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Forbes is garbage, don't post their articles here. This is a fawning, analysis-free piece that reads like a long-form press release
> Where I get weary

I think you mean either "wary" or "leery" but not both at the same time!
Within my experience, security by obscurity works only if you're low profile. If significant amounts of money will be spent decrypting your mess, it's game over.

OTOH, we usually only hear about the failed attempts, so there's a selection bias.
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Yea, the amount of power that PG&E has is terrible. But don’t preach to the choir, write Gavin https://govapps.gov.ca.gov/gov40mail/ or somebody else in office.

While I certainly respect your claim of personal liberty, the reality is that the State’s power infrastructure isn’t going to get any better without a major outside influence. The “tech elite” have the disposable time, income, and, well, technological knowledge to make that happen. (PG&E’s bankruptcy has also essentially stonewalled any sort of democratic effort). But the majority aren’t going to get up and do something unless it’s a conspicuous piece of the puzzle they’ve laid out before them. Especially not the new grads doing coke, making $300k per year, and spending two hours a day in a bus on the 101.
I thought that the map in the Fast Company article were cropped, but the map from the original study seems to lack Hawai'i and Alaska, as well as Puerto Rico, American Somoa, Guam... and where else am I missing?
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A few months ago, Blizzard released World of Warcraft Classic to revisit the days in Azeroth, during that period, quite a few players of World of Warcraft poured into the "new" game, but now Blizzard has gradually turned focus into WOW. Recently, the fans get some wow classic gold messages in a post about the next expansion of WOW, from the image, we can see the displaying merchandise for "WOW Shadowlands", it can be guessed that the next expansion is named Shadowlands, and then the fans can buy them when Shadowlands launches if the announcement is real.

World of Warcraft classic released by Blizzard is still at its peak, but this does not affect WOW developers to improve another retail version of the game, soon the annual fan event for Blizzard, BlizzCon is going to start in November, and there will be more information about Shadowlands being released to the public.

To be honest, the fans already guessed the details of Shadowlands expansion before the release of WOW Classic, so they can discover a lot of details from one image, including WOW logo or the castle that once appeared in Battle for Azeroth.What is not certain is that this is not sure whether the image really comes from Blizzard, at least until now, no one has come out to clarify the issue.

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Env vars are easy and ubiquitous.

1. Bash, Python, C, Java...super easy to access; no libraries needed.

2. They automatically propagate through shell scripts and worker processes.

3. They are also super easy to specify when starting programs, in shell, docker, child process from programming languages, Lambda functions, etc.

4. They can easily exist independently of other env variables on the same system.

5. The model is dead simple. Key-value. Simplicity is a feature.

If you need to specify something complex (e.g. hundreds of tuned timeouts), consider using files or code for the heavy parts and env vars to select parts.
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a core dump of the brain is pretty damn big... so that’s not really saying much; just that maybe we don’t have a man data to restore from
Uhm, that sounds even worse: so your bad review won't show up until a host responds, so they can simply decide not to, and your bad review never shows up.
That’s around $3000/month for 15 years. Not that much for miracle of curing incurable.
Please don't use HN for flamewar. It's off topic here and we ban accounts that do it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I like the concept and it looks like an interesting project, however still AngularJS + Bower for the frontend? You could probably benefit a lot from switching to Angular > 8, I have done it for several projects and it's totally worth it. If you need help let me know.
Maybe we should build lots of housing around (at least some of) the areas where economic opportunity is concentrated. Many US cities exist as they are today due to people looking for economic opportunities in the past (for example Chicago grew from 299,000 to around 1.7 million in a 30 year period).

These days it seems like non-professionals are priced out of all the most booming cities (despite there being plenty of non-professional work available). I don't think it's a coincidence that it's currently very difficult to get permission to build in many of those places (in 2014 Tokyo permitted 70% more housing units than all of California, despite having 1/3 the population). The under-supply of housing in places California of course increases the demand elsewhere too since those people that would otherwise live in California have to live somewhere.

Basic income could help mobility too since it makes it easier for lower-income people to move to where the jobs are (where they may not have a family safety net). Currently internal US migration is at a historically low level.
in my experience, even just setting +s to enforce TLS connections was enough to remove all spam.
The act was never passed into law whereas Obama gave actual legal status to Dreamers and attempted to do the same for their parents too.
> Instead of re-inventing the wheel building your own interface, why not just spend that time working on the FOSS project in question?

Hu? Because they won't take my contribution that rips out all of the web interface and replaces it with EMACS?

