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> That is very different from what "economics" is today.

Oikonomia originally referred to the 'running of a household':

> The earlier term for the discipline was 'political economy', but since the late 19th century, it has commonly been called 'economics'.[22] The term is ultimately derived from Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomia) which is a term for the "way (nomos) to run a household (oikos)", or in other words the know-how of an οἰκονομικός (oikonomikos), or "household or homestead manager". Derived terms such as "economy" can therefore often mean "frugal" or "thrifty".[23][24][25][26] By extension then, "political economy" was the way to manage a polis or state.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics#Definitions_of_econo...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oeconomicus (Xenophon)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_(Aristotle)

> The term 'economics' was previously known as political 'economy'. This term evolved from the French Mercantilist usage of économie politique, which expanded the notion of economy from the ancient Greek concept of household management, to the national level, as the public administration of state affairs. James Stuart (1767) authored the first book in English with 'political economy' in its title […]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_economics

The household here being a company.
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I would encourage you to look at recruiters more as partners or as an unpaid sales team. They are out there speculatively busting their ass and building relationships with buyers.

I run my own business and would pay 10% commission in exchange for qualified opportunities all day long.
Oh, when you needed specific ftp clients, because most of them couldn't handle special characters needed to access the directory containing the LOOT :D.
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I'm curious as to what do you mean by "lump every problem into the same bucket"?

As a backender and half platform engineer I appreciate OTel a lot, it allows me to install OTel ingesting code and it then gets sent to wherever our platform guys and girls think it's best. It allows me to only think about it once and leave the details to the people who have to maintain the infra.

I mean sure, parts (or maybe all?) of the problems in this area have other solutions i.e. we don't use OTel for logging because we already have Grafana + Loki and basically everything every app outputs in stdout / stderr gets captured and can be queried but I like the flexibility for us to fully migrate to all aspects of OTel one day if the scales tilt in another direction.

So what's your beef with all this?

(For the record, I used Sentry many times in the past and I loved it, it's a very no-BS product that I appreciated a lot -- and it adding OTel ingester / collector I viewed as something very positive.)
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> I'm not sure how anyone can argue with a straight face that OpenZFS is derived from GPL

GPL requires any code linked against it which fundamentally requires it to be useful (Nvidia/zfs linked into the linux kernel to be used in linux) to also be licensed as GPL or GPL compatible. To my knowledge that was the major stopper for zfs and a major stopper for me to use any GPL code in software I plan to distribute. IANAL but GPL is vague enough that it can be argued either way. The "dubious license" terminology was incorrect from me, I was referring to it not being GPL compliant or at least there is skeptocism about whether it is. The BSD license does not have these restrictions and is fine.

Regarding the compat shim, if it has to link to any kernel APIs stability isn't guaranteed, if you want a reasonable guarantee of stability then as one of the above comments mentioned and I alluded to. Do the legwork to allow userspace drivers in the linux kernel, nobody said it's easy and it seems like the consensus is to just keep the shim up to date instead of trying to push that but if you want a stable API to code against that's your path. As was mentioned in this comment section Linus has publicly stated where possible userspace APIs are to be treated as sacred.
Teenagers don't suddenly become more mature on their birthdays, but the law needs to draw the line somewhere, and I want adults to be strongly discouraged from pursuing 13-year-olds.
Stack Overflow used to claim that the money they spent on licensing etc. to run their stack on .NET was well recouped in reduced hardware and energy spend, because .NET AOT compilation meant they got way more performance per buck.
The Great Wave is fantastic art and I'm getting a bit tired of seeing it overused everywhere. This is going to make that even worse.

It's good to celebrate outstanding artwork but having it in everyone's face all the time is antithetical to that.
Small secret:

The best tech stack when starting a startup is one you don't have to learn.

There's a million things you learn when starting a company. Don't make yourself learn an entirely new tech stack on top of everything else. This advice means you'll be using whatever you've used in the past which might not be the sexiest or newest technology, but your users won't care. Your users want a working product. Choose the stack that will result in a working product the quickest.

