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Never going to happen. Unless somehow government became smaller and the people desiring access became fewer.
Look at the grocery market. Lowe's is another retailer I just remembered. We have home depot, but last I checked Rona, Kent, etc represent the rest of the competition in DIY stores
The fact that they use a metaphor in their ban of metaphors is unintentionally hilarious
Sure there is! The thread that binds it all together is history. Understanding what's going on with JK's axe she's grinding starts in the 1970s with the rise and splintering of the Radical Feminist movement, the rise of Radical Lesbian Feminism and in particular the seminal book for what people now call TERFs, The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male written in 1979 by Janice Raymond. Absolutely nothing uttered by JK is her own original idea and you can trace them all the way back to where they actually came from and what was going on in history at the time that precipitated them.

Gender studies is basically history + philosophy but focused on a particular topic.
That's just it. If a Tesla can't figure out that it shouldn't drive through the big red thing, then it can't do anything at all.

I don't have any idea why that happened. It seems odd. I'm afraid I'm always a little suspicious of such stories, since so many turn out to be people lying about the auto-driving.

It's entirely possible that Tesla failed to train the things on fire engines. I rode in a Tesla the other day and was a bit surprised that it didn't note ambulances as different from other trucks. If they've failed to train them on any emergency vehicles, that's a serious problem: there are laws like "pull over for fire trucks" that it can't follow.

And again, that's not a problem LIDAR can solve. Something is very wrong if it identified a big red object as a thing it was allowed to drive on. LIDAR would solve the accident, but not the fundamental question of whether self-driving would work at all.
That's really interesting that they picked brushes; Renault's EESM motors are similar but use wireless power transfer to excite the rotor windings. Maybe brushes can pass more current cheaply?
Pretty cool examples bro, Saudi Arabia had a bloody history, where the brits helped the current monarchy take over in the 18th century. The US has 5 military bases there btw. One might consider that a (now) peaceful occupation.

I didn't know Alaska was a country.

I don't really know much about Norway's petrolium history, but I can't say I'm surprised that they weren't invaded for their oil, which is in the sea to begin with.
so how do you all make tech tolerable? Bonus points if you work in ops like SRE or something
Genuinely curious, why do you need Rust?
I picked up riding again after .. 40 years and a car braked in front of me and I did a perfect skid stop without even thinking. we are really amazing things.
"Chapelle was canceled!!!" which is why he is selling out stadiums and making millions right?
How much are you willing to bet on that? I'm happy to put down $1000 that this will not happen

Germany has for instance transitioned to using significantly more open-source software in the governmental institutions, as has many other EU member states

They would not support this proposal if it would result in an expensive reversal of these efforts
The previous definition was Adult Human Female, dropping the adult is weird because you wouldn't consider an 11 year old experiencing their menarche to be a woman right? I think the tropey phrase would be "becoming a woman".

But okay you would like to define a woman as a human female, "an organism that in sexual maturity produces ova (large gametes (reproductive cells))", if a prepubescent takes hormone blockers for their entire life does that interrupt your definition of woman? What about if an XY Swyer Syndrone individual has a functional uterus and ovaries? What if a female with hypogonadism takes hormone therapy to prevent infertility?

Sex is not binary, gender is.
> Those that understand privacy, actively work to improve anti-fingerprinting and to protect users against more advanced attacks - are even fewer.

> We believe that the Tor Project is one such organisation. We share their values when it comes to human rights, freedom of expression, anti-censorship and online privacy.

The Tor Project is primarily funded by the State Department and DARPA. Make of that as you will.
The most similar language to Python is Ruby, not Rust or Go, and Ruby is better at the things you've listed. Which would bring us back to the previous point that it's not actually about ease of use.

Someone else identified Ruby's fatal flaw as not having good C tooling, and I think that's probably accurate.
The problem is the runaway complexity of modern computing. If you want review and certification, you have to wade through millions of lines of code, even for projects with a well defined "contact surface", like an OS kernel.

"Traditional" engineering never had to deal with this much complexity. We make do, because our tooling (which itself suffers from said complexity) is somewhat decent at catching many classes of problems before they cause IRL harm: a compiler is somewhat likely to yell at you before you push the broken code to production, CI makes sure you actually ran the tests, etc. Working *on* these tools also requires a broadly similar skillset as working *with* them, whereas e.g. an architect needs an incredibly different skillset from someone building CAD software. So the tools get "better", so the software can continue growing more complex.

