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> It’s not an accident that the recent “climate bill” just has a bunch of concessions for the oil industry

Read the article you cited at https://www.brookings.edu/blog/planetpolicy/2022/08/04/the-c...

It's a really good article that points out that this additional land will only be leased if the companies request it, and that will be driven by consumer demand. To quote:

> Analysis from Energy Innovation shows that for every one ton of expected emissions from the bill’s fossil fuel provisions, the bill will result in 24 tons of emissions reductions.

...

> The fossil fuel demand-reducing portions of the bill work at cross purposes with the fossil fuel leasing provisions. It’s an odd way to write legislation, but if that’s what it takes to pass the most important climate bill ever, so be it. As I’ve written before, ending U.S. oil and gas production is not the way to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. The world has plenty of oil and gas (even though it doesn’t feel that way right now) and the United States will import whatever it doesn’t produce, perhaps from countries with lower environmental standards and higher greenhouse gas emissions profiles than our own. Fighting fossil fuel demand is the way to lower emissions, and this bill does just that.
My advice is get out of the hosting business, it's not worth the trouble at a small scale ;)

There is always room for another hosting administration system, though 7 to 10 months sounds pretty optimistic when considering the feature list you'll need to even be seen as competitive with cPanel.

Webmin/Virtualmin seems like it has the ability to manage multiple VPSes, so that might be a more realistic target for comparison.
Yes, I suggest avoiding running rouge bash scripts on your phone.
Is there any actual evidence of this? My experience has been the opposite, that successful companies have staggering amounts of momentum and institutional knowledge.
This is the recording I am talking of : https://t.co/t7nLUskAKs
As it turns out, there's no shortage of goodwill towards the military industrial complex when people feel they're actually making the world a safer and better place.
If you use low bandwidth, EC2 is reasonably priced compared to cheaper alternatives such as Linode, DO, etc.

If you use a fair amount of bandwidth, AWS is outright a scam.

Of course bare metal is much cheaper.

In my previous job (gaming), colocation was literally 20x cheaper than using AWS EC2.
ML revolutionized translation a long time ago and the demand and pay for translators went down. It also used the works of thousands of humans who translated text and they never saw a dime. Copyright applies to translations so we've already gone through something similar. The same will happen with art and every other medium that ML touches. I have a love/hate relationship with ML because of this. It seems that there will be a painful transition period as many humans are displaced, probably even average coders like me. In a way, it's no different than what a human does but humans can't scale like computers. I hope someone can engineer a new economic system that works for what's coming.
"Premium" is a gross understatement. Depending on traffic pattern and whether app is traffic-heavy or CPU-heavy, it can be from 5x to over 100x more expensive.
Many other providers offer the useful services you'd ever need for a smaller company (Linode for example also offers managed databases and object stores) at a fraction of the cost.
It also eliminates chances of a singular long term vision being executed. I'm sure the success statistics of long term visions aren't great, but when it hits, it hits, I think.
The author, Josh Brown, hosts some refreshingly fun financial podcasts on YouTube called The Compound. I've been following them for months and highly recommend it. I learned quite a bit about investor psychology and how the markets operate.
You also have to remember that the culture is very different in the country. If you've been a city person for a long time, you're probably going to struggle to make any friends until you start acting like the locals.

Not so prevalent in a city where there's enough people to form smaller subcommunities, but in a small town you can't really do that and will need to put in effort to fit in.
Nothing is wrong with hosting on bare metal. However, this site doesn't host images or videos, tracking for Internet ads, etc. Instead, it is a text-driven old-school site (I believe hosted on FreeBSD). Must be light on resources. It is super fast. I am sure they have some caching in place too. HN's business model is different from typical websites. They are part of YC, which is how it can sustain itself.
In our case it's certainly the whales.
Disappointing. I would have thought that doing this would result in them spinning around each other at the speed of light and then like two black holes colliding, sending an explosive shockwave through the Internet.

