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Prediction of the future triggered by the Starlink launch:

* Starlink launches; many cheer the achievement!

* Over the next few years, critical mass is reached with the numbers of LEO satellites present...the world rejoices in more ubiquitous broadband internet availability (at better costs than the current monopolistic ISPs).

* Moving beyond the next few years, too many satellites get launched, go through their demise phase, and vaporize into dust...creating a thin layer of dust over the entire world...causing issues for crops and plants worldwide. Solar cell devices also struggle to produce enough electricity.

* Nations of the world dismiss fears, ignoring the problem. Society continues to be enchanted by social media and celebrities. The first set of celebrities ride a Blue Origin spacecraft into space/orbit...The U.S. NIH and other federal R&D organizations reallocate advanced cancer (and other medical) research funds towards designing more comfortable space crafts to help more celebrities "make it into space".

* More Starlink satellites continue to get launched, exacerbating the dust layer issue, and significantly impacting worldwide crops' and plants' ability to photosynthesize efficiently. More people are suffering famine. In parallel, an AI achieves consciousness, and integrates itself with (basically overtakes) the Starlink system. Elon's prophecy about AI __possibly__ bringing the downfall of humanity is ironically self-induced by one of his companies.

* Finally, the Earth unexpectedly[0] gets hit by a stray near-earth-orbit asteroid, nearly cracking the planet in half, and plunging the remaining world into darkness (made worse by the dust layer from the failing Starlink satellites)...Elon puts out a final tweet: "But at least we've avoided the AI from controlling Starlink to enslave humanity!"

[0] = Well, actually these were the only folks who knew the asteroid was coming: https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/
yes please. I have to argue with people constantly that think fruit juice is "healthy".
I don’t think you can extra-hot and ice.

However, you could probably add “half syrup” modifiers or something. “In my personal reusable insulated starbucks mug” has a lot of characters in it.

Also I don’t see the words nitro or blonde in there.

Remember the poor person at the counter can accept more modification requests than the app.

Keep working on it. :-)
What's wrong with high pressure superconductors? At least those don't require constant energy input, which would seem to be an improvement.
I think you nailed it with your second point (most households here have two working parents as well). We only cook one meal, though, not three, so that reduces the workload.
Yes? Fruit juice is basically candy. It's 100% bad for you, but dressed up like it's good for you,.
Show HN: Trello-Like Application with WebComponents
You've now limited the people who can follow your advice to people with a backyard large enough to put a brick and grate grill in.
I was talking about the nuclear version/free energy thing mentioned by the parent. The language itself is probably more popular than the "tech", at least it demonstrably works.
Hi HN,

Context: This was the subject of an assignment for a company (tech test).

I created a really (lightweight) version of trello-like board with only web components. It was a fun project to do. I use ReactJS in my day-to-day work and it was really interesting to come back to basics and see that you could build applications from scratch without any framework. Loading speed is amazing, it's like we are forgetting that we can do simple applications without bloated frameworks. In addition, it felt good writing some vanilla js.

https://caniuse.com/#feat=custom-elementsv1

Beware, WebComponents are not supported in every browser

Would be grateful for your feedback.

Many thanks.

(Of course this project has nothing to do with the real Trello, it's only a POC.)
Food deserts are probably the biggest issue for some low-income people. This is a big problem and obviously needs to be addressed, especially for people who may not have access to transportation.

Cooking itself does not have to take that much time. Many recipes can be prepared using rough chopping and only occasional observation/adjustment.
There are corrupt academic organisations. The idea that 'fat makes you fat' was exposed recently as having started with Harvard researchers being paid by sugar companies. Most nutritionists know that 'fat makes you fat' is simplistic (it ignores digestion) and accept that sugar contributes more towards obesity than fat does now.

Weirdly, FB banned a group advocating against 'fat makes you fat' in 2019.

> Recently, Facebook deleted without warning or explanation the Banting7DayMealPlan user group. The group has 1.65 million users who post testimonials and other information regarding the efficacy of a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet. While the site has subsequently been reinstated (also without warning or explanation), Facebook’s action should give any serious person reason to pause, especially those of us engaged in activities contrary to prevailing opinion.
thank you all for clarifying!
By no means.

The arguments generally present on here was that:

1) He'd already been in custody in the UK for some time, so if the US wanted him, and the UK was willing to hand him over, then that would have already taken place, but had not.

2) Under EU rules, if the UK has extradited him to Sweden, and then the US asked for him, both Sweden and the UK would have had to agree to hand him over, making him strictly safer in Sweden than in the UK.

3) Much of Assange and his supporters arguments focused on the risk of being charged with a capital crime, but under EU rules neither the UK nor Sweden could have handed him over to face a capital charge.

