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> Why should my tax dollars pay to defend your country, if my country will inevitably end up committing war crimes in the process, and open us up to accusations that we are all monsters, like the accusations you're making in this thread? This just seems like a lose-lose proposition to me, as a US citizen. It seems better to just not have this arrangement, and withdraw from NATO.

You seem to be making a number of assumptions, all of which are wrong.

Your tax dollars are defending your country and its interests, and it just so happens that defending other countries is in your country's interests. The US doesn't keep NATO existing out of the goodness of its heart, it's a geopolitical tool. The US wants to combat Russian and Chinese influence and prevent them extending it, so it has various alliances and similar deals (like in Korea, Japan, the weirdness with Taiwan).

Second, that war crimes are an inevitable fact of life and nothing can be done. This is bullshit. War crimes can be committed in "the heat of the moment", but if properly dealt with (punished), will not be a frequent thing.

Third, that an army which has committed war crimes is automatically "all monsters". Only if it refuses to deal with its war criminals and they're in sufficient numbers, yes, but neither of those are facts of life. Had the US executed the people responsible for torturing civilians to death, nobody would be saying that the US ignores its war criminals; it did nothing, so everyone is right to say it.

As for the rest, you're trying to deflect based on technicalities. It doesn't matter if the US or allied militias did the kidnapping, US service members tortured those people to death with zero due diligence. They were tortured to death for the sadistic pleasure of groups of people in individual locations that could have been dealt with.... But not in Guantanamo. There the torture was the result of an official policy, implicating multiple high level officials, so the rot ran very high.

Fun fact: do you know what the Arbeit Macht Frei of Guantanamo is? "Honor bound to defend freedom". Can't make this shit up, perfect for an illegal in existence, no evidence required, torture to death/vegetable status unlimited detention camp.
One example on energy [0]

From 1.1.2025 on:
29,60 ct/kWh down from 38,22 ct/kWh (-23%)

[0]: German https://www.stadtwerke-stralsund.de/news/details/stadtwerke-...
Scandalous that war is business, instead of battle between good and evil
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> I am a socialist

And support some sort of Dick Cheney move on Ukranian communal assets?

Don't you think selling out the country will deplete moral? Eaten by Russia from the east, eaten by US/UK from the west? Crushed between super powers. What a gruesome fate, but "whatever is necessary" I guess.
> I have only seen this problem in elder devs.

To drop an anecdatum into the fray, I am an older dev and I tend to see this from younger devs because, frankly, the elder devs are too tired and semi-burnt out from trying to stop the younger devs creating nonsensically pure houses of glass built on the Wise Words of The Bloggers using Technique du Jour where everything takes 4x as long and results in the most fragile and complex sugar-spun castles which collapse into unmaintainable slop after the first contact with enemy (customer) fire.

(I may or may not be bitter about this from previous jobs)
It just feels different in software development because things have moved very fast, I'd say especially when github rose to prominence. The amount of software developers on the market has also increased exponentially since then, so the amount of (relatively) junior developers is much higher than those of 15, 20+ years of experience.
Igiving away prizes looks pretty much like a ponzi scheme to me.
I'm sorry you get our reality where it is nested quotes, parentheses, dollar signs and backslashes all the way down.
> the word lazy still isn't quite accurate in every way either.

I take it in its form from "lazy loading" - "don't do it until absolutely necessary" (which kinda devolves into YAGNI.)
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Since this thing only has to connect to some Windows 365 instance in the cloud, the device itself has no need to run Windows. I bet it runs some locked down flavour of Linux instead, similar to SteamOS or LibreELEC.
Link 1 is talking about blast effect which is a different topic altogether, link 2 is paywalled and is a magazine, not anything scholarly.
> “a 64MB POWER Indigo 2 with XZ Graphics and a 2GB SCSI drive would run you around £58,000”

And then you had to buy the software. A license for a 3D modeling package like Softimage or Alias cost at least $10-15k, and you probably also needed a separate raytracing package for high-quality output.

Someone is selling a copy of Alias for SGI for $2500 on eBay today:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/335622694059

But if, in 1994, you did have an SGI and Alias and enough artistic skill and technical competence (and patience…) to produce liquid logos and dancing soda bottles and face morphs, you would certainly recoup that $80k investment quickly. It was a very rare skill that needed very rare hardware. You could get highly paid freelance work by simply calling up ad agencies.

