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A traditional bomb is somewhat predictable. You can bomb places without it infecting your own people, save some accidents and things like that. It sets off in a controlled area, and when the damage is done, it stops.

There is no real way someone could set off a biological bomb and promise it won't make its way back to their own people. If it is infectious enough to wipe out the enemy completely, it is enough to spread to your home country. I think some of this is because a biological bomb would almost need to be something that can be carried through the air. There are probably some that could dust an area requiring direct contact, but if the folks have good hygeine, it'll be less of a threat. Contaminating drinking water is harder still - and again, you have to get through hygiene and all available filtration and sanitation systems that the enemy could be using.

You could infect animals, but animals being what they are they are likely to infect folks that aren't the enemy, including your own ground troops if you have any. Things that need direct contact with bodily fluids are even harder to use directly, and you are just as likely to kill slews of medical personell as you are the folks actually warring. Any accidents kill your own people first.

In any case, the outcome and international response will likely be similar to using nuclear warheads on a people. It might work, but you are going to kill lots of innocent people as well with something that keeps on killing long after the initial sickness due to the infectious nature of the thing.

Additionally, I highly doubt they'd mistake a biological for a traditional bomb: Any smart country with a scientific section would be looking at the components of bomb residue. If a biological agent is included, I think there is a chance of finding it and developing a cure before the kiling happened if it doesn't happen in a short timeframe.

Now, this is just for diseases. Poisons (biological or synthetic) and other sorts of chemical weapons are probably easier to control these things, and international response seems to be unfortunately slow on this depending on where in the world it is happening.
Using subattomic computers to learn about subattomic particles. That will lead to better subattomic computers which will lead to... (A virtuous cycle like Moore's Law?)
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I admire the no-nonsense approach by OpenBSD: "The process we follow to increase security is simply a comprehensive file-by-file analysis of every critical software component. We are not so much looking for security holes, as we are looking for basic software bugs, and if years later someone discovers the problem used to be a security issue, and we fixed it because it was just a bug, well, all the better." https://www.openbsd.org/security.html

I'm in DevOps field, and this 'make it right from the start' resonates strongly with me. Richard Feynman: Disregard others :)
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Same thing happened to me. When i contacted them about it, they claimed the emails were spam and not from them (despite the emails clearly mentioning contacts I had connected with!).

After numerous emails back and forth they eventually added to their "Do Not Contact" list. No emails since!
Please share what you posted and a copy of the threat.
GDPR still applies. This is personal information about you, so you can make them delete it. The fact that they got the information from someone else is irrelevant.

(Imho. Not a lawyer.)
There is morality in warfare, war slowly civilized in Europe during the Middle Ages and Christianity was a big reason for that. Tactics that would have been effective weren't used simply because it became unconscionable.

The Crusades, and then the Napoleonic invasion of Russia, were both notable departures, and both saw militaries surprised when their adversaries used tactics that had long been banned in Europe. The French were not expecting the Russians to put the torch to their own lands so as to deny the French forage. It made the difference that led to the famous infographic.

It's not unreasonable to think that nation-states refrain from biological warfare for moral reasons. As effective as they might be, the government using them wouldn't survive either due to politics or the hammer of the world coming down on them.
No. I want to downvote an article full of information because the author decided to open the article with an f word quote that was unnecessary.

You can have your normalization of profanity in your pop superhero blockbuster movies. I hold my scientific journalism to a higher standard.
On the other hand, the intersection of these "people who want to sell for $5" to the general population gives some worthy targets!
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You lump them all together as if they are the same
(tobacco, meat, dairy, eggs) yet you conveniently left out the Grain farming industry and Vegetarian/Vegan food industry, these industries buy scientific studies and food & nutrition organizations too.
Thinking about stuff is time intensive and as such not compatible with a society that overestimates quantity.
If I didn't have to worry about security, yes. So a system that sold my data for me while keeping it private, I would use. Same deal with AI assistants or Facebook-like social networks, I would use them if there was a way to check that they don't leak data. I believe cryptography will open these advances to huge untapped demographics.
The idea that pocket sized devices which had shrunk and become more popular since the 1980s would shrink further and potentially be consolidated into fewer devices was less a radical idea and more an extrapolation of trends in the 1990s.

An iPhone would have been strikingly impressive in 1995, but few people would have difficulty grasping what it was, or that there might be a demand for it, especially not if they already possessed a Walkman and mobile phone, thought their next camera might be a digital one and had considered buying a PDA
Wikileaks is no arbiter of what is and what is not relevant to the interest of the public.

