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I don't know since merely controlling the area is not enough, you'd have to capture (and use) all the stellar energy that comes out of that region. So K4 could be something like "uses the energy of the entire visible universe", but that's a shrinking concept over the time scales in question.

It's not a well-defined scale anyway, since you could probably build a K3-equivalent civilization with only a few star systems using miniature black holes as reactors; conversely, you could easily be a galaxy-spanning civilization but only use a fraction of the total stellar output.

The concept of translating into another universe does seem like an appropriate achievement and next step after K3. Since another universe might have wildly different basic parameters, classical sci-fi portals and such are probably out of the question. You'd have to translate the information stored in the brain into something appropriate that could continue to perform roughly the same functions on the other side.
If you're trying to Get Shit Done, they're mostly a disaster. (Clojure less than the others - but it's still not solving the problems that actually matter in a production context. Not really.)

Hrm, as someone that has written lots of Clojure code over the years, including a few business critical systems, I'm wondering what leads you to believe it's not a language for getting shit done.

I can spin up a web service in just a few minutes, drop in the middleware I need, route requests, spit out JSON, talk to DBs, and in a pinch, leverage libraries from the Java ecosystem for any missing pieces to the puzzle.

Deployment, dependency management, testing, etc... are all fully solved problems, and very mature technologies underpin the pieces that matter regarding battle tested services (jetty, jdbc adapters, etc).

Not trying to be a zealot here, but I also hate to see misinformation permeating the thread.
According to the article, it's only 144-146. Here in the US, we actually have 144-148 (4Mhz wide). I wouldn't be surprised if not only the ARRL got involved but other government agencies as well, here, if this actually looked like it was going to occur.

Right now, and for the foreseeable future, the 2M band is the workhorse for things like storm spotters talking to the NWS. All storm spotting happens on a 2M repeater here as well as across networks all across the midwest. There is no simple replacement for it. There are millions of dollars in investment by thousands of smaller organizations that would be a massive burden to replace.
Please source your claims. Fracking most definitely increases rates of low Richter scale seismic activity. However, fracking does not pollute groundwater. Wastewater injection, a process which happens once a fracked well is exhausted, can - if done improperly.

However, your claim is nothing but anti-science drivel unless you source it. Do you also believe vaccinations are harmful because they "inject chemicals into your body"? These processes are more nuanced then you think and are heavily regulated.
I believe it is legal to break DRM for purposes of backup / personal use on unsupported devices / etc in the United States, but I'm also not a lawyer.
did you miss the last three decades where oil companies have been funding FUD initiatives to prevent any climate action from happening?
How Robinhood blew a launch so badly that Congress got involved
That's not necessarily true. Like with pricing anything else, the maximum total revenue is at a price that's neither 'too low' or 'too high'. And the residents of Venice seem willing to forego some revenue for less tourists anyways.
For anyone who is wondering, I looked up the operational height for both systems to compare. Project Loon is about 18km-25km, while Starlink is currently deploying at 550km high.
Sounds like it's time to switch your job buddy.
Read the last paragraph with his direct quote on the matter.

He just means that given all efforts on the JVM and GrailVM, it's an ecosystem that's well prepared for the future (and Java programmers have a leg up already being familiar with the JVM).
While I agree, they'll deny it all and say correlation does not equal causation, we don't care about common sense, and we have better lawyers than so fuck you we'll keep doing this and raking in the cash until your land is decimated and useless and we'll move on to the next plot of land to destroy and profit off of.
What's a Strip Club Without Dollar Bills?
I wonder how much data can be processed compared to a modern "hackable" system? My guess is close to nil. How much of it gets lost? How much of the paper is duplicated for backups? How much time is spent looking through filling cabinets for relevant data? How is data transmitted - physically mailed, or faxed, or scanned and emailed, which is hackable anyway? There are costs to both practices.
Our political choices determine our health
Milan is nice because it's too far from the sea for cruise ships.
Old Venice is still the worlds largest car free city. No matter how many tourists the city receives a year, no one drives around in cars in this compact and very pedestrian friendly urban environment. Water filled canals are obviously not a good solution for most cities. Cities planned for private cars, seems like a really bad idea after walking around a few days in Venice.
Yep, I push about 50-100MB/s through a single instance of Logstash (Redis (list) -> S3). That configuration is not in the benchmark table, but surely it's more demanding than TCP -> Blackhole, TCP -> TCP, etc.

