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Considering the cost and fuel involved in getting something into space, it's save to say that most humans alive today will never leave the planet.

Even if we somehow acquired the material science to build something like a space tether, there's a minuscule chance a project like that would be completed within the lifetime of anyone reading this. And we'd still need way more than one tether to move humanity at scale.

We are on our way to causing a mass extinction event way before we become space-faring at scale.

And if we somehow managed to move humanity to space we would still need to make another planet habitable. And what would be the point of that colossal exercise when we got a perfectly good planet right here and just not destroying it is many many magnitudes easier.
Sure but that ignores everything about compound interest. And most people don’t live too 100. Consider it reducto ad absurdum on my part.
If I were Intel I'd have whole teams of people trying to invent new benchmarking tools and apps. And all those apps would be compiled with options that favor Intel and include only tests where Intel looks good...
WordPad isn't a text editor, it's a "Word Processor".
Is there a working JavaScript exploit for Spectre/Meltdown? I though it was just hypothetical.
Using Asserts in Embedded Systems
> iPhone also still sends the device name to the DHCP server when requesting an IP, so if you haven't changed it, it is broadcasting "<Your first name>'s iPhone" to the network.

Awareness of this is probably going up. Comcast is actually running TV ads that point it out [1].

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H45-5Rga1B8
After the p-machine era, MS was all in on C. They had some technical reason for preferring the pascal calling convention, like saving a few bytes of program text.
It still is misleading, because your special requirements will not perfectly match your benchmark.
And if anyone from AMD is reading this. I'm truelly awaiting AMD's NUC in multiple price ranges of 150-700€, if possible :)! I'm currently building a DIY RPi 4 cluster for microservices/kubernetes setup and would like to replace my DIY home streaming setup.

http://www.fanlesstech.com/2019/10/exclusive-amds-nuc-is-com...
Interestingly, SpaceX (Dragon), Boeing (Starliner), and NASA/Lockheed (Orion) all use the same supplier/subcontractor for parachutes: Airborne Systems.

Parachutes are hard. They're super complicated. They'll figure it out, but this will always be tough.
That's why you invest the $5m, not just keep it in cash.
Apple cares more about privacy than, e.g., Google, for sure, but it is extremely complicated to use an iOS device without an Apple ID, and Apple employs "know your customer" logic that caused me to give up after a few hours trying to create an Apple ID not connected with my real name and credit card.
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there's been a few incidents with vehicles mowing down pedestrians. I wouldn't label it paranoia. I'm personally impressed they've managed it without having to make the place _look_ threatening.
How would a law that holds Zuckerberg responsible in the fashion you describe not be applicable to every website operator and Internet service provider?
Unintended, but not unforeseeable, consequences of the Schengen Zone.
The link or text must be wrong. From the link:

> Surface Guard Impact Test: IWA 14 - 2,500 kg @ 30 mph

So it's not a "7,200kg lorry". It's a 2,500 kg extended cab pickup.
In Germany doctors are not allowed to sell you prescription drugs, or tell you to which pharmacy to go to. The doctors have to select the cheapest of comparable medications and the pharmacy has to replace with the cheapest available medications.

All this just applies for public healthcare. Private healthcare is basically an unregulated Wild West.
I was mostly responding to the points in the comment. That linked article... I dunno, it's not obvious to me what more the guy wants or why he thinks Facebook has to provide it.
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Could the same goal be achieved by offering a curated "shopping list" on Amazon, with all of the various items that you recommend purchasing? It seems like this doesn't need to be a subscription service. Perhaps just rely on affiliate fees and link to the products that you recommend, with an option to add all of them to the cart? (Not sure if that last part is possible, but maybe!)
The Win32 API is on life-support. Microsoft will maintain backwards compatibility for legacy apps of course, but learning Win32 for new development doesn't seem like a good investment (unless, of course, you want to get a job maintaining a legacy Win32 app).
Everyone has heard of Lyft though, and in larger markets Juno. If Uber management is truly banking on brand loyalty of all things, especially based on their behavior, they are idiots. Nobody trusts Uber.

If Waymo arrives with a more cost effective solution, that’s it.
Given the nature of the system, when would she have been notified that she needed to take control? Additionally, what did Uber tell her about how the system operated? Ultimately it is on Uber for the lack of serious consideration. Rolling out level 2 & 3 autonomous driving systems where driver attention (especially non-experts in an open world) is still required on a wide scale is absolutely dangerous given human nature. Most people believe that you have to completely jump to level 4 & 5 autonomy which represents fully autonomous systems.

