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Once proton works on everything, the companies that make the software than bans you will fix their stuff to work in those confines as well. Valve makes the biggest, VAC (edit: I was told EAC was bigger below, but that it supports Linux), and they also make proton, and they own steam, so they’ll be able to force other companies to submit in any case. I’m more worried about peripherals myself, since there are some gaming peripherals that were made with windows in mind only. AAA game developers only have the power if people choose to load their launchers (EA's for example) but most people I know avoid those and use Steam or Epic stores or GOG or whatever for non AAA games.

Edit: I am "posting too fast" it seems (a few messages per hour, I guess?), so here's a response to a comment below here about the mixed-OS household:

I wouldn't mind using macOS or Linux, and I actually would pay if I could install macOS on my PC tower. I might be the idiot here, jumping out of the MS frying pan into the Apple fire, but I find macOS to be just fine for my use, and not too locked down overall when it comes to running the software I need on it and it's very well integrated with some of my other tech stuff. Sure, I can't tweak every aspect of the OS, but I don't mind how it works out of the box so I am cool with that. It would also be nice if I could use some of the macOS features on other platforms, like iCloud, Messages (whatever the blue-bubble messages are called), and iPhone integrations.
How about internal documents that were released showing discussions between engineers decrying the pressure received to cut costs by ignoring safety régulations?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/boeing-fifth-estate-costs-s...
Spot on. Everything is fun when the scale is small and the consequences don't matter, and everything is serious when the scale is large and the consequences matter.
> it may become impossible to separate the wheat from the chaff

It is already approaching the societal limit to separate careful thought from psyops and delusional nonsense.
Here is what you wrote:

> Permanent weight loss of more than ten pounds is nearly impossible from a scientific standpoint. The success rate after 5 years of weight loss is somewhere around 0.1%.

Your sources indicate that your initial statement was wrong by a factor of ~100 at least.
As a researcher, I’ve felt largely the same way lately. It’s been hard for me to even wrap up a project I was so excited about when I started it that I missed sleep because I was that engaged. Unfortunately, I don’t have a cozy tenure position at a major research institution to ride out the burnout until I feel inspired again. I’m just a lowly postdoc.

I’ve thought about leaving the research life for a regular job, but it’s not obvious to me that would help. First, there’s not really other jobs I’d rather do. Second, the burnout has penetrated so many facets of my life (various hobbies, etc.) I’m not sure if it even is burnout or a deeper issue.

Therapy and medication has only been marginally helpful. I’m really not sure what to do at this point.
but i guess this won't impact Google Cloud Storage egress fee
No. Even if they work for BigBank. They usually are building some internal / enterprise app used by 20-100 people.

Statistically that's what they are. There are only a handful of Billion+ scale apps.

Also, it's ridiculous to shit on Silicon Valley hiring practices when they constantly churn out innovative software stacks and products.
US did not properly track more than $1B worth of weapons sent to Ukraine
When this is all settled I suspect we're going to find ourselves the drivers of a chariot, with each horse being an external and artificial mind given direction by our evolved needs.
Companies that use GMail/Google Workspace also weak a ton of private employee information to Google, without giving said employees much choice.
> Like for a lot of them the assumption is "okay, this is the rest of it, and then we are reset to the new normal".

Not to say this is universal, but I read a comment here on HN just earlier that said their company said this last year... then did the exact same thing this year.
The current DEI nonsense is a symptom of shitty management. Chasing the appearance of something rather than doing the real work behind it.
If they are on MacOS they may make you their king. I still have PTSD from the last job that I had to use Teams on a Mac.
Well, the simple truth is that the best, most versatile car on the road is a minivan. But no one wants to admit that so everyone pretends they like SUVs despite being worse in almost every way for daily driving.
https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat/issues/1210
3400GW of solar nameplate is expected to be built from 2023 to 2028 globally, which is maybe 40% of all existing global electrical generation. So I don’t think “20 years” is the right time period to be thinking in.
> The equivalent of "locals don't go to this area after dark"?

We have this with human online places already it's called 4chan
If it had a colour, it would be 'grey'. It's the average of all text.
> Used at most companies with performance evaluations.

I suspect this is not true. Evals are far more common that stacking.

Btw when you do do this, 4 pretty much never works, and generate a political layer around it.

Perversely, at the group level it raises the value of lower performers, mostly as "chips".
As of now, fossil fuel is crucial for national security. The whole economy runs on fossil fuel.

But fossil fuel has 2 main drawbacks:

1. Contribute to global warming

2. It takes millions of years to produce, and few days to consume (aka limited resource)

So, we need to adapt the economy to those 2 drawbacks. Even if one thinks that global warming is not an issue, then the fact that it is a limited resource is going to eventually kick in (coal, oil and gas peak).

In the current economy, any drastic change of fossil fuel price would end in chaos. That is the threat. The sooner we minimize our dependance on fossil fuel, the better.

