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> [make guile extensions]

Just a note from someone who was bitten by GNU make and guile integration last year. Huge numbers of systems have old make versions with no support for guile extensions¹, and many systems that do have new enough releases require a separate package² to use it.

And yeah, I'd written all my fancy integrations before figuring out they'd be worthless :/ It did allow me to noodle over the build system for long enough to come with some real improvements though, so it wasn't all wasted.

1. Some presumably to stay on pre-GPL3 make

2. make-guile on Debian for example.
“The Influence of These Nautch Girls”: On the Dancers of the Mughal Empire
Actually, what I meant is it is easier to build for cold than it is to build for vacuum. Atmosphere also contains many important elements which would be hard to get from planet's crust.

As to Venus... it is CLOSER to the Sun than Earth is, not farther.
Because access to space is insanely expensive.

Don't fight the people who are trying to fix this.
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Thanks for the reply. I see my comment got downvoted (I figured it would), but I was still curious as to what your response would be and I appreciate it.
Occam's Razor here suggests that the SEP doesn't actually enforce the limit (it's clearly not enforcing the delays, either), and that the almighty Marketing Department defeated the security engineers once again.

It's much more likely that a marketing-driven product development culture would lie to its customers than it is that Grayshift engineers have compromised the SEP itself. Researchers have been "compromising" HSMs by standing on its external signaling implementation rather than the chip itself for decades, now.
The rise of digital brands using snail mail (2018)
They are based in the pacific northwest. Electrical is mostly hydro. I wonder if they take into account the carbon footprint of that?
If you reduce your standard from a Ph.D. to a 4 year degree from an accredited university, how well does the filter work?

If someone is speaking physics and has a B.S. in physics, while it isn't as good a check as a Ph.D., they are fare more likely to know what they are talking about than someone without any degree in physics.

I would also add another standard of career experience at applying knowledge, though I might just limit that to programming and computer science fields.
I think there's some hypocrisy on the author's part: https://anderspitman.net/txt/feed

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The WWII in Color series on Netflix has a Midway episode in which they indicate a 90% failure rate of the torpedoes to explode. The article says 70 percent rate but either way its pretty unreliable.
I've been a Guile user since 2001 or 2002 and all these years it's been a workhorse for me. Even before there was a compiler or before the compiler started getting better, Guile was a solid choice for embedding. Each of the alternatives had issues.

Now that Scheme runs faster I get to write more Scheme and less C and I couldn't be happier.
Advertising on iOS relies on internet access so toggling it off would mean no ads.
I find it to be quite slow; I wrote a command-line arguments parser library using shell metaprogramming, and I had to precompile the output for bash, while in dash it was fast enough to run as-is.
I am not sure that coal can be made this way again. There are fungi and bacteria now which break down the lignin in cellulose, which there was not during the carboniferous period. That was 60 million years of dead trees not breaking down fully and being compacted underground to make that coal, and it won't happen next time because the lignin will be eaten.
Thanks, I missed that. I asked around, and I'm told that Mozilla's suit was dismissed with prejudice in Santa Clara County Superior Court (original case id is 17CV319921, I think). If true this helps account for both Chris Beard termination and layoffs.
This sounds like the 2007 incident[0], but the Wikipedia article doesn't say anything about one going missing. That sounds like the sort of thing that would get added as part of the regular mutation in story transmission, and would likely be pretty well-documented if it were true.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_States_Air_Force_n...
Ask HN: How do you handle “you have reported this issue, so fix it ” situations
ehhh. Only if your API is incredibly simple. You still have to roughly know that some operation exists and what that likely name is for the operation. Otherwise you're scrolling through a list of hundreds or even thousands of possible matches.

If you know you have an array and you know what you want to do with that array but don't know the name of the operation you want to do with that array, then completion as a form of discover sucks. No one is likely to stumble upon, say, JS's ".some()" method without having prior knowledge that this function exists and have it do exactly what they want.
Ariane is the name of an entire family of rockets that are still being launched today and are not generally known for being unreliable.
You know they don't use film plates for those exposures anymore, right? They stack images digitally. Removing satellite trails is the easiest part of the post processing flow, or it damned well should be.
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I find this interesting considering that when the threat to astronomy from these swarms of thousands of satellites from dozens, maybe eventually hundreds, of different companies was first brought up on HN, there was a massive outcry from the technosphere saying it was a non-issue and saying that satellite internet is far more important than being able to see a natural sky.

At least SpaceX seems to be taking these concerns a little seriously.

