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I agree that we should be investing in R&D, but what renewables have to be paired with is the technology that we have available to us here and now. If you want load-following energy then that means fossil fuel. If you want base-load then you have either fossil fuels or nuclear.

If we want to have any chance of meeting our climate goals then it seems like nuclear, optionally paired with renewables, is our only option.
Yes, but how does it help hardcoding one IP address that ISPs can simply route to their own DNS server?
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Technically, several hundred. I say "technically" because they actually work for wholly-owned subsidiaries.
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I've never been able to make sense from including more than one aggregate root in a bounded context. What are your thoughts?
Delphi can produce native binaries for the major platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux (Currently Enterprise version only, requires third party library for GUI), Android, iOS.
The free Community Edition supports the platforms above, minus Linux.
I am not completely up to date with D at the moment, but I hope the following is still accurate:

Both D and Rust are fast when it comes to run time. Rust is more explicit about allocations because of the borrow checker. A typical case is string handling. In D you do not need to think much about gluing strings together. In Rust, you have to use more explicit code to say: Yes, I really want the extra allocation.

Rust makes you more conscious about lifetimes. That can be a good thing. You will get better runtime performance, but I also think that it promotes simplicity which in turn makes it easier to understand the code in the future (every variable has a clear owner).

D gives you speed with a pleasant syntax. Rust gives you robustness and the language-design of a community. D's design addresses the unsafety of C and C++ and makes it a lot harder to shoot yourself in the foot. Not as hard as Rust, but pretty hard.

Rust feels much more like a universal language, that not only focuses on the niche of C and C++. D has a clear focus on the C/C++ world, but it is still a suitable language for scripting. I used it a while instead of Python to write file processing scripts. Why did I stop doing this? Mostly because I moved to a new place that was very biases towards Python. I did not think much about it back then but I could probably have kept writing D.

Both are good languages. I think Rust is still more difficult to pick up, but the learning resources are getting better every day. If you want to use one of the two languages in a project with a team that is unfamiliar with both languages, D is probably the safer choice unless you have very strong reliability requirements.

I think both languages are worth learning. And both are good choices in the domain of C and C++.
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>So many people complain about Electron or rush to use it. Yet, Lazarus gives you cross-platform apps with self-contained binaries.

- The UI has the same old "grey boxes" style that plenty of classic desktop libraries used.

- For online apps, you don't get to reuse any parts of your web app (which probably has a fairly similar UI anyway).

- Imagine trying to create something like Spotify, or Slack (complete with inline HTML previews and videos and whatnot), or even VS Code with this.

- From a brief look, it seems all UI code has to use imperative mutations (`setText`, `addItem`, `hideButton`, etc.). There is nothing like React as far as I know. I'm not even aware of any "old school" data binding library. Correct me if I'm wrong.

This is not a practical alternative to Electron in any significant way. Maybe for some niche uses (small tools, etc.)
I am in my 30s. I think people around my age will be able to live out most of our lives in relative normalcy. I think children born today will inherit a world that's even more cruel, brutal, and difficult to survive in. The rich will wall themselves off in heavily guarded citadels while climate disasters and the resulting refugee crises tear the rest of the world apart.
> On the other hand, India has a real national security need to know everything that goes on, thanks to its neighbor(s?).

The good old "national security" crutch. It's always used by those in power to spread surveillance, censorship, restrict freedom of expression, etc. A lot of the issues within India as it concerns the likes of Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc., are internally manufactured...and the main culprits are the largest political parties themselves. [1]

India does have constant threats from Pakistan and China, but censorship within the country is not going to help tackle those.

[1]: http://time.com/5512032/whatsapp-india-election-2019/
>The cross-posting and multiple accounts strategy is rampant on IG

It's the same on YT.
"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread."

Your idea might work, if all companies didn't follow the same anti consumer rules. At some point a law becomes so favored to a business that the savings from anti consumerism dwarfs potential lost sales. Not enough people will realize they are being screwed in the first place.
This is unduly paternalistic: a story is whatever the HN community decides to pay attention to, even if that leaves out important stories or puts a spotlight on minor trivia.

> You know what would be an actual story though? If Google used Google DNS to spy on people. If anyone has concrete evidence that they're doing that, that is a big fucking deal.

I'm an optimist, but I'm also cynical enough to foresee the same complaints — it's not a story! everyone does it — if that came to pass.

