skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Corporations want the pubic to think that governments are incapable of running services for them. Then the public service can be asset striped and run on a shoestring. When the private owners get called out for providing a bad service their veiled argument is "well at least the government isn't running it, that would be even worse!".

Obviously there are cases where the government fails and that can't be given a free pass, but this is too often assumed to be the outcome and the only solution is privatisation.

Even in the UK where there is the feeling that government is totally incompetent the NHS keeps providing at least a baseline level of medical care expected from a western country. This is despite being sabotaged at every opportunity over the last 12 years by the Tory party.
How did they rank the ranking prompt?
I never got any value out of Favstar. Will probably just mute the term and hashtag.
By raising the prices of your local monopoly to the yield-maximizing level whilst cutting overheads as much as possible.
Yep, this is the way forward. Long time ago, I also started some groundwork to build something like this, but had to stop it due to lack of time. As this would be a multi-year effort, with no commercial gains (which is a feature in my view).
But what is the definition of a public good? Is it only to be limited to things that are natural monopolies/network systems (as you suggest) or should it also include practically non-excludable and non-rival goods (information)? I would argue we should go further. Some goods should be considered to be morally non-excludable goods. We should have the moral courage to assert that we cannot exclude health care to all people (interestingly the NHS is seemingly the last bastion of public goods in the UK, though the market fundamentalists have it out for it too). However, market fundamentalists usually don’t seem willing to take such moral stands and instead all moral decisions are implicitly left to the market. In the hands of such practitioners, markets are smokescreens for classism, racism, etc.
Wow! Even more interesting than I guessed, very cool!
Minimizing costs and competition?
Offering shitty, expensive service. It's not like customers can use a competing rail line, so every dollar you invest in customer service is a dollar out of your pocket.
Domain-driven design approaches software development with a focus on engineering teams gaining a rich understanding of business rules and processes from domain experts. It involves engineers being involved early on in the discovery phase and working closely with project stakeholders and domain experts directly. By doing this engineers can build rich domain knowledge into their code and develop quality software that is fit for purpose and easy to maintain. Value objects are just one concept from domain-driven design that help us to do this.
Or you have state-run education as another competitor. Or you can have the state sponsor promising but poor students. You can even incentivise private enterprises to give bursaries to promising but poor students.
By cost-cutting and offering the bare minimal of service...

Especially when the service is a necessity for many (Train to work, water to drink, electricity to keep warm and cook, etc).
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So, this might not be my strongest metaphor, but I see free markets a bit like the arena in fight club. Two people fighting, the others forming a circle that pushes the combatants back to the center.

We want the "fight" to occur. Economies are complex systems and humans have extensively proven that they're not good at running those. Free markets are the most effective way to facilitate technological progress and economic growth which indeed benefits everyone - although not in equal amounts.

However, we have to be mindful that free markets contain the seed to their own destruction. On the upper end, there's monopolies, price fixing and other anti-competitive behavior that disables the price finding mechanism.
On the lower end, there is poverty which prevents people from participating and discourages entrepreneurship.

Good regulation does just enough to keep the fighters in the arena.
You can safely continue your professionnal jjourney elsewhere but not in IT. Thank you!
Hi, we don't change Prisma's query syntax as of today, so there's no native support for geo queries. We may start to extend the query syntax in the future, though. GIS query is a very popular ask.
The problem is probably not cibuildwheel. That having been said, the maintainers are knowledgeable and responsive, so I would try to open an issue first. Speaking from personal experience, they were able to help me to solve my problem in a couple of hours.
odd to say problems of capitalism when none of those are peculiar to capitalism. and a regulated market in which lobbyists vie for preferential treatment is the antithesis of a free market
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> What you are saying makes sense. If you are running other valuable apps, then it isn't a waste.

'Valuable' is pretty subjective though. Most of the services are for entertainment purposes. But I also host quite a few useful things such as Bitwarden and CouchDB for Obsidian Sync.

> I calculated 20.9kg / user / year.

You are right. I forgot the 24 hours in my calculation:

(0,0191 * 250 * 365,25 * 24) / 1000

I also noticed that my comment was incorrectly formatted. I've since edited my original comment. If I factor in my complete homelab I use about 40Wh, which corresponds with about 90kg of CO₂ yearly. Which doesn't sound all that bad to me.
How does that have anything to do with X not keeping up with new hardware or using the same kernel APIs as Wayland for communicating with said hardware?

