skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ethical alternative is one that balances innovation and entrepreneurship with ecological and social responsibility.

You can use resources, invent stuff, and organise people to work on it, but you only get to do it if Reality-Based Accounting rates the project as a net positive for the planet, and you have to share some of the benefits.

And if you can't make it happen without being consistently cruel and exploitative to some individuals, groups, or locations, you don't get to do it again.

This is not trivial to organise. But it's far more likely to lead to an R&D explosion than the current myopic and manic-depressive comic book version of "the economy" we're all supposed to have irrational faith in.
I don’t see how this affects the average person, nothing really changes to your personal equations
I've seen ex-Google employees passed on the resume pile based on assumptions about what that experience means and what sort of salary they may demand. There are no guarantees in this job market.

Google employees are just like any other tech sector employee. They are neither "lucky" nor "unlucky". There's not much difference, even if they managed to land a job at Google. After Google, their struggles are similar to other tech sector employees. At this point, many of them are uncertain about the future. Layoffs are demoralizing regardless of where one works.
You're going to hear the same answer you always hear, which never satisfies people, but it's a culture thing. Americans are more willing to say "no" or try and negotiate with their boss/leadership on what they can realistically accomplish. The end result is that engineering will push back against unrealistic deadlines or unreasonable feature requests - theoretically making a successful outcome more likely. You'll notice this has nothing to do with skill or intelligence (well, maybe "soft skills"). But - and this might be controversial - providing that feedback to leadership makes you a better programmer.

In the US the expectation setting works both ways: management tells employees what it expects of them, and employees tell management what they're realistically capable of achieving. Management will ask for extra, and employees will sometimes get less done than they promised (sometimes because there were unforeseen difficulties, extenuating circumstances etc), but in the end it all works out.
In this case though literally what are you even complaining about? If it's physically isolated so you don't need to update the old hardware, then you don't need to update OpenSSH either. Right? You can just leave whatever terminal you use right now on whatever it runs right now forever.

That's the basic discontinuity here. The reason one would want to keep OpenSSH updated and continuing to receive development work is for use in a networked environment without full physical security from the world. If you have something stuck on DSA it shouldn't have any exposure to the world. So there's no problem here. At the very least one could softgap with old-ssh-in-VM that is completely restricted in what it can access.
This is pretty much a shitty version of the framework laptop. Yeah, it might be a little bit more open source but these arm chips are finicky, buggy and plainly too slow for any reasonable work.

If you want to replace parts, buy a framework. At least you get an actually usable device instead of spending all these resources on an expensive toy that you'll be bored and frustrated with after a few days.
Sorry for any confusion. When you say title do you mean the title of the post here on HN?
Or like the title of the page or video on the website?
It depends on what you mean by fossil fuels. With solar and wind you absolutely need gas peaker plants to come online quickly and provide power during downtime so that’s not going away anytime soon. Batteries may offer some replacement but we’re not there yet. Pumped hydro is probably the best bet if governments can work out the issues with it and start getting it right.
> Second, how is the system broken?

I want to d my best to respond, but can you help me determine my audience? That way I can be clear? Are you coming from inside or outside academia? If inside, what field? If outside, have you gone through a graduate program? Which decade? No need to give highly specific answers, I'm just trying to get some additional context to best respond. There are problems more visible to those inside and often nuanced and problems that are invisible to outside.
> I guess that's because IRC has been mostly dead for a while now

False
So suffering is a binary dichotomy? Or are there perhaps varying degrees of it?

If I stub my toe and claim I'm "suffering", any intelligent person would laugh at the proposition, because relative to a starving person, for example, it could not be considered a hardship or even mild distress.

I posit getting laid off from at-will employment at one of the most prestigious companies in the history of the world is not suffering, and characterizing it as such is tone-deaf and entitled.
> "If the profit margin of operations exceeds 10% the CEO has to be replaced" or whatever.

They would find a way around that, for example by buying other companies in order to not make a profit.
So did you think i actually meant that Javascript compiles down into typescript?

I'm sorry but that comment alone makes me think malice. It's too obvious. To each their own.
Wait so if I close my GCP account I get free egress, if I stay I don't?
The story I read was that the perpetrators had access to the physical centrifuge control center for a while, and used a thumb drive carried by a contract engineer to plant the malware. Then they lost that physical access, and the centrifuge center replaced all its computers or re-installed the OS, and so they tried to use a viral worm (Stuxnet) to get in and deliver the malware to the target system, which somehow escaped onto the web, resulting in Stuxnet getting detected.