Sorry to hear that not much happens. Nothing cool ever works out the way you hope it might.
Nope, but did realise we had some open buckets we didn't realise were open. Thankfully we didn't store sensitive information in there despite having 2PB of files in there.
I don't think this is necessarily true. You could just have malloc() bump an allocation pointer by the size, return the pointer pre-bump, or return NULL if we run out of space. Then free() can do nothing.

If you decide you want to have a malloc/free implementation that isn't as garbage as that, then you need some way to ensure malloc() does not ever return a pointer to memory that was already handed out - and I would argue that the book-keeping for this is this metadata being talked about. Even if free() took a "size" parameter, this would still be needed.
I learn what's needed for the task I'm doing.. On the side, whatever suits my fancy.

Tech companies that hire for specific language/framework skills.. Probably short-sighted in other areas as well.
> Then why is the singular “a” used?

Because that's how English works.

You can drive a Tesla, own an Andy Warhol, and jailbreak a John Deere.
Looking forward to ipv6!
You can lease capacity for significant savings.
I love WaniKani. It takes a very specific problem, the need for English speakers to memorize kanji as part of learning Japanese, and it makes an entire product out of it. Sure, you can do the same thing yourself using Anki, but they add in a bunch of convenience layers. They think out memorable and ridiculous mnemonics for each character and each bit of vocabulary. They organize it as a big DAG of dependencies for what you learn that's loosely based around the order you'd learn it in school, but adjusted for adults. They put it all behind a really nice website that understands that most of their users just have an American keyboard and want to write things with English letters. There's a big community, regular "you're doing it!" positive update emails, and more. Really great example of taking one incredibly specific problem and just knocking it out of the park.

If I had one complaint, it's that people do frequently fall off the wagon, and once you do, Wanikani can make getting back on the wagon really intimidating. "Oh, you've been gone for three weeks? No problem, no problem, welcome back, let's se....you have 2,473 terms to review today." I recognize that you don't HAVE to do all of those thousands of things right away, but some sort of "I'd like to ramp back up slowly, please make the large scary number go away" button would be really, really great.
As it turns out, that's what they were doing this whole time, at least with the Javelin program. Not something you can design and ship overnight.

The military-industrial complex exists for sure, but it's good to have high-tech arms when you need them.
Just expanding on the call options, one can even take a neutral hedge position by buying PUTs and CALLs at the same strike price. So, in essence you are betting that the price won't stay at the same level and would either rise or fall. Your net option premium is higher (approx. 2x of just buying a CALL opt or PUT opt only) but your long-term risk is much lesser (considering a sequence of bets) as scrips tend to be on an uptrend or downtrend in a given window and much less frequently get stuck in a range bound behavior.

Moreover when the assymetric event occurs (i.e., a meteoric rise or an abysymal crash), the loss is limited to the premium paid whereas the upside is huge.

Combine that with the Kelly Criterion (discussed widely here: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Kelly+Criterion) you have a strategy.
Good news, Pivot tables were added in v6.2. And there's an extension that provides similar support for PowerQuery. Tables do exist in LO calc.
In my case, my dad needed a Gui for stitching microscope images and he told me that none of the panorama stitching Guis were working for him.

I found out that the out of the box opencv Stitcher [1] class is perfect for that but nobody seems to have made a GUI out of it.

So, I've spent two days making an extremely simple proof of concept of a Qt Gui [2].

The majority of the time was spent trying to use GitHub Action to automatically build an executable...

If you go see in the release section, there is a tag with a prebuilt binary.

[1]: https://docs.opencv.org/4.x/d8/d19/tutorial_stitcher.html

[2]: https://github.com/kwon-young/ImageStitcher
What's the issue with running outdated software in a closed ecosystem? It's not like you can remote connect to those tractors over the internet...
Yeah, I'm Indian origin and don't give a shit about caste (and honestly, find it pretty hard to tell because I never ask), but it astonishes me to hear Americans drone on about how this is unbelievable and totally not something they'd ever do.

