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Ask HN: What are you working on?
What do you spend most of your time on these days? Do you have a side-project you'd like to talk about? What is the community working on?
Maybe somebody copied the zip bomb onto the battery charge controller subsystem of the russian submarine cable tapping submarine.
John McAfee is truly a crank since 2000. Recently, he also recently endorsed an insecure Bitcoin hardware wallet developed by people who don't know what they're doing and dismissed all security vulnerabilities.
I think in QTT there is no collapse event, just a series of state transitions. It looks like the concept of a collapse is a product of a less complete understanding of what is going on.

That’s why the article spends so much time contrasting QTT with the view offered by Shroedingers equation. With Shroedinger there is no specific state predicted, so you have to introduce the concept of some event inducing a specific state to occur. QTT allows continuous prediction of state and even the ability to prevent or influence state transitions. At least that’s what I got out if it, although I’ll concede I think that’s a rough attempt at a summary.
I haven't had much success with that, probably because it's difficult for me to disjoin emotion from passionate evangelism. It may even have been counter-productive. What has your experience been? Can you share any strategies for such discussions about personal lifestyle politics?
I think we know because an atomic bomb prototype would have been far too large and conspicuous for an individual to take to, let alone leave at, a bar :)
UFC International Fight Week Will End with UFC 239
https://www.reddit.com/r/UFC239freefighti/comments/c96hpt/livestreamofficialfightufc_239_live_stream_ppv/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UFC239freefighti/comments/c96hq9/officialstreams_jones_vs_santos_live_by_reddit/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UFC239freefighti/comments/c96hqk/officialstreams_jones_vs_santos_live_by_reddit/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UFC239freefighti/comments/c96hqu/live_ufc_239_live_streamreddit_on/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UFC239freefighti/comments/c96ilm/ufc_239_jones_vs_santos_live_streamreddit/
Even a 10% failure rate would be catastrophic and much worse than previous keyboards.
I'm not sure. I think on linux/X11 it's just xmodmap wizardry, any maybe on macos you need third party software, but don't take my word for it. It's not something I've really investigated since I'm personally satisfied with capslock=escape.
There are many ways to rationalize a war though, sure you can't take over others' resources without outright destroying them, but if your goal was to simply wipe a competitor out and monopolize a scarce resource, the picture changes.

The U.S. did very much benefit from the balance of power change that resulted from WWII. War determines who's left, not who's right. Eventually someone might try to be the one who is left.
>But then, why not use the language you're already using for the rest of your project, or a bash script to export some variables?

Well, for same reason, say, why people would use a javascript framework to build a webapp over vanilla js. Both could do the job, and for simple cases there's little reason to go with a framework resp. specialized config language.

But as your app/config gets larger and more complex, using a framework resp. config language would tend to get the job done more efficiently by providing you structure and toolbox with solutions to common pain points.

Config generators themselves tend to be a rather heavyweight all-or-nothing solution which leads people to compromise on some adhoc middle-ground solutions like YAML with jinja templates with unclear evaluation semantics. A good config language designed from the ground up can be so much better than this unholy yaml/jinja mess!

Finally, one of the key selling points of specifically Dhall is type checking. Implementing that in config generators in a generic untyped scripting language would be a nontrivial amount of boilerplate, and boilerplate elimination is what config languages are all about.
You can plant trees at $USD0.10 per tree at trees.org
Need a quick primer on the differences between various current flavors of open router firmware.
Sure thing. Put it on the ballot and I’ll vote for it.
This poster is a customer and has every right to complain about a service.

The fact that you think they are entitled tells me you view the services as a gift and they should be grateful for whatever they get. The services provided are not gifts.
What's the effect of this system on consistency guarantees? Seems like clients could end up in a state where they serve stale data due to (undetectably) not receiving the push updates.

It also looks like client / protocol implementations are about to get a lot more complex, even if the feature is being used by the majority of users?
It's not just the curators. Most modern peoples clearly assume we are currently at the height of human civilization and development and everything in the past was less well developed.