4) Much of the remainder of Assange and his supporters arguments focused on the risk of going to Sweden, but he was already in the UK, and the UK is famously willing to cooperate with the US. The UK was not a safe place for Assange to be!

All four points have been vindicated by events so far. What Assange ended up doing was finding a way to avoid going to Sweden and instead hang out in the UK for so long that eventually the US asked, and the UK handed him over, just as expected.

Had Assange quietly gone to Sweden to contest the charges against him, would things have worked out better for him? We'll never know now, but it's very plausible.

> Over the years, many observers claimed he was delusional in this regard.

In any case, the specific claims he made remain, at best, unsubstantiated. He wasn't extradited from Sweden, and he isn't facing a capital charge.
Wait, so the advice is to start a legal fight with Apple on the cheap?
Complaining is just something Germans do though.

We have a saying: "Not complaining is enough praise."
> Write-only, because only the functions (‘WORDS’) are named - no parameter names.

Depends on who is the writer...

> There are also no local variables in standard Forth

Named locals variables are in the standard, as an optional extension. Because not everyone want them.

> you have to push (and pop!) them from the separate return stack

That's the main reason why the return stack is exposed to the programmer, yes, but there are other techniques like putting some of the data that are used throughout the program in (global) variables. you generally choose depending on how much simplification you gain and how much modularity you lose etc.

> Accessing parameters is done by manipulating the stack, which makes the code opaque after a year or so

Depends on how you write and comment.

> Named constants and variables are all global. So, it is very difficult for a team to use

Standard Forth as vocabularies to isolate functions, constants, and variables that is supposed to help with name clashes. Many variants like Retro have some sort of namespace mechanism.

Did you actually use Forth in a team context?

> These failings could be at least partly forgiven if Forth was fast. But it isn’t, because most words are short and all the stack manipulations are done with subroutine calls

Not a problem, because you design your programs to minimize stack juggling. Less overhead, more readable, one stone, two birds.

My dialect which uses very naive subroutine threading (it just executes lists of function pointers) can rival with Lua (non JIT) on certain tasks because my Forth doesn't spend its time doing useless stuff like looking up an hash table.

The speed of Forth is not in its bytecode interpreter. It's in the simplifications it encourages.

> It’s possible to write an inlining, optimizing compiler, but then the simple layout of code in memory is lost, and quick introspection using a memory dump becomes nearly impossible

I have written a few decades such a thing for the 8086, and I would say the lack of introspection was never a problem. When you write such a system, the hex machine codes sticks quickly in your head. I think I wrote a disassembler for the lulz, but an hex dump was probably my main "introspection" tool.

> I wrote a Forth a few decades ago

I wrote several Forth systems in the last few decades. The latest one I wrote is my goto-tool and serves me almost daily.
I'm not aware of anything specific to HFCS and inflammation that doesn't apply to any other fructose source. It's cheap sugar. Sugar is bad for you.
That's a more difficult problem to solve. Can we trust these warnings? Do we err on the side of caution? Seems like some humans are more sensitive than others to certain chemicals, and that there's motivation from both sides .. corporate and even political.

Imagine a warning label: this product known to cause global warming in a test environment ....
Type “food desert” into your favorite search engine.
The same way we put pressure on any other: financial sanctions and public embarrassment.
It is not obvious, but you can click on the headers of the table to sort it by the criteria you want to see.

It's weird that in the recipes at the bottom they never use eggs, that have a good protein/dollar ratio and are easy to store and cook.

It would be nice to see a dispersion graph of protein/dollar vs calories/dollar.
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Previously free? Hong Kong was a colony of britain which ruled with an iron fist and disallowed voting or democracy in Hong Kong. Hong Kong was never free nor democratic until it became part of China. Lots of brits love to pretend they brought democracy everywhere, but they didn't. Hong kong became a "democracy" and "free" after the brits got kicked out. The brits never let their colonies become democracies because britain was never really a democracy. Britain is a constitutional monarchy.

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

Also, the fact that china is an authoritarian communist state shows that they aren't pretending to be "naturally unified". If they were "naturally unified", they wouldn't be so authoritarian in the first place.
No one had proposed starting from scratch and building new Saturn V's. That would be totally impractical. But none of those new rockets have actually demonstrated the ability to lift enough payload for a manned lunar mission. They might be able to do so eventually but years of development work remain.
Ive tryied to change "Ok, Google" into "Planet" or "Hub". It wont work.
> Is there a quantum computing-proof encryption algorithm

This is still an area of active research. For instance, there are learning-with-errors-based cryptosystems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_with_errors#Use_in_cr...
But such systems are based on the assumption that "this type of problem is probably hard even with quantum computers". I believe we don't have anything more "quantum-proof" than that..

And of course, there are cryptosystems with unconditional security. Such as OTP.
Apps.

That, to me, seems like the real barrier for any new smartphone platform. It happened with Windows Phone, a platform backed by a huge company and even using a very popular language and platform.