Also, wasn't there a sci-fi TV show not that long ago that was popular on HN that had a theme song along the lines of "They can't take the sky from me?" I guess the lyricist was wrong.
> But it's one that appears with such regularity in HN comments that it drowns out all other discussion.

See, for example, the second ranked subthread in this very story, from a user who apparently thinks this change is going to brick all Chromebooks; and the flood of responses talking about things like refund policy drowning out the tiny handful of comments pointing out that this the premise was a complete misunderstanding of what is happening.

HN can't rationally talk about Google any more. It's kind of depressing.
Am I crazy or is right-clicking totally broken on this website? Is this intentional? Maybe a joke about the old iMac hockey puck mice?
Encrypt each data set with a public key. Have the private key in a bank safe.

That way, if they need it as proof, they can just decrypt the data set. But if the data is stolen, it is of no use for the attacker.
I can't remember which community this was, but I remember some forum that had a category dedicated to something similar (with consent).

People would post pictures of the view from their hotel window when travelling and the other members would compete in being the first to find the exact location.

When I say exact, I mean exact. They had to find from which window the picture was taken.

It amazed me how some people could figure it out in a few hours and sometimes even less. Only post pictures online if you are alright with being doxxed from them.
The original “Fail Safe” is a great movie btw, if you’ve never seen it. As mentioned in the article, that and “Dr Strangelove” were based on the same book, with “Fail Safe” being the more sober interpretation. Amazing cast, and Lumet (“Dog Day Afternoon”, “Network”, “Twelve Angry Men”) is a legendary director.
That's how I feel about almost every real-estate office I've ever been in. The agent is always driving some flashy car, like a maserati or tesla, and everything in the office is way too nice.
To reflect sunlight you need the sun. If a satellite is 500km up (and 300km for later revisions), there is no way for sunlight to reach it.

There is no way to see Starlink at night. You can potentially see them for a short period around twilight.
In context - the scientist had basically said that the politicians and their bureaus were all wrong, that it wasn't a minor incident, and "accused" them of lying, covering up, and/or being willfully ignorant and stupid.

The whole show isn't like that, but it does try to show that so much of the issue was caused by a desire to be seen as infallible (of course the reactor design wasn't flawed, because the people's greatest minds worked on it, etc., etc.) and that was something that had to be dealt with atop the actual disaster.
Overall, I love this approach, but the big pain for me is the lack of incremental view refreshes. I end up needing to recreate giant tables each refresh even though the underlying changes are small. Sure I could implement that myself, but that sacrifices the correctness guarantees that materialized views provide!

Two things that would help:

1. Getting Incremental View Maintenance (IVM) [1] into Postgres. It looks like work is beginning on this but it's been 7+ years coming. If there are any Postgres devs looking at this, I'm cheering for you!

2. There's a commercial group doing an implementation of this, Materialize [2], but they don't have any publicly released product yet. I mention it because their interview on Data Engineering Podcast is really good [3] and I really like their focus on correctness by working from replication logs.

[1] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Incremental_View_Maintenanc...

[2] https://materialize.io/

[3] https://www.dataengineeringpodcast.com/materialize-streaming...
Yes, but then again it's much simpler. Leak credit card data because you didn't stored it as they want, you'll never touch one again. But if you leak personal user data, nothing (really) bad will happen to you.

It's a matter of incentives.
It is not that difficult to achieve with documents, actually.
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Firefly. And ouch
Yes. Of course, talk to a lawyer.

Anyone can set up a company in the US, I'm referring to standard Delaware C-Corp. With or without a visa. With no visa (or with visa that's tied to another job) I highly recommend avoid standard documents that assume cofounder=employee.

Note that no visa = s/he can't receive money in the us, nor live in the us. You can pay a foreign person/entity, of course.

Moreover, with 51%+ in ownership from non-US (bare in mind this may change if you get VC funding, so likely doesn't apply to your case), the company is eligible for E2 visas which means the founders/top mgmt can get E2 visas, which is much simpler/less random than H1B.

But if the cofounder doesn't need to come to the US (often) then it's totally fine to not have a US visa. Hope this helps, best of luck.
Refine your thinking..."bad" is not a research outcome. Define your question more specifically and it will be much easier to quantify the difference. What are you interested in -- climate change, effect on ocean life, effect on human health, etc.?
https://t3x.org/klong/

> Klong is an array language, like K, but without the ambiguity. If you know K or APL, you may be disappointed by Klong. If you don't know any array languages, it might explode your brain. Use at your own risk!

