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This is Debian we're talking about. If you package something for inclusion in Debian, you're supposed to update it with APT, not some home-baked updater that phones its own mama and displays its own notification.

If you want to push updates faster than Debian stable does, the proper way to do it is to provide a third-party APT repository. Then I can decide to disclose my IP to a mirror of my choice, using a proxy of my choice, that can be configured globally in /etc/apt.
Congratulations, you're seeing the results of capitalism and libertarianism in action. It's more profitable to cut safety and government obviously shouldn't step in to mandate it, as that would be too much intervention in the market, no?
If anyone knows a good lawyer, please contact me. I’m dealing with this exact issue. The noise levels are above the city code at night and it’s been going on for over two years with empty promises that it’ll be fixed
I doubt it. From what I understand, on top of squeezing the workers, railroad companies have been underinvesting in the infrastructure. I don't see how they would accept to spend billions in R&D (to my knowledge there is no fully automated train yet) and track/signals upgrades.
Is that similar to Social Security in the US? Maybe Social Security is at a smaller scale
> Part of the issue is related to Prince William’s 33-year-old noise ordinance, which in residential areas like Great Oak limits daytime noise to 60 decibels, or what a normal conversation sounds like from about three feet away, and 55 decibels at night. But the ordinance exempts air conditioners, which are what the data center cooling systems and exhaust fans technically are.

Okay, so the real issue is inadequate regulation. Amazon is many negative things but one thing they will do always is stick to the minimum effort required to adhere to the law. Want to change their behavior? Change the law. Enact noise abatement requirements and they will make it happen.
Well, you have to make a better title then. If people prefer Red Alert 2 to Red Alert 3, then it's not like Red Alert 3 somehow deserves or is entitled to any money or attention; it has to earn it by being a better, desirable product - and from the opposite side, the players are entitled to keep playing the older game forever, they paid for it fair and square.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaMDA
Wonder if they're still using an anti racist lens for this layoff. Didn't see it this time.
I understand why there is a law in place to make it illegal to strike.

But your logic would suggest to me that what instead would be needed is a law or set of laws preventing the situation from getting so bad that it would come to such a thing.

If it hurts so much for the system to break, then why is it allowed to rot? A strike isn't supposed to hurt "the company", it's supposed to hurt so that people with power are forced to take action to make it stop hurting.

All I'm suggesting is that a class analysis of this situation has a lot more explanatory power than an aesthetic party alignment one. Because if it can never hurt, then it is purely aesthetics.
I have said this before... this is in Google's culture and we must push back on it no matter what. It's basically the boiling pot and the frog.
Yes and no. The existence of The Railway Labor Act puts railroad labour at a massive disadvantage in bargaining agreements. The multi-year process to even get to a strike allows the railroad companies to "starve out" the strike effort. And then knowing that the government would never allow the strike to occur allows them to negotiate in bad faith the entire time.

One could imagine an alternate universe where the "end of the line" outcome of The Railway Labor Act was the government immediately nationalizing the railroad company in question due to it's failing to provide a crucial service to the national infrastructure. We can argue the effectiveness/realism of the outcome all day long, but as a thought experiment you cannot deny that the collective bargaining process would go entirely differently.
GPT and Bard only predict the next word in a sentence. If you give the full conversation as input and add the latest prompt, the transformer will be able to use that as extra context and predict the next words.
You've missed out a group there, it's:

* Would-opt-ins
* Would-opt-outs
* Don't-cares
* Did-not-know-that-google-are-going-to-run-telemetrys

By making it opt-out Google will be conveniently hoovering up the people that would say objects if they knew along with the don't cares.
Oh, so the EU makes vague laws that hurt the small guy because they are mad at the US?
A valid question. It could be obfuscation, ignorance, incompetence or confusion.

It's possible we won't know "who knew what, when" for 1~3 decades.
You could store the IPs in logs until the heat death of the universe and it would be fine, as long as you aren't able to translate it to an indentity (or give it to someone who can). The point of my comment is that an IP is only considered PII when possessed by someone who can do the conversion.
looking at the launch numbers from 2022 you can see that china is fairly close to having the capabilities of the us. Falcon heavy is still several years away from being useful in any capacity.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00048-7#:~:text=1.....
Congress does not REALLY prevent it from happening. The strikers themselves prevent it from happening.
That’s what lay-offs used to mean, even to the point it was common to layoff employees with an expected return date.

In the last 40 or so years the term has shifted to mean permanent termination.
>Does everyone understand what they eat? how electricity works? how their smartphone works? the drugs their doctor prescribes?