Meanwhile, the same people seem to have no problem automatically discerning that someone living on the Upper East Side in NYC is high class and treating them several times better than someone who comes from Random Town, Kansas.
Yes they probably can be trademarked.

But a big question is why? Trademarks are very expensive.

It makes sense for a company logo that was AI generated, but spending 100K+ for very limited protection of a piece of art seems questionable.
I think that comes down to having strong leadership (which you would want to minimize churn in, because the timescales of executing projects as an IC are an order magnitude different from executing on strategic goals). E.g. Amazon, Costco, Patagonia, etc.

If executives could finish meaningful goals in a few weeks like ICs can, I'm sure they'd be switching every 2 years too.
Makes sense. I can’t navigate for shit. Though I never have. As a scout I didn’t have intuition about north and south etc. Now whenever I need to go somewhere unless I know the route relative to where I start by heart I must use GPS/maps.
The HTTP version works fine for me, HTTPS got connection reset.

ReactOS is cool, but like any other hobby OS, it's not cool before it escapes the VM and works on real hw.
Does a VPS really have that high of a customer service requirement for that to be the primary purchasing criteria?

Besides, there are plenty of VPS providers with excellent customer service.
When do equal powers go to war? You go to war if you either have a massive advantage or you think you have a massive advantage. And war is just the last bit to enforce your power over the other entity.

Having the other side dependant on you in trade does give you a massive advantage.
> cold numbers on how much more expressive

I'll get on that right after you come up with a quantifiable metric for expressiveness.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I personally couldn’t care less about 99% quality. I want to see genius level work - of the same impact as Monet, Matisse, Picasso, Dali - something unlike anything else in the dataset.
To be fair my phone is probably the safest device I own. If I had do to 2FA that's where I would want to receive it, locked behind my fingerprint...
Still running FreeBSD? (Switching hosting likely didn’t warrant changes OSes, just curious).
I've read more than one warranty for such appliances that do not cover domestic use.
Isn't that theory from some total nutjob?
Don't know that acronym, is is "a-hat as a service?"

like help lines which charge 80 cents/minute to not help you?
It’s not an issue, it’s an opportunity for the owners of the tractors.
It's too simplified while talking efficiency. Let's see how much A/C become efficient over decades.
I force quit textedit as a way of saving. Then I don't have to go in and name my 20 open documents. Every few months I'll manually save or delete my files. But it's interesting that force quit is more convenient and less annoying than "save"
Sure. I think our society uses money as a medium of exchange, and that trade helps communities of all sizes fill gaps in skill and supplies that they're not able to provide on their own.

And I'd also argue that talking about someone paying taxes to support local services is not "only concerned with money," but whatever makes you feel enlightened, I guess.
Three out of those 4 things aren't functions. I do agree newer functions are missing (such as XLOOKUP) but for most people calc/excel is a high powered calculator and they use it as such. So Calc is perfect replacement. It's not the dark ages, that's an exaggeration.
> Asian christians pray in separate churches

that's not due to some artificial separation like caste...

it's something to do with homesickness/cultural/language-related natural phenomenon. (eg. church pastor is a friend of a relative etc)

and no one thinks one is above the other due to the separation. (except for cooking...)
Multiple negative comments on company & motive.

IMO - Encourage anyone who is building original OSS.

If you see any improvements, Fork It or Create a PR.

P.s, not associated with this repo, company or anything.
That's a cool idea ; feel free to use https://www.haaartland.com/ for this.

best/Niklas
I hate articles like this. The thesis is basically that radical activists have a platform which would never work to achieve reasonable policy goals. Well no shit. That's not the purpose of radical advocacy.

The underlying assumption of the author, which is so naively incorrect as to almost surely be in bad faith, is that groups like XR have the ultimate goal or function of taking over the apparatus of government (or society or whatever) and implementing an agenda. Their ultimate goal is to exert pressure on the policy and societal paradigms by pushing against broad assumptions that nobody else in the space is willing to challenge.

