skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gas may well be better than coal in this regard (and of course gas inherently falsifies TheLoafOfBread's previous implicit claim that renewables must be backed by coal specifically[0]) but coal still can be, and does actually get, switched off.

A quick Google for news about the (singular remaining coal plant in the UK) Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, suggests that the thing has at least one intermediate state when there is a forecast of excess demand soon-ish.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37999558
As a heathen, this is bordering on offensive.

The difference is intent. This isn't paganism hiding in Christianity. This is intentional organized decisions to convert pagan holidays to Christian ones. It is a radically successful attempt to eradicate them not "the old hiding in the new".

Christmas stands out even more as an example of it, literally the time of the celebration was chosen by committee to displace winter solstice holidays.

Plenty of religions have solstice holidays and and harvest celebrations, and likely other older religions did the same, but Christianity is the only one in living memory that actively subverts and attempts to consume the holidays of native populations they wish to convert.
Not saying things like that don’t happen.

But how much effort (or money) do you think it would have taken to fix this issue if the NIC firmware was open source?

And with standard hardware, depending on the model, you might have had the option to add dedicated PCIe NICs for example. Not great, but at least something. Now try that with something proprietary (as in non-standard) like this Oxide system.
The Turing test is alive and well, I think, for sufficiently large windows of time, and those windows aren't very large.
Snowflake to Acquire Ponder
What Ada image?
Apple's self repair program lets you link the parts to your device with a phone call, so that's moot
Even that often isn’t possible with the most recent Apple devices. Even genuine parts often can’t be used (or work only in a degraded mode) unless authenticated by Apple’s System Configuration tool. That means you can’t swap many parts, even between identical devices, and expect them to work properly.

Presumably this news means that Apple is making the configuration tools more widely available to third parties, but I’ll bet they will only authenticate parts supplied directly by Apple, not parts scavenged from other devices!

(There is perhaps some logic to all this: it makes phones less desirable to thieves if they can’t be broken down and resold for parts)
A few days ago, I randomly decided to click on Mark Zuckerberg's instagram account and see who he's following. He appears to be following several AI avatars based on actual celebrities, but with different names. There's a Paris Hilton lookalike that's called 'Amber'. The avatars have a few short videos posted which are VERY realistic, I almost couldn't tell the difference. My guess is the plan is to pay real celebrities $$$$ for their image and likeness and turn them into personal avatars hyper customized to each audience. Imagine Kylie Jenner or Taylor Swift personally checking in on how your day was, while actively asking questions, giving commentary, etc. And of course, they'll be ocassionally recommending how awesome you'd look in the latest outfit from <paid brand>.
As it appears Intel Capital is one of their Series A investors, I wonder if this has some bearing on the chances that there could also be an Intel CPU-based Oxide rack (or maybe individual sleds?) in the future.

It seems that Oxide's product is rather tied to AMD's CPU offerings for the time being (which perhaps will serve them very well for now), and given what they've accomplished so far, I imagine it would take quite a bit of effort on the platform initialization side (and other lower level stuff) to get things working with Intel CPUs instead. Surely the ability to have vendor diversity for many of their components should be an advantage for Oxide (and their customers downstream as well), so maybe there's something to think about there. Of course, this is all interesting only once Intel actually gets competitive again on the datacenter CPU side of things, where they seem to have really dropped the ball in recent years.

On the other hand, their networking switch hardware uses Intel components (Tofino), so maybe that'll be the extent of Intel's integration in their rack for the foreseeable future?
Much of the progress of civilization has involved tools that turn things from skills which require focus into things that are automated. It frees the mind to focus on other, more important things.

I could also just have an "on" button I have to hold, count seconds in my head, and stop when I think it's done, but thankfully no one is advocating for regressing UI quite that much....yet.
> This is too startup-y and niche and too small to attract enough companies on the market.

From their press release:

> Oxide customers include the Idaho National Laboratory as well as a global financial services organization. Additional installments at Fortune 1000 enterprises will be completed in the coming months.

* https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2023-10-26/oxide-un...

From an interview:

> And what was the reaction of lucky rack customer #1? “I think it’s fair to say that the customer has appreciated the transformationally different (and exponentially faster!) process of going from new rack to provisioned VMs.”

> The same day Cantrill appeared as a guest on the Software Engineering Daily podcast.[1] (“The crate, by the way? Its own engineering marvel! Because to ship a rack with the sleds, it’s been a huge amount of work from a huge number of folks…”) Cantrill wouldn’t identify the customer but said that “Fortunately when you solve a hard problem like this and you really broadcast that you intend to solve it… Customers present themselves and say, ‘Hey, we’ve been looking for — thank God someone is finally solving this problem’.”

