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real SID chips are rare as hen’s teeth nowadays

Damn. Now I wish I'd bought that pile of used C64s stacked in the thrift shop window that day.

its analogue components, such as the filter, which are very hard to simulate digitally.

Analog's day came, went, and will be back again ... because for sound it's just superior in -many- ways. And hacking is hardware, not software.
In at least one case I’m aware of, it’s the savants themselves. Treffert wants his pet theory to be true so badly that self-attestation is enough for him to count you.
Internet badass here again... if I'm there with my kids, that's why I'm being a badass. I'm not sitting in an unstable boat in a storm and not having a jacket on my family...
AGI will be a reflection of ourselves.
First we must resolve the basic problems of the human condition (poverty, hunger, housing, war, ...) before developing AGI as it will surely amplify our worst nature as well as our best nature.
This article is strictly true - there are bugs that are not worth fixing. But the process of figuring out which ones are and aren't isn't as simple as crashes/sessions.

There are some categories of bugs that must always be fixed, regardless of how infrequently users run into them - security, privacy, accessibility, data loss.

There are also cases where many low impact bugs all share a common root cause - the value of fixing any one bug is low, but the sum of fixing all current and preventing all future occurrences is high value. Enforced static analysis tools (like error prone for Java) and libraries/frameworks with safety checks (autoescaping template languages, polyfills, etc) are a great way to address these long tail bugs. I generally write a new compiler error after encountering the same bug class three times.
Fibre optic gyros can be miniturized to millimeter dimension, if it wasn't for ITAR.

High end civilian IMU's typically use mechanical gyros which have been obsolete for decades. Also, a phone isn't typically moving constantly like the oceans so error rates would be lower.
I want!

username: blarg1
265 million professional soccer players?

Are you sure? 5% of the world population plays soccer professionally?
Don’t forget that a tight loop with a counter can be a good source of time. Some of the mitigations against crypomining would work where they throttle the tab if it consumes too much CPU.
Cathay Pacific concludes trials for next-generation track and trace – Air Cargo
Indeed. iTunes (for Windows) used to be so great, fast, clean, easy to use it immediately replaced WinAmp which we all used to use. It wasn’t just that it was the only software to support the iPod, in fact you could sync WinAmp to the iPod as well, there was no closed ecosystem yet, it was that iTunes was just better. Natively written for Windows, imported cds and organized metadata. Once they switched to HTML based and started pushing movies, it became awful.
I just casually history-related articles online. In this case, deep historic knowledge is not required to arrive to this conclusion.

In my case, questions such as: "what happened to the British empire after losing the American revolutionary war?" eventually led me to learn about that.
I saw a joke headline last time I was in Rome that went something like "C Line construction halted to excavate ancient remains of C Line construction"
Wow, what a terrible strategy for saving battery. Let's just send our customers back to 2009, when you had to keep your Pandora app open so your music wouldn't stop.

Making a mental note to never buy a Huawei.
"there is no universal "cancer" that we can fight. There are hundreds of different types, just as distinct as different diseases."

There's no universal bacterial infection, there are hundreds or even thousands of different types, yet antibiotic drugs have been effective for a wide range of diseases, and have probably saved billions of lives since their discovery.

Of course, those drugs are becoming less effective since they've been so overused, and we need new ones. But the pharmaceutical companies aren't too keen on developing new antibiotics because it's not profitable for them -- just the kind of thing that a big monetary investment can significantly help.

So, would you maybe like a few more classes of antibiotic drugs, which could potentially save the lives of billions more people, or would you like to go back to the days when a paper cut on your finger could kill you but we might potentially get a tiny, fragile colony on Mars?
We get how this works. You say you don't condone his wretched behaviour, but keep writing these "aphorisms" and sound bites which imply that "you can't do much about it". The bad parts will flourish if you let them.

The fundamental point remains: do your damn best to be decent to other humans; don't make excuses.
Analog is hard to emulate well. At least, I've never heard of a decent emulation of the legendary Moog filter. 'Infinite' trumps 'many'
Isn't India English speaking? And HN has a huge Indian demographic I would imagine.

And historically, I believe they have been allied with the Soviet Union whilst the USA has historically allied with their arch-rival Pakistan.
Yes but they have sovereign immunity so only the feds can come knocking. So it has to be a big enough enterprise or really devious to get in trouble with the feds.
Just signed up, username: DavidGould.

I'm just getting started, so not sure what tools I'll end up using most, but it great to get to try this.
Java is "a language like C" if you squint? ;-)

Thanks to you and others for the clarification on C's (lack of) behaviour!
There absolutely was. You think MTV didn't use focus groups and Neilson ratings and all manner of data to target and 'optimize' for maximum effect on their desired audience? It doesn't have to be 'you' specifically, you're not that unique. Things that are effective on your population are effective on you. If you were in a different population you had to change the channel, but it is not really all that different. Maybe marginally more efficient now.
When you don’t deal in cash, you don’t have to worry about robbery either at the store or during the transport of the momey to the bank.
Yet the CEO personally edited users comments.
This is true, probably fine for smaller use cases. I cannot imagine doing a production Elixir app without node networking (I do quite a few things with it), and that is a deal-breaker for me on Heroku.