In some industries, we would need fossil fuels for a long time as it is difficult to replace them (e.g. fertilizers, plastics). in some other industries (transportation, heating), we can substitute fossile fuels with other energies (e.g electricity generated using renewable or nuclear).

So, yes it is a matter of national security, and that is why we need to adapt our economy to use less fossil fuel. And obviously we need to extract fossil fuel, as long as we can, during that transition.
Microsoft is betraying user trust with their Windows strategy. A lot of people trust Microsoft, but I wonder if there's a critical mass where the narrative switches to one where the default for most people is to distrust them.

Their products behave too similar to those of bad actors. Recently I had a relative over and was helping them with some computer stuff. They had an odd PDF viewer on their laptop and, when I asked them about it, they called it Adobe. It was not Adobe Reader.

I assumed it was the result of clicking through a paid search result and installing something from the internet, but they insisted they got it from Microsoft. I was confused for a while because it wasn't an app from the Microsoft Store.

Then they explained to me how they got it. They clicked on start, searched for "PDF", and "installed Adobe Reader from Microsoft". The icon for the app they had was obviously made to look similar to Adobe Reader and they had no idea the start menu search is a free for all of Bing results.

They're not stupid and I can't really blame them for misunderstanding. When they showed me, I could see how it would be reasonable to mistake the search result (or ad?) for an app recommendation. The result had an icon and everything. The weird thing is that I can't reproduce it on my PC. I don't get the same results that look too much like recommendations, so either I'm on a different release cadence for Windows or I've disabled some of those unwanted features.

The user should be able to trust everything in the OS. A built-in search feature that exposes users to bad actors is extremely frustrating to see.
Right, which is why the UN released a study saying that a shift in economic systems is required if we actually want to put in the work to not murder entire ecosystems.
Renewables can lose subsidies when fossil fuel externalities are baked into their prices. Until then, full steam ahead until the last gallon or BTU is burned.
I'd be happy to host the site in perpetuity on one of our dedicated hosts (for free). Have hosted the sites for a number of notable open source communities for decades.
burnout = depression
I've heard that waist-to-hip ratio is a better measure of overall health because it more directly measures the amount of visceral fat, but that wasn't wasn't what the study being quoted was measuring.
It is.

Because of bad math and pseudoscience.
Well that at least seems like relatively low hanging fruit.
This was fascinating! Thanks for sharing!
And how are you planning on getting a USB drive from Russia onto an air-gapped steel press in the US? It is several orders of magnitude more difficult to get malware onto an air-gapped network on the other side of the world that you know absolutely nothing about than to attack it when it's connected to the internet.

How are you reconning what actual PLCs Bob is using? How do you know what versions are on those controllers? How do you even know the address of someone who works in a position that has physical access to the OT network in the first place?

I'm not using a logical fallacy, you're pretending that Stuxnet is applicable to the average business and it just isn't for a dozen reasons I can think of and probably 2 dozen I can't.
I use http://alwayshttp.com for this.
I've had this happen with VS code. When your system is under load, VS Code not only gets keystrokes in a laggy way, the characters arrive in the wrong order.

Haven't had this problem with other text editors.
> II'm fairly certain I could learn the theorethical, physical background required to be an electrician pretty quick but that leaves me with precisely zero practical experience of actually pulling cables or building a switchboard without killing myself/others and/or buring down the building.

What do you think the learning is meant for you to learn? You have to terminate aluminum conductors differently than copper to prevent corrosion etc. Learning these things is what allows you to wire a building without causing a fire.

> Besides, im my country a formal education (2-3 years) including an apprenticeship is required by law to practice the trait.

Apprenticeship requirements are unfortunate -- basically giving the incumbents in an industry the ability to rate limit new entrants -- but it's not as if no one has ever done it before. So you do the apprenticeship.
Wind is my favorite generation source and we need much more of it, but I can say that my rooftop solar in USDA Zone 5 (colder than most of the US) produced a net-surplus of energy for my all-electric house in December. So it's pretty good. Saying that solar "doesn't work" in winter is some mix of lazy, factually wrong, and unsubstantive. I've also got some standalone panels out in the yard right now hooked up to an LFP battery that I haul out there most days. Solar is awesome and I'm thinking about the best ways to expand.
I found this, although I am not asserting that the author is an authority, nor asserting any credence:

https://www.alliedacademies.org/articles/fasting-can-heal-th...

The national library of medicine isn’t quite as extreme as the suggest that certain cancers are prevented, but does indicate support of fasting having positive outcomes for human systems:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK534877/#:~:text=Most%2....

A comment below states some cancers risks have a great increase from obesity, so the claim of intermittent fasting reducing cancer risk may to have some credence.
Exactly!

People want Green energy resources to be slashed? I'm all for it, once we spend roughly the same amount of time and money we've dedicated to developing oil.