* https://thenewstack.io/in-pursuit-of-a-superior-server-oxide...

Niches can be profitable. Not every company has to be "web scale".

> I know a 4bn/y revenue company that could greatly benefit from this but they will never even consider buying from a company like this.

What does "like this" mean? Small? Every company starts out that way.

I think its cool that someone is trying to do startup hardware things, as in recent years it seems like its mostly software. I don't a use for the product in my area of IT, but I wish them luck.
This looks really interesting, but please can we get some idea of the prices involved without needing to contact sales teams ?
That charge back might ask for tracking number, which will also says delivered. So they will ask you to call your insurance instead if your stuff got stolen on your porch.

It's a very tricky situation.
Very nice illustrations.
This is an interesting list, given that PC-lint moved to a subscription model.

As more tools move to a subscription based model, I don't want to tie myself down to 5 subscriptions just to maintain some ancient code.
I'm not sure I agree. There were proto-smartphones in the early 90s, but they couldnt become widespread until the tech was there to deliver the necessary baseline experience.

I think we're only just getting to that level of tech now. Nobody wants to cart around a gaming computer with cabled to a headset, especially in an era of smartphones etc. You need a headset that can deliver a solid experience, untethered by cables at minimum, to arrive at the Palm Pilot PDA equivalent point in the XR => widespread adoption timeline.
Appears this may have been solved in 2022: https://github.com/googleapis/nodejs-logging-bunyan/issues/3...
They use Tofino as the networking switch. But Intel is discontinuing Tofino so I'm wondering what does future upgrade path look like for Oxide? Would they consider something like a p4 programmable DPU as the replacement?
I don't doubt the code quality but most of the additional crates are not tokio's. Also statistically, any added complexity incurs more risk.
The only real "problem" with UWB is the range. It might work better in North American homes (with hollow drywall walls), but in my Spanish home with brick interior walls, UWB doesn't even work one room over. It'll say "nearby", but completely lack any sort of direction information unless in the same room. I'd suspect in a situation like the OP was in in Paris, it would be very difficult to distinguish and exact location using UWB unless you got really lucky (like the phone was being stored directly next to an exterior door or something).
> Everyone knows space based telescopes are orders of magnitude better, and will be better for research than thousands of earth based telescopes

Real terrestrial telescopes are better than hypothetical space-based ones.

And I didn’t say we don’t want more capacity nor that Falcon 9 isn’t the most successful rocket ever, nor that I don’t have faith in SpaceX’s ability to create Starship, nor that Starship won’t eventually add space-based telescopes.

I said that none of that actually addresses the current concerns of people who currently need to do their work, as GP implied their complaints are totally irrelevant because “someday we’ll launch more.”
for C I just use -fanalyzer from gcc

for c++ I use clang-tiday and cppcheck, neither can handle all c++20 though with noisy false positives, but better than not using them
Replacing hardware? Sure, they'll help. What about debugging firmware though? I'm curious how much help you would get from Dell fixing and patching complicated firmware errors. A side benefit of the openness is that firmware issues can be discussed publicly, and the patches can be upstreamed into the main repo and made available to every customer (and even competitor). This gives you the kind of network effects that you'd never see in a locked-down ecosystem.
Disclosure: I'm Canadian, so have no skin in this game.

However...

While I don't support a government spying on its citizens, this isn't spying in the true sense of the word. Social media posts are public statements by those that post them.

Literally, if you publicly comment in something, you're publicly publishing. There is no difference between putting posters up, a comments section in a newspaper, and what you put on a webpage.

The government paying attention to such things is normal. However, action against citizens for anything but advocating violence is not very democratic.

For example, I can imagine posters saying "rise up and destroy the government, meet at 2am for pizza, beer, and planning" would result in at least one undercover cops attending. And this is good!

This, however, isn't even about citizens. It's about people wanting to become citizens. And if you want to become a citizen, don't be surprised if you say "America is horrible and sucks!", and the .. shocker, you don't end up a citizen.

This may startle some, but you have to take an oath of allegiance too:

https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/learn-about-citizenship/th...

The real take here is, is this tool being used for this purpose only, is data being destroyed, and isnit being misused for other things?
I disagree. I have similar observation. With modern editors and Language Server that are giving immediate feedback writing strongly typed languages doesn't differ than writing python.
Have you read up on how Find My works? I don’t see how it’s a spy network when only the device owner can see where a device is.

