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As a non-American, can someone explain to me why the army was responsible for this work? When does the normal tender/contractor process not occur? Is it a scale or political decision?
I emailed the mods several hours ago. Respones are typically (though not always) within that timeframe.

At this writing, the post itself remains flagged.
I only know of one flip phone sold in the U.S with KaiOS. I had one. It was a terrible flip phone. And I know flip phones. Like, the flip phone of 10 years ago did not give you a delay every time you pressed a button. The KaiOS one did. It also did not have installable 'apps' as was the original promise of KaiOS. It's UX was generally very confusing (yes, flip phones have a UX; you notice especially when it's a bad one).

I don't know if it's doing better in non-US markets. But I don't think so; someone else _did_ take the Firefox OS source code which of course had an open source license, and adopt it and rebrand it as KaiOS. I am not sure what their aspirations for it are. Currently, I do not think it is the promise of what people hoped FirefoxOS would be (and may or may not ever have been).
There is proper technology for places below sea level. We should learn from the Netherlands - they're masters of reclaiming land from the ocean.
If you are going to do this, why don't you just do actual public key crypto and never send an actual password? Just do mtls.
> Emily Vuxton, policy director of the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, an environmental group ... said repair costs could be “hundreds of millions” of dollars, with 75% paid by federal taxpayers.
“I think this work is necessary. We have to protect the population of New Orleans,” Vuxton said.

Summed up as: “I think our unsustainable way of life should be subsidized by the rest of the country at a 3:1 rate”.

I enjoy NOLA, but how are we going to deal with this at any kind of scale?
I would get lunch with these guys:

https://www.audiblemagic.com/

These sketch balls can use your phone's mic to detect what is streaming in a living room.
Can someone tell me what would happen if you plug this onto a USB charger via an adaptor that is plugged to 220V AC?
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I'm not an expert, but intuitively, I'd think that sea level rise would contribute to ground subsidence.
unifying ARC with the OS block cache is huge for performance, i hope this feature is adopted by other ZFS implementations
This was the approach of the ZTE Axon M. I think it was a good way to do it as well.
Blatant racism and sexism can hardly be classified as 'fun intellectual exercises' but then we all like our euphemisms when things are not biased against us.

Perhaps this is what privilege is, the privilege to be nonchalant of a world always somehow acting in our interests and against others interests and when discovered make light of any findings.
And like Miami, NYC etc. in the coming years.
Hundreds of millions of dollars is barely a blip on the federal government's budget.

Federal dollars subsidize all kinds of local and regional infrastructure.
So far at least, working great with no issues. In the case of the xps, I reinstalled from scratch instead of upgrading.

Apparently things often use 16% less battery now too based on some benchmarks I read. Its been about 3.5 hours I guess and I've went through half my battery wile downloading packages and browsing, and haven't set up powertop or tlp yet.

Its a lot snappier than before. I know that before I had an issue with resume from suspend where the machine was just slow on waking, haven't used it enough to tell if its still happening though.

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This is awesome.
"Elegant" does't mean "right" either.

But with elegant code it is often easier to tell if it's not right, and also how to get it right if it's not. Often that requires making it less elegant, because the real world rarely poses elegant problems. You want to ensure that as much as possible of the necessary inelegance is at the top level, with everything below clean.
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Wow, I have been in this exact situation as an intern
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What else could be funded with hundreds of millions of dollars? Opportunity cost.
Wasteful spending is wasteful spending. Buy the land, condemn it, and call it a day.
The key to my comment was the last clause “at any kind of scale”.

If the community living there can’t support the costs of environmental maintenance, at a certain point it becomes like a superfund site: people will need to move to higher ground. In NOLA, in Houston, in Miami and beyond.
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Apple’s aborted port had this, but it was the source of a lot of bugs and instability. Probably could have been made stable with enough time and effort though.
Also activists / journos in some countries. I know we have looked at various emergency destruction techniques over the years.
There is obviously a large gray area between coercive and completely consensual when it comes to employment. Even 40 hour a week employment in the western world isn't completely without coercion in every case--only if the person has other alternatives.

>This implies that poor people across the world can't consent to anything.

In many situations they can't. When the power differential between 2 people is too great, there can be no consent. If the president asks an intern to sleep with him and he tells her she is free to walk away with no repercussion, there's still an element of coercion to the proposal.

>To me, as long as you can freely walk away from something, you are there by consent. No other definition makes logical sense.

