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I don't understand what you're trying to say. Nobody is saying everything is boring, they're just saying the kind of exploration that was possible for most of human history and which may be possible in the next thousand years or so is no longer available to us. That's it. Just an observation and a longing.
Allow me to share my own recent predicament, on which I'm still deeply cogitating, and from where a lot of my own frustration flows.

I am a content creator, I write software and build compute systems to run it upon. I was RIF'd last week and, if I'm really conservative, I have a year of expenses in savings.

I very much believe in OSS exactly because it allows me, not to tap into a monetary stream, but to overall better our human community by sharing my work. IMO, this is a core and fundamental belief of OSS and it frustrates me to no end to see articles like "OSS is going to die without funding", the two concepts are diametrically opposed.

So many, yourself included, have this perverted view of the world where there's no way it could exsist without our current monetary system, no alternative that would be more efficient, more fair, more equitable. I just refuse to believe that's the case.

I do not bemoan other content creators their right to generate monetary revenue from their creations, in fact they have no choice. But that doesn't preclude my opinion that it should change.

Indeed, what do I do now? I have 1 year to create a revenue stream off of which my family and I can live, or I need to go back to an industry that has corroded my soul in ways that sometimes make me wonder if it's even worth it anymore.

The most effective path for me to generate sustained revenue is to abandon my desire to improve humanity by sharing and turn selfishly inward, all or in part, to create a Rube-Goldbergian golem of artificial scarcity around my "content". I have to build a payment system, I have to protect the code at rest and at runtime, I have to build licensing and consider segmentation, I have to market, I have to build systems around revoking access to those who lose their own monetary stream and deal with their data, etc, etc, etc.

I know what it takes to build whole companies around systems like this, I've done it from the ground up on more than one ocassion to great success (at least for those who held the keys to the artifical scarcity doors that they paid me to build in front of my own work), and if there's anything that feels like more of a waste of my life than playing technobabel whisperer to clueless middle and upper-management, is considering building something like that again, even if I'm the ultimate keyholder this time.

In a world where we do not have to fight like dogs for table scraps, all of this wasted time and effort falls away, and instead all of us content creators who skulk through it for the love of craft, can instead focus solely on the betterment of our community as a whole. We live in a world with the resources to realize a reality like this, but IMO we have all been blinded by a masterful twisting of our inbuilt self-preservation instinct by the ultimate farce in artifical scarcity: money.
so I have a mental model I wanted to share. I hope it's simple.

Imagine the 80/20 rule - we all know it. It's simple. 80% of the good stuff comes from 20% of the effort. 80% of the value society gets from journies comes from 20% of the actual journies. Doctors driving to hospital, farmers driving food to market etc.

Now repeat the 80% rule on the remaining 80% of journeys - and we find that 16% of the value we get comes from just 16% of the effort.

So we can argue that 96% of the value society gets comes from 36% of journeys- basically 2/3 of all we do is just crap.

So how do we find ways to replace 2/3 of the effort

much more public transport is the first take.

Reduced door to door deliveries perhaps (I mean is a deliveroo starbucks a good idea?)

but then we hit the big infrastructure stuff - denser housing (ala strilong towns) and yes, spend energy moving humans but not a ton of metal around the human.
Seriously? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_multiple_unit
That may be true. But those people are toxic to advertisers
I am guessing that as part of the plea deal they had to account for all of the money.
Growing up in the middle of the cold war and with some sense of history it dawned on me that the whole thing was an aberration. Geopolitically the world is usually not like that. I thought eventually the cold war order would fall apart and it did. Think reversion to the mean. Not the mean is perfect as one can see from current events.

Got to say anytime someone whines that we can't afford some public works project like the California High speed rail I think of the much larger amount were spending on nukes. With $1.5T we could crisscross the US with high speed rail. Unlike nukes you personally might actually use it.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38255425
I'm curious about your location and whether your agent was engaged in pocket listings*. When I push new listings to the two MLSs I belong to, they syndicate to all the various sites almost instantaneously.

*Pocket listings are something more of the public should understand, as they are almost universally bad. Listing creates a market and gets your property in front of the most potential buyers.
There was another thread a few years ago where someone suggested reporting to US-CERT or another CERT. It has some advantages like "they know what a credential leak is", "they know that people reporting security issues aren't necessarily malicious", and "they sound official when they try to get it fixed". And "your name will no longer be on the report".

I haven't had occasion to try this myself, but it sounded like good advice!
There are American cities of less than 100k people that have public transport and bicycle infrastructure. However nobody knows about them.
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Just bite the bullet and crawl under the house or in the attic. I have done it many times it's not the end of the world.