Lots of people imagine that every Apple user, or at least Apple themselves, can track devices. But it doesn’t work that way.
Is there not a Google search bar at the very bottom of your home screen? Maybe you use an alternative launcher?
also, all you people pining for the 90% tax days go look at what sort of loopholes were available at that time. You basically had to be one of the unlucky few primarily earning income as salary to be exposed to that because there were so many loopholes. It wasn't the tax regime that made that the golden age, it was that antitrust broke up the trusts and world war 2 crushed a lot of the incompetent offspring billionaires, making the usa more equal than it ever had been and the golden age came from the cream of the crop striving and making it to the top over the following decades (and leaving us with the oligopoly problem we have now, along with their incompetent offspring broadly in control of the oligopoly).
> But I love telling people about "kissing full sweetly" is.

I'll bite. What does it mean? :D
While my team and I were already getting progressively more skeptical of Google products for all the often retread reasons, the Google Domains issue in particular solidified my team's feelings as well into a single example as well.

I know there are SLAs, that Domains wasn't necessarily targeted at the same audience, etc. But, I'm guessing lots of folks got burned by it and I don't know how to justify trusting Google at this point. Given their struggles with their reputation and cloud offering, that situation and how they handled it still blows my mind.
This can have negative effects too. While I don't think "society" (who's that?) rewards people who job-hop. However, being willing to move to the employer who values you the most every couple of years is bound to increase your salary, because you're optimising your match to the market. I wonder how Japanese businesses avoid recognising this value, unless they just frown on people moving around.
Not often, I prefer long-term leak-testing under load, as most libraries and gui frameworks still slowly leak memory in time (many reasons, and not C/C++ specific). Simply using g++ to compile C can clean up the formatting a bit, and Valgrind can be helpful locating shit code.

One should use a fault tolerant design pattern... especially in C. i.e. assume stuff will break, interleave guard variables, and use buffer safe versions of standard string functions. There are also several back-ported data-structure libraries for C that make it less goofy to handle.

Personally I like designing systems like an insect colony, avoid thread safety issues, and constantly life-cycle individual modules. This makes things easy to scale/audit, kinder to peers who read 2 pages to understand the codes purpose, and inherently robust as locality is unnecessary to continue to function (parts can fail back and self-repair while running).

Have fun. =)
Email Routing subdomain support, new APIs and security protocols
I regret missing the Open Source Firmware Conference--I really wanted to meet them and learn some more on what's the story here.

I know it's a brilliant team, and since ZFS/OpenSolaris/Dtrace I've known about Bryan. The product is a nicely looking product too. One thing I don't get is the target market. Who is it? Banks? Cloud vendors? Insurance companies? I think there's a part of the computer business that I don't get yet.

One guy in one of the previous HN threads here said that it's convenient to run 1 RFP for 1 box costing $1M-$2M vs running 30 RFPs for isolated components to put on the rack. Ok, I can see that. That's some argument.

But I know that Supermicro has rack assembly service. https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/rack and I'm sure Dells and HPEs have the same. Does it mean that it's impossible to call them and tell them: "Excuse me, I want 2 racks, 15 systems each, top of the line AMD CPU with RAM, NVMe storage, all maxed out, and whatever fastest Juniper switches you can find. Put me VMWare vFusion on it. Ship this thing to Infomart in Texas. I have $2M here with your name on it". They won't do this for me?

Its either this, or Oxide is going to e.g.: Bank of America, and along with RFP the bank is asking: "Show me complete supply chain records, including the source code to your boot loader, drivers, and any firmware that any component on this motherboard is running". And maybe that's ... impossible these days?

I'm the startup CTO, so not the consumer base, but after DHH started posting his thing about cloud exit, I decided to explore this, and I walked the floor of 3 DCs (in SV/TX). People who walk you around the DC don't appear to care about cables, fans or noise etc. If it's longer than 1hr on the floor, they'll put Airpods in and they're done. I've seen cages that look unified, pristine, with love and affection put into cable layout, and I've seen cages that look like a total mess. It's your cage--you only go there if things break.

My last guess is that maybe Oxide rack will end up being sort of what an Apple Macbook is among cheap HP/Acer laptops from Walmart. And it'll be a shiny toy of bold bearded IT dudes who work for GEICO IT by day, but by night they scavenge eBay for used server deals and get excited about the idea of running their own private rack in their basement. They can't afford it at home, but at work they'll want their own Oxide. If you're reading this, do know I know who you are.
I am Dutch.

