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Human progress has followed an exponential curve. There's no evidence that intelligence has increased along with it.

In order for the mind to conceive of something, first there must be the idea that it is possible. For example, in the 1970's lots of people wondered what a home computer would possibly be good for. The only things people could imagine were storing recipes and balancing one's checkbook. I'm not kidding.
> I worked in the nuclear power in the past.

Where?

My point was and remains that USA federal government hoops around building out new nuclear fission plants can not explain the dearth of new nuclear fission plants being built everywhere else.

Canada was cited elsewhere in this thread as pro nuclear fission plants -- but they've deferred all plans to build new plants.

France is the really obvious big proponent, but their recent experiences (building Flamanville in FR, involvement in Hinkley in the UK) suggest there is more complexity here than can be addressed by complaints that 'The USA government has red tape'.
> We already have worse protections than the average worker.

Is that why the average worker gets paid massively less than we tech workers do?
Christ could the real actual Satoshi if you're still out there please do this and get rid of this guy once and for all? It would be so worth it even with the negative side effect of the BSV cult trying to use it as evidence that Wright actually is Satoshi.
What about these lines?

> ...including 24 people charged over deliberately lit bushfires.

>"Arson is not caused by climate change," he told ABC radio on Tuesday.
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What!? That is over 60× the membership cost of UNITE (the largest British union).

Apparently, comparisons between the US and Europe don't work here either.

Maybe this is because "union shops" are allowed in the USA. Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights forbids them (the right to free association is taken to provide the right not to associate).

https://unitetheunion.org/why-join/join-unite/contribution-r...
Which is why hunter-gatherers tried hard not to rely on a single source of food. The places which supported the highest densities of them, like river deltas, were places with many different ecosystems in close proximity.

I guess it's hard to have numbers, but early attempts at agricultural states (often in these same locations) seem much more fragile. Most collapsed within a few generations, to disease of humans or crops, or to weather, we can't know.
"they" being the entire EU? there's no mechanism for that.
>Also the historical union attitude towards scab labour is another way to prevent this.

You mean violence? This is one of the reasons many people don't like unions.
Yes, I've heard of refined glass as being one of the indicators. However, pretty advanced technologies like pottery would not have made it.

I can't be sure this [1] is the original article I was remembering but it might be an interesting read anyways. I am sure the study authors approach the subject with far greater care than I could.

1. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-an-industri...
And disabling JS is a popular thing on HN, so is asking how to disable WASM really that unexpected or out of the ordinary?
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I use lots of proprietary desktop tools for various aspects of software design. Some are pretty old but hey, they work just fine. But for curiosity sake I just did a short estimate of what it would cost me if I got equivalent SAAS tools. Boy, was I for a big surprise. They would literally costs me thousands of dollars per year. And to on top of that they're also way less capable and responsive then desktop offerings. And they'll stop working the minute I stop paying cutting me off my data.

Thanks but I'll stick with desktop for now. Less money more substance.
Your point contradicts itself, does it not? Movement to the edge necessitates edge hardware and edge personnel to manage the hardware.

Network effects are THE factor in software because the marginal cost tends towards zero with each incremental user in the network. The edge adds cost per node.

Up until the point that users are paid to connect to the network and/or the network is directly linked to the user with the I/O line completely obviated, the economics of hardware and management underlying the network will tend towards economies of scale... which is the point Ben is trying to make.
I've heard first-hand accounts of them being used in manufacturing automation up until fairly recently, particularly in pharmaceutical manufacturing. But now a lot of that has moved to emulators running on standard x86 hardware.

You can imagine the resistance to shutting down a manufacturing line that's been running fine for decades simply because the hardware is old. A lot of expense goes into getting everything cleared with the FDA, so it's not a trivial matter to replace hardware and software.
It’s a significant deviation from what I would expect from a disk oriented database. So I would definitely expect it to be well documented, along with the reason for it, why the developers believe it is a reasonable (or even safe) choice, what assumptions went into that (such as availability of uninterruptible power supply) etc.

Additionally keep in mind that with EBS most people probably use network attached storage and fsync involves the network. Outage doesn’t just mean power outage, it could also be a network issue.
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> Is your customer data on a server that automation can tamper with? If so, is a copy periodically written to a write-only destination?

