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> Nobody needs to justify not replatforming

Maybe, but when your software is the piggiest of pig software then it should be called into question.

Unrelated to Gitlab, but to give an example of what I mean:

How many installations of Slack are there in the world, or Teams.

even with an extremely conservative estimate of 10 million; 10mb of ram and 5% of a CPU core has a measurable impact on the planet.

With such a wide distribution it's worth calling at performance of the platform, even if it's nice that Teams at least supports Linux...
Well, consider that if you start building now, you're likely not done until next year, or maybe the year after....
I don't know about cloud stuff much to be honest, if I would do it today, Linux server would also PXE booting Windows hosts (well samba servers are also PXE booted), that are cheap Mini PC's, I like having everything on premise, dual cheap servers + pfsense router (used would do it) will easily support 100+ hosts, with offsite full backup to rsync.net, I can see how samba servers can be in closest data center, instead of on premise.
I'd choose to kill some social networks... which are so social that you can't even read them without an account.
The Fed can absolutely reduce the money supply, by selling assets that they're holding on their books. You're right though that an austerity policy by Congress (running budget surpluses by lowering spending and/or increasing taxes) would have much the same effect.
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ciechanow.ski
> Charging in against someone with an AR-15 and some cover is suicide.

If so, that is a clear cut case for banning it completely.
> But I imagine Rails is being increasingly dismissed by newbie developers as being obsolete and not-cool. Mature companies may realize it's in their best interest to communicate that their boring-tech works just fine and that they have no plan on changing to cool-tech

I dont think that's the case. I think Ruby is dismissed because it's not a boring language, but has none of the safety of the other "shinier" languages.
For me, for a “fully self driving” feature to be ready for wide market sales, it needs to be as good or better than a human. A more “drive assist” feature, like current Tesla autopilot, where there has to be a human driver ready to take over at any moment, that’s different, but full self driving, where there doesn’t even need to be a human driver at all, the standards are a lot higher.

Also, by “as good or better than a human”, for me the biggest things are:

- Involved in the same number, or fewer, accidents

- Does not piss off other drivers any more than a human (like stopping way back from stop signs, getting “stuck” on a decision and not making progress, etc.)

In this vid the Tesla was nowhere close to the above standard. Still really impressive, but lots of work to do. Hard to say how close it is - maybe a few quarters away, but could also be a decade or more.

Google/Waymo is closer in terms of safety and pissing off other drivers, but it’s also much more conservative from the rider’s point of view. Like it will do 3 right turns to avoid a tricky left, will take side streets over the highway, etc. Waymo vids seem much safer and more predictable, fewer clear bugs (e.g. all the times the Tesla FSD makes the wrong decision on where to stop at an intersection are bad, “hard dealbreaker” bugs, that Google/Waymo don’t have), but I think it would just get you to your destination too much slower than a human driver, so buyers wouldn’t like it.
It's not great, but I think the real question is twofold. Is the programmer far enough in their career to have been expected to already learn this lesson and did the programmer in fact learn the lesson.

If they're young and they never do it again, then I think it would be fine to keep the hire. If they keep on doing it, then it's time to go. If they're 25 years into their career, then they should almost definitely have known better.
The Fed didn’t pull the trigger, but they didn’t do anything to mitigate Congress’ bad decision making either. They spent a year with their head in the sand pretending inflation was ‘transitory’ (wtf does that mean anyway?) before raising rates by any significant amount—which they still haven’t really done.
At the very least it passes the Turing test with flying colors
I remember buying 32MB of RAM for my DOS Compatibility card (486Dx/2-66) that was in my 6100/60 for less than $400 in 1996 from Best Buy.

My entire 6100/60 with 24MB RAM was around $2500 with the card in 1994 right after the 6100/66 came out.
not to mention salary ranges per team and per role
This is technology looking for a problem. When users own their data, what will they do, sell it to make money on it back to the companies we don't with their data.

