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>We're still losing the distinction between privatizing more things and privatizing everything. I'm not aware of any federal-level US politicians who want to privatize, say, the military.

That's because we've already privatized the profitable bits of the military in the Defense Industry. There's a phrase I've heard that goes something like "Privatize the profits and socialize the losses". Human life loss is extremely expensive, especially for a private industry, so it doesn't surprise me one bit we haven't privatized that aspect of it.

>Personally, I'm not interested in the standards we pretend to hold the government accountable to. I'm interested in actual outcomes. If privatizing some service can vastly improve outcomes, then great, if government can do it, then great.

I agree with this somewhat, but the reason I mentioned it is because corporate accountability is only effective at keeping leadership accountable to profits not to morals and profits don't care one bit about whats right or wrong. When a company does something wrong most people say "they are a company, only idiots expect them to do the right thing, they did this because it is profitable", at least with a government we haven't given up all hope that that organization can do the right thing because it is the right thing. The fallback on profits serves as an excuse to not even need to pretend to do the right thing that at least the government is held to. Though you are correct that the accountability there varies and is dependent on the population, but I still argue it's better than hoping profits will suddenly start doing the moral thing.
A "join" link would make the most sense, considering the name of the site.
If you want a 320 MHz GPIO focused Arduino board for $60, this is great. Might be great for open-loop or encoder based motion control. This could probably be a good 3d printer control board.
Not to mention that the same data shows that we are poised to absolutely crush climate change with carbon sequestration, renewables, and innovations in supply chain / logistics in every industry.
Very nice write up on how PG gained parallel query, and cool to see the comparison to how other DB engines do it.
I don't know where this idea that anarchism has no masters came from. If anarchy were to truly set in, there would be at least one group of men with AK's and a tank, wandering around stealing food and women. Their leader would soon become your master.
You are only confined when the car is at speed. There are ample opportunities to stop, exit, walk around freely, relieve yourself in a full-sized, accessible bathroom, buy food and drink at normal market prices, and even visit points of interest. Pets tend to be more comfortable, and you don't require a specific carrier to travel with them. Seats recline to a comfortable angle, and there is usually more legroom in a car.

While you are moving, the speeds are far lower--70 mph rather than 350-550 knots. The safety factor is lower; you're more likely to die in a car wreck than a plane wreck per distance unit.

But there's also no security queue or baggage check for a road trip. There's no airport ground transportation. There is a form of check-in for seat determination, but online and other early check-ins are specifically disallowed by the "shotgun rules". You save a fixed amount of time per trip with car travel, while airliners save time based on total trip distance.

So for me, airline travel beats car travel only beyond a certain distance threshold, which more or less directly equates to the travel time. I now set my threshold at two days. If I can't drive there within two travel days, I fly, or just don't go. Which means I'm now potentially adding hotel room charges to mileage expenses. That's about a 1000 mile radius for "easy" driving days and 1600 miles for "hard" driving days, which require relief drivers.

This is directly driven by my perceived worsening of the air travel experience. Sorting the customers out into service tiers based on how much they spend does not encourage me to spend more or to be loyal to a specific airline. It encourages me to pursue alternatives to the bad service that I know I will get.
All the nasty/embarrassing stories for UK will be resurfaced to weight in Brexit negotiations. Russia already warned the international community that UK didn't cooperate well about all the accusations of nerve agents (not that Russia cooperates massively either).

Personal opinion : UK gov thinks they are the only people on Earth, they think they can ignore their neighbors, they overestimate themselves and I hope a bad Brexit will give them a good lesson. If UK were a passive country and actually self-sufficient, we wouldn't care much. But they actively try to influence international relations, and they want to do it without EU, which is obviously egoist and short-sighted, since they don't get to chose their geographical neighbors.
The main problem with the view that a single-user system is safe from this is the point that even single-user systems run untrusted code. For example, your web browser probably by default runs Javascript, NaCl, or WebAsm code, which is supposedly sandboxed sufficiently to no longer be a threat to the other stuff running on your machine. This sort of exploit (which was kind of obviously going to happen at some point) breaks this sandbox to some extent.
As mimikites mentions every apple from seed is a complete unknown bearing no resemblance to parents. Some will be edible, many will be horrible. Find an edible one, keep that tree safe for grafts and cuttings!