How far does this belief go? If you come across a dying man in the desert and offer to sell him water in exchange for everything he owns, I'd say that's obviously not a consensual agreement. Despite the fact that he can freely walk away from it.
There is not, as it would have to go through medical device approval.
We spend tens-of-billions of dollars each year putting satellites in space. About $6B just putting fuel into LEO to lift things to GEO, so delivering fuel to LEO is a good starting point and I think we can eventually consider doing a suborbital rendezvous with a rocketship already fueled from lunar sources. Lunar gravity is low and there is no atmosphere so it is likely that in the long run the majority of material used in space will come off the moon or asteroids. A coil-gun would only need to reach 2km/s to get to an L1 transfer station to process materials into satellites.

Seems like we should achieve ISRU with robots before we waste a lot of money to send people.
It doesn't have to be a surprising economic argument. People like football. They're obsessed with it. Of course they have it at their schools.
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It seems like a lot of bots or sleeper accounts have been activated recently.
Can't find any sources that Gmail does this, though I do use the UglyEmail extension: https://uglyemail.com/
I wonder what drug prices are like on the first and second. And robberies of homeless people. And robberies of everyone else towards the end of the month.

Would at least make better sense to direct-pay rent for housing to the landlord and then stagger the remaining cash for everything else on a weekly basis on a different day of the week.
TV-B-Gone has many practical uses, especially in public places where TV is foisted upon the general public
For someone out of the loop what is the relation of OpenJDK 10 vs OpenJDK 11 being available in relation to Oracle JDK 8?
Two: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
There's a short one here: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
> I'd argue enough restrooms are provided when the number is population appropriate and within a one block distance.

the part of this discussion that i have taken part in has been around portland, where blocks are very small, but as noted before even where there are restrooms at more than one per block, there was pooping on the building instead of entering the building - so i'm not sure what would be a "proper" number of bathrooms at that point. at some point, you need to start looking at what other problems can be and look at other ways to solve the problem.

and no, i don't have that solution.
This is working well with nixOS: have a stable channel for the system and the unstable channel for the user.
Y'all questioning whether it's worth saving should stay in New Orleans for a month. There is so much joy there, such a rich culture and long history that we all stand to lose.
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The post feels good because it is mostly just smoke and mirrors. They’re talking about a lot of problems and offering no products or solutions.
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>I struggle to see how such a case could be prosecuted without eyewitness testimony?

Maybe it shouldn't be then. Just because a crime happened doesn't mean someone has to be punished for it irrespective of their actual guilt.
As far as actual ports of the NES code go, I think there was one back in the day on the TG16/PCE, there was one a few years back for the Genesis/MD, and this. I also want to say I think someone ported it to the SNES?
Coastal cities will only be saved if lots and lots of money is spent on them. New York City will almost certainly survive for the foreseeable future (they've already got sea wall plans...). New Orleans, highly vulnerable and lacking money, will not survive.
This is very old (2012) and may be out of date at this point.

Per the GNOME docs [1] it sounds like there still isn't much documentation for the GNOME Shell Javascript code.

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/Development
It's designed to prove a point.

To prove that USB devices can be malicious.

It's probably most useful as an education tool, training staff not to plug random USB devices they find lying around the parking lot into their computers.
There is more than enough blame to go around. E.g., Congress, for the last N decades, failing to fund FAA at levels clearly needed.
I find that engineering vs management is not a very useful discussion point. Management is composed of engineers too and engineers are responsible for the output of their work. Production of something that doesn't work is an engineering failure.

It's depressing that everyone went along with this. Clearly there's a lack of impartial checks and balances in the process.
That's insane. What state are you in?
It's so close to the original, that I think it's probably possible, especially if running on a turbo system.
The US Army Corps of Engineers is generally and historically responsible for waterway dredging and flood control. It's one of their core (peace-time) responsibilities. These are typically large projects that benefit the public good yet are rather complex and lack sufficient financial incentives for privatization. The wikipedia article [1] gives a general idea of how and when this came to be. (Canals.)

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Corps_of_...
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It is a bit odd, but the Army Corps of Engineers has historically always been responsible for a lot of maintenance of the country's rivers and waterways, dams, parts of the Great Lakes, etc. including flood control.
>how are we going to deal with this at any kind of scale?