I mean, what does this even have to do with FOSS? Developing stuff as protocols instead of as user interfaces does not in any way prevent FOSS, very much to the contrary. There are FOSS IRC clients in all shapes and forms: Web interfaces, X GUIs, Windows GUIs, mobile clients, terminal UIs, EMACS modes, XMPP bridges, Matrix bridges ... how is any of that "reinventing the wheel", and how would we be better off if all those clients had to be part of one "IRC FOSS project" rather than independent projects with standards-based interoperability?
Re: human timescales, I have also run into this in my career. I wrote calibration and test software a few years ago, and it didn’t matter if a test took 1 minute, 3 minutes, or 10 minutes, because those were all “push the button, sit there and wait” scale. 15-30 minutes is “push the button and take a short break.” 60-90 minutes is “push the button, go to lunch,” and so on.

We had tests that ran for up to 24 hours, but, when optimizing, it didn’t matter if I could make it run faster, unless I could get it down below 8 hours, because that was the next fastest time scale.
Hmmm there is a market for self-motivation advice to PhD students but they aren't exactly a wealthy audience, and atleast some of it is purchased by education institutions rather than individuals. Beyond that, there are plenty of motivation oriented smart phone apps and etc. And there is 80,000 hours who sometimes take that as their purview.

https://80000hours.org/
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A great game for office Warfare. Low specs so everyone can play.
"deep sleep"
When I taught first year International Relations one of the early lectures covered the difference between state, country, and nation. Although used interchangeably by politicians, in IR the state is a political structure of which there are only about 200 in the world, mostly recognized by other states as being such, and with the legitimate recourse to the use of force (plus a couple of other factors). A country was a geographic reference - think Wales or the Basque Country, or Switzerland because a country and a state can share the same geography (and often do). A nation was not about political organisation or geography but a shared identity - sometimes ethnic, sometimes religious, sometimes nationalist - between a group of people.

Hence the US could be a single state and country, while being inhabited by many nations (American, Sioux, Apache etc). The UK could be a single state made up of multiple countries and inhabited by people identifying as members of many nations.

And occasionally you'll have a case where you have a distinct nation that has a well defined country (say Tibet) but is not recognized as a state.
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https://ircv3.net/ solves that nicely.
I much prefer https://about.riot.im/
A link to direct PDF: https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~greenie/privacy/solove.pdf

@dang you might want to edit the URL to this
Direct link to PDF: https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~greenie/privacy/solove.pdf
A long text that comes to a trivial conclusion:

What is a nation? I argue that it is a group label that is invented and sustained in so far as it serves to further the goals of elites. Within an individual’s lifetime they appear unchanging, but from a historical perspective they are fluid and are frequently created, killed, or reborn as needed. When conversing about geopolitics we cannot ignore national identity, but we must keep in mind that in the long run nationality can be, and is, molded to suit political goals.

Nations are a political entity. What else would you expect. The same thing can be said about laws or morals or religion or ...
The linked post explicitly mentions that code fences are downgraded to a "long message" link. Note that I've used a word "downgrade", because I don't think it is a good solution. Anything unable to tie additional data for a message to the message itself is not good, in my opinion.
Up late depriving yourself of sleep? While watching a video arguing for deeper, more healthy sleep? Ya me too.
> Acting like IRC is equal in functionality to Slack or Discord is straight up delusional.

+1. But the solution is not to succumb to Slack. Matrix and https://about.riot.im/ is what we should be looking at.
Brutal honesty: You just caught me k-holed at a rave in Toronto reading this and I feel like I have just lived a lifetime. Wow. Insanely well written. Also: glad I’m not one of the pioneers, unfortunately.
OK, thanks for providing those details. Thankfully I've not encountered this anywhere before in Australasia.
That's not why they were invented, and it's not even a good reason to use them.
Horrible article.

Elites want to destroy nations, not create them, so that point he got completely wrong.

In general, what is the point exactly? Nations are a container to protect ideas and people, to have an economy, to have laws.
From a purely commercial perspective, I think we're seeing the birth of a huge growth industry in psychedelics.

It certainly feels like there's a lot of demand for alternative (i.e. non SSRI/CBT) treatments for depression. At the same time, there are countless anecdotes of psilocybin/LSD having a profound success on people with these types of mental health conditions.

My prediction is that psychedelics will replicate the success of the marijuana industry, albeit in a much more restricted/regulated environment.
In my experience of operating an IRC network, some channels hate to set +s because it hampers the channel's discoverability. Unlike +n, +s shouldn't be a norm.
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Ask HN: Why was the BBC story about human trafficking removed?
There was a BBC story [0] about an illegal online slave market enabled by Google, Apple and Instagram; the story was rapidly moving to the top when it was suddenly marked as flagged and removed.

