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> Just a thought, but you don’t store them in an unprotected S3 bucket.

> If you’re required to handle this kind of sensitive information ... you should take every precaution that that information is secure, encrypted when possible, and that your systems are regularly audited for vulnerabilities.

None of that solves the problem, though.

You can protect an S3 bucket, but anyone who wants it simply checks it periodically.

Then one day someone is working with the data and changes the permissions to get access, and before they know it, it's downloaded in minutes. It just takes one attacker to get lucky and catch it before your audits do.

And S3 is not unusual, it's just an Internet service like any other, they all have this problem. Even if you have your own data center on a private network, it's only private until someone needs to transmit something and opens a route.

It's ultimately a human problem, there's no magic that can prevent it.

> If the onus ... you shouldn’t be in that type of business. Period.

Ending an unjustified opinion with "period" highlights the fact that you didn't justify the opinion. And it sounds fatuous.
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
You are right, but also wrong. Because the launch cost so much you spend even more move on the space telescope because you want it to work for a very long time to get the best value for your money.

And since you are going to spend so much money to launch it, you also add extra hardware to do other type of observations, so the cost of the telescope balloons upward but you are get more bang for the buck.

If on the other hand you have cheap launches then you can send up the minimum telescope needed since you can always send up a better one or even a very different one if you later discover the need.

Today because of high costs, we need to design the scopes to meet all the possible needs we can think of and afford, result very expensive space scopes.
I'd suggest, if you're already receptive to these concepts, to delve into Buddhist/Zen Buddhist/Taoist literature in addition to the more cerebral (pun?!) stuff out there. They're basically saying the same thing, albeit with much different language and framing. In particular the notions of interdependence, sunyata (my personal favorite idea/concept ever), and duality(ies).

Beyond that, unfortunately most of my exposure to the ideas related to panpsychism come in fits and bursts, and usually pieces which aren't about panpsychism inspire my ponderance more. Subjects include: animal consciousness/experience; the apparent intelligence of complex systems, whether man-made or independently-arising; autonomic, pre-conscious behavior in humans; computational theory, especially in physical systems; emergence and complexity writ large; complex adaptive systems in general.

Unfortunately I haven't done a lot of seeking out books on this topic. Nautilus and Aeon magazines (the latter is linked in OP) have thought-provoking stuff which touch on these topics more often than you'd think.
That does not have to be true. You can get a decent set for 500-600 EUR. And if you use ghost slopes of ski resorts you are actually not that depended on snow like alpine skiers. In my area many ski lifts are not open for business because the slopes are not in perfect shape but that does not stop any ski tourers to go there and enjoy the just decent conditions which are perfectly fine for one or two runs.
One step closer to a sky that looks like a television tuned to a dead channel.
Which is what modern AI is - neat linear algebra that can perform certain tasks that are commonly associated with human cognition.
>I was a terrible salesperson, but I watched the managers and top salespeople use this approach with much success. They would match their style of communication with the customer's, in an attempt to earn their favor and make them feel more comfortable. The hypothesis is this increases the likelihood of closing the sale.

Yes. People are less "unique" than they think, and some scientists (or non scientists) can come up with useful pattern matching/abstractions over people types (like in the book), while others study subtlety and small differences at another level, and are sometimes deluded that higher level personality types don't exist.

That doesn't mean that this or that theory of types is fool-proof and always applicable. But it also doesn't have to be, to be scientific (which just needs it to be falsifiable, empirical based on observation, testable, and useful for predictions).

A scientific theory != a law of nature. The former doesn't have to always hold. It could still create very useful models for predicting people behavior with success.
The Destiny of Blacklists (2005)
> Lastly I should mention that metallurgical coal as opposed to thermal coal is a necessary “evil” to smelt steel.

It's worth pointing out that only about 7% of coal is used for metallurgical purposes.
I was talking about the figure claiming to show changes in PISA scores caused by various technologies, for which I can't find the source.

I didn't look closer at the West Point study, but I did read reference 13, which by the way required the use of electronic devices for in-class testing, so it did not actually compare classes permitting electronic devices against those that did not. Rather, it had a proctor remind students to put their devices away when they weren't using them for the lecture.
OT: That reminds me of the great album by Yello, named Pocket Universe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_Universe
Because they broke the labor agreement that they signed with the union.
Java records are syntax sugar.