I love watching TV shows where they try to recreate past techniques with what we know of their available tech and we fail.

One TV show tried to melt rock to figure out how vitrified castles were made. They couldn't get enough rock to melt to recreate the effect.

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4326

There are countless examples of ancient tech we don't really understand and can't readily recreate with the resources -- including knowledge and technology -- we believe they had available at the time. Yet we continue to presume we represent the height of human development, it's been a more or less steady climb up and the future will obviously see further advancements, never mind the overwhelming evidence of lost knowledge around the world and "dark ages" following a loss of development.
Luckily, this was far from population centers - epicenter about 10 miles from Ridgecrest, a town of 30,000 people
just south of Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, and
just east of US 395, about 80 miles east of Bakersfield.

Informative USGS links include:

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci38443183...

Select "View Neaby Seismicity" to see the 47+ recent
quakes in this area.
Similar to desktop Linux, there is a package manager. Meaning you can install packages like samba, openvpn, etc...

There's also a security aspect to it. Stock firmware typically uses outdated and unsupported kernels.
Redis continue to wonder me, it's yet another feature I thought to implement, already implemented by redis itself. And I had same reasoning about hash slots.
Freedom of Speech is not the Obligation to be Heard, nor is it the Freedom to Exploit Private Businesses to Promote Your Opinion.

The case cited was one where a piece of land was being used, passively, by individuals requiring no unique support or upkeep by owner in order for the plaintiffs to enjoy those freedoms. To make it relevant to YouTube, the court would have had to rule that the private business was required to provide shade, iced tea in sweet and unsweet varieties, as well as free megaphones.
It doesn't matter that the merger was over 20 years ago. What matters is whether there was a lasting cultural change at the merged company, and whether it was for the better or worse.

I've worked through half a dozen M&As, and I've seen the culture at the bigger partner in some of them change radically, often because the bigger company will promote executives from the smaller company as part of the deal. This really is a thing, and sometimes it's a very bad thing, though I've also seen it succeed wildly.

Executives often don't understand the culture in the companies they lead, or the companies they acquire or merge with. Sometimes they don't even have the luxury of choosing partners on the basis of cultural compatibility.
And I've been wondering why my kid could play games so long today, in spite of Screen Time limits :-) I guess that explains it.
The only military threat today to the US homeland is an accidental nuclear launch.

That concern is real even in peacetime because of the inherent conflict of interest in the design of the delivery systems. They must reliably launch in minutes without the possibility of recall, yet also have literally zero possibility of doing so unintentionally. How much of that chain of events is under the control of (potentially faulty) software, and highly stressed people acting on limited information with minutes to act and trained to not question the order?

We've successfully deterred intentional strike by all but the most deranged adversary by creating a machine capable of accidentally causing tragedy of historic proportions.
Yeah, some of these are really weird.

Vendor lock-in, with established long term vendors, is such a tiny risk at this stage that putting effort into avoiding it is going to cost you signification more business wise. Especially odd when there's a whole bunch of other questions noting that building things yourself is not worth it at this stage.

Daily 1on1s seem like a massive waste of time and focus that it seems insane to suggest them. If something comes up then your door should be open but expecting things to change day to day seems like you've got much bigger problems.
That means a global / multinational movement against governments cutting trees (eg for lucrative construction deals) is needed.
And yet, in focusing on the syntax, you missed the biggest difference between Dhall and other configuration languages: safe, termination-guaranteed non-Turing-complete computation.
Could you share some details about how you do this? Do you need displayport on both ends, and is it a monitor or TV? I have the same machine and a 4K TV with only HDMI-inputs and am curious if I can achieve this is in some way. Switchresx looks really useful anyway, so thank you for that. :)
Wouldn't good ol' fashioned fallout shelter technology suffice, save for a few use case specific alterations?