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See https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2031216 for the scaling of cost with size. It is very much not linear. Rather if you double the diameter the cost goes up by about a factor of 3.5 (closer to the area that went up by 4).
Digit and film single long exposures are functionally identical and for very dim objects you still need long exposures because the amount of light reaching the sensor is very low. You can't image stack if the object is too dim to appear in the shorter exposure's you're stacking.
30,000 employees drive their cars every morning to their suburban campus, conveniently located in unincorporated land between Redmond and Bellevue. Are they going to neutralize that CO2?

Do they have a plan to prevent employees from driving 20 miles each way every day? Their new campus renovation has tons of parking for cars. Any bike lanes? Bus stops?
Make sure you can look after your own basic needs first, so you're not requiring resources from others. Invest in your own education. Try to be there for others that you care about.

Realise that sometimes conflict is inevitable and you can't always be "good" to everyone. If there's conflict, resolve it quickly and decisively. Look for win-win solutions but be prepared to accept win-lose.

Look at the big picture - not eating meat, not having children, not using public transit doesn't necessarily help if others take your place. Do what you think is good, but if you believe in it, make the case to others. Real changes come from large-scale social movements.

The world is complex, and there might be more important things you can do for it than changing your diet or daily habits. Bringing up well-loved children can be a positive for the world.

Realise that everyone has difficulties. You can be the person who helps someone face their difficulties. You can't fix all the world's problems, but perhaps helping one person out might be more meaningful to you then chipping away at some of the big problems.

Be aware that there's no absolute good or bad. There's always people on both sides. Sometimes you just have to make a call. Like your point on using water in veg agriculture, there are plenty of people arguing for meat consumption, many of whom are invested in related industries. Being an evangelist for either side will likely not win you too many friends, but listening to arguments on both sides might help you come to a good compromise that can inspire others.

Follow your gut sometimes even when the data is not all there. Take time to think if you can. But make decisions and act. Aim to trust yourself, and if you don't, work on being someone you trust to make the right call when it matters.
I see a cube sat and I want it painted black

No sparkles any more I want them to turn black.
The viewing window is actually pretty small.

Tonight. And what about when SpaceX gets all 11,000 satellites up there? And then Amazon's constellation. and then all the other American companies planning to do the same thing. And the European companies. And the Chinese companies and the Indian companies, and on and on and on.

Dropping a piece of plastic in a lake isn't a big deal. Until it's 11,000 pieces of plastic. And then hundreds of other people do it, too.
If SpaceX works out, we'll probably see a lot more telescopes in space. Wouldn't be that expensive at that point for, say, a school class to launch a telescope cubesat.

I'd trade amateur ground astronomy for that.
I think it will take some time, just like Swift did. It's has potential!
also probably noteworthy to add that Microsoft is a private firm who is not directly incentivized economically to do this (apart from maybe attracting some environmentally conscious workers), so this is already quite a lot.

It says much less about Microsoft and much more about the political state of affairs that a company appears more forward-looking than most other institutions. It's quite sad really.
Those in France will mostly be using electricity generated by nuclear.
To elaborate on this point, because you’re being heavily downvoted...

My biggest problem with people being concerned about climate change and at the same time being pro-third world -> first world immigration is that you’re instantly lifting those people’s carbon footprint, dramatically. Isn’t that like, bad? At least as bad as first worlders having children, if not more so? It’s hard for me to take these people seriously when one policy actively works against the other.
RamdaJS may interest you if you like pipes
As a designer, I couldn't disagree more. The screenshot you linked is far better than 99% of design today. It took time and effort to create such engaging and aesthetically pleasing design. Today's designers don't care — the profession is overrun by MBAs calling themselves UXers.
Chrome apps are essentially PWAs with more apis at their disposal since the apis never had to go through a standards process. Some of the apis, e.g. wrt window management, are being ported to PWAs.
As a POSIX shell masochist myself, Arrays are the single biggest missing feature. POSIX shells actually do have one array: $@. Having more would make my life so much easier.

The amount of gyrations I go through to account for the lack of arrays is easily 1000x worse than accounting for not having local variables.
I don't know, the only thing I remember is water ~= Pisces ~= melancholic ~= <some color>
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> It seems possible to launch multiple small telescopes and operate them as one large scope using aperture synthesis. I don't know if there are any existing designs or plans for this.