Regardless, Vector looks very nice and I'll be testing it out :)
The thing is that oil industry is actively lobbying the legislators to block any legislation that would reduce the demand.
Yeah it's not really clear what exactly is happening or what blockchain has to do with it at all.
you forgot that little detail of in the USA we do not have enough clean water to waste in such a manner in the first place.
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Enlyte might be connoted with Elyte -> Elite -> elitarism -> Exclusion
Raytracer.jl: A Fully Differentiable Ray Tracer
I'd love to replicate what you've set up. The web server and from job doesn't sound too difficult, but I'm confused about the browser extension and Android share option. I'd be very grateful if you could elaborate further on that.

Thanks.
Hmm. Wonder if they need people to validate the effectiveness of their 'Bee-scapes'.
if they use cloudflare that's the reason why. all of cloudflare was down today
Saudi production costs are like 2-3 a barrel, us fracking is somewhere in the 30s. Saudis can outlast any fracker
Parent never said it's a new technology
Watch as all the landlords do a 180.
We really love the idea of mtail and think it's criminally underused.

A big part of the reason we started building Vector was to integrate that kind of functionality into a larger project, so people wouldn't have to get over the hump of discovering, setting up, and rolling out a whole separate tool.

We're definitely not as mature as mtail yet, but we're working really hard to get there.
Is was there last february. Not too crowded during winter. Very silent at night, due to the fact that the old town is totally car free. Yay!
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There's a difference between bold technology and new technology.

A lot of new tech is shiny and provides legitimately useful benefits. Think the new wave of frameworks that started with Rails and Django.

There's a lot of shiny tech that has been a gigantic waste of everyone's time, like MongoDB and people trying to shoehorn MapReduce into every possible computation.
You also don't care if the punch was warrantless or not. Here, we are discussing warrantless wiretaps, which has a specific meaning. You don't get to pick and choose which meanings you discard (wiretap) and which meanings you keep (warrantless) because goalposts can be moved forever, and communication becomes impossible.
I think the jobs argument for ruining the environment is something that should be seriously engaged but it's still intuitively clear to me that we won't run out of useful things to make or do that easily. Transitioning away from oil is a big project.
Or perhaps to build lots of stuff, and only ship the good bits.
How are you currently handling fulfilment for products and subscriptions?
I've spoken with a bunch of SaaS companies that have had issues handling notifications for all types of billing and subscriptions were not reliably sending leaving orders unfulfilled! Would love to learn how you're doing this
I don't know about Oakland but in Minneapolis the city will pay for damage caused by potholes. They are also very quick to patch roads after the spring thaw, normally within a day or two.
Gas isn't the only tipping point for EV's, it's just a single long-term savings factor. EVs also would do well with cheaper batteries, more EV options at lower cost, and local/national policy changes. I'd also expect EVs and autonomy to be synergistic, as autonomous driving systems require a lot of electrical power.
WBOIT in OpenGL: transparency without sorting
In the video he mentions that one of the uses is for datacenters.
Svelte is so great... so were react, angular, ember, meteor, and vue. I'm sorry, but I've got trouble seeing how having one more framework to learn is going to help any thing.

There's a webcomic of some sort to which I can't find the link, which talks about this. Some one is sick of the bloat of x framework/tool/whatever, and decides to build it better. He works hard, and finally version 1.0 is released to dramatic music. But there's a problem - it hits the real world and starts running into edge cases, bugs, and other things that can't be predicted in design and testing, necessarily. Features creep, and over time, it becomes just as bad as that which it sought to replace. Then, some bright young soul gets the idea that he can do it better...

This is not to discourage innovation. It doesn't appear it's been battle-tested like other frameworks, and I don't see many major operations on the list of users. If it ends up better, great, but I can't say I'm optimistic.
Ok, I should probably edit my comment to "JSX/TSX feels so incredibly natural except for needing to use JS ternaries for conditional rendering" because seriously what were they thinking there?
Hi Matt, I've got two questions.

1. Can you talk at all about the interview process for USDS? My big reluctance to apply for positions right now is that so many companies require extensive knowledge of algorithms, which can be daunting for someone who's self-taught, like myself. I imagine USDS is more focused on large-scale systems, but I'm unsure what that looks like in an interview setting, other than discussing a candidate's experiences with system design or improvements.

2. Can you comment on how a transition from one president to another affects USDS? I imagine there's a change in priorities and possibly some leadership, but what do those changes look like, and how drastically do they affect the organization?
You don't have to, you can create a simple 1 line component to turn it into a declarative style.

It's the benefit of having a full language instead of a template DSL for rendering. Declarative syntax is easy inside of an imperative flow, doing the opposite tends to lead to problems though.
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Can someone much smarter than me opine on why nuclear is not lumped into the 100% clean energy category?
You mean poor people don't, which you incorrectly assume that there is any sympathy for the lower class. If you're rich however, like the people that own these companies, you can have all the clean and filtered water you want and move and purchase any land you want so you can continue to live the good life while everyone else gets screwed and pays the price. Out of sight, out of mind. Not my water, not my problem.
The fact that there was little opposition was partly due to the short time between the submittal of the amended proposal by France and the meeting itself.

