backup tools to the non-technical people in my life, because they're looking for GUI solutions with the corners rounded off, and I want something crunchy and scriptable.
Yeah, except that study was so bad that the publication that published it later published four replies by other groups of scientists pointing out all the flaws of it:
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/researchers-find-...
Just convert everything to solar, wind, hydro and nuclear, the earth will heal itself. No new taxes, departments, bureaucracies, crooks and additional burdens on the tax payer who will foot the cleanup bill while corporations keep on keeping on.
It's just an ad for this software and Mac
Mice, salarymen, whats the difference? Huxleys Soma and Lems maskony/hapunktory are just too tempting making them inevitable.
I know people getting packages well in excess of that. The difference between the bottom and top of software job pay packages is starting to resemble athletes or actors.
Please, not this again. Just go to levels.fyi and see for yourself.
There is other value than the current outlook on NFT's. It is a record of a digital thumbprint. This is really the value of all blockchain based tech.

The example i use is this. Think of the Green Rolling Hills photo that was on however billion windows desktops. The original owner could have copyrighted that photo and registered its first upload onto the blockchain. It is registered then as the first photo of a very specific high use photo and i would say that digital asset has a value.

Crypto Kitties etc are not my cup of tea, its the value created by the option of the tec that i think will have ramifications. I am working on a project in this space currently.
"I've also infuriatingly gotten a 'patches welcome' response before, and then simply faced the 'that's not in our vision' response upon providing a patch."

That has been my experience on quite a few FOSS projects. I had to learn that the hard way (on other projects, not GNOME). Some are more conservative than others, some may delay making a decision until after they get a patch, etc. Ultimately, since it's your time, you have to do your research before you decide to spend months working on a patch or however much time you plan.

Since GNOME is a large umbrella project then it can vary between sub-projects, I have noticed the ones that are popular and user-facing tend to have a much higher bar for contribution and are much more "cathedral-like" in their design approach, and they kind of have to be if they want to have any kind of semblance of stability. So I don't think it really helps much to blame any project for this or call them "bad eggs", it's their choice of how they want to do things.
> But on the other you have legions of people working to make the money machine printing, and I've got to think most of that work sucks: the nitty-gritty of keeping the site up, content moderation teams, all the ad plumbing.

From technical point of view, things like keeping such a huge site up, or building ads backend can be very rewarding for infrastructure minded folks.
No. I can't imagine putting on anything that would exacerbate my neck strain. Screen, stay where you are and I'll decide what angle to look at you from.

Maybe when they scale it down to the size and heft of swimming goggles.
"You do not need to write any code to figure out the most difficult part of most software products"

Completely true and something that I wish more people understood and practiced! Most engineers (even seniors) want to immediately start cutting code. I think the saying is "Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning".
CO2 is colorless, odorless, and is produced in many ways, not just from factories or out of tailpipes. For instance, would we want to bill countries with receding glaciers which release methane, a more powerful greenhouse gas that decays into CO2?
I use, and have contributed code to, one of these (OpenAPS/oref0). There's actually a pretty shocking amount of spaghetti code, shell scripts, and cobbled together components in different languages. The key thing that makes it work is that, safety-wise, it fails more gracefully than you might think; if it stops working it falls back to what would be the no-automation standard of care anyways, and there are high- and low-glucose audible alarms from the CGM going through an entirely separate path that has no DIY in it.
Best MS OS, they should have just maintained this for the last 20 years.
Ann Arbor and surrounding area is approaching Portland prices, not to mention higher taxes.
That of course assumes the community college is serious about its mission to educate. Most of the students just want to pass because the math course is required for this or that vocational program, and in this age it's wiser to humour the students and wave them through.
It depends, but I get what you mean. I love all the basses a plucky sounds I can get with that synth. also doesn't need a lot of post processing to cut through the mix.
I'd much prefer if we kept that as plan B.
Circular imports also are most common when you use 'from module import *'.
The term "API" is similarly fuzzy as the term "constant". Whether a variable or "storage bucket" is constant (vs dynamic) dependens heavily on the context: In many contexts there are for instance compile time constants vs. runtime constants.

In similar respect, you can refer to the operating system kernel interface as an "API". Some folks even call network protocols an API. In my humble opinion, in the end, it is just words.
They finally called me. So yep, bottom of the barrel.
Using their own outdated, unsupported browser? Why should they develop websites against a 22 year old browser version?
Relational databases work so well that they are also highly effective when used badly.

So it's easy to succumb to temptation and take the easy path (I don't want to add three tables to keep it normalized... let's allow this column to be null, the applications can check... another field for the second phone number, we'll see about the third one... make your queries non-isolated or we could have a deadlock...) with apparently good results, and then when technical debt comes home the architecture amateurs can blame the tools instead of themselves.
Ironically just this week, I put my four year old in front of an apple 2 emulator running apple logo, and he was far more engaged and interested than any of the modern “kids learn to code” toys of today.