That scarcity a bit hard to imagine today, when anyone can download Blender onto their standard desktop computer and learn it by watching online videos. It’s cool that 3D art has been thoroughly democratized.
Battery unicorn Northvolt files for bankruptcy, co-founder and CEO resigns
If Architects Had to Work Like Programmers (1995)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski's_Law

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Widowmaker lives on.
My wife has done a lot of genealogical research and has experience with reading cursive text going back to about 1700 in both Dutch and German. (Many Dutch people have German ancestors.) A lot depends on the quality of the scans. You can contact me through the email address mentioned on my website, which is mentioned in my profile.
The DX for websockets in Go(gorilla) is horrible. But i do not believe these numbers one bit.
I think what you're calling "elder devs" is actually the "intermediate" devs. They're not junior in any sense if they're capable/allowed to create these huge balls of mud we're referring to. And the elders normally have seen way too much to fall into that trap... and definitely don't quit often like you're describing at all (my experience is that the younger you are, the more often you change jobs - which is good for you as it's been shown this is the best way to get a good paycheck, but bad for employers, of course). They're tired of that constant churn and have had more than enough time to find a place where they're comfortable. The OP is likely talking about those as well, but from the perspective of someone who probably is truly senior and has been doing this at least since the 90's... basically, they're talking about the devs who know just enough to be dangerous (some will enter this stage from around 3 years of experience to 10, others may stay there from 5y to 20y - so it's difficult to group them together in a neat group) just like you're doing, but to you, they look senior as well.
whats in it for the usa to provide financial assistance i wonder? weaken russia? funnel money to their defense bros? probably both, certainly not out of the goodness of their heart. britain is no different.

what should have happened is countries form a coalition of troops under a non-nato banner and go in and help with the fighting... if they really wanted to help ukraine that is.

what we see atm is all just money money money.
Huh? A month ago, the bankruptcy trustee for Synapse said that reconciliation was complete and funds would be returned by the end of the year. What happened?[1]

Oh. Note at the end: (Updates with quote from trustee’s report in last paragraph. A previous version of this story corrected the last paragraph to say a potential shortfall remains between the amount of money available for return to customers and what is recorded on Synapse’s ledgers.)

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-23/funds-fro...
Looks very original although I’m a bit daunted by getting to grips with it. Plan to give it a go later. Feedback: The mashup of themes make it difficult to assess what the gameplay is like, even with the video. For example when are you taking action versus navigating away from screens
maybe you can fiddle a bit and create a yacc/bison or lex/flex
Seems like a rather large moral hazard if we don't?

At some point the courts should be able to say "ok fine you were the directors responsible for the company you're going to prison n years, sorry."

Bet we'd see a lot more documentation suddenly appear.
Command responsibility applies here. CEOs get multiple times their average employee's pay because of their responsibility, which should include responsibility to know when stuff goes wrong.
Are you using an in-house scheduler or is this a feature of a particular tool?
or simply one of the best corporate buyouts that's not subject to regulatory scrutiny. microsoft owns 49% of OpenAI - will get profits till whenever. All without subject to regulatory approval. and they get to improve Azure
No, I remember the Microsoft anti-trust trial. It was barely a slap on the wrist.

If we were to try draw equivalence: they'd ask Google to stop paying to be the default search provider on platforms and to offer a choice of search provider on Android. That would be the same as what they required of MS (simply to not bundle Internet Explorer and to open up APIs). What the EU is currently asking of Apple is maybe equivalent.

What the DOJ is currently seeking from Google is way over the top given the MS precedent.
Or maybe it's not the type of car but the type of person who buys these cars :)
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Whenever I've got a chance to make half the going interest rate on my money, I want it to be with some disruptive fintech bro startup with a silly name. That's just how I roll.
The water doesn’t disappear.

Most data centres use water in their chiller units, as do many large industrial facilities.

ChatGPT is a minority of the energy, heat, and cooling budget of Azure, which is a minority of the world’s data centre footprint.

ChatGPT is useful.

This article is not.
Luckily i never had to go through these interviews to get some work.
I'll be hiring programmers next year and only two things matter to me: their code - i want to see how clean they are, how they think, how they structure the logic and flow. And how capable they are for solving a problem. That's it. Nothing else truly matters. Programming is essentially a detective work of high level problem solving. I have couple of questions where i present a problem and ask for a solution - not code, just how they would solve it. And there is no bad answer, but i am looking for a particular way of thinking/solving things, so we're more in sync and that's about it.
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I'd bet 95% of fintech startups are just walking moral hazards to begin with.
The fact that even 2 weeks of vacation per year(!) seems like a lot to you is pretty telling for the state of employment in the US.
I'm hoping it shows up in Matt Levine's Money Stuff - this is the sort of area where I've seen patio11 defer to him before, though obviously my ideal world would be getting to read an analysis from each of them.
Not sure if that' more than a person sitting in the office writing this when you take into account all electricity used by the building, maintenance, other people (catering cleaning etc.)

