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Listening to that voiced transcript, those "humanlike" sounds of breathing and so on are actually very, very annoying and bring nothing of value to the table. They are actually taking away from the experience, a lot. They are distracting and not natural.
Announcing Dotty 0.17.0-RC1 – new implicit scoping rules and more
TSR2, Hawker P.1154 (Supersonic Harrier)

Royal Aircraft Establishment - merged and amalgamated a dozen times to become DERA - privatised. Now QinetiQ.

Most of the decent research sites are gone now.

GEC/Plessey

I'm going to stop now, it'll get depressing.
It is.

But don't worry, when it is found out that it is a mess, we have a plan.

We can add a software patch to correct the bad software output. Not fix the bad software. But add some more to correct the output.

Genius!
Informational botnet security report – spot in the wild
Pehaps anyone is interested in a report about a spot botnet=

This is a wide spread link relaying/spam/phishing sending botnet which makes use of a generic start-bootstrap design (with a Laptop)

Example screencap=
https://urlscan.io/result/93ada930-f663-4574-874f-f929047ba6cc

And Namecheap domains! Nodes are either used for spam link sharing or abuse sending. Link relaying function works over scripting (r.php + parameters).

Example parameter - as that extensions are only valid a short time and expire when clicked as it seems, the only forward which can be seen afterwards is towards Google=

r.php?t=c&d=20107&l=264&c=39072
r.php?t=o&amp;d=20102&amp;l=264&amp;c=65216

Screencap which provides details of possible redirects=
https://urlscan.io/result/6c434201-26e1-42cf-9adb-633188825ae9/
botnet node - remove spaces= atlasain .xyz

Some of the spot nodes - remove spaces to check=
159.89.152.201
monpet .xyz

128.199.220.4
smartilone .party

178.128.23.54
karminia .club

68.183.204.13
bombali .science

67.205.149.19
sendlimits .xyz

178.128.38.103
dadnenchoo .xyz

178.62.229.177
masroufaaz .club

178.62.51.207
moneypocket .club

67.207.87.35
accuratelghylmkina .club

67.205.130.76
classscience .club

192.241.140.142
contactii .science

104.248.11.231
healtbeautymale .xyz

157.230.105.44
wannego .club

23.95.71.89
runguerinz .xyz

103.252.41.10
goodnews5 .icu

Hope this report is of interest!

Rick Crown
Team-member non-profit White-Hat anti-abuse investigations (online) collective
Yeah, that makes sense. I think the usecase I'm optimising for is solo and/or full stack engineers in a relatively small team where everyone is free to do everything. When that's the case, obviously these kinds of abstractions may just get in the way rather than help.

I've worked for companies in the past that had the organisational setup you describe, however, where frontend engineers didn't even have pull access to the code for api services they were talking to, where this would have been a massive advantage in terms of productivity.

I seem to end up at this conclusion in most discussions about GraphQL, usually with facebook scale being referenced, where it seems that as a technology its main advantages might actually be architectural in terms of the organisation of how massive systems are engineered, by huge numbers of people.

The temptation is always to jump in and compare the technical merits and specifics, and overlook this, but I'm coming more to the opinion that this is the answer here to when to use GraphQL over REST / RPC over http. That is, at the scale of a massive engineering organisation, it might be an abstraction whose advantages outweigh the downsides, but probably not if you're a small team.
UK made illegal copies and mismanaged Schengen travelers database
The real way is to adopt GraalVM, which is the alternative being proposed.

https://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/languages/js/
In some cases this could be a diagnosable and treatable cause of the kind of illness that often gets described as "adrenal fatigue".

I have some experience with this topic, having spent at least 13 years in that category of people who is ill in a way that mainstream medicine can't really diagnose or treat - and in a way that has parallels with the symptoms described in this article (though not nearly as severe or debilitating).

The idea of "adrenal fatigue" and "adrenal insufficiency" has come up a lot in the self-directed research I've done, but only among complementary/alternative practitioners like naturopaths and chiropractors.

It's not really a medical way of thinking about things - i.e., "your adrenal glands must be tired because you've been too busy/stressed". It's not something you can test for or address with medical treatment - which is why people who go down that path end up undertaking 'holistic' treatment approaches like diet, supplements, exercise, emotion-based therapies, etc, with varying degrees of success.

But there are plenty of people I've come across, particularly in communities of people who diagnosed with, or presumed as having "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome", who suffer without any improvement for many years despite trying every conceivable remedy, whose condition may well be explained by what is described in this article, or by something comparably obscure, relating to the adrenals or other parts of the autonomic nervous system.
Goto take one for team "Cooperate Overlords".. but guess what - first class is going to be empty for a while. You can bring your family along -for free..
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Although they didn't explicitly ask for such insane engineering compromises to have been made.
From experience most of the time when an engineer can't write down a design for what they'll be delivering over the next 6-12 weeks, they won't be able to deliver the desired outcome in shorter iteration cycles either.
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Congratulations on picking up JavaFX for doing it.
I am often more interested in the comments here than the content of the article so I am happy with the summary.