If they choose to sit on information, they have an agenda, IMO.
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"Crazy people"... it's a bit more than crazy people. And no, everything I said cannot be applied to the US government, not even close.

I'm not American, but I'm pretty sure "freedom" is one of the other principles of what Americans do things in the name of. You know, like freedom to drive a car even if you're a woman. That sort of thing.

They really hate it when other powers repress these basic freedoms.

I'm not trying to suggest United States is perfect, but there's a reason why so many refugees are flooding into Europe... hint: they're not fleeing from US drone strikes.
In 2015 I "painted" my Github profile this way: https://github.com/qznc/rockstar/graphs/code-frequency

It was just a one off script. The next step would have been to run it daily or fill it with commits from the future.

I remember there was an HN article where someone made the Github contribution diagram on the profile page into some picture.
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I use LinkedIn as a less creepy alternative to Facebook Messenger, to keep in touch with people who I don’t have their number or who don’t have iMessage. As a result I’d love to have a decent native app at least for the messaging part of it.
Why don't homebuilders in the US use brick and stone? Plywood and screws still seems like cutting corners.
In the 1860s Gibbs had the house significantly expanded and remodelled; a chapel was added in the 1870s

Rebuilding work did not begin in earnest until 1863, when William Gibbs had the property substantially remodelled in a Gothic Revival style. [...] Norton's design enveloped the original house. He added an extra floor, two new wings and towers. [...] As a result, while some walls remained plain, others were adorned with Gothic and naturalistic carvings to fit in with the previous architectural styles

In a ~200 year old building you can expect such redevelopment to bring it more up to date with "current" architecture trends. But they tend to add up over centuries and you end up with a mix that might as well be unsightly but documents its history. Things are allowed to look less... fresh as they get old.

When you start up and build as a mix it's just unsightly for no good reason. Other than a complete lack of taste (by many standards).
Very true, in Atlanta, if a given property is not a ranch or split level, it will likely be one of these!

I wonder what it is about the ATL metro area that proliferates them so?
Yes. See here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4306186/structure-paddin...
I have worked through it in Erlang, but others have tried to translate it to LFE (Lisp Flavoured Erlang) and Elixir. It's still relying on the Erlang ecosystem.
The whole nutrition field is an absolute disgrace, giving a bad name to the medicine and science.

We basically resort to having beliefs instead of depending on science, with the parent confirming husband own biases in only a couple of words.

When something like 80% of studies on nutrition are either compromised or never confirmed by independent sources, it’s no wonder that people turn to the alternative medicine promoted by Fake News media outlets, no wonder that anti-vaxers are a thing in the 21st century.
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That's so puritanical that I doubt many people wopuld agree with you. I certainly don't.
We are all told that red wine if consumed in limited amounts every day is very beneficial for health in the long term. Of late, I heard that this scientific marketing was also sponsored by the alcohol industry and high chances that this notion is fake and preposterous.
And it doesn't have to be that way. The racialization of everything in our political and social discourse does not help. The political Left has become hypersensitive to race.

In America we have constructed a society where racial minorities can be more successful and more integrated into the broader society than in any other country on Earth. Racial divisions of the past are melting away. And yet the Identity Politics of the Far Left have come to dominate the worldview of many in a way that pushes them away from MLK's vision of a world in which people don't care about race, to one in which all they seem to care about is race.

We are well on our way to achieving MLK's dream, but it is in spite of Identity Politics.
I can't say for sure, but the TYSCS says "For those who find SICP too challenging, we recommend How to Design Programs."
A very small amount of red wine is beneficial to women over 60. No-one else gets the benefits. We've known this for a few years now.
so what do I have to buy? I live in Amsterdam. Is it just a specific sort of weed from the coffeeshop or do I need something special?
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So, if you don't just happen to know that the global variable "char foo[9]" currently contains a string that is 3 characters long, how would you concatenate "1234" to it in place? I don't see any way without either double-fat pointers, or terminating NUL.

Non-dynamic arrays of char is just supposed to be a simplistic representation of a sort of thing that one has occasion to want to do in C that doesn't seem to fit into the proposed model without going into "old C NUL-termination" mode, or a "keep track of the string's length yourself" scheme, either of which would seem to ruin the whole thing. Thus my claim that this single feature would be hard to graft onto C in a useful, upward-compatible way. It's fine to have a language where all strings are dynamically allocated on the heap, or have an immutable known length, but that's a non-starter in the existing C universe.