You won't be underwater forever. How long does it take for a tsunami to recede?
also: the collaboration of the party is accounted for when applying the fine.
The regulation attempts to get parties to behave well, not just to punish them.
Will Bitcoin Make a Good Investment?
The main reason why China, United States, Russia and many other countries were or now are considered to be super powers is not because of access to raw resources but because of GDP and technology.

Technology is simply low value resources configured in such a way that it is now called technology. It is the physical crystallization of information.

There's no denying the fact that the transfer, production and copying of such information can only be done by expending energy. So the question is... Do we live in the information age or the age of oil? Only future historians would know.
Here is how ThousandEyes viewed the impact: https://twitter.com/thousandeyes/status/1146862826566250499
Given the right approach, this is also probably the only way to tackle climate change that is self-sustaining. Because trees reproduce. And they constantly search for ways to adapt to their environment in order to survive and reproduce.

Human technology can't do that yet.
Would it be that hard to just have both a Touch Bar and a row of keys? At this point the Touch Bar component can’t add that much in terms of manufacturing cost. An entire A10 iPod Touch is only $199.
> Only human insanity can cause another one.

Or an accidental nuclear launch. One can't send an army by accident.
looking further, it seems that aside from repetitiveness, safety is the main focus:

https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang/wiki/Safety-guarant...

which in Rust, we're solving this via SANE and SCL:

https://gitlab.com/bloom42/sane-rs

https://github.com/keats/scl

I'm not sure how much need there is for an additional programming layer, especially within config (the part of a program with the simplest syntactic requirements).

for my projects where "ahead-of-time validation" is needed, we're currently using SCL's parser for safety guarantees:

https://github.com/foundpatterns/contentdb

https://github.com/foundpatterns/lighttouch/blob/d7ada4576a6...

https://github.com/foundpatterns/torchbear/blob/4dd2b9ea76ba...
That issue will be fixed in 19.07.

https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/commit/34113999ef430ce74a...

Given that the pci card is removable, it makes sense to replace with something else.
Morality does not change over time. You are confusing power with morality. Please read Elaine Pagels and her history of the emergence of the Christians during late Roman times, she makes clear that one of the reasons why slaves flocked to Christianity is because the Christian church took a defiant stand against slave owners raping their slaves:

https://www.amazon.com/Gnostic-Gospels-Serpent-Origins-Satan...

Where did such ideas come from? During the Roman period it was taken for granted that slave owners would sexually assault their slaves. And yet the slaves knew such behavior was immoral, and the slaves were ready to give their loyalty to the first movement that avowedly took a stand against the slave owners and their sexual practices.

We can and should denounce ancient figures against the immutable and unchanging facts of morality.

About this:

"we shouldn't be surprised when some historical figure who is usually praised for their positive accomplishments turns out to have very severe moral flaws"

I don't think anyone is surprised. Certainly, I am not surprised. I'm simply pointing out that Thomas Jefferson committed a grievous crime and he must be denounced for such a crime. As I said before, for the sheer horror of his immorality, I hope he is burning in the hottest rings of hell.
The aborigines of Australia were said to have been peaceful for some absurdly long time period, like 10k years minimum.

If you'r interested, I would suggest reading Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe.
People who wear complete historical dress every day
> Seems like you're criticizing it just because it's different from what you're used to.

This is a valid criticism. There are already widely-used data formats; if you do something different it should be justified.
Freelancing and preparing for vacation!
I feel like we're woefully underprepared for earthquakes. It feels like pushing away technical debt on a societal scale.
SD-WAN+Startup+Viptela+Raises+$75M
None of those came close to the scale of the Napoleonic wars. Nor did they involve many nations.
>Gallegos said that the dried chiles hanging from a hook on her kitchen wall were all shaking. "It was surreal."

was this really the best anecdote they could find to include in the story?
Buy a little property and plant some trees, doesnt have to be that expensive. Thats what i did.
I didn’t feel it in West LA but my cat became extremely spooked. He was in an ultra hunting mode, flat to the ground and scanning the room. I never seen him act like this especially for this duration. He wouldn’t eat treats or respond to anything.