Think of it like this:
"Hey, let's get this person who isn't an employee of the company, gets paid a pittance in a "gig" economy where extreme "hustle" is needed, probably isn't an attentive driver anyways and put them as a critical backstop in a system that is still a prototype and that they most likely don't understand."

The Uber engineering team lacked or ignored human factors experts.
Apple protects the message in transit. What you are talking about is the equivalent of letting someone borrow your phone, then getting mad when your carrier delivers sms messages to your phone number while someone else was holding your phone. Apple has done their part, it's up to the users to enforce security of their endpoints as well.
The right question to ask is "why am I being put in jail?" -- there is no way to satisfactorily answer such a question in the case of nonviolent drug possession / use.

We don't put people in jail because they drink (impairs the mind). We don't put people in jail because they ski (can kill people instantly). Putting someone in jail is the worst thing a state does to an individual, and an answer of "because we're not sure what will happen if we don't" isn't appropriate.

Read Legalize This: The Case for Decriminalizing Drugs (Practical Ethics Series) by Doug Husak

https://www.amazon.com/Legalize-This-Decriminalizing-Practic...
Oh no... that's the website !? PHP 5.6 has been end of life for going on a year now. I mean I get it. It's a small team of volunteers. They don't have the resources to manage something like this.

The attitude of the founder is very concerning. He doesn't seem to grasp how serious managing over a million DNA records is, even after experts and researchers try to tell him.

The should temporarily pull the site down, or at least disable the search until work can be done, as Mr. Ney suggested to them. The site isn't a money maker, what would be the harm?
Yes. I'm down. Would this be online...like we wouldn't both have to be physically in the same place?
> They stop people from using vehicles to attack lots of people

They don't just stop using vehicles as weapons. It's important they also stop vehicles which are out of control from colliding with pedestrians, or drivers who are having a stroke, or just messy accidents from spilling over into pedestrian areas.

There was a nasty accident here in Ottawa in January where a double-decker city bus collided with an overhang at a bus station. Three people died and many more were injured. There was a great deal of focus in the media about improving the crash worthiness of buses for occupants on the upper deck, but a simple line of bollards at the front of the station would have saved lives by preventing the upper level of the bus from colliding with the station in the first place.
If you're browsing the internet without JS, you don't need a CPU that was built this decade to do so.
They are also called Allahu Ak-barriers.
> and apply a mask before using it for memory accesses

So it never goes onto the address bus. So it never causes an addressing issue.

The 24-bit issue of the 68000 is fundamentally different. Those tagged 32-bit pointers were used directly, but truncated by the width of the actual physical interface so they never touched the outside world.

...until Motorola released CPUs with full 32-bit address pins on the package. Oops.
I think that's exactly why this kind of a loan product existing is wrong in the first place. Why is it okay to directly profit off of the debt interest of selling hopes and dreams of class mobility to impressionable youth who will be in an even worse position after taking that loan? If we abet it, are we intrinsically taking a dim Darwinian view and saying that they deserve to be exploited?
I'm curious, anywhere where I could read more about the high/low statistics?
Basically, sort all shareholders by planned sale date. Then you can slice them into “bins”. Let’s say we want nine $5B bins. They will each have a median planned sale date.

Made up example numbers:

$0-$5B of market cap: plan to sell within 24h

$5-$10B: plan to sell within 30d

$10-$15B: plan to sell at the end of the quarter

etc...

For any given future event, it will only be implicated for some of those slices. So the cost of an event will only affect that part of today’s order book.
Classic strategy game in the browser (works on mobile)
Really the need for a decent text editor out of the box isn't necessary if support for chocolatey repos is the first thing installed.

Having a simple/sane package management either out of the box or within a single step is really the right pattern to enable ease of installing whatever your text editor/customisation of choice is.
If you trust all the code (and other inputs, or outputs) on all the VMs, and you are running it in a secure environment, you don't. I admit, it's possible I'm underestimating how common this is.

Why you generally do need it is the above isn't true, and microcode has to be loaded at the hypervisor level for everyone or for no one
There's an epidemic of knife crime in the UK at the moment. I'd say prohibiting carrying a knife without a good reason is a good thing.
Leaked documents show Facebook leveraged user data to fight rivals
Are you saying that 2 people logged into iMessages on 2 devices with the same Apple ID and you want only one of those people to see an iMessage? How would that work?

I either don't understand the scenario you are describing or I don't understand the failure mode you mention?
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>Right now their business model relies on having their labor bring their own capital.

