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It's recommended that people check out Theo de Raadt's Hackfest 2014 presentation on OpenBSD's arc4random(3).

https://www.openbsd.org/papers/hackfest2014-arc4random

Also suggest reading from page 19 on, which covers OpenBSD"s random(4) subsystem, and getentropy(2) syscall which suffers from none of the issue that are plaguing Linux getrandom today.

https://www.openbsd.org/papers/hackfest2014-arc4random/mgp00...

https://man.openbsd.org/man4/random.4
https://man.openbsd.org/arc4random.3
I've been keeping a casual eye on drones for a few years, and find it surprising that the flight time always stays between 20 and 30 minutes. Despite all the advances in every other department, the flight time has not changed. Why is that? I would have expected drones capable of flying for over an hour by now.
You are 100% correct, this is known as the carbon-fee-and-dividend[1] scheme, and it has a number of advantages for all sides:

* It does not further harm poor people - as everyone receives an equal dividend, it makes a bigger impact the less you have.
* It provides a long-term, predictable carbon cost. Business can plan many years in advance and not be caught by surprise.
* It's effective at reducing emissions (not the exact scheme, but see Australia under the most recent Labor government, before the repeal of a carbon price).

I'd encourage everyone interested to get in touch with the Citizens' Climate Lobby and pitch in.

[1] https://citizensclimatelobby.org/basics-carbon-fee-dividend/
> What goes through your head when someone tells you that they don't have a social media account?

Up until a few years ago, it wasn't common but it wasn't super rare. I knew more than a handful of people who didn't have any Facebook/Insta/etc. accounts and mostly I just assumed they wanted to keep their personal lives private from friends and colleagues.

In recent years though, I can only think of two persons that I know directly who I could not find a trace of online. The first was a smart programmer I assumed to be into HN privacy-activism type groups or something like Anonymous. The second, which was more baffling, is someone I knew in college that appears to have disappeared off the face of the planet, and I thought maybe he had died until someone told me he "doesn't want to be found".
> There are regular public hearings where anyone is entitled to monologue at decision-makers for several minutes at a time, sometimes with hilarious results.

Are there restrictions on non US citizens?
Screw it, let's abandon all markup and content: https://mathiasbynens.be/demo/css-without-html

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Is it whataboutism to mention toddlers in cages here? It seems both governments have their gas chamber moments...
Interesting how Boeing and Airbus don't manufacture in China, and coincidentally China hasn't been able to produce any viable competitor to those products.

Goes to show that without easy access to product blueprints/IP at the factories, China is very slow to actually innovate on their own. Hence why I feel the "China will outpace everyone in tech and take over the world" is super overblown.

Even their university culture practically encourages cheating in classes to pass, so you have generations of students graduating with weak understanding of the fundamentals. The US is obviously not a perfect meritocracy, but China is super far from that.

An economic model where American/European/Japanese/Korean tech is stolen and then friends of politicians are gifted CEO positions of companies that clone that stolen tech...not sustainable at all. If you want a painful example of what I'm talking about, watch the AI debate between Jack Ma and Elon Musk. It's so clear that Ma has an absolutely minuscule understanding of the AI landscape.

When robotic manufacturing eventually becomes cheaper and faster than manufacturing in China, meaning they'll no longer have IP to steal, they are in huge trouble.
It is corporate language for "this is our first and most important priority and should be noticed and followed by anyone"
It’s true. I’ve seen this in action. Multiple workflow steps being built up independently of the others and with a huge array of different languages/frameworks.
Point #2 actually follows from Point #1. Hayek makes this argument very thoroughly in The Road to Serfdom:

Advancement within a totalitarian group or party depends largely on a willingness to do immoral things. The principle that the end justifies the means, which in individualist ethics is regarded as the denial of all morals, in collectivist ethics becomes necessarily the supreme rule. There is literally nothing which the consistent collectivist must not be prepared to do if it serves ‘the good of the whole’, because that is to him the only criterion of what ought to be done.

This quote is from the condensed edition, because my paper copy is at home: https://fee.org/resources/the-road-to-serfdom-condensed-edit...
Jeez that's crazy. 14 rounds in a leg...how was that thing even still attached?

Do the police there have tasers? That could be a good tool for this type of thing.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/06/first-mammal...