Here's a past discussion on HN:

"Unilateral Israeli changes to Stuxnet caused its exposure, angering US" 2016, 132 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11108748

The key point is in the Ralph Langer pdf in the top comment there (To Kill a Centrifuge, 2013):

> "Stuxnet’s early version had to be physically installed on a victim machine, most likely a portable engineering system, or it could have been passed on a USB stick carrying an infected configuration file for Siemens controllers. Once that the configuration file was opened by the vendor’s engineering software, the respective computer was infected. But no engineering software to open the malicious file, equals no propagation."

> "That must have seemed to be insufficient or impractical for the new version, as it introduced a method of self-replication that allowed it to spread within trusted networks and via USB sticks even on computers that did not host the engineering software application. The extended dropper suggests that the attackers
had lost the capability to transport the malware to its destination by directly infecting the systems of authorized personnel."

On the positive side, this event led to a lot of job creation in the energy-related cybersecurity sector. This is an informative read from the time:

https://nuclear.duke-energy.com/2012/02/07/stuxnet-and-cyber...
18 billion. An incomprehensible number.

I hate this “they’re not charities” bullshit.
Over half support higher taxes on corporations (particularly large ones)[0].

If the observational basis for this is simply that roughly half of the votes tallied in most elections are split between democrats and republicans, I posit to say that its a gross simplification of voters and their motivations.

[0]: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/07/top-tax-f...
If interest rates are 5%; entrepeneurs must shoot for 20% annual returns to compensate for risk and get funding. If interest rates are 0% the bar is far lower.
> But it turns out people don’t care and didn’t bother with enough load shifting to cover the cost.

This doesn't surprise me a great deal. Personally, the price difference would have to be very high in order for it to affect my usage patterns. It would have to exceed the cost of having yet another complication for me to keep track of.
I guess old unix persons do use bc. But even older unix persons, like you and me, use dc. Oh, and I still have my trusty old HP48GX calculator that I bought nearly thirty years ago. Algebraic notation is fine for paper, bur RPN is best for calculating. I am glad I can even have an RPN calculator (PCalc) on my phone now.
They did say there would be no bootcamp support for Apple Silicon when it was originally announced.
You know that inflation exploded back in early 2021, already.
Yes, but not in a way that benefits anyone immediately. They made deals with each individual brand (I think every US make except Stellantis now), in which those brands will start putting Tesla charging ports on the cars in future model years, and in some cases offer adapters to existing owners starting in 2024 or 2025. Each brand also needs to integrate with Tesla for payments in some way, since 99.9% of their charging stations don't have screens or payment terminals. The predictions I've read are that will mean new versions of each company's mobile apps, rather than having non-Tesla owners use Tesla's app.
YES!

It's not much to do with country/race and a lot to do with pay. I've been sitting through more interviews than I can count as my F500 company is trying the same thing. Despite alleged pre-screenings, I've been amazed by how many devs with 10+ years of experience on their resume that can't code fizzbuzz (let alone answer actual questions in a way I'd expect of a senior dev with that much experience).

Companies don't go to India for their best developers -- they go to save all the money they can. If a US dev costs $150k, they aren't going to spend $150k for an Indian dev. To make this scheme "worth it", they won't pay more than $75k (likely no more than $40-50k).

You get what you pay for. A smart, talented Indian dev isn't going to work for next-to-nothing. They're smarter than that. They'll relocate to the US/EU, work for a large Indian company (where they get better working conditions), or even work freelancer jobs instead.
A nasty truth is when people are terminally ill, the vultures emerge. With animals too. In socialist paradise your kids dispossessed because inheritance is immoral. In capitalist paradise, dispossessed because the hospital can charge the captive buyer limitlessly. Doesn't matter what system, the order of life plays out.

Humans are chimps with high order skills to do the same chimp shit and explain it away with various fictions.
> He mentioned "capacitor banks."

No he didn't. I did.

> Launching 20 per day over a 10 minute span each is 200 minutes; you still need 12GW average over the day.

Where are you getting 20/day from? I didn't see it on this OP link or the Wikipedia page. I'd have guessed more like once a week, which is 100 MW. That's a reasonable size for a gas turbine power plant, which seems like an appropriate expenditure for a project like this.

As a point of reference, the entire globe launches something to space every couple days on average.
I will write to them as you say, thanks for suggesting it.
> This automatically rules out everyone hosting on Google, Microsoft or Amazon or any Chinese owned cloud.

AFAIK companies like MS and Amazon are creating datacenters in the EU for this very reason, and government services are using them already. They are pushing hard on sales and it works because it politicians like to show off "tech" investments.

Still, i think there's a chance for a european cloud player to emerge. But maybe the regulation is too onerous to allow it to happen now.
In France I didn't heard a lot of layoff. It's recently way more difficult to find a good job, but you can still find a shitty job overnight at consulting companies
For the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0x10c

https://web.archive.org/web/20130905082541/http://dcpu.com/d...
if your opinion is that some people make millions a day and some people make $1 a day and thats just life and we shouldnt try to change that, I think you are fundamentally lost.

