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> I would take this further and find out what is the most energy intensive computing task across these DCs

Nearly all compute power in the world is used doing things that theoretically take no compute. The reason they use so much compute is it was easier to pay for that compute than pay some engineer to figure out how to use less.
I think road wear is axle weight to the fourth power. So lorries are massively more damaging than cars. And cars are massively more damaging than bikes. Anecdotally the issue with bike and pedestrian paths is intruding vegetation which slowly narrows the width.
Here's an overview of the government expenditures: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/public-spending-sta...

What should they cut? Every department will tell you they're underfunded.
They don't anymore, at least not the computers. When you let them start from normal starting position and provide decent hardware and some time it's always a draw and has been for a few years now.
> The dangerous commands are git-reset and git-checkout

Don't forget about `git-restore` which replaces `git reset -- filename`
You render this font in a web canvas that your js can interpret. Boom, fingerprinted.
That's amoral but that's really clever.
I suppose a simple server with very little computing (web, irc, stuff like that) should benefit from this
I can't tell you how many times IDEA's "local history" saved my ass. I use it extensively. Instead of stashing local changes and going around messing with my working tree, what I did 30 minutes ago is just a right-click away.

(Also, if you right-click on the top project folder itself, you can restore the entire project to a previous snapshot, if something was working before and you heroically went down the wrong path).
> The UK Government currently spends around £11 billion on roads, https://www.statista.com/statistics/298667/united-kingdom-uk... so the excess is a handy revenue stream which clearly it would lothed to give up.

There's no excess when you account for the effects on climate. At some point, we'll have to pay to mitigate the impact of fossil-based transportation, and any operators in the industry (from oil extraction to road constructions) will be bankrupt unless we keep externalizing/socializing the costs and pretend climate change is not caused by CO2 emissions.
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Much cheaper than a comparable x64 machine. But only if you can use 80 cores.
A major issue with on-call, and certainly one I've encountered multiple times, is the high likelihood of moral hazard - the people who are responsible for addressing incidents are not the same people who designed and maintained the system at fault. This results in the former team feeling powerless to put out fires which could have been prevented by more robust design, and the latter team having no incentive to improve reliability.

SRE gets this right, at least in theory, by requiring that all production systems be reviewed and approved, including observability and incident management procedures, prior to entering service. This ensures that there is some shared responsibility across teams for maintaining uptime.

https://sre.google/sre-book/being-on-call/
AFAIK some matrix client wanted json markup for messages.
More like Kasparov because he remained active after the FIDE split. Still a bit different because Magnus isn't running a parallel WC of his own.

It's also funny how the only 3 World Champions who have refused to defend a title because of disagreements with FIDE are probably the 3 best chess players ever.
It doesn't look like there's much margin to be gained with these, the smallest is priced only slightly cheaper than their Ryzen machines on a threads-per-buck basis, but comes with substantially lower memory per thread.

It looks like you'd always be better off buying multiples of their Ryzens rather than one of these if your workload supports horizontal partitioning
> YouTube sets cookies on our devices to track our online activity for marketing purposes

This is not the purpose of cookies. The purpose of cookies is to store state on the browser side. Does GDPR interpret all possibilities of "cookies" as the storage and communication of privacy-violating data? Because that would be extremely unfortunate
Ad soon as you bow to proprietary softwares you implicitly accept those kind of behaviors.
well there's one that gets comic books. basically downloads the pages from an online service, packages them as pdfs, sends to my phone
It isn't solved but it's pretty obvious. There's enough drawn endgames where material advantage is insufficient to win

Antichess at least is a solved win for White
What is the point of "productivity" if you're not accomplishing what is important in your life?
> Chess, in theory, with absolutely perfect play, is a draw.

True, but that doesn't mean that you can't treat chess like other sports and try to incentivize wins - for example giving win/loss/draw a 3:1:0 point ratio. The world championship is not a good format to decide "who's the best at chess", and anyway we already know who that is right now. Might as well treat it as a spectator sport and add some drama in my opinion.
trunk roads and motorways are definitely not paid out of local taxation
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Do you have an actual example of this? I've never encountered a situation where those three points are incorrect.
It's a detail. But for some people it looks like it changes everything.
My car (mazda 3) does this where it just sends the play command as soon as the phone (pixel) connects. But it just continues playing whatever I was last listening to, so it's always something different. Kinda nice.
The one weird trick is to pay people to fix it. There is an incentive problem here.

The second one weird trick is to legitimately ask people about the on call experience. Again. And again. And again.

The reason nothing change is because noone is incentivised to change it.
Copyright and its consequences have been a disaster for human culture.