That is really post-Marx. It is a new economy structure enabled by technological progress, and which couldn't have existed and hasn't been predicted until it was enabled by technology and was created by Uber and the likes. In marxism, ie. in classic capitalism the capital owner extracts added value which is created by the labor applied to the capital. In the post-marxism economy the birth of which we're witnessing today Uber, by the owning of the information network, manages to extracts the added value which labor creates by applying itself to the labor's own capital. Marxism economical theory naturally postulates socialism after capitalism with the socialism being the maximum entropy of capital ownership distribution, and that is what we've observed in the last 100 years. These days with the rise of technology that got the post-Marx economy enabled the future driven by that economy isn't socialism, its the new fundamental state of society - the network.
The UK is not in the Schengen Zone.
Code Red was 18 years ago, Blaster 16, Witty worm 15. All ate ISS servers for breakfast in highly automated fashion. 20 years of IIS with no downtown indeed.
Well, yes. Pedantic as it may be, the fueling systems seem to be a recurring theme for SpaceX, not their motors. Remember Amos-6?
Unless I'm mistaken, in boatbuilding spline weights are used to hold wooden battens on a drafting table. I've never heard of weights being hung from splines to get curves, either when lofting or building.
I am amazed he gives all of this knowledge and tooling away for free. A very wonderful contribution to everyone's security and research. My hat is off to this e-Chad.
Thank you for your post. Your sketches are fantastic!
Yet, Meltdown is said to probably effect every processor since 25 years ago[1], so I doubt people would have one from before then by chance or be willing to use it.

[1] https://meltdownattack.com/#faq-systems-meltdown
I went to college at Illinois State University, which is in Normal, IL. The thought of there being a surf shop in a town that's in a middle of a cornfield with no water nearby just cracks me up.
Boeing, in contrast, uses simple radar altimeter.

Which is problematic and has killed 134 people.

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/easa-cautions-737...

things like thrust reversers become available.

Boeing rather famously had a problem with in-air thrust reverse deployment (not on the 73 though).
Uber's lockup expiration may be muted because a ton of shares are underwater
http://sfbay-anarchists.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Trurl...
Huh, this is interesting. I completely missed the fact that these two groups are massively differently sized. So his 8 trillion vs 130 billion is laughable. If you define the "middle class" as roughly 50 percent of the population (this is pretty low considering how this word is actually used), then the billionaires 130 billion greatly outstrips the 8 trillion per person. There's just shy of 600 billionaires in the US vs roughly 160 million "middle class" then the per individual income is 50k vs 222k. Pretty Stark even when you completely disregard the wealth elephant in the room
No everyone on HN didn’t know that. Posters on HN are routinely making excuses for money losing tech companies and consider a “success” another rounding of funding at an increased valuation and being able to pawn off bad businesses to the public markets.
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I was a big fan of the $25 referral bonuses in the early days. Probably saved a few hundred dollars overall.
Yes, the confounding factor was/is we are using ceph-ansible with ceph-disk. If we want to upgrade we have to make a whole bunch of inter-related changes.

(I'm not the lead on the project, so no doubt have forgotten some of the exact complications involved. Though it does seem slight strange (IMHO) that you're getting rid of the file system, but still keep the LVM layer.)
Hoovering is a verb, it didn't help them.

Edit: Xeroxing.
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That's why they sell at short separated periods.
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First paragraph: I don't recall reading that in any of the coverage I saw at the time, but I'm not super skeptical of this claim.

Second paragraph: if I don't trust the magician/doctor not to make the needle reappear after it goes in the waste basket, I don't see why I would trust them to not substitute some other liquid for the sterilizing fluid. Even an on-site incenerator is hard to trust, if we're assuming CIA involvement. These people actually hired a magician (John Mulholland) to write a document explaining magician stagecraft to CIA officers as part of the MK-ULTRA program -- they tried to destroy it when they realised congress was going to request those documents, but a copy survived and got republished decades later. I wouldn't trust my own eyes to notice when a well trained agent swapped needles in front of me, and I can't imagine any on-site procedure I would trust as much as taking a needle home with me. As for blood tests, I don't see why I should have to opt into these to recieve vaccines. Medicine can be modular.

Third paragraph: I get that the cat is out of the bag for most people in my country -- I have second-degree relatives who are already in the database. This isn't (yet?) the case for many people living in the third world, which is where most of the backlash to this practice actually occured. I also think that insisting on practices that make future generations more difficult to track are reasonable, even if it will take some time for the genetics to get swashed around enough for these efforts to matter.
I find it a bit naive that the whole system would work like some sort of highway robbery :-) I'm pretty sure that's not what's meant when people talk of "wealth redistribution". Your argument looks like a strawman to me.
I thought it was a lot cooler back then. People got their own customized little places about themselves, maybe with some fun media playing. Now it's all boring and sterilized.
Notepad++ is one of the first things I install as well, and I think it is even a little more than necessary at times. Unsaved file persistence, Regex, File Encoding, Syntax coloring, and Tabs are about all I truly need from Notepad++. The other 80% of it is excess in my opinion.
It's still going to break software, though. But if you're looking for a platform that lets you do this, look no further than ARMv8's TBI.
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Didn't Albert Einstein use that technology to go back in time and kill Hitler?
How much should you tip an Uber driver?
Taking to account that I am an A1 German speaker (cretaed this app for me in the first place) it was tricky to find out what's right.

