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We switched from Athena to Pub/Sub & BigQuery and ECS to GCP Kubernetes recently and our architecture became much more powerful & easy to maintain.
As the article explains, they hadn't yet modified it so it could grab a Falcon 9 Heavy center booster.
And today we're still "wiring" money to each other.
The 6700 was a university mainframe, the only one at the Uni, everything ran on it, from payroll to research. That memory purchase doubled the size of the machine's memory. Memory cycle time was 1uS ... That's read time, core reads are destructive, and you have to write the data you read back, writes were faster ... Read-modify-write cycle could be done in the same time as a read
> I get what you are saying, but it seems like the plant approach is mostly useless to humans

Yes, and as humans are to plants, so our space faring descendents will be to us.
I believe the current design doesn't work with the center core because it has a modified octaweb to connect to the two side cores.
So Challenger had a 'just so' story involving o-rings and Columbia has a 'just so' story involving powerpoint?

Or space travel is hard and people will die?
I grew up similarly. I've seen program after program come into my home town just for the administrators to pack up and leave town 1-2 years in, blaming everyone but themselves. It's very refreshing to see someone who "wants to make the world better" actually doing it rather than paying lip service with the real goal of boosting their ego.

Hope this is legit. Tip my hat to LeBron for being a real hero to the underserved.
In even succint-er Levine-y terms: its not about fairness, it's about theft.
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Dark Pools is an excellent alternative, on a slightly different topic, although similar material is covered.
Well, without spoiling anything in particular, let me just say this. Do you feel it was a happy ending? If so, it is probably not the director's cut.
I'm 37.

I remember when I was 8, 10, 14. In the late 80's and early 90's. In the evening and night, bugs were everywhere if you drove. They were thick, like a fog all to its own. You needed windshield wiper fluid at minimum, and you'd have a hood-bug-stopper.

These days, I drive and drive and drive. And what do I not see? I don't see the clouds of bugs everywhere. I rarely have to use windshield wiper fluid - the majority was for bugs that just aren't there now.

I'm already feeling the life changes of climate change, and I'm in Indiana. It's no sealevel change, but its the very life; the bugs, the birds, the mammals, and plants that grow. I'm sure farmers feel it more, but given politics, it seems the farmers are against the idea of climate change - as it's some sort of democrat talking point... But we can just add more fertilizer.
Every public debate I have ever seen Dershowitz engage in (maybe 6 or 7 over the years) was profoundly disingenuous. Some of it I would characterize as blatant lying. Above and beyond that, he is consistently extremely rude to his interlocutors.

The man pretends to be an intellectual, but makes a mockery of it. It’s really a shame that Harvard continues to lend him its institutional credibility, and that other respected institutions invite him to comment about anything ever.

(I have no insight about the Epstein stuff; I’m just talking about his past public debates about a variety of legal and political topics.)
There is a concept of a federated timeline, which does get synced to your local instance. If you follow someone on a remote instance, that instance feeds content into your instance so it can be loaded.
Please just stop. Even your attempt at mitigation through edit is wrong, and it would have been trivial for you to correct your misapprehension. There are an estimated 10 million Catholics in California compared to between 27-58 million in France. Besides, the value of the place as a cultural institution visited by 13m+ a year just to see it isn’t something you should dismiss along with its centuries of cultural significance just because it offends your religious sensibilities.

It’s also a miserable stance to take while the place is still literally on fire.
The app saved 7 billion from watching crap-quality whiteboard and traditional docs, and we're still reading about the 7 triggered ones.
I have lots of allergies, and two or three very mild food allergies, and terrible teeth. My mother is the same way. The rest of the family have few allergies and excellent teeth, even without brushing.
I feel like I would have used a video file and basically make the dragging move the time scrubber.

I'm pretty sure the video file would be smaller than all the individual images, and only required 1 network request.
Did the allegations about "never get into an elevator alone with Terry Gilliam" ever go anywhere?
Very dramatic graphs.

I wonder when programming languages will start factoring out the ability to check system timers. Some capability-aware languages have already done so.
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Sadly, employees are just another resource ( human resource ) in the modern world.
Sorry I'm dense but what is the 6 month contract wink wink nudge nudge?
See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19662852
Also don't forget "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", another controversial classic directed by Terry.
> In terms of costs, I suspect integrating those structures is likely to be more expensive than rebuilding from scratch.

