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I have been happy with binarylane hosted in Sydney.

I tried vultr ~2 years ago and at least then they did not have their own ubuntu repository mirror. All the package manager downloads were painfully slow. Digital Ocean and binarylane mirror the repo and any package can be pulled pretty much instantly and it makes the initial setup much more pleasant.
Are you empathetic? Do you invest in others? Do you address personal bias so you can be find common ground with those you disagree with? Quite often hn is a popularity contest on who's using the most obscure technology to re-solve a problem that's already well defined. Mastering these soft skills will not only make you a better human but a great developer.
Ask HN: Is SICP worth the time investment for a Clojurian?
After I joined HN, I pretty much immediately began learning Clojure (via Clojure for the Brave and True) and it was a very enlightening experience. I hyped it (and LISP) up to my coworkers, because of the profound impact it had on my programming mentality. I would say I really internalized functional programming, the power of macros, the simple underlying data structures that allow the same function to operate on nearly all structures without extra code, etc.

I also got SICP, but have only really flipped around to keywords that interested me. I don’t know if SICP is going to be that “aha” moment, of if it’s going to just push me a little harder to internalize these LISP ideas.

I ask this as a pretty efficient person who typically likes using the 80/20 rule to determine if something is time worthy. Is SICP going to be a good use of time, or is more like 80% effort input for 20% more knowledge?
I'll have to dive in this one more. First pass thoughts:

I love the implication that he thinks slower than 80 wpm. Sounds absurdly unlikely.

I also love the idea of throwing it away. Never fully been brave enough to do that, though. Nor have I ever seen it done. Getting closer as I get older. By coming up with a language for what I'm doing, I'm free to throw out how I've done it, so long as I honor the language I left behind. (Curious if this is the gem of dsl stuff. Just another way of saying to focus on the api.)

The shorthand, of course, complicates this. Does he do the first pass in shorthand? Even a mix of long and shorthand? That increases the writing speed considerably.
I agree and include the Toolchain mess as well.

e.g. Look at this issue[1] of Fragments in the LinearLayout, every now and then with the update of the SDK; the order of fragments changes i.e. with one SDK version the fragments are displayed in the order it was added 1,2,3,4 and with an update to SDK the order is 4,1,2,3 or any other.

For issues like this, every time I updated the SDK I had to spend lot of effort in testing and mitigating issues which were unwarranted. Meanwhile, my colleagues(whom I trained) who developed the same application for iOS didn't face such issues with API/Toolchain i.e. in iOS development what doesn't work, don't work and there is no hidden surprise with each SDK/Build Tools/NDK etc. updates because they are not updated separately.

[1]https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/37086731
In the long run this will also be the future of merchant shipping. We can't generally install nuclear reactors in civilian vessels due to high costs and security concerns. But we can use nuclear power on shore to produce carbon neutral synthetic fuel, then run ships on that.
All that hype is ridiculous. Of course, there will be new processors in the future, what surprising about that ? In the 2000s, performances were DOUBLED every 18 month, for the same price, and nobody found that astonishing.
Awesome! Let's get down to some nuance!

Flight: Rail is awesome! BUT they aren't in place. Besides that, they require a lot of steel and energy. Both of which are highly carbon intensive problems. Will they reduce the carbon load in total? Probably. Meaningfully? Probably not.

Shipping: Alcohol, biodiesel, pelletised solid fuels like wood scraps, etc are not carbon neutral. Sure, they are less than diesel and we should take steps forward even if they are small, but the issue is that we don't have any idea of a real alternative that can scale.

Heat and A/C: humidity and moisture control is literally the C in A/C. I'd challenge you to look into all the technologies listed under the wiki you linked. None are carbon neutral. I'll count concentrated solar as close enough. The issue here is that it doesn't scale well. Plus, we need both heating and cooling.