And I think this energy-shaming whether that's AI crypto or something else is just a wrong approach. If somebody buys energy he can use it for mindless entertainment if he so pleases, why focus on datacenters and not Disneyland?
That's batshit insane.
Everyday it becomes more apparent that Musk has acute mental health issues…
It seems like they were branded much more conservatively and bankish at the point where said couple would have picked them.

The site *now* ... yeah. Ick.
Nullsoft TV was wild. I didn't even read any changelog or announcement, to me it was just there one day and it blew my mind. Like some other tech, it was maybe just to early, and not marketed properly.
> Many data centres use water-based systems to cool the plant with towers evaporating the heat, like a huge perspiration system, which means that the water is lost.

Someone doesn't know what "evaporation" or "lost" means.
One avocado takes 320 liters, I'd rather give up on avocado than Claude.
Continue browsing > Scroll to explore > My Life > Scroll away

I found this while looking at what https://www.endlesspaper.app turned out to be.
> vet these thoughts, would you call it reasoning

Probably: other details may be missing, but checking one's ideas is a requirement. The sought engine must have critical thinking.

I have expressed very many times in the past two years, some times at length, always rephrasing it on the spot: the Intelligent entity refines a world model iteratively by assessing its contents.
All that to get some percent hallucination, whose logic can't be traced? It's just another tech dead-end that leaves us all the worse, and the haves having more. It's just more waste on the level of bitcoin. It's the nature of selfishness: shortsighted with no global benefit, only global waste.

Compassion for the Earth, herself, dictates we forge a different path, where folks like Google, Facebook, and elmo are not deciding our collective fate.
FWIW they are acting, these things just take a while, current phase of gathering comments ends December 2nd https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2024/fdic-proposes-...
Someone should have A list for Gore Vidal, that would be interesting too.
Especially for savings. Using a fintech for day to day banking has its uses (I'm a customer of Revolut and N26) and they blow traditional banks out of the water in terms of features and usability (at one point my traditional bank was blocking "suspicious" card transactions from "abroad"... Ireland and Luxemburg, stuff like Amazon and Uber).

But savings are mostly fire and forget, unless you decide to play an active part which is not for everyone and most people shouldn't.
Amazing list by Nabokov, and "strong opinions" indeed
The point of the plot is to show the drop on Dec. 25th; but the numbers are unrelated to the plot and do show actual variations from month to month.
This brings back memories. Back around the same time in the mid-90’s I remember visiting a post-production company, who had multiple SGI Onyx supercomputers in their stylish glass walled server room, dedicated to processing special effects for film and advertising.

They were so expensive they only made sense to run 24/7/365 in order to get their money’s worth. They had a service engineer on call permanently who wasn’t allowed to be further away than 25 miles from the servers at any time.

http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/onyxgs.html
> The only time an employee needed to find their own cover is if something unexpected came up during their on-call period and they needed a few hours out (like an emergency visit to the doctor with a child etc).

That's exactly the time where "finding your own cover" is the most stressful.
Unfortunately we're in a global prisoner's dilemma. Nobody wants the future we're all desperately racing towards building.
ChatGPT is not housing anyone, nor is it providing office space. Even Disneyland is at least providing joy for children and adults.
I mean it sounds clever, but how do you have engineers with no expertise in a system handling calls for it? I've been at places that follow the sun, and you frequently have no idea what to do during an incident, because the person who owns the system is offline. But at least you can sit one a useless incident call during work hours instead of completing your own tickets I suppose.
Agreed. If it's useful, why not scale up the electricity and water supply, and make the latter sustainable.
Somebody wants it, or it wouldn't be being built. No, the correct framing is that this is a case of the ignorant leading the powerless.
chat gpt doesn't enjoy anything for itself, it provides value to people. i don't use it much, but on occasion it's been helpful to me.
Revolut are a real bank, at least in Europe, and all funds in it are protected by the relevant country's banking fund.
Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42202288 (1 comment)
I’d love an old UNIX machine like this or one of the later Solaris SPARC desktop towers. Beautiful machines running now rare software.

How does the documentation for the software development environment for this machine stack up today?
That’s a good question. Are you a bot?
I agree - it has no direct use to the wellbeing of humans - Id say if the indirect use (e.g. humans saving time [which itself is probably the most energy intensive thing, food, housing, entertainment], gaining knowledge has to surpass the costs in Order for the investment to make sense.
> In the end, I had to admit that my approach was stalled out and his approach, while different than my own, had forward momentum. I opted to just try to get out of his way and “let him cook”.

