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Good to see Fleet Space launching. They are Adelaide based.

We used to have one of the biggest missile/rocket ranges in the world once. Kistler were thinking of bringing the range back in the 00s but didn't survive. As NZ picks up the baton and charges forward it is good to see we still have a role to play with payloads.
Without any one of these advances, Rocket Lab would not be viable. It still may end up not being viable. Rocket Lab can never compete on bulk orbital cargo pricing. However, Rocket Lab's vision of applying recent tech advancements to bring down the smallest possible launcher size is extremely commendable.

Without a number of advances, the iPad and iPhone wouldn't have been viable. (As evidenced by the appearance of tablets and smartphones many years before.) Tablets can't compete with larger form factors on bulk pricing of computation. However, there is a technology inflection point where smaller and more flexible becomes usable enough. I guess that's what RocketLab is aiming for.
It's weekend, why wouldn't you take it off? It's just silly software.
Yes. We run energy/thermal comfort simulations to figure out where it's reasonable to to impose thermal discomfort on our inhabitants. If our energy models tell us that there's one extreme week that will be really hot, but we can reduce the HVAC sizing (for cost and energy efficiency), I think it's prudent to do so. I always argue on the side of reducing energy whenever possible. That's a couple of days over the course of the year though, we're not imposing discomfort every day! The industry has also been shifting towards different thermal comfort models (PMV or Predicted Mean Vote to ATC Adaptive Thermal Comfort) which takes into account inhabitants changing their clothing (i.e removing sweater), using personal fans, opening windows to modify their environment for comfort.

FYI, I work in an office that actively uses all these strategies, and personally I don't mind it. Even if it's initially uncomfortable, human beings usually adapt to different thermal stresses in about two weeks of exposure. And yes, it does require some social/cultural shifts (in N. America especially) if you're expected to be a more active participant in making yourself feel thermally comfortable.

ETA: Clarifying thermal comfort strategies.
If 1 out of 4 of your fiends are on steroids just for the gym, that’s pretty crazy to me
The McRib Effect
The general page is at https://status.cloud.google.com/; you can scroll down to see GKE, and my (unofficial) belief is that https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/container-engine/18... should have closed out https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/container-engine/18...

_If_ that's the case, something else is causing the error messages other people are seeing
2 outage in 5 years sounds pretty low, to be honest.

Disclaimer: google employee in ads, who worked on many many fires throughout the years, but talking from my personal perspective and not from my employer. I am sure we are striving to have 0, but realistically, i have seen many that says things happen. Learn, and improve.
My partners mother got rid of her avocado bathroom last month. There's still a few floating around.

For wood, plenty of tenements in Edinburgh still have wooden flooring in the bathrooms (every one I've lived in until now has)
Those are among my favorite Sci-fi novels. However, I think being the pet of higher powers only works out in fiction.
"Dear passengers, people who travel without a ticket, or behave disorderly, or smoke in public areas, will be punished according to regulations and the behaviour will be recorded in individual credit information system. To avoid a negative record of personal credit please follow the relevant regulations and help with the orders on the train and at the station."

To me, this is the most worrisome part of the article. The implementation of an "individual credit system" would grant an administration an unprecedented amount of control over the lives of individuals, from policing the actions of an individual within their own home, punishing those who deviate from their "proper" social roles (imagine an individual losing credit for being openly gay), or actively suppressing any perceived threat to the administration. Taxing sugar or requiring companies to put warning labels on their products is laughably tame compared to this level of invasiveness.

"And although the American tech giants have become accomplished data vampires in their own right, they are mere amateurs compared to their Chinese counterparts, who are not hampered by concerns about data protection, privacy or even the rule of law."