Get the Army Corps of Engineers to hire the Dutch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_board_(Netherlands)
I've written a couple things in it, mostly little web servers that serve a questionnaire or something, more recently a Lisp and a rudimentary voice chat. I really really like it. Compared to the languages I'm coming from (C/C++ mostly, some Python & C#) the compile time checking is unparalleled. I frequently find that once I've fixed all the compile time errors the program works first time, something I've never experienced in any other imperative language. The standard library is nice too. It's still missing a couple things, for example hash functions better than SHA1 must be accessed by providing their string names to the OpenSSL module at the moment, but overall it's well designed and miles ahead of C/C++ in functionality. My main gripe is the state of Windows support, it works in the Linux subsystem but I spent three hours trying to work out how, for my voice chat program it involved:

1. Turning on something in PowerShell.

2. Installing something from the Windows store.

3. Adding a new repository to Apt.

4. Installing Crystal and all the dependencies of your application.

5. Compiling your application.

6. Installing PulseAudio for Windows.

7. Connecting PulseAudio for Windows to Linux somehow. (I gave up upon opening the guide for how to do this bit).

Hardly a process an end user can be expected to do.
Do people seriously hustle like that on the streets of SF? Like there's a special street corner people know about, and you just pull up in your car and demonstrate your financial credibility? I would think there's much more stuff happening on dating apps.
I think that’s copy on some terminals, but I think the parent is talking about paste.
Ability to pay the tuition fees.
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Unsubstantiated hearsay. How does a Master's imply you are a PhD dropout? Plenty of people go with the expectation of only Master's to begin with.

Heck, this distinction is even made when you enroll in the Master's program in Stanford CS instead of the PhD program. They are treated as different tracks that you can't move between.
> Certainly any company that might prioritize safety (as in the case of a people-carrier) or some other non financial focus may not be as attractive to investors, in some cases - particularly where human life is concerned - maybe that's ok.

This reminds me of the Takata air bag recall. If your product is a life saving device, margins should not be the highest priority.
As an American I know. These levees were built KNOWING that they sink at a mathematical formulate rate. This is FAKE NEWS. The 14 billion dollar cost is a cost rate over a decade or more, lets say 1 billion at 14 years long. This billion a year is the cost to keep adding on to the existing well made and constructed infrastructure.
NYC can probably afford to protect itself without federal funding
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The price to buy and condemn New Orleans > hundreds of millions of dollars.
What about the forest fires in the West and even places like NC? Overflowing rivers throughout the US? Tornadoes from the mid-West to the mid-Atlantic? Hurricanes? Where in the US is safe as climate change induces more frequent and more extreme weather-related disasters?
There were other differences. In those days, they were colonizing places where they could easily adapt their existing ways of life. Their technological base was small enough that the colonies could become relatively self-sufficient quickly.

None of that would apply to a colony on the Moon: surviving there would require advanced technology, and we don't know if it's even possible for humans to survive in such low gravity for an extended period. A colony would probably remain dependent on Earth to supply manufactured products, such as semiconductors. Modern society uses a vast range of products. It probably wouldn't be much more self-sufficient than the ISS, and it wouldn't survive if Earth lost interest in supporting it.
People also like running, video games or chess to name a few. Football, even with its popularity, is unique in providing an enrichment pipeline from high school to the pros that a few benifet from quite a bit.
It seems to depend how busy I am at work. If I'm in a less-busy time at work and am not doing a lot of actual progamming, I tend to come up with projects to do at home more. It's like there's a little itch that crops up; "you haven't made a thing in a while - go make a thing."
> that's why all the bong shops say it's "for tobacco use only"

Unless you're in a state that's legalized it.
Is the Netherlands sinking though?
> Swift seems somewhere in between

I would say Swift is easier to learn/use than Rust while aiming to deliver some of the same performance characteristics. At least that's the sweet spot it's shooting for on the server.

On throughput, two things:

- Reference counting only applies object references. It does not apply to value types, and Swift is very strong on the "value semantics" approach to coding. It's like a sensible incorporation of some functional programming concepts without getting dogmatic about it. I'm not sure exactly how this will work out on the server but it seems very promising from a performance and thread safety standpoint.

- Even when we consider throughput burdened by ARC, latency is probably more important of a metric than throughput for a whole lot of services. Throughput is sort of the knee-jerk metric which I feel is a holdover from desktop benchmarking days. For services at scale, p99 latency is where you get the real headaches. And that's one area where ARC is especially good.
Everything in the C64 already runs at its maximum speed, or close enough to it that it makes little difference.
We will have web based mobile deposits. But yes, mobile app would be better and we are on it.

Xero support should be live with Plaid in 2-3 weeks.
Nola is built on silt. Due to waterway controls etc., the delta isn’t getting the silt it historically received to keep erosion/subsidence at bay. Cost benefit would say keep the farming/irrigation, diversion due to economics and sacrifice a sinking delta. Not much different from Alexandria+Nile.