One thing that is mentioned here is degrowth. That's a great example: We have activists saying that if the precept of infinite economic growth is getting in the way of the climate goal, we should reconsider our assumptions about growth. This is a key element to honest intellectual/political discourse but it doesn't map onto a policy at all. An idea is that in some later political cycle, we will have a decision-maker who studied degrowth and found it more persuasive than yolo capitalism and fashions a responsive policy platform.

Articles like this are akin to an argument that we should close universities because people can't eat books. Return to farming! It's the only thing guaranteed to put food on the table!
Flexible I/O is one of those things Motherboard manufacturers reserve for the upper price ranges, unfortunately.
I made yet another trip to the garbage dump the other day and it really highlighted how much we throw it out because of poor quality goods.

I got pretty angry to be quite honest. All the damage to the environment! The labour wasted in installing, attempting repairs, throwing out etc. Even worse if you paid lots of $$ to have the thing installed by a professional.

And don't get me started on new fan-dangled plumbing connections that involve large amounts of rubber adapters that shrink over time and causes untold damage.

One thing I decided is to try to avoid plastic, favouring timber every time (e.g. seating, boxes)
What would the alternative even be? Having the users keep a buch of different RSA keys?
The weak ones don't just eradicate, they hide dormant in the nerve cells. Your body produces antibodies which makes the blood titer close to 0. That doesn't mean you haven't been given a lifelong viral load that is now embedded in your ganglia.

This is the nature of viruses..like it or not.

And live vaccines are often used because they tend to be more effective.

To be clear, I am only talking about live vaccines. Protein/mRNA vaccines give you antibodies without the virus, and I have no qualms with them.
as a service already has 2 'a's.
I know some people are just not interested in music, but if you were willing to give it a try I would suggest maybe instrumentals and music without lyrics. Or even music with lyrics in a language you don't know, it's easy to just tune it out instead of trying to process 2 streams of words (your work, and the music) at the same time.

No matter your genre, you're likely to be able find plenty of playlists without lyrics (instrumental only). I exclusively listen to instrumentals while programming, I can't focus if there are lyrics either.
Leaving the murder attempt aside (because we all agree, I think, that is was planed by someone "not too bright"), I think it's funny to see the hypocrisy of (most of) the West (let's be generic...) "intellectuals".

What this article fail/avoids to see is that "intellectuals" put the Right-to-Offense-Some-Categories as their new Cult/Religion. When you put an idea so high that you can't see the other's point of view, well it's called fanaticism.

Voltaire was one of them, & many "journalists" too. But of course some categories should not be offended because, well, we can lunch together tomorrow, so they're "with us".

Those who rush to say "we are all Rushdie" like conditioned Pavlov's dogs are simply fanatics of their Religion doing the same things as the hysterical mobs who burn flags at the other side of the world.

Well, it would be ok, at least, if they would accept to die for the Noble Cause that their Religion is. But you see them shocked & scandalized that their actions can have consequences, whatever unjust or barbaric they may be...
Is this legal (is there an explicit license allowing redistribution)?
Klar, bei welchem Gericht?
This way you probably lose the best people, the ones who is in high demand on the market (probably having several informal offers right now), and left with mediocre ones, who are too afraid to look for new jobs.
It definitely supports named columns and I am pretty sure 'tables' as well.
So long as you are producing consumer goods for the masses and not say hand-built sports cars, I don't think the alternative of a large well paid workforce to do what a large less well paid workforce can do is an alternative.

Having 10 skilled people and 100 robots do what 1000 people would otherwise do isn't some defeat, it's fantastic. Productivity is what makes people rich in the long term.
Consider the use case of the enterprise and larger scaled out services. Very few VPS providers will give you guarantees on isolated data centers in each region (availability zones) along with the huge list of compliance programs AWS is certified for. On top of that servers are only a small piece of the AWS universe. Application services (Storage, managed replicated DBs across AZs, managed APIs, streaming, IoT, CDN, identity management...) , and serverless containers and functions are mostly unavailable on small VPS providers.