Also consider: where do the billionaires in the US get the resources to fuel their empires? Do they get their cobalt from slave labor mines in the Congo? Do you think maybe there is some kind of connection between corporate greed in America and people on the other side of the world making $1/day or less?
It's extensions. Some of them can drag a machine to its knees, with unbounded CPU usage. The worst is the C++ extensions. Gets stuck at 100% CPU if you open a file it doesn't like, which is most of them.

VSCode with no extensions is very fast and light. VSCode with 30 extensions you've accumulated? Not so much.

I think that's why you see such conflicting experiences - people have different extensions.
SteamOS literally has a desktop mode, standard KDE, and you can install any applications that are in Arch repos or served as flatpaks.
US gasoline prices are only somewhat linked to global crude oil prices because we lifted the export ban in 2015. If domestic prices get high enough to cause major political problems then the export ban can simply be reinstated.
Very insightful - I didn't know about Section 174.

I feel sorry for the overseas labour that a US company startup would be now considering stopping for tax reasons. But I suppose they needed that 15 year amortisation clause (compared to 5 years for a US employee) to stop a flight-to-overseas labour effect of Section 174 (which is presumably 1/3 cheaper).

The framing I see it as is by comparison with the Gold Rush. In those times some made it big (finding Gold) but most of the (reliable) money was made by selling pick-axes.

Here the US is moving from a model where the successful startups cash out resulting in everyone getting paid: e.g. 40% California tax income comes from exits, to being one where the US government takes smaller cuts from medium to failing startups (due to gaining tax revenue of those companies making revenue in their first few years). The drawback is that fewer startups incubate long enough to have a chance of cashing out big.

Note also paying tax as an employee has a better fiscal multiplier to the economy than the owners paying a tax bill. (You buy products and services with your salary more so than wealthy owners on a proportionate basis.)

I find this all quite surprising for the US government, and US innovation culture.
Hopefully the ongoing civil suit gets more money out of them
TfL considering installing fake steering wheels at front of DLR trains
And they tend to be, along with needing less maintenance.

Tesla, however, has a ludicrous parts system compared to any traditional car company, for parts that have absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the car is using an electric powertrain. Ask for the cost of a new front bumper... it's not pretty.

And as far as fender bender risk goes, it also doesn't help that a Tesla is, in practice, far more powerful at low speeds than the typical car the renter is used to. Pressed the gas pedal when you meant to brake? You'll be in for a surprise. They are also probably unaccustomed to the car's behavior when you lift the gas pedal completely: Being able to do one pedal driving is great if you know the car, but probably a big surprise for someone renting.
Heard that S. Korea tech scene is in a similar situation. It's much harder to do mass layoff in the country, but many people are leaving their companies in a form of "voluntary resignation". Also hiring slowdown is happening as well as project cancellation.
Communism is more like “off the books” wealth in a lot of ways. In capitalism the people who control sections of the economy “own” them in the same way one owns a shoe. In communism people still control sections of the economy, it just isn’t shown on paper. They do extract personal benefit from that control, it’s just in the form of a weird and inefficient black market barter system.
Coming from web dev to Godot was a bit wonky for me and digging into some Godot dev patterns on YouTube and elsewhere went a long way to help me wrap my head around the question of like… “where does this logic/state/etc live and how do I access/use it where I need it?”
Even then it's difficult in major chains. Better to find local/boutique shops like Natural Grocer, Sprouts, if those are available.
$1-2 Billion… At that moment I thought this article is probably complete trash.

I’m not that gullible (even though the word ’gullible’ was removed from the English dictionary in 2021, I am still fond of it).

But, seriously. No chance on earth. It’s just PR. And the pump thing is probably just psychological warfare… ‘if they can put it into a water pump, they can put it into anything…’.

It was more likely just a mundane USB stick. Every computer has a usb port.
> That ONE person out of 300m in the EU bothered to chase this topic.

Meanwhile, others of us in the EU simply delete their FB accounts and don't look back. (Right at 5 years ago, fwiw.)
I dunno, exploiting a vulnerability that lets you steal SSH keys from a sysadmin seems a bit more useful than hitting a single server.
Thanks! Exactly the type of feedback I was after.

You feel it's the joke / script that needs tightening? or the actual delivery?
> Is it inevitable? Will the allure of short-term profits kill every good company? IANAL but it seems to me it should be possible to have a company "constitution" that prevents it, somehow. "If the profit margin of operations exceeds 10% the CEO has to be replaced" or whatever.

It's possible. Of course hard to imagine the kind of investor that is going to want to invest in a company like this and SV pretty much runs on VC money.