If the companies making money (Google, FB, etc) on users Data aren't making money, then we have a Catch-22. Users can have their data, but there are no viable services around to be profitable enough to operate.

Jack is making a big deal out of something b/c he's trying to make a legacy beyond the dumpster fire that is Twitter, or a fancy looking cash register system.
The first moon orbiting of a human happened in a vacuum. I hope more history happens in a vacuum.
I think the main difference is that on a supercomputer you generally run one task at a time, while in a DC you have computers that do different, unrelated things.

The rest kind of follows from that, like how a supercomputer that consists of multiple computers needs a fast, low-latency interconnect between them to coordinate and exchange results, while computers in a DC care a lot less about each other.

On the other hand the distinction is fluid. Google could call the indexers that power their search engine a supercomputer, but they prefer to talk about datacenters
Just flag the submission so it dies.
> I think the problem is that no one wants to take the blame for being wrong or unprepared and the media won't pass up an opportunity to sensationalize mistakes as incompetency, maliciousness,etc

So, is it going to be Law and Order for thee, paid suspensions and additional training for me?
> Are these chicken selfies?

> Yes. The chickens are using an input device (the motion sensor) to invoke a computer function (the capture method on the Pi), which invokes a series of events that results in the photo being taken, uploaded, and shared.

> This is identical to a human using an input device (tapping a button) to invoke a computer function (the post method on Instagram), which invokes a series of events that results in the photo being taken, uploaded, and shared.

Is it really "identical" though? A human knows they're taking the selfie and sees the result. The chickens do not.
Yeah same here. I feel like crap almost right away when I eat most anything with a decent amount of added sugars
Average sq ft for house in US is around 2500sq ft so 2000 sq ft is below median. Ok starter house but not more than that. I understand that houses in Europe are much smaller though due to low incomes and higher utility costs.

I have 2800 sq ft house and use around 30-35 kWh/day in summer. 60kWh/day is high but not outrageously high.
It's a good thing that they have a donation link on that page, however the list of supported devices still lacks recent models, which can be discouraging. I completely understand the effort required to port software, do proper tests, the time and money needed, plus the risks of bricking new costly devices, so I wonder if setting up a way for donating for a specific device or set of devices (no strings attached of course) could help to attract more interest, make users feel more involved and somehow also help development by telling developers where there is more demand.
Charlie Youakim, the CEO of buy now pay later (BNPL) firm Sezzle

so a loan shark, I mean thats pretty much the lowest of the low ...

Auren Hoffman, the CEO of Safegraph, a large location data broker

oh shit, spoke too soon.
Inflation is a money supply issue, especially right now - money supply is directly relevant to inflation and hard assets. The reason these assets are not up is because the Fed is threatening huge constrictions to the supply of money which people are currently believing.
Dr. John Chang is a one-in-a-million hero.

If we hired every one-in-a-million hero as a police officer in the US, we'd have 165 police officers.

There's about 700,000 police officers in the US, and we can barely hire them as it is.
Even worse, what happens when things go off the rails?

My former boss *used to* be good.
At the time, every commentator not in Congress or the Republican party said it was a bad choice to stimulate the economy with a sugar-high unneeded stimulus. But once that's in the system, correcting it hurts the next guy in charge, thus we don't get anywhere till we hit a crisis point.
I just recently published a project and had been mulling over whether I should move it to AWS or keep hosting it on the server in my basement...

Seems like I made the right choice!

In all seriousness, I don't think I'd rely on a single provider for anything these days, unless I really don't care when it goes down. That's pretty easy and cheap to do with most things, but I'm not quite sure how to approach a backup database in an economical way.
I was enthusiastic for a while but

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createtype.html

> (This restriction is made because an erroneous type definition could confuse or even crash the server.)

Uhh, what..

> Generally these functions have to be coded in C or another low-level language.

