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> Go's creators' appraisal of the software maturity of its intended users.

More like immaturity:

“The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt.”
Stories can be on the front page for 30 minutes or over a day, it depends on how active it is. I've even seen fewer minutes and longer stories.

Downvoting buttons disappears after a day, upvoting never. One can comment for 14 then, after that the 'reply' link disappears.

If you want more/faster stories use the 'active' list https://news.ycombinator.com/lists or 'new'. If you want to check less and not miss good discussion use https://news.ycombinator.com/best

There's twitter account which only tweet stories which got at least 250 upvotes https://github.com/adriel/awesome-hacker-news#social-media
China is doing the same today? How so?
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The one exception is parking. This isn't as useful if you use covered parking. And with a new car I'd rather use covered parking.
“On top of this the Intel modems consumed vastly more energy to do their slower work than Qualcomm, a trend that SemiAccurate has personally measured in the labs across multiple generations of Intel modems but is not at liberty to disclose exact figures on, sorry.”

Why not? Presumably they would be opening themselves up to some liability?
There's a high premium here placed on civility, even if sometimes enforcement can seem... not exactly equal.

Nonetheless, you'll have a better time on Hacker News with less accusatory and loud tone. Your points lower down in this reply are spot on, but because of the "ASCII YELLING" and accusatory tone, it'll probably remain flagged (only visible to people who specifically turn on a feature to view flagged replies).
These satellite networks require dishes (with starlink for example they're trying to get down to something pizza box sized). It's a different market than 5G and wireless carrier options. You're not going to have satellite data smartphones with these systems as they're currently planned out. They could, however, be used as backbones for cell stations, but then you're back to square one.
Whenever I'm in a new country or region, I always make a point to go to the grocery store and the McDonalds. Both tend to have unique items that you can't find anywhere else.
>I'm curious, are any MAC-like IDs broadcast plain-text as part of normal cell phone connections that could be passively sniffed

IMEI/IMSI.
> But perpetuating the "will of the people" meme is incorrigible considering that even the referendum that took us into the EU was followed up with a confirmatory referrendum 2 years after.

That was the EEC, a dramatically less powerful and important collaboration which has morphed gradually into something that would be unrecognizable to those who voted in the affirmative to join the EEC.

Furthermore, that was some decades ago; there has since been born a whole generation of people who are now legal adults, and a similar number of people have since passed away. A referendum of that vintage, on the topic of a substantially different organization, is surely less relevant than a recent referendum with a clear morally (even if not legally) binding result, on the current organization.

P.S. maybe it's not great to paint people as “perpetuating the ‘will of the people’ meme” rather than simply being of the opinion that the referendum represents the will of the people.
The author compares Greenland to Puerto Rico, seeming to make the assumption that if somebody made a good offer, America would happily sell Puerto Rico. Can any other Americans speak to the truth of this? It seems absurd to me that a country would happily sell off a territory and make a whole bunch of citizens non-citizens just for the financial benefit. Are Puerto Ricans not Americans? Do americans really view Puerto Rico as a budget line item that could be cut if necessary?
Sure, there are competitors. Starlink (or any other proposed LEO constellation) offers a fundamentally better product as a result of low latency (ballpark 640ms vs 20ms). Which they get as a result of being in low earth orbit instead of geosynchronous orbit. Starlinks costs per unit bandwidth are almost certainly far lower, meaning the ability to out compete on price.

I don't see the existing constellations remaining competitive for long.
Political correctness is far more than "treating people with respect". It includes truths you're not allowed to say, and claims you're not allowed to question, no matter how respectfully.
For the briefest moment I just considered buying a forest in Germany, one that I could visit with my son, having some high-minded talk with him about sustainability while feeling very smug.

Then I found a german forest marketplace[1], that has a good FAQ regarding the regulations of owning a forest in Germany.

After reading this I don't want to go anywhere near owning a forest, having to have insurance for the case anyone walking through my forest trips and injures himself, having to pay taxes for the very rain that penetrates the ground and may end up in the sewage system...

