skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not much. The V-2's guidance system was primitive, and so where it hit was fairly random. Force has to be concentrated on targets of military value to be effective.

Consider the vastly more bombs dropped on Germany day and night, far more than V-2's ever could have dropped. Aside from destroying the oil infrastructure, it's hard to see the military value of destroying city after city, and that bombing was much more precise than the V-2s.

For rockets to be effective, one needs either precision guidance or a nuclear warhead.
Listen, my claim is simple: submerged data centres will give rise to richer, more complex ecosystems around them (due to the extra energy, heat convection, increased entropy etc), in a surprisingly short timeframe. Because that's what life's good at.

You disagree, giving reasons I find irrelevant here (a data centre won't make a dent in the average ocean temperature, and certainly won't make it "the highest-temperature location in the ocean"), but I respect that. The good news is that the impact will be easy to evaluate once deployed.

In fact, testing the data centre's impact on the surrounding ecosystem will surely be a mandatory component of any such project, so we'll get to see the hard data. Let evidence be the judge of the "absolutely nots".
C# is very verbose and tedious compared to more expressive languages - having to deal with CLR types/API at runtime while using a language with very limited expressiveness (C#) is not very productive. It's better than Java if that's what you're aiming at - but JVM has an incredible ecosystem of stuff that works - much larger than .NET core which is not very mature in many areas (recently had to revert to .NET 4.7 because some encryption method used by a government SOAP service we were talking to wasn't supported).

TypeScript and JS underneath is actually quite malleable - you can escape static typing at any point and revert to simple JS object model when things don't map cleanly in the type system - and then still have types at the boundaries - makes meta-programming trivial in some cases - where it would look like a monstrosity in C#.

F# is interesting and has a lot of advantages over C#, but few people seem to be willing to invest the time to pick it up in the .NET community.

So I don't really view .NET core as a superior alternative, I've worked in JVM land, they are more mature and while Java sucks there are other languages on top of it as well and are decent to use (Kotlin ~ C#, Scala ~ F#)
around 10 years before, an IT professional was the hottest thing in the Indian marriage market (if I may use that term, which is common use around here.). There was no problem for one to find a bride if they are anywhere near IT. When you here that some girl is getting married, and ask what the groom is doing, 9 out of 10 times, it would be "Software Engineer in US". Now it is bank employees. No one needs IT professionals now...

That should tell you something in lines of answering this question...
>>Also the best Indian engineers end up working for big companies like FANG.

Most jobs are in those companies in Bangalore are in QA/SRE/SysAdmin area. If people throwing away coding work in services to these non-dev work in FANG companies I wouldn't consider them too smart.

Even the other product companies like NetApp largely make engineers work on some internal php tool.

Product companies pay well, but the average quality of work isn't necessarily better than services firms.
With there being so much talk how Microsoft is reformed/reforming, I do not really see the change at all.

Microsoft always was about developers and getting them into their ecosystem and I do not think this is evil. It's business.

People act like the Open Source strategy is so much different from the Ballmer days but is it really? From a business perspective they tried to throw rocks into the paths of Open Source as a thing, and it did not work. It just alienated more developers. Logical conclusion is to blend in. And so they did.

Apart from that, with Open Source being kind of a de facto default for the past decade, it just becomes so much harder to find engineers who would work at a company not respecting the ideas behind Open Source development.

Microsoft is now sitting at the focal point for the majority of Open Source efforts. And it has a kill switch in its' hands.

The reformed Microsoft is the old Microsoft. It just learned a few tricks from the Open Source community.
> I highly recommend Dan Carlin's Ghosts of the Ostfront series of podcasts, to get even a sense of the insanity.

Just don't take any factual claims Carlin makes as fact. He is a storyteller, not a historian. He editorializes his stories a lot.
This is exactly what I said...?
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it's part of the culture to be nice (to strangers) and NO is considered rude. brings a lot of funky and frustrating moments not only when travelling.

another is that strange indian head-shake that is so hard to reproduce - never figured it out completely, but it felt like when I eventually ask yes/no question and they say yes with that shake, it's actually more like no/don't know/maybe
The real "secret weapon" of the Allies was radar. Radar controlled anti-aircraft guns, and radar controlled artillery acted as a "force multiplier" by putting the munitions on the target. Radar also crippled the U-boot fleet, enabled the Allies to respond effectively to attacks, and enabled seeing through the weather.
Organized Streisand Effect. I love it!