We should just have author's rights, which must be non transferable. Non profit file sharing should be allowed in all cases. I say this because we effectively live in that scenario, except sometimes, very rarely, someone is sued if they get big enough.
It would be wild if it turned out that some of the 20 first moves led into a tree that included a perfect winning path for black while others were draw on perfection: "take it, if you can, I bet you can't"
there's no need to mandate it, but the EU could spend a few ebucks on consumer appliances interoperability testing, and simply shaming those that suck. (or at least put out a statement about the problem, which could be simply lack of incentives for cooperation on solving the issues. or maybe too much backward compatibility preventing the whole ecosystem to move to more robust BT standards, etc.)

for example just a few days (week) ago there was a thread about how Logitech wireless stuff and wireless headphones interfere.

sure, it's hard to point to a singular root cause (Logitech emits too much, or headphones are ill-designed and BT is simply not the right tool for this because this or that)

but there are clear software (firmware, drivers, kernel) failures, that stem from simply releasing absolute garbage. (and every layer just coding for the happy path.)
Using 80 (or x) cores is pretty easy in any web (or network) workload where non blocking multi threading is the norm.
I dare you to try sending anything between an Apple device and ANY Android phone.

In my experience, the Android phones work between each other, and the iPhones work between each other, but I can't cross the Apple fence.

Something tells me this is on purpose.
If you were using Google DNS already this changes nothing. If you aren't using Google DNS, continue to do so.
Though he doesn't mention it in this video, I have seen Crockford promoting the 'Dailies' idea in talks before - and he does promote it as a replacement for code review and stand up.

One hour, every morning, where the entire Team reads the code written the previous day and offers feedback. Juniors learn from seeing real-world code presented and explained, Seniors get peer review, more eyes means fewer bugs, etc.

It didn't work for my Team, but I would be interested in trying it again in future.
Always disable force pushes to trunk (if that feature is available, as it is on Github).
No, that's part of the preparation. But remember that you have around ~16 moves to choose from each time it's your turn. And you have to prepare a response for all the possible choices your opponent can make.

This of course gets unwieldy very fast. 16^5 is already over a million different games.
I think you are remembering Gamecube, which could load disc images using an exploit in Phantasy Star Online (PSO). You could point it to your local PC instead of Sega's servers, where a server could inject code (in this case to load games over ethernet). It wasn't a good experience for any game that had CD audio streaming or FMV (so most games).

Funnily, this exploit was based on a previous exploit in PSO for Dreamcast, which was used for cheating.

Back in the day a serial cable was used to rip dreamcast games, and people removed copy protection and FMV to get games working on CDRs (dreamcast discs held more than a CD but the drive could read both types).

Someone also got the BBA for dreamcast working to rip and load games, but I think this was only about 10 years ago.
When for displaying Web pages a browser uses beautiful locally installed fonts instead of ugly widely available fonts, such as Arial, that is not a fingerprinting vulnerability.

It becomes a fingerprinting vulnerability only after the browser (or a script with the permission of the browser) sends information to a 3rd party about which fonts are used on your computer to display text.

The efforts to prevent vulnerabilities must focus on preventing undesirable communication between browsers/scripts and other parties, and not on how the Web pages are displayed, which should be done according to the user preferences.
The ISP could just block the IP address (they're an ISP, they can just figure it out), or inspect he presented certificate.
Four of the world top ten currently [0] represent the US, versus one from each of six other countries. They're the favourites for the upcoming Olympiad. Elite level chess in the US is just doing fine.

[0] add your own asterisks for how important it is, but all four moved from abroad, three when they were already world class players
Big things cost a lot of money. I expect better arguments than "$X billion is a lot of money" and "theyre only doing it to spite Trump" if someone wants to argue against a big infrastructure project.

Rail is a good and useful thing. The USA should probably have more of it. I have no real knowledge about this specific project, but my priors are that any "crazy", "green" project from California is perfectly fine, sensible governance that is probably saving lives, the environment and money, and that the people screaming about it don't know what they are talking about.

But I'm open to credible info to the contrary.

(A quick glance at Wikipedia tells me that the people of California think it's a good idea, and that the people who don't are generally older and republican leaning, which pretty much meshes with my priors, so I'm fairly confident it's a good thing overall).
Can anyone explain how is this related to the post? I genuinely don't get it.

I see C and Python/some kind of FFI.
Not sure if this was sarcasm, but that's like saying NP-hardness is no big deal because we only care about finite problems.
You will NEVER catch the perpetrator. Period. Also the cost of enforcement will quickly outpace any revenue gained, as council's parking enforcements has shown.

Even when caught says on CCTV, there's no guarantee you can find and fine the driver. There are over half a million uninsured cars on the UK streets at any time. Twice that many uninsured drivers. Even getting them to pay for insurance is hard enough, how difficult do you think it'd be to get them to pay £10k fine?
You're right. It should have gone further.
Even in all the situations you’ve listed, I still have my phone with me.