Oh, okay. That sounds like this not really doable with many hosted Postgres services out there.
Yep, me too! There is actually a link between high GI and sleepyness; orexin. It's a chemical messenger in the brain, and if you have very little of it, you have narcolepsy. If you have been injected or sprayed with a lot of it, you stay alert without sleep. Oh, and glucose inhibits orexin production!

My personal theory is that I have inherited a low base level of orexin, which makes me react with sleepyness to carbohydrates. I have no idea if this is accurate, though.
>if you're an experienced programmer from another language community, it'll take you longer—because you'll need to unlearn the habits you've picked up before that in Ruby might be considered a code smell.

So much this :)
I've been a C# developer for over 20 years and I also write quite a bit of Go. I recently decided to write my NFT app in RoR with backend / batch processes in pure Ruby, and having essentially minimal experience with Ruby it has taken a while to unlearn some of the things that are nearly instinctive to me with (particularly) C#.

That said, so far I am really glad I did what I did. I love Ruby and I think it's incredibly underrated, especially vs Python (though Python is also a great language on its own). Once you really get a handle on Ruby (and Rails), it makes web dev a fun again.
Right, many of the early (~1975) era microcomputers were bus backplane machines, where the CPU boards were just one of the "bus masters" and designed to cooperatively share the mostly passive backplane. (ex: ss-50, s-100).

It was fairly common to attach z80's and the like as secondary co-processors, as well as allowing peripheral boards direct access to RAM/etc via DMA. So, while I'm not aware of anyone building a machine using multiple 8086's its was pretty common to put 8086's and z80's together in the same machine, nevermind the 8087 was effectively a second processor as well until it was integrated in the 80486 DX.

Although looking at a few of the schematics on http://www.s100computers.com/index.html I don't see anyone actually using the 8086 #LOCK pin even if they are running the processor in max mode to gain the extra control lines for the S-100. Probably because few people were thinking about full _symetric_ Multi Processing, vs heterogeneous machines, which were fairly common. Z80 boards existed for a lot of machines (I had one for my apple II+), as did various other combinations.
Looks interesting. But how is this different from, say, using GitHub Pages or Blot.im?
Versus the elevator repairman in the pool with me who was pure hourly and was going to work doubles to make up for it. My companies just paid you or some other arrangement since I've been salaried.
"Cache Upgrades: A 30% speed increase for $15?"
This is a standard feature of regular banks, it’s part of the reason why they do that thing where you report the tiny deposit amounts.

I flagged it because the article title looks like someone’s trying to be sarcastic about it.
The US military has 2 decades of experience with this. It would be interesting to see if some of that expertise could be commercialized for things like domestic drone delivery. Encryption and wireless communication are already prime targets for this.
"... Amazon is doing comparatively little to proactively address the problem, experts and law enforcement officials say, attracting people who want to trade such material because there is less risk of detection than in the brighter corners of the internet."

So are we blaming encrypted chat for causing child porn to proliferate or are we blaming Amazon for not doing anything? If the apps is as it's advertised, it's end-to-end encrypted so there's nothing Amazon can do as they aren't privy to any of the data going through the system.

As for the assertion that "Amazon is attracting people who want to trade such materials" is borderline libelous. NBC is asserting that Amazon is marketing this app to kiddie porn perverts?

(And hasn't the same red herring been used against EVERY secure, end-to-end encrypted communications platform?)
The roads are already built, and the towns are already laid out in ways that require cars. Arguing that the roads, towns, and cars could be changed so that walking to school is reasonable... while technically true, is not particularly useful in anything but the very long term. There isn't the money to do that.

So yes, because of the way the roads, towns, and cars exist today, it is not reasonable to have kids walk to school in many cases. The weather conditions for the area are one of the things that go into that calculation; they are one of the obstacles that add up to it not being realistic. Are they the root cause? No. But it's irrelevant, because they _are_ one of the factors involved in outcome. If the weather was always perfect, then those children could walk to school year round. If dedicated walking paths were created that cars could not travel on were created, then those children could walk to school year round. Neither one of those is going to happen.