I can often understand what the article is about and go to the comment section for pros and cons
it’s an inspiring story for sure, and a good reminder to experts to curb their arrogance and keep an open mind. It’s also worth noting that by about midway through the process he was largely an expert in the field, and who cares if he was self taught. The professors and surgeons who listened to him obviously thought he was competent enough to listen to his ideas and act with him.

The last thing the world needs, however, is more armchair experts declaring that their opinion is greater than someone else’s knowledge.
That, after all, is how we’ve ended up with anti vaxxers, a resurgence in largely cured infectious diseases, and many other medical and social ailments of our modern age (politics anyone?)
I don’t know. Its easier (ie cheaper) to write a quick script and fix it when it breaks than it is to try and anticipate what unknown unknowns might crop up over the next two years.Absolutely, think through the edge cases, but there’s little point in trying to anticipate things you really don’t know about and if it was a quick script to write, it’ll be quick to write a new one that works in the new situation (and if not, well, you have more information now to implement a better solution than you did at the start).

It depends on how critical the task is. Can you detect an error occurred that you now need to fix? Can you tolerate the lag between error and fix? etc
Very exotic. How can I contribute if I wanted to write code for Urbit?
It's worth mentioning that in case of ambiguity (people with the same name born the same day in the same city) the algorithm solves it by allowing the 7 numbers in the code to be replaced with letters, thus allowing up to 128 variations of the same fiscal code
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Same topic discussed 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20531039 (381 points/372 comments)
Lyme Disease vs Chronic Lyme. Or Lyme Disease vs Lyme. The article and what I was talking about are when you no longer have Lyme Disease, or maybe you never had it, but you think you have “chronic Lyme”
But why couldn't the endocrinologist check via a blood test that he was producing too much adrenaline?
Note that in many configurations, the Turris sits behind a DSL or cable modem already (mine also running OpenWRT. SIM +4/5GL on the Turris would be an exception.

That 800Mbps won't do much for a 10 Mbps ADSL circuit, or even 100 Mbps cable. Though if you can saturate that, props to you.
This guy spent 11 years becoming an expert. He talked to experts. He learned from and worked with experts. All those doctors and professors in the article who helped him are experts. He found his answer in a medical textbook.

If your take is "experts are rubbish" then you have fundamentally missed the point.
No, it's not. Certification is an extremely expensive process with dubious benefits for safety. Why would you change hardware that has worked fine if it can fulfill your requirements?
There's always a story behind every codebase. Taking the new team member through the codebase at a high level, telling the story and explaining how everything fits together and is deployed is a time well spent.

It helps me connect with them, develops empathy, understanding and aids my form of communication with them.

The how is explained above. Why you should is "because humans".
is it me or the certification looks at the hardware but not at the software ?
This illustrates something that is curiously lacking from most ICE vs BEV energy efficiency calculations, namely:

More electricity is spent just refining the gasoline used by an ICE than is used in total by a BEV to go the same distance.
I much prefer this micro apartment compared to share houses. With micro apartment you get your own private space, kitchen, bathroom etc.
Altitude Sickness (In Macbook Pros)?
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"Male Pattern Baldness"
The reason the first person commented is because it's clearly touted as a solution intended for large scale batteries for renewable energy.

Restating that part doesn't change that, and it never states that use case as an intended application.
It depends on the domain. CRUD should be by the numbers, unless you're working at planetary scale.

But some domains are very poorly understood. You won't get far by trying to iterate - because you don't even know what the problem is, never mind how to solve it, and your dirty hack is going to introduce naive assumptions that turn out to be spectacularly wrong.
Why not both?

Also, nuclear has the whole radioactive waste and potential meltdown thing, which wind does not.
In deregulated power markets, which AFAIK covers a fairly large fraction of US electricity supply (including Texas) power generators are businesses like in any random industry. The transmission grid, otoh, is a natural monopoly and is tightly regulated (or outright publicly owned).

In such markets, uneconomical units tend to be shut down fairly quickly. Which in the absence of a some type of price on carbon (be it a carbon tax, cap and trade, clean portfolio standards or whatever) unfortunately can mean replacing clean energy with dirtier but cheaper.
I would bet it’s closer to 0.99% otherwise wouldn’t they have phrased it something like “slightly more than 0.1%” to make it sound smaller?
Yeah so let's destroy pristine nature landscapes with ugly turbines (which kill a lot of birds and cost an arm to decommission). I've seen wild landscapes in Brittany completely ruined by still wind turbines. It's a disgrace.

