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Sites hosted behind cloudflare have been down for me for 8 days now. It seems like there’s something up with TLS connections.

As a user, there is no easy recourse. I had to create an account on dash.cloudflare.com, which I was able to do after SSH tunneling to another server and doing a SOCKS proxy. This because they don’t accept emails to support@cloudflare.com unless you have created an account.

Once you open a ticket, you are doing so from a free account, because you are not the user. You are not prioritized.

I have no idea why I can’t access tons of sites right now, but it’s fucking frustrating. I’m in Chile and all the VPNs I can use are in the US so that makes for a terrible browsing experience.

This has really slowed me down this week. If I didn’t have a VPN, like most people in Chile, I’m sure a small part of the internet just be broken.
You mean the same oil/gas companies that have known about these issues for decades and covered it up?[0] I trust them to do the right thing about as far as I can throw them. If they are making any changes now, it's simply because it's economically sensible, not because they want to save the planet.

0 - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-...
Why do you drop and recreate an unlogged table? Why not create a temporary table, which is also not WAL-logged and automatically gets cleaned up? It looks like you're not closing the connection. The only advantage is that the staging table remains in place until the next execution, but presumably so does the data file.

Alternately, if you have an unlogged table already created, why not simply truncate the table if it exists instead of recreating it on every execution? Drop and truncate should take about the same amount of time, but creating a table is going to be slightly more expensive. If you're worried about making sure the db table schema matches the file format, I don't think I would be. File formats change, you're already going to be manually working on it. You can drop the table so the updated script recreates it.

I suppose it doesn't really matter, but I'm wondering if your choice was one of intent or one of convenience.
I too don't like the article presented that way. I should note that it was a conspiracy in this case. Automobile manufacturers ran media campaigns and lobbied to make walking across the street a crime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxopfjXkArM

Most of these are also laws passed by groups of people deciding to control others for a mix of perceived altruistic and selfish reasons. It's not secret but there's people conspiring.
It says he overcame his quirky name, but I always thought Rip Torn was a GREAT name. RIP
Well by saying that fields are not "real things" you have just started going down the "philosophical rabbit hole". What is a real thing, is the gravitational force that we feel not a real thing, is the energy we feel in an EM wave (e.g. The sun on our skin) not a real thing?
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Spontaneous Human Combustion
Part of it in a different (earlier) HN-post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20399294
Wow, I just checked and you are absolutely correct. How is it this hard for companies to check the Apple HIG for this type of thing?
Time Permitting versus Time Permission
Mm, even if they "tried to not put their life in danger", they still wouldn't be putting your life in danger... simple physics.
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Any source on how it is then distinguishable from https?
There's not going to be anything cheap about fighting climate change. We need to start removing 35-40 gigatons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere immediately if we want to retard, and begin to reverse, what we've been adding the past several decades. To do that, we're going to have to cease using fossil fuels entirely. China gets 70%~ of their power from just coal and is building hundreds of new coal plants, the United States gets about 60% from fossil fuels (about half of which is coal). China is adding millions of new drivers to the road annually, they have so many new drivers that there is a lottery system to 'win' a spot to test for your license.

Then we have the problem of 1.3-1.5 billion cows. An average cow produces 70 and 120 kg of methane a year. That's 91,000,000 metric tons of methane. Methane is roughly 30x more potent at trapping heat. So conservatively that is 2.73 gigatonnes CO2 equivalent which doesn't include the fuels used to transport them and their feed, the fertilizer manufacturing to fertilize the fields that grow the grain they eat, the cost of refrigerating/freezing their meat...

Over-fishing and acidification is killing off large seaweed and kelp 'forests' in coastal waters, those 'forests' handle a good deal of carbon sequestration.

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Let's just look at a hypothetical. Say we outright banned ALL air travel:

Something like 95 billion gallons of aviation fuel was used last year, that has gone up every year without fail for a decade - it was only 66 billion in 2009. Depending on the type of fuel you're looking at 0.55+ gigatonnes there last year.

A tree, highly dependent upon species, can absorb as much as 48 pounds of CO2 per year. That means you need at least 36.3 million trees.

Healthy forest has 40 to 60 trees per acre. That means at least 946,031 square miles of forest, just to offset last year's commercial air travel.

There's nothing easy about fighting climate change. :(
> We actually understand quite a bit

Last time I checked gene editing, especially on humans, is basically like using a shotgun to blast DNA and praying we didn't break anything of value. [0] We simply don't understand the mid-long term consequences.

Remember when we used lead paint in kindergartens, uranium in lipsticks, asbestos in everything and sprayed unprotected kids with DDT ? That was "science" and "progress" at the time. We thought we knew everything but we didn't. And we're pulling the same shit with gene editing, something that has the potential to change the human gene pool forever, there is no git revert with that, it's not a "move fast and break things" type of situation. (And I'm not even talking about the moral aspect of it).