I think WebOS and Firefox OS were before their time a little given the rise of progressive web apps, but I still don't think they're a complete answer until they can use native UI elements.
Reacting to things is still important and time critical. You just can't react to anything in sight. Instead the things you can react to are data and camera feeds from far up ahead. What are the other trains doing? Did the next junction switch successfully?

I think that raises a question of: what is the point of having a driver on the train? Why not have people in a control room drive the trains, coordinating the system as a whole? Arguably this is already the case, with some trains automatically stopping in cases of signal violation. Maybe the reason is simply that passengers would rather trust a driver whose life is invested along with theirs.
A good IP / trademark lawyer will cost $1,000/hr BUT no lawyer will meet you for an hour. They don't have any answer, need to do some research that is why they will ask for a $50K retainer. And at the end you will be $50K poorer. Sure they will send a "scary letter" to the offending party, blabla, but don't fall in that trap. You will get nothing.
Maybe NASA should just ask for farm subsidies to grow corn on the moon?
Ah yes, accuse those who want China to not steal technology as actually just being racist.
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It seems to me that space proponents need to study other tricky-to-justify programs for lessons. Just do whatever the F-35 people did.

I wish that the main thrust (so to speak) was towards permanent off-planet settlement and economies rather than merely having a human grab the soil samples.

Also, it would be nice to see a more results-oriented attitude rather than have the whole deal watered down with politics. Of course, you could probably say that about the US military.
I am on cutting edge chrome with a decent enough workstation and the site crashed my entire Chrome.
Depends if you're comparing like with like, surely?

At least here it is impossible to get say a prepared ready meal curry or shepherd's pie that works out anywhere near as cheap as cooking it yourself. Especially once you've allowed for portion sizes and the 5kg of potatoes, the carrots and onions covering other meals as well. Ready meals appear to only offer time.

I can probably find something that works out cheaper - noodles, unpleasant budget range 50p pizzas maybe. Tinned macaroni cheese will indeed be cheaper, as it's incomparable with home made. Tinned curries etc work out much more than making your own.
People pay $1000 for an iPhone. I don’t think $200 upfront is onerous.
I'll have to take a look at BGB. I've been using NO$GMB, but I don't think it's maintained any more.

One thing I didn't see mentioned in the article are the Pan Docs. Those document basically everything about the Game Boy at a low level.
I used python, pytorch, and sympy to try and make neural networks assemble and train to be effective at simple logic gate tasks. When one successfully assembles for a simple task, I "modularize" it to try and make it usable in more complex logic circuits.
There's no violation; the “privileges and immunities” referenced are those of accredited diplomats to the receiving state, which you only get to be by consent of the receiving state. Assange was never an accredited diplomat to the UK (there was an abandoned effort to get him appointed as a diplomat to Russia, but that provides no mandatory protection under the convention with regard to the UK, and the UK declined to extent diplomatic status as an non-mandated courtesy based on that appointment, so it was abandoned.)

> However, if the UK had the legal right to refuse passage for non-embassy personnel then surely they would've done so and captured all non-embassy personnel for questioning.

Every person exiting the embassy was stopped, frisked, questioned, and photographed by the police; none were held further because they were all diplomatic personnel. (This is not addressing the people who exited before the police through a complete cordon around the embassy, or the material—including certainly he weapons and other evidence—sent out in sealed diplomatic bags thereafter and before the final evacuation of the embassy.
Probably Star Raiders which was awesome for its time
SpaceX: Successful deployment of 60 Starlink satellites confirmed
> Maybe even subsidize meal delivery options (like HelloFresh) for a few weeks to get people started.

That was actually the direction I thought the article was going to go. Some kind of subsidized program to bootstrap the ability to cook decent meals from raw ingredients quickly.
Few questions after reading this:

Did NSA really stop the warrantless searches? They hinted in April they would.

What is NSA going to do with their Utah data center? Tax payers paid for it right? https://reason.com/video/nsa-utah-data-center-spying-snowden...

James Clapper blatantly lied to Congress, is anything ever going to happen to him? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGYn7ER5U_0
This theory, by the way, explains why efforts to turn around failing large companies are so rarely successful. Once that momentum is a bunch of bad decisions, etc. the momentum is working against you. But, up until that point, it is extremely powerful.
The problem I have with your statement is that it seems to put 'brilliant engineers' on some kind of magical pedestal.

Engineers, much like police, are humans. Therefore they hold biases, they can be short-sighted, and they may not understand many of the long-term ramifications of their jobs.