Prevention is important because in real life you can almost never recoup the losses as easily. You can take it to the courts etc. but if your data leaks, it's out there, you can't undo it.
We hardcode known good DNS servers in IoT devices that we ship from work because a significant proportion of issues being reported by customers were caused by ISP resolvers doing things they shouldn't - mostly either redirecting all domains to a splash screen telling people about bandwidth quotas/other things, or not respecting the TTL returned by our resolvers, which could cause data to get directed to the wrong place for extended periods.
Adventures in Netflix
Serial art thief arrested again
I've been doing keto for 2 years. This is actually pretty cool, I found a few things I want to try. You should add ratings and track clicks and use the data to add a way to sort by popularity.
But why would you care about that? You're already connecting to Google's service, YouTube, so what does it change to use Google's DNS to resolve it? What is the circumstance where you'd care about not using Google's DNS but then connect to a Google service anyway? If Chromecasts allowed arbitrary web browsing, I would maybe see your point -- but they don't.
Economic effects don't matter during election time. The central parliament will be dissolved in about three months, and there's going to be the world's biggest democratic election in the month of May. That aside, those in power also gain from such policies.
Modern rockets can automatically change target after human fired it.

There are even anti-tank rockets you fire when you don't even see if there is a target, just suspect it. Then, when it flies over a hill and sees a target - it locks on and destroys it.

There are also bombs which spread small explosives over a large area, each of these small explosives has passive control surfaces and try to target the closest armored vehicle under them.

So that you only decide to deploy the bomb in some area, and the bombs decide which target to choose.
Could you give an example of primitive recursion that is not µ-recursion?
No mention of absolute risk?
>So this guy has 800k followers, but most pictures only get 5k likes?

Only a tiny minority of followers is active in most mediums. HN can kill a website with 100K views in a couple of hours, but you just see like 200-300 people commenting on a given post.

>I also don't get who he's trying to influence. Which millionaire is going to decide to buy a specific yacht because they saw an Instagram picture of it ?

You'd be surprised.

That's exactly how a large part of that world thinks and buys ultra-expensive stuff. They don't do "comparison reviews" and tests, or consider the pros and cons. That's for us, middle class guys, with our paychecks.

"That other rich guy/sheik has one of those" is more of an incentive than any actual need.

And that's exactly the yacht companies pay such influencers too. Because they know they reach their target market.
"I'm always shocked at how easy it is for people to fall into the "Google is evil!!1" trap on such trivial stuff"

Google's smart though. They know that rolling out unsavory ideas in small pieces keeps it under the radar.

They didn't, for example, push the organic search results under the fold all at once.

This could be innocuous, or part of some larger agenda.
The Cholesterol Controversy
Being offline during a 2h train ride showed me how much I depend on the Internet
Is this a proposed ban on AAMs, SAMs and all torpedos? Because they are all basically exploding robots with advanced tactical systems to bypass defenses and autonomous systems that track their targets and control their rotation.
Really shows the relative costs between extremely high end cars and extremely high end jets/yachts.
Some enterprising developer could use images from Tinder (or better) OkCupid tagged with data coming from the individuals profile data, then interpolate based on abstract factors such as risk taking, gender bias etc. Well... you get the picture.

I think this is a very dangerous game we are playing here but I guess it is going to be done.
You should see what kind of money the insurance execs blow on toys.
Interesting, in my experience we've never had major issues with our service mesh or internal networking. It definitely introduces a lot more complexities. I suppose we've always had a dedicated devops team so I'm probably unaware of a lot of these issues.

I'd be interested in some resources around this topic if you know of any.
Which millionaire is going to decide to buy a specific yacht because they saw an Instagram picture of it?

Depends how many times, I guess. If you keep seeing something you like the look of, you're going to at least be curious. I've certainly bought sneakers and other fashion items solely from seeing pictures of them and as a %age of my disposable income that probably works out similarly to someone rich buying a yacht.
Reality check: Can cat poop cause mental illness?
> The difference is that with rockets, a human still has to decide on the target and what to destroy. A human makes the decision to kill.

That wasn't true even before rockets. Mines are one example of a weapon where the decision to kill isn't made by a human, but by the device (even if the decision tree was as simple as "if weight>threshold: kill").
Direct-write quantum calligraphy in monolayer semiconductors
Radical Candor: An Experience Report
Epicycles have decent predictive power as a description of planetary motion. They're just needlessly complicated.
Dubai airport forced to halt departures due to drone sightings
IIRC Meraki used to ping 8.8.8.8 as a connectivity check...
That is true of any URL, the user can decide to use it in ways you don't want. But that is also an intrinsic feature of the web. The best approach is to give users flexibility, but accept that websites may overide that behaviour.
Somehow I get down voted for sharing this simple thought. As we participate the same reality you need to admit time travelling is a must have of a pop science magazines. But this sentence makes it all nonsense - as there's no proof for time existing. Time is a useful abstraction for calculating physical models, making forecasts. As we have other useful abstractions in math or programming - it doesn't make them existing in real world.