That's really the only deal-breaker though. Docker for Heroku makes it really easy to ship artifacts rather than source which I think is important as well.
I also use nanobox.io. Nanobox treats Elixir as a first class citizen. Nanobox basically allows me to not worry about a TON of devops issues.
> I could see people saving money in some specialized use cases, but for most people BigQuery is almost certainly going to be cheaper and faster in almost every way

That’s exactly what the TPC benchmarks are designed to show: how different appliances perform under the same diverse set of generic workloads. As of 2 years ago, they show that Redshift is faster.

> With BigQuery, you don't really worry about that crap

The benefit this depends on your organization’s level of expertise. If you grok sorting and distribution then you can leverage those to increase performance—but it’s not a prerequisite.

For example, in Redshift, when you bulk load data into a table, if the user didn’t specify a compression scheme in the table definition, Redshift will analyze the data and find a scheme that works best, and automatically apply it to the table for you. BigQuery almost certainly does something similar. The difference is, with BigQuery, you’re not invited to take part in that discussion. And you’re charged as if the data is uncompressed. Psychologically, this is a huge relief if you don’t (want to) know how compression works but rest assured you’re paying for it somehow.

To draw a tired analogy, vehicles with automatic transmission still have to shift gears. If you’re driving to the grocery store, not having to worry about that is a win. But if you’re racing stock cars, you’re definitely going to want a stick.
Petulant-me would be _soooo_ tempted to email them and say something like "Thanks for your time. I've chosen another option. I'm happy to tell you why, I'll just need you so sign this NDA first..."

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This is drift for a "static" million dollar marine grade (i.e. highest grade we currently have) INS not in the ocean or moving. Drift is measured in non-moving conditions. These are the fiber optic and laser sytems you are referring to.

Even if we could make that cheap and small enough it would still need regular corrections far more frequently than a week to be as good as a GPS is now.
> trust but verify

That's not trust.
So now I can tell my boss "Oh, we're using Google's budget non-secure VMs - which are vulnerable to rootkits and data-theft."
On writing
Real security is almost all technical and implementation. There's a very significant danger to security that policies be some kind of front line of defense, or be implemented over sound engineering practices.

In almost every work environment, I've seen the policies working directly against security: if not by contradicting it, ignoring the details where the real security decisions live, or by striking the wrong balances between prescriptiveness and generality - then by out-prioritizing security decision making. (I've worked at mostly 100,000+ person companies).

It's much better to have technical security controls >80-90% of the actual security. It's just expensive and harder to teach/learn/implement.

That said, there's some real security gained by policy. It comes from:
- Ability to communicate expectations ("adopt technical solution X")
- Ability to exercise legitimized (instanciated/codified) authority

Most of the rest of the value of policy comes in as business enablement value (policies are easier to communicate to auditors than security control implementations are).

Policy can also be a useful placeholder for real security in the sense it will satisfy many external parties who might otherwise reprioritize/randomize security investments.
Almost all human interactions involve trust. Political systems just exist because enough people trust in them. Same for money, juridical
systems, laws, contracts, etc.
We often use GPS as a way to synchronize time accross distances. Even Google's data centers use GPS (and an atomic clock) for synchronization - https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2...

GPS is such a weak signal that almost anyone transmitting ground based signals on the right frequency could easily drown out GPS - and do spoofing with a little extra research. So theoretically you could spoof near a data center and mess up a lot of data powering 1000s of applications.

On top of this civilian GPS is made to be jammed and innacurate - there's a better one the military has moved onto because of this (see the m-code section: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_Block_IIIA)

So yes, relying on an easily jammed atomic clock hurtling through space seems like a bad idea... But it's kind of the best we've got right now. At least until the cost of putting your own satellite into orbit goes down.
At least with my bank, if you don’t have the available cash on your card and you don’t have enough in a linked savings account to cover a transaction, you will be declined when you try to pay.
I like using a NSF funded mobile app "Flyover Country" [1] to identify features in the landscape when I fly. You can download the maps and data for you flight path a head of time and then use it in airplane mode on the plane. GPS works fine (by the window) and the app locates your position on the map.

https://flyovercountry.io/
You might be right but I have doubts. Most weapons are INS guided despite the long fly times of cruise missiles etc. ITAR has a massive chilling effect on development, I wouldn't be surprised if we had error rates of less than a meter a day in mobiles if development wasn't severely curtailed
That's not true at all. You can use a $20 SDR card to receive GPS signals and and then can decode them on any commodity laptop, or a small computer like a raspberry pi.

e.g. https://www.rtl-sdr.com/receiving-gps-with-an-rtl-sdr-dongle...
I wish I could find a TV interview with a German inspector I watched back then. They got some super secret leads from the CIA, went to the locations and never found anything. The response from the US was to cut them off from information and shout even louder that they had all this bullet-proof information.