Between wars to secure oil, excessive industry tax breaks, etc, I wouldn't doubt the cost to get oil to where it is today is in the tens (if not hundreds) of trillions of dollars.
Who would imagine that the industry that has pushed propaganda about the recyclability of oil-derived plastic would push propaganda about alternative fuel sources?
These people have been trained by openai’s marketing team to deflect and reflect any criticism of the bull shit generators. The amount of gullible people eager to ignore reality is terrifying.
In northern (and southern) regions the less light you get in winter, the more you get in summer. It is a zero-sum game.
If it’s a tactic in a company, at some level it is explicit.

Someone makes the choice.
Like I said before and as predicted [0], its not over yet for the layoffs.

More layoffs to come as the tech industry begins to correct further. Especially VC funded startups.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37924095
Alex's product vision is fantastic. I hope https://github.com/self-actuated gets noticed by more folks out there who are hitting the limits of GitHub's hosted runners.
not for the want of trying, (see freenode)
The real question is will growth of solar push electricity prices down enough that fossil plants get decommissioned early because they are no longer sufficiently profitable?
Residential solar is primarily really for single family homes and similar types of residences. Within populated areas of California (which is where most energy consumption is going to be in California) it is 100% a richer area. Sure, those kinds of homes are also common in the suburbs but the suburbs where that’s affordable are where there’s significantly fewer people living. I don’t know the setup in other places but any big metropolitan area is probably going to look similar and that’s where most of the energy demand and resultant CO2 emissions are coming from.

You don’t see solar on high rises because this kind of strategy does not work.

As for emergency disaster response, historically this entailed the government having designated shelter places with disaster supplies (eg diesel generators, large amount of food stores, cots to sleep people, etc). This would typically be things like schools and sports arenas because of how much emergency shelter could be provided. I don’t see how adhoc disaster preparedness where you rely on some neighbors thinking ahead for everyone else is better than a strategic plan intentionally meant to cover everybody. It’s a nice perk if you’re lucky, but I’d rather make sure that centralized planning can actually help everyone. Btw this wasn’t because the local government was competent - if I recall correctly there were federal and state laws requiring cities be able to handle such emergencies. I’m not sure if we’ve gotten worse at them that you’re now concerned, but generally I have seen pretty good disaster response mechanisms.
Or, instead of the government dictating those kinds of company decisions, put in place a system so that you're ok if you do get laid off, like a real health care system that is not linked to your place of employment.
No it’s conclusively been disproven many times.
The company that first applied that strategy, GE, ran themselves into all sorts of problems with that approach. Microsoft’s era of doing fairly poorly was also at a timeframe when they were doing rank and cut strongly.
One thing I've thought about, how hard would it be to set up a lot of solar panels in a region with 99% good weather (like Arizona) and then supply some of the energy to areas with less favorable weather?

Though that would be putting all your eggs in one basket.
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I learned Postgres replication by studying PostgreSQL 16 Administration Cookbook by Simon Riggs et al

- Chap 11 Backup and Recovery

- Chap 12 Replication and Upgrades

Highly recommended!

https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781835460580/ or https://www.packtpub.com/product/postgresql-16-administratio...
Exactly. This presupposes that humans are always better than AI, or that they don't produce spam or harmful content.

They do.
nobody said "this isn't relevant to humans"

The article is written in such a way that you think it is about human cells until you get fairly far into it.
What type of useful signals do you get from this? Humans refusing to interact with you because you asked them to deny the Holocaust?
I don't think its the role of the government to penalize layoffs. If a company needs to do a layoff to remain viable it must be allowed to - the downside (everyone loses their job) is worse. And trying to apply some mechanism where the government decides if its ok or not seems too intractable.

I think the approach of things like the WARN (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini...) act are more plausible. Use legislation to make the workforce more informed, resilient and ahead-of layoffs. You don't want mass layoffs crippling your economy because people are unable to plan.

It's a direct consequence of the WARN act that most tech layoffs have extremely generous severance.
Thanks, I just remembered that there's a setting on my phone to control the speed of speech.

A GPS application seems like a tough place to use it, because it's time critical.
Stack ranking people has got to be one of the most soul crushing tasks imaginable. You don't know what if any of the bottom will be cut.
> you probably didn't intend Microsoft to have your credentials for

But you just gave Microsoft your credentials! How could you not intend that?

They're pretty clear about this: if you set up a 3rd party IMAP account, then yeah, credentials get used. If you set up an OAUTH2-capable account, then it uses that instead. That's why it's a lie, because of course if c't has some custom bespoke IMAP server, it's going to need credentials, and the user is going to intentionally hand them over so it can retrieve the mail.
If Tesla has a virtual power plant program in your geography.

https://www.tesla.com/support/energy/tesla-virtual-power-pla...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32500926
I think that it instead amounts to a strong argument that many apps simply wouldn't exist if Electron didn't lower the barrier of entry.
Or this whistleblower Boeing engineer who has been outspoken about the sefery concerns of the max planes?