What you describe is a minor annoyance at most, not at all on the same level as being unable to use X because of newer hardware. Even if it isn't fixed, one can still be worked around or just ignored, but the other just makes the whole thing literally unusable.
Some even make it their personality trait
Sure you can, but you can also throw things in randomly and see what works then build theory around it.
i do feel chrome devtools is just edges out firefox's
Minimise investment to maximise profits, which you take, whilst running the minimum service required to avoid contract penalties or publicity so adverse you lose your contract.
Then threaten to go bust and get bailed out by the government when the infrastructure starts to break a few years later.

At least that’s they playbook they’re all using.
> so shifting blame is easy.

But are the contracts actually useful? I wager that to have support from Red Hat is really useful beyond what you may view as "corporate politics".
Privatization of public sector has nothing to do with free market. Free market has been dead since the 19th century.
What was unenjoyable? And which EV was most enjoyable?
You want to provide quality education to __ALL__ of the population. I don't mean university level education.

I mean real world education, such as how their body works, how to navigate society, critical thinking, cognitive biases, how probability works. If humanity is to survive we need to move away from empiricism and dogma, we need to move towards an educational system where kids grow into rational adults.
Sonata: Revolutionizing Social Media with Social Responsibility
> There are people working on this, but afaik the techniques aren't quite there. You need a different kind of model with much more parallelization then what is currently used.

What if crypto is switching from mindless hashing as proof-of-work to training AI models as proof-of-work? That would mean suddenly big computing resources are available.
I'm launching a new microblogging platform called Sonata which presents a leap ahead in what I've called social responsibility, detailing the most important things a platform must do to ensure it acts in the best interests of both users and of society as a whole, currently with 33 strict requirements.

https://info.sonata.social/third-generation-social-media

With so many Twitter alternatives emerging, there have been surprisingly few attempts at establishing a new ideological standard for how all social platforms should operate in regards to responsibility.

Sonata is currently invite only while testing and will meet all 33 requirements of a Third Generation platform as part of its full public release due later this year.

For a full breakdown, see the Sonata whitepaper: https://info.sonata.social/whitepaper
Cutting corners and costs e.g. shutting ticket offices, doing just enough to barely offer the service. It's not like your passengers have any sensible alternative. If that doesn't do it then you can also load the company up with debt and pay yourself a nice dividend until rates rise.
Also see:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36666881
This is really an eternal debate because both public and privatised services fail in numerous and various ways. The answer is a hybrid model, but because of complexity, there are always examples of failure to point at. So we’re doomed to swing between these models forever.
So one job that has been 'taken over by ai' before it even started ?
Anyone running Debian testing, and filing bug reports, is your hero.
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What shitty practice internet blocking is.

I am hopeful EU can at some point introduce legislation to prevent this from happening.

(alongside widespread deployment of eSNI/ECH and tls'd dns)
So you support Bill Gates creating an uncountable amount of CO2 with his inefficient OS (not to mention ewaste from CPU limiting), but a single individual running their server for a few hours longer than you like is “tantamount to malice”? Do you even care about Earth, or do you just care about reciting capitalist talking points?
By competing to make the best rolling stock, online booking systems, catering, cleaning services, etc. These contracts should be put out to tender and should the promised level of service not be delivered then contracts should be lost and/penalties applied where necessary.

Most important is that the target service coverage, quality, etc should be decided by government (who should be seeking to please voters), not corporations who are seeking to please shareholders.
Roots of trust are difficult
Linux is a kernel. Debian is an OS.
Its not even 10 years old. The hardware is aging but the only reason its “outdated” is due to a software lifecycle forced by one or more corporate entities. These are an obvious tool to force sales/upgrades.

I’d be nice if this community weren’t so quick to defend planned obsolescence, especially at a 2-3 year pace.
Cut costs. And if youre in a monopoly position, you can in addition prices.

I mean, do you really not understand how earnings are calculated, or are you trolling?
There are two tests that privatisation has to pass. 1. Would it result in a monopoly, if so that’s a fail. 2. Does privatisation add value to the consumer? The evidence on that one so far is absolutely not.

In general public services exist as public entities because they would otherwise necessarily be monopolies, and the only lever the public can therefore have is some kind of democratic process.

In the case of UK privatisation it’s clear that the policy was merely a wealth-pump designed to extract value from a captive set of consumers.
Somehow I am being blocked by Cloudflare from accessing the website. I am not on VPN or something.
Was Vice always like this? Just vapid opinions that mean nothing at all, just whining about things.
By running your lines on a shoestring budget, how else would you? The contacts have a fixed life time, keep your expenditures low and you can extract the highest profits. Long-term maintenance in particular suffers after privatization, because why would you, that doesn't align with your goals. And the risk is nill, because the government needs to provide the services so if things go awry you have little too worry about. They will have to bail the line out. Just find a way to move money from the entity to shareholders while you can and you're good, they are not clawing that back.
1.) Force other competitors to go belly-up or buy them to create a Monopoy or if the authorities don‘t let you do that, try to end up in a duopoly situation where you and your competitor come to some silent agreement to not overly compete.