[1] https://www.wald-boerse.de/wald-kaufen/
Sounds like I could have made my point more clear. We agree: user control is the fundamental necessity. My rant is mostly against pushing DoH/DoT out without building in the appropriate user controls. I am okay with Mozilla doing it from a privacy angle. I’m more concerned with someone like Google pushing out this “privacy” feature then pivoting and all of a sudden DoH is the only supported protocol. Look what happened to XMPP with google chat.
Ask HN: Does Apple violate anti-competition laws by disallowing other browsers?
I am aware that Apple allows other vendors to wrap their browsers around a Safari component on iOS, but they do not allow them to use their own rendering engines.

Firstly, why do they do this? And secondly, does this violate antitrust laws in a similar way that Microsoft did with IE?
> Greenland is believed by some geologists to have some of the world’s largest remaining oil resources. [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_exploration_in_the...
I’m sure it’s a great car but man it looks terrible, and I’m willing to bet a lot of consumers are just as vain as I am. It is of course just my opinion, and as you say: to each their own. I’m glad you like your car, but if I was to buy an EV I want it to look like a regular car – not like something out of blade runner.
If 90 percent of your battery is used to cover the 5% of your travels that a PHEV's battery doesn't cover, it seems like it could potentially be more wasteful to own a BEV.

(I checked and it seems that a Tesla model 3 does indeed have a battery on the order of ten times the capacity of, say, a Prius Prime)
We’re in a transition phase, so hybrids are a practical solution for a lot of people. A “token” battery is useful to a lot of people. Especially those living in the city. Electric charge points aren’t abundant just yet.
There is also a debug mode that manufacturers can use to send arbitrary debug data connections on the usb-C connections. (manufacturers used to do this over microUSB as well)
Foreign grocery stores are definitely a under appreciated tourist spot. Just see Japan for example, it blows me away with lots of wtf moments
The FCC requires that Starlink cover Alaska, and it will with a later set of satellites in polar orbit.

Ditto for every constellation approved by the FCC.
Tesla Bjørn breaking 24 hour electric car distance record [Live]
Great point.. What if it could emit a specific noise or scent to warn/repel birds?
Bunk bed is $1,200 a month, privacy not included
I believe that the SF Bay losing many larger ocean mammals was related to World War 2 anti-submarine nets that closed off the bay from their migration for years. At least, that's what I recall from a marine mammal course a few years back.
Imagine how many customers will jump at the chance to carry a pizza box-sized antenna for a cellphone!
This man is using Kelvin... why do you use Kelvin?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/upshot/nearly-half-of-ame...
We use Ollie. There’s also the farmer’s dog.
Idle speculation stated by Netflix competitors, probably to justify their ads in their paid service offerings.
One of the reasons it takes a.long time is because we build so few.

When France decided to go nuclear for its power grid they where bringing a reactor online every 3mths for 15 years on average (56 plants in 15yrs).

Economies of scale combined with mass production would bring the costs down, if you could get multiple countries to agree to a standard design with commonality of parts and maintenance you could scale up really fast once you had a pipeline for each major component.

When we are talking about an extinction level event I think a species level Manhattan project is a good solution.

Won't happen for myriad reasons but wouldnt it be nice if our own vicious self interest didn't doom our not so distant ancestors.

If my step soon makes it to 90 he'll see 2100.