The Netherlands is a small country in Europe that has always had to deal with big barbarian nations. We manage. Mostly by playing them against eachother lol.
A little slice of peaceful civilization while the rest of the world goes nuts. That's our foreign policy nowadays.
> You’re now so far removed from simple Unix-like principles, tools and platforms that migration will be harder by an order of magnitude

Exactly my experience. Some services I manage are still entrenched in Big Co. Cloud, and it's a hell. This lock-in costs us additional money (thousands per year), but that amount is less than it would cost us to migrate those apps immediately.

Unix is cool not because it's a Unix, but because it's simple, aka Unix Philosophy.
I'm a little confused about this. The article seems to say that the application (the server that is the target of the attack) makes a call to FB where the application believes that a successful response indicates that the user's credentials are valid. It says that FB responds with success (and the user's email). But in fact FB would respond with success regardless of whether the supplied token was valid (for that application). This seems like either a serious bug in FB's implementation, or very bad API design. Presumably it's the latter because FB is responding correctly to a request that has nothing to do with auth -- application (server) asked for the email for one of its users, providing its (the server's) credentials for that request. The problem is that the API doc/design has fooled the application developer into believing that that call was an auth check. But it wasn't.

Is that it?

Also...why is this not wrapped in a library such that it wouldn't be possible to make such a mistake?
Fully agree. Why is this even a thing? A tv remote can toggle power on/off, change the volume, has up/down/left/right/enter/back/play/pause/numerical keys. Why can't I use the tv remote to operate other devices connected to the TV? Actually scratch that - why can't I use the power button on the TV remote to power other devices? Instead, I have to use different remotes. I can't imagine a scenario where I want to operate my DVD player while my TV is off.

That's where the smart TVs missed the mark. When I press mute on my TV remote, it should be smart enough to figure out how to talk to other devices to mute everything.
You should see the amount of non repairable landfilled junk from going to a kids’ birthday party. Not only does the birthday kid get a ton of non repairable cheap toys they will only play with a couple times, but every kid that attends gets their own “party favor” bag filled with non repairable landfilled junk from Dollar Tree or Amazon.

My household has tons of Apple devices, but I guarantee the amount that have ended up in a landfill is miniscule compared to cheap toys given as social gestures that have ended up in the garbage.
As far as I can tell there's nothing in the guidelines telling us not to mention them when someone's plainly in violation.

Plus I did actually include a refutation, which you've then ignored to make this complaint.
Is it really any different from Alphabet and all the random things they’re working on?
Original interview quoted in the tweet this article regurgitates: https://www.nintendo.com.au/news-and-articles/ask-the-develo...
You run into trouble when talking about "the public" the same noises were made about the internet back in the 90s but the discussion forum of the day was major news outlets, newspapers, magazines, etc. since "the public" weren't on online forums. Those that were saw that the internet was going to be huge but they were a tiny minority of nerds, enthusiasts and university students who didn't have much of a voice in the traditional media. Ironically, internet forums are now the traditional media to the nascent social metaverse. The people using those tiny virtual communities are once again the nerds, enthusiasts and students who don't have a lot of reach outside of their own communities. A confounding aspect is the real time and unrecorded nature of interactions in the metaverse. Unless you're a streamer who also publishes their previous streams there is little record of the social activity happening there. There are no web pages or blog posts no search and no links and the social graphs are contained within whatever app you are using so they're only available to participants. In effect, the metaverse is entirely invisible to the traditional web but it's a one way mirror since web content can be pulled into the metaverse inside flat windows, which seems another parallel to the early internet on which people posted content from traditional media but the media didn't at first broadcast content originating on the web.

Anyways, all this is to say: don't let yourself get blindsided by a new paradigm while you're resting on the laurels of the last revolution.
2023 state of the climate Entering uncharted territory
I’m not in the bare metal/data center business anymore at the moment, but I was for more or less the last 25 years. I never had such issues. Maybe I was just lucky?
It would be twist if instead of industries lobbying for loop holes in right to repair bills, they started lobbying for thorough to the point of being Byzantine ones to keep new entrants out of the market. I guess it will be a function of how worried they are about their moat.
Close, but still not matching the frequency of SpaceX

https://www.rocketlaunch.live/?pastOnly=1&filter=spacex
Not true. Nintendo historically made profit on every game system that came out, which explains their use of older, cheaper technology. I don’t know if this is true for the Switch though.
> if you have some understanding of how memory ownership

What reading materials will help me level up my understanding of this?
Thank you devs, KeePassXC helps keep my family protected :-)
Without cell coverage?
You noticed the GP said making money is not immoral right?
It would be interesting to buy a load of them and set up as a cloud vendor :)
But are there smaller companies producing one-off product runs in the smartphone market that are actually noticeable?
I don't have a point, I was linking for those who aren't aware of the British term "PPE"