Even the “updated” logos I found sucked because they throw you into a notebook not a repl. For young kids, a repl is way less overwhelming and confusing, because you’re “talking to the turtle.” Even the error messages are better: “I don’t know how to X.” The kid loved seeing the turtle talk back. These notebook oriented ones kind of lost the original thesis of logo form Paepert.
I suspect you're probably right about this. I'm not suggesting that the people in those positions are impassioned white supremacists or anything like that - they may well be liberals or even anti-racists, but still retaining an unconscious expectation that white people are less likely to commit violent crimes. (Which is statistically true, after all, albeit obviously not due to any intrinsic qualities of either group.)
How should you compound your cryptocurrency earnings?
Long time reader first time poster

The inspiration for this post was when I found out about staking cryptocurrency and discovered some methods were better than others. Hope y'all find it interesting.
40 gigatonnes is just the "yearly deficit".

That's just for carbon neutrality. We have put 2 teratons of carbon into the atmosphere since industrialization.

Yes we probably don't need to remove all of that, but at least 1 teraton is probably a very good idea, by trees, olivine, seeding oceans, pumping into the ground (which I think eventually comes back out.

This is kind of like the mainstream reporting on the budget deficit, which always concentrates on the YEARLY deficit (2.77 trillion) versus 129 trillion overall.
I can't believe people don't see how obvious this troll is.
Fran Unsworth tells BBC staff: Get used to hearing views you don’t like
I've said this repeatedly here: the world won't address climate change even if it's mildly inconvenient to do so, let alone the massive endeavours that have been proposed thus far.

The solution will be economic.

Want to replace fossil fuels with cleaner energy sources? It won't happen until those alternatives are cheaper.

When energy is sufficiently cheap or the byproducts are sufficiently valuable, that's when carbon extraction from the atmosphere will make sense.

I've seen some ideas for this. One is to use renewable energy to extract CO2 from the atmosphere and turn it into gasoline. That's actually not that hard. It's just chemistry after all. Alternatives are things like graphene.

There are places in the world where this could make sense. A given area might be remote such that building pipes of delivering such fuel is cost-prohibitive. Likewise, the cost of extending an electric grid might be too high. Or it simply may not be feasible because of politics.

This can negate the disadvantage solar and wind have in being variable power output and/or simply using a hydrocarbon fuel as a means of storing excess energy.

This would technically be carbon neutral not carbon negative but it'd be a start.
Have a read of the following and then you’ll understand my frustrations conversing with you:

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

Thus far we’ve seen DH2, DH3 and DH4 but you haven’t yet refuted my central argument (nor even anything close to it) despite posting a multitude of emotionally charged paragraphs.

Now take a look at the discussions I’ve had with others in this thread. They’ve been on topic and informative. Unlike the responses from yourself.

I’m genuinely open to discussion, if you’re genuinely interested in having one.
I respect that hypothesis. They've got their bite of the market with those products.
Most likely this is not the decision of any member of the doom development team or anyone who works on actual games at Id software. It’s the work of some corporate lawyer at their parent company (Zenimax media) just making a routine filing for legal reasons. Corporate America is ridiculously litigious.
Maybe instead of paying 100$ for a ton of CO2 captured, add a CO2 tax of few $ to every ton released
How so? A cap on file uploads and a limit on guests are hardly the end of the world.
Strangely, Norway is neither mentioned in the original article nor in the Global Electric Vehicle Catalyst Index.

"The main drive of the market [in Norway] is the all-electric car segment, which surged to a new all-time record of almost 14,000 (up 46% year-over-year), which is 77.5% of the market." https://insideevs.com/news/537973/norway-plugin-car-sales-se...
I'm thinking of this projection here: https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/SR15...

Which gives an estimate of 2.6% of global GDP in 2100.

The one you mention seems to be in the same ballpark: assuming 2% growth, in 2070 global GDP will probably be somewhere around 220T, so 5.4/220 = 2.4%.
This. If US government on your things to worry about list, you host in Russia Cloud or China Cloud. Or roll your own data center in some non US allied country.
OpenTelemetry: Trace and instrument your application code
Side stepping the “is it political” part (which I have no interest in discussing- it’s a tarpit)…

There is an economical advantage to reducing CO2 from the environment. It gives you an environment that humans can thrive in (by way of being an environment that the current food chain can thrive in). It’s hard to consider investing in the future when you think it might be apocalyptical. Easier if you think there is a future for humanity.
The traditional definition wasn't really contemplating software, because the important thing that makes it a natural monopoly is that building a second one would cause the user to have to pay a lot more. If you have one power grid, it costs a billion dollars to operate, so the average user has to pay $1B/N where N is the number of users on the grid. If you have two power grids, now the average user has to pay $2B/N, which is twice as much, and most importantly, is a large difference.

With software, there are so many users that the difference between $X/N and $2X/N is still ~zero. You can have two providers, or ten, and you're in no danger of them being unable to recover their development costs even at low prices. The cost of paying a number that rounds to zero twice is well worth the benefits of competition.

In other words, the barriers to entry are low (absent some artificial constraint). It isn't that the fixed costs are high, they're only "high" relative to the essentially non-existent unit cost. That's totally different. It means that if you want to enter the market for email clients or messaging apps or phone games, that can be done by an individual or a small business. A small business can't build their own power grid.
What I don't get is that all the problems I've had with external displays on Linux, I also have with the same display on OS X. On Linux I have a script to explicitly configure what I want, on mac OS I usually just unplug and replug and hope it remembers the right layout and detects all displays this time. I could do the unplug and replug strategy on Linux too, but the script is easier
It would be fitting if the work were carried on by a committee, like Bourbaki.
https://archive.md/GUDlj
Thinking through decentralisation as a process, not an architecture