Refactor and migrate to a better stack later, if necessary. (It rarely is)

For me, that meant deploying to Elastic Beanstalk (I know, boring, no one talks about it, but it works!) and using Mongo because I was already comfortable with it. It also meant not using React, at first. This was the right answer for me, but might be the wrong answer for you! Build your app on the technology you know.
And who will fire a 10k+ exploit on your server? So you could record it and resell? In the early days, surfing shady sites with Internet Explorer, you could net a lot of interesting js that exploited the browser.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XT6I2XTC2s
Tests whether `echo` supports the `-e` option.
Cobalt is the open source downloader itself, the official instance is at https://cobalt.tools
I don't know if they are listed on the EU alternatives website, but for mail, I find Migadu to be excellent. I think they are Swiss.
aaaaah, that makes sense. See the links in my original post.
I agree. Honestly a really nice and productive language.
Is inking latency the new pixel to pixel latency or input to pixel latency? I like to keep up with the new names for old things.
Deraillers are a bit more efficient (almost no loss) and overall simpler to work on. They also (generally) offer a wider range of geear ratios.

Internal hubs work great, but have a bit more loss, tend to weigh more, and when they start going sideways tend to go really wrong. But for the commuter-y / daily use like what you mention they tend to last and be more weather resistant.

Because of all of this they haven't found a place in much hobby/fitness mountain or road biking, but are really great for less hilly utilitarian needs.
Having learnt k8s once, I found out it greatly simplifies things for me when I want to run new projects, even if it's single server only (there I use k3s).

Especially if there's a chance I need to run more than one client, or environment, on a given server, which is more important for "solo" enterprise than for a bigger company because I do not have money or time to care of multiple servers.
Disclaimer: I don't really write i anything in any of the four languages mentioned, so this is just my impression from the outsid looking in, but I'm sure that for many people the ergonomics are one of the core problems of C/C++.

Matklad also had an interesting take in one of their blogs: if you have to write unsafe code, then Zig is actually both a more ergonomic language than Rust, and easier to write "safe" unsafe code in.
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Coincidently, I recently visualized the scanners for fun by plotting them on a globe[1]. It gives a more comprehensive view of the locations and ASNs of the scanners. The demo data is generated from 1 day of logs.

[1]: https://github.com/simonmysun/where-are-the-scanners

Amazingly there's no request from same ASN. I believe this is because the VPS provider has a quite strict validation process, e.g. you have to upload a photo of yourself with your ID and your handwritten username, etc. I would suggest we consider the reputation or credibility of the data centers so that the data centers have the motivation of banning such users. In my case, a lot of the requests were sent from Tencent or Alibaba data centers.
Learning k8s carries a significant cognitive cost. I've learned hundreds of technologies in my 22+ years of career and I am not about to proactively learn something that people started making certification courses for (and some are quite long, we're talking weeks of training daily). And I am definitely not proactively learning it if it's only 1% likely I'll need it. (I am now working at the second company that actually truly benefits from k8s. Out of 15+.)

I have proactively learned what can k8s do and why is it useful however. That's a context that's very needed because k8s is also a huge investment and you should really know the pros and cons before jumping in. That I did.
”Works for me.“ does not really answer the question.

Having a 25 year history might be why your mail gets delivered, while many people trying to self-host have constant and unpredictable deliverability issues.
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The best answer here.
Good, I still have flashbacks to their awful cloud server uptime from a few years back. Every single hot summer afternoon when the temperature would hit 95 or 100 their servers would just mysteriously go offline.

This was in Berlin btw, and I think their data center was somewhere not too far away in Germany.
'You're not an "influencer" if you're female and the audience is 92% men. You're just a porn star.'

That's unfair. There are young female chess influencers such as the Botez sisters and Anna Cramling, where I'd guess that the vast majority of the audience is male. Those women are not porn stars, even though their viewership is boosted by their youth and good looks.
> In other words it's not like I can have a coal-fired power station at home, but I can have solar panels.

Not that it matters to your point, but you can, they're just awful — there many reasons why everyone moved away from heating homes with open fireplaces.

(My current apartment in Berlin is old enough to have a chimney, but there's no unit attached to it; likewise the house I grew up in back in the UK has a chimney, but it was bricked off since before I could remember, possibly before I was born).
Is it safe to generalize like that? IP67 is a certification criteria that says that it must withstand conditions for certain amount of time during the test. But it doesn't say anything about doing it twice or how long you must wait between tries.
For electronics it sometimes achieved by gel that can hold liquid for 30 min before water penetrates. It may eventually get dry again, but that is not covered by certification.
Another point is that testing is done in distilled water, any impurities like oils can increase its penetrating ability and reduce the time.
To me it looks like it's all down to actual manufacturer and item. IP rating is better than "splashproof" but still very vague.
This study is about sexual violence to children, not about 16-year-olds having consensual sex with 20-year-olds.
Except most recruiters are not working in your interest. Only their own. They'll push down your pay to increase their margin. This is particularly true in contracting.