[0] https://www.newscientist.com/article/2174149-crispr-gene-edi...

https://www.sciencealert.com/sadly-the-chinese-crispr-babies...
So best case scenario you can get $0.996 per USDT, and yet people still choose to buy them for $1 on exchanges...
My boss's son is like that. He has brought him into the office since he was a kid, he's 22 now and content to go home and read PLC manuals and such. He doesn't have any social skills and doesn't really interact with anyone except 2-3 people from work, it's kind of sad.
#suburblife

Cockroaches infest all urban areas. If you’re around a dense population of humans, you got them. If you’re in the US south, you got them. If you’re in the hood, you got lots of them. If you’re in an area with lots of transient people, you’re near them.

My dad was a fireman. I recall him describing an apartment fire where they encountered a “moving wall” in a stairwell, a 5ft square cluster of roaches trying to escape the flame. When they ran into situations like that, they removed their gear and rode back in their underwear if necessary.
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I always have to pipe in here. I’m probably in a smaller contingent but I’m a male with a B12 and Iron deficiency and the most effective solution has been to eat more red meat (according to my doctor) while taking a daily sublingual methylcobalamin. Even with the supplement if I go too long without making sure I eat some red meat I start noticing the old side effects return. If I don’t I literally lose red blood cells and they’re not replenished. Not so good.

It runs in my family. My poor mother is so bad that she has had to have a couple of blood transfusions because nothing else would bring her back from a bad state when she got there (the alternative being just lie down and die). Supplementation hasn’t helped her many times†. They also rarely eat red meat.

Here’s hoping I or my sister don’t end up the same way. My sister has already devolved to anemic and has had her own complications with that.

† edit: Rereading this it sounds confusing. I meant that supplementation has not helped her either prevent or recover from those cases until after the transfusion where her doctor stressed diet.
From a purely scientific view, yes, you can move energy easier than you can cool it. However, people in hot climates usually prefer cold air blowing, which takes more energy to chill.
I remember disabling Javascript for a couple of months in Chrome some time ago and it barely broke anything. Had a great browsing experience. This might be because of my own personal preferences when it comes to sites, but I don't think that JS is a necessary evil in today's modern web.
Is that a fact?
You're absolutely right. Even the Affordable Care Act, for all its faults, is saving real lives. It is a very real improvement over the situation before, but it's not the end point yet. More steps need to be taken. All at once or one at a time, whichever works.
> So what happens if a company goes bankrupt?

> It's a big catastrophe to have to fire 20 000 people, but if that means keeping 110 000 people employed, the decision would seem straightforward to me.

The government has a history of intervening to prevent that kind of big bankruptcy. But ultimately, if the company does go down it goes down together - better that than for those at the top to keep paying themselves while claiming they can't afford to pay others.

> BTW - My parents and grandparents lived through communism, with not only guaranteed, but enforced full employment, but they would argue that it was not a nicer way to live.

Perhaps both extremes are bad. France does well in polls of life satisfaction and the like, and those results align with my experience. Shrug.
Re: Point (2), it's going in the right direction, but at least in Denmark it is very much used in a "preventative" manner in the pork industry. It took a dive when the regulation came into effect, but in the last few years not much have happened, and we still have a MRSA problem out of control.

Independent sources say that more than 90% of all farms with pigs have an MRSA infection. The butcheries reported in 2014 that 88% of all pigs was infected with MRSA. Every 1 in 3 pack of pork is infected and weak and elderly people should be careful with pork in general because of this risk.
In most of the US if you lose your ability to drive you lose your ability to be a functional member of society and outside a few cities with good public transit even the poor drive. Europe has good public transit and their regulations increase the cost of driving to the point where mostly only the middle and upper classes do it. Losing your license in Europe is not as big a deal as losing it in the US.
> to compare combating malaria and other deadly diseases through pest control with the holocaust.

My use of the quote was purely stylistic.
Annie Jacobsen is incredibly fringe in her theories and I'd take everything she says with a healthy dose of salt.

Case in point: Jacobsen reported in one of her books that "Josef Stalin recruited ex-Nazi Josef Mengele to be part of a scheme where a “UFO with aliens” was created to scare Americans. According to the tale, Mengele — the infamous Nazi “angel of death” who experimented on children at concentration camps — surgically altered a group of youngsters to look like aliens." [1]

1. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/area-51-ufos-aliens-annie-jac...
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Official StarCraft mod makes the game look like a Saturday morning cartoon
The atmosphere can absorb it, but many ecosystems (the important ones for people) cannot survive the resulting changes in climate.
If I’m reading it right, don’t you give up USB to get this PCIe access?
Fine book. However, one needs to be cautious about taking <i>A Time of Gifts</i> and <i>Between the Woods and the Water</i> as transcriptions of fact. In interviews Fermor admitted to conflating characters, fiddling with other details, and so on. He was also working with very little documentation for events that had occurred many years ago.
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Why You Should A/B Test the App Store/Google Play Product Page
Inside the US, they seem to be present in large numbers in the deep south (FL through TX). Are they present in the southwest as well?