Value semantics are proposed in JEP 169 [1] and are part of Project Valhalla. [2]

[1] https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/169

[2] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/valhalla/Main
A simple median filter will take care of it. Have you seen what an unprocessed image from the Hubble Space Telescope looks like? It's riddled with cosmic ray tracks, and they all get filtered out.
Building a NAS, Part 1: Requirements
This is not necessarily true. I find accounts people who have grown up with these systems find Netsuite (a cloud system) slow, cumbersome and unintuitive. Fast repetitive data entry always seems faster in desktop clients. We are talking about professional full- time users, the initial easier learning curve soon loses its advantage once you have learnt the keystrokes.

As for data integrity, I worked in very large SAP implementations without data integrity issues despite thousands of users. I have worked with cloud systems that are full of rubbish.
>Anecdotally, the main predictor of how good someone’s spelling will be is how much reading they have done.

Agreed, but it doesn't just have to be books. My personal example: in my native language, I read tons of books as a child, which was what gave me a strong edge when it comes to spelling/grammar. I got into learning english in my late teens, and, by that time, I wasn't as much into reading long-form books as I was into reading random things on the internet. I would say my grammar/spelling is on about the same level in english as it is in my native language, at the moment. In both cases, however, I can easily attribute it to consuming a lot of reading material that gave me some kind of intuition for the correct spelling/grammar. I don't remember explicit grammar rules for either language. In case of my native one, I never really learned the rules in the first place, as I had trouble memorizing those, and the rules felt forced and arbitrary with tons of exceptions to each of them. I just know that something feels "right" or "wrong", simply because of tons of reading that settled down in my head.
>Supernova is not a verb.

Well, people use it as one, so apparently it is. (source: I googled around a bit)

I think in a language with, say "He's podiumed in five of his past six races" and "She medaled in three of four races", to supernova isn't a particularly bad offender. Anyway, why problem verbing?
Real-time means latency is predictably within some deadline. But the system he describes is returning wrong answers quickly rather than invalidating stale cache hits and recomputing right answers too slowly.
Matt Levine, as always, provides the most honest and direct commentary about this. Here's the start, but the whole piece is interesting, as pointed out by a reply.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-01-14/blackr...

> Will BlackRock’s decision to send a strongly worded letter about environmental sustainability reshape how corporate America does business? Well, I remember two years ago when Larry Fink sent a strongly worded letter about how companies needed to make society better, and that too was supposedly “likely to cause a firestorm in the corner offices of companies everywhere,” and now, uh, same society really.

> Now BlackRock will send a strongly worded letter to CEOs about the environment. It will arrive on the desk of the CEO of, I don’t know, giant state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco? A company where, according to Bloomberg data, BlackRock is the largest outside shareholder. A company that did a bond offering last year—after the Saudi government murdered and dismembered Jamal Khashoggi, after Fink sent that letter about making society better—in which BlackRock was also a big investor. “We wanted the Aramco bond to be much bigger,” Fink said, way back in April, when his public-relations goal was to butter up Saudi Arabia. Now it is January, and his public-relations goal is to butter up environmentalists, so BlackRock “will make investment decisions with environmental sustainability as a core goal.” Next time a big oil company is looking for money, presumably that will change again.

> I could keep being cynical about this all day.
In both C# and Java, reference types are nullable. Nullable<T> exists in C# to provide for nullable value types. It's not comparable to Optional<T> as that's an entirely different feature.
Type erasure of generic parameters is what allows the Java language, Kotlin, Clojure, JavaScript and other Java platform languages to interoperate so well and share data types with no runtime conversions despite having different variance strategies. By baking variance into the VM, .NET is much less flexible, as can be seen by how cumbersome it is to share data structures among different languages.
iirc the barrel linings also were not chromed for the first few years, which caused corrosion (half-remembered from chivers' the gun)
That's my intuition for the brain, as well. Something to do with composition and relative independence, from which arise incredible complexity, "multi-dimensional" processing — it's a big, big graph.

You might have to consider several such "waves" in ant colonies — maybe one electrically defined for a certain type of information; another chemically defined for another domain; etc.
I've dealt with chronic back pain for years, and physical therapy has changed my life. But I had to have a certain period of time with pain free movement before I could progress.