Do you have a response to this?
Do you know any?
I only personally know a couple of Peloton owners (from the time before they owned one), and they all use them regularly. The people I know from Peloton groups online, obviously, are a self-selecting group of more frequent/fervent users, so they don't really count.

We go in cycles; I use the bike much less frequently in the summer when I ride outside more, and more in the winter. I'm around 300 rides on it, my wife's closer to 100. (I ride more/she runs more).

We bought the treadmill in the spring after she got injured (again) trying to run in short morning daylight hours, or waning evening daylight hours, so we haven't used it as much, but it will definitely get a lot more use as the darkness descends on us again.

We're both pretty active, so I guess maybe we don't represent the average of the addressable market, but maybe we represent more of an average of CURRENT owners.

Peloton could really have a home run, market-wise, if they could sell expensive equipment AND subscriptions that people don't want to let go of because they want to keep thinking of themselves as people who work out. (The same way people keep paying gym memberships because they want to believe they're going to work out more).
Why should people die because someone is stealing some IP "property", it is probably that in 100 years IP property will be seen similar to slavery. I won't debate IP laws here.
> Oddly enough, social media made it's big entrance via movie stars - I could not possibly be any less surprised at this.

Is this true? I don't recall that occurring, it seemed more like a young-techie-people, grassroots phenomenon when people started using MySpace and FB.
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We were evaluating Monday to replace Asana or Basecamp. It does a lot but the rough edges in the UI/UX really start to show once a team of size building a product starts to use it.
Well, that was when there was a nuclear weapon pointed at every major city.
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MDN is often a better alternative to W3Schools. They cover a lot of "web" things, not just JS docs.
I would have to say yes, based on my recent personal experience. I have encountered moderators with their own weird axe to grind disrupting the entire subreddit. Many or most contributors make simple comments, not very much more complicated than "me too", or repeat myths, urban legends or common knowledge, but pretending to expertise.
The green beaches thing seemed quite promising https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20403570
I agree with these points. If we are to consider the effectiveness of getting climate deniers on the path towards change, then we should use a thoughtful strategy that gets them on board.
Still no comments? Surprising.

If this technique works, then it ends all hyperparameter tuning, forever. The paper's humble on this point, but quite clear.
This is the case for people with little need for space. If you are happy to rent a room and you don't need a parking spot, you get a great deal. Investments and mail-order items aren't any more expensive in San Francisco. Local expenses like food are break-even with a 2x price increase.

For people who need space, just forget it. House prices are roughly 10x higher than in the ordinary small cities, ignoring the difference in land area. Families need the space.

I know a former San Francisco resident, now in Florida, with enough space to raise sheep and shoot an AR-15 in his yard. He's not rich. He earns a salary as a good software developer, and he decided to buy that kind of space. It's 11 acres if I remember right. He couldn't have that in San Francisco, even earning literally twice as much money.
It will take far longer than 20 years for 1m rise in sea level. Even in the very unlikely scenario that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere quadruple, it will take about 250 years. Why panic instead of coming up with feasible solutions?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise#/media/File:Pro...
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You're making a straw man by saying that his entire argument is a straw man and isn't rational in any way.
Glas (glass) and glass (ice cream) have very different pronounciations that you don't really mix up. Glas has an extended a, glass sounds just about the same as in english.
> Predictions about climate change, while often imprecise, are largely evidence based. Religious prophecies are not.

"The world will end in 15 years" is fundamentally based on faith, whether that is faith in science or in a prophet of some form. Saying "but MY faith is in something real" isn't a valid argument.

(and since the actual climate scientists say that the world is NOT going to end in 15 years...)
You would be surprised. Smaller local government can certainly be influenced by the few who are motivated enough to show up to town halls. Unfortunately, most people have obligations so that type of people who show up are often elderly or moms with a spiky blonde haircut.
Just to add to this, more to the spot of your question, i think a no side-effect is often desirable, but i dont think it should be an impediment.

As you might need to call another function inside of our procedure that mutates some data.

But i think there are some sort of problems we are imposing to ourselves just because we need to deal with the millions possible ways a data could be laid out or modeled based in our type-system centric world.

In my perfect world, we should model functions in a DNA fashion, so function is also data, and if is mutable, could even be changed by the data depending of the what is in it.

First, we would never have to re-create a function again, and if we do, the data signature would be exactly the same as the other one created before, so we can match in a index for instance.