Here in DC, we get them, but generally only in homes that aren't kept clean - which can a problem in large apartment buildings, as it only takes one slovenly neighbor or poorly tended garbage area to let a colony grow and become a visible nuisance.

And what about Europe? Probably too cold in most of the continent, but present in Mediterranean regions?
They are all 'of the albino variety' at certain times. A white/albino cockroach is just one that has freshly molted. Shell will harden up and darken in a day or so.
One thing that irks me is SF city rushing to enact laws and code of varying types to address perceived wrongs. But they rush to it. They want to signal that they are thoughtful and progressive. So they often grab at shiny things without understanding the full impact. Oh, someone at UC Davis did a study which showed something we agree with, let’s go with it! These are hi-viz, low impact measures. Often they are counterproductive. Like the ban on straws. As if that’s the biggest threat that must be addressed with utmost urgency. Housing problem: oh, rent control!
An entire process tree costs 100 us of CPU time to create and destroy on modern Linux, so that mechanism could deliver tens of thousands of transactions per second on a modern cellphone. That's probably more than the underlying Flash can make durable, but with nested transactions you might be able to take advantage of more than that. Still, it might be adequate.

Unfortunately we are saddled with three generations of software that uses threads like they're going out of style (which they are) due to an unfortunate confluence of Win16 refugees with a misguided attempt to run our transaction processing software on a virtual machine designed for a set-top box with no MMU. You can fork and exit on Linux in 100 us, but not if you have sixteen threads and 512 megabytes of virtual address space spread across 128 mappings.
Why not quote the sentence before that? The actual first sentence is:

> I spent over 25 hours building a cut-down version of Sapiens.

Unless OP is on HN and added that after comments here.
VBIOS is often not necessary for running a GPU in the OS. The amdgpu driver can POST a GPU by itself just fine.

Still… X86EmulatorPkg allows running an amd64 VBIOS in UEFI on an aarch64 machine :)

AFAIK the bigger problem on embedded boards is half assed Synopsys Designware host controllers. I have a Radeon running on my Marvell MACCHIATObin, on FreeBSD even. But from what I've heard the Rockchip RK3399 has a worse version of the controller, and people trying GPUs on the ROCKPro64 saw errors related to not large enough BAR space or something.

UPD: yeah, someone in the thread mentioned BAR space issues wrt NXP i.MX SoCs, that's probably what's happening on Rockchip. Would be amazing if the Broadcom chip in the Pi turns out to be the one with enough BAR space! :D
Interesting, why is their use discouraged? Because Jim Gray’s sailboat sank?
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This is a big killer, moreso than most pilots realize. The reason it's so deadly is that it turns up in a bunch of crashes where it's not identified. That VFR pilot who was scud-running and ended up in some culmulo granite? He probably did it and got away with it several times before the crash happened.

I don't fly anymore, but when I did? I used to get all the aviation safety magazines and read them cover-to-cover. I also knew some flight instructor instructors; people known for teaching safety in the industry.

A surprising number of well-trained pilots get in perfectly good airplanes and fly them until they run out of gas. Just because you pushed it those last dozen times doesn't mean you're going to get away with it this time.

EDIT: One of the more unusual crashes I will mention since this is HN happened out in the mountain states. A couple of thousand hour+ MEII pilots get into a multi-million dollar brand new jet. It's CAVU -- clear skies, visibility unlimited. They then proceed to fly the plane into the side of a mountain -- all the time trying to figure out the new switches and displays in the cockpit. I still think of that one when designing UX. Aviation is really complex, detailed, fun, and full of math like programming. But it is also a life-and-death endeavor if you take it too lightly. If you're safety paranoid, take up boating. It's much more forgiving than aviation.
How Honest Are We?
Hundreds of Blindfolded Goats Airdropped into Olympic National Park
I raise roaches, they are amazing critters! They eat two apples, a banana, an orange, and two cups of dogfood in only five days or so. No skin, peel, stem, or seeds leftover after!
Oh, that's great!

Thanks
That's what I was trying to say; I'm in no way a panspermia fan. I was responding primarily to the line "perhaps DNA(+RNA) is the only molecule with the right properties to act as genetic material" with the notion that it was probably more special because it was first rather than something intrinsic about the DNA->RNA->ribosome system that made it inevitable. If we could roll the clock back 4.mumble billion years, we'd probably still get life that had a separation between code and structure, but what that code was and what that structure looked like might have been pretty different.
The trees are there, now, doing their part. How many decades longer would the slow-growing native species have taken? Nobody is mistaking anything for a forest. What you have is, a stand of pine trees remediating an ecological disaster.

