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This is generally incorrect in several different ways. ICBMs are not invulnerable after their boost phase and ballistic missile defense continues to improve rapidly. The U.S. operates a small number of mid-course interceptors as part of the GMD system[1] to defend against small scale attacks from states such as North Korea. The low number of interceptors does not upset the balance of power with any larger nuclear states but that may change in the near future. The U.S. has been pursuing a new kill vehicle for its interceptors to replace the current EKV[2]. The MOKV was based on an earlier program to put multiple kill vehicles on a single rocket[3]. This would allow for a single rocket to potentially intercept up to 6 incoming warheads. What's more, this interceptor could be fitted to the SM-3 anti-ballistic missile missile used by the navy, massively increasing the total number of possible interceptors. Hypersonic missiles do not follow a predictable trajectory and fly much lower than ballistic missiles making their detection and engagement extremely difficult. Detection is actually the larger of the two issues. From the time a nuclear armed hypersonic missile is detected to the time it impacts could be fewer than 5 minutes. Far far less than the ~30 minutes of warning you get for ballistic missiles. This timeframe is too short for a proper chain of command and massively increases the risk of mistakes being made. It also incentivizes first strikes. Unfortunately, any nation that does not have this capability is at a massive disadvantage when confronted by a nation that does. Even if not used for nuclear strikes, hypersonics have the ability to destroy key, heavily defended targets with essentially no notice. This will likely make them extremely important for future engagements, especially naval ones. The U.S. has a large and very well defended navy which is key to its military strategy. China and Russia's focus on hypersonics is no coincidence.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-Based_Midcourse_Defense

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoatmospheric_Kill_Vehicle

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_Kill_Vehicle
"we need to also legalize car-free living"

That suggests to me that it's currently not legal, and as I don't know where they live, there could be a law applying to this.
What happens when you only work four days a week
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I'm not convinced they believed that at the time.
Yes, we should. But we won't.
The internal politics at Facebook seem really smart here - the React team have said they’re responsible for keeping all the React code there working and updated when things change with the library. So it’s basically infeasible to make breaking changes that can’t be fixed automatically.
> Do we have good ways to handle it in a safe manner?

We handle millions of tons of it every year, already. So, yes. Farmers buy it in barrels and mount them on their plows.
> stealth with hundreds of millions in R&D

Wow. That number sounded high since I'm very unfamiliar with the space but according to crunchbase [1] they took in 2.6B in funding overall. Before this headset they mainly put out a few iterations of that gesture input device, right?

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/magic-leap
What, tax the positives, too?

The positives take care of themselves. The negatives are what need corrective action.
Compiler engineers need to read assembly. I don't think too many people write lots of it by hand, unless they're extending packages like LAPACK of BLAS.

Software has probably been free-riding on hardware, but hardware has also not been keeping up with hardware. The big difficulty is the latency between memory and the processor.

Rust is closer than Go. Go isn't designed to make optimal code. It's there to make good enough code. And it does so very quickly.

In terms of resources, I really like Crafting Interpreters. Would love for you to take a glance at my book (Rust in Action, Manning), if you want to learn about other systems topics outside of compiler design.
>Actually no, there is lots of tech to stop ICBMs, in launch, orbital and re-entry phase.

what's the success rate on those? afaik they're irrelevant, at least to russia/us because you can evade them by simply launching enough missiles (you only need a few missiles to take out all major population centers).
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I don't think this is it. I haven't tried with many machines but I don't think current machines are all generally slow with firmware, just some of them. The part that baffles me is that the slowness is on the faster ones.
Not at all. They enable the USA to have an almost unparalleled naval capability.
Because without NAT, none of the devices on my home network would be able to connect to any internet connected hosts. That is, unless I assigned internet routable addresses to their network interfaces. If I did that, I’d either have to install firewalls on my devices, or expose all services running on my devices to the internet. But I don’t have to do that, because my home router uses NAT to allow all devices on my home network to connect to the internet, without allowing other devices on the internet inbound access.

If you have a point to make, then explain what it is. If you’re just gonna keep asking more contrived questions then I’ll presume you’re simply trolling.
Free trade is not a right, it's a reward for following global rules based on centuries of civilizations.

As all things, there could be improvements.

Oversimplification ignores edge-cases.
Complaining about the inaccuracies of a work of fiction… We live in a weird world.
I've never seen any proof of China actually using their exported devices for spying purposes. At most you can say their smart phones are leaking personal information back to China, but Google is no different.

The Chinese do, however, excel at industrial espionage through many means. In fact, they're so good at it that I've rarely seen reports of industrial espionage where the allegations actually stick in court.
I'm aware of that, I don't think that makes owning a car a legal requirement though.