Might have this as a regular submission, for extra amplification.
Whats the advantage of either vs a basic "nokia" phone for £50~ ? they aren't very big these days, and the most distracting they can be is actually receiving a call or text. I "downgraded" to one of these 6 years ago. Bonus features include up to 2 weeks battery, practically indestructible compared to smartphones (which means even less distracting)...

it's the phone that literally makes me forget it exists until I actually get called, that has to be the least distracting possible while still having a phone.
Vulnerable IoT on shipping vessels
EU about to fine Google billions in Android antitrust case
Yeah, and the problem with this is if you lie and get found out, you'll not get asked again in many Western companies.
Disaster at Xichang (2013)
This is one of those things I have had on my 'need to look into further' list for a long time. Last status of my personal research is that it's clear that nitrite 'causes' (to just use the popular phrasing) cancer, and that many leafy vegetables are high in nitrate, and that nitrate gets converted to nitrite to some extent during fermentation.

People who make 'organic' sausages, for example, add celery as a 'preservative' so that they don't have to use the 'chemical' nitrite - except, the way it 'preserves' is that the nitrate in the celery is converted to nitrite during fermentation, but much less controlled than just measuring out nitrite in the first place, so those 'organic' or 'artisanal' sausages often have higher nitrite content than 'normal' sausages.

A quick google shows that this might happen for some vegetables too (e.g. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1745-4549....) but I can't tell if the same would hold for all fermented food.
If your process cannot revert a breaking change with a figurative snap of fingers, the process is broken. It is like driving a car with no brakes.

About the only time where I've seen this fail is if it was a publicised feature launch that was way premature.
The Allies had total air superiority, and the panzers would have had a very hard time against that.
The full EFF list of these is discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17254412 .
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https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/order.shtml

>IDA Starter: supports more than 20 processor families, including the popular x86 and ARM processors.

>IDA Starter does not support 64-bit files.

Doesn't look like it does.
Fake online shopping
I just want to know is the jt store site’s product quality is good from the other site?
I wonder how long it'll take before someone tries to takedown this page ;-)
Is there an underground ring of hardware wallet crackers? Are we living in a cyberpunk future already?
> Caffeine, if safely administrated, is an effective countermeasure to mitigate impairment of alertness caused by sleep loss. This has been demonstrated in multiple laboratory and field studies for different sleep–wake schedules. However, to maximize its effectiveness, caffeine should be consumed at the right time and amount. Here, we developed an optimization algorithm to determine when and how much caffeine to consume so as to safely maximize alertness of a group of individuals for any situation

I couldn’t find the algorithm though...
I don't think we have to.

Loop, as it might seem, doesn't mean there is no progress made in between.
What's the difference between hosted and self-hosted?
H2O version 2.3.0-beta1 released, improvements presented at Rubykaigi 2018
> it's in your best interest to always do KYC

And why will this never hold for similar transactions done on the blockchain?
Any way I can get in touch with you?
Fun part is, high school is/was the other way. USSR curriculum was full of stuff that 99% of students wouldn't ever use. There was little incentive to use anything in practice. You had to memorise, pass test and then you can forget it. This practice continues to this day in big parts of ex-Soviet sphere. I had plenty of teachers who took pride in saying that "stupid Americans learn this only in university!". Yet Americans I meet remember what they learned and know who to put it to use. Meanwhile I don't remember jack shit :D
Standard advice for digital scopes is that you need a sample rate at least 10x the signal you're trying to look at. The main signal may be 60hz but for power quality you're interested in looking for harmonics, deformations to the waveform, current/voltage phase mismatch etc.
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> they were hiding them away for some reason

Why sell better things when your customers are locked-in and you can force them to buy garbage?

Big companies are reactive. They have no need to innovate. In fact, innovation usually harms business. Domination via lock-in is much more lucrative. GitHub offers lock-in via the social developer graph.
The main bit of process missing here seems to be the requirement that the developer of a given feature is at work (or at least on call) when it's deployed and has it's first full day of usage (or whatever makes sense for the particular type of application). Don't deploy on Friday afternoon, it's better for everyone to wait until Monday morning. Certainly don't deploy major feature work just before going on holiday, etc.
Oddly enough, I've worked with people who are agile/scrum fanatics and remote work fanatics at the same time. Good times... no, I seriously take that back, it was terrible.
Nowadays code is (relatively) easy to read. Back in the day of thousands of lines of assembler, perhaps on punched cards, less so. I think that's why flowcharts were more important in the past than they are now.
The author might have a higher chance of figuring it out. This is playing the likelihood game though. In perfect world, the code would be tight and small enough that you wouldn't take long to understand it, and then the complex components (there are always a bunch of these) are well tested and documented. Especially rationale for design decisions or implementation quirks.