True, but you always have to balance them with the potential issues that could arise. I don't understand how drugs works, and that's why I need a doctor's prescription to take them. Many people don't know much about electricity, and that's why there are laws regulating how electric wirings have to be made and that say that only trained electricians can do wirings in homes. Many people don't understand how smartphones work, but what's the greatest damage that can result from this and how likely is it to happen?
They are not that random. They typically are motivated by some observation of something, for example discrepancies from Standard Model predictions, or obvious holes in the SM (like the Higgs). Yes, there a many, and people jump on many things which turn out to be noise. But "new particle" as the solution has a rather impressive track record: Atoms, Nuclei, Nucleons, Quarks, Neutrinos, Higgs. The list is not complete.
Really ? That's nice. I thought you had to install some ipykernel and all kinds of libs in your venv.

Maybe that's changed now
One issue is that it's just (essentially) repeating things that she has said before: http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2018/12/how-lhc-may-spell-e...

But the bigger issue is that all she's saying is that there is a problem (which everyone in the field knows) but doesn't offer any solution.

Note for example the bit about how there are many possible choices for what thing to test next, but only a finite amount of resources to do the tests which makes how one chooses what to try next a very important factor.

What modification does she propose to ensure it is done better? None! She just says "do it better", possibly thinking that is helpful advice?

So in summary these days Hossenfelder is being _exactly_ as helpful as the college that rolls in to your office, and, while filming for tiktok, glances at your screen and tells you to fix that stubborn segfault you have been struggling to debug for the last three hours.
Yeah, on rereading, it seems like you are spot on. I edited my comment to reflect that.
>The equipment that we are sending is excellent, but it is all old and literally surplus to requirements.

Can't speak about anything else, but the Challenger 2 Tanks the UK is sending are old or surplus. They're the UK's current main battle tank, and extremely capable.
>Many of those forces are close to Russian forces so a nuclear strike would endanger their own troops.

If one thing is blindingly obvious lately, it is that Russia doesn't care about their own troops, only about winning. Peter Zeihan reminds us that historically Russia needs to lose about a half million men before they consider giving up on a war.
I share your fear ; I am running this on my bootstrap budget. I have taken a couple of precautions -- my debug logs expire within 2 days and others within a month. and I have set alarms to trigger in case of increased or unexpected metrics and I have be tested those alarms . It is a very good idea to first write and test your alarms for AWS before you deploy to AWS . My docker images run on Hetzner cloud and Vultr and they have no network egress costs and there is no AWS network charge for data ingress.
> When people agree that Ukraine loses multiple times as many people for every Russian that dies

Sure, if you listen to the Russian propagandists and ignore the common sense in the simplest of questions, Ukraine doesn't have any chance of victory. But we'll soon get to the anniversary of Kyiv fallen in 3 days.

> That's sacrificing your population.

Big if true, but if you haven't noticed the population doesn't want to be butchered by Russians instead, or recycled by Moscow in the future wars, like Russian speakers of the 2014-annexed territories were.
How about making it compulsory to accept legal tender for events /races and other things? How many times do you sign up to run a race and are forced to purchase through vendors like "Event Dog" or other where paying cash is not even an option. And these companies always tack on up to 10$ "convenience fees" that are unavoidable. In places like Canada where currency is legal tender you can avoid these scummy vendors by paying the merchant cash directly
"to the extent permitted by law"
Children sticking around isn't the only option. My mom intends to follow me once I've found a place to settle down in the next few years. I'll give her extra money which should allow her to live quite well on top of what she has saved and she's already expressed interest in helping with grandkids if I have any (I probably will at some point).

Obviously this plan is made much easier by remote work and good earning potential for tech workers and I suppose some parents will be more attached to where they currently live than my mom is. But multi-generational is not outright impossible, I'd wager a significant chunk of the population could pull it off to varying degrees in one way or another.
No, the "small guy" should not be entitled to violate privacy and rights of EU citizens (or any people, for that matter), just because US doesn't grant same protections.
that is debatable, especially on linux.
"There's a commonly noted productivity slowdown in the Western world starting in 1973 that I and some other people here have written about."

We don't remark on this enough, but it is truly surprising (and worrisome) that the era when computers took over the world has also been an era of failed productivity growth and stunted economic growth. Every prediction suggested that computers would take us in a happy direction: that computers would increase productivity. More so, the spread of knowledge was supposed to enable an increase in the speed of innovation. Simply having Wikipedia exist should have contributed to the uptick in some kinds of progress. But now, we look back on the last 50 years, and we can see how wrong all of those predictions were.

Productivity stalled in the 1970s and has never again regained its previous speed on a sustained basis. New business formation stalled in the 1970s, the number of new startups has steadily declined since then. We've seen the greatest wave of corporate consolidation in history: as recently as 1999 there were still 8,000 publicly traded corporations on the various USA stock markets, but now there are only 3,400 such companies. And economic growth has generally been weak, despite a few good years, such as 1995-2000. The period since 2000 has been especially weak, even as computers became universal.