For instance all granny smith's trace back to a single tree somewhere in Australia. If you let a variety die, it's gone forever as you'll never recreate it. Which is my biggest regret of the way supermarkets want to sell us just a few "standard" varieties. Countless fine apples have been lost forever.
Yeah, nah. Its only a matter of time when "find and rescue" becomes "search and destroy".

Not to cheapen the work the authors have done, but I dont have a lot of faith that this tech will be used for "good".
>Allies have always spied on each other.

It's thanks to that kind of complacent commentary that we're shrugging off intelligence agencies hacking into the computers of senators investigating said agencies. What a time to be alive.
Intel's response to this is to cut back on Hyperthreading significantly in the latest generation: https://ark.intel.com/compare/134896,186605,186604
> But I guess the City of London needs to get their financial "tips" somehow...

[Citation needed]
SiFive press release here:
https://www.sifive.com/press/sifive-core-ip-7-series-creates...
Nobody shouldn't not undisable the non-undepressing news inhibition disengagement mechanism neither.
Kind of a tangent, but unfortunately Microsemi seems not to be shipping any further batches of https://www.crowdsupply.com/microsemi/hifive-unleashed-expan... . For a hardware noob, does anybody know if there's another board that can be substituted to get PCIe/accessories with the same preconfigured setup? I saw Xilinx mentioned at a significantly higher price tag ($3500+) but not sure what sort of work would be required.
How does that provide an advantage over having the same data-center on the ground? The starlink satellite still needs to communicate with both downstream clients and some kind of upstream link (whether that link is geographically above or below it doesn't seem to provide any obvious advantages for the starlink satellite itself, and the advantages to having the datacenter on the ground are numerous).
The UX studies are taking into account the excess clutter when they aren't necessary. And that is a real problem that I have seen with maps apps that try to display them all of the time.

The problem is that it is really hard to automatically determine what is the most useful thing for the user. Right now, I think the balance is a little too tilted towards not showing them.

I think that one of the evidences of this is how many extreme cases can be shown where they clearly should be shown but they are not. Its much harder to find cases where the algorithm tilts in the other direction by mistake.
Dumping out those session keys comes with major logistical and security problems.
All of a sudden, debugging requires

1) Updates on every client you might want to debug

2) Securely transporting the session keys from those clients to the person debugging.

Those are some massive challenges. An alternative is to always MitM all your devices. This comes with obvious downsides. Moreover, I could see providers doing cert-pinning that isn't over-ridden by user installed certificates. That would make it literally impossible to MitM your own devices.

This kind of cert-pinning really scares me, because it takes away any possibility to inspect your own network communications.
No, you don't need a blockchain
>Sometimes I fantasize about having a full-time job driving around the country fixing all of Apple Maps' faults. But somehow I suspect the pay would be terrible.

I've thought about doing this too, but for hiking trails. I'm sure the pay would be abysmal, but hiking and updating online maps sounds like a blast as a job. I think it could be done fairly well with a simple GPS recorder and serialization, but the biggest challenge would be managing the partnership between the map customers like google and apple..

If anyone wants to fund this and/or has the connections to play sales/product manager, DM me.. :p
I played stardew valley and terraria a lot, but I do find pixel games hard on the eyes.

I have no idea why you would want to go from a 3D model back to a pixel look. Yooka-Laylee has just done this to make it N64-retro-esque but ... no thanks. If anything make it higher res, more beautiful.
I like the idea of a distribution where AppImages are the first class way of adding applications, but I was pretty disappointed in Nitrux. It's all the little things, like apparently not having a good way to display AppImage icons, and how hovering over the dock icons doesn't tell you what the hell they are. Why can't I point a widget at a directory of AppImages and get a custom menu? etc.