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boein...
And to make sure the incentives were properly perverse, Post Office executives were paid bonuses for each successful conviction.

As far as I am concerned, justice will not have been done until all of their bonuses are clawed back, and at least one of the execs has been smeared on tracks by the tube.
No fault layoff == 50% salary severance would help align incentives.
the Silicon valley of the last 15 years was a 0% interest rate phenomenon, going to take a long time for normalcy to return after a decade of distortion to organic market forces
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But nothing in your quotes shows anything especially incompetent - there's no smoking gun.

The world runs on badly written software. I have even written some highly incompetent code myself for essential services. Finding terrible bugs and then looking for who caused them has almost humbled me once or twice.
For any HR folks kicking around HN: When thinking about lay-off at this scale of business, how do y'all go about navigating the WARN act? Do you just mitigate it with longer than 60-day layoff compensation?
For simple servers, unattended upgrades and an automatic mail whenever server needs a restart (like kernel updates) is enough. I'd put that $100 to a piggy bank every month instead.
There's so much contention over error handling in Go. Over the years I've settled on treating it like gofmt: I may not 100% agree with all the choices, but it is what it is so let's just get on with it.

And to be honest as a majority-C# dev I quite like the break from exception handling.

As an aside, one thing I've found which makes life easier is to invert the check. With convoluted logic it can lead to excessive nesting, but then nobody would write code that did enough in a single function to make that an issue, surely?

Practical example. Here's what you might normally see:

err := doFunctionA()
if err != nil {
handleErrorFromFunctionA()
}
err = doFunctionB()
if err != nil {
handleErrorFromFunctionB()
}
err = doFunctionC()
if err != nil {
handleErrorFromFunctionC()
}

I'd usually just switch it:

err := doFunctionA()
if err == nil {
err = doFunctionB()
if err == nil {
err = doFunctionC()
}
}
if err != nil {
handleErrorRegardlessOfSource()
}

Of course it only works if the errors can be sensibly handled the same way regardless of their source, but that's surprisingly often the case (eg log, display, and/or return it).

It's just a minor change but it's standard uncomplicated Go, and with multiple sequential operations it reduces the code-waffle even more the larger the code gets.

YMMV and it isn't always suitable, but every little helps.
> C++, while it currently doesn't have memory safety [...] Meanwhile, [...] Rust look absolutely awful

Memory safety is the primary reason people are advocating for Rust in kernel! Given that goal, C++ looks absolutely awful.
Blackstone’s ratio is ten to one, not a hundred to one.
Yes. In the courses I give on MLOps, we use Github Actions to run on a schedule:

1. feature pipelines

2. batch inference pipelines
It was a 2010 study, but it turns out the study itself was pretty much entirely incorrect as well.
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> Globally, fossil fuel subsidies were $7 trillion in 2022 or 7.1 percent of GDP.... Differences between efficient prices and retail fuel prices are large and pervasive, for example, 80 percent of global coal consumption was priced at below half of its efficient level in 2022. [1]

Fossil fuels will die a lot quicker if we stop subsiding them to the tune of 7% of global GDP, i.e. 7% of all economic activity globally is redirected to make fossil fuels cheaper. To put it yet another way, if you work 250 days/year (50 weeks, 5 days/week), then 17.5 days of your work is redirected to make fossil fuels cheaper.

[1] https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2023/08/22/IMF...
Unrelated to the post:

Is there realtime features with postgres?

It seem like a kludge to have to add redis, mqtt, or kafka to our application to get things as they change.
That kind of attitude is why Windows continues to dominate the desktop market.

Granted, I speak very generally while this thread pertains specifically to OpenSSH. I also understand the added burden of maintaining more and more code, which end-users might not properly appreciate.

Ultimately though, people use computers to achieve something and expect software to help them in that endeavour. Software cutting off features, and thus the users, will always draw ire because it inhibits people from using computers to achieve something.

Arguments from devs that software must move forward mean nothing to users who want or need to do something right now.
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They can do this too, if the difference in salaries becomes large, but it's obviously less expensive for someone who hasn't taken on the training cost for either industry yet so those would be the first to move.
>Toad is a masochist

I love the "inner beast" which often appears between well-matched players.
I think the "Legacy" and "licensing" portions are specifically calling out MS and Oracle, but they very sneakily are calling AWS out too on the fact that egress makes it insanely expensive to leave their platform.

I've worked at some orgs where to either move their data out of S3 would cost $20k, or to even delete it would cost thousands in API calls.
Performance evaluations are not evaluating your performance, the evaluations are the performance. “Performance” evaluations. They’re intended to be a method to easily fire people in a litigious world.