I'll be long gone before then.
Indeed. HN takes humor very seriously.
Honestly, nobody - yet. Keep in mind Checkpoint also had a good 6+ year run after innovation really shifted to sales and profit. I think the disruption comes in the SDN space focusing on organic aspects within. The next buzz in software defined is SDS (software defined security). PAN did just buy Twistlock, but that model isn't disruptive IMO. The hardware firewall is effectively dead. With TLS 1.3 and HTTP/3 they will be relegated to a clunky door stops in the network. PAN is on a buying spree to get ahead of what they can't figure out how to develop and get ahead of the looming drop in hardware sales. Look at "Prisma" or "Cortex XD". Effectively rename and rebrand existing, legacy products that didn't sell and aren't effective that marketing got a hold of. Prisma is just PAN running VMs in the cloud for customers on GCP. A) That's a horrible model for efficiency because the underlying technology is still the same (OpenVPN/IPsec) and B) it's a great model for sales because they upcharge like nuts for something simple to run. Finally, PAN wants to sell anyone and everyone an ELA. Why? Because they can't sell the majority of their bought and paid for product line item by item. So instead of try they get customers hooked into paying 10, 15, 20 percent more than what they would have buying some firewalls and they toss in software for "free" knowning very well that said customer likely won't use half of it. It's also a great lockout model. Take the CASB space for example. Why not buy an ELA from PAN and get firewalls and Aperture included than buy firewalls and Netskope? There's no reason when you look at it through the lens of procurement and PAN knows this.
Wrong, you should do the opposite, because they want to control how you think, and you have a duty to keep your thought independent.
It's not 12.

France was bringing 4 reactors a year online for 15 years.

France is not 1/3rd of global manufacturing capacity..
I love NFSN. To me, it feels like a step up from conventional shared hosting, while not going as far as to be a VPS. Despite the price increase, I'm still a happy, longtime customer.
I haven’t played Factorio, and have just barely used Kafka. Therefore, if there was any subtlety, it was lost on me. Nonetheless, this article was clear. I thought this cute and I liked it, but I’m not sure that I gained any new insights into Kafka. This is not a criticism!

However, one of the main advantages of Kafka, I thought, was that it’s so much more than a queue, since data is replayable, etc. The article does mention this as a shortcoming of the analogy, but isn’t this one of the main selling points vs other message queues?
Doctors Slow to Adopt Tech Tools That Might Save Patients Money on Drugs
Who exactly is "they" here?
It's a problem for astronomy for example.
We priced an electrical charging system for our apartment (2 spots), and the biggest cost was installation with energy coming in at a second (less than 5% of cost)
Although the Chinese could be interested in it:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46386867
Among those "cute pet projects" are OpenSSH, LibreSSL, OpenNTPD, and PF. The internet at large, and even FreeBSD itself, would be all the poorer for not having these projects available.

As someone who has run web servers with both FreeBSD and OpenBSD, I think some of your criticism in this thread is valid, but you really crossed the line into blatant fanboyism with that one at the least.
There’s free movement between Alaska and other states. No way to prevent them from moving to, say, New York.
It's mind-boggling how gambling is legal.
Edit: Here is a piece New York Times did on exactly what I'm talking about: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/business/boeing-dreamline...

Go to Georgetown and start talking to people, the quality issues are well known. First shift often signs off on wiring down all bolts in a section without doing their job, second shift comes in and ignores the problem, with third shift cleaning up the mess (or as much as they can find).

Its a caustic work environment that has been bred since the company split in two.
"How can we risk X number of quarters or even years to sink profits back into R&D to become better and compete for years to come? What about next quarter?"

This is presented as shortsightedness, but that's misleading. It's not that the incumbent is willfully ignoring the threat, or choosing not to take a long view, but that they have an existing business which is much larger than the niche being attacked and they have to run that business this quarter and next. If they abandon it, they've just destroyed everything they have anyway.

If it was mere foolishness with an obvious counter, it wouldn't happen over and over again to people who think they know better.