Christ, they might have even fixed some of this since I last used it, but I can't tell because they don't offer an ISO you can dump on a USB to try out

"...this means that the ONLY way to use Nitrux is deploying the ISO image using znx. We DO NOT recommend that you flash the ISO raw to a storage device AT ALL, please use znx." [0]

Once again, a fancy website and lots of ambitious words built around a shoddily implemented half-baked idea.

[0] https://nxos.org/en/compendium/#deploying-nitrux
Interestingly, the ISS solar panels are actually below Earth-surface power efficiency despite getting ~33% more incoming energy per area.

It looks like the biggest reason (other than "it's 20+ year old tech") is that triple-junction panels weren't used to save weight. Rather than optimizing power-per-inch or power-per-manufacturing-cost like we would on Earth, NASA was targeting power-per-ounce, which meant gathering only the highest-power wavelengths. Add to that some issues with panel degradation from radiation, and it's a surprisingly tough way to gather energy long-term.

Short of sci-fi stuff like a space elevator or extraplanetary manufacturing, I'm not sure how solvable this is. Does anyone know of ways of getting high power output in space other than nuclear?
I've seen Tailwind pop up in some of the JAMstack starter kits, and I could have sworn it was some framework of yesteryear that I just missed that was now largely replaced by Bootstrap/Bulma/etc. Now that I've looked at the GitHub, I see v0.1.0 was released on Nov 1 2017! Some of these recent trends in web design really have me scratching my head, but I guess I'm just getting old.
> for the good ISPs...

and those are? Do they actually exist?
IIRC it is by some BSD-style people who took some of the design ideas from BSD. LibreSSL is a huge plus for me in terms of security, and the more I learn about systemd the happier I am to get away from it. Didn't know about Musl, but that's nice too [ http://www.etalabs.net/compare_libcs.html ]
IIRC, most Arduino shields run at 5V logic level, and this is a 1.8/3.3V device. While I've worked with a few shields that could automatically switch logic level, I don't think it's the norm.
Hahaha hilarious. That silly UK government. You would never see any other English speaking countries act like that, no siree.
School Teachers MURDER
Please do a Show HN for your networked home computer powered by compressed air.
can run operations 30 to 100 times faster than a standard iPhone or tablet

“Supercomputers” are now only 30-100 times faster than a mobile phone?

Not sure if that says more about the “supercomputer” or the phone.

This was also amusing:

The computer also remained operational even thought it lost its primary upload and download connection to NASA up to eight times a day for periods ranging from 3 seconds to 20 minutes. That kind of independence might prove useful on an eventual moon base or mission to Mars, to work around communications delays back to Earth.

As if a computer that continues running when its communication link goes down is an accomplishment?
Just throwing it out there - the researcher said "he strongly suspects that AMD CPUs are also impacted."
Yeah, I don't think SMT is going away. It's one of the tricks CPU vendors have to eke out more performance, now that they can no longer significantly boost clock rates and shrink die sizes. So we will still have supercomputers and such with this technology enabled, but they will be air-gapped and acoustically isolated, or maybe just have their network perimeters beefed up. And then for mission-critical, sensitive server loads SMT will be disabled (or they will use SMTless CPUs).
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Impossible, we all know that communism means equality and prosperity for all. /s
It appears to be someone by the name of Fabio Loli, not Wikipedia people.

* https://github.com/FabioLolix/linuxtimeline
01 Oct 2018: Notified Intel Security
26 Oct 2018: Notified openssl-security
26 Oct 2018: Notified CERT-FI
26 Oct 2018: Notified oss-security distros list
01 Nov 2018: Embargo expired

Why even do an embargo if you give hardware people 1 month and software people 1 week?!
The NYT had a great piece a few years back of a similar bent but w.r.t. oranges: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/science/a-race-to-save-th.... Definitely influenced how I think about this type of issue and is worth a read as well.
> Because you'll have 29 different margins, 67 different left paddings, etc all over the place.