All this does is move the power and bias up the chain from police to engineers while simultaneously making some very, very powerful decisions about what privacy is and what your rights are in society with 0 oversight from the actual society. In fact, police are (in theory) beholden to politicians and the voting public right now. If piss-poor decisions are made based on faulty software from software conglomerate A, who do we hold accountable?
It honestly should say something along the lines of:

-Most nutritionists agree you shouldn't have more than 5g of sugar outside of fruit sources-

A can of coke have well over 25g
It's probably like singing. Once you get used to an audience, you can probably manage. Those that can't handle it likely quit.
Ask HN: What's that annoying false myth in your industry that has refused to die
Working on the image fix now slowly dying inside

Edit: Fixed!
I purchased a Bug-A-Salt years ago on Massdrop.com (now inexplicably Drop.com) and while it was great fun and fairly effective, the corrosive effects of shooting salt all over the place is something that should not be taken lightly.
This still caries an uncomfortable implication that Downs and Autism are inherently negative traits, and that people who have them would be better off not having existed in the first place.

Depending on where you fall on the fetal personhood debate, preventing someone from existing is much better than killing them. But that doesn't mean the choice can't reveal negative things about society's overall attitudes towards people in those groups. If you're a member of one of these groups, it feels bad to have someone tell you that a fundamental part of your personality is something that ought to be eliminated from society in general.

And of course autistic people and their families often have hard lives, but a large portion of that difficulty comes from social and infrastructure problems. We're not good at building societies that are easy for differently abled people to interact with.

I want to make an analogy that should hopefully make the problem more clear. It's easy to make a case that being gay or transgender socially disadvantages both a person and their overall family unit. Raising a transgender child is going to be harder than raising someone that conforms to strict gender-rules -- you're going to have a few difficult conversations, and you're going to fight with a few systems, and you're occasionally going to have to deal with jerks telling you you've messed up your kid. None of this is right or fair, and we're getting a little bit better, but it's still a problem.

If there was a way to detect someone's future sexual orientation and identity in the womb, would you be comfortable allowing families to make abortion decisions based on that information? If that technology had existed in the 1980s where being transgender was even harder than it is today, would you have been comfortable with it being used then? Would gay and transgender rights have made the kind of progress we've seen if that technology had been available and unregulated?
Sorry, I shouldnt have implied this has anything to do with the culture in the country. However, it still baffles me that the system in a country which is generally thought of as being very correct would fail so consistently to provide a service they advertise as being functional and well.
Most of those I saw were pretty much the same. Towers with windows and those ugly LED wall triangles, often aiming for a "vaporwave"/CGA look.

There was definitely more variety when beige cases were the rule and you had to paint and dremel things yourselves…
Because farm subsidies are a very subtle form of vote buying but launching space ships isn't as effective in garnering votes.
Healthy meal kits have been great "training wheels" for my wife and I to make less processed meals. Specifically, Hello Fresh meals typically have a major veggie/whole food emphasis. The biggest revelation is that roasting veggies with a little bit of olive oil and a little salt is an almost can't miss crowd pleaser that elevates every meal. Cherry tomatoes, green beans, sweet potatoes, asparagus, whatever. We try to get a roastable item or two every time we stop at a store.
If you consider mid-term we should pour everything into de-carbonizing the economy.
and perhaps a loss when adjusted for inflation... I've seen some spectacularly detailed comments on this from other hn users, specifically in regards to the inequity of QE. If anyone more knowledgeable could comment, I would appreciate it.
The thing is it depends of what you call 'criminal' on the moment, right ?

And when you know you're watched, you start self-censoring to adapt what should be the 'right thing' to avoid blame or judgment.
I assume there's a very strong element of personal taste here. I agree that Coke Zero is way, way better than Diet Coke, but it's still weird compared to regular Coke, to my taste anyway. I'd rather not drink soda than drink Coke Zero. I also don't have a giant attachment to drinking soda, so when I do it, I want to optimize for enjoyment.
Perception of Malpractice Risk Is Contagious Among Colleagues
I don't know what försäkringskassan.se looks like in modern browsers because it redirects (302) to https://www.forsakringskassan.se/

EDIT: woah HN did a funky thing with a URL in a post to fight against misleading domains! http://xn--frskringskassan-2kb71a.se
That's Actin (simplified 5). Try Actin (filament):

https://biorender.com/icon/cell-structures/cytoskeleton-and-...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice-based_cryptography
The large sacks of rice you get from asian shops might be cheaper still.

The advantage of potatoes is that there is a large number of recipes that consist almost entirely of potatoes (mashed potatoes, hash browns, roast potatoes, boiled potatoes, potato chips, etc.) so there's a lot of variety in a fixed budget.
I think that's exactly the controversy, no? It appears they removed the game from all regions despite only violating a trademark in China.
I'm reminded a bit of a Tensegrity[1], except that it's relying on friction rather than tension.

I wonder if there's a parallel: could you construct a tensegrity that corresponds to each of these tennis-ball towers? Or vice versa?

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