Industry: I'm going to ignore this because I think we agree and yeah, it is highly convoluted and hard to get into in this discussion. Is this okay? (it is 21% though [0])

Concrete/Steel/Construction: Your alternatives are all carbon intensive. I'm not sure what your argument is here. I apologize, but it feels like you are suggesting that old methods equates to less carbon intensive methods. And can we just put this myth to rest? Wood is carbon neutral, at best! But there's a big reason we don't use wood a lot. You can't build sky scrapers with them. (There's a long discussion here about how actually concentration of populations decreases emissions because it radically reduces logistics costs, but that is also highly convoluted and deserves several posts on its own).

Agriculture: I'm surprised you didn't say it, but the best alternative here is gene editing. You're also acting like agriculture isn't 25% of emissions[0]. The biggest issue here is a growing population. Just like fertilizer was one of the most important discoveries in human history (please read the history here), the next thing that allows us to get to 10bn people (my guess is gene editing) will be equally as important. But we need to look at low emission options, let along realize people have emission problems on their own (we're not Hitler and not just going to kill everyone. We aren't Mao and going to limit populations (like we can, HA!)

Heating/cooling: I combined this above. See above. There is no low-hanging fruit. Please provide reference on this.

You reference Smil, but I'm talking about issues he himself is concerned about. He is highly concerned with iron (and steel), cement, and plastics. He is very aware that we don't have great alternatives. It is rather distasteful to reference someone so skeptical of advancement while claiming that we're rather close to solving the problem. Smil is highly skeptical. Quoting him: "I have never been wrong on these major energy and environmental issues because I have nothing to sell."[1] If you're going to quote someone, for the love of god, don't quote someone that is counter to your position.

[0] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emiss...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180322234243/http://science.sc...
Thanks, I forgot about this. Looking to explore and report findings post-finals
The setting in Firefox about:config privacy.resistFingerprinting includes mitigations for some canvas fingerprinting attacks. It's part of a push to bring into Firefox privacy features from the TOR project.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Fingerprinting
But 1000 is more than enough to get around.
Also true. See, e.g., Breaking Bad ;)
I went till the end of the tree on Duolingo 5 years ago on just the free tier. Installed it a few months ago for my daughter and now the free tier is useless, can't do much at all.

Memrise is more useful on free tier but quite buggy.

I was looking into building a language learning app the other day to help my spouse with their passion but the market appears over-saturated. The only niche I see is for a good game teaching English alike https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.prodigygam... but that's not something I can arrange.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pC4k3i-U8-uSAsd2qrg_EX-k...
Pentium is a good CPU. And 2 x 3.2 GHz is nothing to sneeze at.
Privacy or not, wealthy and powerful people by definition do not live the same way as regular people. They always have advantage over regular people.
This horse has been beaten to death. They wrote an article about their choice of language, anyways: https://hackernoon.com/why-flutter-uses-dart-dd635a054ebf
I think the deal isn't good for the internet and ICANN shouldn't allow it to proceed. But...

> Maybe I'm wrong to consider this a zero-sum game, but surely if ISOC made a good deal selling .org that means that Ethos Capital got the short end of the stick

Lots of transactions like this aren't zero sum. ISOC gets everything they want to continue their mission forever and escapes a major source of uncertainty/risk. Ethos Capital gets an asset for less than its expected value and tries to leverage the risk to make it worth more.
The article has since been corrected.