I'd rather go nuclear in select ugly places.

What is beautiful is good. He who creates ugliness is evil.
Can anyone in the know explain why, if ground clearance due to the new engines is the issue, why Boeing cannot just add a few inches to the wheel stems?

This would raise the whole aircraft off the ground. Surely that wouldn't effect aerodynamics too much as the wheels are up most of the time.
> REST/HATEOAS/RPC ... I first have to spend a day reading through the documentation to understand the API.

i think you're giving graphql too much credit, and give too little to REST.

The schema of graphql is going to require just as much reading up and domain knowledge as the REST api.
Electricity is fungible. It doesn't make sense to build out multiple entire electric grids, one per type of energy generation.
It isn't always good, though.

"Teenage Pregnancy", for example. Most folks picture someone young. 15-16, perhaps. Most folks don't stop to consider that a very sizable portion of "teenage pregnancy" happens to 18 and 19 year olds, which while young isn't that uncommon either.
Good to see ongoing Haiku development. I tried it on an older macbook-pro a while back but couldn't get ethernet/wifi working. Perhaps I'll give it another try soon.

Also, I love how the website has that 2002 PHP-nuke cms kinda look and feel to it.
> When I asked you to explain yourself, you started talking about income inequality.

I can't tell if you're missing the point deliberately or not. Either way, I'm not interested.
I’d be concerned about evacuation of these in case of fire. Do these meet zoning requirements?
The Democrats are demonstrably better on climate change issues right now than the Republicans are. The "both sides are bad" argument doesn't hold water here.
You'd be surprised what fraction of a safety critical codebase is just mundane code that anybody can understand with the same amount of effort it takes for "normal" software. The real problem is that most outsiders don't understand the requirements very well (unless you make them public too!), so they can likely only find "simple" code quality issues.
There are numerous systems that will run OpenWRT, which for dedicated networking gear I'd generally prefer to Debian (otherwise my first choice). Most annoying downside so far is no manpages. Low-power kit will shave a few bills off your ower budget (Turris draws about 12W).

As you mention, Turris updates automatically. For stock OpenWRT you've got to manage upgrades (and add'l pckg install and configs) yourself. The generous storage means you can add additional OpenWRT packages and apps as desired.
In North America, the tiny home movement is fledgling... more of a novelty than a way of life for most people it seems.

Tiny homes are illegal in almost every single municipality due to zoning restrictions.

Are the arm's-length flats regarded similarly in Tokyo? More of an experiment than anything else? You can live here for a few months, but if someone gets upset, you might have to move?

Do these tiny flats exist legally, and is their existence expanding I guess is my question?

The second lady's apartment in the video for example... the pile of electrical cords amongst all of her clothes looks like kind of a fire hazard that some landlords would give you flak over in North America if they saw that.
It's fine to bemoan people commenting who haven't read the article, but reading the comments first to gauge if the article is clickbait/whatever is a perfectly valid use-case.

I also cherish summaries like these - if I read the whole article I won't remember more than 2 sentences of it tomorrow. That distillation process is inevitable and good. It's a service to do it well for those who are time/memory-limited.
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> The people in charge of these chain-gangs just don't know any better

This is a dangerous assumption. It seems at least equally likely that they are just responding to the incentives the system presents them. In other words, when you see a chain gang, you're seeing an organization that views hardware as expensive and people as cheap.
During periods of transition, it can help to take the meta perspective. Fox began its remake first. It began during the Obama administration. Hollywood is being tested now. Some have been late to get the memo.
No.... seriously. Your bill might be going toward green energy, but dirty coal is still fueling your home.

Granted, many understand that and are perfectly fine with it as you're helping to effect change. However, a lot of folks have been really confused by that marketing line, so it deserves clarification. HN users are probably more educated than the general public of course, but I work in this industry and strive for clarity.
> Only if the corporation has a US bank account. A Cayman Islands bank account, not so much.

Yes but usually the purpose of the nefarious shell companies is to “anonymously” transfer the proceeds of illegal activities to the Cayman Islands. A drug lord or a terrorist can’t just wire the money from their own account.

It’s a moot point anyway. C-Corps aren’t the primary vehicle for laundering money anymore, trusts are. Usually a trust with one or more shell corporations or LLCs as trustee.
I see this sentiment a lot, but its kind of surprising. Traditional wisdom states the opposite - never do a full rewrite, you lose the years of buit-up fixes and edge cases and have to learn from scratch in too many places.

Despite everything, I still don't think the solution to the 737 MAX problem is to start over. The base problem that Boeing has its actually their terrible engineering culture, the one that values shortcuts and profit over thoroughness and safety.

