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> I'm...not sure how you think attack drones work? There is always a human in the loop, at least for now. Humans pick the targets and authorize weapon release.

Many of these wedding bombings didn't involve drones, they involved jets. The drones are also using fairly low res cameras, so if we are talking about one of the instances where a drone bombed a wedding, it may or may not have been clear to the operator that that's what it was. It may also have been a targeting issue. That is all to say that we do not know that a person consciously, knowingly chose to bomb a wedding full of civilians.

> It's relevant to the discussion of how and why these things happen. It's not relevant to the question of whether or not a wrong has been committed. If you drive drunk and kill four people, you certainly didn't mean to, but you still go to prison.

It's relevant to the level of the wrong, just as it is in the car case. If you kill four people in a car on purpose that is a much more serious crime than doing so by accident. Further, if the CIA intended to do this, then we are having a very different moral discussion than if they did this accidentally.

> Do you have evidence that they're not? They've certainly had limited success in stopping international terrorism.

Are they? By what metric? There have been very few Islamic terrorist attacks on US soil. Sure, they haven't wiped out radical Islam in the entire region...but we don't really have a basis for comparison here. We cannot conclude much of anything about its efficacy.

What we do know is that there are networks of people who have organized themselves for the purpose of enacting terrorist attacks on western soil. What do you propose that we do about it, if not this?

> We discussed earlier how extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If you believe that a goal was achieved here that outweighed 50 or so innocent lives, it's on you to demonstrate that, not on me to falsify it. Do your own homework.

Ok. Drone strikes have killed hundreds of high ranking members of Islamic terror networks. And it is highly likely that to the extent that civilians were harmed, most of them were probably, at the very least, sympathetic to these people to begin with.
It's leviosa, not levoisa! Jokes aside, I think I'm right. "(police(police(police))" reads as "police of the police of the police", which sounds right. I read it as "If police-police police police, who police police-police? Police-police-police police police-police."
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Nuclear also has the lowest mortality rate of any energy source, 0.1 per terawatt-hour.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...
Did anyone else see this headline and hope for an anti-scrum rant?
Well, I never did that. But now that I've grown up, I do not respect them as mucha s they expect and they wonder why it is!
I would love for the time to arrive where I can just walk to work with my phone in my pocket, dock it and run everything I need to in one place on one device - unfortunately as someone said above the restrictions manufacturers put on the devices are too hardcore.
> hopelessly vague,

You didn’t do the reading so hold your horses with hopelessly.

From the slides “In constructive mathematics, every function is continuous”. (From the presentation)

Sounds like Lie groups to me.

I’m aware of dual numbers funny that you bring them up as they correspond to Lie groups. I have been talking about dual quaternions nonstop on hn.
To any site that, like several listed, makes it nigh-impossible to find out what they actually do / what you're paying for: die in a fire.
Problems getting harder is not really a valid explanation for the current state of science, or any particular field. At any given glimpse of society, their current state of the art is the best they've managed with all they know. Further progress is always harder, even when we now think of it as something that should have been easy. For instance the basic concept that things happen for a reason is something everybody understands now, even only a completely intuitive level - yet it was one of the breakthroughs of the Greeks. And Newtonian mechanics is also something people tend to understand quite intuitively, yet following the Greeks it would take the better part of two thousand years for people to consider that e.g. objects in motion stay in motion unless acted on by something else. Artistotlean mechanics held that continued motion required continued force. Artistotle seemingly did not consider friction, air resistance, and so on that cause objects to slow. Or just consider the tens to hundreds of thousands of years to develop writing, or to enter into the iron age, and so on.

There's some argument to be said that in times past there were fewer "scientists" working on these topics, explaining the delays. But I don't think that's fair. The reason I put "scientist" in quotes is because many of these things have minimal prerequisites and the average home would have all that's needed to experimentally test and discover these concepts. And their immense value, far beyond the academic, meant their discovery likely would have been able to rapidly spread regardless of the origin - so that, at least to some degree, precludes authority as a necessity.

Many things that now constantly elude our ability to understand, perhaps dark matter is a great example, will likely one day be child's play.
T-mobile customer here who supports zero rating. Their standards are extremely straight forward to implement to zero rate, and there is minimal burden to implement. This was my experience simply as a facilitator to enable a public radio station I enjoy to be zero rated.
I'm think if you can reasonate with a hosting provider (big name ones), you can have a /24 block for yourself. You better have a great reason, and be prepared to pay ~$3/ IP.
Too early to say that, and it's still conjecture from what I can tell.

