That omits the majority of the casual, daily acts of violence and greed, committed by people to secure their basic needs at the expense of their families and neighbors.
Those falls under non-great crimes, the implicit counterpart to the explicitly mentioned great crimes. It would follow that rectifying those those merely gets one petty honour, rather than great honour.
There is no fundamental distinction between code and data. This separation does not exist as category in actual reality (and I vividly remember that being one of the bigger points GEB made, early on). They're fundamentally one and the same, and classifying some bits as data and some as code is a point of view that really depends on what you're doing and why.
As for Harvard architecture - every time you branch on your "data", you're effectively executing it, and your "code" can be seen as emulating a system where your "data" is the actual code.
However, the large hangar is likely to have armed guards inside, or at least able to arrive on the scene within two minutes of the alarm tripping. Your regular household with their regular locks on their regular doors does not.
> low population density, good local availability of water without competing uses, low electricity prices, very green electricity (lots of nuclear, hydro, wind), good infrastructure, cold climate
This then makes the headline basically read as, "Popularly disliked company listened, with new project avoiding literally every valid or ignorant criticism people brought up; news found some even more nonsensical criticism to amplify".
LLMs are a good case study, and I'd argue it's exactly the same phenomenon - just with LLMs, people feel allowed to just say "I don't have time to read this wall of text, 90% of that is noise anyway", because LLMs won't get offended.
Also GP is presuming the person on the other end should automatically care about request being sent to them. They don't.
Unfortunately, the market is a competitive environment, and it's competition that ultimately reduces companies to money printers. Your idealistic companies, if they existed, got outcompeted by those who sacrificed some of that idealism in exchange for a little more profit.
Wrong. You are being too much "economic idealism" - the market is not perfectly efficient and theres easily enough room for companies like I describe, and they exist today, especially in more well rounded European countries.
And then seperatly, we are talking about the definition of "well run companies" and I was putting forward my definition of one, which is what we are talking about in this thread.
Well, most of the time "this could have been an email" means "if it were an e-mail, I could just ignore it instead of having an hour of my life wasted".
If a fridge is being opened frequently, the amount doesnt matter but lets pretend frequently means many times an hour, shouldnt a human be able to spot the fridge is warming up because it doesnt look or feel as cold as normally ?
Sounds fun. Perhaps you would like to volunteer for thermometer duty at your local supermarket.
If there were actually people wandering around supermarkets manually checking fridge temperatures in 2026, everyone on HN would be saying how easy it it ought to be be to avoid all this pointless manual labor using modern technology.
Because being smart is not about avoiding work, its about failing well when things go pear shaped.
Its the same thign that separate good cars from the best. They both drive well enough at normal speeds in normal conditions. The best cars save your life when the others make you a cripple or dead in some unfortunate chance bad luck event.
Supermarkets operate on razor thin margins. They rely on being smart and avoiding work to make a profit. I don't think they are going to be persuaded to do a bunch of extra manual work, and tolerate increased electricity bills, just on the off chance that there's a once-in-a-generation cyber attack.
I think, in classic HN style, you're massively underestimating the complexity of a domain that you have no experience with. There's a whole academic literature on optimizing this:
The software running on fridges should, obviously, be secure (just like any other software should), but air gapping the fridges, and winding the technological clock back a couple of decades, isn't a realistic proposal.
Fridges are manually checked where I work. And logged.
It is very, very, pointless manual labor, but big.corp won't pay for an offsite solution.
Approx 3,000 walk-in fridges across the company, about 1,000 of them also have walk-in freezers.
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