There is no technology in history where the predictions were so wrong, compared to the actual historical result. The decades when computers took over the economy were supposed to be boom years, instead we now call them "The Great Stagnation."
I don’t know how they can collect useful statistics when they cannot distinguish between 1000 invocations by the same user/environment vs. one invocation by 1000 different users/environments. And when they can distinguish, then that tracking is prone to fall under personal data processing.
I don't, yet. Just asking because it'd be quite useful.
They do do this, just not in all cases
if it's legal, it's still only available to individuals with the time, work ethic and intelligence to get good at it, the overlap of those with bad actors is probably fairly small.

If it's outlawed, it's only available to moneyed interests that need to practice institutional capture. The overlap of those with bad actors, well...
I've met quite a few (junior) devs who will follow guides instead of using their package manager because they come from Windows and aren't used to using their distro's tools.

I expect many professionals who do use Linux to run on stable possibly LTS versions of their distribution of choice and those rarely come with up to date tools for languages like Go or Rust or even Docker.

I wish installation would only come through package managers, but the amount of people I've had to help upgrade their Ubuntu to a newer version because they added a whole bunch of external repositories without realising the impact has taught me otherwise.

It's possible that distros will come out if the box with a /usr/share/go/env file even if Go isn't installed, but that'll take a while.
Honestly this espionage thing is overrated. Plenty of employees in the US take their knowledge to (domestic) competitors and find it quite hard to just clone a business. The Russians and US were stealing each other's plans during the space race but this often led to misunderstood and suboptimal designs. See Buran

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)
Is 50k really that much?

IIUC, Google's attrition rate is ~1/3 and they have ~250k people so each year there are ~80k people just from Google looking for a new job. Then take into consideration there are a lot more companies with their own attrition rate.
Literally impossible in the terrain they operate on
it was years ago.. the man decided on trades and executed them using a kind of terminal and base account that enabled that. Yet, "front running" is commonplace at all levels, in many forms. This man was a legitimate trader with credentials and ID, and when a SELL order was issued (get your money) the order did execute.. but how long did it take ? what prices changed while the order was being queued ?
> Perhaps the reason we haven't heard about these drones before could be that the US has never felt the need to act

My understanding, and it could be completely wrong (sourced from various tweet threads), is that the first balloon discovery prompted StratCom to change the nominal focusing range of our radar and optical networks, after which we suddenly discovered there were a lot more UFOs than anyone even realized, and that StratCom is just as surprised as the general public is.
None really - it was a joke. Claiming that the bush administration was lying about iraq having weapons of mass destruction would have been called a conspiracy theory, yet in time, we learned it was true.

I agree with you. I updated my original comment because I screwed up the wording.
64 bit came after Linux. And amd64 didn’t become popular until Intel moved to it unwillingly. Enterprise didn’t mess Around with amd at that point.
I lived there 20 years ago. It was not an "unimaginable disaster". Yes, there were pockets of extreme poverty in The Tenderloin, but overall, it was a fantastic experience. What timelines are you talking about? (No, I am not here to deny the current state of affairs, and its well-documented dramatic fall.)

And this comment: "most interesting city in the world" is just weird to me. It only has 750K people. How much culture can it possibly create? Not much. And it isn't very old, so it doesn't have any ancient history (sorry, hat tip to natives who lived there hundreds of years ago, but almost none of that culture remains). Mostly, it is a beautiful European-_looking_ city with a bunch of rich people in the Northwest Quadrant who can buy nice things. Most of the other three quarters are downright dull. It's not very important without Big Tech just outside its doorstep in the Valley. For example, New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, Rio, Paris, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Milan, Mumbai, Seoul, Tokyo, and Beijing produce vastly more culture. Wouldn't they be more interesting?
For me her positions are like a breath of fresh air. Sabine brings valid epistemological questions from a totally original angle. The questioning of the methods of the Academia is science in its purest form. The truth will only come out of this kind of stance.
whats your training rig like?
One huge thing in this release is being able to build gerber files on the CLI.

We're working to setup continuous integration here at work for the boards we make. Reduces a ton of human error being able to type "make" and get a zip file you can send to the fab house.
Novelty for one, she's been doing the "you should have been correct by now, for shame" routine for at least four years http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2018/12/how-lhc-may-spell-e....
But you're twilio, you acquired 2 other companies (sendgrid, segment) with the Fed 0%< and 20% of employees are the hr, finance, and canned feature growth.
This should be understood as a message to those rich people (and/or their dual citizenship proxies managing their assets) with dual citizenships: "US will not go balls-to-the-wall to bail your asses out like it would for its OG citizens. If you continue engaging in overly risky business over there, whatever consequences may be, that's on you."
The AI content will show up on time, not complain, not be a premadonna, not get tired or run afoul of union rules, not try to do their own stunts and then delay a production for months (impacting tons of other staff), not accidentally shoot someone on the crew, and not molest its coworkers. And that's just off the top of my head, there will be plenty more reasons.