> it produced four times more power per area than the previous French team’s

>*Correction, 6 December, 11:30 a.m.: This article has been corrected to accurately reflect how many homes a blue membrane could power and how much energy per area it produces.
But the pixels are (in my opinion) just such complete misses as phones. I’m not sure I’d want to use the latest Pixel if I got it for free, yet they charge an absurdly high price for it. I used to love my Nexus 4, and I liked my Nexus 5. It was absolutely amazing to have a real Google phone that I didn’t have to fight with in order to own for real at the lowest levels. But all the recent pixel phones have way too many trade-offs for me to use any of them as my daily driver. There are android phones out there which I like and would be happy to use as my daily driver, except on the software side they are way too locked down and I can’t root/flash them. I really wish phones worked the way computers do, I could just buy/build any hardware I want and run a fresh copy of Linux or windows on it under my complete control.
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You should create a /now page (2015)
That might bias policy in a way that raised T-bill rates above the best value just so Congress could make more money.
Just wow. I won't be surprised if doing something like that will break the os.
Are Congressmen now also subject to the insider trading laws?
This is very true, a good accountant is worth every penny. If you follow a good accountants advise you will almost always succeed, the tricky part is following said advice. A good accountant will help you delvop a business plan, theres alot of merit to the saying "Plan the work, then work the plan"
Exposing the window size is needed for many festures. CSS media queries change what's displayed based on the screen size, and pure css can cause effects that can be independently measured (set a css property and the read it with JS and log the result, or have the css load a background image with tracking data embedded in ths url). Webapps that manually position elements using JavaScript use the API as well.

It's also he extremely hard to prevent any way of getting at it. For example, I could measure if a line of text overflows and by how much.
The Bay Area is an outlier on pretty much every scale. It's not a valuable comparison.
Googol isn't, and never has, been a common word.
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While this post might be trolling, I don't actually see many issues with this scheme.

The weaknesses are that a password, once leaked, can't be changed. And sending it over email pretty much constitutes a leak.

But on balance, password reuse is such a large problem that I suspect this scheme will end up with fewer account compromises per year than a service using regular password hashing without 2fa.
Not charging enough.
Not spending enough time looking for new business
Tell that to Telex, AOL keywords, fax, long distance telephone networks, cassette tapes, pager numbers, the BBS, film developing, etc. There are whole areas of IP and technical ecosystems that --- while they have not completely disappeared --- have become obsolete and their daily use and commercial value has plummeted.
Can you explain what TSP is? The link goes to a login page.
How does XTX differ from a firm like Renaissance Tech?
Often the media is free. But have you looked at the prices for toys?
CO2 emissions are only part of the story when it comes to the effects of aviation on the climate [1]. For example, contrails and formation of clouds contribute to warming. Additionally, the proportion of emissions attributable to flight is expected to grow significantly over the next 30 years. And it's easy to understand why, a single roundtrip flight across the atlantic is comparable to a whole year of commuting [2].

[1]: https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-challenge-tackling-avi...
[2]: https://www.sciencealert.com/ipcc-report-2018-easy-things-yo...
It would be nice if the author knew the difference between VC and PE.
Shouldn't there be low-interest financing for this? Seems like a no-brainer if the savings more than make up for the cost + interests.
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They really messed up by having the thing where they can pay you to watch ads. Everyone seems to think that’s all it is.
I commonly quote IPCC recommendations because this is an easy reference with recommendations in several releases, but people rather don't like this and claim bureaucracy (this is easy to find and can be found from emission reports to the climate summits. I can explain some nuance if there are actual questions here). I can also anecdotally, working in HPC, tell you that I have yet to meet a climate scientist that is anti-nuclear or anti-sequestration (a politician that I really like sadly calls these "false solutions"). By anecdotally I mean that I talk to these people.

https://world-nuclear.org/uploadedFiles/org/WNA/Publications...

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/03/SRREN_Full_R... (you'll notice a lot of talk about "continuous energy" here and notice quite a lot of graphs about emission comparisons)

https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy13osti/57187.pdf

I can provide more, if needed.
As jemfinch points out the value that is important is the Wh per kg, or MJ per 1000 kg, not the liter volume. Though certainly the carbon fiber composites tanks required to store hydrogen at very high pressures are not light in weight.