Old code does not necessarily mean legacy code.
Hi richardwhiuk, GitLab team member here.

We appreciate open feedback, thank you for these UI details.
We are very aware of the lack of polishing of our current project home page and missed opportunities. There is a specific issue on that we are working on for a July release right now, see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/44704. This is a first step of the larger effort we are tackling to improve the overall experience via https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/62.
Please feel free to check these out and comment in the issue.

Regarding our navigation, we feel confident that the experience has been greatly improved with the new 10.0 UI. See https://about.gitlab.com/2017/09/13/unveiling-gitlabs-new-na... for some context. I’d like to encourage you to get involved and let us know what you think! You can always create an issue to contribute improving the GitLab experience.

Andreas
Product Manager
This is a tough and awkward problem, because accounting for the externalities of a "good thing" would curtail progress towards a good thing. Meanwhile, the externalities of bad things get a free pass. Ouch.

The solutions are either very expensive, very counterproductive, or very unfair.

The expensive solution is grid energy storage, where the utility installs a bunch of storage to time-shift some of the generation to better match the demand. The unfortunate aspect is that this is capital intensive, and most utilities are already loaded full of debt to pay for capex. This will probably result in the increase of rates billed to consumers, which is ironic, even if the grid is now providing a more complex service.

The unfair solution is to legislate that onsite storage must accompany all residential distributed solar generation. This pushes the costs significantly higher, and forces homeowners to locally account for the added complexities of their green energy generation. But full suite of complications around other energy sources isn't priced into their cost.

One counterproductive solution is to force market pricing on all consumption and generation. The revenue on residential solar generation would free-fall, because all of it in a particular area gets generated at a time when it's most plentiful. It wouldn't be worthwhile for a small player to generate it anymore.

Another counterproductive, but simple solution, is to dump excess solar at the inverters at peak time, then run a bunch of natgas peakers in the evening once solar drops off. This is an environmentalist's nightmare, but takes no effort to execute.
Why don't Australians use Solar water heaters? It's the best ROI you can get from solar, Mediterranean countries and the sunny parts of China have absolutely massive capacities installed. It's direct thermal, so it's not a cool high-tech gadget, but if you're worried about the environment, it's "better" than solar panels when applicable. It also essentially includes on-site thermal storage, so no grid instabilities.
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> solar roofs should come with batteries

This is a good way to kill new installations by making them needlessly expensive.

Demand is typically higher during the day, because that's when people are working and running their aircon.

You do get a "duck curve" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve but that's best dealt with by gas peaker plants. It's just that Australia is in a stupid situation on the gas "markets": https://theconversation.com/gas-crisis-or-glut-why-japan-pay...
Will hosting in the US as a non-US business have any legal differences?
If you're hosting a service in the US (When you're not a US resident.) will that have any legal differences between hosting in ex. your own country (Let's say UK.)

Let's say a person in the UK has a business website call foobar.com and it's hosted in the US, will that be an American business or a business in the UK.

I'm aware that the business would be a UK business if it's registered as a business, so I guess the question is only partially relevant to non-registered businesses etc.

Note: This can really be between any country and the US. I just used UK as an example.
What if you are a nomad, changing locations month after month? What is your employment market? Is getting hired while in a high income place then moving to a low income place immediately after regarded as a good move in this game?

A remote only company playing the local income game is a major red flag for me. It's basically an employee caste system at that point, with second class employees based solely on their physical location.
> solar gives you cancer

Is that hyperbole or are they seriously saying that?
I hope there won't be anymore one single source control site that everybody uses.
> Microsoft doesn't care about the developers. It cares about having the dominant platform.

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." (Adam Smith.)

I don't trust benevolent people. I trust self-interest. I don't need to offer my undying allegiance to Microsoft - I can like them as long as they do things that benefit me, and dislike them when they don't.
I disagree that Chrome it will become stagnated like IE.

Microsoft had no desire to improve IE and make the web a more desirable platform than Windows. (I'd suggest it still doesn't)

Google, however, directly benefit from the web being a better place, and they know first hand that a dominant browser can be toppled. And the competition is fierce, with MS back to bundling and it's so easy to switch browsers now that there's (currently) a good compliance of standards and no such things as ActiveX.
The problem with this is that a remote worker will have problems finding opportunities or getting found, especially because the competition is so huge.
It is like the problems contractors face taken to some non small power.
I would think move to renewables and more decentralization (more choices for individual consumers, as it happened with almost any other industry).
Personal anecdata, I was drinking several cups of coffee to get myself through 7 hours' driving with a full work day spliced within. I used to feel absolutely dreadful. Why am I so tired despite drinking all this coffee? I used to think. I then started limiting myself to one small coffee a day. Bingo, all symptoms gone. The coffee was making me feel far worse than I would otherwise have done as it wore off, I believe.
Well, if what he's saying is true.. then you'd lose the chance by saying no anyways. So getting caught lying is the same result as not lying.