The point isn't that doing things D's way isn't great; the point is that there's no reasonable way to put this feature into C. Every reasonable approach to string (and pointer) safety ends up being a new language: C#, Swift, Java, etc.
That would be perfectly okay if the electron developers cared even just a little bit about memory consumption. Last time I checked there were major memory leak issues related to caching (contrary to popular belief caching things that are never accessed again doesn't increase performance).
I read Koza's "Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection" back in 1993, and a lot of the holdups were that computers and memory just weren't as good as today to deal with large solution space trials. Also, dead ends due to the choice of starting functions to evolve. Today using TWEANNs and other methods (Topology and Weight Evolving Neural Networks) is really a good way to go. I still like the early examples in Koza GP where you give it a few functions to evolve a boolean function. I had started studying neural networks way back in the 80s and hit pay dirt with Mark Watson's 1991 "Common LISP Modules. Artificial Intelligence in the Era of Neural Networks and Chaos Theory", which threw me into NLP, Chaos, and ANNs.
Dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17580780
When you say "concrete language (most probably C)" are you referring to using one language throughout each subject?
Who has two flat panel monitors in 1995?
As a demo scene coder, I have to disagree vehemently: assembler is a joy to write, at least on MC68000 and 6502 (Amiga and C=64). The only reason why I don’t write code in assembler but in C on UNIX is becuase of portability. To me, C is nothing more than a portable assembler with the extra unnecessary code because of the inefficiencies of optimizing compilers.
It's a lot more costly. Look at the market labor rates and availability in any major metro area for masons.
There's an order of magnitude difference between the marketing and lobbying budgets of the animal agriculture industry and the others you mentioned. There is no "big broccoli" funding dodgy nutrition studies.
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It was a critique a couple years ago about how big G lost its way, possibly betraying the original wishes of the founders. Contained what may have seemed like insider information, but was largely a summary of Glassdoor reviews and scattered Reddit comments.

Reply was something like "Hi this is so and so from legal, if we hurt you personally you should contact us so we can work through this (yeah right), we take our reputation very seriously". Never checked if it was legit, and stopped using my account soon after.
System76. I have a 2017 Oryx pro. Its fantastic. Not perfect, nothing is but as a developer it’s the best laptop I’ve owned. The specs trounce anything Apple.

System76 is also one of the only companies that sells machines that is committed to Open source, linux and hardware. They recently released their own Linux distro Pop_OS!. Its a really well put together Ubuntu based distro. Great design and continuity.

They recently opened a factory and are designing and building their machines in house.
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I don’t work for them but I really can’t say enough nice things about them.

They are worth a look.

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Not really. Most studies support the consensus findings of nutrition studies for the last several decades. Unfortunately the meat and dairy industries have managed to muddy the waters enough to get most people to just throw up their hands and eat what they want.

Processed foods are bad for you. Refined carbs and sugars are bad for you. Saturated fat and cholesterol are bad for you. A diet centered around whole fruits, vegetables, legumes and grains will do more to extend your healthy lifespan than any other.
>If nul-termination of strings is gone, does that mean that the fat pointers need to be three words long, so they have a "capacity" as well as a "current length"?

You don't need a fat pointer. It can be part of the memory layout on the heap. How do you think `free` knows the length of the memory you are deallocating? Because the length is on the heap snuggled in right before the actual pointer malloc returned.
Kids bathrooms with two sinks. Its called critical for bedtime. In my room we have one sink in the bathroom and a sink in a recessed area next to the bathroom but really in the master bedroom.

I live in a 80's era colonial which when built might have been called a fancy or big home, but now is quite average for the town.
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> The point is that most EV owners typically charge at home

Maybe today. Those are the early adopters. You're still speculating about a future that doesn't exist yet.

> It's easy and inexpensive to install EV chargers at any home with a garage or parking space where electrical wiring can be installed.

Are you a brochure for an EV/charger? :) The "where electrical wiring can be installed" implies installing electrical wiring, which is neither easy nor inexpensive (not in the US, as it will, for most people, involve an electrician and always, AFAIK, require permitting/inspection).

> if you don't mind slower charging speeds

It's not a question of minding but of whether it gets the job done of obviating the need for the separate fillup. If a Leaf needs 17 kWh for 50 miles, it would need 13 hours drawing 12A (max continuous for a 15A circuit) at 110V, which is doable but not exactly a long commute. 70 miles? Nope.

> The vast majority of "typical suburban commuters" fit into that category, and they are the majority of car owners in North America and Europe.

Which category, exactly, though? The one where they live in a neighborhood that merely has garages and carports? Or the one where they actually park every single car in a garage or carport space? (I live in a suburb, and the streets and driveways are pretty full at night.) Also, a majority of a majority can easily be a minority.