No surprise Disney (and others) are going to be getting on that bandwagon.
"We" means "the Hacker News community discussing this topic."

You don't even know that I'm American. (I am, but you had no way of knowing that when I wrote my post.)

This is a website for discussing things and having opinions. That's kind of the point.

You're the one who assumed the collective pronoun was nationally based.

I am under no obligation to turn a blind eye to anybody's bad behavior simply because they live in a different country. Nor have I said anywhere that anyone else ought to treat me differently.

If a Russian person wants to critique the US response to Jan 6th, let them. I suspect there would be facts in need of clarifying if they think it's equivalent to Iran, but they're entitled to their opinion.
There are intensive language programs in which you can learn basic fluency in about 2-3 months. But you would be spending 40+ hours/week in this case.
I don't like UI components. I don't want to drag things on screen and put them on each other to something to happen.

Can't we have TUI instead, with fixed position menus, sane shortcuts, search bar for actions and options and such?

Just the other day I was wondering about how we have the touchscreen ticket vending machines for ~10 years now, and they are still not working when the whether is sunny or rainy. Moving the cursor with physical buttons was a much better construction.
FWIW, there is a proposal to add telemetry to LLVM [0] and Rust used to have telemetry [1], both off by default. Some things in the node.js world have telemetry enabled by default, like Next.js [3].

Some people are posting here as if this is already decided -- AFAICT, that's not the case. It's not even a formal proposal yet, and the stated intent was to start a conversation around something concrete. (For context, this is standard for how the Go project approaches large topics, including for example I think there were something like ~8 very detailed generics design drafts from the core Go team over ~10 years).

It sounds like the Go team is going to take some time to look into some of the alternative approaches suggested in the feedback collected so far.

In any event, this is obviously a topic people are very passionate about, especially opt-in vs. opt-out, but I guess I would suggest not giving up hope quite yet.

[0] https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-lldb-telemetry-metrics/6458...

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/issues/341

[2] https://nextjs.org/telemetry
Thanks for the kind words. At Lago, we want to break the notion that billing is always a "buy or build" option. Billing can be so different between companies that it may require a custom setup, infrastructure, and model. Furthermore, the "buy" options available are often not scalable enough for large companies.

With our open source version of Lago, we offer:
- Fair pricing: scale your billing as your company grows
- Composability: build the pricing/billing you have in mind, without the limitations of vendors
- Participative approach: contribute to the entire billing engine so other companies can benefit from it.
Allegedly, some axles were already on fire 20 miles before the crash: https://www.post-gazette.com/news/transportation/2023/02/10/...
I chose not to use sendgrid (twilio) because they force their own 2nd factor auth app, instead of allowing to use literally any of the ones already out there.

Anecdotal, but still
Also, some of them seem to be things to logically expect, IMO, like remmina having clipboard data shared between the endpoints. All fine as long as they are not hidden, and perhaps can be turned off.
Even with a net or harpoon, how do they bring these "city-bus size" things down safely and intact from 60,000 feet when they weigh so much?
Not sure what exactly you're trying to say. I asked if you opposed to the term "lads" because of UK reasons or political reasons. You could have just said political reasons - which is the answer to the question I posed - but no, you went off this wild tangent about how you oppose the term "leftist". Ok, you're on the left politically, that's why you strongly oppose using gendered term "lads" and also the term "leftist". Got it.
or 'tick this box or you're not allowed to access X, Y and Z parts of the tooling".

There's a big difference from functionality not existing to do this, and functionality existing that can change at any time. rsc's attitude about this comes with an air of "I want to alter the deal. Pray I don't alter it further"
Counter argument: we are averaging together two things, which includes a lack of natural world progress with massive deflation in anything computer bound. ChatGPT vs. healthcare costs. Taken together it is worse because the latter is more important, but there's been real deflation in amount of work per capital dollar.
The visuals aren't absent, that's what I was trying to say. They hold up surprisingly well, though a high-res texture pack would obviously help.

And in the VR realm there aren't a ton of large story FPSes now. Especially not of this caliber.
I don't think so but there is a solution: you can create a locked down role for user who can only see Cloudwatch metrics and visualization for your log group. I have not implemented this but AWS IAM gives you this ability.
I assume, in the long term, SP500 returns are equal to inflation.
There were no hospitalizations reported and the chemicals released are not really carcinogens. The risk from this particular chemical spill was acute injury, but fortunately that was avoided.