Parts of San Francisco predate the car, so I assume density is high enough to support car free living.
I don't think Microsoft shares what their marketing team learns about their brands, but I'm not cold to this idea, and it would explain why all those scammers are introducing themselves as "Windows Support" instead of "Microsoft".
Ive seen this remark before. What does it mean?
Certainly. But you can make it locally. Matching the leakage rate probably doesn't consume much power.
Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
Shameless plug, but I just wrote a post on rolling this yourself in 15 minutes or less. https://zach.codes/roll-your-own-ngrok/
2.7? Not Great, Not Terrible.
Yes, that's an idea the could be explored.

Some countries age discrimination is not even considered a crime.

The problem detected is: in tech, the age discrimination starts earlier than 40, but at 36. What companies need to realise is a diversity staff can generate more money and produce more
The point you were objecting to was "external device can't connect to a device behind NAT without explicit configuration". Without NAT rules access to internal devices is prevented because packets don't get routed to private IPs.
The systwm allocator on macOS supports multiple "zones", which can each be backed by different allocators.
I guess because most new cool companies are startups and who was the guy over 40 in the movie "The Social Network" other than probably the investor/lawyer.

Most companies homepage is filled with younger folks and also why would anyone 40+ is going to listen to a 20 something CEO?
When my family first got broadband via Comcast@home back in the early 2000s they had a proviso saying if you wanted more then one computer required a separate subscription. My dad and my bother quickly figured out we could get around this by using Windows Internet Connection Sharing. We eventually got a Linksys Router that did the same job and was faster. IIRC even most dial up ISPs did the same thing, if you wanted more then one computer online you had to use separate creds.
The big question is probably whether it works with a smaller temperature difference than your typical Stirling cycle.
>> "they're building nukes" propaganda

But they are building nukes. Israel shared the evidence last year. They will exceed their enrichment limit by June 27, deliberately. And they're working on (and testing) ballistic missiles as well. If you aren't building the nukes, why do you need ballistic missiles?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/world/middleeast/israel-i...
> Some countries age discrimination is not even considered a crime.

It's not a crime in the US, either.

It is a statutory tort, though.
Alternatively: it was written by someone with obsolete x86 optimization experience.
It is similar in Germany. Probably just a necessity if you have high population density and want to get anything done.

But then there are in some cases whole municipalities or larger units of administration (usually driven by citizens) against new power lines, and they can prevent them... and that is a current problem.
This is an interesting article, but it is hard yo know how much they are just focusing on the good points. I would love to read a detailed critique from an external agent.
Having previously worked with ARIMA and other AR-related models, this is a very comprehensive introduction of ARIMA which anyone interested in learning more about time-series forecasting can benefit from.

One point of critique though which is not immediately mentioned in the article: Depending on your data, and especially if your granularity is measured in anything under minutes, you might find the need to continuously calibrate your parameters as to ensure performance over time. I found myself running optimisations in parallel when deploying an ARIMA-inspired model for my use case, for instance. If continuously computing optimisations is not an option, it might be worthwhile implementing outlier detection or simple thresholds to prompt optimisation calls when needed. In either case, ARIMA is definitely a fun rabbit hole to explore if you have not previously worked with time-series forecasting!
Why would a 40+ year old person listen to a 20-something? Perhaps because that's what they're being paid to do?

CEOs do more than just issue edicts from on high, they take feedback from the people running the various operations, otherwise the company falls apart.
Yes -- photovoltaics waste heat, thermals waste light. Collect both, and you get maybe double the areal efficiency. Most of us can't put up a bigger roof, but we can make better use of it.
Ok, so the solution would be to decentralize and distribute solutions to autonomous entities to reduce the size of the system that is directly involved (big system is still the source of money and strategic planning, like in most companies). I think that could work because we know effects like this on groups of people - you can work with 7 but don't try to work with 20 all together.

Nice idea to take the debt away again but that can't work in a world where these entities afterwards take refuge in another country that doesn't tax them (so much). EU has some good examples for this: Luxemburg, Netherlands and Ireland. A lot of tax money is taken away in the EU by companies like Apple, Ikea, Starbucks and the likes because they have mastered the skill of using legislative loopholes to maximize their profit and screw the people of the world by taking that money away from the public.

That would be the doors you are talking about and the problem is that the nations just don't get together to solve this issue so the wealthy can do whatever they want - they aren't bound by national laws etc.

I would like to add one thing to this idea:
* Raising the wealth of all people on the globe to the minimum level required to have a "good life" (no starvation, education, lower fertility rate). I think this would solve a lot of problems at once.
One thing to note when reading such reports with quotes the German police, is that the bar for a police officer being "hurt" is ridiculously low in Germany. E.g. if an officer is grabbing your arm, and you try to yank it free, this constitutes "assaulting a police officer" and will go into that number. In past protests the police also reported officers being hurt without qualifying that they had been hurt by other officers employing tear gas against protesters.