That eco-tourism approach is exactly what I was talking about. Moaning about 'but its not the right kind of forest!' when it was an emergency measure to start with.
Would a virus meet this project's specifications?
Most of your argument is about motorized vehicles, not bicycles. I agree that motorized two-wheeled vehicles are inherently more dangerous than non-motorized forms of transportation, but that is multiple separate discussions, and your argument doesn't necessarily apply to bicycle-oriented vs car-oriented city design.

Walkable cities are for everyone.

This is trivially untrue. Cities with lots of steps or staircases are only accessible for pedestrians, but no one else.

Bikeable cities are just for bikers.

I guess it depends a lot on what you consider "bikers". When you think of bikers, do you think of image [1] or [2]?

[1] https://www.visitcopenhagen.com/copenhagen/sightseeing/copen...

[2] https://www.betteshanger-park.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites...
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a browsing experience without noscript is painful
> Will this make me stop flying? Not really, but I will be pretty sour about it so I don't see how it offsets anything

Someone else who flies just as much as you and could make an effort not to will also feel sour about it and maybe make an effort to change the situation. Maybe that person can save up and buy a home someplace else, or wake up earlier to take the train to wherever that person is going.
The famous Jim Barksdale quote....

“there are “only two ways to make money in business: One is to bundle; the other is unbundle”

Being part of a bundle though is a road to commoditization. If you have a good brand, there is no upside to doing so. There is a reason that Netflix refuses to be a part of Apple’s TV app while lesser players will.
Both tangentially involve Jews, so yes.
Meanwhile I struggle to keep my cockroach colony reproducing fast enough to keep up with the demand for them that my other animals have.
I think it's "humans have the drive to do exciting things" regardless of financial status. Add money, and now they can do more expensive exciting things ... like flying small fast planes instead of small fast(-ish) cars.
You don't need X, and I wouldn't assume its remnants of userspace mode setting would work on non-x86.

The amdgpu kernel driver POSTs the GPUs when loaded just fine! I run an RX 480 on a MACCHIATObin with FreeBSD and Wayland only :)

Plus, there are two ways to get the GPU in UEFI already – X86EmulatorPkg and native aarch64 GOP driver builds provided by AMD.
They won't allow their core profit centers to br disrupted.
The 737 MAX seems like a better bet. Nobody would ever fly on them again anyway - and they crash themselves!
Yeah, it's braver to stand up to him and tell him no. And I (or 'we', more accurately) have done that. Not to a VP, but to someone from business who insisted we should deploy a new feature to production as promised, when we decided it wouldn't be responsible to do so. And that was a meaningful feature, that we promised to deploy. It's just that we'd come to the conclusion that it wouldn't be prudent to do so at that time, so we didn't. Business guy didn't like it and spent some time screaming at someone (not me, fortunately).

It is absolutely important to be able to say no to people who outrank you.
That's an asinine logic.

Why limit yourself to climate change? You can apply this to anything. Work safety, seat belts, you name it.

> Each of us will die anyway, so I doubt if anyone can treat not dying in a car accident/ work related accident / fire as a real benefit.
Municipalities do not do much to slow traffic. The might put up a slower speed limit sign, and post traffic copes - but the cynic who says this is about revenue not slowing traffic has a good point. There are plenty of real ways to slow traffic known in traffic engineering circles, but they are rarely implemented.
> You mention biodiversity but seem to be glossing over the role of ruminants in the ecological system, and the severe lack of biodiversity which can be the consequence of large scale crop production.

That is true, but it's very likely the meat you buy was not grazing freely, and instead was stuffed with feed in a feedlot space or sometimes let to graze on a tiny plot to be "grass-fed". This is how the scale of our industrial animal agriculture is met.

[0] https://www.splendidtable.org/story/inside-the-factory-farm-...

> While doing research for his book Pig Tales, author Barry Estabrook visited a farmer in Iowa who raised 150,000 pigs a year. What he saw at this factory farm -- the way 97 percent of pigs in the U.S. are raised -- is a far cry from Old MacDonald's.

> "[The pigs] never see the light of day," he says. "They never set foot on anything but a bare, hard floor. They breathe that poisoned air 24/7."

[1] https://sentientmedia.org/u-s-farmed-animals-live-on-factory...

>According to the latest Sentience Institute analysis, the percent of U.S. farmed animals living on factory farms is…

* Broiler chickens (99.9%) live on factory farms

* Turkeys (99.8%) live on factory farms

* Egg chickens (98.2%) live on factory farms

* Pigs (98.3%) live on factory farms

* Cows (70.4%) live on factory farms
I must be misunderstanding it. I was reading it as a claim that we can switch at the snap of fingers without any risk or issue at all. Apologies if that was not correct.
Not to mention atmospheric entry and asteroid impact.