Some links:
https://www.npr.org/2013/03/19/174708587/u-n-weapons-inspect...
https://www.cnn.com/2013/10/30/world/meast/iraq-weapons-insp...

Here is something about the Iraq-Al Qaeda link they tried to proof.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein_and_al-Qaeda_li...

I don't know if Bush and friends really believed their claims but if you looked at it from a neutral point of view it was very clear that they had made up their minds to invade Iraq and desperately tried and failed to find evidence.
I don't think liquid water is sufficient by itself - first, aside from water, life as we know it requires some source of energy. Since surface water seems much less common than subsurface water, that means life will need to get energy from some sort of chemical process similar to the bacteria that live around hydrothermal vents. That means those vents need to exist in the first place, and need to expel sufficient chemicals for energy creation.

There also may need to be some source of extremely high bursts of energy such as lightning, to create the compounds that are precursors to life (amino acids, RNA, etc.), and those bursts must also not be so frequent/widespread that they kill all life.
I just saw a YouTube video yesterday about how Pablo Escobar took some hippos from Africa and shipped them to Colombia.

It sounds like they started changing pretty quickly with the new climate and no predators.

If the population keeps increasing, apparently at some point it'll be classified as a new type of hippo.

https://youtu.be/C_fj9sEVMeE
Maintaining model integrity in service orchestrating applications
I'm a young millennial and I'm sure that I'm suffering from a bias here* -- but I'm actually surprised they would need to take out ads in the NYT, given what their product is. I just find it so hard to believe that a significant number of people in the US haven't heard of Facebook or haven't any close friends who use Facebook. If the number wasn't significant, then I don't know why they would need to take out ads. Unless you've been living under a rock, if you're my age, then you have had more than enough time to figure out whether Facebook is your cup of tea.

*I am probably underestimating how many older folks are completely out-of-the-loop with Facebook.
> What I'm saying is to let NASA keep the money but shift focus towards general technological development, ala Australia's CSIRO.

You actually have to go to Mars or there is no impetus to invent the technology required to go to Mars.

Without that you have two problems.

The first is that there is no goal, so nobody knows what to work towards, so you get undirected research that never goes anywhere. This is the problem the NIH and NSF have -- they fund a lot of research and 5% of it is brilliant but 95% of it is not.

The second is that there are other goals, but they're pedestrian. So there is money and somebody figures out how to divert it to their own business, and it ends up funding research that would have otherwise been done by the private sector if those companies' lobbyists hadn't figured out how to get the government to foot the bill instead. Which doesn't grow the pie at all, it just transfers tax money to well-heeled companies with good lobbyists.

Plus, I mean, we get to go to Mars. How is that not awesome enough to justify <1% of the federal budget? Spend a different <1% of the federal budget on the thing you wanted.
Cumberland Island — one of my favorite places on the planet — is a National Park, I believe.

Ironically, it was a gated community before that was cool, but had to be evacuated during World War II because of German U-Boat threat.

So now anyone can visit. As long as the ferry is running.
Oh my god. That number is unimaginable. Even if my full power desktop i7 can't reach this number. Chips will die very quickly in this temperature. I think Apple is having a real trouble.
Western music has a fairly simple base system, with only 12 tones in total its much easier to get by ear than other systems like classical Turkish music which has 9 microtones within the space of one half step. It would be interesting to see how universal this phenomena is or whether its actually partially a byproduct of western music being relatively simple and easy to get by ear, even classical pieces like Beethovan's Song of Brotherhood. Are there musical prodigies in Turkey? Certainly we don't see cases of prodigies in the US spontaneously picking up complex classical Turkish microtonal music by ear.
Possible maybe but unusual. 99% of ham is narrowband, GPS is spread across a megahertz. Somebody goofed and made a TV tuner chip that could be used as an SDR at that sample rate, and I'm sure the powers that be arent happy.
Retail investors can easily trade after hours. With Fidelity, it’s a simple check box/request to enable it.
I think your statements are more well supported by a different hypothesis: these effects have been caused by a shift to being a more emotionally driven society. Emotions are what cause people to ignore truths or even invent their own, even when they likely know deep inside that they're lying to themselves.