We know how to do that in radio (VLBI), have some experience in IR (ALMA), are doing research on how to do that in optical. But in practice that is much harder than you think. The relative distances of the telescopes have to be known and constant to within a few fractions of the wavelength you are using. Hard when you are using centimeter radiowaves, insanely hard with optical light that has 600 nanometers wavelength.
https://ramdajs.com/
For the curious without access to a k2/k3 interpreter, here's what this renderer produces (converted to PNG for convenience):

https://i.imgur.com/OOdW5Dm.png

If you change that last line to q:R[3]128 you'll get

https://i.imgur.com/3bDmUhE.png

The high-res version takes me around 6 seconds to render.
It's the nature of democratic politics. Given a broad enough group of people, you will never fully agree with your allies let alone everyone, so you may never fully agree with your allies' reasons for agreeing with you. However, in order to move the needle at all you will often have to accept "close enough."

I see this in the workplace too. Some of the worst managers I've seen were people who were unable to accept "close enough" and instead just didn't get anything done.
Space-based telescopes are expensive in part because launches are expensive, making it more effective to spend a lot of money on single telescopes.
GDPR also requires safe storage.
Just watched the iMac G4 introduction on the site. That is still the most beautiful computer ever built.
I mean something equivalent to https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/climatechange/social-c...
This is correct, however much of the work we've done to make Racket work using the Chez VM could be re-used to build a Guile-backed version of Racket. It's not clear whether that would be of significant value, but it's doable.
Yeah I've got a few projects that would make good use of an eInk screen (simplified UI, no colour or fast refresh needed, running off of batteries) but... I built the entire project with a backlit LCD touchscreen for $250. Over five hundred dollars kinda blows a big hole in the project budget.
Worry about what people do rather than their internal state is the only way to be satisfied about anything. Even if I tell you my reasons for making this post, how do you know if that's the truth? (Also, how would I know that's the truth?)
I don’t think it’s the participants who are being mislead the most, though. It’s the donors. The people who “sponsor” the participants.
Staring at a night sky in a designated dark sky area is amazing. Given the pace of SpaceX launches amount of time you can do that without sky crawling with LEO constellations is pretty limited. So days of humans experiencing night sky raw are pretty limited (some would argue it is already impossible). However, I think astronomers will find a way to operate even in a noisy environment of mega-constellations. Given that the objects are bright they can be tracked extremely well. Filtering out them out of the datasets does not seem intractable. Am I missing anything here?

Moreover, I think mega-constellations will actually be a boon for astronomy. Think of it as a platform, while initial iterations will be focused on communication systems, what is stopping them from adding sensor packages looking both inwards and outwards? They already have the bandwidth to downlink all of that. Once on the ground those streams could be combined to produce datasets of unprecedented coverage and fidelity.
And what's even more scary is what's true beyond the movie. Like dropping nuclear bombs on Goldsboro, NC.
> an ecosystem were dependency resolution works

My coffee just shot out my mouth.... What?

Java --> Diamond dependancies --> Install fickin' maven plugin to print dependency tree --> pray that clashing dependancies converge at some version combination, and that does not cause another issue in a different pair of dependancies (and that I don't have to rewrite my project too much).

I really like that nodejs can handle diamond dependancies.

sidenote: I do like the simplicity of Java code though too.
I don't think that opinion has significantly changed.
"Invisible" isn't quite correct. They won't be visible as white spots, they'll be black spots blocking out the things behind them. Not a big deal for human eyes. Quite a big deal for astronomers.
Presumably if you're materializing a view, you have to have a cache for speed — it's either this or ElasticSearch or Redis. For me, where possible, it's nice to have a correct cache a `REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW` away instead of needing to make sure your cache book-keeping is perfect with other solutions.

But yes, you're right that this is caching, with all associated pitfalls.
You will get old. You will die. Just face reality. This trying to always put off aging is hopeless. Utterly futile. Enjoy every day, don't waste a second.

You will die. And you ain't ready for it. But Mother nature is.
The right charging port is IEC C7 C8.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60320

Cables are really common. They are typical on home audio equipment.

It won't be abused to hack the phone.

It offers fast charging. USB can do at most 5 A at 20 v, which is just 100 W. With IEC C7 C8 you get 2.5 A at up to 250 v, which is 625 W. You get 6.25 times as much power.
I like this because it makes the interview process competitive.
I've seen an analysis of the phenomenon where the four elements correspond to 4 major neurotransmitters, with the traits associated with having a lot of one element being pretty close to having a lot of the corresponding neurotransmitter. Maybe there really is a potentially useful means of categorizing people there.