I was under the impression that "deep blue" states were more effective than red states at implementing privacy laws. Think of California's Consumer Privacy Act. At any rate, the article says that "any data a local company holds effectively belongs also to the state". I don't know of a comparable policy in any state here in the US.
Very nice. I'm surprised you don't bother to equalize the audio levels between stations, though, any reason for that?
> Well, yes there is a difference, evolution works by natural selection since nature is incredibly smart

No, this is magical thinking. Evolution works by differentials in the rate of effective reproduction.

> the only changes that get actualized are those that are beneficial for survival and reproduction and those that do not hinder it.

This isn't correct.
On "Technical Debt“
Yup - that's what I assumed when I saw the name and that it's in NZ. It got a pretty good chuckle out of me.
Show HN: Manabi Reader – Japanese assistive reading app for iOS
Background grew up on the country side.

I think robotic farming with less pesticide spray will be the future! There seem to be an ever increasing size increase of tractors. Many of these tractors runs proprietary software John Deere which makes them hard to self service. Robots can run from solar/bio energy generated locally at the farm.

I think there will be a movement of build your own open source robots at farms. Farmers are very inventive and good at making things!
While the PTO shafts are "exposed" these days they're in a sheath that covers the whole length with guards on both ends. You still want to be really careful around them but things have become much safer.

That said, farm equipment still needs to be treated with a healthy amount of respect, being lax around any running machinery will easily get you killed.
I tried out iVim for a few hours. It has vimrc support and integration with the files app. It also integrates with The blink shell app so that you can edit files on remote through vim and ssh
Electric tractors/harvesters powered by solar on fallow fields?
Hi, author here.

I've built an iOS app that curates interesting Japanese reading material and helps you read it.

There are some similar apps/sites like this out there. Where Manabi Reader distinguishes itself is in the special care taken to segment Japanese text into dictionary lookups (having a lot of custom logic for improving upon the basic MeCab results), the actively-curated library of content, the ability to read Japanese subreddits, and the overall user experience. It also integrates with my other app for creating flashcards from what you read.

I'm actively improving the app, so any feedback is welcome! The next major functionality I'm working on is tracking and analysis of the words you've read, so that you can see which words are new to you, which you're actively learning, and find content that meets your current reading level.
Those doctors recommend a WFPB diet. Veganism is an ethical stance, not promoted professionally that I know by any of them (Greger, Campbell, Furman, Eisselstyn, McDoughal, Klaper, etc.).

Is there a chance that a diet that is similar to chimps, bonobos and utangs is most healthy for us as well?

No refined food, mostly fruits+leaves and some seeds and bugs. It "maybe" that simple. These doctors are aware of this, and promote --to my best knowledge-- based on science what can logically be derived from our evolutionary ancestery.

Calling it "vegan advocacy" is besides the point. It's WFPB advocacy, because it's showing to work in studies/practices.

High meat cultures never produced the longest living people. High fruit+leaves have, repeatedly.
PyCM v1.4: Full analysis of confusion matrix
3 decades? 1.1 was released in 1997.

Networks change as the world evolves and supports more people and applications, so new protocols are expected. HTTP/2 was great progress at the application layer, and QUIC is now about improving the transport layer.

Can you clearly list the bugs you claim HTTP/2 has?
Why I'm worried Amazon HQ2 may come to Queens
Did not know this, can you share some more info to expose how they are crooks?
For disputes, the onus is on the merchant to prove they did not make a mistake.
To understand the tradeoffs between LSMs, B-Trees, and Fractal Trees, see the references in this previous post on TokuDB and Bε trees...

* BetrFS: An in-kernel file system that uses Bε trees to organize on-disk storage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18202935

Memory model considerations and storage architecture design gets even more interesting now that NVMe has become a thing. For example, in addition to LMDB, how much more interesting have things become for Redis on NVMe?

* Caching Beyond RAM: The Case for NVMe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17315494

* Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory is officially in Google Cloud https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1834816

And there are a few new forward-thinking DB architectures emerging on the scene, some that have been in the works for more than 10 years. Look at the work being done by the Berkeley RISELab team and the architecture behind Fluent DB.