This story passes the HN submission guidelines tests [1]: it is deeply interesting, tied directly to technology, and can provoke interesting discussion about the role of moderation in technology.

In the interest of transparency, why was this story removed, if it was done intentionally? If it was organically flagged, can people who flagged the story explain their motivations for doing so?

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50228549

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Becoming hyper specialized appears to eventually create productivity issues. Scientists have sometimes made progress just by applying ideas from one specialized part of physics to another, where they were unaware of the progress in related ideas.

And there are more mundane costs. The more specialized you are, the higher the odds your tiny niche will go away due to market or technological changes. That means losing income retraining and finding new work.
I don't care about the world economy per se, but I do care about people.

One aspect seldom considered is the value of life itself.

> If each of us

Therein lies the consideration. Who is important? Who is "us"?

Are the people living important? Are the people not living important?

I.e. would it be a "bad thing" if you did not exist? I presume you think so. Should we think so?

Would it be a bad thing for another person to not exist? What about a future person?

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The value, source, and identity of human life gets very religious/philosophical.

My beliefs include human life having intrinsic value, and I therefore would like there to be as many human lives as possible and for those lives to be good as possible.

You'll notice that my conclusion winds up equivalent to the economics notion of "collective utility" (1 + A) * (1 + B). That is true, but I prefer to think of it not as adding more pennies to a global piggy bank, but in a real altruistic sense of maximizing human experience.
> But in the first half of 2019, only 35 wind turbines were added — an 82% drop compared with the first six months of 2018. Last year was bad, too: Just 743 turbines were added, compared with 1,792 in 2017.

How do you explain that drop then?
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That it's not a great reading of sci-fi to say it's 'set in the future'

Do android's dream of electric sheep is a novel set in its time, exploring social issues of its time, using a fictitious universe to help explore without so much irl baggage.
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I’d advise you to get a lawyer who can send a letter to Amazon. If they ignore you, might be able to at least take them to a small claims court.
Indonesia definitely has people with no last name. Former presidents Suharto and Sukarno are pretty well known examples!
>> put country over personal gain and he consistently chooses personal gain

I'd like some of the stuff you're smoking. If he wanted to put personal gain ahead of everything else, all he had to do is _not_ run for president. He'd still be the darling of the democrats and republicans alike giving money to both. Just watch some of the interviews with him from 2014 and before. Everyone totally loved the dude until he ran (and won) against the Clinton dynasty. Now he's an orange man bad and literally Hitler. The very same guy that just 10 years ago was pals with all of the establishment on both sides of the aisle.
- Timestamps are very easy to compress down to 0.01%

- Floats are hard to compress without quantization or lossy compression. The Gorilla algorithm is not helping so much.

You can do your own benchmarks with your data with TurboPFor : https://github.com/powturbo/TurboPFor

or download icapp including more powerfull algorithms.
> It's time to focus our efforts on planning and preparing for a warmer earth and all the problems that come from that.

Who is the 'we' in your 'our' though? Essentially just the wealthy for whose false short-term 'benefit' the world's ecosystems are being deconstructed.

Whether for reasons of taste or ethics I have a distinct preference for solidarity rather than saving my precious self. And (quite separately) I'm pretty sure there's no way this civilisation is going down without widespread nuclear war, which isn't going to be worth surviving.
The “real” name and argument types of an FFI must appear at least once, but other than that the identifier follows Nim equivalence rules.

Again, the theory can be argued endlessly. In practice, it just works.
You can do session types already in stable Rust without const generics. Each "enum variant" can be its own separate type, and such types can only be instantiated by a method on the type representing the previous state, which also consumes that previous state.

We've used them in our Bulletproofs MPC (multi-party computation) where cryptographic requirement is not to replay the protocol from the mid-point. Since the user is supposed to perform these transitions within their application on top of network messages, such strongly-typed API guarantees that, if their program has compiled successfully, then:

1) Steps are performed in correct order.
2) The protocol cannot be replayed from the intermediate state.