Respectfully, you have no idea what you are talking about. Nobody in Europe would consider tearing down the remaining structures and rebuilding from scratch because it's cheaper.
This is a rehash of the claim Edward Tufte.made about the Challenger crash, and it is doing the same thing: take something that was, at most, one of the many contributing factors (but the one of most interest to the person making the claim) and exaggerate its significance out of all proportion. It is not a helpful way to present data if the goal is to understand what went wrong in the hope of avoiding making the same mistake in future.
As an aside, I always recommend Pulitzer Prize winning “Soul of a New Machine” by Kidder to technical audiences. It’s a great read with some cool history too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine
There's no such thing, just stricter requirements for how you treat children. There are absolutely still requirements for how you treat adults.
I have a tough time believing this.

1. You're telling me you had a vehicle up on a lift, by its wheels, and there was no chuck or gates to stop the vehicle from rolling?

2. I'm assuming you're saying the customer used "Summon" to remotely move the car.
a. Summon will immediately stop the car if it detects even the slightest bump.
b. Summon will immediately stop the car if it detects the wheels are off the ground, which is relevant because:
c. Summon moves the vehicle at like 3mph, so even if the vehicle was AWD, since most of the weight (which is distributed throughout the vehicle) is still over the lift, there is definately not enough momentum to push it off the lift.
d. I am fairly doubtful the auto insurance would not cover this, especially if the guy had comprehensive insurance.
I'm not saying it is perfect, but it could quickly be made ready to be as simple as Blogger is today.
12% drop of Bitcoin trading volume on LocalBitcoins after Apr.1 price jump. Why?
Your post reads like one of those classic "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" slogans. Sure, but guns make it a whole lot easier. No one is innocent here - there's plenty of blame to go around.

One of the key skills in being a senior engineer, is knowing how to communicate clearly with managers and decision-makers who don't have the same level of technical knowledge that you do. Communication is an extremely imperfect and lossy medium - figuring out how to get the most salient message across clearly, is a hard-to-master but vital skill. This article shows exactly why.
The OP commenter said that the cache would have to contain retry logic, which in your sceanrio would trigger and then initiate a new connection object.
> Also, in 1985 the stock villains weren't terrorists, they were Russians.

They still are.
Trying to hide the blog post from being search indexed really speaks to the culture there. They seem like they would much prefer this issue to go away instead of actually dealing with it, or supporting the victims.
We’re asking Apple to change the advertising ID for each iPhone every month
Cryptocurrency will never achieve any meaningful status without regulation. We have anti money laundering and other financial laws for a reason.
General relativity, quantum computing, some parts of thermodynamics/information theory/statistical physics, some parts of quantum field theory, some parts of condensed matter physics are all things that started as purely mathematical statements. I am not trying to diminish the monumental importance of empirical measurements, but please do not diminish the importance of logical consistency and mathematical constraints. We can say a lot about our universe with great certainty even though in same cases making direct measurements is orders of magnitude beyond our technology.
How to get articles that I've written on other sites to rank in search engines?
I've read many articles on how to rank a post but these are all geared towards articles that you post on your website. How can I rank articles that I've written on other websites high in the search engines?
School is not supposed to be funded by philanthropy in America.
Email is de-facto centralized at this point, with the overwhelming majority of email going through a small handful of giant providers. I don't remember the number anymore but some scary-high percentage of all email volume goes through Google servers.
It syncs the people you follow, right? So presumably the only additional content on your instance is content from the people you follow, which should generally be low-risk.
Thank you. A great way to address the sentiment.
Yeesh, that is really terrible, I'm sorry to hear that. I understand your reasons, but in signal's defense it is a free service, which is pretty amazing considering the number of users they are able to support. I suppose reliability is a trade-off, but it would be nice if they offered a paid tier with better performance.
This is why we need to pass the Rust New Deal.
Anyone who is a serious participant in the crypto markets knows they are nothing but a pure Wild West free for all. That is, like all other markets except without the pretense of regulations that purportedly protect the little guy. (But usually achieve the opposite.)
Why even bother allowing unverified purchase reviews?
I received an email at least once a month, to an address I used exclusively for Amazon purchases, inviting me to join a website that will reimburse me via PayPal if I purchase products and review them.

I have forwarded the emails to Amazon a couple times explaining that my email address is used exclusively for them making it easier to narrow down who might be sending these emails. They always respond with a warning that my account might be suspended if I partake in such sites.
FWIW, I have a copy of Harris' book on my desk right now and every explicit citation of Harris in Khan & Lu's paper appears to be accurate--supported by the text in Harris (Chapter 11).

edit:
> But that's basically the fundamental challenge of shopping a large block; it implies that essentially all of institutional trading is "about" frontrunning. That can't be right.