* Ground: A Data Context Service (2017) [pdf] (berkeley.edu), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18415456

What might have been conventional wisdom in the realm of DBs years ago will not be the best practices of today. Architectures have changed too much.

And this is not just true for storage, it's true for compute too. The availability of CPU/GPU/TPU accelerators in the data centers is driving a rethink in compute toward parallel algorithms in the form of Vector/Matrix/Tensor multiplication. The best way to store and index these arrays is something to consider too.
I think you need to stop staring into microwave ovens.
It is a natural effect of building massive yet flat homogeneous systems, failures tend to be greatly amplified.

Most of what you can read of Google's approach will teach you their ideal computing environment is a single planetary resource, pushing any natural segmentation and partitioning out of view.
Seems Lowes has them

https://www.lowes.com/pd/GE-Color-Effects-50-Count-32-6-ft-M...
One thing jones promised was an idealistic prejudice free vision of society. Keep in mind many of his victims were poor black elderly people who had likely seen the harshest era of jim crow racism. They were old in the 1970s meaning that some had likely experienced racial terrorism & seen lynchings & kkk rallies. A white man preaching equality and justice to such an oppressed people would seem messianic.
Meme Weeding: Los Angeles Density
Miss the animated icon, such drama when browsing over dialup.
They have whole book describing who fixes, provides updates, etc. Fun meditative reading while waiting for the outage to get fixed.

https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/managing-in...

Looks like this time Mary took the whole week off without telling Josephine :)
C64? Or was there some other system that was true for?
1 play on radio 1 could easily be 1 million listeners for which they get 100 quid you say, whereas this band say they got $5000 for a million listens on Spotify.
Is there any sort of organized, searchable index of artwork online? It's sort of a massive undertaking, but it's the kind of thing that a wiki would be good for, and there have been a handful of different museums which have made these kinds of sets available.
Huh? FreeBSD has never included the Capsicum patches for chromium in ports.

Google not accepting this upstream is a separate issue, albeit regretful, OpenBSD maintains the pledge/unveil patches and users benefit from this work today, whereas FreeBSD users cannot run Capsicum-ised Chrome.

Capsicum patches are also considerably more intrusive, and their intention and protection is less clear.
This kind of stuff is cool from a educational perspective but with services like OSHPark I've lost motivation to make diy circuit boards. The batch services are just so cheap and fast now days.
> 3 decades? 1.1 was released in 1997.

Fair enough. Corrected.

> Can you clearly list the bugs you claim HTTP/2 has?

They seemed fairly well outlined in the post I was replying to, no?
Creating clusters via the UI is still not working for me.
When guerilla marketing backfires
Nope, GKE = master/control plane owned by Google. Customers are just tenants, who can schedule workloads.
It's great to see museums working towards spreading the reach of their collections and reaching new audiences.

Also for folks interested: SF MoMA was doing something similar where if you texted them a word they would send you a picture related to it (from their collection)

https://www.sfmoma.org/send-me-sfmoma/

The museums could also start selling prints online as well, perhaps create new means of funding for the museums
The future will be nothing like the past. Why? Because human behavior is not scale invariant, and both the raw number of humans and their mobility is vastly higher than it's ever been.

So what do we know? Well for one we know that unsustainable processes end. Modern persuasion and propaganda techniques appear sustainable at present. Of course they only work at all because they exploit biological reality. It's farcical, but only homo sapiens is evolved to be susceptible to modern propaganda.

War is of course sustainable. We know this because it's been going on as long as we have records and shows no sign of stopping.

But war and conquest take many forms. One group doesn't necessarily have to roll in tanks and rape and massacre to conquer another's territory. It can also be done in a more evolutionary way, by taking their ecological niche or destroying their habitat. I don't mean to "dehumanize" by observing that we are animals, because we really are animals and we really are subject to the same scientific laws as every other animal, including the ecological ones.
Do you know how large 73TWh is? 0.04% is huge when compared to total energy consumption
We were doing testing several years ago with a custom UDP based protocol to overcome some of the TCP issues, and ran into a perplexing problem.