Here's some background by someone who is well connected with the German authorities:

http://mailman.pe1itr.com/pipermail/moon-net/2019-June/03977...
The "Master & Commander" Series by Patrick O'Brian has been a great companion to me over the years and over many re-reads.

For me it's not about the sea battles -which I don't find particularly interesting- but rather about the writing style, the character development, and the fun of ambling through life with Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin.
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> while all the others in the company will rot in hell because of the stupid choice of a junior engineer

If a team's management can't prevent this from happening, then they've got bigger problems to worry about.
For anyone interested in this destructive industry, here's an interesting report: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/30/how-the-us-frac...
> Rust slaps you and demands that you clean up after yourself. This stung at first, since I’m spoiled and usually have my languages pick up after me, moreso even than moving from a dynamic to a statically typed language.

And yet, in the author's example, all memory handling in Rust was completely automatic. And that includes, AFAICT, no Box'd pointers¹, no ref-counting, and certainly no raw/unsafe pointers.

IME, this seems to be a common response among people coming from GC'd languages; I think the expectation is that they're going to be doing C-style memory management (manually alloc/free pairs), when the truth is that 99.9% of allocations will just happen automatically and invisible thanks to RAII.

In the end, I really think it's resources, of which memory is just one type of, that matter. Python doesn't do anything for resources, and you have to know you're allocating something (e.g., files, locks, connections, connection leases, etc.) that will require a manual .close() or with statement s.t. it gets dealloc/cleaned/released; RAII will handle this just like memory, and automatically handle it, and because of that, I find myself doing less resource management in Rust than I do in Python.

¹There are conditions in which I would argue that some uses of Box are "automatic", depending on the reason it's pulled in. E.g., I've used it to reduce the size of an enum in the common case, but still allow it to store a heavy structure in the rare case. The handling of the Box itself is essentially still automatic.
Obviously you can't raise the prices to infinity. There is a certain price/quantity where you optimize your global revenue. That price coincides with the city working at full capacity (ie: getting every possible penny).
> What I'd really like, is a minimal youtube search, in-terminal or a minimal gui

It exists! It's called SMTube but don't let the name confuse you, as it works with a lot of media players, including mpv:

https://www.smtube.org/en/index
I loved Venice when I first visited, almost two decades ago. I lived there for a few months. Went back again just for a week a little while later, around 2005. Sounds like tourism has gotten way bigger even just since then. I don't think the giant cruise ships started coming in until later in the 00s. (There were small ships, but I remember reading about some change in that decade that started allowing the gigantic ones. The city later tried to ban them but has not been successful.)

I always wanted to go back, but I wonder if it's worth it or if I should just remember when I was there originally.
You don't have to. The beauty of it being a simple JS function is you have flexibility.

function FileList() {
if (!files.length) {
return <EmptyMessage/>;
}
return <List items={files} />;
}

function FileList() {
return files.length
? <List items={files}/>
: <EmptyMessage/>;
}

What feels unnatural is the syntax that these templates pull out of thin air to do things the language can already do. Why should I need to learn another syntax just for templates?
This bit is important: "Foreigners crossing certain Chinese borders into the Xinjiang region"...

I'm not aware of Chinese authorities getting quite that draconian (yet) at the normal border entry points in Beijing, Shanghai, etc. However, I think it's still worth following the general advice that if you have sensitive data on your devices, leave them at home and use a burner phone/laptop + restore from the cloud later.
I live just outside Portland, and the homeless problem is MUCH worse here than it was 10 years ago. For one more data point....
Truffle's (blockchain tooling) TruffleCon 2019 tickets discounted to $99
In the best of those languages the user is getting input and output through the diagram in realtime. Also, syntax errors are either removed completely or converted into runtime errors.

These features allow the user to iterate rapidly through the development process to create a prototype, perhaps even gaining an average 100x development-time increase over using a compiled text-based language. The spaghetti is evidence of that-- the user moved so quickly that they were able to hold the relevant abstractions in their short term memory to produce the final write-only diagram. And at least in my experience, the final write-only diagrams tend to work to produce the desired output, even if they were written a decade ago.