This is not something I thought of, this is something that was explained quite well by the person who, I think, coined the term "disruptive innovation" and whose book I read in college back in the late 90s.
Nope, it's owned by google and it's fucking expensive (surprise!)
I grew up next to an abandoned granite quarry. You could, and still can --though they are beginning rarer as the quarry is a bit of a tourist attraction, find super smooth, polished rocks. We would do this wringing with them all the time as kids. Never over until now did I wonder if anyone else had ever done this or if it had a proper name.
I don't think the perigee needs to be lower? Consider a collision fragment that breaks off tangentially to the orbital path and moves faster than the speed needed to maintain a circular orbit: its new perigee should be the radius of the circular orbit, but the apogee will be higher.
I suspect OP was brought here by this excellent video which enjoyed some success over the past couple days on the topic of flatness.

https://youtu.be/OWa3F4bKJsE
I originally though this would be a good market, and have voiced that opinion on HN, but afaik SpaceX has never said anything about it.

Someone has since pointed out to me that HFT is currently done by bouncing microwaves off the atmosphere. This, unlike fiber, should be faster than SpaceX's constellation making that business unlikely to work out. (Possibly unless high bandwidth almost as low latency is useful).
But you live in states.
Sure, poor people are getting more support but at expense of all others, I can buy less in India because there are more in India who depend on government for basics things, it's not same in other countries with unemployment hitting all time low.
How do you propose to fix dishonesty on the general level?
When humanity consistently votes for people who do nothing with space unless there is pork involved, humanity kinda deserves it.
In a lot of rural areas the cell towers are linked together using some sort of wireless tech, usually microwave links or similar line of sight technology.

So in effect all those towers share their Internet bandwidth.
s/nyse/arbitrary exchange/g
> Three quarters of African Americans oppose political correctness. This means that they are only four percentage points less likely than whites

Why does the author use "African Americans" and then "whites"? I prefer "European American", thank you.
is this different from ipfs?
> coal has a place [snip] in particular, fly ash can replace a respectable fraction of the cement used in concrete.

AFAIK fly ash is mostly used as a replacement for other filler (sand etc)... Using fly ash doesn't change the amount of CO2 produced per m3 of concrete.

I am struggling to understand what your point is here.

Also fly ash is generally a single digit percentage by coal weight burnt. So say 90% of coal burns with oxygen, most of which ends up as CO2 (by weight). Using the fly ash waste (from electricity generation) in concrete makes sense. Burning coal to indirectly justify making cement does not.
I couldn't imagine buying one new, but there seem to be a fair number of used i3s that are 4-5 years old and well under $20K.
1. It’s cheaper to desalinate sea water than transport it in ships.

2. You don’t need land for agriculture. Plenty of crops can grow in water.

3. Greenland has lots of gold. That’s about it.
1.9 does some of, but not all of what Distillery does. I'm still using Distillery because it supports upgrades instead of just full releases.
I think the parent was assuming "steep learning curve" here was qualified as "for a piece of software used by programmers"; while the people that downvoted them assume "steep learning curve" here was qualified as "for a game." It is certainly easy to learn compared to a code-base; it is certainly hard to learn compared to Bejeweled.

Mind you, compared to other “programming games” like e.g. Shenzhen I/O, the main gameplay loop of Factorio is quite a bit simpler to wrap your head around. It's only when you try to ultra-optimize everything that it reaches that level of complexity. (Or when you "program in Factorio", ala "programming in Minecraft.")
But Graphql doesn’t enable more functionality than the API already gives you. You don’t get more access to data just because you use graphql? And a team that gives direct access to their data is in very much deep trouble already. I really don’t get what you are getting with this.
Good. Maybe this will help. I’m not a “car guy”, but I appreciate driving dynamics enough that I special ordered a BMW, picked it up in Munich, drove around Europe, shipped it back and drove it in the states for 12 years. Really nice car.

Got to test drive the Model S a few times and was impressed. But it’s expensive, and despite the wonders of the low center of gravity and good balance, it’s heavy. Also got to try a 3-series “E” as a loaner. Turned it in wondering why the %#%* they didn’t just make it all electric, instead of the 11 mile electric range they gave it. I would have bought that car immediately.

When the model 3 came out, it seemed faster and slightly cheaper than the most comparable 3 series. Personally, I prefer the Tesla interior to the Bmw. The handling is much better than the S, and with the 3 series handling no longer the focal point, I think the Tesla is more fun to drive, too.