I commend that dude for doing that. Too many cool github projects just slowly die in a half-baked state because the author moved on, but also doesn't accept PRs because they're either completely unresponsive or just don't want a different style/approach in "their baby".

So just fork it!

Well that's what everybody does then, with the result that there are now 34 forks with different features, Bugfixes, often to the same couple issues, because of course none of the people tried to talk to each other before hitting the fork button. So you come in and try to fix this by creating another fork and merging as much stuff from the other forks as possible. Now there are 35 forks...
Was just going to say the same. The integration of JavaScript into the Oracle RDBMS is done using a mix of C, Java/Truffle and JavaScript - https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/2...

And you can step up a level above in the same ecosystem as well, my current project is written in Scala and directly shares its data structures with the Graal Python interprer that I've embedded inside it, so other people can write the stuff they want in Python.
From the article:

> Using the chatbot for between ten to 50 queries consumes about two litres of water, according to experts from the University of California, Riverside.

From ChatGPT:

> A single BTC transaction consumes approximately 1,000–1,500 kWh of electricity, with cooling processes for fossil fuel and nuclear power plants using about 2–3 liters of water per kWh. This translates to an indirect water consumption of around 2,500–3,750 liters (660–990 gallons) per transaction, depending on the energy mix.

If accurate, I still prefer ChatGPT.
I think in tech circles there is this obsession with aesthetic of minimalism which I suspect is driven by nostalgia. It comes up all the time on HN, and the usual suspects are ditching smartphones and going back to paper.

Personally, I prefer "utilitarian" over "minimal". Everything around me serves a purpose, when it stops doing that its gone.

I still use a smartphone and gmail. I avoid paper and "uni-taskers".

The one thing I agree with is cutting out all news. I have not found news across any medium to provide any actionable benefits to my life.

One thing to consider is replacing massive social networks with close-connection (people from real life) and interest-based networks. There are well-funded, anonymous actors within these large platforms, driven by perverse incentives that are often counter to your well-being.
Used water doesn't go to waste water treatment plan.
More data-center demand means more energy and water demand. Can this in turn incentivize in-situ water reclamation/desalination and energy generation (solar, nuclear), driving down prices for both? Maybe one day, data centers will crystalize cities around them - like mono-cities of USSR, but way more robust. You can even think of these as oasis of some sort!
The "golden abacus" instead of "golden handcuffs?"

Or as my undergrad mathematics advisor described friends who left academics for finance, "they spend their days clipping (stock) coupons instead of solving math problems - not as interesting but more interest."
Run a honeypot and see where most of the traffic comes from.
Disneyland also involves a lot of plane flights and driving to get to it. If you add all that up it's a lot more.
So do coal-fired power plants. So does our endless production of plastic waste and our ever-growing landfills. So does all our fossil-fuel use.

Where is it all taking us, friend? Most people are not honest enough with themself to understand the bigger picture, nor are they selfless enough to give a darn to sacrifice something of their own benefit to help the whole.
The question is how much value. Sure, learning about entropy & unblocking students is huge value - producing clickbait content does way less so imo
Further, it could run on air cooling, just the water or other liquid medium is easier to handle in scale.
I think the idea behind energy shaming is that energy price rarely includes its externalities (probably resources depletion and pollution). "If You buy it, You do what You want with it" is of course legally correct. But I think the argument they're trying to make subconsciously in is that there's someone else who will have to pay part of the price for it.
ChatGPT saved 3 hours of my time today.
1. ChatGPT is in the title purely for click-related reasons. This is about data center water usage, and applies to any application that uses a data center.

2. Seems like water should be more expensive in water-stressed areas and that data centers should pay a rate that includes the cost of the externality. Is it, and do they?
Those problems allow follow-up questions to better define things. In fact, as initially stated, the problems are usually so vague as to require follow-ups.
My entire life trajectory has changed because of how LLMs have expanded my ability to write, think and reason. Have fun at Disneyland, though.
If you ask it online then I guess it counts as wire fraud which may be easier to prosecute.
Surely not! I could drown a whole load of avocados in 320l of water, couldn't I?
Yeah, I'm personally not a huge fan, but it's not nearly as bad as what any gambling destination is. That is nearly pure waste, with the possibility that people are seriously damaging themselves with addiction and alcohol.

There is a force inside us that seeks to convince us to undermine our own selves.
Water use is not an externality. All water used is paid for.
Indeed, reading him in Arabic is a different and better world.
That's a great argument! Assuming every word generated by ChatGPT is a word which would otherwise have been typed by a human writer.

Is every word generated by ChatGPT a word which would otherwise have been typed by a human writer?