Bad maintenance, and/or airline culture could still be a big part of the incident if it turns out there were warning signs ignored or bad repairs done.

So I would still disagree that anything is conclusive and certainly not 100% Boeing's fault yet.
Isn't Myrvohld the same guy that runs Intellectual Ventures? This guy's like Bond-villian level bearish on humanity.

Anyway, as someone who lived on a nuclear vessel and responded to Fukushima and has degrees in physics and medicine, I'm honestly fine with nuclear power, but renewables, by having lower energy density, are just way more managable. The workforce problems being a major part of it. I have solar on my house. I'm not putting a reactor on my house, ever. I always go back to this: I'll grant that more people will die falling from roofs while installing solar, than will ever die in all nuclear events, including Chernobyl, Hiroshima and Nagisaki. Still, solar and wind are the better options. Energy density matters. Not to high. Not to low. Juuust right.
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OMG! You have to find a Spectrum emulator and find that game so you can play it! You can't go through life with that unfinished! I may do it myself just out of solidarity!

Years ago I found a bunch of my old CoCo tapes and loaded them up in an emulator. It was cathartic to say the least: https://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/letter-defender-my-big-p...
I bought two books for school from them that would have been normally $100 each, for like $30 each. The pages were as thin as a phone book, and had a Xerox quality. Basically pirate copy
Yes, something in india is limiting your connection most likely. Whether it be network speeds or something else, the servers in Australia are super fast
> Low birthrates are very much a localized "problem"

The fertility rate has been declining world wide, from ~5 per woman in 1950 to ~2.5 now. The cause appears to be something like industrialization and urbanization, so it happens to some countries sooner, but it is decidedly a world phenomenon and there is not a lot more decline required before 2.5 becomes <2.
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Neither of those can apply when the service itself was never actually provided.
I would be very curious to find out what the actual bandwidth looks like.

I vaguely recall a site that that shows approximate throughput for given properties but I can't remember the terms to google for to (re)find it. But 1.1.1.1 might not be listed - or the numbers might only represent valid traffic and be wildly inaccurate.

Traffic breakdowns would thus be very interesting to see (for whatever is shareable, at least - heh, you'd probably have enough fireside stories to drown multiple HNs with :) ). In the case of 1.1.1.1 I'm wondering about what percentage of traffic is coming from valid DNS clients (and I also wonder where the requests are coming from - although that's just trivia to me), versus eg nonsense from horribly misconfigured lightbulbs.
You're right, I did, sorry. However, this paper is talking like its proving causality, but it's really not. Another interpretation of the exact same data is that the US is good at picking targets, and focusing on likely hotbeds of terrorism.

The fundamental problem is that where the US targets its drone strikes is (or at least, should be) correlated to where terrorism is in the process of springing up. So, if our government was actually doing a really great job analyzing these things, you would see the same data pattern - drone strikes lead terrorist attacks.
Fastmail.com has the worst I've seen: stop paying them and someone else can register your email address.

Think of the security implications there.
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From my complete layperson perspective, this flawed-sensor/autopilot failure feels even more inexplicable than Tesla's Autopilot failing to stop for stationary objects. In the latter case, I can grasp how it's difficult -- or at least an open-ended problem to train a system to distinguish such objects in real time. But the heuristics for stable flight seem much more bound to hard-coded heuristics and physical facts -- isn't there a calculable, mostly-predictable limit -- for any given altitude -- to how much a plane can correct for a stall by nosediving. And when this limit is approached, shouldn't the plane's autopilot cede more control to the human pilot, if there's no indication that the pilot is otherwise incapacitated?

But it sounds like there's still a lot of unknowns about sensor readings and chain of events -- for all we know, it's possible the plane made a reasonable auto-correction, but the pilots misinterpreted the sensor readings and inadvertently caused the plane to go into an uncontrollable dive. Given that this is the Boeing 737 Max 8's first major crash, and it happens to be with one of the most unsafe budget airlines, it seems premature to say Boeing is at 100% fault. OTOH, 1 crash/189 deaths of a new plane, of a model that has had just 2 years of service so far, is not a statistic that justifies giving Boeing the automatic benefit of the doubt.

edit: Also, the Lion Air plane was said to have had the same major glitch with its airspeed indicator in all of its 4 final flights [0]. Even if Boeing's design is found to have shortcomings, Lion Air choosing to not ground the plane despite 4 consecutive flights of buggy behavior is a huge indictment of its safety culture.