Wait, so now we should have customer data in more locations?! I'm not disagreeing at all - except that that seems directly contrary to the "intent" of the GDPR in the first place (though you could cynically say that the real intent of the GDPR was to raise money, employ bureaucrats, and shake down mainly-U.S. companies.
Tl;dr The United States literally doesn't have enough physical printers to mass print Bibles (of the same quality as those produced by China, the world's largest printer of Bibles) to satisfy the demand, and doing so would be prohibitively expensive.
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Obviously everyone would much prefer the former. GDPR is a very bad law for many reasons, but rendering many basic IT strategies for robustness "illegal" (maybe) is one of them.

Of course GDPR defenders tend to take a stance of, anything reasonable is actually not illegal under GDPR even if it might appear to be so at first. It really is a horribly vague and useless piece of law making. I really hope the UK scraps it after Brexit, though I don't hold out much hope.
Sounds like the Bay Area is a horrible place to live.
"Opened fire" and "firing a single shot" are the same thing. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
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No worries. I can of course understand that some might think so. I'm just cynical enough to assume that a corporation will move to a lower-cost country independent of the added 15% or whatever the amount in added labour costs that various benefits may add. If there's a profit increase waiting, they'll grab it.
You disagree with honoring commitments?

Pensioners should accept the looting or chronic under funding because something something balance sheets?
This was quite literally a story made up on the spot to broadcast the OP's view. There are generally no useful lessons learned from fake anecdotes
To be frank the ascendance of jq has always seemed weird to me. There are many alternatives that felt much more natural, as this thread demonstrates.

JSONata remains pretty obscure but it's been my favorite JSON query/mangling DSL for a while now: https://github.com/jsonata-js/jsonata.

jmespath is also quite natural, but I think it was hurt by reference implementation in Python, meaning it's quite slow. http://jmespath.org/
A weird feature in the California Central Valley. Everything is flat for miles and miles but there's this one circular pile of badlands near Yuba City. https://anvaka.github.io/peak-map/#10.68/39.233/-121.7921
Doesn't quite get negative elevation right, visually. The Netherlands just drops off the map. Otherwise great website!
> You can't invent new tools if you're too busy hunting for food every day of your life.

Even the spear-thrower, followed by the bow and arrow, took a loooooong time to invent.
I can’t agree about the "just web dev" part. After using Elixir extensively in embedded devices it’s been fantastic. Some libraries are lacking, especially scientific. Still I find the time implementing say, polynomial curve fitting, to be more than compensated for by the robustness of the architecture and avoiding the quagmire of OOP code. It’s actually kind of fun to me using Elixir/BEAM for data processing.
I have used fx for a few days and enjoyed it.
https://github.com/antonmedv/fx

Highlights
- interactive mode
- Use full power of JavaScript.

$ curl ... | fx '.filter(x => x.startsWith("a"))'

- Access all lodash (or ramda, etc) methods by using .fxrc file.

$ curl ... | fx '_.groupBy("commit.committer.name")' '_.mapValues(_.size)'
I was surprised to see that Amazon (Twitch) is in SLC as well. What sort of paycut would I be expecting. I think my current gig would probably make me go from $170-$150k if I went remote. I assume the top end wouldn't be what it is in the Bay Area but maintaining > $150k is reasonable with 10+ years of experience?
Popular doesn't necessarily imply correct. Modern Single Page Applications rely on JS for everything. Unless HN prefers static documents, simply insisting on an anachronistic expectation of functionality without JS, however righteous, isn't fruitful.
I have witnessed more and more people from the gaming industry switching back to the boring programming jobs. Why? Because they get to have a life and play video games too.
I actually see this on my home Dell 4K connected to a MBP13 via Thunderbolt to DP. It happens when I'm not using a chair (adjustable desk) but now I'm going to be very observant when sitting down. I'd lean towards my cable being the issue however.
I wonder if it’s worth writing some read line macros (and instructions for setting them up) for eg inserting ( ) <move-cursor-backwards>. (Bound to M-( in emacs) I think they help for simple sexp editing. I also wish I had something like “run this command but when it’s done show me a prompt with the same command and my cursor in the same place” but I have no idea if it’s easy
And then there are the American banks that charge foreign transaction fees on all foreign transactions, even those in US$.