I still think you're speculating, and maybe wishfully thinking, without firm numbers.

> Worst case, you can always make a trip to a nearby fast charger

And again you return to the situation where an EV is no different than an ICE vehicle going to a fueling station.

> hasn't stopped an ever-increasing number of people from buying EVs

Without looking at (and showing us here) the actual numbers, from at least the whole of North American and Europe, "ever-increasing" is meaningless, especially when used in support of your original thesis that ground trasport will be largely electrified in the coming years (vanishingly unlikely) and decades (far more likely since you never specified how many).

Global car production, excluding China, is on the order of 70 million. I don't think non-hybrid EVs are even 1% of that, and the production growth has been closer to linear than geometric.

Even if 50% of new cars this year were EVs, I can't imagine that even in 10 years half the cars out there would be EVs. Assuming the current trend, though, for the Western world, it could be another 20 years before that 50% production mark, which means over 30 years before half the cars are electric. There's my speculation.
Yes, that's a lot, and especially if you don't make six figures today. However, the amount of information it conveys and the potential to round out your skills if this is your area, or if you just like to read and learn like I do, seems fine to me. I don't even work in ML or a related area, and I've spend $1000s on books in this area. I just enjoy studying and practicing it. A friend of mine who criticized the price I spent on another book, spends well over that alone at Starbuck's in 6 weeks! There are PDFs available to see if you think the book is for you before you decide to buy. I like having a hard copy to read when I am not pecking at keys.
I’m not sure I agree with these examples and I’m not big on architecture criticism like this. I think it’s important not to overvalue a building based on how it looks - 99.9% of your time will be spent inside the building, .1% or less will be spent outside looking at it. Modern houses can be much nicer inside: larger open areas, larger kitchens, larger bathrooms and (usually) less lead paint and asbestos.

The same goes for office buildings, where I think the conservation movement overvalues the small amount of time people spend looking at a building vs the huge amount of time people work inside it. I’ve been in old beautiful office buildings in NYC and modern ugly office buildings and the modern buildings usually have a much better working environment and layout.

Example 1 looks fine to me, I would be happy to live in this house. It’s not beautiful but it’s not ugly.

Example 2 is ugly, the windows on the front are weird and the side has too few windows. My main issues with McMansions is they look cheaper than older houses because of the materials and sometimes facades have no windows or few windows, while old houses tend to have more windows and they are evenly balanced.

Example 3 looks fine, it’s almost pretty.

Example 4 would be better if the dark brick part on the house’s left had a window, and the white brick with random dark bricks is kind of ugly. Not terrible though.

Example 5 looks fine and I like red brick houses.

Example 6 is okay too.

I’d be happy with most of these houses if they had a nice interior and nice yard.
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Isn't that exactly what you would expect if the threats were real? I'm not a believer in conspiracies but some of the large tech companies are well known for trying to silence critics. Although the same could probably be said about any company with so much money and power.

Silicon valley tries to maintain a squeaky clean image, but as we're finding out from Facebook, some of them are no better than say Comcast.

From what I've seen, tech companies generally outsource all the shady bits so they have someone to point fingers at. I've been at companies they've outsourced this work to...
>if the purpose of the Swedish Prosecutor was to investigate a potential crime, they would have interviewed Assange.

I don't see how you are drawing this conclusion. There would have been little point in interviewing Assange while he was in the Ecuadorian embassy, since it would not have been possible to arrest him following the interview. More broadly, complying with Assange's demands would also have sent the wrong signal to anyone else trying to escape the justice system.
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> It requires quite a lot of work though, and unlike the web, it probably can’t be done by one person in a basement. Which I think is important to it’s impact, because google probably wouldn’t have existed if it couldn’t have started small and gradually build its way up.

This may be why VR hasn't taken off yet. If it requires a lot of resources to create an experience using it, then you've limited the number of new ideas that can be built/tested.

Maybe it'll do better when more frameworks and engines for VR applications are a thing, and building one is as easy as making a website or mobile app is today.
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I love that post from @tef_ebooks. Actually I come to HN/Reddit every day to find another posts like that one, but only happens once or twice a year..
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Well, a bigger problem in terms of transaction count is that proof-of-work systems are designed in such a way as to put a hard limit on the number of processable transactions that's nowhere near the world's needs, and moreover, they expend multiple orders of magnitude more energy to do it.
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Because that is one of the talking points of the Russian propaganda. Oh it is a fantastic novel, great novel but all fantasy.

It is the best at describing what USSR really was, lots of useful fools/tools in the West always had problem with it.