That's not really the case since SCSS became a thing. If SCSS doesn't help you, Tailwind won't, you can ignore their classes just as you could ignore preset constants.

Honestly, to me it seems like people are just starting "fresh" with a benefit of some experience, and ascribing the benefits of experience to the tool.
You can attach weapons and AI to anything, it’s not a reason to stop progress.

Morality has kept nuclear weapons in check (so far anyways), I’m sure it will keep AI drones in check too.
> I don't think there is much assembly in either.

it has nothing to do with assembly, or ability to compile C

it is basically typical compiler with front-end and back-end. While front-end is platform independent and could be ported easily, back-end usually takes quite some time to retarget for a different architecture
Hm, say you are designing a light sail for interstellar travel. Instead of having it be made of thin film and actuators capable of swinging these sails like on a sail boat... because actuators are more likely to die after millennia in space:

say you instead make the space craft tumble but make the sails able to change their albedo (how reflective they are). If you wanted to make a course correction, you'd alternate how reflective they were. If you wanted a push away from a sun, you'd make the side facing a sun bright. If you wanted to fall in more towards a sun, you'd make the side facing a sun dark. Would that work?

How much do light sails depend on brightness (light pressure) vs just absorbing molecules in the Solar wind?

Edit: Wikipedia says light pressure from photons is most of the effect, but still I can't figure out the difference between a black body sail and a reflective sail.
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I created a tool that allows you to boot natively (from grub) directly into Docker images.

https://godarch.com/

It supports Debian/Ubuntu/Arch/VoidLinux currently (Gentoo soon).

With Darch, your entire desktop is scripted and reproducible.

Here are my Arch recipes: https://github.com/pauldotknopf/darch-recipes

I find this to be a better middle-ground between <your favorite OS> and Nix.
> it is really hard to automatically determine what is the most useful thing for the user.

A good observation, but then wouldn't the right UX decision be to give the user a way to indicate that, yes, I really do want to see the label for this item?
I'm from the UK, GCHQ are criminally underfunded and pay 20-30% below market rate for similar skills in the private sector. Might be common across a lot of intel agencies
In your statement, 'all participants' is problematic. Does everyone who works at Google go to Burning Man? Of course they don't.

The only venue where the set of participants can actually meet the standard 'all' is the business itself or a business event.

The canonical example from history is men getting business done while playing golf at the 'club'. Restrictions on the club (like men only in Atlanta) or ability of other employees to participate (women, disabled) disenfranchised those employees with respect to the kinds of decisions that were getting made on the golf course.

It is inappropriate and it is bad for the company.
It's 2018, does CSS supported by modern browsers still lack the basic building blocks of reuse? Why am I being asked to choose between class="resources" (and having to know how to center a div in that resources class) and class="t:center t:wide-margins t:light-bg" (which is basically reintroducing all the harm of style tags). Why can't I, in 2018 and with vanilla CSS, say:

.resources {
@include .centered
@include .wide-margins
@include .light-bg
}

It seems like every one of these styling tools is just polishing a turd that is a turd for no reason. I can't imagine why the above would be difficult, it wouldn't have to change anything about the actual application of CSS rules, it could literally just be a simple preprocessor.

Sure give me a library of common ways of doing something. That's great. But the lack of basic code reuse for CSS is staggering. Even if you're doing reuse with SASS you're stuck with the fact that you end up generating a CSS File that's 4-5 times larger than it needs to be.
You're right about the general pattern in the US, but that isn't the explanation in this case.

She made sure there were plenty of technical managers under her (she was a VP). The problems that really needed fixing were organizational, not technical, and she did something that a manager with a more technical skew of skills might not have known how to.