If given a choice, I'll take 1st percentile salaries at company w/o profit cap constitution over taking a pay cut. It's like, if you make $350k+ a year...just sort of budget that you might one day lose that job.

The vast, vast bulk of the country pays all their expenses, cares for their children, elderly family members, sick relatives and so on with <$100k salary. You can insure yourself against any hardship in unemployment with a top 1% salary.
And a few months later, a similar attack against Saudi Aramco wiped out all of their computer systems, including back-ups. Saudi Aramco management had to rely on employees who kept unauthorized external drives to back-up data. Much was lost. Iran is suspected but: were they able to isolate, turn around an weaponize Stuxnet for their own use?
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt leads new secret US drone project to battle China
You might have noticed that you can't exactly purchase an ARM build of Windows, right? That's because Microsoft has an exclusivity deal with Qualcomm for Windows on ARM. Until that's over, there's no way for Apple to legally run Windows on their hardware nor make drivers for the platform. The ball has long been in Microsoft's court.
The concept of "medical debt" is preposterous.
Gitea! /s

In all seriousness though, the reason why services end up under DDoS attacks are wide and sometimes complex.

There is a likelihood that someone is simply upset at these services, or that there was a coordinated effort against source control programs more generally but its only succeeding against these two (that we're aware of), but not say, GitLab / GitHub.

Another example: they may be targeted simply due to traffic and volume, and this is an attempt to "dry run" DDoS techniques that may be used against bigger sites down the road too.

There's alot of room for why these things happen. I've learned that motivations and execution is very wide.
Conflict: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29170375
Absolutely staggering
"I can't comprehend how a successful business generates such a large profit margin, therefore this entitles me to a share of it."
> let them know it’s not working and the internet is upset with them?

That part seems like a dick move, to me personally. That implies that the site operator did something bad.
I don’t see how that’s different than needing to figure out gas station locations and not knowing how much you’ll use between points since you don’t know traffic or efficiency of that vehicle.
>Hiring non-EU citizens is almost impossible because of the bureaucracy.

We want to water down the already mediocre wages even more? If you can't find workers across the whole 448 million EU block willing to work for you, you're doing something wrong.
Batch processing and time sharing, there are pros and cons. Time aloning, though, there are no cons.
“It did not work”… interesting choice of words.
I've had similar experiences over the years. The Indian devs who were worth their salt were salaried employees; the ones that took all the ELI5 hand-holding were the contractors who seemed to have just graduated from a 60-day programming bootcamp and wouldn't tell you they had a problem and needed help if their lives depended on it.

I have always attributed this to the management of the consulting companies that supply the contractors - they're all about the billable hours, and quality control isn't really their problem so they don't focus on it.
No doubt people have lost their jobs because of memegen.
Note that we also had COVID and shifted to remote gigs in Germany. This means that we compete with people located in smaller cities or even villages which probably have a pretty good pay rate bump.
Many managers I got to know have a hard time expressing themselves in English properly.

They fear miscommunication and the administrative work connected to non-German employees.
this is false, first of all when there was a fight against ISIS, of course there were civilian casualties. Secondly, Israel has unique security challenges that most nations on Earth do not face. Which nation has a terrorist army on its border ?

"oppressed people fight back" is a red herring. Israel left Gaza in 2005, nobody prevented Gaza at that point from becoming paradise, instead of a terrorist haven. And now, with Hamas in charge and vowing to repeat October 7th again and again, Israel has no choice but to go in and eliminate Hamas.
Same. Often it’s just as simple as not recalling the syntax for some technique.

Hell, just the time savings in asking it to write regular expressions for me! I can see if it’s correct far faster than I could compose the expression myself.
Hertz putting the square block in a circular hole and then blaming the square for being a square
Google has a (deserved) reputation for cancelling projects. This will hurt them at some point if it hasn't already. People will be unwilling to start using a Google product because they expect it to be cancelled. Interestingly, Netflix is having the same issue.

Here's where this will backfire first: Google has studied team success and discovered psychological safety is a key component. Laying off people working on Google Assistant tells employees that if their project is canceled, you may be fired. Employees will respond by simply not working on anything that risks being canceled. Previously, employees had trust that they'd simply move to other projects.

The counterargument is that employees should be invested in the success of their project. That's a nonsencial argument. The average IC has zero impact on whether or not an SVP 6 levels above them wakes up one day and decides to cancel their project in favor of [latest hot thing] that day.

In fact, the very people who are responsible for the failure of a project are the least likely to get fired. They're the leaders who should be responsible for this. These VPs and above will simply move on to other projects.

As always, layoffs here are to suppress wages and create fear in remaining employees.
It's a very American expression. In British culture a frown refers to a forehead expression, not a mouth expression.