The most annoying is to go through fire blocks in the walls. Because this requires you to open up and patch the drywall at 1.5m height if you bring the cable from the attic. From the crawlspace the hardest part is to make sure you drill inside the wall, not through the floor! For that I found that somebody with a powerful magnet in the house while you carry metal washers with you under is helpful to locate precisely the walls. You can often see the nails holding the floor plate as well to fine tune the location.

I recommend a good respirator mask, and a jumpsuit to retain some psychological distance with the spiders.
> Think of all the millions of guys in China and elsewhere who, due to sex selective abortion, will never have a wife.

Or maybe some of these men will adopt some kind of "pragmatic poly" polyandry relationship culture to be in a relationship with a woman, even if it's not an exclusive one.
Honestly, for a while there I was actually doing exactly that, mostly to re-order things I order often, but sometimes to just order the top result for a certain query. I have since mostly lost faith in Amazon as a brand and no longer trust their reviews or products to be of any decent quality. So I guess I would say that it's not Alexa that failed here, but the amazon brand itself.
Some SE teams solve billion $ worth of problems and create that market cap to only get few % of it. I mean real problems not random saas startup.
yeah, first-time non-violent offenders are typically sent to camps for sentences under 10 years.
> I don't know the lesson to be learned here

That it's the people who say the "right" things that win at life, not the people who study hard and try to make an actual difference. Maya Angelou said it best - she was trying to be inspirational, but it's actually depressing as hell for anybody who thought hard work would get them ahead: "People will forget what you said, they'll forget what you did, but they'll never forget how you made them feel".
The trick is to use JS. (Not anything that compiles to it)

It will be guaranteed to run in 100 years time.

Any other language can die or have incompatibility issues. Over that timespan.
And here I thought I was the crazy one for having been burned by the negative answers to these questions in the past and thought I was the only one asking. It's been my experience that the actual content of the answer doesn't really matter, the technology or process could lean one way or another for all I care, it's the candor by which the questions are answered:

"oh god no we don't use container shit" (actual answer I've had) versus "it's something we're looking into and evaluating".

"why do we need to use config management shit" (actual answer, same company as above) versus "we've had some success with it, struggles otherwise, do you have experience that you could lend us with that?"

"change control? you mean doing everything as root and cowboying it doesn't count? what kind of idiot are you?" (less verbatim answer, same company, but hints at what I'm getting at).

If the interviewer answers like a child (and I have been the receiving end of that), I don't really care about the answers at all. If they are thoughtful, I'll considering going along with the rest of the process.
Then that's solving the problem from the top down.

It's like the EU giving tax benefits to those who buy electric vehicles, and slapping taxes on those who burn dinosaurs -> when a lot of those have no choice but to burn dinosaurs, and they have to drive old cars because they can't afford new electric vehicles.

How do you expect "regular people" to be onboard, when they are getting squeezed and penalized for being poor/middle class? It's not like they have a choice.

I'm not disagreeing with you, but the " something that can and should be solved in different ways" should have come first, before anything else, and it's not happening any time soon.

Guess who is paying in the meantime?

The sentiment that fuels extremism and movements that oppose these measures don't pop out in the vacuum.
Hmm in the long run it's probably more efficient to install wires on train tracks. If you meant battery powered trains that is.

Guess it would work as a stopgap measure.
I'm curious why the audience would not accept him eating the paper pulp in large cake form? Perhaps because he couldn't reasonably eat the whole cake in front of them (and thus his words)?
Pretty similar, but seems like you want the pool of people restricted to those with the tools, skills, and experience to not want to bother for that rate.
This vehicle has 10 axles, so it should put less wear on the road than a typical truck&trailer with 5 axles with a capacity of 45-55 tonnes of cargo. Wear is directly proportional to the number of axles.
If choosing Wyoming or Nevada, what would be the next step?

Something like Clerky or find a registered agent, or use an attorney for everything?
Yeah, I have a physical sense for how hot lights are, but I don't have a physical sense for what 'surprising proximity to a sprinkler' is and I'm trying to borrow theirs to sate my curiosity.
> Generally models of fully renewable grids aim for about a 4x overprovisioning (based on peak demand)

So assuming Germany needs 60GW of power you need 240GW of renewables. Thing is, at 15% generation those renewables barely produce the required electricity. Countries don't like barely when it comes to electricity production.
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As a Firefox user, no, I cannot. I can only screenshot youtube and amazon prime video.
I am guessing that as part of the plea deal they would have to account for all of it. Just having assets go 'missing' would not fly.
You can also use the touch pad for aiming. Or turn on gyro only when touch pad is being touched, which is useful for micro adjustments. Pretty customizable, although I mostly just use the sticks.