2.)
Raise the regulatory bar to prevent startups from entering your field.

Milk whatever half dead infrastructure you have and people depend on.

Oh and raise prices every odd year while still not investing in the rotten infrastructure.
Somehow investors need to see growth and dividend payments.

Due to 1.) there is no competitor left that could offer a better service. People cannot simply switch.

Die to 2.) you are not in danger of ever having to face situation 1.) again.

Job of the government is to not let 1. and 2. happen.
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The infrastructure isn't privatised though, it's maintained by Network Rail.
A more useful thing to talk about could be tips and pitfalls of feature flags.

- Minimize accessing databases or external services to check a feature flag because it adds up to response times and server load.
- Always try to query the feature flag on the top level of your stack (eg. the controller in Rails) to prevent querying it repeatedly while generating the response.
- Make sure changes in feature flags are applied across processes and threads simultaneously so the flag doesn't appear to flip/flop for the user (eg. tkae rolling restarts during deploy into account).
- Use the dumbest solution possible for your use-case (eg. Rails.application.config.x.features.dark_mode_enabled = false).
- Remove feature flags as soon as they are no longer used or necessary to prevent confusion and unnecessary maintenance workload.
On the back of his Ambient 4 album Eno gave instructions for a cheap way of getting a sort of surround sound using a third speaker. I did this as a teenager with my mediocre record player and a small speaker with almost no bass - it worked surprisingly well

http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/onland-txt.html
I use monolith 90% of the time. I think you missed my point. I just said that I could be similar level of productive in well thought of microservices division.
SUSE has customers with mixed-distro deployments that were supported by SUSE Liberty Linux. Those customers might have had questions about what happens now. This seems to be one part of the answer.
Docker is way too pervasive. It’s a great option, but it shouldn’t be the only option.
Money is power. Regulation is a fig leaf. Think of taxation: the government makes all the rules on how much tax a business should pay under this or that circumstance. How much tax do the biggest companies pay? Next to nothing, pound for pound. Because they are able to use their money to exert power. Companies will always do this, so regulations will always erode over time.
That's... amusing.
(not) sorry to say that when a company has a strong ethos of providing great service it is primarily motivated by profit. even if it is known ahead of time that the profit won't materialize for decades.

you must mean immediate profit
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A lot of people are also locked-in linux if they have to use e.g. docker or kubernetes, not to mention FOSS hooked to systemd or other linux-specific technologies. Say goodbye to compatibility and portability to other systems.
Linux desktop adoption being bad might be a good thing. UNIX-like systems are very obsolete and something to move away from.

I'd rather it be the next system that takes off. Hopefully a properly engineered system based on a microkernel (such as seL4) multiserver architecture, preferably with capabilities.

I do of course use Linux, as a stopgap until such a thing is here.
> Except that Bangladesh (hanafi) is a big exporter of shrimp, go figure.

And India exports beef in quantities comparable to the US and Australia.
And one of the worst ironies is that some of our franchises are run by the state rail companies of other countries. Meaning we are subsidising rail travel in foreign countries.
It's like asking whether a carpenter is a scientist because they developed a cabinet...
Free market works because of competition. When you are privatizing utilities and public services, most often you are creating monopolies, which means no competition.
The thing is they are not harmful, they are valuable above a certain scale. To caricature, monoliths scale with O(n) and microservices O(nlogn). At some point the lines cross and microservices start to get better. The problem is there's no clear answer to where is that point as it also depends on the product being built and other company specifics. But I wouldn't see it being usually worthwhile below a hundred devs.
Public sector companies are audited by a state institution and the reports are tabled in Parliament where the oversight committees are majority controlled by the corrupt ruling party.

Members of said committees are usually clueless about financial affairs.

State = useless
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They chose a business model built on open source, and now they don't like it because they can't suck enough profit from it. Maybe they should just build their own proprietary operating system from scratch.
The real question is, why don’t you?
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Does anybody have a good reference implementation of the Attention mechanism? Preferably one that's easy to understand
OpenAI launches GPT-4 API for everyone
In sense yes, previously we were engaged in "google engineering, then we went to "stackoverflow engineering" and now its "prompt engineering" - with every step, the magic and mystic increases.
>The idea that this is the breakthrough Eno needed to make albums with 3D audio possible just jars with it's pure dishonesty

Pretty bold claim from someone who "do[es]n't know, or indeed care" about the technology involved.
> but all it has done is provided more ways for private companies to extract money from the general population.