Im more inspired by the way things are done in the natural world, than the way we ended up shaping math (where the concepts of FP are more based on).
Energy production is slowly moving towards being a solved problem, with emissions going down - thanks to renewables, not nuclear. Mobility's co2 contributions are still increasing, and in particular flying doesn't seem to have feasible solutions in any reasonable time frame. Yes it's not a low hanging fruit in terms of reducing emissions, but it's a hard nut - and the global effects of it are increasing (and already larger than 2% due to radiative forcing). Incidentally it's also a way in which individuals can blow their individual carbon budget very quickly, and thus can also mitigate it very easily.

Carbon sequestration is not a low hanging fruit, arguably it's even less feasible, less economical at the scale required than fossil-free aviation.

I think young people's gloom is reasonable when constantly being confronted with climate change deniers, and even those who believe reality will fight tooth and nail against changing the economy towards being more sustainable, citing magical, non-existing or uneconomical technologies that would allow everybody to just continue like today. It's frustrating to talk to people who don't want to make small adjustments today, willingly accepting that everybody has to make larger and more radical changes later as society keeps kicking down the can.
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. Thank you. I appreciate the book reference.
It's just adding toppings to pizza (and too much sauce!)... I was hoping to see how the dough preparation would be automated. I'm sure it could be done, but I would prefer a hand-made pizza. I enjoy making my own pizzas, and the dough/crust is what makes the biggest difference in a pie, and is the most interesting/fun to learn and experiment with.

this robot to me is just the next level up from the skittles sorting robots.
Speaking as someone who can't drink caffeine without a painful pins and needles sensation (thanks levofloxacin!), I'd say the analogy works quite well.
One problem with nuclear is that we've spent decades of R&D time ignoring the possibility of low space, low waste reactors that we have very little time to complete development on them.

The risk of catastrophic failure has been shown repeatedly to be something that arse-covering bureaucrats are incapable of handling.

The passive shutdown of the LFTR design, coupled with low area utilisation and the reduced risk of proliferation would have made it an ideal olive branch to the world.

But there's not much money to be made from ubiquitous energy.
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That is true. I only brought it up as a comparison with e.g. Nim, which does (claim to) have the ability to interoperate with C++ directly without C-ABI shims. D supposedly has similar capabilities, as does Chicken Scheme.

But yeah, the use case ain't to work with C++ code I've written (if I'm writing it, then my goal is to write as close to zero lines of C++ as possible ;) ), but rather to work with third-party C++ codebases that do not expose a C-compatible API (or do so poorly).
>> Anyone who doesn’t do this will be fired

Right, motivating everyone.. check..
Ubuntu's man pages say "all major Linux distributions have [saved a seed file across reboots] since 2000 at least":

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man4/random.4.htm...
Yes, I do think that a gap in weapons technology is meaningful.

I love numbers so let's talk about those using the Iraq war as an example.

Here's an estimate of the number of casualties in the Iraq war: https://www.iraqbodycount.org/

Roughly 200k civilians, 90k combatants.

According to wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-National_Force_%E2%80%93... 5k western coalition forces died.

Even if these numbers are wildly inaccurate, I don't like those odds. Yes, it is difficult for the army to actually completely squash the insurgency, but there is a very messy grey zone between "winning" and "losing" where those in power relentlessly oppress the rest at relatively little cost to themselves.

I'm not saying, by the way, not to resist oppression, I am simply saying that the weapons that civilians cannot buy are very very scary, and it is probably wise to pick one's battles.
I think its an artifact of pervasive guilt and shame. Much of the developed world enjoys the highest standard of living that humans have ever experienced, and did little to nothing to get there. It feels like flying too close to the sun, an overdose of good. To satisfy a sense of justice, the logical conclusion is judgement for millions that commit (perceived) poor behaviors without consequence.

People have fervently believed in apocalypses for thousands of years, in at least ever other generation. The fact of the matter is that we are evolved from people that survived by exterminating other people groups. We have deep genetic memories of actual apocalypse, from tribes to nations. We are evolved to anticipate war and destruction- and adapt.

I believe that most people don't actually believe in 100% extinction of humans; they believe that there will be a relatively few amount of survivors, and hope to be among them.
Ground vehicles can run fine on ethanol but the increased fire risk (relative to kerosene) probably makes it impractical for commercial passenger flights.
Sure doesn't look like it. I can't even tell what your argument is supposed to be other than "nuh uh".