Nola should have taken the opportunity to move and rebuild on higher ground.
Whether people are civil or uncivil, most people don't have interesting things to say about almost anything, even if we're talking about something like concurrency. That's why those kinds articles are massively upvoted and undercommented, even though this is HN and technical things should be its forte.

But HN has gotten so big that even technical programming and math topics are too hard (harder than topics of gender and sexuality, of which people have plenty of words to say). If you feel you're the kind of person who is pursuing some inquiry with commitment, then you need to find other people who match you in energy and preparation.
Just a meta-comment, but I've noticed that for every single article posted about the 737 Max on HN, the top comments all tend to say that something in the linked article is dramatically wrong. I'm not sure what this means, but I find it interesting.
The adage "Better safe than sorry" comes to mind.

And a leak doesn't need evidence that it was accessed to be deemed a leak. They were stored in plaintext, potentially accessible by internal employees. That's enough to warrant a password reset. It's not asking for much.

One should only entrust their password to a hashing algorithm.
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What do you keep your assets in? In particular, do you follow the common wisdom of stockpiling S&P 500 ETFs?

If your employer offers stock/option compensation, do you (excercise and) sell as soon as possible? Do you avoid assets correlated with primary income (e.g., avoid employer stock or even all tech stocks)?
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In 500 years, somewhere, there will be an article like this about how people pictured space in 2019, and how off the mark they were.
Not if you defer additional infrastructure spending until the land has declined in value from water intrusion. To pay more today is a transfer to those whose land is expected to lose value in the future from sea levels rising.

It cost $100 million already (with an additional $400 million planned) just to keep the water out of Miami Beach (with another ~$3 billion in expected costs due to septic and well failures in Miami proper), some of the most valuable real estate in the country. NOLA is not Miami Beach/Miami (value-wise).

At some point, we have to stop throwing good money after bad.
Please don’t co-opt the phrase “fake news” even if you don’t believe what’s being said is an accurate portrayal — it disparages the news media by implicitly legitimizing self-serving uses of the term. Every time this phrase is used it hurts the fourth estate. The media gets things wrong sometimes, and we should hold them accountable but this isn’t how.
The Army Corp of Engineers can be viewed as the federal government's civil engineering service. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Corps_of_En... for a good description.
Getting laid is crude now? Man, I thought it was 2019, not 1950. Excuse my crude language.
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Damn.

I wonder whether all those details from so much of North America implies that Europeans visited all those places. And left their diseases. Or maybe they relied a lot on native informants. But that was also a disease pathway.

This does support the hypothesis of mass die-offs before substantive visits. As discussed in Mann’s 1491.
How much do the Feds collect in taxes from the city each year? How much more will they collect in the future because the city floods less? A few hundred million dollars to protect a major city sounds like an incredible bargain with a great ROI.
> Right, but it has the same end result.

Irrelevant. The point was that "we accidentally logged something sensitive" is something any big tech company can (and is likely to) do. Deliberately storing passwords as plaintext in the users table much less so.

> Also, I guess they don't look at their log files?

If they were temporarily logging something for a particular reason, and forgot to turn it off, there'd be no reason to.
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A solution to what? In my opinion, it’s quite convenient to have access to both. Sometimes I need to copy from a webpage but then realize I could speed up by middle click pasting a few other things, and then using ctrl-v for the first copy. I like having them separate.
It's complicated. The Army Corps of Engineers has had a civilian mandate to support flood control prevention since 1917 [1]. Beyond that, they are also involved in large public works projects such as the building of roads and bridges, and Superfund clean-up sites. On top of this, they regularly receive large pork barrel grants from Congress that can siphon money into a senator's state or a congressperson's district. They do have a large contracting arm and are actually pretty well-regarded for their comprehensive procurement and management process for these large public works projects.

So it's scale, politics, and history/momentum at this point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_Corps_of_Engineers_c...
fighting the ocean is a bad idea. just build up like in venice. old tech, old approach, WORKS.just build one extra floor on each building every 50 years and plan for sinkage.
Plenty of competitive physical activities don’t involve routine hits to the head...
New Orleans is sinking at a rate of up to 2 inches per year:

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6513
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There are many great resources to reference here:

https://www.science.wiki/search?keyword=audio+processing
Quite possibly nothing. A USB charger following the USB Battery Charging Specification has a resistor < 200Ω across D+ and D-. Just putting -200 V on D- and doing nothing to D+, there's not a completed circuit. If the charger uses the data lines for anything (e.g. Apple devices), perhaps it'd burn out whatever microcontroller is running things in the charger.