Fuck you PNC.
> I wonder if years of experience or even achievements can be used against a candidate by raising the bar so to speak.

It can be, and I've seen it. In general there is an assumption that people who come in at too low a level relative to their experience won't be happy and won't stay, so it's not a good idea to hire them.

Obviously some people are exceptions, but hiring managers will err on the side of caution.
For what sort of damages would I sue them? I was annoyed by a 2 minute phonecall or email?

Its a regulatory thing, bump the FTC (and in this case ARIN) so they can take action.
Here's my attempt:

"Secure internal applications, mobile devices, and users, without a VPN."
Buzzfeed has never really enjoyed a reputation of being a trusted news source[1], so this notion that anyone countering your outright dismissal of the publication is defending it is just silly. It's also just disproportionate considering outlets which are more widely trusted are given the benefit of the doubt despite egregious errors or lies. (such as NYTimes)

[1] - https://www.journalism.org/2014/10/21/appendix-c-trust-and-d...
This is also why every big tech company pushes coding education so hard.

and immigration (no hate, I'm an immigrant because of it).
Probably not an issue, nobody actually reads it anyway. The plot is super contrived.
I think the GDPR is great regulation that puts people before companies.
> If everyone waited a couple of years for them to work the kinks out, they would stop making cars because no one was buying them. Someone has to buy first, right? But why?

I imagine some version of Tesla's strategy would need to play out. I don't think Sony has the brand cachet to make an EV play work, but I absolutely think Apple does. And to a lesser extent, even Google. Tesla made it a long ways by relying on enthusiasts who would overlook much just to have the latest gadget to drive the roads. Apple has a lot of fans as well, they may be just as forgiving. Though it would be easier for me to see that happening when Jobs was still around to be a figurehead. Tim Cook is competent, but he is not a visionary leader.
Thanks for this!

Another nice thing about /usr/bin/time is the --verbose flag which gives:

Command being timed: "ls"
User time (seconds): 0.00
System time (seconds): 0.00
Percent of CPU this job got: 0%
Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:00.00
Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
Average stack size (kbytes): 0
Average total size (kbytes): 0
Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 1912
Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 112
Voluntary context switches: 1
Involuntary context switches: 1
Swaps: 0
File system inputs: 0
File system outputs: 0
Socket messages sent: 0
Socket messages received: 0
Signals delivered: 0
Page size (bytes): 4096
Exit status: 0

:)
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On page 100 they explain why they do not want to use ADS-B.
Basically, ADS-B does not currently have a way to transmit the location of the control station and has trouble at low altitudes. Also they are worried about too many drones saturating the spectrum for manned aircraft ADS-B.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.g...?
BSV is the future, if all goes well. Code is not law. It is as clear as dawn.
Results are what matter in this space. Let the results speak for themselves. Blockstream with LN, Nchain with big block scaling.
As I said to 'papito, I feel like you didn't read my comment, because I addressed that issue, and I didn't say what you seem to think I did.

This is why I hardly bother having such discussions online anymore. No matter how reasonably and concisely I write, if I'm lucky, people will read the first and last lines before strawmanning and accusing me of being stupid, evil, or both.

If I may, I would suggest removing Hanlon's Razor from your interlocutory toolbox for a while.
“So what does ‘CODE’ stand for?”

“The Campaign to Organize Digital Employees.”

“And what does that tell you?”

“That someone really wanted the acronym, ‘CODE’.”
There are many many many games developped outside the US. Some of the biggest game companies aren't even American at all.
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Hey, looks really nice! I see we had similar goals of simplicity in mind, though with very different approaches.

Sorry for the name duplication! I thought I'm sharing the name only with the jira API jql.

EDIT: I'd love to see some benchmarks. I expect your jql to greatly outperform mine and jq, considering it's written in Rust!
Have you considered that the lobbyist is gasp not being 100% straightforward about why bibles are printed in China? I mean personally, I wouldn't base my worldview and my view of American manufacturing on a statement by a guy arguing for a tax exemption.
The Ningxia region might not support encryption. That one was released in 2017. Unsure about this one.
> Writing is also a far greater (/ less likely) achievement than many people realise.