[0] https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/airlines/a24568956/l...
> There's been enough evidence presented so far that I believe it's now on you to demonstrate that it's false, if you can.

Zero evidence has been presented that the CIA targeted civilians intentionally. All you'd have to do to prove me wrong is link it, if it's already here.

> Maybe this has worked for you before, demanding indisputable evidence for every fiddly detail, hoping that your opponent takes the bait and gets bogged down in minutiae?

Maybe this has worked for you before? Where you insist evidence has been supplied elsewhere without ever providing any of your own?
I hope eventually Apple produces something of this sort, atleast on the surface it seems they are onto something with Marzipan. Someone should solve this problem completely.
Forget that, I’m still waiting for affordable a la carte cable channels.
> patients who developed psychosis, the superior temporal gyrus became more connected to limbic regions

Increased correlation between auditory and emotional neural regions. This is a little flimsy.
Love this. Close to my heart - Nuclear power is key to making a clean, reliable, safe, and robusts electrical grid. Plus - this is the only realistic way _right now_ to phase out fossil fuels!

Great advancements to keep an eye on:
https://www.energy.gov/ne/nuclear-reactor-technologies/small...

Specifically Molten Salt (Liquid Floride) Thorium Breeder reactors are my personal favorite technology I hope to see come around!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reacto...

Great place to start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3rL08J7fDA

Great videos to follow: https://www.youtube.com/user/gordonmcdowell/featured
Russia is pushing hard their nuclear projects. Dozens of reactors in build.
This was done, it was called 6to4 and it worked pretty well when native IPv6 was less available. The gateways had an anycast IPv6 address too so you didn't have to manually configure the address of your gateway to the real IPv6 internet.
Sounds like the mobile companies got Facebook to subsidize consumers' phone bills. Is that good or bad for everyone involved?
Nuclear has obvious advantages as a network baseline and if you think about it all energy is nuclear.

Also, usually the choice posed is not nuclear or solar, it's nuclear vs coal.

And, from my point of view,(although this might sound like an insane, non-pragmatic issue I am thinking about) if we, as a species ever want to become a multiplanetary species, mastering nuclear is a must. That way we will be able to create our own, micro-solar system wherever we will go.
I have no opinion about any of that. That's a discussion you should probably have with Nathan Myhrvold, not me.
Here is a simple study on distcc, pump and using of the make -j# option on low end hardware. It seems that the network could be a bottleneck. The compilation time probably would decrease to 1/4. But I think the use of -j# is the best advice.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1056580-start-0.html
Sorry, I can't find any angle on this analogy that would rescue some grain of truth.

(Perl5, by the way?)

For that matter, for "X is to Y what Scheme is to Common Lisp", I'm finding it hard to find a good X, Y that would be satisfying and enlightening.
@Rauchg

What fraction of Now customers care about cost and scalability so much that they will invest time into splitting monolithic server into many lambdas (a monorepo). (I've read in Now 2.0 docs that it is recommended to have 1 lambda per 1 API route.) EDIT: After splitting, is there overhead in managing many lambdas vs monolith server?

Once a server is split and configured, will these customers be able to migrate out of Now 2.0? From what I see right now, it is basically a vendor lock-in.

Is it possible that majority of Now's customers are websites, simple CRUD apps, small SaaS apps and they don't care about cost and scalability that much and won't add lambda-related overhead to their code?

Do you guys try to shrink your customer base and work with perhaps bigger clients with critical apps who are more paranoid about scaling, cost and want to invest in lambdas?

Sorry about typos.
In a similar vein, have other options available. That gives you ultimate negotiating power.
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Self-driving cars will alleviate this problem, since the cars will just rent their time out (like Uber/Lyft today) and after they drop you off at your destination they zip off to pick up the next human. Even if you choose to own your own car, the car itself could go back home during the day while you're at work.
Sure it's just a contract, but the company still takes a cut (written in to the contract) when traders execute against orders. I'd assume that's what SEC wants their share of.
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But it helps you to know it is not "Make your sales org better".

It helps if you search for something that makes your website better, you know you are in right place and you can read more. If not you move to next page in 0.5 second instead of reading some irrelevant technical details of how.
Considering we’re talking about distributed state-machines, I am curious why you would choose Paxos, a more complex algorithm over Raft. Raft, to my knowledge provides the same guarantees as Paxos, and is simpler to understand and implement.

I am no expert on Paxos - just hoping for an explanation.
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> So it seems that is a published zine where you buy an e-copy for between $5 and $20 with a cute little sliding bar that tells you the author's cut of the money you send (basically 80%) Interesting User interface design.