Edit: to add at least one source, here's Spiegel Online reporting that the police counted dehydration and circulatory issues as "injured officers" (German unfortunately)

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/...
Einstein and Hilbert’s Race to Generalize Relativity
I wonder if when the song was written, the phrase was actually a reference to princess diana.
Fantastic.

Pity here in Australia we just voted in a ~corrupt government who have signed a deal to allow Adani to open a huge new coal mine that doesn't even benefit Australians economically, and at a huge cost to the environment.
Concerning counterfeit goods there’s an abundance of evidence.
Define obsolete.

You could make the case that ICBMs make conventional armies obsolete, and I would guess many people in the 50s/60s did.

In a similar vein, videoconferencing, email, telephones should make international business travel obsolete. That shows no sign of happening either. I guess because humans react differently to things that are right in front of them, rather than remote and hypothetical.
Burning lignite is the most ridiculous thing you can do. It would literally be better for the climate to import coal from Australia and burn that. There is no point in delaying the end of lignite mining until 2038.

We need a massive buildout of wind and solar and we need it now. There are no technological problems left, we just need to spend the money. The 20k coal jobs in Germany would pale against the workforce needed for a rapid switch to renewables.
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I don't know about you but a friend of mine told me he sometimes feel insulted to take orders from someone inexperienced who don't know what they are doing specially when there are female members on the team, the insult doubles.

Did you watch the movie dictator where the the great general Aladdin demands the rocket be made pointy?

At small companies CEOs act similar to a dictator, maybe not all? But they've the vision. It's mostly them who get it, other are called naive or stupid.

Stuff like this is what drives experienced people out of the door.

As you get older, it gets hard to keep up with that BS and some people prefer mental sanity over paychecks naturally the jobs gets filled by ones who are willing to do the crazy thing in order to keep the money coming in.
I ran into this with a client recently. Unfortunately, they were already on the business plan.

We ended up just hosting an OpenVPN server and having them connect automatically on startup.... This then broke Microsoft Office's ability to verify it still has a paid subscription.
If your company is full of people who are only doing things because they're paid to do them it's going to struggle.
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This predicts BTCUSD ticker values.
Sorry for the title lacking of concrete explanation.
Because the more experienced people are able to spot major flaws in architecture or even business plans. In a culture of hush-hush of middle managers trying to cover up their mistakes from higher ups, or founders from investors, this is not welcome. They prefer blind unexperienced workers who will take things as gospel.
They send soldiers around, but nobody is attacking Iran at its border that I know of.
A bigger question for me is, why can't monitors boot instantly? So annoying that a monitor that went to sleep can sometimes take 10-20 seconds longer to wake up than the computer it is attached to.
The CTF is staffed by volunteers who make up the problems. I wrote one in 2017 for the Google CTF Quals and found it very difficult to balance.
Curious, what was this written in?
Most whales are smaller than a blue whale...
HN has an international audience and the subtleties of naming the country vs the continent can be easy to miss.
At the moment, what we ask is just 4 things and then, we ask the company 4 or 5 different open opportunities to include on the website. We then include those by hand, linking to the original company's job post.

Agreed this is annoying for job posters and we can discuss more how we could help you on that as well
Can we keep up with large scale battery production yet? (For places which can't use other energy storage systems) I remember that being a problem a few years ago.
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Either that, or better efficiency, or better reliability, or lower construction cost.
It's "their" enrichment limit because they agreed to an arbitrarily low one under JCPOA. If they leave the agreement after other parties did so as well, this is not evidence of a nuke program. It is merely evidence of them enriching, which you can do for non-military purposes.

The evidence from the nuclear archive, which remains unreleased, seems to at best prove that they had a nuke program in the past.
While I don't agree with everything you wrote I would like to add android boot time to the list.
Netanyahu's "evidence" from the very article you linked:

"Mr. Netanyahu did not provide any evidence that Iran had violated the nuclear agreement since it took effect in early 2016."

"Secretary of State Mike Pompeo" ... "conceded that the material dated to a project that had formally ended around 2003."

"“There is nothing new in Bibi’s presentation,” Rob Malley, a former senior official in Mr. Obama’s National Security Council" (...) "wrote" (...) "“All it does is vindicate need for the nuclear deal.”"
As the tech industry ages, we will see more and more articles about how maybe old programmers aren't so bad after all. By the time Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, the Google gents, et. al. all reach retirement age, there will no longer be such a focus on youth in the industry.
Hey cool, this is my side project! I've been trying to think of other interesting things to add to the project. For example, OpenSSH can do TUN/TAP tunneling, so you can use SSH as a proper VPN. (See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VPN_over_SSH)

How could that be useful in Serveo? How else could SSH be used creatively?
You probably want to compare it to a molten salt system. Since heat engines are limited by temperature differences and molten salts get really hot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_thermal_energy#Molten_sa...
There’s no legal requirement to drive, but the barriers that parking requirements put up effectively make driving required, because the alternative is a major PITA.