Not all work on transparent commissions, at least here in the UK that's rare.

They are, by and large, talentless liars and cheats with a false narrative and harmful practice.

Seeing them as anything other than hostile to your interests is a quick way to get ripped off by these hacks.

Source: I consult for them on technical screening processes.
I'd also like to know how nabbing the Huawei CFO (who also happens to be the daughter of the founder) in Vancouver fits in with just preventing bugged equipment (again, for which there's no evidence) from being installed in US networks.

The US has gone after Huawei in such an all-encompassing manner that it's impossible to maintain the fiction that this is just about preventing Huawei from spying on the US (something that Huawei has never done anyways, as far as anyone knows).
Yeah I realize that "abducted" could suggest aliens, I was thinking more along the lines of Mexican drug cartel style abduction where your raping and being left alive is a wake up call to your partner in the police force that has turned the wrong stones. And the dudes doing the raping is not pretty. But the point is you are not able to do a proper handover, remember?
I published open source plugins for a popular tool and blogged about niche topics a decade ago. Not sure how practical that can still be today. Now I just wait for recruiters to approach me or go through recruiting agencies job ads.
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Yep, strong agree here, and indeed the modern hardware can achieve mind-blowing stuff. I have used a $250 laptop (i5 CPU that's now 8-9 years old, 16GB RAM, SATA SSD) to stress test some of my Rust apps and I could achieve ~250K requests per second.

Sure that doesn't apply to all tech (f.ex. my favorite Elixir is much slower than this) but for most intents and purposes a plain old VPS with good backups is quite enough and always will be. Or if you are particularly paranoid like myself: have a load balancer and have 2-3 copies of your app servers, 1 DB server, and overzealous backup scripts.
Actually, our work not only targets lip movements, it can also produce more realistic head movements and facial muscle movements. ps: It also achieved a good syncnnet score on 200 randomly collected wild image-audio pair. And it is open sourced.:)
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Our company is often asked at expos if we supply 2 wire ethernet switches (e.g. Single Pair Ethernet SPE[1]) but the reality is there's little demand (outside of automotive) we see in the Industrial marketplace for this type of product.

The other issue is that there is at least 2 competing industrial connector standards for SPE, the main ones being from Harting[2] and Phoenix Contact[3]. I think this could be a great option for the future and ultimately lead to lower cost cabling and smaller products.

[1] https://www.single-pair-ethernet.com/en

[2] https://images.app.goo.gl/ND9d9x66YNUckS7g6

[3] https://images.app.goo.gl/yWAiUAx4Y5vRmmbZA
Article sub-title:

> Last month, Wells Fargo reportedly fired over a dozen employees for using tools that fake productivity at work.

No mention of anyone else getting caught (let alone fired). Ever. Anywhere.
That quote, or anything similar, is not present in the article.
The correct link for that Wikipedia page is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption_d... :-)
I can only speak positively of Hetzner. I particularly like that they have a Terraform provider.

I've only used them for personal projects, though, so I can't say anything to the suitability in a corporate environment. In particular their support. That's quite an important factor when working in a corporate setting.

I wish they already had that S3-like service they've announced for some time. It would be really handy.
> At least here in germany. I've been involved with building all kinds of PV installations in bavaria, from 4kwp up to 20MWp. The balkony generators aren't taken seriously by anybody in the industry right now, at least.

If you're working at that size, I'd expect you to ignore balcony systems regardless of how cost-effective they were.

My point here is simply and only that it's possible to make a system safe enough that an untrained and unskilled member of the general public can just plug it in and use it, which is exactly what was being called for up-thread with this:

> We should practically get to the point where someone can buy a roll of material at Home Depot and unravel it on their roof, nail it, and plug it in themselves.

Germany basically has that (even if it's not in the form of a roll); there's nothing fundamental preventing the USA from having it too.
I am familiar with the writing of Stephen Hsu and Razib Khan and don't think they are racist. Nowadays the scientific study of race is deemed "racism" or "scientific racism" in some quarters. I disagree with that.
I suspect the combination of being able to dissipate 3.4kW of power, and the requested size and noise constraints may put this combination of features firmly beyond reasonable, even before considering cost.

But there is always room to hope. :)
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> Or is there something in the password method itself, that is inherently weak?