The monumental inventions are:

1. writing

2. paper

3. printing press

4. computers

5. internet

because they are ways to store and disseminate knowledge.
This seems like a popular topic right now and I wanted to add to the conversation some startup concepts I care about:

Game Dapps:
The gaming industry is testing the "blockchain" waters by introducing tokenification into games. These games call themselves "blockchain games" but they barely use the blockchain. Meanwhile, a small group of games are being developed as game dapps that run directly on one of the DLT networks. I believe that game dapps will be one of the break out use cases for blockchain tech and that's where I'm putting my energy right now.

Cloudless "Smart Speaker":
"Smart speaker" is the wrong name for this product, but it's what we call the products in this class right now. We no longer need to depend on the cloud to perform language processing. Moving the ability to process spoken language into a device opens up a lot of opportunities for a home network appliance. For example: instead of one "personality" like Alexa or Siri, a local device could be highly configurable and customizable.

Crowd Funded Investigative Reporting:
In a nutshell: people want reliable news and the news is not well funded. A good system could allow reputation tracking for investigative reporters and a fundraising platform to support their future investigations. I would do this using some form of cryptocurrency but that's not required.

A New Car Radio (carputing):
Most cars still use the 1 or 2 din form factor for the car's audio. If you shop for replacement units online, you'll see that they're all extremely similar. Compare those units with the experience someone expects from a Tesla. Somewhere in between exists a product that people driving older vehicles would greatly benefit from.

I have a few thousand more, but I like these a lot lately.
I feel like there's a good joke about an atheistic (and formerly Communist) country producing Bibles for a more religious country as they beat them at their own game of capitalism, but I'm too tired to fully form it at the moment.
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It's like locking my front door. I chose to lock the door to prevent random acts of burglary. But that lock will not stop someone determined from BnE my house.
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50-100% margins are normal for many growing businesses. Once a company / industry matures it can get away with lower margins.

If you have too much money leaving the business through employees (CEO included) you slow growth.

If you don't have high enough margins you also slow growth.

It's a balancing act and free and fair competition usually provides the correct answer.
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Time to snipe some former cnc server domains.
> Except that it is cheaper than a rewrite in Rust, which is one of the several reasons why this is currently the preferred approach in industry segments that require certain correctness guarantees. I don't know if you know this, but Rust isn't exactly making big headways in the safety/security-critical software world, especially, though not only, in embedded (for a multitude of reasons). Those sound static analysis tools, on the other hand, are showing nice growth.

Rust is way too new for that obviously. And as I said, because tooling and hiring pool are not here yet, it would be a critical mistake to attempt such move at the moment.

For new projects however, Rust is a really interesting bet. (I was until recently working on a new medical robot, whose software was mostly Rust and the speed at which we got it working was really exciting!).

> in any event, few people in the low-level programming space who aren't currently using C++ are even thinking about, let alone considering, Rust.

That's not my experience. Not many are considering it for a lot of reasons (too new, not enough people mastering it, resistance to change etc.) But “thinking about” is another story ;).

> You are assuming that Rust is the preferrable choice

Zig isn't really a choice at this point. It might become it in a few years, but there still a long way to go.
Oh neat; I'll have to look at this tonight....thanks!
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The root certificate authority for my company's Active Directory is signed using a sha1 hash. What are the practical implications of this chosen collision?

How do I convince my IT department to update our CA to sha256?
I can't find any evidence showing that OLAP means it is okay to lose data from unexpected shutdowns. How can you have correct analytics without a complete set of data?

> For good reason. It's not a simple matter of choosing one of two options. The choice has consequences: performance.

It is a simple matter though. They can choose to sacrifice performance for data durability which I suspect would not be impacted very much since clickhouse acts like an append log. It just seems that Yandex doesn't care much for durability since they are just using the database to store people's web traffic. They wouldn't care if some of that data is lost so they don't use fsync.
This is already a rule for that

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/02/13/2019-00...
Wow. Isn't this a massive retreat on their part, which negates a lot of the business justification for the MAX?

If they're going to require MAX-specific simulator training, could they just rip out MCAS and be done with it?