So to disagree it's enough to proof time existence or link to such proof.
I totally agree with your point and have raised this issue before (but not here). Most people prefer to bury their heads in the sand rather than confront these uncomfortable and complicated dilemmas.

I believe the scientists in question would not be calling for this kind of ban if their sons and daughters were sent into battle against nations equipped with such weapons - in fact, they would be cooperating to develop this very technology if it meant protecting their loved ones.

It's easy to be an idealist, until you've truly got something to lose. I think a lot of people need to be reminded of this.
I like the suggestion but I think I understand why it's not there. Given that RL applied to robotics is a research area with quite a lot of knowledge prerequisites that are not covered in classical control, I think that a single chapter would not be enough to be of practical use. There should be a mention of RL for sure (I'm not sure if there is one), but it seems reasonable to consider that proper coverage would bring too much extra scope.
The scientific approach is the gold standard for validating knowledge. An individual makes observations, formulates a hypothesis, and experimentally tests the hypothesis with controls. I believe the reason why science is so important to humans as a species is because it allows individuals to overcome their own mental and psychological biases about how they believe the universe should work.

Now consider this quote from the article: "Psychologists have found that people working in larger groups tend to ... become less receptive to ideas from outside."

When humans work together in large groups, new problems arise. I think new frameworks are needed to set the gold-standard for how humans interact in groups to prevent group biases and group think from strangling innovation and new ideas.
Also, you're going to assume a $200k+ car is good. It's not like taking a risk on a $10k car on a lot where you know there's going to be a compromise.. at least one of the engine, steering, bodywork, or economy are going to be bad. With a $200k car, you sorta know what you're buying.
Other IOT manufacturers who hardcode the DNS into devices do not own the DNS servers, do they ?
Delphi does compile to Linux. With the FMXLinux third party add on the Delphi FireMonkey framework compiles apps to iOS/Android/Windows/macOS32/Linux with a single UI and single codebase.
Not just Google - when you cast you handoff a URL to the CC to stream from - this could be from Netflix, or anywhere really. 8.8.8.8 as a brute-force backup I can understand, but by default it should be taking the network DHCP settings.
Biological sex shapes tumour evolution across cancer types
Gourmeon Developing Robot for Chipotle-Style Restaurants
Irrespective of motivations/agenda, we can look at the current state of the consumer-facing Internet (the trend continues): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16421072
US, that country that has blessed the rest of the world with cybersecurity.
It is not shitty ISPs giving fake results.

It is me. My resolver does that and it is for a reason. Disrespecting what the local network tells you to use just leads to arms race.
Making a Comp-Spec BHOP Server for Debian GNU/Linux
How to build a Node.js server that scales
Writing backend logic for any project these days is pretty easy, thanks to full stack JavaScript. This is especially so with the introduction of dozens of frameworks for both client side and server side implementation...

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/writing-scalable-architecture-for-node-js-2b58e0523d7f
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vixie
If someone want to convince me that climate change is the biggest threat to humanity they need to explain to me what scientifically demonstrated consequences of climate change are we currently not able to deal with and won't we be able to deal with 50-100 year from now.

Climate change will happen whether we emit CO2 or not and we always have to find ways to co-exist with that fact.

But the idea that climate change is catastrophic to the extent a sudden impact from an astroid is just not convincing and it's certainly not scientific no matter how many scientist are behind that view.

"threat to humanity" is a big concept and it's disheartening to see it being thrown around with regards to climate so easily.

My position on this is that we start taking care of our close environments rather than worrying about climate change as that's not something we can really do anything about (and no solar and wind will not solve our problems)

The current debate about climate change is politics masquaraded as science.

Until we accept this we can't have a constructive debate.
There are "high end cars" that cost as much as 2-3 average yachts -- if we get into antique collection cars.

A 1959 Ferrari for example was sold for $18 million.
State of remote work in 2019
New York’s Ejection of Amazon Is the Start of a Movement
How the body and mind talk to one another to understand the world
This is usually called salami slicing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salami_slicing See also the boiling frog fable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com utilise l'IA pour générer des faux visages
“This guy’s arrogance takes your breath away” – Jiahao Chen
Chinese companies are much more likely than Western companies to be forced by the government to do something that may not be aligned with their business interests. It's just easier for the government to get away with it, and they have the incentive.
Also annoyingly biological weaponry requires specimens to create countermeasures like vaccines and antibodies. Even smallpox we have kept on ice and are debating if it should be incinerated to reduce the relatively minuscule escape chance or kept on ice in case we need to make more vaccines.

Hypothetically being able to digitize and compile it would allow incineration of every bioweapon but it comes with its own dilemma. The one advantage is that if it comes out of bits and into pathogens it was definitely deliberate. The disadvantage of course is that it can be printed with the right equipment.
If you think this is overly complex, I should show you how some real websites are run. Netflix has over 1000 microservices. I think AirBnB is up there too.