So all of this (and much more) effectively lets us get away with much more complexity, and I think it's the crucial bit that people calling for more regulation miss. I am a software development professional, 15 years in the industry. I am scared shitless with how all of my tools, libraries, "supply chain" - are so complex, indecipherable, opaque, impossible to understand. I've been working on this one project for over 4 years now, and I'm yet finding bugs that were introduced 3 years ago. How can *you*, as an independent outside reviewer, help me in any capacity, if it takes several months just to onboard someone, and additional domain expert knowledge (video delivery) to fully understand? If you can do it, well, I'm gonna hire you to work for me instead.

But if you can't understand it - what are you certifying? That it didn't break in your lab? We already run a staging system - thanks for double-checking, I guess?
The housing market here is very robust due to many jobs being linked to the government, often in groups which never see significant budget cuts. I anticipate a bit more deflation of property values, but not a crash.

HQ2-proximate properties will probably not be able to maintain their asking price, but I'm guessing property owners will do the NoVA thing of sitting on overpriced property long enough to try to squeeze as much out of it as they can.
New study puts Hollywood journaling technique to the test
The brushes are almost certainly graphite, which actually isn't a metal.

Also graphite is diamagnetic, so strong magnets actually push it away.
"Disco Stu: Didn't you know that Disco record sales were up 400% for the year ending 1976? If these trends continue, eyyy!"
No magnets doesn't mean no magnetic fields. I believe they were referring to permanent magnets. An electric motor without any magnetic fields would be a very odd device.
One of the simplest methods of beating most decent planes is the crumple it into a ball and throw it method.
In New York, it was conviced monopolist GM.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_con...
Right - part of their leadership wants to to RTO now! The other part says "wait! offices are too expensive and even H2 isn't safe. Wacky world we're in.
Ben Stiller himself has commented on the blackface in the movie being a satire of blackface in cinema. There would be no problem with a popular director making that kind of movie today.
I'm deeply familiar with the actual draft proposal of the law and no person working in security would consider these outrageous. this shit really is just best practice and good security hygiene.

refusing to quote what you mean is bad faith. and you're not really contributing to the conversation
> and those batteries only last about 8 to 10 years.

Presumably, they don't stop being lithium after 8-10 years.
You are an inspiration - the chandelier on your website is a thing of joy. I may reach out soon, my wife and I have been talking about a side table that she has very definite ideas about.

(I'm working my way through the Anarchist Design book and thinking about getting started on the stick chairs).
Ask HN: Open-Source Operations for Organizations
Who is working on making operations easy for organizations that are on shoestring budgets?

As a technically-inclined and civically-minded person, I find myself frequently trying to help various organizations from an operations perspective. I've noticed that nonprofit or political organizations typically have almost no budget and overstretched staff. To make matters worse, many political organizations (in the US) are technically 527 organizations if they are partisan, which makes them unqualified for most nonprofit pricing.

It seems that EVERY SaaS is hell-bent on per seat licensing, which has the effect of knee-capping these organizations so only core-staff can afford tools, and no one else has access to what they are working on. Self-hosting and full administration doesn't work, because they don't have the staff for it. Also you'd need to engineer the different parts to meet the needs of the organization.

I've thought about this problem a great deal, and what I want to know is this: Are there any groups working on making organizational operations easier to deploy?

What I'm imagining is something like the free software foundation, but specifically focused on figuring out best practice solutions using open source software to solve common operational use cases. I know about Apache OpenMeetings, Big Blue Button, etc. These are applications, I'm talking about a more turnkey approach to how the entire organization would run, including all of the applications required.

Like mail-in-a-box, but organization-in-a-box. I'm imagining a omnibus server that can be deployed easily to a cloud provider and meets the needs of most organizations. Like a kubernetes helm "deploy organization" after filling out a small set of inputs.

Are there any organizations working on anything like this? Seems like there's a HUGE need for this and it could really do some good.
Move fast, break things explained
> Begging the question.

No: deferring the question. To a regulatory agency. Staffed with hundreds or thousands of intelligent professionals in the discipline. Mandated by congress to deeply study and understand the issues. Spending decades improving and refining their process. Occasionally getting captured by industry or special interests, which we should fight hard to prevent, but won't always win. Often not quite keeping up with the technological edge, but slowly improving.

What's the alternative?
Amen. I am exactly here, just before forty...

I went to college and tried a year of grad school, and then ran off to become an electrician. This is a profitable career but is extremely tough on body; any position within the industry, it is still physical labor. Now, after fifteen years of sacrificing myself "for the big bucks," I am left wondering whether I will be able to fit into a work environment that isn't construction [knowing that I must make this transition].

It is paralyzing fear, and removing this debilitation is hard when people are literally throwing bonkers money at anybody even claiming to be a skilled tradesman, right now — my body is done! The money is good! Whatdo?!