I played Prey and Tiny Tina's on the Deck, both of which worked pretty well
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>People crave Autonomy, Mastery & Purpose

I'm not a sack of chemicals whose desires can be reduced down to some pithy pseudo-scientific Maslowian quip. The only thing I crave from my job is cash so I can take care of me and my family. 250k/yr for a COBOL position would suit that end just fine. You can keep your autonomy, mastery, purpose, and all the other foofoo, just hand me the check so I can be on my way.
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Potentially great move for Ubuntu if the economic conditions push companies to invest to reduce their IT opex & get off the public clouds (and also if Gartner tell them to do so...).

Now I know Ubuntu just launched the product but damn they suck at selling it. The landing page doesn't even give you examples of applications you can run on it.

Also I'm sorry but you need to have the word "docker" a few times on that page if you want to catch any flies.
Your CTO/CIO will also want to see some kind of fake enterprise app store to consider it.
Only if it is human validated and even then not really.
I was a toddler when the Soviet Union dissolved, do you think the public/cultural perception of China, of Russia, or of middle-eastern terrorists that we have today is of a similar character to the Soviet bogeyman?

Also, I don't think that brains have changed that much in the past 60 years. Many of our best and brightest are now in fintech or adtech instead of manufacturing and research groups, but I wouldn't say that better brains were why the Saturn program succeeded when Starship seems to be as much of a challenge today (rather, I'd say the goalposts in economics, risk, and capacity have shifted).
fwiw, to your first point, they're also giving HL1 away for free (to keep) right now.
They aren't really that much more heavy than normal trucks. We're talking a couple of percent of the useful payload here. They aren't 'tremendously' heavy but just about the same weight give or take a couple of percent. A couple of tonnes of battery goes a long way. And it's not like big diesel engines, assorted plumbing and other systems, and a couple of hundred of gallons of fuel weigh nothing.

There's no need for new pavements, or any other solutions for a perceived problem that simply does not exist.
It’s actually fundamentally germane to your argument, since in private markets one doesn’t have “large market cap changes because what you are observing is just live betting.” What input you use as “price” is the relevant bit, with the CNBC reductive convention of price = last trade being the source of your problem, not market cap per se.
FYI: The translucent background on the text makes https://www.apostrophe.org.uk/apostrophe-use hard to read.

Perhaps bump up the opacity one more notch?
Fantasy rockets are always cheap! Let's wait until they fly one.

But there's a separate issue too; let's say generously each launch has a 98% success rate, that alone means a 1/3 chance the mission will fail. So you need to start adding backup missions to the plan, exacerbating the problem.

The trouble here is not just launch cost but also launch cadence. How do you launch 20 huge rockets in short succession when one heavy launch per month is about the best that's been done to date?
Sure, I'd agree selling access is not the only method but given that there is a story on the front page of HN about once a week about why open-source maintainers should be paid and how the current model isn't sustainable, in my opinion shows, that relying on donations or public funding is a fool's errand and not a viable alternative.
What I mean is that having a runway where your union members can do literally nothing for 500 years and continue to get paid would suggest there is a monumental amount of cash sitting in a bank. I agree that unions need a rainy day fund, but this seems egregious. If they had said 10 or 20 years, that would make more sense to me.
This is all basically what was intended by the establishment of the USPS. The only reason why the internet isn't mentioned in the US constitution is because the technology wasn't available, wasn't even something they could envision. But if it had been they would have included it.

If you read the original correspondence about the Postal Clause, the point was not to establish paper mail delivery and postal roads per se, but to establish a system of information conveyance between the federal and state governments and citizens:

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/tocs/a1_8_7.html

It's always been puzzling to me that people have been so focused on paper mail as the boundaries of the USPS when it was really about information conveyance. Having a narrow mandate to physical mail is sort of holding the US Constitution to an arbitrary limit based on year or era.

All of this should be handled in the same way as mail. If people want to build out private internet, fine, but the US government should be building out a public system as well.

These issues were all discussed in the 18th century but just with different mediums as a frame of reference.
My work requires me to come to office on certain days. Not only are there no sidewalks to the office, the roads are egregiously unsafe even in a car. Even if a moped or bike were feasible, there’s nowhere to live within any reasonable distance. The office is isolated on the big acreage it purchased.

If I could, I would bike a half hour to work, easily. I can’t. It’s just not safe. Everything is built for big, fast cars.
LockBit redraws negotiation tactics after affiliates fail to squeeze victims
No, that was KeyKOS, which was way ahead of its time.[1] Norm Hardy was brilliant but had a terrible time getting his ideas across.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeyKOS
"suburbs" dont have to be the unwalkable disasters that we've made them. Brooklyn Heights was "america's first suburb." People moved there from Manhattan seeking everything you just mentioned.
The problem is twofold: Operating systems that don't penalize apps for being resource hogs, and browsers that allow any tab but the frontmost one to consume significant amounts of CPU or memory.