When I look at this I think, "Man what a cute little architecture, but at least it shows some of the basics of a large scale website".
That's for the poor. Billionaires don't care about the "rest of the year" maintenance costs.
Why the Rural Opioid Crisis Is Different from the Urban One
Syntax is inconsistent as described in the stack overflow link's second answer.

Input output like scanf and printf functions are annoying and don't work on what they are asked.

Too many gotchas and not for better - like understand how the underlying system works but some side effect by merely the design of language.

Including above points, my hope is that playing with pointers in a language I want should be easier and intuitive than using in C.

Could you please help? Pascal is just as much confusing when using pointers?
Advertise they need houses and cars that say "Welcome Mr. (Billionaire)" as they enter.

Use terms like "machine learning" and "AI", maybe "blockchain" if you really need to seal the deal.

"Who's more impressed? Your friends when they enter just another mansion, or your friends when they enter the only mansion that addresses its owner by name?"
India has never been a country with a good amount of freedom of expression. This censorship and (as usual) vaguely defined laws and policies will slowly kill democracy. Organizations like Internet Freedom Foundation [1], SFLC (Software Freedom Law Centre) [2] and others are fighting against these policies from a legal standpoint as well, but the courts are very, very slow (as I've mentioned in the past here) and don't take cognizance of grave matters like this in a timely manner.

Anyone here who's an Indian citizen and is living in India — please donate to the Internet Freedom Foundation [1], which recently started a membership program for funds and SFLC (Software Freedom Law Centre, whose site seems to be down at this moment) [2]. Others, please do not send money in any form since these organizations are not legally allowed to get foreign money! Instead, encourage your friends and acquaintances in India to donate.

Disclaimer: I'm not associated with these organizations in any way.

[1]: https://internetfreedom.in/

[2]: https://sflc.in/
This article mentions that Bezos owns the Washington Post but fails to point out that the proposed NY headquarters was to be built with a $3 billion subsidy from public money.

Could it be that was the real reason for the public's outrage?
We already know that renewables can handle the entire grid. There are plenty of papers out there exploring this matter.

What we don't know yet is exactly what particular technologies we're going to end up with, especially for the last few percentage points. Probably a mix depending on location.

The reason for we don't know it is that wind and solar costs have been falling exponentially for many years now, while short-term storage is only now heating up and long-term storage not yet really started (well, except hydro).

We know tech that can be used, we know an upper bound on the cost (not prohibitively expensive), but anyone trying to look 10-20 years out in such a rapidly developing cut-throat market are basically just guessing.

10 years ago I was thinking we'd probably have to pay somewhat more for energy, perhaps up to 50%-100%. But in 2014 the Danish energy oversight body (Energistyrelsen) did a complicated analysis that said around 5% more in Denmark. And it didn't take more than a couple of years for their projected 2030 cost of offshore wind turbines to be reached by the market, more than a decade before anticipated.

So I'm beginning to think energy is probably going to be cheaper, perhaps a lot cheaper.
As many have noted in American English this distinguishes from a state (as in the United States).

Additionally "nation" can refer to the collective people rather than a centralized government in action.
There better be a big payday if I’m spending all my 20s in school and then 100 weeks in residency a few years and then finally in my 30s I start making money, but I still have to deal with the general public, and they’re sick.
It makes sense actually, the pictures pretty much tell the story. A yacht buyer isn't going to go take one for a test drive, that's what the captain does. Nor is the buyer going to test out the galley because that is what the crew does. A yacht buyer is interested in aesthetics and luxury and pictures convey that fine.
Honestly it's Extremists. Not only the religious kind. But every person that doesn't want a tolerant, multicultural, scientific society. Dr. Michio Kaku explains it in his Big Think video "Will human kind destroy itself." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NPC47qMJVg
So, I had to reread your middle para because I honestly thought you were heading an entirely different direction.

Do you think it should be legal for citizens to carry RPGs, machine guns, grenades, ..., so they never have to go in to a room in which someone else might have more firepower?
> And the interesting thing is that 90% of buyers for cars $200k+ don't even try them out before buying.

>The guess in the industry is that those people literally see an article or an ad for a new Lambo(or whatever) and they just buy one on an impulse.

The same thing happens on the bottom of the price spectrum too. When cars like the Focus RS and Civic Type R came out, people were gladly putting down $10k+ over MSRP (which was already around $35k) without ever leaving the lot, all for a souped up economy car. I don't think it has anything to do with having so much money that someone doesn't care, it's the auto enthusiast mindset of knowing exactly what you want.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/N/Ninety-Ninety-Rule.html