To meet the data rate, we were sending datagrams that were 64KB in size (there was no system call at this time to send multiple datagrams in one go).

The datagrams were being fragmented into MTU sized fragments by the OS and reassembled on the remote end. However, with the data rate and the fact that there is only a 16 bit IP ID in the IP header, the fragments would often get missassembled on the receiving end and passed up to the UDP layer. Usually, the UDP checksum would detect the problem and throw the datagram out. However, since the checksum is weak and we were sending a lot of data, it would sometimes pass the datagram up to the application layer.

So, we would get corrupted data on the receiving end once in a while. It took quite a bit of time to figure this out, of course.

The solution was to implement dynamic MTU discovery along with the protocol so we could avoid the fragmentation.

The custom solution is still being used 20 years later!
I think the best thing to do is listen to Jones' own words, and look at their ideology, rather than ascribing it to more abstract psychology notions.

Jones believed, or at least said he believed, that because of the shooting of the Congressman (which he claimed he had no control over), they were all doomed. The US government was going to kill them.

I apologize for the source (though I can verify it is accurate, having listened to the recording), but here's the transcript of the tape of Jones telling them they needed to die:

http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/The_Jonestown_Tape

> So my opinion is that you be kind to children and be kind to seniors and take the potion like they used to take in ancient Greece and step over quietly because we are not committing suicide. It's a revolutionary act. We can't go back; they won't leave us alone. They're now going back to tell more lies, which means more congressmen. And there's no way, no way we can survive.

> JONES: Don't be afraid to die. You'll see, there'll be a few people land out here. They'll torture some of our children here. They'll torture our people. They'll torture our seniors. We cannot have this. Are you going to separate yourself from whoever shot the congressman? I don't know who shot him.

Essentially, Jones believed their (in his mind) communist, multiracial utopia was doomed to fiery death the moment his people shot Leo Ryan. The mass suicide (or murder, if you prefer) was in his mind, and in the minds of many of his followers, a protest against the racist capitalists.
Wouldn't be surprised to see an ARM build of MacOS with new mac models on the A12+ chips.
The issue people have with it is that it's global, not regional, indicating that there are dependencies in the entire architecture that people does not expect to be there.
(disclaimer: I work for another cloud provider)

I agree, in general, outages are almost inevitable, but global outages shouldn't occur. It suggests at least a couple of things:

1) Bad software deployments, without proper validation. A message elsewhere in this post on HN suggest that problems have been occurring for at least 5 days, which makes me think this is the most likely situation. If this is the case, presumably given this is multiple days in to the issue, rolling back isn't an option. That doesn't say good things about their testing or deployment stories, and possibly their monitoring of the product? Even if the deployment validation processes failed to catch it, you'd really hope alarming would have caught it.

or:

2) Regions aren't isolated from each other. Cross-region dependencies are bad, for all sorts of obvious reasons.
Reducto ad absurdum only works if the next steps are inevitable and follow logically (an example would be something like a mathematical proof using proof-by-contradiction). The slippery slope fallacy is a case where you use some theoretically possible extreme end-point to justify why the current proposal is unacceptable.

Are you arguing that having health credits in the USA and legally mandated exercise is the only logical next step after banning menthol cigarettes? If you aren't, then you aren't using reducto ad absurdum. If you are, then it's trivial to disprove (in Australia, snuff has been illegal to sell since the late 1980s and we don't have "health credits" today -- many other substances bad for your health were made illegal in the US and you don't have "health credits" today).
Totally impractical for any small business and of questionable usefulness for large ones. You'd be giving up the largest benefit of platforms like AWS--ready to use services for common tasks--to avoid the infinitesimally small chance of AWS having some doomsday global outage.