Then the system is operating as it was designed to. This is the coercive law of competition in action. And regulation won’t help in the end. Ultimately, without an overarching ideological project beyond capital accumulation, the motivation to accumulate wealth dissolves all social bonds that enforce trustworthiness, so regulation is doomed to fail
due to bribery and petty corruption.
But at that point anyone can copy it, since copyright has expired. Would publishers really want to publish books anyone can copy and share freely?

(if the answer is that yes they would, it implies that it's profitable to publish without copyright, and then why do we even have copyright?)
In the 19th century the cult of the free market was used to justify exporting all of Ireland's food while the Irish starved to death. The cult has only grown in influence since then.
Yes, very. I previously worked for RH and there really wasn't a top end of support options. I knew of companies with a contract that had RH maintaining custom kernel patched for them. Another paid for a highly skilled SRE to be in their office ready to help anytime. A small number of companies are willing to pay a lot of money for these kinds of options.
Does anyone know if there’s a good way to download a site like this as an archive for fully offline use? Or what the best technique would be these days? Ideally to have the full site map locally hostable

It literally got me through college and I want to keep it in case they ever take it offline
I find this highly misleading, Facebook is famously a big monolith, and I think so is instagram. There’s plenty of services and a couple micro services as well, but I don’t think anybody would characterize meta as having a micro services architecture. I have no idea what the authors’ agendas are, but something isn’t right there.
By stripping and selling off as many assets as you can and borrowing as much as possible leveraged on the income from future fares. There is no incentive to spend this on long term investment or contingency planning. The railways are an essential service so the government will always have to step in when the private company reaches breaking point, so no money is saved by the state in the end. It’s just disguised debt with terrible interest rates.
I have a personal theory that we have not been able to crack quantum gravity and similar because it's too much for human brains in the same way that we have a job visualising 5d space and dogs don't understand relativity. In which case AI going beyond human brain limits might be the way to crack it. Go build it!
There is only one that doesn't agree with my answer. It's also historically the one that have been generally buggy, even when running under X.

They don't have the financial backing that Gnome does, but doesn't accept itself as a smaller project.
> Personally Fedora or NixOS are just so superior I don't know why anyone bothers with anything else.

The AUR.
Just overcommitting the tracks to maximize profit :)
Very good! This is exactly the kind or mire that makes parallelising / distributing workloads interesting to me!
> If someone found a way to add variable DPI to Xinerama

What does different DPI mean for you though?

Xinerama causes the server to report the same fake DPI across monitors for backwards compatibility reasons (last year or so Xorg was released with a better approximation for DPI but it apparently broke a bunch of programs so it was reverted in the next release), but applications that care about DPI can still use the RandR extension to obtain not only per-output DPI but all sorts of output-specific information.

The X server had functionality for years, from what i can tell the issue isn't on X11/Xorg/Xinerama/Xwhatever anymore but on the clients (toolkits, window managers, etc) to use it to do something useful.
RedHat also built their business on the backs of other peoples work, sure they make contributions back but I’m sure they’re minuscule when compared to profit. They read, understood and accepted licences for the products they on-sell and are now throwing their toys out of the pram when the free market does what it was always inevitably going to do with their in-house tech.
I think it's funny when people lump all privatization other. Yeah, it can be done poorly, but I would argue that's more implementation than some condemnation of privatization all together.

A good example is when people say "look how bad private healthcare is in the US!". Yeah, it's horrible because of the framework the government put around it. If you look at things like vision correction or plastic surgery, you have none of the problem you have in typical private health coverage - surprise billing, inflated costs, etc, etc.
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What is this supposed to be? SUSE responding to Red Hat obstructing RHEL clones by creating a new RHEL clone? Or are they forking RHEL into something that will try to remain compatible, while not being a clone?

The latter is what Red Hat seems to want: a broader ecosystem that competes with Debian on community, while allowing Red Hat to sell RHEL with an "original recipe" sticker.

SUSE coming out with an announcement that effectively cannibalizes its existing enterprise distribution kind of makes Red Hat's move look risky, but perhaps not dumb after all.
I wish that all of our governments would just be honest and admit that they are involved in massive amounts of illegal data collection, that they really love spying on their own citizens because it gives them a lot more power, and that they will never do anything to protect the people if it might mean they have to give up even a little of that power.

Any discussion about what can be done to help protect people's privacy and safety would go a lot smoother and progress faster if they'd skip all the theater and stopped pretending to take meaningful action. It's a waste of everyone's time.