In other words, no Javascript program should be allowed to DOS your machine. It's within the power of the browser and the OS to restrict this; they just choose not to.
This is easy to bypass. Such as move to another country, use cash, use corporations, use aliases, etc.
It’s conceptually the same thing though, right? I guess it’s like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
The GPT API becomes less usable with every new version. For 3.5, March is mostly okay, June requires a heavy hand to only sometimes give a weird moral lecture, and the newest gpt4 version now also starts moralizing all the time.

It's one or two updates before it becomes completely useless for anything but corporate usage.
Sure, if we're talking about 2024. My comment was about the next couple of decades.
The NYC transit system costs $20BN/year to operate, serves a population of almost 9M people and pre pandemic had nearly 10 million passenger trips a day; currently 5M.

Montana spends $1BN/year on roadways and receives another $3BN/year in federal funding and serves a population of 1M people.

The NYC subways system moves five times the population of Montana every day and costs half as much per capita.

Do go on about how subways are a waste of money.
I would say the exact opposite. When you take someone that smart and then they become a billionaire and spend all their time around people telling them that everything they say and do is amazing, my prior would be any self-awareness he may once have had will have evaporated long ago.
I think I’m very pro-worker/pro-littleguy/pro-union but I don’t think this makes sense at all.
The achievement-popup was a cute addition. :D
> they are just a worker who needs money like the guy striking

I need a house and you do too. Let me live in your house since we both need it.
Since English is a Germanic language, it seems more likely to me that the possessive ‘s’ is a carryover from the German genitive case. Pure speculation, but perhaps the apostrophe was added as case endings disappeared from English (except for the rare exceptions like who/whom)
Agreed. I have always used it to simply refer to the different style of RPG which developed in Japan. It's not a discriminatory term (at least, not in the pejorative sense) at all IMO. In fact, I prefer JRPGs.
These are definitely both acceptable.

In fact I'd go so far as to say that the apostrophe-only style ("James'") is somewhat archaic and definitely out of fashion.
I am one of the creators and maintainers of https://albumentations.ai/.

- 12800+ stars

- 1M downloads last month, 37k per day

- Paper about the project: 1500+ citations

- Used in 18k other repositories and 317 packages.

=> People use it.

But!

- 365 open issues

- 25 pull request

that hang for years

Only one sponsor.

And this is fine. People use the result of our work, but we do not feel that we are entitled / deserve / [some other vomit words] of more support.

In the beginning, we decided that we would do it:

- only for fan

- when and how we want it

- if some user is unhappy with our commitment or decisions

=> feel free to fork.

But!

We do enjoy when people thank us, create pull requests (we do review and merge them, although it could take time), or create feature requests or bug reports.

I can see open source as a great pet project that you do for fun and to improve your skills, but unless it is an OpenCore business or another setup where maintainers are financially compensated, all whiners and complainers can go and fuck themselves.

I would not recommend maintainers of the open source software even notice them.

If working on OSS is not fun - do not do it. Life is too short for unnecessary stress.
Pentagon fails its financial audit for the sixth straight year
> That is not a specification.

You're quibbling. By your definition, no programming language has a "specification". Every language has implementations that do things that aren't explicitly described in any document.
I am guessing they had to pay more than that, or that was left
I did it by making a lot of money, compared to how much I was (and am) spending. Not splashing money around on lattes, expensive car, expensive vacation, a summer house etc. was a vital part of that.
> Nothing about that means that violating a contract, in and of itself, is illegal..

Its a violation of legal rights for which there are legal remedies. Claiming that its not a violation of law (the original upthread claim) is... well, as wrong as it is for any other violation of civil law. (“illegal" adds more complications because “illegal” has multiple overlapping senses, it can apply to any violation of law, or it can be used to refer specifically to criminal violations.)

> What you may do is suffer whatever penalties that the contract specifies will happen if the contract is violated

No, contract law itself specifies penalties for contract violations. Contracts may attempt to specify damages for certain violations as a replacement for the usual calculation of actual damages (“liquidated damages” provisions), but contract law governs when these will be given effect instead of the usual assessment of actual damages. It is neither necessary for there to be a specified penalty in the contract for one to be applied, nor will a specified penalty automatically be applied.
Looks like no recompile, sadly: "Notice: This product is not compatible with macOS 10.15 Catalina or above. Click here [1] for more information."

[1] https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/5E0D-522A-4E62-B6...
I get the sarcasm, but seriously -- did we just forget about NFS?

Also, sshfs will do the job at least up to a point.
Building for pedestrians helps everyone.

https://streets.mn/2023/07/19/if-we-want-a-shift-to-walking-...