You have to send your password/hash. With PKC, your private key never leaves your device. It can even live on a separate security key. All you ever send are signed messages, never your key.
I've started at 2018, mainly used a similar site to upwork but local to my country so less competition and most of the time when you find a client from there, they refer you or use you again

Of course adding there to your profile skills, portfolio etc, sending your CV and website can really help

Once you have a website like this or a few, always keep hunting for work.
You can fail to get one for 2 weeks but then find one that will last you few months of work

Normally as a "freelancer" you get make much more money with the same time of work, if you work fast try to always get a fixed price project and finish it ASAP.
If not you can use a client or a few hourly and over the time to look for those fixed price

If you new to this, you gonna make a lot of mistakes estimating costs on those fixed price projects, we all do. We learn over time :)
Presumably because of Brexit, Mojeek is not listed. Is sort-of-interesting how some European lists include/exclude the UK.

https://www.mojeek.com/

One of the largest Western world indexes outside of Bing/Google, own crawler/ranking and privacy friendly.
How is this different from other HN digests?
Again, because publishing to an online-only journal is not the same as publishing a paper encyclopedia. The former has far, far less resources required and processes required in order to publish it. The journals shut down were not particularly well-regarded ones and they were known as paper mills prior to them using AI. The Dummies series is hardly a paragon of excellence either.

As I said, I wouldn't be surprised if these companies start using LLMs in the near future, but as I said in another comment, I think the average tech person vastly overestimates how much the average person keeps up-to-date on the latest LLM developments. They also tend to overhype how much society will be transformed by tech, largely because getting VC dollars depends on that hype.

These things are still in their infancy and I'd expect them to be used soon, but the people running encyclopedias are not so up-to-date on the latest LLM developments to have already incorporated them into publications planned years ago.
Other animals don't raise billions of other animals to cram them into factory farms, deprive them of natural surroundings, pump them full of hormones and antibiotics and then send them off to slaughterhouses to turn them into burgers and other meat products.

Animals live with nature. We don't. We created our own world on top of the natural world, which we are slowly destroying.

We have the brains, skills and resources to maintain and improve our living standards without destroying the natural world. But we choose not to vote with our wallet.

We in the Western world don't need to kill and eat animals anymore to survive. It's purely out of taste pleasure, habit and because 'we have always done it'.

EDIT: watch this video to see the reality of industrial animal farming:

http://www.nationearth.com/
Not to joke too hard but how long do you ride usually? To me a solid post ride cleanup takes 10mins tops. Thousands of miles on my dirty moutain bike and stuff still works right. Sure I replace parts that wear but seems insignificant.
> Compared to the civil rights era, the past few decades have been a blip.

The difference is that in no moment in history have foreign agents been able to influence the psychology of US citizens as much as in the past 20 years. Considering the effectiveness of information warfare, the link between the appearance of these weapons and the effects we would expect to see, and are indeed seeing now, a generation later, is pretty clear to an outsider.

While you are still in disbelief that anything nefarious is happening, and can be in outright denial and even label those who mention this possibility as xenophobic, you will continue to see the progressive destabilization of your system. This is the way information warfare works.

Boots on the ground won't protect you from an invisible enemy.
Is a non-French company obligated to obey a French court order? I can probably name a few countries where most US companies won't enforce the court order from them
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I just hope that paid off for you. Playing the hero usually is not rewarding. It has worked out for myself in the past where i got promoted or such but it rarely does.
Most often, if you do more work, you will be rewarded with more work and the new expectation that you can and should do more work instead of a "thank you" in any form.
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Good idea. What I do is, I disallowed password login in my ssh server, and I permanently ban whichever address that tries to log in using a password.
Why is Keycloak in this list? https://european-alternatives.eu/category/identity-and-acces...

The listing itself says it's an American company's product (RedHat).
Was the vacuum enabled? Were there long orphaned transactions?
The general premise is that they favor large institutions over small businesses, e.g. by having more and more complicated rules that require more overhead to comply with. As a result people are less able to start their own business, which is one of the major checks on the need for large employers to pay higher wages (competition for labor) or charge lower prices (competition for customers).

High levels of government assistance also tend to create poverty traps, because paying net benefits to high earning people is uneconomical but avoiding this when the base level of benefits is higher requires higher benefit phase out rates, which is equivalent to a higher marginal tax rate, in addition to the higher formal tax rates to pay for the benefits. The result is less incentive for individuals to try their hand at entrepreneurship, because the higher risk is still there (you could still go several years without making any money) but the higher reward is blunted.
There are dozens of such cities all over Europe, doesn't seem that hard to me if you actually care about it as a goal!