If I’m going to be out of cell coverage (e.g. a plane ride, or in the countryside with spotty Internet) or simply want to be left alone, I usually plan for that in advance and do a combination of: 1) scaling back our risk exposure by rescheduling work (which requires you to have a good understanding of the business, its needs, and its timelines) and 2) shoring up the bits I feel most weary about through code, documentation, tooling, and/or contractors.

The same goes for the team SMEs: reschedule where I can, crosstrain where I can’t, get headcount where none of the prior work.

I’ve been on call since 1999. I had to figure out a pattern that worked for me (and my family) but wouldn’t result in a life that was boring or worse, one that I resented.
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There's a Twitter thread discussing the outcome of the police investigation after the Uvalde shooting, which discusses how teachers should have known better than to leave door opens, as that clearly complicates defending against school shooters.

From a European point of view it's incomprehensible how that is even a thing.
My brother managed to spend 2000 Fr in a month, connecting at night. As you said big "household drama" when parents discovered the bill...
But, I think he got his first date with Minitel help :D
The file in question is TeamViewer15.odf

As usual on HN, people is speculating and guessing rather than studying the subject.

https://file.io/8EeNRguzVgpj
commonly used by people who disingenuously use it's etymology to imply that all 'road users' (by which they mean cyclists) rather than 'vehicle users' should pay it
If it's user hostile, isn't that against the Rust code of conduct? Can't Google's license to use Rust be revoked in that case?
That's predicated on the false assumption that everyone finds kids important. Many certainly do not, like myself. I'd rather have more money and time than raise a child.
*listen
Ah, thanks that’s where I must’ve read it.
You know what you're right, the command

git commit --all --amend --no-edit

seems to do essentially the exact same thing, thanks!
> Not to mention that DNS over HTTP AdBlock is basically just as easy to set up nowadays.

Only if the device in question uses the ad-blocking DNS servers.

Firefox (IIRC) by default does not use the operating system's resolv.conf. Smart TVs (and Chromecast) have also been known to ignore DNS settings from DHCP.

* https://labzilla.io/blog/force-dns-pihole

And since the DNS traffic now looks like HTTP(S) traffic, your only recourse is to block all HTTP access and tunnel it through a proxy.

As an IT guy, and the person who runs a home network, this reduces the visibility of what is happening on my network(s). Reduced visibility is bad IMHO.
>> is this the end of ambition?
The ambition is still there.

Just not for the coorporate soul crushing jobs.
> always

Not always. Almost always.
> [France] has an awfully elitist education and employment system with very little opportunity to break into any of it as an outsider

What are you talking about? Basic education in France is free, the university is open to everybody and is not expensive at all; and if you are a good student you can even go to a "grande école", which is not only free but you receive a good monthly salary just to study there. The entrance exams are open to everybody, and they are anonymous. Please tell me how can it be any less elitist than that!

Of course, there is a lot of social inertia whereby children of parents with higher education are more likely to pursue a higher education. But this is an acknowledged problem and one of the main goals of the system is precisely to solve it.

Source: I am part of the French higher education system to which I entered as a total outsider.

(you are right, however, that the private employment system is awfully elitist: if you didn't go to the right schools it's much harder to get a good job)
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On top of that, it is ILLEGAL to sell and install dumb EVSEs. Does not apply to third party resales but if you can't find someone to install it, it's a moot point.
I only got green and grey squares before solving it. What does orange signify?
In Yosemite, park rangers will happily show you many pictures of cars that were torn open by bears searching for food: door frames pried out and bent in half, sheet metal gouged and dented, upholstery shredded. These are just the cute and cuddly North American black bears; the brown bears in Russia are 2-3x larger, with claws several inches longer.

It does not seem likely that a crashed cosmonaut would encounter hungry bears or wolves, but I can see why they might want to take precautions.
The only "real creators" Youtube cares about are big media companies that provide licensed first-party content and high-value professional accounts. Everyone else is at best inconsequential and at worst net negatives to the platform, as far as Google is concerned.
That won't be happening. The second amendment is a thing. Demographics and opinion polls show that we won't be getting rid of it any time soon. Assault Rifles are in common use, thus will not be banned any time soon. The current regime seems poised to expand, rather than restrict, the types of arms which we have the right to bear.

This is ultimately my point - we have a lot of other avenues to address the problem rather than this, IMO, fruitless attempt to deal with the guns.
He's not going out though - he'll keep playing chess and he stated that he wants to remain the best chess player. He's just not playing the World Championship match.
I have an iPhone SE (1st gen) and a 50 dollar bluetooth enabled radio in my car. It works flawlessly every time, I turn on ignition, the radio connects with my phone and I can hit play. When I turn off ignition the current song is paused and the radio disconnects.
How about the government just finds a way to make do?