One of the reasons why electric aircraft are currently very short range is that the best li ion batteries top out at 250Wh/kg.
What podcast & episode was that?
Flutter is an Android competitor that happens to be made by the same company.
Yep, agreed. I actually think Rails should focus on reducing memory rather than raw speed (though the two are probably connected).
> although that acquisition wouldn’t really make as much strategic sense

I dont know... maybe if apple bought jetbrains they could get them to rewrite xcode for them. :/
I wrote the comment on an Android phone - that's why "android" in URLs.
Link here - http://archive.is/PxRAM
I’m from PGH but live in Seattle now. I plan to move back in the next few years based on the favorability with cost of living differences. Especially when you consider life with a single income family. It’s not as cool as Seattle but it’s not that bad either so I think it’s a good compromise.
Is this fraud in India? I think most stock markets sell this as a service.
Just so you know, there are plenty of books, films and music with ads. The harder you try to run away from ads, the more you pay to escape them, the harder they'll try to get you to see them and the more they'll pay for it.

That's why I think it's inevitable for Netflix to get ads. Even if it's not a pre-roll ad, it could be just tons of in-content advertisements. Like they do with a lot of movies. Such as Sony movies, plenty of Sony phones, laptop, TVs, speakers, etc.

The only way to get rid of ads from your life, is to become a billionaire that owns a personal city where you can outlaw them yourself. Otherwise, you're screwed.
As long as they aren't at their lifetime free healthcare providers' offices, or cashing their unlimited pension cheques.
chuckled a little when reading the first negative of luna was the absence of having a debian 10 template. i raised a ticket with them about this in july, and have been periodically testing new openstack releases from https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/current-10/ to see if the issue 'fixed itself' for some reason with debian 10, cloud-init takes around 6 min to raise network interfaces, which is why they haven't released a template yet. not sure if the issue is on lunas side or not.
There were not physical Java processors, because it’s too hard to emulate jvm in hardware. But there were processors with instructions optimized for interpreting jvm bytecode. These would be pretty useless nowadays (for either jvm or wasm) because baseline compiler which translates vm bytecode to native bytecode is easy and more efficient than direct vm support in hardware.
Thank you so much, so it wasn't a comment but a full-fledged blog post. I've literally been searching for that for at least half an hour, so thanks again.
Do you remember the % difference?
Did I get this right: the JVM also uses a JIT, so basically first you compile your java program into java byte code, and then once it's running there's also a JIT running to further optimise the bytecode ?
Well, you can sniff wifi with any network card and driver that support promiscuous mode for the wireless standard you're interested in. For bluetooth, I have used the Ubertooth One [1]. Unfortunately the range is pretty short with this device... Radio sniffing in general is done with software defined radio (SDR). Three pieces of hardware I have used for this and can recommend are the RTL2832U [2] (ultra cheap, can honestly say its some of the most fun I've ever had for 20 bucks), HackRF One [3], and the USRP B200 [4]. I like using GNU Radio for signal processing.

I mention these because this type of equipment is very easy to acquire and that, even if there are no companies out there currently offering what you're suggesting, doing this type of radio surveillance (DIY or otherwise) would be fairly easy. Heck, you can even do really high res Van Eck phreaking with the USRP B200 quite easily [5]. You could look at the criminal's twitter feed if he was scrolling through it. :P

[1] https://greatscottgadgets.com/ubertoothone/

[2] https://www.rtl-sdr.com/

[3] https://greatscottgadgets.com/hackrf/one/

[4] https://www.ettus.com/all-products/UB200-KIT/

[5] https://github.com/martinmarinov/TempestSDR

Edit: grammar & wording
If you care about privacy you don't run for office anyway. Nosy journalists and opponents will look into your history and watch your every move once you do.
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The context of this is that the tracking helps prevent fraud. It's trivial for someone to circumvent it that puts some effort into it, so it doesn't work well for any but the most simple instances of fraud detection.

We all, as end users, pay for this because as an end user it's much more onerous to work around because site specific tweaks to make a site work require a lot of effort.
After seeing all those sketchy or even fraudulent mobile ads by TikTok's company, I won't be surprised if that's a bait.