Even if they started from a blank piece of paper, they'd have that engineering culture problem (and to be fair, it is far more likely an engineering management culture problem), and they'd still turn out a design that kills people.
I'm more horrified that someone think this idea is horrible idea and want to discourage the normalization of this. I think that is more dangerous.

Some people just don't have much stuff and doesn't have claustrophobic issue.

Some people just prefer location or cheaper cost.

I choose micro apartment anyday over shared house.

More space is just wasted empty space for me.
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Sweden's personnummer system is much more elegant - your code is your date of birth followed by a 4-digit unique identifier.

Everybody knows their personnummer by heart, while in Italy most people carry their health card around with the 16-character codice fiscale.
> Gyros worked back in 1911. why not use one to back up the failed sensor?

An angle of attack sensor measures something a gyroscope cannot measure: the angle of the plane relative to the wind. The amount of lift produced by the wings depends on this angle.
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"Child rapist" is pretty specific. Consumption/distribution of CP is also heinous and harmful.
But with lora you can achieve, 5 km range while running on coin size battery. Same with zwave, ble but those have lower ranges (new ble supports meshing).
with Wi-Fi based devices you need also extra hardware (access points), and you need power supply for every device (or in another words you can't have "wireless" devices)
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>What is beautiful is good. He who creates ugliness is evil.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
I wonder if organizations with a living founder who has a specific disease are more effective at investing for cures.

Michael J Fox helps cures Parkinson’s:

https://www.michaeljfox.org/

Augie Nieto with ALS:

https://augiesquest.org/
Let's try not to be too black/white about this.

Different types of expertise are valid and important, and different people have different motivations for what they do and how they do it.

The key point of this article is that someone who started out as a non-expert, was motivated by his own need to overcome an illness that established experts couldn't diagnose or treat, because they didn't share his predicament.

Let's just try to appreciate that for what it is.
> I love services like Amazon Transcribe. They are the kind of just-futuristic-enough technology that excites my imagination the same way that magic does. It’s incredible that we have accurate, automatic speech recognition for a variety of languages and accents, in real-time.

I personally hate it when I have to use a service for something that could be done locally on my computer or smartphone. And I don't get that fuzzy magical feeling, but instead I think of a (very nearby) dystopian future where a single company knows what all citizens say or do in real time.

Needless to say, I didn't read the rest of the article.
Apart from people migration, I wonder, was there any analysis of the climate change and sea rise on the global economy points - vital scientific research facilities, high-tech and complex manufacturing sites, major global financial institutions (e.g. stock exchanges), major agriculture sites.
Most analyses I saw consider only agriculture changes, but not the rest.
When was the climate static? Climate-changer = government shill.
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I had a terrible experience with my Omnia and support willfully ignored me despite repeated requests for help.

It’s now sitting in my closet with a burnt out chip. Long story short, I put the same network cards in it all the enthusiasts were. Those slots were meant to be user upgradeable. It starts smoking, I open it up and send some pics to the company. They don’t get back to me. Two weeks later I do what anyone does in this position and post on their forums. That gets their attention, they write me back. Immediately they’re on the defensive and after another week of bartering agree to take a look at it only if I ship it to them at my expense and pay for the repairs. At this point I’ve already sunk 5 hundred dollars into it so I agree and ask for a shipping address. They never get back to me. Over the next month I send them follow up emails literally begging to pay them to fix my router. I never got a response.

Between CZ.nic and Purism, I’ve sworn off small hardware shops. It’s been my experience they often don’t stand behind their products when they fail or simply lack the customer service bigger firms can afford.

I ended up buying a few mesh routers from Synology which have been purring away ever since.
> No, it's not. Certification is an extremely expensive process with dubious benefits for safety. Why would you change hardware that has worked fine if it can fulfill your requirements?

Is it fair to say the hardware is fulfilling the requirements though?
Because it obviously did not work fine and does not fulfill the requirements.

What seems to have dubious benefits for safety is lying to the regulators and shoehorning new processes into old technology. Because hundreds of people have died from that exact thing, just on this one airplane.
As a SF resident it matters more to me that they’re spending ~500k to take it down. A painting on a wall of a highschool...

Cue Patrick Star meme of “why don’t we take the $500k and actually help the students with it”
> That’s... how it should work.

I think the absence of this theory in reality is proof that it is not a successful business practice for software development.
If you believe that this model accurately translates to software then I challenge you to start your own software shop.
Why is it (and I assume this) flagged?
They way I interpreted his take was that experts can be stubborn and risk-adverse. After all, the downside risk for reputation probably outweighs the upside for a risky and unique surgery.
Yes. The segmentation of sentences is critical with a lot of downstream integrations you might want to use (translation works best within an aws environment when called sentence by sentence, and doing any sort of sentiment analysis or entity detection is also affected by sentence breaks)
I'm particularly fond of "hey Siri, when I get home remind me to take out the trash" as a shortcut.