Which leaves me scratching my head. I can only conclude that most traditional car companies are run by ICE people who believe in tweaking engines to get more power. They just can’t imagine that electric propulsion is not just an environmental thing, but a better driving experience— instant torque, low center of gravity, great balance— all the stuff that BMW was supposed to be good at.
One of my favorite pastimes is listening and reading about paranormal/alien encounters and theories. I don’t believe a lick of it, but I find it entertaining to hear theories that make you question reality, if just for a moment.

My favorite that I’ve heard thus far is that humans are a product of alien genetic engineering combining alien and primate DNA. This supposedly involved multiple “steps” to get what we know as humans with protohumans (e.g. Neanderthals) being previous “steps” or attempts. Bigfoot is either one of those “steps” or attempts. I’ve also heard a theory that Bigfoot was a “happy accident” and carries out duties for the aliens.

I think the latter has come about as a way to explain some supposed connection between Bigfoot and the missing 411.
Focusing on what the individual can do _is_ a tacit form of victim-blaming in many situations. For many types of victims, drawing attention to remedies that rely on that person’s agency, rather than wider remedies predicated on greater social responsibility to fix the underlying problem, is a tacit way of putting the onus on a class of victims to “deal with it” and to view whatever type of abuse was inflicted on them as if it is their own private burden, instead of being _everyone’s_ burden to fix.

In other words, changing the conversation to be about “what you can do” tacitly reinforces the stance that it’s nobody else’s problem to fix, which is precisely blaming the victim for being in the situation (e.g. “if you want things to be different, it’s on yourself to do it”).

You may not be consciously aware that your behavior is tacitly blaming victims, but nonetheless it still absolutely is.
There's another potential advantage. Thanks to SLAM, the Windows drivers have some strong verification against that interface. If one implements it well, then they get both benefits of Windows hardware in general and extra robustness of their driver verification. As in, drivers might be better than Linux drivers without such interface verification.

The drawback being whatever in middle interfaces the Windows interface to the non-Windows VM's might introduce bugs. It must be correct and compatible.
There is a new operator, {{ or “curly curly”, aimed at dealing with this. It’s part of the rlang (0.4) package and looks snazzy / easy to grasp.

Check it out:
https://www.tidyverse.org/articles/2019/06/rlang-0-4-0/
After we sell Puerto Rico Illinois will be next.
I've been making it a point to visit grocery stores in every country I visit for the last 10 years. I tend to agree with you that grocery stores tend become homogenized within a country (and not just in the US), but there's always a lot of variation between countries.

You'll probably find this strange, but as a foreigner, I was really excited to see Walmart for the first time, and I found it just as interesting as visiting grocery stores in other countries.

There are things there that just seem comically American - like there's a McDonald's inside a supermarket! And there's a section where you can pick up guns and ammo while you're buying milk and eggs!

The chocolates section contains the same products as every other store across North America, but I'd never seen any of these while growing up in Australia, so we picked up a lot of these. Even basic things like bread taste different from back home.

Other stores are interesting in different ways. The size and scale of Costco is insane. Whole Foods and Trader Joe's carry different brands of everything, so it feels very different shopping there.

I'm really looking forward to my next visit to the States, and picking up the bacon flavored popcorn from Trader Joe's. I've never seen this anywhere else in the world, and it's as awesome as it sounds :)
I guess someone inside PayPal is using random people’s accounts to launder money. Deposit dirty money into innocent account- let it sit for awhile then take fresh clean credits out. In Greece? My guess is that it’s an arms dealer
Newborns are in danger from just about anything.

Other special populations of children include those with AIDS, CF, DM, and any other immunocompromising condition or respiratory anomaly.

Having addressed the special populations that are implicitly not the targets of broad comments:

Typical children tolerate colds just fine. It’s not the flu.

(Croup is also not a cold.)