On the other hand most of us would like (for example) a functioning NHS. That needs good people, good facilities, and the tax revenues to pay for both. There is a real and imminent danger that our whole public health system could collapse due to a mass exodus of skilled professionals who decide they've had enough. Arguably some parts of it already have.

Behind the headlines about Ukraine and COVID and Brexit and so on are numerous mostly overlooked yet very significant problems within our society and economy. Many of those problems are only going to get worse and by extension more expensive to eventually fix if they aren't dealt with soon enough.

If we're going to prevent those things from happening in the next few years then a lot of us are going to have to pay for it (whoever is leading the government for the next two years or after the next general election). Hopefully the less well-off who are already struggling will be looked after and the burden will fall on the better-off demographics. Of course most people don't want to pay more tax but I suspect many of those who could afford to do so without suffering too much would prefer that to the alternative of literally watching a family member die because there was no ambulance available when they called 999 in a medical emergency!
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Video game developer Bungie's had a blow a few months back where a disgruntled player started 'impersonating' (in quotes - they just created a gmail account) Bungie's IP lawyers to issue fake DCMA takedowns for popular youtubers videos.

Bungie is now suing them. I'm surprised they didn't go harder after Youtube, but I guess that's a lot more difficult in court.
https://torrentfreak.com/bungie-files-lawsuit-to-punish-send...
We should split road taxes and carbon taxes, and ensure both revenue streams cover all the investment and expenses required for the sector but also to cover long-term effects on climate.

This way, we can spend the revenues from road taxes to build and maintain our infrastructure, and the realize that the latter will just make the whole car industry bankrupt overnight.
> To track per-mile-tax you’re going to have either government gps tracking in real-time or cameras tracking your ever my movement. Alternatively, the government will track and then likely limit power consumption for your cars.

Maybe I'm naive, but shouldn't an odometer reading do the job just fine?
Exactly! Wage growth and tight job market has been the promise of anti-immigration politicians for so long. It’s shocking so few are out there taking credit for it. Must have never been about economic anxiety.
GIT is just the new Regex. Everybody uses it, most have no clue how it works and just copy/pasts stuff from other places/repeats the same little trick
100%. Interoperability is the complexity. You’ll find old popular devices for example that are slightly different in behavior to the “norm”. It could be straight up incorrect behavior or maybe something more subtle. Do you drop support for those devices or change your behavior dynamically based on the device? Would your customers complain if you did drop it? Can you identify the device reliably? What if they update their software/behavior in the future - would your workaround break? Does your BT software stack even give you enough control to do fix it? Does your hardware/software vendor give you enough support to fix things if you can’t do it yourself? How many other devices did you test against?

It was painful but fun to work on.
I've heard about it, but upon closer inspection it seems to be just a media fad. In China, most people simply can't afford not to work - their parents are struggling farmers and won't support a useless adult child, like is the norm in Japan (the Hikkikomori phenomenon).
There is no road tax, only vehicle excise duty which bicyclists dont pay. It goes straight into the treasury so it's not even really "used" per se it's just a way of exerting downward pressure on inflation (which is how it should be, IMHO).
The "per unit of energy" pricing of liquid fuels is quite appealing as it encourages efficiency. Even when people are using electric cars, efficiency is beneficial.

I wonder if some sort of banded electricity pricing would work - you can consume x kWh at a lower price, and then a surplus tax applies. It's fairly easy to tax public charging. That would still encourage people to seek efficient EVs.
Show HN: A CLI to avoid remembering HTTP status codes
To understand the meaning of an HTTP status code and list all codes belonging to a specific class from your terminal.
How do you disincentivize win trading?
> Am I the only one that thinks this way? I would love to be proven wrong if there’s any counterpoints to my perspective that I could be made aware of.

That's the spirit! Upvoted...
It takes months of preparation to prepare for the world championships, basically rote memorisation with a team of people. If he doesn't do that, he will lose.

This is time that could be spent playing tournaments.

This would be okay if the world championships was every four years, but it's every two, so a large fraction of Carlsen's time is spent preparing for this one match that everybody knows he's going to win anyway.

It's similar to the way that many professional teams are reluctant to allow their players to play in the Olympics (in e.g. Basketball, Ice Hockey, and Olympic Football is completely neutered). Carlsen clearly feels that the World Championship is not important enough to sacrifice a large chunk of his career for.
They barely work better than placebo, from what I saw in my reading of the literature.
It’s not an either/or scenario. CBT is recommended already for pretty much all comers. ECT is last line in treatment refractory MDD.
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that's a point that many (too many) people misses right now. it will cause a lot of problem. If someone is able to reproduce (somehow) what AWS / Google does fro cloud, but with an EU company, they will have a lot of new customers very soon.