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In his book "Soccer in Sun and Shadow", Eduardo Galeano beautifully captures the essence of Pelé's status: “those of us who were lucky enough to see him play received alms of an extraordinary beauty: moments so worthy of immortality that they make us believe immortality exists.”

miniforge, no need to deal with conda environments anymore. https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge

I've been following Dmytri since he developed Thimbl, a distributed micro blogging protocol in the early days of Twitter. His analysis always brings context into why decentralized systems are more about politics and power than technologies. The uptake in Mastodon usage given the recent twitter acquisition reminded me of this talk where he addresses some of these issues. "Never be deceived that the rich will permit us to vote away their wealth."

I think the spirit of the article is to put the cloud in perspective of the organization size and the workload type. There is a sweet spot where the cloud is the only option that makes sense, definitely with variable loads and capacity to basically scale on demand as big as our budget, there is no match for that. However... there are organizations with certain type of workloads that could afford to put infrastructure in place and even with the costs of staffing, energy etc they will save millions in the long run. NASA, CERN etc are some. This is not limited to HPC, the cloud at scale is not cheap either see: https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap...

I see both sides of the argument, there is a reason why CERN is not processing their data using EC2 and lambdas.

The Github repository: https://github.com/HollowaySean/BlackHoleViz_v2

Here's another link https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/reddit-vid...

It used to be under 40MB on their first releases. I had it on a USB drive to boot old machines and worked great.

He should make way more based on what FB pays their average Engineers(and Dan is not average by any means), I know people that knows/does half of what he knows and make 200+. That said, I think salaries in tech are crazy!

His main issue was that Instagram was not a thing back then.

Some comments here are along these lines: "emancipation is an insult to those who worked hard to pay off their masters for their liberty" give me a break. I paid student loans and I'll be happy that the next generation won't have to.

Most of the comments here are missing the point. Very HN.

best comment on HN this year so far.

The 400-pound hacker is a reference to what Trump said during the 2016 campaign but it seems like not everybody gets it.

I don't think it's the NSA this time, for once they don't have to do deep package analysis or install any MITM device since they get the whole info in bulk, maybe it's just a 400-pound hacker.

I don't know why this is still a problem these days, let's just use lava lamps for entropy: https://blog.cloudflare.com/lavarand-in-production-the-nitty...

Yeah, you're right. What I meant is that in our day they are mutually exclusive, either you have privacy or you have convenience. I like duckduckgo and I use it as my default search engine but we can agree that it lacks many of the convenient features Google maps has. So I'm looking forward to the day that privacy and convenience are the norm.

I'm looking forward to the day that privacy and convenience are mainstream again(if there were ever). This feature is a right step on that direction.

IMO Jupyter notebooks are popular because it's open source, they are convenient and they help a lot illustrating an idea.

The results of a notebook can be shared more easily than a plain repository(via nbviwer or binder) and more importantly the science there it's reproducible.

This is very similar to what BitTorrent does or am I missing something?

Related to this type of animation, there is a great book called "The Machinery of Life" that talks abut molecular level biology with amazing illustrations. https://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Life-David-S-Goodsell/dp/03...

There is a huge difference between creating a network protocol and designing autonomous killer drones.

Is having killing machines with no human in the loop a good idea? because that's the way this is going. We don't need Skynet to have a dystopian future.

From the movie "Flash of Genius" about Robert Kearns, the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper:

"I can't think of a job or a career where the understanding of ethics is more important than engineering," Dr. Kearns continues. "Who designed the artificial aortic heart valve? An engineer did that. Who designed the gas chambers at Auschwitz? An engineer did that, too. One man was responsible for helping save tens of thousands of lives. Another man helped kill millions."

"Now, I don't know what any of you are going to end up doing in your lives," Dr. Kearns says, "but I can guarantee you that there will come a day when you have a decision to make. And it won't be as easy as deciding between a heart valve and a gas chamber."

To me this is incredibly valid for Silicon Valley engineers these days.

I got .6 probability, that's pretty high and last time I checked I could fool the Turing test.

- How much for that antimissile program? $100 billion? what? it may not work?!! mmm OK I'll take 2!

- How much for a new web interface? 1k?! what?! that's outrageous!! just add another link, it will be fine.

Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11744221

Have you guys listened to Justin Bieber samplings? I bet he is the one claiming copyrights for all that white noise.

"Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist." - Sir David Attenborough.

Now we can add "bitcoin investors" to the list.

What about when U.S. media outlets do the same in other countries? Like all the time. I'm not saying RT is not Russian propaganda but come on, next time CNN publishes a headline like "Inside Hussein's WMD facilities " I hope @jack will ban them as well.