I'm currently "taking time off" and re-exploring a childhood love of computers... learning python, bought a new computer for first time in over a decade... trying to love this all!

And now with all the AI coding and copywriting... UGHHHHH. The timeline, it's just brilliant and perhaps I'll just retire and enjoy a new AI existence =P
People who say you can't make movies as offensive (or playing as much with offensiveness, anyway) as Tropic Thunder or Blazing Saddles anymore need to look into some of Lloyd Kaufman's output with Troma... the 2020 Shakespeare's Shitstorm is about as wildly-offensive (but maybe to good purpose? I'm still not sure, LOL) as it gets, and even directly targets the (in the pejorative sense) "woke" crowd (plus, like, a lot of other groups, including stuffy conservatives, big business, and shitty bigots) which is one of the riskiest moves a film could make these days, and that's just one of several risky moves it makes. Like, the movie's basically built of risky, boundary-pushing creative choices relating to very-relevant topics, which... might serve some greater, noble whole? Maybe? I think it's trying to, at least.

Now, a wide-release, mainstream movie, that might be true.
Ouch. That looks like a torture device. There should be some monocled guy petting a cat saying "let's see if you can type your way out of this, Mr. Bond".
This is a letter to the general community: please stop writing these scripts in perl and bash one liners. That one off script you thought would only be used once or twice at this nonprofit has been in continuous use for 12 years and every year a biologist or journalist runs your script having no idea how it actually works. Eventually the script breaks after 8 years and some poor college student interns there and has to figure out how perl works, what your spaghetti is doing and eventually is tasked with rewriting it in python as an intern project (true story).
Thank you very much! We found that a lot of similar "relational database" tools ended up not actually using foreign keys for relationships because they are difficult to explain to non-technical users. We took that as a UX challenge. :). The power of relational databases comes from the relationships, so we want to help users understand and use them.
The most concerted and dangerous attack on Open Source since a long while. Even as it is, it will kill a lot of Open Source projects due to the risk of not only ambiguous, but !unbounded! fines. There isnt a cap on the fines like 'X% of your revenue' like in GDPR.

Not that the majority of Open Source projects have any revenue. Only the biggest ones that are like Linux etc, who are sponsored by major corporations that use them can be at ease with this law.

And in that you can understand how evil this law is:

Its carefully crafted to avoid risking the major software that megacorps are using. But it cripples & bankrupts all Open Source and also private small software producers. Whose users will have to turn to big corp apps and SaaS as a result. Whereas the large Open Source projects that are sponsored by corporations as a foundation will become totally beholden to those corporations as if they were external product organizations of those corporations because they cant risk funding themselves in any other way...

It looks like something that is crafted by the German private interests that currently dominate the Euparl.
A related puzzle: https://www.quaxio.com/know_your_bits/

More such puzzles: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15213-f02/www/L1... and http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/public/datalab.pdf

Bit Twiddling Hacks: http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html
I hope people realize The Atlantic is baiting us to outrage. For the clicks, of course.

No question, these language guides are pretty absurd (at least to someone my age) and have very doubtful moral value... but these are internal guides, for their own communications. It's the Sierra Club's job to figure that out what language their donors/members (potential or current) want to hear. I have no idea if they are getting it right here, but few of us do, because that's highly domain-specific knowledge and tricky to nail down.

It's downright dishonest and sensationalistic to apply one of these guides to a book like Behind the Beautiful Forevers. What does a communications guide have to do with book authorship?

The article is really just an extended straw man argument. BTW, the first sentence of the Sierra Club guide explains it's intended purpose:

> One of the most visible ways the Sierra Club can demonstrate our commitment
to equity, justice, and inclusion is by using respectful, thoughtful language in all of our communications.

But delving into that isn't going to drive a lot of click so they went another way.
Where in Europe, because outside Norway Tesla's don't dominate at all. [1] They had around 15% market share and the last few months that dropped.

Maybe because in Europe you have other auto makers that make electric and non electric versions of the same car so you just assume they aren't EV? The Hyundai Kona is basically the same outside except for the front grille and no exhaust. Unless you know that, you don't really know the difference. I would say (in Portugal) on my daily drives I identify around 6/7 Evs for every Tesla. And as I said, I probably missed some as I can't distinguish them

[1] https://alternative-fuels-observatory.ec.europa.eu/general-i... (oct 2022, first data I found but there is also anual)
The current state of Iran is a result of the Revolution.
I am not aware of Android and Kubernetes being leaks, they were open source from the start. For Android, openness was a big marketing point. I am not aware of IE leaks, and if there were leaks, hackers searching for exploits would be probably be the most interested, and that would be a bad thing for Microsoft.