I wonder if it was just the vibration of the ground or if there’s some other factor alerting him.
If someone is thinking of doing it because they watched Pet Fooled on Netflix, I advise that they do additional research first. Raw isn't necessarily better or worse, but best to make as informed a decision as possible.

I pasted this link elsewhere in the comments, but I found this vet's analyses of raw food to be useful:

http://skeptvet.com/Blog/2013/11/raw-diets-for-pets/

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As it relates to anti-vax attitudes in pet owners, I've seen a lot of it. My dogs have exhibited sensitivity/side effects to some vaccines, but I'm still pro vax. There are animals in my neighborhood that can spread diseases like rabies and parvo, so it's not like I can just forego the vaccinations.

What we've done is work with our vet to spread out the vaccinations over longer periods of time, and separate some of the vaccinations (as opposed to having a multi-dose vaccination -- edit, I don't know if that's the right term, I'm talking about a single vaccination that prevents multiple diseases), and we've managed to mitigate most of the adverse reactions.
It's a disservice to China to say that they "bumbled their way into it"
I strongly considered DIY indexing - with IB's low US market transaction costs, even 10k EUR gets an ok sampling of the top S&P 500 issues; get up to 40k and you’re surprisingly close. It would be a long while before this method had you buy even one share of AMZN or GOOG due to their enormous share prices, but eventually you would.

However, I’m much happier picking a few funds off Schwab's list and not trying to keep up with exactly which stocks to buy some small number of share of next month.
I was only a few miles away in San Gabriel and did not feel a thing; I wonder if the SGV blocked any of the waves.

Wish I had come to campus early today to feel that one.
Yes

DD-WRT remains a hacky codebase with several things breaking all the time. I'm aure some people are running it just fine though.

It also uses close-source drivers for some equipment.

Last time I tried it on an Archer C7v2, the 5ghz didn't work properly.
Massive reforestation would eventually reduce cost of wood construction, allowing harvesting and replanting to sequester even more carbon.
this is somewhat common
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/03/world/confrontation-in-th...
This policy has worked well for me, for home use. After the original WRT54G series, I tended to go with whatever was very popular among OpenWrt developers. I still have a few WNDR3700v2 and related later models that I got due that policy, and they still work great, including (so far) with today's update.

I've fairly recently gotten some PC hardware to let me build a much more powerful router, perhaps atop Debian or Alpine. But that's gotten pushed down on the priorities stack, when having cheap little plastic OpenWrt routers and spares works for now.
Think they tried to scan it for malware?
I understand why people keep bring up earthquake insurance, but it's not that many of us haven't considered it. It can be expensive to the extent that you are better off reinforcing your home rather than spending any money on said insurance. "The expensive deductible related to earthquake insurance are sometimes as high as 15% of the value of the home, which has many homeowners giving the insurance a second thought."[1]

Most insurance companies bailed out of the business of earthquake insurance after Northridge because when it happens, the claims are enormous. The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake was an indirect factor that lead to the Panic of 1907 due to the high volume of insurance claims.

[1]https://www.marketwatch.com/story/25-years-after-bay-area-qu...
Fighting Complexity in Software Development
Candidly, I don't know much about the sustainability of hemp versus the many varieties of cotton, so I will defer. That said, it's not clear to me that sustainability will be the ultimate decider for what textile people use. People need to want to wear a garment because it provides the qualities they desire, which is largely look and feel. To me, hemp looks and feels like linen, which has largely lost out to cotton as a material of choice. As such, it's not clear to me that hemp will be more desirable than cotton. Now, again, maybe hemp really is the best material for some application like upholstery or bags, but I've never heard a good argument for that, which is why I'm asking.

As far as wool, it has very different characteristics from plant fibers. It felts; it can be warm or cool; it insulates when wet. People in cold climates use wool and other animal textiles for a reason and I don't see how they will be easily supplanted.