Emotion is what causes knee jerk responses to failure. Emotion and emotionality is, in general, the key cause behind practically all irrational behavior. The most dangerous thing is we live in a society where not only has emotionally driven thinking become far more prevalent, but there seems to be a top down effort to encourage even greater levels of emotionality.
Where the response from me has always been, "No, I wasn't frustrated, I was running. But now I'm frustrated."
I have the same issue. I transpile code from ./src to ./dist

In NDB I am on sources tab and I see dist folder highlighted (src also appears in the tree).

How does one "map the workspace under sources"
(I tried right clicking - and I don't see a menu)

TIA
I think that sexual harassment training makes a difference in most organizations. All the training really needs to do is define terms (i.e. harassment, assault) give examples of how they manifest, and tell the employee what is tolerated and what they should do. That is the baseline and it establishes the threshold for what is tolerated at the organization.

My only gripe with sexual harrassment training is that it focuses too much on the subtle/annoying harassment stuff and doesn't prepare people for dealing with an actual sexual assault.
Yeah, that's why the "verify" bit is so important.
And they were talking as if "don't trust" was the default before Christianity, which is wrong, absurd even.
Human and technological development in spite of Christianity and other religions.
It isn't actually two hardware threads, and the one core never does two things at once.

I don't think that's quite true. Rather, the two "virtual cores" are mostly independent, but share some backend resources. For example, modern Intel CPU's can sustain execution of 4 instructions per cycle, and with hyperthreading, two of these instructions can be from one thread and two from the other. Or one and three, or four and zero. Both threads truly do execute at the same time, it's just that the competition for resources means it sometimes takes longer for them to execute on a shared core than on separate physical cores.
We use docker with AWS ECS, it has been a great combination. My colleague has written a few blog posts on how we do it: https://engineering.tripping.com/jenkins-elixir-and-ecs-cicd...
>FYI the 24 GPS satellites are all in Low Earth Orbit.

No, they're not.

LEO is an orbital period of 128 minutes or less, which for circular orbits is ~1200 miles or less [1]. GPS satellites are in 12 hour orbits ( see "Orbital Characteristics" in [1], putting them at a little more than 12,500 miles out [2].

And anyway, a satellite's altitude has little to do with how soft a target it might be. It's not simple.

That said, I'm glad training emphasizes non-GPS modalities. You never can tell when Carrington will come calling [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859
That's what MS is trying to do with the "Sets" feature in Windows 10.
The strong argumentative edge one gains by turning the debate towards security led to this cool concept in international relations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securitization_(international_...
Cruise missiles combine (using Tomahawk as an example) GPS, visual terrain-matching, radar terrain-matching, and INS. Because they know INS needs those constant corrections.
The Site Reliability Workbook
Religion has historically and continues to play a major role in geopolitics... there's nothing parochial about it. The Christian belief system was objectively instrumental in the creation of the West's institutions, system of government, beliefs about trade, etc. You don't have to be religious (as I am not) for this to be true.
Wannabe ninja swamp Japan town with job inquiries after viral mix-up
This is just a toxic non-constructive myth about mecanical keyboards.

Not all switches are like Model F's [1].

I have an ErgoDox Infinity with a switch called Matias Quiet Click (MQC). And nobody in the open space has ever complained about it.

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F291BxffYIA
A 1/700 chance per day means that it happens every two years or so, right?
It can be. You can trust someone to have done the job like they claim, but can still verify it to make sure they did it correctly. A second set of eyes rarely hurt.
Thanks, that was a fascinating read.
Youtube is using Polymer v1 as far as I can tell.
> I just don't get the point of this letter.

You probably haven't been a victim of such a mass-scale harassment.

> Why is it so difficult to leave this particular social network?

It doesn't matter that much whether they are using it or not, these folks will track them down and harass in all other ways.
I think it really only means 'dystopian' to people who have not read 1984. Otherwise there is a perfectly good word:'dystopian'.
> They will happily redirect the request

Doesn't HSTS thwart this? Unless paypal.com were omitted from the preload list, AND you had never browsed to paypal.com before with that browser, it should refuse to connect over HTTP and the attacker won't be able to issue their redirect. It will try HTTPS instead and immediately fail out of certificate validation.
From mynameisvlad link given below[1] the restrictions are to prevent intercontinental missile navigation not regular missile navigation. The official limits are a speed (1,000 knots) and an altitude (18,000 m), but many manufactures do an "or" test instead.

"In GPS technology, the term "COCOM Limits" also refers to a limit placed on GPS tracking devices that disables tracking when the device calculates that it is moving faster than 1,000 knots (1,900 km/h; 1,200 mph) at an altitude higher than 18,000 m (59,000 ft).[2] This was intended to prevent the use of GPS in intercontinental ballistic missile-like applications.

Some manufacturers apply this limit only when both speed and altitude limits are reached, while other manufacturers disable tracking when either limit is reached. In the latter case, this causes some devices to refuse to operate in very high altitude balloons."

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoCom