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> Lots of things along those long and lonely signal paths can cause the packets to get dropped. 50% packet loss is not uncommon; 80% is not unexpected.

TCP doesn't perform well with 5% packet loss. 50% packet loss coupled with the tremendous latency of the link makes it close to useless. The long and lonely signal path needs a link layer between the terminals and the sat. Unfortunately it's probably a bent pipe transponder.
> Who is this article actually helping?

It seems to be primarily targeted at highly-technical people, such as those who might stumble on this article via HN, or who casually frequent websites with "crypto" in their name.

These audiences naturally would have a higher tolerance to technical adoption barriers than the average consumer, which is who your other advice seems to be targeting.
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Similarly it took effort to look up random numbers in phone books. Few if any were ever printed in a way that made it easy to to from number to name, only name to number.
This is a good point, in fact recently there have been a spate of articles claiming that millennials are saving too much (in cash at least) and not putting enough in the stock market:

"42% of Millennials are investing conservatively, compared with 38% of Generation X investors and 23% of baby boomers, according to the Fidelity survey."
source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/andreacoombes/2018/03/13/millen...

But having lived through 2007-2009, it's no surprise they have a preference for cash in the bank.
It is a real problem. While traveling last summer and working remotely I experienced it first hand.

Is there was a really easy way of mimicking all the effects of this type of latency so I could periodically test the stuff I set up?

Also, if it is just HTTPS, then it is possible to proxy through something that downgrades the protocol, but it feels dirty.
Maybe you can rely on the government to protect you from private companies.

But no one will protect you from the government(s).
If this isn't open source, I'd have labeled this as a SHOW HN. Also, I'd add that to the FAQ :)
Maybe, but none of those things necessarily end humanity.
Let people post where they think things should go, and if needed moderators can move the posts to the most appropriate site.
Thanks, that was something the article should have more more clear. The attack gets you the wifi password but you still can't eavesdrop on other users.
There shouldn't be any specific meat taxation, there should be a generic tax on carbon emissions, which would both the externalities of meat production, as well as other products.

If you just say tax meat by the kg you end up with stupid policies like discouraging UK customers from eating beef from New Zealand over domestic produce, even though importing it from abroad is more environmentally efficient (also counting for transport)[1].

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15506220
This is the most true typo ever.
No, you don’t need to sleep 4 hours a day and take cold showers to be a founder
"Shortly thereafter, in March, Facebook’s world exploded, when it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica had gotten access to the profile information of millions of Facebook users, going through what was considered an “official route” in 2012. Facebook stopped bothering us about our PYMK Inspector, and the tool currently remains up."

likely they still have an issue with it, but as the article implies they are busy with other issues/data scandals to make a further issue with the "tool" at this time atleast.
On a related note, the SPEC CINT92 benchmark suite included running a tree walking algoritm in interpreted XLISP. I have no idea what the benchmark author thought it demonstrated.
Previously I would agree with you but with more and more of our life moving online, the repurcussions of someone malicious having identifying information about you are grave. For instance, you could be a target of a 2FA hack based on a cell phone number spoof.
Since you're obviously a savant, it's curious that you don't simply contribute to v8 development given that it's open source.
This is the bit I'm most interested in:

> WebAssembly got a new baseline compiler for much faster startup of complex websites with big WebAssembly modules (such as Google Earth and AutoCAD). Depending on the hardware we are seeing speedups of more than 10×. Stay tuned for more details in a separate blog post.
This is just like spending a bunch of time with religious zealots trying to convince them their religion is wrong. You're wasting your time, and you're just going to create more conflict. I have one Trump supporter in my social circle and when conversations veer that way with her it's never productive so I completely avoid it.

The bottom line is you cannot use logic to convince people their religious beliefs are wrong. Most rational people already know this about religions and religious people, the problem is they don't realize that right-wing politics (or any extremist politics for that matter) is also a religion.

Now before you try to argue that this only applies to the extremists, the problem in this country is that the entire right wing in this country is extremist. The only non-extremist position in this country is the mainstream Democratic party, which is basically center-right. The Republicans have gone full-on hard-right, so there's just no reasoning with anyone that buys into that stuff.
> I'm talking about the growth of the modern state, largely post WW2. Which has rarely been partisan.

It's been intensely partisan and intensely sharply ideologically-divided, just as today. What was different during the long realignment from the New Deal through approximately the Contract With America (though definitely progressively weakening during the last couple decades of that period) is that the ideological and partisan divides were not in sync, because of the lack of coherence due to the ongoing partisan realignment.

Because political power players had to manage both conflicts, the tension between their interest in one vs. the other often served to moderate conflict.
As an economist, I have to tell you that fixed-currency-amount systems (such as the gold standard and bitcoin and other fixed-amount cryptocurrency systems) are derided for some very good reasons, including those expressed here: it’s possible for few agents to essentially hoard all the currency the economy needs to run.

My best suggestion is instituting a heavy negative tax on funds in excess of an arbitrary large amount that remain un-moved for a certain reasonable lapse of time. The taxes would then be re-distributed equally to all other players’ accounts.
Leaving the US is already a great option for many people. So, the global response to automation is arguably more important than what any specific location does.
Why bats are such good hosts for Ebola and other deadly diseases (2014)
Is C# statically typed?
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When something isn't working, how do you determine with a tiny bit of effort which one or more domains out of the 650,000+ domains to whitelist?
Your DNA is hardly private. You leave it everywhere you go. If someone wanted it they'd only have to follow you around for a short while.
Coulda shoulda woulda

This nonsense has resulted in insane amount of taxation and misery. These "scientists" should be ashamed of their work.
I'm waiting for the next generation ad blockers where a cloud based html rendering engine renders the image of the page to a frame buffer, crops out the article or pictures, compresses them, and sends it to my device.

Hell, you could do a mechanical turk system and pay micropayments to 3rd world employees to crawl ad-infested crap and harvest the content for me (Or better yet, share it for the common good)
> Being able to create a shortcut, such as "Alexa, Lumos"

You can do exactly this. I have several set up for my house. They're called 'routines' and can be triggered either with 'Alexa, [keyword]' or at a specific time of day.

You can also chain multiple commands together without saying the wakeword each time. For example 'Alexa, turn on downstairs lights. Downstairs lights white.' You have to enable this feature in the settings so that it will continue to listen briefly after the previous command.
Most languages I can think of have this type, from void* to dyn to bounding by the root of the type hierarchy. Not all languages. However, what is c, c++, java, rust, go, if not statically typed? Ambiguously typed? Seems like not a useful distinction to make.

I argue static typing is the ability to static type up to 100% of a program, not the exclusion of a dynamic type.
We are living through the apocaypse! We aren't totally triumphant over The Other Side like we should be!
I'm old enough to have lived with a phone number published and not have to worry about it. Then came the telemarketers. Still, long distance calls were expensive and such calls were relatively rare. Next, long distance calling became effectively free and telemarketing calls were becoming frequent. However, it was still only a dumb phone - so nothing to worry about. Then, smart phones came along, storing personal information and being potentially vulnerable to threats. They were also used for authentication. But hey, not to worry, since it's just like before: everybody used to be in the phone book ...
The complaints seem to be two-fold:

* Websites are big and take a long time to download.

* They had previously solved this problem with a caching server but theirs broke with TLS.

The author is apparently unaware of the options they have.

* Run a proxy server that caches pages. Basically all software supports proxies. Secure and well understood. No PKI to manage. And you can allow access to the proxy with no TLS or get a public cert. Works very well with those old devices too.

* Run a HTTPS caching server and add the CA to the systems. Little more effort but transparent.
Yeah, Brendan Burns is at ms
One big thing to keep in mind about Facebook et al, is that every page with a like/share/whatever button from a third party effectively allows said third party to build up a profile of who the person operating the computer is.

Even if you do not have a Facebook account, Facebook likely has a shadow profile on you based on browser fingerprint etc showing up on various sites.

Also, your typical adblocker is not configured to block these buttons by default.
It's a trade-off. If your data is valuable enough to change the password every day, it might be worth it for an attacker to rent a bunch of computing power and crack it in hours.
I wish the water, streets, and deserts were different colors.
This has become a new CSR-type trend (esp. GOOG vs FB). Steps:
* Open Source ML Tools and Press covers it

* Create a video Series about ML and a blog post about it

Thus make people believe:

* You are a leader in ML

* You care about democratising ML or AI whatever

* You care about sharing knowledge

* You care about Open Source
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/
€54 million spent in Ireland. End result:

"In 2012, KMK Metals Recycling paid €70,267 for 7,500 e-voting machines; 1,232 transport/storage trolleys; 2,142 hand trolleys and 4,787 metal tilt tables."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_Ireland
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The only thing more overrated than New York pizza is New York bagels.

(Ok, I take that back, In-n-Out Burger is more overrated than both.)
Maybe I'm being ungenerous, but I think this is purely a know-it-all response to articles, kind of a troll-lite. It's like commenting on sample sizes, for articles reporting on some preliminary study.

It's not too different from the other "really important" point this article makes: $1trn is not more remarkable than $999.99bn. Profound.

Imagine going to some online Q&A and asking a "piece of string" question: "How much does it cost to film a documentary?"

You can bet a shilling that one of the first comments will be "stupid question. It depends." It's easy. It's obvious. It'll get some karma. In person it would be a little power play, because you are correcting/berating. Online, it's a little troll.

Even if it isn't trolling, it is a boring tangent. Who cares if the analogy is optimal.

BTW (2 tangents and we get back to topic)... This is interesting (to me)

"No one think it's actually possible for a country to produce a company as an output."
In some senses, they do. That is, companies exist now that did not exist previously. The company itself and stock in that company is a sort of "product." When politicians say they want jobs, economic growth and such... Are they saying the economy should output more companies.

There are relationships between revenues, profits and market cap so it'll always be possible to represent it the other way if we want. Still...
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> The assumed reasonable limits have proven themselves to have never been there.

I think that's going too far. They were there. And then, over succeeding presidents of both parties, they were a little less there. And then, with this president, suddenly "reasonable limits" was a totally foreign concept.

But the reasonable limits were there, and really did limit behavior.
Not enough voters would handle their keys securely. Maybe if every voter was given some kind of hardware which could sign their votes offline. That's a big, risky, upfront expense, though.
I've read/watched quite a few breakdowns of his acts, but haven't been able to find anything by/with him discussing his act, so I'll definitely look into those.

Now that you mention it all of the preroll interviews in his recorded acts do seem really forced... I could never tell if that was me reading him wrong, or if he was keeping up the "I don't care" character.
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Then it becomes completely meaningless - It's the equivalent to saying to someone - "Be good" without defining anything about what good-ness involves.

Once you start defining specifically what you mean by good, if your initial premise falls apart and there's no practical way to be good, then what's the point of saying be good?
> Also if you make hardware absolutely optomised for Lisp then all the C, FORTRAN, and Cobol (this was the 1970's!) programmers aren't particularly interested because it does nothing for their code.

Yes, but it's different now. Now our programming languages are closer to lisp than C. We use javascript, python, ruby, haskell and throw functions all over the place and they come with a cost of frames etc. Even "low level" languages like C++ and Java recently gained powerful capabilities to express lambdas, and C++ programmers use lambdas and std::function pretty often. Why not experiment with a machine that can handle function passing better Turing machines. It seems like if you use enough high-level structures in your code, even a "slower" lisp machine can run your faster than "fast" classical Turing-machine-like-CPU.

This is not even for general purpose CPUs. There are embedded devices people write python or javascript code on. Why not make those CPUs lisp machines?
They're not equal. British newspapers on both sides have well known biases that they're pretty open about.
"Attack! Attack! Attack, attack, attack!" A chorus heard from Old Trafford when the fans have become bored from the "negative" play. Strategically, The Special One is good, if not the best at parking the bus. Probably better than Big Sam, but that's a lot to do with the player's ability too though. Managerial-wise though, he has killed just about every team he has managed. I used to like him until his trend of negativity with players became a thing and not a one off. I am a much larger fan of Pep or Klopp. Not just because of their style of play, but the way they manage in a positive manner. I like the energy Conte brought as well, but just the caustic environment that club is wore him down.
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I agree with your sentiment, but then if said journalist sold said data to foreign government, then how different would that be to what happened with Cambridge Analytica?

Yes, being able to access your data is nice, but you also have to balance it with people trying to trick people into leaking their data for nefarious reasons. Obviously, here, it's an open source project and we can see that it's (probably) secure, but then where do you draw the line?
How did you resolve that snapchat problem?
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> dropped their custom runtime

Dart VM is very much alive, nobody dropped it - it's used by Flutter to run Dart code, used by all Dart CLI tools (and Flutter CLI tools too) and on server side underneath pub.dartlang.org (and used on server by some other companies too).
Deploying WPA2-Enterprise is also an option, which is what I've done myself at home. There's plenty of affordable ways to do this - white box pfSense (install the FreeRADIUS package) + AP that supports WPA2-Ent, going full Ubiquiti with a UniFi Security Gateway + UniFi AP (you can just run the controller on your machine, a raspberry pi or a $5/mo VPS).

I have a small server rack at home so I've got a significantly more complicated (and expensive) setup that I wouldn't recommend to even the average reader on HN unless they were interested in the whole homelab thing.
You can't use rainbow tables for WPA because the SSID is included in the hash. So the same password will result in a different key for different networks.
Here is how to disable pihole via a url: https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/81z8jp/temporarily_...

With this anyone in your family can temporarily disable it to unblock themselves if needed.
You can't eavesdrop on other wifi users with this attack. This just gets you the wifi password.

Edit: There is another kind of attack that could extend this though. An attacker sets up an AP with the same SSID, and the same password (using the new attack). Then they kick you off the real network with a deauth attack and hope your device reconnects to theirs.
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If you think you can legislate the world away from big data and data mining through legislation you are terribly naive. At most it will punish a few surface level players

If you think you can legislate the world of crime away through criminal law you are terribly naive. At most it will punish a few criminals here or there while the massive crime industry continues to flourish.

Just because something bad is hard to regulate doesn’t mean you just give up. Besides, saying decentralization is the solution is even more naive, because centralized systems are more convenient and people prefer convenience to privacy.
It is too bad that manufactures are not required to put a spectral analysis graph on the packaging of these non-blackbody light sources. Not sure how they even calculate a temperature rating when the blue and red frequencies are the highest with yellow and green quite low.
Their statement could be taken in two ways: Either aggressors should never be allowed, or countries with a risk of receiving aggression should never be allowed. Since the latter is extreme, I can only assume the commenter meant the former.
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I'm going to get penalised for this but I have to say it because I presume no-one else will: Why the hell is this on HN? It has nothing directly related to anything to do with HN, and clearly has an agenda from the article's rather obviously biased language. Most countries limit "legal" immigration anyway, by means of minimum requirements. My country, the UK, has some of the more stricter ones, an example is that students have to be earning £30k salary to stay in the country after their studies.

Rather shoddy journalism. It's been especially bad on HN recently...
Dart does not use LLVM anywhere in its toolchain.
> The bottom line is you cannot use logic to convince people their religious beliefs are wrong.

You can, but only if they are peripheral rather than fundamental beliefs, and your chain of logic starts with their fundamental beliefs. Well, at least as much as you can use logic to convince anyone of anything.

The problem (well, a problem) is that you can't easily discern, from the outside, a peripheral belief that depends on fundamental beliefs from a fundamental belief which is rationalized in terms of other fundamental beliefs (though circularity of support between beliefs is a pretty good sign that all are fundamental and the support is mere rationalization.)
Yea, it’s a likely candidate for vote meddling. Even if you’re not looking for fraud it looks like they covered up for some type of bad mistake. If you are looking for fraud, there were many penetrated election systems in that fall.
Who will enforce that responsibility? Who decides what's large enough?

> Letting one small group of people

What one small group of people? There are literally thousands of social media sites, and people are completely free to join or quit any one of them. If there were no competition in this space, I might be concerned. But just a few short years ago Facebook was unheard of and MySpace was the "monopoly".

Let customers choose. The customers are not one small group of people.
And that kind of following around was what certain secret police forces did back in the day. And it was inefficient unless they already had a reason to spend manhours on you.

Now however the computer will do it, virtually for free, and then the hoard of data can be dug through for incriminating (or socially awkward) information.
What if your neighbor was dumping liquid radioactive waste on your land, right outside your house? Greenhouse gases should be considered harmful pollution, and because they eliminate vast swathes of habitable land they should be treated similarly to other forms of toxic waste.
Was the name five characters or less? I don't know what the UI was like at the time you tried. There are Gmail accounts that short, but they have been created by hand, usually for other Google colleagues, by someone on the Gmail team. E.g. paul@gmail.com is, obviously, Paul Buchheit.
> Triangular shapes are quite rare in human spaces (I don't have any in my house)

Triangles are essential in low-weight rigid structures. Look at any exposed steel construction around you (a bridge, perhaps) and you will see many triangles. The utility poles and streetlights in my neighbourhood use triangles. Unless your house has a flat root, the upper most floor is likely composed of triangles (called trusses) that you can't see because they are hidden. (They would be easy to spot in barn.) Even the desk I am sitting at now has triangles to ensure the legs don't collapse if the desk is shoved sideways. If you happen to live in a seismically active place, you would likely see triangular bracing on many buildings. And finally if you (or your kids) have even done one of those engineering challenges in school where you have to make a tall, load-bearing and light-weight structure on a budget you likely used triangles. Triangles are everywhere, if you learn to see them.

And as for the main point of this post - one reason to learn to draw is that it forces you to really see what you are drawing. Drawing from your imagination is no substitute.
From what I understand from last time this came up, trains are still used a lot in the transportation chain. Trucks are used mostly for "last mile" deliveries and long-haul trucking for deliveries that for some reason can't be done by train (like apparently your produce example).
Try aqueduct!
https://aqueduct.io/
> which is their loss

Exactly what my stance is towards sites that 'need' crap to work. My favorite are news sites/blogs whose primary content is text, but display a completely white blank page when the adblocker is up. (some even do this when you disable JS too. why JS is 'required' for displaying any text is beyond me)