Anyway, my point is not to argue that hemp is bad. Really, outside of the environmental factors, where would I want to use hemp apart from linen, cotton, or wool?
All deflators need memory allocation and CPU counters that trigger errors on massive resource utilization. Guessing it is uncomputable like the Halting Problem to detect all zip bombs.
A third CRISPR baby may have already been born in China
Americans need to face the facts of the country’s declining health
Right, but it’s a nasty Catch-22 for US taxpayers, which is anyone with US citizenship. Can’t buy non-EU ETFs because PRIIPs, would be stupid to buy EU ETFs because PFIC.
Understood now (I own a CT too :-)). On the other hand it's cheaper than the Prius, which despite being ugly as heck is almost 10.000 euros more expensive than the CT (so here in Italy only taxi drivers buy it).
This is What the U.S. Navy Wants in a Frigate for the 21st Century
If you have functions that can call functions, you'd better not have recursion if you want to not be Turing-complete.

Non-Turing-completeness is certainly very important in many cases (e.g., in DTrace and eBPF), but I'm not sure that it's so important for configuration. Assuming for a moment that I don't need non-Turing-completeness for configuration, my choice of DSL would be jq[0]! Using jq for configuration means that I can use JSON, TOML-style, and other ways of expressing complex data, including combinations of them, all with "interpolation" (not quite) and complex computation being available.

[0] https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
I'm thankful I got to see your post while it was at the top. That fragment of Kruschev's letter is powerful and relevant. Thanks for posting it.
Notice there are some differences though:

* google was found in violation of 7 different articles

* it was considered to not have done anything to stop the problem and had reiterated the offense

* the issue affected a significantly larger amount of users (e.g. all android users in france)
This is discussed in the blog post itself. If you want to ask a more specific question I'll be happy to reply to my best knowledge.
The Hardboiled Slang Dictionary
Why didn't the upgrade take over my OpenVPN packages? I had to install the packages openvpn and luci-app-openvpn manually, but the settings were still there, fortunately.
Client cache should be bound to active connection. Strong consistency also require server to receive syncronious confirmation from each client with cache bucket before completion of operation, but it's a lot of overhead and not needed in most of the cases.
Seems like the post has been taken down.
Tomato - Broadcom only - 2.6.22/.38 kernel (with multiple patches on top).

DD-WRT - Most compatible - various kernels - some drivers are closed source

OpenWrt - Fully open (except for firmware) - Latest LTS kernels. 19.07 will use 4.14 for almost every target.
Elixir has a lot going for it nowadays! My side projects are all using Elixir in some way nowadays.
Excerpt:

"Speed is Stellar

The speed of the system is stellar. I feel like it is faster than the Linux and FreeBSD installations, but I don’t have proof of it. I suspect there is less bloat to weight things down and the hardware support for Thinkpads is super in OpenBSD."

One of the hallmarks of a good Operating System...
The probability of something going wrong should be 1-(P(something_nothing_wrong))

In this example, that’s 23%.
There are tree planting orgs like https://trees.org/

There are also very effective tree saving charities like "cool earth"

https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/report/cool-earth/
I've read that the USA Civil War cost more than it would have cost to buy all slaves at normal market prices and then set them free. So the war was not about economics. It was about something much more primal. Which is probably true of most wars. I think you'd have a difficult time finding a war that was fought for purely rational reasons.
They have tons of people working full time to classify the recordings to use as training data. Of course they aren't going to delete them automatically and waste millions of dollars of work.
Interesting – we need more of such studies.

Check out Drawdown [0] for other interventions with quantified costs/benefits.

Economists widely agree that carbon pricing is the most effective way to fix climate change [1], and fee-and-dividend implementations are the most viable politically (there's a bill before Congress now [2]).

[0] https://www.drawdown.org/

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/business/economic-science...

[2] https://citizensclimatelobby.org/energy-innovation-and-carbo...