We have wrote about it here: https://medium.com/interstellar/bulletproofs-pre-release-fcb... - scroll to "strongly-typed multiparty computation".
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Ah, you are right. I forgot it was encrypting the backups.
The other transition is the bulge in the elderly population. This seems to me to be the major economic issue in developed nations. In Australia at least, government spending on the aged is the number one expenditure at $70 billion, not including healthcare spending. That’s about $18k per person over 65. The proportion of elderly will increase then plateau at about 1 in 4 over the next 50 years. I’m not sure the numbers add up... it probably only works with ongoing population growth which will have to come from immigration.
I think people tend to re-discover this over and over :)
I myself thought I had a great insight on this topic while learning CLOS[0], only to realize I was a few decades late.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp_Object_System
I don't think you even need to cap it. Political spending has diminishing returns. Give candidates enough money to allow them to make their constituents aware of their positions and the competing candidate can't undo that just by outspending them.

The problem is when candidates have to take money from special interests just in order to buy enough advertising to cause anyone to have even heard of them. Provide enough public money so that candidates don't have to do that, and then candidates won't have to do that.
Yeah. Bulk of the other comments are useless for that reason. It's almost like humans have inferiority complex against AI...
As a European citizen who looks at fat American people (and death statistics for American people) sometimes in disgust/pity I prefer to stay with my natural food, thank you very much.

As for wind mills I'm all for having many of them.
It wasn't removed, merely didn't get upvoted.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21415204
Complex bureaucracy, a change in the law a few years ago that's now going into full force, lack of political support (which is a very different thing than population support).

Every time surveys are done you get a vast majority (here's a recent one [1]) stating that they support more wind energy.

[1] https://www.iwr.de/news.php?id=36393
Parent is being facetious about this but is also overly simplifying the issue.

You can think of your airway as tube of cartilage and soft muscle. As we age (there are also other contributing factors) this tube may be narrowed or collapse under the weight of adjacent tissue. Excess weight (more adjacent tissue), alcohol consumption (more tube muscle relaxation) also contribute to the narrowing/collapsing of this tube.

The airway tube has the least amount of pressure from adjacent tisue when you are on your side. And the highest amount of pressure when lying on your back.

What parent is dismissing is that Positional Sleep Apnea is a fraction of all sleep apnea cases. I.e. his solution of sleeping on the side would 100% resolve sleep apnea for a fraction of all sleep apnea patients but certainly not everyone.

Source: Did contract work for a sleep apnea startup.
Yep. Taxi routing service, and not even the best one, you'd think they're launching those taxis to Mars.

That said, SpaceX interview process is even more ridiculous. The first step is to talk on the phone with a non-engineer recruiter who has to ask you highly technical questions, but doesn't understand a word of your response, and you know it. They then sort of have to correlate what you're saying with the answers they have and decide whether you know anything or not. The most uncomfortable interview situation I've ever been in. Or at least that's how it was a few years ago, maybe they've changed it. I was so thrown off by this, I totally fucked it up and never got to the second step, in spite of nominally having all the right experience. To relate, imagine trying to explain low level assembly to a five year old, over the phone.
https://www.unz.com/akarlin/katechon/

"A corollary of the Simulation Argument is that the universe’s computational capacity may be limited. Consequently, advanced alien civilizations may have incentives to avoid space colonization to avoid taking up too much “calculating space” and forcing a simulation shutdown.

A possible solution to the Fermi Paradox is that analogous considerations may drive them to avoid broadcasting their presence to the cosmos, and to attempt to destroy or permanently cripple emerging civilizations on sight.

This game-theoretical equilibrium could be interpreted as the “katechon” – that which withholds eschaton – doom, oblivion, the end of the world. The resulting state of mutually assured xenocide would result in a dark, seemingly empty universe intermittently populated by small, isolationist “hermit” civilizations."

You might enjoy the article.
The framework will fail to do so on startup though - thankfully, Spring defaults to eager initialization of all beans. But yes, you're in deep water when you make beans lazy or if you have no other choice than to make most things lazy for performance reasons, like in PHP.
There was a version of it that had 20 something points and was the second story on the front page before being flagged and removed. The link is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21416368
No. Singletons in Haskell are the single most over-engineered and ugliest thing I've seen. If you are going this route, you might as well use a real dependently typed language like Agda or Coq, and the latter supports extracting simple Haskell code from your Coq code while keeping your proofs in Coq.

Indexed types have their uses but just think about this: for your length-indexed vector example, what if you want to read a file and put its lines into such a vector? Your return type needs the length but it's not known until runtime. Okay you use existential quantification, but you now also need a runtime representation of your types. That's done through singletons. But that destroys Haskell's phase separation and means the inefficient ways you use to prove things and encode naturals now leak to the runtime! Have fun with your unary numbers then.
Anyone willing to describe us the importance of this image? I'd like to be enlightened.