The problem with leaks is that they don't come with a license, you don't have the right to use them for any legitimate purpose. No one who could afford a 250k/year license would touch that leak as it could get them in big trouble.
This. It's about time software is treated like any other engineering: lives depend on it. Not enough heads are rolling.
I don't think it's enough. Java without null would still have Log4Shell. The current model where any piece of code can do anything it likes needs to be abandoned before we can expect any kind of security from our systems.
Doesn't that depend on the client company, rather than IBM? I'm going with what I know from the one (big,financial) corp that I worked in with COBOL on mainframes; there, we didn't use linux at all.

Anyway those environments are downright sclerotic (the worst thing about working with COBOL that nobody mentions). They didn't even let me install Firefox on my work laptop. They had people doing web dev, obviously, but the mainframe teams were more, let's say, conservative.
No direct experience with either, but, from what I understand, a COBOL application written to run in CICS looks a lot like a serverless app, with the difference that the company owns the multi-million dollar server.
Here’s the specific line that cites AFL++.

> “Also, we use the implementation provided by [17] for Radamsa, Redqueen, and LAF-INTEL. Note that autofz can adopt any fuzzer sup- porting seed synchronization, and no fundamental obstacles prevent their integration. Therefore, autofz can truly enjoy the benefit of increasing diversity of the fuzzers.”

From my read of it, they took very specific parts of AFL++, but not the whole thing. The strength of AFL++ comes from having many optimized subcomponents, which is similar to the goal of this paper. Why not compare against the optimized AFL++? This leads me to suspect that autofz compares poorly to AFL++.
Isn't all of this explained in this blog post (https://openai.com/blog/planning-for-agi-and-beyond)?

It makes sense. OpenAI would be dead if they remained a non-profit. They couldn't possibly hope to raise enough to achieve the vision.

Microsoft wouldn't have been willing to bankroll all of their compute without them converting to a for-profit, too.

Personally, I'd rather have a ClosedOpenAI (lol) than NoOpenAI.

And their actions, like making the ChatGPT API insanely cheap, at least shows their willingness to make it as accessible as possible.
> maybe software developers shouldn't be so hard to use?

This whole take assumes bad intention on both sides. Nobody's job is easy in this situation. Leadership's job is to set everyone up for success. If things go off the rails and end up with months of back and forth leading to nobody being happy despite good intentions and honest effort, then the problem lies with leadership.
I taught myself coding during high school in the mid-1990s, built a lot of my own web projects, and I worked for a series of startups. I've loved web dev for over 25 years.

A long-term coding contract recently ended for me, so I have been looking for some new full-stack web dev work. Everything I encounter now is tangled in over-engineered dependency hellscapes. Simple sites that could be vanilla HTML/CSS/JS are instead built and rebuilt on whatever tools and frameworks are currently trendiest. Technology is selected because it is cool instead of appropriate. I don't mind learning new tech if it's useful and fitting, but I loathe the 'disposable skills' of dumping frameworks every 2 years.

I've watched this tendency gradually growing in web dev circles for about a decade, but in just the past few years it's gone bananas. It's so much unnecessary faffing, it's got me looking into other fields for new work.
There's not really anything inside a pyramid. It's just a pile of rocks. There are a few chambers, but you don't need the entire pile of rocks for people to experience those.

If you want to stand inside a big pyramid shape made of modern materials, you can go to Las Vegas. From inside it looks like any other building, though I suppose the rooms with the slanting windows are faintly neat.
Oxford is not in Nevada.

This is where the culture war comes in: there's no reason why people in Nevada should care about traffic planning in Oxford!
To be honest, you seem like the one with an issue. You're rejecting the general norm which is at this point painful, and everyone agrees, but it's the best thing we have. Your excuse to rejecting it is your own ego shooting outwards -- "99% of people haven't done what i have." That's cool and all, and I'm sure you're a very smart person, but just by the fact that you wrote this, I can tell you might be very painful to work with and would already be a huge red flag. Kill your ego and your experience in the world will be much better
That is interesting, I wonder if the same holds true for Saks and Saks off 5th.
My mother built her career on COBOL from the mid-70s to the late-90s. She's retired now, but still talks about what a great language it is. She tried learning Java in the late-90s, toward the end of her career, but hated it. "What's an object? Everything? Everything is an object? That's just dumb." LOL

And yeah, she still gets offers for consulting work, but she wants no part of it. She's done working.
I'd like to thank Tesla for making this happen. They mislabeled their own self driving product and pushed it to market too early. Now everyone is afraid of something that should be safer than the status quo.
Well, the iX is just about the most efficient EV on the market (in it's style), so they've clearly figured something out.