To answer the original question: It looks like this issue was just a UI bug that affected the console, the service itself wasn't impacted. Events that do impact the service will be contained to a region, meaning you can mitigate it with proper redundancy across regions, no zany multi-cloud solution required.
Fixing bugs and experimenting with new protocols will be easier in user space than waiting for operating systems and routers to get fixed and their users to deploy them. Look at all the problems TLS 1.3 has faced with busted routers and enterprise MITM boxes.
Pre-arrest probable cause in the current judicial system is a joke.

Search warrant requests rarely get denied, often the approving Judge isn't even capable of understanding the probable cause argument in the warrant (particularly in cases involving technology)

They rely solely on the sworn statement of the police office 'your affiant' and a rubber-stamp from the local State Attorney's office.

There is little incentive for the judge to deny the warrant, and, could face significant backlash if they do deny a warrant that may have enabled law enforcement to stop something from happening.

LEO would simply draft a warrant 'Your affiant has been in law enforcement for 25 years and has taken this training class and that training class and has this certification. Your affiant knows from his training and experience that a crime happened or likely happened at this date and time. Your affiant requests all video for the time period of 7 days from cameras 1472 - 1499 which cover a 2000ft section of Rodeo Dr.'

The warrant gets rubber-stamp approved, and, even if they don't find what they were looking for, they can single out anything of which the 'incriminating nature is readily apparent' that they observe, and go after that. And that 'incriminating nature is readily apparent' bar is pretty low and generally subjective based on the officer, or 'a reasonable person'.

How well has this 'dragnet surveillance' worked out in the FISA court? A system like this would be ripe for abuse. And what about securing it? So far our government has a pretty crappy track record for securing even info that is classified and top secret. How secure would this dragnet video surveillance be?
You said we should respect the person in office. I see no reason to do so.

In fact, it was argument without merit - it would be like me saying "you should eat an apple a day," as if the reason was self evident.
This looks real cool, and the logic behind treating OpenSCAD files this way in a 3d printing workflow is impeccable.

I stumbled at first because all my scad files use language features not supported in hob3l. It might help to call more attention to the .scad → (openscad) → .csg → (hob3l) workflow.

Blew right past my notebook's 8GB RAM trying to slice a complex fractal model at 6 levels of recursion. This is a "favorite" model of mine because I've never gotten openscad to slice it right: https://emergent.unpythonic.net/files/sandbox/flake6.csg.gz

Slicing level 5 only took about 4GB RAM so maybe level 6 needs around 24? https://emergent.unpythonic.net/files/sandbox/flake5.csg.gz
most system administrators are only aware of tcp and udp(that quic uses). its really hurts protocol adoption if it does not work for 3rd parties blocking/not handling it on th e network gear.
I am curious why this was flagged?
Building a $60K/Month Online Lending Business – An Interview with FigLoans CEO
My understanding is multiplexing over an existing connection also provides time savings as new data does not need the full handshake and ramp up a completely new connection would.
What a good idea. Seems like one of those ‘why hasn’t anyone thought of this’ kind of ideas.

Of course it only works for CSG, so it’s not a panacea for any file you want to print. But when it does apply it’s great.
Wouldn't anycast be a solution? Then the CDN can provide the same IP to all users, but the network layer ensures that the IP is one close to the user.
Seems like a better phrase is 'I find this hard to believe. Do you have a source?'

I certainly doubted the 'most' part of that statement but after looking into it, it really does seem like there is a problem with steroids and the police. Potentially still not 'most' police but certainly enough that it's an issue.
1) LEDs: https://www.aliexpress.com/store/701799

2) Library: http://fastled.io/

3) Have fun ;)

On fastled.io, check the "community" link for tons of examples. This is a great time of year to find fun/cool projects as well.

I'd recommend a Teensy board over an arduino. It's many times faster, which is crucial for long strips and timing.

https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/

Paul (creator of Teensy) has some other really cool writeups as well, including building a giant TV out of the LED strips.