Consider the most basic of trips; you want to go from Walmart to a Target located across the street in a suburban shopping area. Where land values are low (per sq ft), the cheapest way to satisfy parking requirements is to build flat parking lots rather than structured multilevel parking. As a result, a walk across the street requires going from the front door, across a massive parking lot, then crossing a large, high-speed arterial suburban road where a suitable crosswalk may not be close by, and then crossing the Target parking lot to get to the front door. Quite the schlep through an environment that is at best unfriendly to pedestrians and at worst unsafe.

In high land value areas this is less of a problem, because the parking lots are in small-footprint garages or located underneath buildings. But most of America does not live in high land value areas, and even the most basic of trips are only practical or safe in a motor vehicle.
Maybe https://github.com/vEnhance/napkin
I wonder how effective they were after the learnings Iran would have made after Stuxnet
Still can't believe Germany turned its back on nuclear to burn coal instead.
> One thing to note when reading such reports with quotes the German police, is that the bar for a police officer being "hurt" is ridiculously low in Germany.

Where would that bar be higher, especially when reporting these numbers in the context of protest deployments?
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>Burning lignite is the most ridiculous thing you can do. It would literally be better for the climate to import coal from Australia and burn that.

It would literally be better to destroy thousands of jobs and depend on another country for some of your energy needs? Well let me dispute that.

According to Wikipedia, "27 percent of Germany's electricity came from lignite power plants"
Closest actual current song is probably “Love It If We Made It”

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1Wl1B7DPegc
So, you haven't heard about Chernobyl nor Fukushima?!? Maybe stop reading hackernews and go to CNN and Wikipedia pal!
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Ex-Telecom CEO and Ajit Pai Adviser Sentenced to 5 Yrs for Fraud Totaling $270M
Tor Browser 8.5.3 Fixes a Sandbox Escape Vulnerability in Firefox
There is a tradeoff between a better grid and more storage requirements (it's always windy somewhere, and with a sufficiently smart grid you can match demand to supply better). You probably only need a day or two of battery or hydro storage and can use power-to-gas for long winters. Strategic gas storage infrastructure is already available, and power to gas is a proven technology (with fairly terrible energy efficiency). But you need power-to-gas anyway, because replacing all the old gas infrastructure for heating with heat pumps will take too long.

If you speak German, there is a very informative interview with Prof. Quaschning of Scientists for Future here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3EoCKgzLo4
German police officers have very limited power to do anything at all.

What you mentioned is one sort of loophole they use to be able to “catch” someone: you touched me!

Oh, regarding the policemen trying to hold your arms. Never seen that as a first action, and typically when that happens is a sign that you have actually done something, otherwise they don’t touch you.
they will be stoppable, just like anything else.

radar arrays and space or ground lasers, etc. but essentially lasers.

but a new age of war will be upon us. When all of the weapons get used up and the factories making them destroyed, and the radar installations and satellites fried with EMP's, then again it will be up to 17 year-olds fighting the fat man's war.
US blacklists five more Chinese tech companies
Externalities don't take care of themselves. That is why they are classed as externalities.

Logically speaking it would be subsidise the positives, but practically it is easiest to just let the negative externalities run and enjoy the positives, if the positives outweigh the negatives.
We need a massive buildout of nuclear and we need it thirty years ago. Wind and solar aren't nearly as good as nuclear.
I don't understand the question?

I'm saying this because such numbers often spark anti-protester sentiment in the rest of the population, and the police is contributing by reporting exaggerated numbers of injured officers.

I did not mean to make a comparison to anywhere else, since I wouldn't know how police reports such numbers in other countries.
I wonder how different things would be if Windows XP didn't end up being so popular. Or maybe there are benefits of proprietary software that aren't mentioned in this article that ended up naturally overcoming open source software.
I always found it weird that Gates characterized it as Apple "stealing" the TV set. Xerox gave the TV set away! They had made a pre-IPO investment in Apple and in exchange the executives were happy to show Apple what they were working on (to the dismay of the actual researchers)
ICBMs have been around since 1960's. They travel at Mach 20+. Nothing really changed. MAD doctrine is still in play.
Did Amazon (the company) really need this? I don't get it. It feels like bullying for no real purpose.
It's a tragedy, and I can't help but wonder to whose benefit it is to forgo nuclear and burn natural gas instead.