> It's not the snow that is dangerous, it's the cars.

Pretending it's realistic to magic all the car focused town layouts away is completely and utterly unrealistic, so I'd ask you to not pretend that "if we just admitted cars were the problem, all the problems would go away".
The New Playstation Plus
Under Firefox on Android the demos play, but I actually need to click left of the play button for them to start. Looks like the radius of the time slider is too wide and overlaps the play button area.

Perhaps that's what the parent comment is seeing?
Then how the hell did Trump do it, dammit??? ;-)
I don't know about the reality, but it's the job of a character in a very well known book, Monsieur Mallaussène, by Daniel Pennac.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81030.Monsieur_Malauss_n...
Programming, Math, Science: A list of links to useful resources
> That’s unless free gas and diesel fuel stations have “equitable” availability.

geez ... I wonder which lobbying industry donate to these guys?
Here is my two cent hypothesis. Consciousness arises whenever a system processes information in some way. In particular I would think it requires that the system has a simplified recursive model of itself.
When I say "arises" I mean that is like a fundamental property of information.
If true that would also mean that systems that we don't think are sentient in reality are, but we have no way to communicate with them.
For instance a market system, that usually process information about itself might be sentient and we are like neurons in the system transferring information trough transactions and prices. Or forests might be.
There's a reason Apple has such a bad score. They won't pay the Danegeld.

I remember back in the days when they'd call us up and say they could fix us a nice score if we subscribed
Donations? Purchasing stuff?

(And before you ask, NO, there were no other possible ways for me to do those donations to people in war or purchase those stuff where crypto and PayPal were the only way to pay and PayPal is blocked in my corrupted country)
Hofstadter and Dennett addressed the Chinese Room argument in a way that I find completely compelling. Either you are not familiar with it, or do not find it compelling. They call it the "system" position IIRC, and essentially, the entire room ("system") is conscious, even though none of the pieces are.
This sounds like it's a bill meant to allow gas stations to pivot into becoming paid EV charging stations.

Which kind of makes sense, since the switch to EVs will probably cause acute financial distress, such as destroying the financial situation of any family that owns/runs a gas station. A pitiless free marketer probably wouldn't care about that destruction (and they may even celebrate it), but I'm at least sympathetic to measures that would lessen the blow or make the transition less painful.

It might make more sense to just buy those people out, but that would take budget, and a proposal like this doesn't.
Yea. CPU time might be cheap but if someone is waiting for that CPU, you are now wasting someone's time.
lost me at "buy NFT"
> tyrants

Take a down a notch there, bud.
This is exactly the type of project where recommending a specific browser is warranted.
Unfortunately Elixir just doesn't have the network effects of Ruby. Ruby support (libraries, SDKs, first class integrations) and popularity (ability to hire effective devs) is just an order of magnitude or more higher than Elixir.

I say this as a massive Elixir and functional programming fanboy.
... which is in conflict with the Thunderbird FAQ [1]:

> Who makes Thunderbird?

> Thunderbird is developed, tested, translated and supported largely by group of dedicated volunteers, plus paid staff. Thunderbird is an independent, community driven project. Therefore its paid staff, budget and fundraising are entirely managed and overseen by the Thunderbird Council, which is elected by the Thunderbird Community. Thunderbird development is made possible by funds donated by the Thunderbird community. (Mozilla Corporation, the makers of Firefox, and Mozilla Messaging no longer develop Thunderbird. But Mozilla still supports Thunderbird by hosting many of the Thunderbird resources.)

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-faq#w_who-m...
> That isn't. What is a point of contention is that you think they want to live that way and that this can't be changed.

I did not make that claim either. I said that pointing out the poor practices of some cultures are likely to be viewed by members of those cultures as an attack.

So, no, I did not claim

> people want to live that way and that this can't be changed.

I did not do this either:

> You're blaming the victims instead of helping them.

I did not claim:

> parenting doesn't matter, only the color of the child's skin.