The managers in that company who tended to be good and well liked didn't have a big ego regardless of gender, even if (as in her case) she was appropriately aware and confident of the areas in which she was strong.
MACCHIATObin is a mini-ITX ARMv8 board with PCIe and great firmware (comes with U-Boot but you can flash (or chainload from u-boot) EDK2/TianoCore with ACPI support (!) and even QEMU for the "GPU BIOS" thingy that lets you get video out as EFI framebuffer)

Also there's the SoftIron Overdrive 1000 (sold only as full system, not bare board)
I use it as my daily driver on my laptop and it's great. It's very simple to add new source-based programs.

It doesn't handle binary-only applications though (e.g. NoMachine, games, &c.). It has a couple of options to make those work, and it's almost always possible to get it to work natively, so if there's not already a nix expression for the app I want, I just take the expedient path of having a docker container with an ubuntu user-space, since pretty much all proprietary apps run on ubuntu.
No keyboard.
This is whataboutism and doesn't add much to the conversation.
The problem isn’t how the author has used it, but using this approach for something that will grow and change over time. This is one of those things that seems really nice when you start, and gets uglier and uglier as time goes on.

If you see this enough times, and are tasked with cleaning it up/working with it, it can become difficult to appreciate it in the beginning too.
What are open loop and encoder based motion control, and why is a regular Teensy etc. Insufficient for it?
This can easily be accomplished with SASS and a methodology like BEM. And it makes the markup a lot easier to read.
DeepVariant didn’t actually explicitly encode the variants (nor the raw data) as images. Press reports —including from Google Research itself) suggested that this was the case but nothing in the original publication said so, and the researchers themselves have disputed it.

It just so happens that the tensor representation lends itself well to visualisation as (multi-channel) images. But that wasn’t the intent, it’s just a nice side-effect. In reality the data is laid out in tensors that follow naturally from how they were generated (i.e. via alignment of many stochastically generated DNA fragments to a reference sequence).
Is this the beginning of python 2 vs 3?
Anyone know if this also affects WhatsApp?
Does this mean .NET framework is being dropped slowly for new projects?

I am using asp.net core 2.1 for .net framework because it comes handy to load third party .net framework dlls inprocess. I do not have any power to convince third parties to move to .net core.
http://basscss.com/ Is another tailwind type
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Whoops. Saw it there first and didn't realize.
Hikers typically wear the exact opposite of camouflage.

Edit: really? Downvotes? Hiker gear is half neon colors and colored in reflective tabs. Easy visibility for SAR purposes is a design criteria for most hiking gear.
Yeah, also that article seems a lot less sensational. The Japan Times article says

> The fact is, most ghost characters have yet to be fully understood. One such example is 彁

while the blogpost says

> In the end only one character had neither a clear source nor any historical precedent: 彁.

According to the table in Wikipedia[1], of the 28 characters which were originally considered ghosts, 16 were found to be legitimately used to write place names, 8 occurred in earlier dictionaries, 3 (including 妛) were similar to (and probably a mis-read form of) some dictionary entry, and 彁 is of unclear origin.

[1] https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B9%BD%E9%9C%8A%E6%96%87%E5...
Limiting to 30 rides a month. Effectively 1 ride per day. Great. All for only $299 per month. This seems very high in price. This can't even get you to and from work 5 days a week in Chicago.
That's all great to here. I was thinking that the color space could be listed within the little section below the photo summarizing the EXIF data (with little pictorials for aperture, lens, shutter speed, flash, etc.). That would make it a lot easier to know if you're seeing a photo as intended.
The US should continue to spy on its allies, and as long as this is the case they're perfectly justified in spying on the US. Replace US with any other country and same applies. There's nothing particularly wrong with this arrangement.
> Does anyone know of ways of getting high power output in space other than nuclear?

The only thing we have at the moment is chemical rocket fuel. This is obviously impractical for an orbiting data centre because of the continuous, high launch costs.