A friend of mine told me that his father would say "zwei vor Dreiviertel drei" for 2:43 :)

But in the end I just folloved the rules from my A1 book.
There are more than 4 attacks on that list, so how are you tallying it up?
Notably this technique only works in this special case (or other small LUTs). Generic (larger) lookup tables can't be vectorized yet.
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"Whatabout these other worse ecosystems" isn't the strongest argument. At least those other ecosystems are in competition with each other, whereas the standalone VR market only has Quest. I invested years of my life developing a VR game, and despite a number of customers begging to be able to buy it on Quest, and despite having developed a custom Quest version, there is a company sitting between us saying "no."
Hi, I'm a queer woman in Texas. UT Dallas alumna even.
about time to lock him up isn't it?

Sorry, still bitter about Marcus Hutchins's outcome.
I'm not trying to make an argument, I'm trying to understand what the GP means in practice. I know people sometimes use questions passive aggressively, but that wasn't my intent. A more even distribution of all the wealth looks like people having a few thousand dollars of wealth. Much less if we're equalizing the whole world and not just the US. What are we imagining happens?
Is there some way to take the 23&me test anonymously?

Perhaps a prepaid credit card bought with cash and having the kit mailed to a PO box?
> So you're claiming that Airbus knowingly leaves a critical defect in their planes, which may cause the loss of flight controls and which they refreain from fixing for almost 30 years?

A320's computers monitor gear for uncompression of 1 second or longer. Computers are not in sync. If landing gear decompresses due to bouncing for long enough to be seen for 1 second by one computer, but short enough to get missed by the other, computers will produce different outputs and the system will shut down, freezing important flight control at a dangerous phase of flight and leaving pilots in a situation they have not been trained for.

Given the very obviously flawed and incredibly poor design that's easy to understand even for laymen, I would have very hard time believing that no-one at Airbus ever noticed, no-one ever spoke up. I think this would reflect even more poorly on Airbus.

Especially so considering that there have been multiple hull-loss accidents with fatalities (LH2904, TAM3054), where air/ground detection has been a contributing factor. Throughout the years, the aircraft has been unable to tell whether it's on the ground or in the air.
I think they have kinda giant customer service requirements. They must get a lot of complaints in a day.
By creating a profile and uploading your DNA -- you're giving consent for your DNA to be indexed.

Whether or not you should be requiring the consent of all people with similar DNA is the real question -- but given Americans' obsession with individual rights I don't see it changing. In their eyes, why shouldn't they be permitted to upload and share their own DNA?
I'm no lawyer but this absolutely has to be unconstitutional. A more egregious example of unreasonable search and seizure is difficult to imagine.
Part of the misunderstanding, at least as I understand it, is that for a growing company the vast majority of the expected earnings come a very long time in the future.

Peter Thiel talks about this for Paypal in Zero to One, IIRC in 2001 their projections showed that like 75% or more of the net present value would come in 2011 and beyond.

I don't actually know how you make a model like that, clearly you need to assume a maximum size and a decline at some point in the future or else you would expect infinite future revenue? But obviously people are doing that, amonth other types of models for Uber and deciding it's still worth $45 Billion as of today. If not the stock price wouldn't be that high. I think the reason you don't see it is just that it's more advanced than what a regular journalist is going to do, and I assume you're not paying for the right specialist publications to have access to that level of reports.

If you still think it's completely crazy, then what are you waiting for get out there and short the stock, there's free money to be made!
Oh the good old stock photos with smiling people having meetings.
You can only short if you can find someone willing to lend you shares. Shorts can "run out of shares to borrow" in practice. Similarly, you can buy put-options (or sell call options) on the shares, but only if you can find a counterparty to accept the "other side" (that is, a short-put or a long-call) of your bet.

Run out of counterparties, and it becomes impossible to trade. Reality becomes evident at times like this when volume is way, way, way higher than anybody expects.

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I admit that I don't know what happened today with Uber, but we can't just assume "invisible hand / market is always perfectly efficient". Reality simply doesn't work like that.