But pretty much everybody does it in China, Baidu etc, like "You phone has 8GB of garbage, download us to clean it", "Download us to boost your signal by 4 times immediately", "This cutie just sent you a message, download us to repsond", basically anything to make you download their apps, and only political problems go punished.
This is going to sound basic: not charging enough. It's worth an entire blog post. Between imposter syndrome and economics, you probably won't value your experience enough.
No need for even that. TLS should have an extension which says "I don't know how to verify my identity, but send this data to vendor.com and then they'll verify my identity".

Vendor.com can then look at the opaque blob forwarded from their hardware and decide if they want to deligate trust to it.
Cloud Run user here. It does not support running a database as a Cloud Run service; you'd need to connect to a Cloud SQL instance. This is one area I really hope PaaS providers improve on in the future. The closest thing at the moment is Aurora Serverless on AWS, especially with their neat HTTP connection system. That being said, cold starts are even worse since they're now the start up time for your application in addition to the start up time for Aurora Serverless.
Is this manly for businesses or would I also benefit from it in a private (family, alone) setting?
I like this scheme because it's a similar complexity to existing voting protocols at the polling place.

You fill in a bubble sheet, scan it, throw away half the ballot and take the other half as a receipt.

Later the user can prove their vote, but only to the election authority.
Suppose you have a VPN server that routes traffic between several offices. It has tun0 with 192.168.0.1/24 linked to the New York office and tun1 with 192.168.1.1/24 linked to the London office.

The server also runs some service, say ssh, and you have a name for it in the DNS that resolves to one of its IP addresses. When you type "ssh vpn-server.example.com" it should work regardless of whether you're in New York or London, right?

If 192.168.0.42 can reach 192.168.1.42 by routing through the VPN server then it should generally also be able to reach 192.168.1.1 on the VPN server itself.
You clearly didn't read the article at all because it has nothing to do with wind power.
A big caveat not mentioned for Digital Ocean is that they blackhole IPv6 email traffic. It took a while for me to figure out why it wasn't working since it wasn't documented in their documentation and there was no ICMPv6 response indicating this. Moved to Linode after that.

I wonder if the same caveat applies to other providers that have improperly implemented IPv6 by not providing a /64.
Sites embedding said JS "analytics" files could have implemented HSTS and CSP with SRI, and this attack wouldn't exist.
From what I can tell (the translation isn't perfect), one of the patents BlackBerry sued them over is being able to "email entire chat history". Also, "switching from one chat to another" and "friend proposals".

Lmao. This stuff is ridiculous. I'm so glad my country (India) doesn't have software patents.

Edit: so I looked it up, and the software patent situation is kinda weird here:

> Software Patents in India is granted for an embedded software in a mobile application, and/or software plus hardware combination. However, patent law in India does not allow patent protection for software per se, whereby patenting a computer program is prohibited.
Yann is unlikely to say it's a great objective.
Speaking of bookmarks, I'm curious how you organize your bookmarks and personal knowledge base. I'm currently using Evernote, and it's ok, but I'm looking for something better.
OK, use this scheme where the receipt you take is a carbon copy, and then you can maintain the votes in a ballot box, too.
Duolingo isn't as simple as some of these comments make it out to be. I can only speak for Spanish as I'm 75% done through the new tree (one more group to go). They have actual written, albeit small bite sized written lessons for every lesson branch. If you compiled all the written lessons (the bulb icon next to each lesson) you would have an introductory Spanish text book.

I also take lessons on italki and my gf is a native spanish speaker. It's a great supplement tool if you're consistent.
> For funny memes it is not a big deal, but for social and political discourse it is devaststing.

I'm afraid that's the point.

Western governments, while pointing fingers at china, russia or <insert brown country>, have been hard at work trying to find creative ways to implement soft censorship (ie: don't outright ban the content or shutdown the website, but considerably limit their potential reach on dubious grounds such as copyright infringement).

Totalitarianism is slowly creeping up on us.
Would you say that their edge in algorithms comes mostly from signal processing or from ML? I'm guessing it's mostly signal processing and signal extraction?
That doesn't match what I've heard nor what their hiring patterns show.