That doesn't make the Khan & Lu definition wrong, just that there is a lot of "front running" that occurs. Larry Harris even explicitly mentions this point:

"When large traders recognize that they cannot trade as well as a professional trader can, they commonly hire a professional to help them trade. They may hire a block broker to act as their agent, or they may ask a block dealer to facilitate their trades. Block dealers who facilitate their customers' trade trade their blocks at uniform prices. The dealers then try to profit by trading the block in the market at a better average price. In a sense, block traders are front runners whom large traders hire to help them solve their trading problems"

This is related to the idea of sunshine trader discussed earlier in the chapter before that blockquote.
'literally cost thousands of lives' < How so?
Certainly not. The fact that plain txt would have been better than this, was meant to convey how poorly the format worked for the intended purpose (highlighting the most important information).

I wasn't saying a plain txt file was a solution; I was saying that even plain txt, a very low-power format, would have been better than this, and since the ONLY PURPOSE of a PPT is to help you format things, this was a failure. Certainly no format will solve lack of communication, but I see better communication in Hacker News comments than I see in PowerPoints, and I think that says something about the value of PowerPoint.
All good points. It's not simple or mechanical, and it's often erroneous, but the realm of science is still the realm of that which can be observed and measured, and refuted or confirmed by observation and measurement. Trying to figure out how to do that is what makes it science.

It's possible the Uncertainty Principle is wrong. One can come up with theories that it is wrong. And what sorts of observations might hypothetically observe or refute them. As far as I know, there is no serious science doubting HUP at present. (Which doesn't prove it's right, it's just the current state of things).

But simply speculating about what things might exist that current scientific understanding says scientific laws would prevent us from observing or measuring or seeing any effects of whatsoever -- is still not science. It's not that you can't have a scientific theory which current measurements seem to refute and still press for it (your Dalton's law example). It's that you can't have a scientific theory with no even theoretical way to refute or confirm it by observation. That's not a scientific theory.
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We are planning to add the feature which takes a video (even from your mobile phone) and creates an asset of images of the product. In this case, using high-quality images helps for product detailing as you can also zoom in.
GR was amazing, but it wasn’t well known and accepted until the first measurements confirmed it. Quantum Computing is still very much up in the air, but it’s also weird to bring it up in this context, because QM is one of the most tested theories of all time. QED In particular is tested to the most decimal places of any prediction, ever. It’s also weird to act as though GR and QM started out in a vacuum, instead of what they really were, which was based on centuries of math, theory, and experiment.

Edit: Unrelated, but I see you’re a fellow Greg Egan fan, good to meet you! Planck Dive has to be one of my all time favorites.
It's a 6 month engagement that renews in perpetuity. Mainly as a way to avoid having employer obligations.
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I once had a neighbor whose house burned. From the outside it definitely looked like the fire crews were taking their time arriving, setting up camp, preparing, aiming, etc. But maybe acting intelligently isn't always the same as acting quickly.
If someone hacks your HN account they could redirect the Twitter link elsewhere. If the only 2 accounts you have are HN and Twitter then Keybase doesn't solve that problem, but if you have more accounts elsewhere that are well-known, those extra accounts then prove that the HN<->Twitter connection is valid.
Hmm, logger bot could potentially detect pastebin links and fetch the content and store it along with the log in some link->content map.
No, and that's the point. How would you feel if I publicly told you to do some basic function of your job?
Programming is still a very complex craft and requires sensible people with reasonable skill levels to implement reliable systems. This seems to be totally ignored by most non-tech American companies who treat Software much the same way as, say, buying a phone service. There are a lot of American businesses that are suffering because of this and its sad but I'm not sure how they can be convinced that having good programmers who are compensated reasonably well is such an important thing to have.

Maybe I'm saying this from the perspective of a programmer and not a business owner, IDK. Cloud stuff seems promising: a nice way to deliver turnkey solutions instead of custom crap that needs an outsourced body shop to maintain.
From what I have tried, VS Code doesn't allow access to the DOM or give much of an API to modify the visual layer. This makes it very difficult to draw visualizations on top of the editor. It also does not allow plugins to go beyond the standard tab-document metaphor.

For example, students of mine tried to re-implement Patchworks [1] as a VS Code plugin. Didn't seem feasible. They have been very successful in building it in Atom though. As another example, I tried to make a tool that displays a call graph visualization on top of the editor [2]. But again, this was easy in Atom but I couldn't figure it out in VS Code.

Please point me to any documentation or examples of how to implement features like those.

[1] https://youtu.be/GwcxDZT3pXE

[2] http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/pubs/Henley2018bDissertation.pd... Figure 36
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That seems like a pretty good result for 30% in additional funding.

According to wikipedia, the federal gov't only provides 8% (or maybe 10%, I saw some different numbers) of the total budget for primary education at the moment...

Total spending (federal+state+local) is apparently around $620B so an additional ~30% kick from the federal government would add $180B for a total of around $800B. Is that worth it?

The military budget is about $600B just by itself so a 30% cut there would pay for it.