I did not

> blame people who are in these situations instead of bringing about the change to fix it.

You've put all those words into my mouth, and then proceeded to argue against them.

You, on the other hand, actually did claim here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31707777 the following:

> Children raised by uneducated parents surrounded by crime are worse off due to their environment, and their culture is a product of that environment.

And then happily posted evidence against that claim:

> > Tell that to children of Nigerian immigrants.https://medium.com/@joecarleton/why-nigerian-immigrants-are-...

You ignored this comment of mine:

> There are multiple different cultures even in the same race group! So it's quite confusing to me why you immediately and so quickly responded to a race-based argument that was never made.

I actually said that race doesn't matter. Your "evidence" you posted about the Nigerians actually supports what I said.

I believe you are arguing in bad faith; you appear to have no desire for anything other than virtue signalling.
The first generation 68K emulator was far from impressive. It ran 68k code on my 6100/60 slower than my souped up LCII with a 68030/40Mhz card.

Connectix’s Speed Doubler had a much better emulator.
“Calories in vs calories out” is a restatement of the second law of thermodynamics and must be true.
This line of publishing, much like nutritional science, is great for scientists. You can fudge data into flip flopping conclusions every couple of years. Infinite papers = tenure.
I'd say it's closer to sporting clays.

Also, did you know you can go into stores, and usually nobody will stop you from walking out with unpaid merchandise? Total 1337 lifehack!
Show HN: A public Lighthouse service for Slack's nebula VPN
Slack's nebula VPN is a great networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security based on the Noise Protocol Framework.
However, for many people it is difficult to set up their own VPN, as a Lighthouse server is always required.

That is why I started the public Nebula VPN Lighthouse Servers project [2]. This project aims to provide public Lighthouse servers for everyone.
It consists of a python based snap app [3] that acts as a web server and allows anyone to use the public servers as a lighthouse for their own VPN.

Snap's confinement is used to secure the server and users of the service should make sure to lock the Lighthouse out of the network [4].

If any of you have the ability to run a public Nebula VPN Lighthouse server, I would appreciate it if you would add your server to the server list [5].

As a nebula VPN user, the servers in the list [6] are available to you as public lighthouses.

[1] https://github.com/slackhq/nebula

[2] https://github.com/manuels/nebula-lighthouse-service

[3] https://snapcraft.io/nebula-lighthouse-service

[4] https://github.com/manuels/nebula-lighthouse-service#blocking-out-the-lighthouse-from-your-network

[5] https://github.com/manuels/nebula-lighthouse-service/blob/main/server-list.html

[6] https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/manuels/nebula-lighthouse-service/blob/main/server-list.html

Disclaimer: This project is not affiliated with Slack Technologies LLC or nebula.
Not to poop on the big screen party, but from an ergonomic standpoint that does not look like a great idea[1]. Such a big screen at that distance will likely make your head tilt back slightly and your eyes look up and may wreak havoc on your neck and eyes.

[1] https://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/ergonomics/office/monitor_po...
> Finally, the engineering manager probably should not have rehired the intern as a full-time employee.

In your org there is no room for mistakes, like humans will routinely make; sounds like hell.
> Massive government spending, funded by new money, caused inflation.

How is US government spending causing 8% inflation in Germany?

It's almost like this is a global phenomenon caused by supply shocks and price gouging of essential commodities.
Maybe they would start with the PD, which consumed 40% of the city's budget.
Partly, but it doesn't explain people's obsession with large, heavy, low MPG vehicles and the entitlement people have when it comes to fueling these cheaply.

The chicken-egg explanation is a normal consequence of not having anticipated the consequences when urban planning for car travel got going in the 50s. Unfortunate as it may be, but it's catch-22 that can be broken out of.

The unwillingness to break out of it, is because of the fetishization of car technology. This is a completely pathetic for adults to do, and is this toddler-mindset which is the biggest impediment to meaningful change today.