I also had lots of signs and symptoms that things were wrong before it got really, really bad (I herniated a disc). Knowing how to understand when your body is not in alignment / moving right, and how to correct it, is what the GPs advice is really about. A lot of chronic back pain is due to muscular imbalances; too weak, too tight, too loose, not firing right. Exercises and body work can be done to help correct these things, to ease pain and return functionality.
The big handicap in this for the US is a president that doesn't believe climate change exists at all. Will be interesting to see weather it will mean the US misses the boat on the next big economic development and if so who will jump into that void as a new world power. So far China doesn't look very interested in climate change either and Europe is very divided.
I wish every time something like this dopped people included a explain like I'm 5. Too much to read to stay abreast of the whole field by understanding papers.
A line of that article says this:

> He also drew upon the 67-year-old contracting company’s expertise to get going, with an ultimate goal of developing ways to dig tunnels faster

Not evidence I agree, but not entirely inconsistent with improvements.
Half a millisecond of occlusion is enough to cause problems?
DC generally means time-invariant/the zero-frequency limit. Offhand, I can't think of a measured physical quantity (aside from the physical constants, so-far observed to be constant within uncertainties) that has been constant for all time.
A missed opportunity?

If the struct graph is all records or primitives, the compiler should include a toJson(), fromJson() in the sealed class.

It could be done with classes too, but if it was records/prims only, then it could be done without using reflection.
>"The physical config was accidentally overwritten and there are no backups".

>Welcome to legacy.

No. Not welcome to legacy. Welcome to a terrible company with terrible processes.
Here’s a comparison to the US energy consumption. For the sake of getting a full picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States
In the case of SAP, the whole point of it is to dictate how your business should work for core undifferentiated processes. You’re buying the software BECAUSE it has business processes baked into it.

For core competencies where you do something differently from everyone else competitively, then SAP really has limited value except as a point of integration. Though I have seen some companies build entirely custom processes in ABAP for techno-religious reasons.
I've always wondered about the relationship between the future observable universe and black holes. Since space is expanding, far away objects that we now see will eventually move away from us faster than the speed of light so there would be no way to get at them any more. This seems similar to dropping yourself in a black hole: when you cross the event horizon you won't be able to get back to the objects outside of the black hole, unless they're dropping into the black hole too. Also, the bigger the black hole you drop yourself into, the less you'll feel it because the tidal forces become smaller. I wonder what you would see if our galaxy and surrounding galaxies were dropping into a super big black hole. Would the black hole take up more than 50% of the celestial sphere? Would everything then be moving away from us at an accelerating rate?
>Abe has a good PR team pushing this narrative abroad

>While female labor force participation rates are up, most women are locked into lower-level positions with bad wages and little hope of advancement.

How is that the government's fault? That sounds like a problem at the corporations. In any democratic country, the government only has so much power over the personnel decisions of companies. You can argue they should have more regulation, but how exactly do you force companies to promote more women into the executive ranks without having the government basically take over the corporations (which reeks of authoritarianism)?

>This has been led in no small part by Abe and the LDP, who insist on the enforcement of absolutely regressive social mores.

Examples?

>Most recently, they vehemently opposed women being allowed to keep their own last names upon marriage.

Did they succeed?

As for misogyny and Americans, is Japan trying to ban abortion? They most certainly are in America, and it's quite possible it'll happen to some extent thanks to Trump's SCOTUS appointees.
Declarative Application Management in Kubernetes
Function inlining has been in Hotspot forever. Possibly day 1?

In fact there was a point in time where polymorphic inlining was an active field of research and a number of people used the JVM to prototype their theories. Pretty sure a later version of Hotspot had polymorphic inlining as a feature.
This is extremely unlikely, and if it were to happen it is for an extremely small time. I have never heard of this being a practical concern.
Japan is suffering too. Except for Hokkaido and very high altitude ski areas, we don't have much snow.
if anyone is the parasite it is me, aggressively adblocking on all devices
This is so neat. Like someone else mentioned already, this feature has been very useful for me countless times. In fact, when it doesn't work, I tend to blame the PDF itself :). Thanks a ton!
Being an Artist Is a DisABILITY
Read the parent again.

Those are a specific integer range, not "any integer".
i am only trying to contextualize op's media-induced mental illness. also, climate change is a symptom of carbon release, a subset of byproducts of specific kinds resource consumption. it seems the meme may have captured you too.
Each int also corresponds to a certain real number, but if you write "x*(1/x)==1" for integer x, you'll either

(a) get x casted to a float

(b) get `div` instead (like in Python 2) and obtain a false result

(c) get cursed out with a type error.

These three options are available because it's possible to determine whether a given real number is representable as an int or not. This is not possible with floats.
If there were an actual innovation in tunneling, I feel like they’d be able to give actual specific metrics to rebut critics who argue that it’s apples to oranges. But AFAIK the bottleneck in tunneling is not a mechanical engineering one.
Lets say you call for pizza, but you need to know how to bake in order to use their self help service, then that's a leaky abstraction. As high levels of abstractions it's OK to only know the name of the different pizzas. And the baker doesn't need a master in chemistry or engineering to operate the oven. We humans are very good at abstracting things and take most abstraction layers for granted, even though the world around us is very complicated.
> What useful thing has been produced by the internet?