It's easy to stomp into a discussion and demand "stats", and then accuse people of irrational thinking when they don't immediately produce them. I'm sure someone has put together some statistics about repair costs, but I'd have no idea how to find them. The companies have no interest in helping compile numbers on their own service and parts, so good luck.

What I do have is lots of experience. As a property manager I've dealt with a hundred appliances. I work with a dozen dealers and repair people. I can get my old washers and fridges fixed easily; parts are everywhere, and every repairman knows how to change out a compressor on an old whirlpool compressor, or the tensioner on an old Maytag washer.

In contrast, my 15 year old Dacor range is a prime target for right-to-repair laws. It's built to last forever, but Dacor doesn't sell parts, and only makes schematics and repair manuals available to "certified" repair shops. There is only one in my city, and they wanted $500 dollars to replace my control board. Luckily I managed to find a used control board on ebay for $80 and did it myself. Took me a couple hours to do a job that would have taken minutes if only I'd had the manual. Easy stuff, should be totally accessible to owners and every repair shop, but Dacor likes to restrict the manuals to dealers so they can try to sell you a new one.

Then consider the nightmare of LG fridges. When the compressor went bad on my 2012 LG fridge, the cheapest repair estimate I could find was over a thousand dollars. There are only a few companies in my city who will do warranty repairs on LG fridges with linear compressors. There are a couple others who will no non-warranty work, but the repair won't be under warranty so if the new compressor goes bad (which is not unlikely on these new fridges), you're SOL. I have yet to find a used appliance reseller that sells refurbished LG fridges; when they haul away LG fridges, they are always scrapped. So what I have is a four thousand dollar fridge that lasted seven years. This is a common problem with LG fridges.

Washing machines are another whole world of pain.

So yes, I'll definitely be voting for every right-to-repair initiative that comes my way.

You know, you could easily read online about this stuff if you want. Try Yale Appliance's blog for a start. But then again, your comments make it seem like you didn't come here because you're curious.
while i hate FB so much for their shitty practices I keep it because i find it very valuable to see what's going on with distant family and friends and to share my photos to keep my personal photography hobby going...

for me the trick is that i set my password to random and keep it locked in keepass and never installed the app, never logged in from work computer. so i do only check in 1-2 / week and only briefly. that's enough to catch up on extended circle, local skateboarding groups etc, but not waste too much time on memes. i am also hopeful that without sharing any personal info and installing the app FB does not track too much about me .. maybe just wishful thinking!
Are they selling access to the DNA biobank or are they generating sequencing data and selling access to the data? If you guys are generating sequencing data, how are you guys doing it? I would assume you guys are actually sequencing the DNA and not using a microarray? It would seem kind of pointless to use a microarray designed for the current eurocentric data on these samples. What coverage are you sequencing these samples at?
I've always enjoyed the Strong Towns blog posts that occasionally get featured here on HN. Is the book a repackaging of the blog or is it new material? How does it compare?
You're not wrong.

I guess it depends on where you are in life on how much it matters to you. Personally, I'm single and live alone, so it's nice to keep a superficial awareness of people I met in school not that many years ago. If I were married and having my own kids, I'd probably have enough social contact at home and through my wife and kids that I don't really care about observing others' lives from 1000 feet away.
I have many more Sonos units than that. The majority are Connect:AMP devices (connected to the in-wall speakers my home came with), but some are their standalone speaker units.

For me, the biggest gripe is that its a pain in the arse to get networking to work when your configuration gets more complex than an "average person" living in a small house/apartment. Especially when there are multiple ways to make a wireless network connection across your property, and/or you have multiple subnets. At this point, I can bring down half my home network by connecting a new Sonos box, before I've changed some of its default configurations (which you can't do until you have it fully setup and connected).

My second biggest gripe is that they don't make rack-able multi-channel units. I'd love to rack one or two of these in my wiring closet instead of having a stack of Connect:AMPs on shelves.

Denon apparently now has a Sonos competitor that at least partially solves the second issue. I'm curious to see how it compares, but I've got enough Sonos gear that I'm not really ready to seriously consider replacing it. (And once all my stuff is setup, it does work rather painlessly.)
You deserve the downvotes given nonsense like "Oompa Loompa". Hackernews may have declined, but we haven't fallen far enough to ket that kind of bullshit slide.
Thanks, I've been looking into using the former method but that one seems way more reliable.