Yup, 80%. They say that explicitly here: https://leanpub.com/authors. The site itself, LeanPub, is one of the more (if not most) well-known self-publishing outlets, particularly recognizable for supporting "early access" books. I.e. like video games, you can pay while the book is still being written, to access its already made parts and possibly influence its final shape. People sometimes use it for donations too, by setting the minimum price to $0.

The quality is what you'd expect. On a spectrum between a blogpost and an O'Reilly book, most what I've seen is around 30% there.

Other books related to Lisp popped up there too. I remember buying three:

- https://leanpub.com/lispwebtales

- https://leanpub.com/lisphackers

- https://leanpub.com/lispweb

(EDIT: no affiliation with LeanPub; just the way you wrote that sentence made me think you believe parts of this platform are features of the zine, which they're not.)
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> I do not want to see any more centralization and the corresponding corruption.

Agreed - That is why Small Modular reactors are exciting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor
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That's kind of a stretch for Netflix. A few teams recently started an evaluation pilot, and even that is only for internal tools (i.e. not Netflix.com). There are no current plans to use GraphQL for anything customer facing at Netflix. Nothing against Apollo, but I'd hate for people to get the wrong idea.
It's great to use DocBook for writing books! (Actually, I don't think this is true for most books, but you do you.) But I would argue that processors that are designed to take HTML as input are not at fault for failing to process non-HTML documents. (Many, but not all) web browsers can render and style XML like this, but I'd argue that this is -- somewhat ironically given the article's subject -- probably not the best approach to putting DocBook files on the web.
This is important - techloaf (big fan here!) is obviously an outlier, but generally the bigger and more complex the product, the vaguer the landing pages get.

I always thought this was a shifty strategy to get you on the phone and have salespeople con you, but after reading _Mastering the Complex Sale_ I've come to realise that it makes sense - you want to understand a potential customer's needs before you actually try to pitch anything concrete at them.
The irony is that tall buildings do significantly better in earthquakes because they are built to a higher standard of safety.
Sorry if I was unclear. I mean to say, I don't want to jump to the conclusion that Die Grünen are some kind of astroturf for Gazprom. More likely they're expressing genuine opinions and care about saving the world, and I simply disagree with their assessment of tradeoffs.

I'm also unclear on how I'm talking behind anyone's back on an open forum in a language readable by a majority of Germans.
I just tried it on Pocket, and it keeps switching me to the web version... which is a bit frustrating, since the source code / DocBook [1] XML format looks ideal for describing a Pocket article.

Seems DocBook has been around since 1999, judging from when the first O'Reilly book was published about it [2].

I just flagged it with the Pocket app's "Report An Article Display Problem" feature, but it is such a niche use case that I can't imagine them spending time on it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook

[2] https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/docbook/book/docbook.html
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Well Microsoft changed the underlying p2pness of skype so I can't blame Sprint for throttling that laggy buggy inconsistent network topology ineptly and inaptly still referred to as "Skype" R.I.P.
Yes and we’re talking about distributed state machines, right? A raft append-only log usually contains state machine commands.
“If your role in life is that of peacemaker, you must resign yourself to the fact that sometimes, peace can only be made through force. Peace is a condition that exists only when those who hate to fight are better prepared to do so than those who love to. It is very simple and very easy to kill. If you would learn to neutralize an opponent while doing them the minimum possible amount of harm, you must master the art of attack; master it more thoroughly than any killer ever needs to"
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"He" clocks in at two characters, it's a very concise way of referring to an arbitrary person. "The user" takes longer to write and longer to say. Forcing the reader to juggle around "or" conditions (i.e. with "he or she") is even worse and I consider it bad practice. Your readers will thank you for concreteness and brevity.
Samsung Dex[0] is still an active project and recently announced a beta version.
It will only work with newer Samsung devices though, which excludes my Galaxy S4 and of course all phones by other manufacturers.

[0]https://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/apps/samsung-dex/
What I'm saying is the Soviet entry into the war by itself was enough to push Japan into an (almost) unconditional surrender to the US, so the bombings were unnecessary. The timing was not coincidental, they had agreed on a Soviet entry within three months of V-day in Europe at Yalta. While Stalin probably didn't know about the bombing, Truman almost certainly knew the specific date of the invasion of Manchuria in advance and it likely established the timetable.
One wheel is just too unstable. Forget ever hitting any speed on one.

Scooters and ebikes have the advantage of all energy going into propulsion instead of stabilization.