Is this Hacker News? This is the type of nonsense I expect on the NYTimes comment section.

> I'd much rather have humans enjoy nature than writing about it on the internet.

Why are you here instead of enjoying nature?
So... that is exactly what I said. How is it wrong? I specifically said the only impact is on WACC and cost of capital of marginal debt of primary issuances... which are minimal considering these companies are for the most part cash flow positive and have no need to issue equity (in fact they are buying it back).

The cost of debt has slightly more of an impact but still minimal.
We absolutely use short exposures. It's actually more important for us than the pros because the mounts are a lot less stable and polar assignment is far worse. Doing a lot of short exposures is a lot easier than nailing your polar assignment. It also help with bad seeing; you throw away the blurriest quarter of your images and the stack looks a lot better.

Filtering is less advanced, but masking outliers (and their neighbors) and replacing them with an average of the others isn't advanced filtering.

It's annoying the way getting cut off in traffic is annoying, not the way getting T-boned is annoying.
Well, yeah, free market and capitalism are conflicting ideologies. It's the same with free software, you can't have both user freedom and freedom for corporations to take away user freedom. Second will always just subvert the first one.
If someone doesn’t manage or govern it with economic incentives, no one does (see: most of the “public good” rainforest slashed and burned in South America and Asia that we desperately needed managed better, through private ownership and conservation management, to avert climate change).

You’re shocked at my statement, as if StarLink is entitled. Consider the alternative argument: why should astronomy slow global comms progress? If astronomy is more valuable than the ~$30 billion/year global comms market, shouldn’t someone bear that cost?
Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable
A million times this.

I learned the importance of this from working in research labs and seeing how the press reported studies that I had first hand knowledge of. Spoiler: the press pretty uniformly does a bad job of accurately reporting what studies say.

It's not entirely the fault of the press, though. Research papers (and bills) tend to be complex and use language in a very specific way. Translating them into something that is easy to understand, without losing so much important nuance and context as to become deceptive, is extremely hard.
Different components being in sync is a property of objects in general. E.g. Java's ConcurrentHashMap is mutable but its fields are in sync.

For pattern matching to see an in-sync view of the object, the object must provide such a view. If the object allows concurrent modification (most don't) then it must provide a custom view. Otherwise a generated default view should be sufficient.

If you look at [1] you can see that Goetz does propose a function that provides such a view for classes and not just records (c-f extractor.)

[1] https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/amber/pattern-semant...
TypeScript does shim async functions, you just need to supply your own `Promise<T>` polyfill ( https://mariusschulz.com/blog/compiling-async-await-to-es3-e... ). `fetch` also works fine with a third-party polyfill. Combined, that's about 30KiB extra compared to pure ES6 (before GZip).
Have things along these lines ever been seriously investigated as a possible explanation for dark energy and the phenomenon observed here?

It doesn't necessarily need to be your exact hypothesis, but if you generalize it and look at our universe (just our observable universe, or perhaps "the whole thing" in some sense) as possibly being a small object in a much vaster medium, perhaps a medium we could never directly access or observe, what implications could that have, and what could it potentially explain? Perhaps even a medium abiding by a completely different kind of physics.
I can honestly not grasp what China is doing. Between PV, Coal, hydrogen industry.. do you have a synthesis to read ?
Ask HN: Best places to work in NYC as an engineer?
Curious what companies someone with 3-5 yrs experience should look at. Key criteria are strong teams to learn from and a culture of mentorship (comp is important but second tier).

Thanks for any suggestions.
Yes, that's precisely the case. Seattle is perceived as very rainy because it's very often rainy. But rarely does it rain hard. Usually it drizzles so light it won't even mess up your hair.
Hi, I’m the creator of https://bitsms.org/ a Bitcoin to SMS relay that allows you to use Bitcoin without an Internet connection.

This is useful in areas with cellular infrastructure but no internet infrastructure or when using a cellular plan that doesn’t have Internet.

Bitsms doesn’t act as a wallet or a store your private keys, instead you sign transactions in your own wallet and broadcast it through Bitsms.
yeah, sounds like a good way to hand over 'only' the important stuff to our internet overlords.
I think the last elections argue against that
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/11/world/asia/taiwan-electio...