Seeing how much work goes into fund raising vs actual teaching at local schools this really seems like a mis-allocation of teacher priorities that could be fixed with some slightly different spending priorities.

These are all pretty big numbers of course but not out of the realm of possibility.
There is an important point you are not addressing: it is one thing to make a statement about one single mathematical construct (it is cute, but not a big deal). It is another thing to make a statement that constrains a whole family of seemingly disconnected mathematical constructs (this is now a serious constrain on what the laws of the universe can plausibly be).

From a sibling comment:

> There are some results around QG, such as holography, which seem to be universal. That is, they make sense with strings, loop quantum gravity or any of about ten other lines of work that people can do quantum gravity calculations with today.

> If you can prove that all of those have to say the same thing, that is a powerful result and probably means something about our world.
News at 11.

Seriously? Go hang out at Amazon for a hot second. You'll see:

1. Fraudulent products
2. Fake products
3. Ripoff obvious clones
4. Fake stores
5. Fake reviews (5 star AND good 1 star like the bot got mixed up)
6. Bad of the above mixed in the supply of the "good" legit products
7. Amazon Piss bottles (0)

Amazon is now, what Walmart was 10 years ago - a scourge and a horror to work at for any length of time. It's no surprise that a company that was to sell off even more underlying ethics would be walmart at their own game.(1) In that, Walmart only has the upper hand because of local stores...

(0) https://nypost.com/2018/04/16/amazon-warehouse-workers-pee-i...

(1) https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
> I really like the idea of crypto being the wild west.

Some people liked the idea of the wild west being the wild west. But it turned out that a lawless frontier favored a few people over a lot of others, and just because something is beneficial to you doesn't mean it's equally beneficial to others, or to society at large.
My issue with Amazon reviews is the ease that sellers are able to change the product and keep the reviews. I recently tried to buy a decent pair of USB C headphones. The top two recommended products both had 5 starts with hundreds of verified reviews... for a dvd copy of a classic movie. I've decided I just can't trust Amazon reviews anymore.
I want to see it but at the same time I don't. Gilliam's Don Quixote had long surged to the pinnacle of "the best picture never made", the clearest manifestation of the genius-destroying hardships of moviemaking. It had become the embodiment of an aristotelian category.

Now it's just another film. Like Duke Nukem Forever, its release has inevitably declassed it.
Have some mercy here cause now I'm in the weird position of having to not just interpret but argue the OP's point.

I think the OP's point is that these exposes are a kind of release that allows those who would otherwise agitate for change do nothing because they get a sense of justice merely from reading such a piece. So the OP is expressing a sort of smug disdain for 'The New Yorker' here because they are complicit in easing the America conscience.

I personally do not believe this. I think this kind of breaks down because this creates a weird damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. If the media does publish expose journalism then their creating catharsis that aids American human rights violations. If they don't report these things then citizens don't know there's anything to protest or attempt to change.

Perhaps the OP is just generally fatalistic, I don't know.
All these sorts of schemes are doomed to fail for the very simple reason that corporations are more agile than the law making process.

Here's an easy plan to end tax avoidance:

1. Any company that sells more than $X/year to people living in the US needs to be registered in the US.

2. Flat tax with no exemptions (all corporations would be taxed like C-corps).

3. No more rules.

A plan that won't work is one that adds even more rules on top of the the enormous mound of rules currently in place.
Just because you don't understand the jargon does not make it incorrect/unclear, have you ever worked at NASA?
> Not firing or disciplining these managers will cause similar disasters in future.

I think the quote is something like "Why would I fire them, we just lost X lives and dollars training them?"
fwiw, after reading this post, i searched "boop snoots" (with quotes) on both duckduckgo and google, and came up with nothing disturbing in the first page of results for either search. nothing that even indicated a connection to furry subculture, far as i could tell.

maybe other variations on that search come up with much more risque results?
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I think you forgot the quotes around "heating engineer".
If there was fire suppression in the building, it likely didn't cover the construction scaffolding, and once that got burning, it was certainly hot enough to overwhelm any sprinklers.

There are four major phases in the life of a fire, incipient, growth, fully developed, and decay. Sprinklers are designed to keep a fire from progressing from incipient to growth. Once it makes that transition, the battle is lost.
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But the definition of "cyberwarfare" is unclear.

If Russia declared war on the US, and attacked US companies, it's pretty clear this is cyberwarfare.

If Anonymous DDoS's your website of some vendetta, because they declared "war" on your company, is that cyberwarfare? Does a declaration of war by a non-nation-state count as cyberwarfare?

If North Korea compromised your servers to mine Bitcoin, is that cyberwarfare? Does any action by a nation-state count as cyberwarfare?
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