In fact if there were a button users could push to "abstractify" some pre-spaghetti sub-diagram I believe that would negatively impact the language. The point is that when you've got mental model of all inputs and outputs within a single page visual cheat sheet, you can instantly connect any input to any output to take the next step in the development process. For certain domains like audio synthesis the fact that the user can leverage the diagram-based system to get any output at all is worth the seemingly prohibitive price of write-only programming.
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Just to shill for bee friendly lawns: I have a creeping thyme lawn that I would recommend entirely. It attracts tons of bees, butterflies, doesn’t need mowing but once a year (to clean up the spent flowers which are lovely in the summer), is drought tolerant (I water once every 2 weeks), and is evergreen to boot!
The difference is that people don't willingly go to concentration camps.
The problem with pioneers is that , they rarely move to next level, may be due to the thinking that "whatever" they have today just rocks and will "probably" rock tomorrow.

Few Examples :

Nokia missing the Android boat - thinking Symbian was great
Windows missing the Mobile operating system boat - thinking Windows Phone OS was great
Sony missing the iPod boat - thinking , hey we got Walkman , what else you need.

And the list goes on. A truly remarkable product always sees the end , if the visionaries are not ready to foresee whats next.
It's just more options. Svelte is new in that it actually compiles the components and logic into plain low-level JS code instead of having a "runtime".

It's something most of these frameworks should have already done by now considering they need build steps but maybe it needed a new project to make it happen. It's a brand new release though so it'll take more time for uptake, and by people who think the opposite of what you typed.
Gerd Gigerenzer's work and the book Simple Rules are far more efficient ways of making better decisions than reading a list of 100+ "biases" and trying to overcome them. A good intro is Risk Savvy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnRWVmWQG24
Related: Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpei_Yokoi
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Hyperbolic nonsense. Please try and avoid this kind of comment on HN. It is more fitting for a site like reddit.
Well logstash is now supporting good persistent queue.
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/persistent-...

I don't know why author didn't put correctness tick mark on it.
The CFPB HMDA products were built by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's dev team. They've been working on government open source and open data platforms since (I think?) ~2012. (https://github.com/cfpb)

While CFPB is definitely a separate thing from USDS, I'd imagine their end goals are the same: building things that help government better serve citizens. The more dedicated people that take up this mission in public service, the better!
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I live in Minnesota and will be taking advantage of this.

Though, to be fair, I was going to do it anyway, with or without subsidies.
I understand it's difficult, but I'm not sure if it's worse to make a wrong (or slightly wrong) decision than not make any decision at all.
Yesterday reviewed my first script that went global about 8 years ago. I think it had one update from my original deployment. =)
> It is not a tool, it's a means to an end.

You could almost call it "something (such as an instrument or apparatus) used in performing an operation."[0]

[0]https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tool
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I don't want to clutter this too much with buzzwords or stuff I haven't touched for a while.

I've got plenty of experience in backend systems but I've been working on more user-facing stuff lately and I'm really enjoying that.

There's more details in my CV with links to the stuff that's publicly available.

I'm looking for jobs with relocation to Europe or anything remote that'll allow me to work from Europe, I'm an EU citizen.
Nuclear waste and parts from decommissioned reactors are not that big of a deal, but they are also not 100% clean.
So a couple of complicating factors with that. Typically maintainers of 'right-of-way' spaces (transportation corridors), are pretty heavy users of herbicide and manage in a manner which is fairly antagonistic towards plant/ animal life.

Likewise, whenever you are running a program to do some kind of home-owner outreach/ change in behavior, its pretty important to have some training, professional educators, validation components to the work. Otherwise the program will get accused of just handing out freebies with no return on investment. As well, you'll want to quantify the residual impact of the program. Typically the goals of these programs is to try and create an overall shift in how people manage their spaces and a 'keeping-up-with-the-joneses' effect. For that to work however, the impact needs to be visually appealing.

Leaving it to homeowners is probably a bad idea.
The earth is nearly 5 billion years old.

Climate is a cycle. We are lucky to be observing an infinitesimal slice of time on a planet that is ancient beyond our human concept of time.

To think we understand anything about how complex systems of Earth's climate work across hundreds of millions of years, is hubris, pure and simple. To think that we can affect the climate, both positively or negatively, is a ploy for political and technological power, and it is a dangerous game to play.

It's the same story, over and over again...

https://www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0

If you were a scientist conducting research and only had 1/10th of 1/2 of 1% of data to work with -- it's easy to see how all your conclusions would eventually be wrong.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19970905
Skip them both and go to Sicily. Some of the nicest and generous people I have ever met I met there. Outside a few places, there are basically no tourists and rural Sicily is beautiful with no english being spoken. The wines coming from Etna are much more interesting and cheaper than anything from Tuscany or further north also.
> It doesn't reveal how they kept the astronauts' comments looking out the window secret. Weren't they broadcast live?

The plasma buildup around the vehicle interferes with radio communication -- though I'm not sure in exactly which phases of the reentry.

Or maybe the window orientation made that hard to see?