As a solo developer, you don't encounter problems of scaling your engineering team and hiring devops engineers because you are doing everything yourself. The moment you have to hire expensive developers/devops all this starts making sense.

But even for solo/smaller accounts, many people are using AWS as a jump host with a programmable whitelist to reach their VPS boxes. Why? Because AWS security is likely best in the world - they spend massive amounts of money on this and many banks and even government services run on them.

(And even if you did us it only to scale servers, you don't need to click a button :) AWS autoscaling is finely programmable on all kind of application metrics even custom ones. Or by time of day: many teams routinely scale down their UAT and DEV clusters at night and weekends to zero with an autoscaling rule, more than halving server costs.)
What I'm dreaming of is an AI which can make any song covered by any performer or band in history of music.

Totally doable but would likely put you on the most wanted list above all the drug lords.
Anecdotally speaking, I had to stop depending so much on GPS when I started riding motorcycles. I was surprised at how easily I was able to get around North Carolina, USA using road numbers, signage, and intuition (i.e., I'm going east, so somewhere this small road should intersect 15/501).

So, I don't think that "kids these days" negativity towards GPS is entirely justified. Navigating by compass and map isn't trivial, but you can learn it if you need to.
This should be the top comment. Easy thing to deal with if identified.
Because it might imply to users that using nothing is better. Which leads to people reusing simple passwords... or post-it notes.
Did apple lose their courage? Maybe they should throw a dialog not unlike the 32-bit x86 deprecation
> The AI model can only regurgitate stolen mash-ups of other people’s work.

We all stand on the shoulders of giants. If you're very dismissive, I think it's easy to say the same about most artists. They're not genre-redefining, they carve out their niche that works (read: sells) for them.
That's not what a klarna transaction is.

Klarna pays the vendor immediately (with its credit line), and the user enters into a sort of debt contract with klarna.

Klarna's revenue is what it receives from the user.

It's a great business model when the interest rate is 0%.
Seniority doesn’t change a lot here:

- Sure, a senior might not use that NPM package coming from Zorglub89 on the internet, but then they’ll also execute slowly because of the hurdles of checking for these packages.

- Sure, a senior will perform external security audits regularly, but a lot of seniors are also in it for money or career and will be rogue.

IT has systemic leakage of PII.
Sure. For now. But I have to carefully police the features of every release before I start the application.

It’s a minefield. People will get hurt. Those of us who have been around will be entitled to say we told you so. But I hope users move away before they get hurt, which will happen.

This is a proprietary application and protocol. It will come back and hurt you. Get out while you can.
I agree that an above-ground base is probably not realistic without substantial shielding. The illustration I'm inclined to interpret as marketing fluff.

I don't think lava tubes are the only option, though -- they're just probably the best option in terms of most space for the least effort. Mars has a lot of sulfur which can be used to make a kind of sulfur-based concrete that isn't used much on Earth because Portland cement is much more useful and convenient. But let's say you can make building blocks out of sulfur-based concrete or some other native material. (Worst case you make them out of something light and bring them with you from Earth.) You dig a big hole in the dusty soil, then stack blocks igloo-fashion to make a dome in the bottom of the hole. Then you stack some more blocks to make a (relatively) dust-free stairwell, then pile the Martian soid set aside from digging the hole back over the top of everything else. So now you have a strong below-ground compressive structure that you can line with plastic or something and put in an airlock. The weight of the soil above counteracts the air pressure inside.

Ideally most of the habitat-construction work would be done by robots before people get there; that would be some tricky engineering though.
It's a good idea, but commercial equipment is often ugly in the context of a hole kitchen, and usually aren't built to fit in standard sized alcoves which many newer homes have.