It'd only be useful to be honest if you do have a skillset, and the company has a reasonable chance of reaching out to you fot the skillset in the (near?) future
Those on feed-in tariffs will be registered in order to pay them. Mine certainly are in the UK.
> using a language with _very_ limited expressiveness (C#) is not very productive.

o_0.
Think you need to check yourself mate.

I believe the productiveness of more "expressive" language tends to be undermined by the loss of productivity that occurs when you're compelled to write blog posts or comment on hacker news about how amazingly productive and expressive your language is.
Unfortunately, you will get outpriced by people doing "the same" work for less. Since you cannot know the global prices, you cannot even meet them, much less compete.
Lowest bidder often wins.
They are the biggest IT services company with $100 billion market cap. They are bad at many things, but making money is not one of them.
Based on how politicians and how many second chances CEOs and other rich people get in the US I think its the same in US too.

Its just that if you are working minimum wage, or you are a spoke in the gig economy it's different for you.

Based on my experience working in the US, my American friends weren't very different. Its just that when you have sufficient you tend to worry less about over optimizing for the rainy days.

US is a different country in so many ways. US citizens are lucky to be born in such a great country, which supports its citizens through social security. And later with food stamps should the need arise. There is also awesome infrastructure like freeways and cheap air fare to move around based on opportunities. The cities are so full of opportunity. You also get free public education(Something like that is quite expensive in India.). Every city I saw where I stayed or visited(Who Bay Area, Philadelphia and NY) had parks, playgrounds. Every city had a swimming pool. Roads were sparkling clean and people were so welcoming. Plus food in the US is cheaper than chicken feed. If you can cook, rice, veggies and lentils are just like walk in the park. Meat too, you can afford to eat twice or thrice in a week. In my 3 years stay, I only have good things to say about the US. The full story is impossible to write. But I just can't imagine how anyone born in US can ever complain about lack of opportunities or ability to make a good life.

When you live in heaven, you tend to worry a little less about putting food on the table.

India is different. You have none of this. And its on your shoulders. Ensure your hands work till you die, or you will die.

Saying no to opportunities is very very expensive in India.
A wake-up call for Singapore’s blockchain companies
Vaporware is software/hardware that is never actually manufactured or released to the public. Oculus has released the Rift, the Go and (with Samsung) the Gear VR, which are all available in stores now. All are successful, if relatively niche, products performing as intended, which is the opposite of vaporware.
> Nobody forces you to live in San Francisco

Spoken like a person without a family or property who is fine with moving to India in a heartbeat.

Do you even know Indian culture? Languages?
How to actually acquire a decent living place in there?

It is an existential risk. A pretty big one. You could end up on street or worse. Alleviating this risk takes negligible resources and quite a lot of time.
Yes, and good for them!

The problem is that, without a publicized investigation, there is absolutely no way for users to verify no-logging claims by VPN providers. The same is so for Tor relays. And Tor deals with that by using three-relays circuits. In order to connect users with online activity, adversaries would need access to logs from multiple relays.

One can do the same, albeit more crudely, using nested VPN chains. It's quite easy, using pfSense VMs as VPN gateways.
You sound like gitlab is the "right" choice.
When taken out of context, it does sound bad, but please include the entire paragraph, because it's clear that not as you describe.

> To a first approximation, the GPL license grants the right to read source code to anyone who promises to give back enhancements. In other words, the act of reading GPL source code (a prerequiste for making changes) implies acceptance of the license which requires updates to be contributed back under the same license. (The details are more complex, but the foregoing captures the essence of the idea.) A big advantage of the GPL is that anybody can contribute to the code without having to sign additional legal documentation because they have implied their acceptance of the GPL license by the very act of reading the source code. This means that a GPL project can legally accept anonymous and drive-by patches.
I usually use Scaleway for VPSs or Dedicated for selfhosting, since their offerings usually have more cores than competing ones while having more or less the same amount of memory
They built their own tabu search algorithm (section 2.3)
Self-hosted means you own a computer and you install their software on it. Hosted means they own the computer and run their software on it, but they allow you to have an account and store your code there.

If you don't know what you want, you probably want hosted.
Someone needs to help reduce that market cap. They really are the pits.